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  1. LockheedFix
    Well, here's the answer to the question I've heard about a thousand times in the lat year; "What are we going to do with all these C-130H pilots and navs?" Which means about three of them will get VSP or RIF'd.
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    Not sure if serious. If this is real, it seems like it would be easier to just wear your hat than check the WX sheet and see when you can get away with not wearing it. I've always wondered if this was a real thing because my brother(Army Guard) showed up to my commissioning without a hat because it was after 1730 and he literally thought no one in the military was required to wear a hat after 1730. Needlessly to say he felt dumb when multiple Army 0-6s glared at him for being the only guy in uniform without a cover.
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    So, has anybody seen the new annual requirement to accomplish a Civil Liberties CBT? I have an AF-funded masters degree that I was highly encouraged by my leadership to get and now I have to take a 3rd grade civics class every year.
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    Since this is my favorite place for investment advice, I thought I'd run this one by you guys. I'm PCSing overseas soon and we are shipping my wife's vehicle. Rather than pay to store my truck on my own dime, I'm thinking about selling it (I should be able to get $13K-$16K) for it. My plan is to stash that money away somewhere and use it to buy a new truck when I come back to CONUS in three years. I was thinking of maybe putting it in an S&P 500 index fund, but even that seems risky (I did something similar the last time I was OCONUS and I came back in the fall of '08. I needed the cash so I lost a couple grand when I took it out.) Are there any somewhat low risk ways to make better than 3-4% a year for three years? Or should I just put it all on an oil stock and go for broke? Any other options I haven't considered would be greatly appreciated, too.
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    That's what I was thinking, too, keeping in mind that it was written for general SA for primarily non-flyers, and not as a narrative to prevent future mishaps.
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    Is that on approved diplomatic routing, or just a straight shot? A Herk can do that, but it's obviously not ideal. I hope the Army guys crammed in like sardines in the back enjoy the 8 hour flight. I thought the guys going to Romania were stopping for gas somewhere, but I could be wrong.
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    I'm pretty sure he knows what Manas is for. He's asking what Romania gets us and I have the same questions. It seems pretty damn far from Afghanistan. I would think it means significantly reduced time in the AOR for tankers, and C-17s will have to do all the lifting that used to be shared with Herks. I haven't looked at the official distance yet, but I doubt a C-130 can make it that far.
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    You can't unless you are flying with a USAF squadron in an exchange program.
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    Or how about the Hornets that did a show of force 2NM north of the runway at OAKN (ie in the traffic pattern and real damn close to Mustang Ramp) at 500 KIAS and 500 feet without talking to tower and coming within 1000' of an MC-12 on ILS final. I guess there was an urgent tactical need inside the wire that required them to not maintain simple standards.
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    Looks awesome, man. I'd love to have that on my iphone. I was hoping you'd have a brake energy calculator on there since that's one thing I've aways wondered why they didn't incorporate it into the CNI-MU.
  11. LockheedFix
    My nav and crew chiefs both nearly died after eating at the Lucky Burger there. We should have known if was a bad idea to eat there when it was literally around the corner from a river of raw sewage. Good ice crea, though.
  12. LockheedFix
    I guess I should have pointed out this is on an iphone 5 and the mobile version of the site. I also just realized that I can't get any back buttons to come up at all, even in the threads. I just always hit back to the main menu. The swipe trick doesn't work for me either. I'm wondering if it's my phone.
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    I've noticed after downloading the new iOS that when I click on a link in a thread, the new page that opens up doesn't have a back button or any other navigation options that let you get back to the thread you were reading. I have to go all the way out and open BODN back up. I'm sure somebody else out there much smarter than me has figured out how to get back.
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    This. Given the high correlation between SOS DG and being a school select out of the O-4 boards, and then the high correlation between being a school select and the subsequent BPZ selection to O-5, our future leaders are literally being picked by majors from the comm squadron when they are junior captains. Ridiculous.
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    Wow. That's impressive.
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    I stand corrected. I was under the impression an FEB was just an extension of the same process as a Q-3.
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    True and false. SIBs can't be used for anything punitive, but Q-3s and FEBs are not considered punitive.
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    I agree, I don't understand why he would even bother with the FEB if he was going to give him the boot anyway. I just wish that more guys would realize that safety privilege is more like a literal "get out of jail free" card (kind of) and less like a "save your flying career" card. If your commander doesn't think it's safe for you to fly his planes, he doesn't have to.
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    FEBs and commander directed downgrades are perfectly legal uses of the knowledge a commander gains from the results of a SIB. They are not punishment (though it may seem like it to the guy facing the FEB). How much sense would it make for a commander to find out from a safety investigation that one of his crews was screwing up by the numbers, but have no way to keep them from flying his jets again (at least not before some remedial training)? Safety Privilege just means you can't face UCMJ or civil punishment based on the findings of a SIB, thus the whole reason an AIB is sometimes conducted.
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    Shack. That's what I was getting at but you said it better.
  21. LockheedFix
    It sucks this happened to you guys and I would never wish what happened to you on my worst enemy, but three years later this is your take away from what happened? You probably don't realize it but hundreds of young co-pilots read this forum. You really still think the appropriate action after a four-engine flameout is to run zero checklists and pray the guy the in the other seat can maintain control of the plane? There was NOTHING you could have done to improve the outcome of the situation besides put the gear and flaps down? Good on you for starting this thread, but coming in with the attitude that you did nothing wrong is clearly erroneous. For the record, I do think it was a huge foul for the AMC/CC to overturn the findings/recommendation of your FEB.
  22. LockheedFix
    No way, it's too much fun telling your CP to go heat up your lunch when you're on APU power and then watching them trying to figure out why they can't get it to work.
  23. LockheedFix
    Okay, so to which issues are you referring? Not trying to start an argument, I'm just genuinely curious. I don't know of many issues, other than those already discussed and the HUD in NVIS mode. I've always thought those were pretty minor and easily mitigated.
  24. LockheedFix
    No need, they're getting their training here just like everybody else.
  25. LockheedFix
    That's the only thing that I can think of, and those are pretty minor and easy to mitigate in my opinion.
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