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Just curious what "issues" you're referring to. Sounds like the issues the Iraqis are having are more of a support contract issue than with the aircraft itself.

Irregardless, it's still a squadron patch and is much better than wear a gay-ass pink patch.

You can always wear the squadron patch. Plenty have classes have made it a long way before they got a class patch approved and had to sport the squadron patch until then.

I have. They are a close second in this area.

I've got to assume slick999 is a KC-10 guy. That's the only community that I've been around where dudes will blatantly tell you that the only reason they want to be an IP is so they can compete to be the wing exec.

I've been wondering how long it would be before I heard this. The only reason they even started TFI to begin with was so AD would have access to two more tails per unit for OIF/OEF. With the latter winding down and Js still coming off the line, how much sense does it make to have an acive duty AFSC that flies a plane that only the ARC owns?

Well that seems like a clearly defined goal: "degrade" the Assad regime. Thanks Republican senators for finally finding something to agree with the president on. "“No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.” -Carl Von Clausewitz

Probably not too big of a help but I know it can be done. When I was on casual waiting on UPT, I was able to call and get in a class that started 3 weeks earlier. That was ten years ago, but I'm pretty sure the personnelists had the numbe at AFPC that I called. Plying enlisted dudes with beer always works better than just writing them off as useless. They can probably at least get you pointed in the right direction.

None. And there were over 40 people meeting the board in my wing.

I actually never saw my PRF until it had been signed...and it sucked. I can barely understand the thing and I did all the stuff that was on it. I can't imagine what the board thought.

This goes back to the original question. Where is this requirement for a vertical holster written? I have always been told this, but until somebody can show me where that is written, it's just a rumor, not a requirement.

Those are actually not a bad idea. I wonder if they could get those at Dover. And then install some that say " NOT MCDILL" at that Peter O. Knight place.

Well, the board for '13 would normally have been announced 4 months ago, but it has been delayed indefinitely. I wouldn't say there is any kind "normal" for the '14 board. It's gonna be a while.

"What Exactly Is It You Do Again?: C-130 Navigators in OIF" Note: This is not a real book.

What does a three day course like this consist of? I spoke with the local flight service and they just check you out on a Beech Duchess for $250/hr and then you can log time on your own and then they'll schedule you for your checkride. Sounds like you could save a thousand bucks and not have to take three days of leave to do it that way. Has anybody in here done it this way?

Here's the list of all qualified FAA simulators: https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/nsp/train_devices/media/All_FSTD.pdf There are only three 707s listed on there and since they belong to Pan Am International Flight Academy in Miami and American Airlines, I'm assuming that is not who the USAF goes through to train AWACers. I think there is a lot of bad info out there about how our simulators are certified. Even the sim instructors at Little Rock told me their sims were Level C certified. They may be equivalent to that level, but no one has bothered to pay to have the engineering report done which the FAA requires before they will come out and evaluate the sim for you. I personnally spoke with the department head of the FAA's National Simulator Programm, and he told me he doesn't know of any AF sims that are certified, and I can't find any USAF jets on this list other than the C-141 at Altus and a C-130B down in Florida somewhere.

E-mail's been spotty AF-wide for a couple weeks now. The Chinese have found our soft spot. We're fooked.

Yes. Herks go to places that don't have security sometimes. How do you think the guys that provide security get there? And I know what an IED is. It's kind of like an IDF (IDFs if there is more than one) except that it doesn't get fired out of a launch tube. Google "RAF C-130J IED". Not that hard.

They did the same thing to the RAF J-model that got hit by an IED on the runway.

If this intern is not on Conan and The Daily Show on Monday, then there is no hope left for this country.

Reminds me of a certain C-130 ramp at OAKN. It was designed to have Herks parking nose to nose, and would force them to reverse taxi uphill at max gross weight every time they wanted taxi out. Even though everyone involved knew it was ridiculous, they still spent $100K painting the lines that because the contract was already signed. When the ramp opened, we ignored the taxi lines until funding for removing and reprinting the lines was received (several hundreds of thousands more.)

Note to pax: if you can't see out the front window, you have no idea if you're coming in too low and you definitely can't tell if you're going too fast.

I'm pretty sure a 99-year lease at ORBD was an urban myth since we couldn't even get them to agree to a SOFA.

We ARE Qatar's military, and the Middle East isn't getting any more stable. We're not leaving the 'Deid for a while.

So when it lands on a 3,000' runway. Where do they find the other 4,600' so that it can take off?