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Except maybe watching grown men point with their elbows and introduce themselves using only a contrived nickname.

What commanders (e.g, Sq/CC briefing the squadron, AETC/CC briefing Wg/CCs)? This is completely different than what our Wg/CC was told last week.

Word at Little Rock is the decision has already been delegated by AETC/CC to WG/CCs in verbal guidance over the phone, but the word didn't get out until after COB on Friday. Next Monday should be no blues unless your WG/CC decides on extra flair.

If your concept of leadership is a 4-star micromanaging what every airman in the AF will wear, I'll be scared to see your leadership style if you're ever in charge of anything. All decisions should be made at the lowest level possible, meaning this one should be delegated all the way down to flight commanders/shop chiefs.

Still no official word from AETC. Maybe they'll wait 6-9 months to see how it plays out in the other commands like they've done with EFBs.

He's not an A1C working in finance because it sounded better than going to Harvard.

Holy crap, they even made the control panel with the same stupid keyboard setup instead of giving it a more pilot-friendly layout. I can just picture their little Chinese operators clicking through 69 menus just to dial in the final approach course.

No barrell rolls right after takeoff? Their pilots must not be very good.

What a moron. It was small firefight that just happened to kill the US Ambassador.

Have Americans always sucked at punctuation, or is it just the Internet that has made people not care whether the things they write can be understood?

That's funny stuff right there.

Time to put active duty SF troops at the gate and show these guys the door.

I read exactly one paragraph before I got pissed. 99% of the civilians who read that will think asking a woman to remove her blouse means he would sitting there in her bra. Does anyone really think the AF can fix sexual harrassment? You'd have about as much luck fixing DUIs and suicide. And WTF network is Shaw in that its even possible to get porn on a computer?

I once had a nav announce to the crew that he had Spatial-D. True story.

Standard liberal logic. Killing a baby and a terrorist are the same thing. Except killing babies is okay and "murdering" terrorists is not. Also, she called the A-10 a bomber.

1700' would be feasible if they don't plan on carrying anything. 2500 or 3000 feet would be more reasonable. The Herk can start completely self-contained (i.e. no external equipment) One guy can start the plane if he had to. Remember that an older Herk would need a flight engineer in addition to two pilots. Normally the Loadmaster stands outside the plane and monitors the engines during start as well, but you could get away without that. Normally if there's an emergency and we haven't taken off yet, we don't takeoff, so there's no checklist for that situation. If you are taking off from an LZ with guys shooting at you, you would do a max effort takeoff, but there is no difference in the "before takeoff checklist." If your pilots are Russians flying around Asia, it would make sense for them to fly an AN-12, the Russian Herk knockoff. Those things are everywhere over there. Hope that helps.

Your complaint is ridiculous. Do you really think the AFCENT Awards and Decs division has been slacking in processing medals because they were the ones coming up with a new uniform policy?

When I did my Joint Planning Exercise for lesson 7 of ACSC, I used them both interchangeably with a Predator.

I didn't even know there was a pissing contest. I was just busting your balls, as I do with all my bros who still fly those Herks with the smoky engines. :beer:

Or kind of like H-model guys who've never flown the J and think you need an NCO and an officer with bad eyes bossing you around to be a real Herk pilot.

Damn. I had actually been emailing Rich back and forth and was wondering why he hadn't replied to my last email. Seemed like a great guy that was willing to do anything to help a fellow Herk driver out. He will be sorely missed. :beer: :beer:

I try to make inferences and assumptions at every opportunity. Who needs reading comprehension when you can just use intuition?

I went back and scrolled up...still don't see anyone comparing Doha to Afcrapistan.

Please show me where anybody in this thread wrote anything even remotely similar to that. From what I can tell (except for the post AFTER yours) people on here have been making fun of having dependents at the mutha fuckin' 'Deid.

Last time I checked, this was still 'Merica. No one has ever held a gun to some guy's head and said, "Go out there and do some low level aerobatics". At least not in this country. Give me liberty or give me death.