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Damn, I haven't been following this thread in a while. Are we back to the days of 3-4xT-38s per class again?

Sweet, I'll definitely rush to check out some more <insert shitty military town in the south here> type places. Thanks for the assist guys... I'm not saying Finland was like some shooting gallery. I didn't hook up with any Fins, that I remember. But every single bar I went to some Fin bought me a shot or two or three. It was a blast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-rGAM_KeA&feature=kp +1 on Maho beach. Love that place. I went to Stockholm last spring and it was similar to Finland although I thought the Fins were nicer to me. Budapest is one of those places where you can't look in a direction in a crowd and not instantly fall in love with at least 2 women...until they make you drink Unicum with them. Oh my god, that is an awful beverage.

So obviously there are dudes living around the world and flying around the world here. I figured we should list our favorite cities and why, maybe someone gets a good idea. I'll go first... If you're single, go to Finland. Now. Unless you hate tall smoking hot blondes who think Americans are a commodity. I went a couple weeks ago and every single bar I walked into someone said "are you American? What the f are you doing in Helsinki? Let's have a shot!" The stereotype that Fins are quiet, reserved, and keep to themselves I found to be absolutely untrue. Recommend going in the summer...it's light out from 3:00am until 2:00am or so. I imagine the winter is about the opposite. Also, Prague. You can get as trashy or as classy as you want there. See an opera in a 300 year old opera house then go to a strip club with midgets. Or something like that. Harleys and James Dean are the big expat bars near the astronomical clock square. I watched the bartenders nearly burn down Harleys when they started juggling flaming bottles of 151 at around 2:30 one morning. What do you guys have? I'm always looking for new places to go...

Standard rule of thumb for UPT: Work hard, be a good bro. The rest will take care of itself. If you worry about your checkride score compared to everyone else's you're not being a good bro. Simple as that.

Relax man. I'm saying that he has SF form numbers memorized means he's had to learn them for one reason or another. Even if he is a commander, I'd rather my commander spent his brain bytes on other things than having to remember form numbers from the cops. It wasn't meant as an insult to him.

I'm interested, too.

Wow...why do you know that? That you do if you're not a former cop is kind of a what's wrong with the air force thing, I think.

The last step is the most important but usually forgotten: "Demand an apology."

https://www.cnn.com/2014/05/13/us/medal-of-honor/ Holy shit.

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Yikes. Good luck to those guys...this might belong in the WTF or What's Wrong with AF thread instead...

Rumor from today is that the MC-12 guys were given 1 week to turn in an ADP because they're all going somewhere that isn't with the jets to AFSOC... Can anyone validate that?

Doug Masters or Burt Reynolds. Classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzWXtjSsBDM

We are wearing plain black shirts until the punks get us a proper red shirts without the silhouette on the chest. It's a nice throwback. Too bad Friday boots aren't included in the new rules...

Damn. At Kunsan that sort of behavior would earn a car full of classified shredder paper from the LPA. Maybe an IG complaint about it? Sorry life is so rough there bros, that sounds miserable. Do you fill out a form each time you take a dump and note the qualities of your dump for tracking purposes and to track regularity? Does the Mr. Chief (ret) Douche demand a fiber increase if it's not regular enough? Good lord...I see a candidate for force shaping, obviously he doesn't have enough to do as a contractor if he's got time to roam the hallways looking for hazees.

[rant] Dude. Stop. If this were a dude we'd all be high-fiving him for all his conquests and bragging about what a bad ass our bro is who "bagged all those hot broads." She was in a target-rich environment (for girls) and she went winchester. Can't blame her for that. I've never met her, don't know anything about her other than what I see on this message board. I'm sure all those other cadets who got back seat rides at Luke "earned it" too, regardless of their gender. I like saying so-to-speak and weaving "69" as often as I can into conversation (because I'm an immature child right, Liquid?) but I can't get behind blatant sexism like this. Got it, Al-Gore's-internets message board, not at work, I know. But this is the shit that seeps into conversations at work and pisses off the 1COs enough to talk to Huffpo and "blow things out of proportion." To me, it's akin to seeking out the only black dude in your squadron and asking him the best recipe for fried chicken or kool aid or who the newest rap star will be, and that is certainly unacceptable. We should be better than this and I hope we are. BL: She's hot, knows it, and uses it to her advantage. Don't pretend you wouldn't do the exact same thing if you could. I definitely would. If you want a taste of what that's like, take yourself (and your green-card giving abilities) to somewhere East of the Berlin wall (Budapest, Bucharest, Constanza, Prague, Split, etc). American accent + a little walkin' around money = every smokeshow loves you. Ops tested. [/rant]

So, like about eleventy thousand of us said, this will work just fine until the next guy takes over and changes it back. That's the fear that will cause all of the dudes in the '06-'10 year groups to continue to get their masters even though he just said not to do that. Signing up for AU Masters in 3 months...FML. It was a good ride just, ya know, focusing on tactics. And RAP. But mostly tactics. Ok, mostly RAP, whatever. Shut up Richard, your brain is a candy shell.

How many people do you think will get OPR Bullets / promoted for managing this process? I put the over/under at 3 stars, two eagles, 38 stripes, and 17 oak leafs.

Guys, let's be realistic about this. She probably gets cracker crumbs in the bed sheets and I bet she uses the express lanes at the grocery store with a full cart of produce. I'll pass.

Yeah, yeah, that's fine and all, but they're not priced high enough to be in the AFE shop. Everyone knows it has to cost at least $200 for each item. That's where my plan will really get the attention of our contracting warriors. But I'll sell them on the idea that it'll be cheaper if we work with the USN and USMC to design a joint glove. At first I'll say it'll be cheaper, but I'll have a few cost and timeline overruns and actually they won't really work right and look kinda fat and stupid. I'll think call it Joint Safety Fabric or "JSF."

I just thought of this... I'm going to start a company that makes nomex gloves with touch screen capability. Then I'll charge $900/pair and sell them to the air force. That way we can all stay super safe and keep our gloves on throughout all phases of flight without losing the touch screen capability of the iPads. Now we can zoom in those minis to see the exact runway threshold crossing height , because if I don't brief that to my entire 4-ship then we will all either roll inverted valsalva and eject or land and immediately start sexually harassing every woman on base. It's science you can't argue it.

Because iPads haven't been approved for fighters yet. The Navy has them, I hear. Whatever, just give me the ILS frequency and the inbound course. Vectors to final will do, thanks.

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Post 9/11 GI bill plus VA Yellow Ribbon program could cover all of law school expenses but you would have to be "not on active duty" to be legible for yellow ribbon. There's a list of participating schools on the VA's website. Most major ones are on there (including a few in the top 20 like Harvard and Stanford, if you're a smarty pants).

Instrument flying is instrument flying, no matter what size airplane you fly or how fast you fly it. The FARAIM stuff is the same as the 11-217 which is (mostly) the same as the ICAO stuff. Knowing how to read an approach plate and how to use the radio under instrument flight will help you when you get to instruments. The USAF doesn't do it any differently than anyone else except you aren't supposed to vomit all over the radio with stuff like "center uhh we're uhh level at flight level 230, real smooth ride up here." It's "callsign, position, altitude." Brevity matters. It should make you feel good to make a perfect radio call and shame the airline dorks or airline dork wannabes with their trucker comm. That will pay dividends if you end up in a fighter and make a perfect 3-1 radio call during an LFE when everyone and their mom is trying to get a dec or call their shot during that single freq war that the viper strikers demanded. I digress. Anyway... Remember that IFS/UPT is designed to take a dude who has never sat in an airplane and make him a "safe" multi-engine, commercially rated, USAF pilot. As long as you're willing to put in the work required you can succeed without prior stuff like aerobatic or instrument flying. Once you start UPT it'll be continuous grundle punching (with just enough intermittently-reinforced awesomeness to keep you wanting more) no matter what jet you end up in, so enjoy your down time while you can. 3 axioms of UPT: Life isn't fair1. Work hard 2, but realize timing and luck matter as much or more than anything else. Be a good bro 3. 1) You'll probably feel like the schedulers are always screwing you over with the hammer check pilot, douche FAIP, or that you're not flying as much as the golden-boy thoroughbred guy in your class. Realize everyone else feels the same way, and there is not favoritism and you're not special. Execute consistently well regardless of your feelings of entitlement to special dispensation, and don't expect special dispensation...because you're not special; you're just another idiot Stan trying to kill your instructors en route to wings. 2) "Work hard" means study what you're told to study, be prepared for every sortie (chair flying, memorizing radio calls, VFR pattern references, entry parameters, and local procedures). That way the IPs can give you their techniques on accomplishing the procedures you already know rather than teaching you the procedures you should've studied. 3) Be a good bro means honestly help your dudes out as much as you can. Yes, it's a competition, but it's not you against each other, it's you against the USAF to earn your wings. The rack and stack is going to happen, but if your only focus is on how you can beat everyone else you're a douchebag and I don't want to fly with you. If your focus is improving yourself and helping others improve themselves, you're on the right track. Now go drink some beer and go on vacation or something before pilot training starts so you have some fond memories to look back upon during the difficult parts of UPT.