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Any update on the FY15 program?

Can someone post the verbiage on here? I'm on a medical TDY taking care of the wife and my CAC reader went A-3. Thanks.

What's the going rate per pound per mile these days? Anyone have feedback on the uhaul pods?

Meanwhile some MAJCOMs are staffed at 70-80% and won't release anyone. I know where a few of those guys could be put to good use...

The 189 guys are still going to be teaching IPUG in addition to the PIQ and other initial qual missions that they're picking up. The first few PIQ guys are trickling through now as they teach PIN. They're still making the attempt to keep IPUG out of the SIM (it's only 4 or 7 rides based on what you fly plus a checkride, so the 3.0's they're flying aren't exactly breaking the bank) in order to keep the quality of training high (sure, in the SIM they can kill you, but there's a lot more value added to the air over the wings when they demo student trends to you).

You mean other than this?

So I pretty much puked every single flight that I had in Tweets. It was weird. I would fly the manuevers, spins, stalls, everythinng, never once feeling sick. Then on the descent into the pattern area, I'd feel queasy, hand off the jet, blow chow into my bag, tie it up, put it in my pocket, take back the jet, and press on. Ended up doing the chair every damn day (including Fridays while everyone was out at the club) and found that the only cure was a combination of chewing mint gum while flying (sugarless so your mask seals don't stick) and time. Eventually, my body just stopped wanting to puke, just like they advertised me it would. It got to where I couldn't really even puke when I was drunk, so I got used to not puking after that. Enter my false sense of confidence. So there I was. Little Rock, AR. 2005. My buddy is having a birthday party while we are there and we go to Cajun's Wharf (you know this place if you are a herk dude). It's a typical weekend night and we've been rockin' out pretty hard and decide to tie one on to celebrate his day. So we get a pretty cute waitress and she's pretty nice to us and lets us pretty much order whatever we want. This is a mistake. We order those plastic cups that you would normally drink from a keg with full of two things: ice, and John Daniels (we have a pretty decent relationship built on trust and mutual boredom). So we are getting these things brought to us and start to CHUG them, toasting, from what I can remember of this, "...to the bottom of the glass". We are holding our shit together by some miracle and she, in her ignorance, continues to serve us these drinks. The night continues on, and for some reason I remember that Roy Jones Jr. was in the bar that night, only important because of the pure volume of clientel that turned out to be in that bar that particular night. There was no getting anywhere in the bar in a hurry, no matter what. So we're blasting these drinks down like madmen. For those who have not been to Cajun's Wharf in Little Rock, it is a 2-story establishment with an outdoor deck on the roof/2nd floor. We're up there looking out at the river and enjoying the cool night air and getting stupid drunk. Then, it happens... You know how it starts...first the movement feeling in your stomach, maybe a little bit of the spins, the saliva in your mouth. Then you get that last moment of clarity that pulls you completely out of your drunken stupor and directly into full consciousness: I AM GOING TO VOMIT...NOW! There is no way to get to the bathroom. I am stumbling around and make it to the edge of the balcony. I assume the balcony goes over the river, so I get there, and in my degraded state, neglect to preflight my trajectory and just let it all out. I puke for what must have been 4 straight minutes. My friends are laughing, but the one who comes over to check on me makes the stark realization that I did not: the balcony is over more of the club, with tables down below. A few people are running away from the table that I had just shacked. Lucky for me there were only a few people in that particular area at the time. So I'm standing 15 feet over my handiwork and the waitress comes back upstairs and realizes that we are not as jovial as we have once been and are in a hurry to leave. Then she sees the railing of the balcony that I got a little puke on and you can literally see the realization as to what happened come across her face. She says only one word: "Leave". Our driver pays our tab, tips the waitress like 25 bucks, and we pretty much run to my buddy's truck to get out of there. I have only one time in my life been drunker than that evening, and I am pretty sure that I am still not allowed back into that bar. Cheers

So enroute to the AOR on the rotator, we had a layover in an undisclosed country in order for them to crew change and fuel the bird. Thinking nothing of it, I left my PSP and peripherals in the seat. Come back out to the plane, GONE. The "airline" in question's response: tough shit, we don't reimburse for our shady characters taking your things. So take from my $700+ lesson and secure your stuff on your person, even when you are on the rotator and think that maybe, for some reason, your stuff might be safe.

4:4 airmen/bedroom works well for the single guys, but what about the married ones who can't get base housing because it is full/condemned/not privatized yet? Or the Lt's who can't afford houses? The word PROBABLY should NEVER make its way into an explaination about housing issues for inbound personnel. There needs to be a fvcking P-L-A-N! Lack of anything short of that = FAIL! This has been an issue that has been brought up in every single "town-hall meeting" up until this point. Yet we continue to see the same issue come up every single month when the next crop of refugees show up to Cannon. It has to stop. All we are doing is empowering the local community because they have us by the balls and setting ourselves up for another real-estate bubble-burst like we saw in Florida.

Most of the times cops are good about their customs and courtesies. That being said, I would have flat come unglued had the above situation happened to me. I had a similar run-in with SFS troops, regarding disrespectful attitudes. The SFS troop was in the wrong, and he let emotion get carried away and smarted off to me. Once that disrespect line is crossed, you have to recage that dude's gyro. My response to his disrespectful greeting to me was "NCOs still greet officers with a salute upon recognition, correct?" Kind of took him aback, but I asked for his personal info and contacted the SNCO at the LE desk after the stop. As Toro stated, the "authority vs. rank" argument comes into play most times. Don't let them get away with inappropriate conduct, especially if they are talking to superiors. If you take what they are dishing out, you are just empowering them even more. Even the Captain aircraft commander has to salute the Lt Col navigator when they aren't on the airplane, despite the level of "authority"...

No. Instead, they opted to physically shine spotlights in the vicinity of the next night's sortie. Bullshit, straight up. Glad that "Operation Kept Cannon" was such a brilliant success. God I hate to see how so few can benefit from the plight of so many. Wouldn't want to have all that money and have to actually put up with something to earn it. IHTFP...

It's bad enough that we are considered "MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN" here and have to maintain 2000' AGL outside of approach airspace. I'll be damned if we have to be on the hose the entire damn sortie, too. Let PA do that PA thing and explain to them the importance of our training. Meanwhile, I'm going to follow the example set by the boss and keep on trucking below 10K

Reference above post.

That's because having a gun makes you a gunship on paper, which is what this is really all about in the end. Can you say recap?

There are guys here who are getting "W-qual-ed" from our unit. Don't expect this to be a quick process, though, regardless of what timeline is proposed. Rant time: One of these days "they" will live up to the promises about how awesome the training here will be and less restrictive. The fact that the only two ranges for gunships have to be deconflicted with a miriad of other players, essentially making them LESS available than the ranges on Eglin is, in this man's opinion, a FAIL. Sleepy time.

"I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" by Tucker Max. Probably about 95% bullshit, but still a fun read.

Heard in the squadron today that indeed someone did get a ticket for it walking down the sidewalk in civilian clothes, this week...

Depends. If your UPT is a TDY, then yes. If it is a PCS and you are TDY to OTS enroute, you should have them pick up your stuff before you go to OTS. They will keep your HHG in storage for 90 days after your RNLTD and extend as necessary. If otherwise, I'd put all my crap in a storage unit. A lot less cheaper/month.

Take what you are required, leave the rest at home. When you PCS to your first duty station, they will allow you to move from your Home of Record or your current location, and even pick up from both locations.

Why don't we all stop bitching about deployment comparisons. JTACs are gone, outside the wire most times, mind you, well over a year at a time. Herc guys deploy way more often than Buff guys. What's your point? Why does it even matter? If it's a problem for you, cross-train. The purpose of this thread is basic debauchery ($4 word, there) that you see in the Security Forces community, specifically when it comes to "punishing the man" (yes, there are guys out there with that mentality in every career field). This goes right up the alley of the REMFs who enforce regs that they "think are out there" blindly because they think that's what their bosses want. I have no problem if a cop catches me for doing something blatently incorrect, like doing a 48 in a 35. I knew the law, I broke it, I had a reason that, for me, provided a reward that outweighed the risk (like being late for a meeting with an O-6 or anyone on G-series orders). Not a problem when they do that. Write the ticket, salute smartly, and carry the fvck on. It's when they go above and beyond, like giving a guy a ticket for not stopping for 3 complete seconds (which isn't written anywhere, so it's like busting a guy on a checkride for a technique that you don't agree with) or for going out of your way to pull a weapon on a child escorted by his/her parent wearing a bag and a line badge (which violates ANY ruling on proportionality). You can't say that any of these things are necessary for you to do your job and to do it well.

Agreed. Spend less time on looking into who is chowing who's hog and spend more time on who is selling MIL-spec NVGs on Craigslist and how they got them in the first place. Another question: if DADT goes away, what happens to dudes like this? Clearly his being gay wasn't affecting the way that he did his job. I'm sure the JTAC on his mission was worried about which issue of Playgirl the dude has under his mattress back at the hooch. Send your spears my way (STS). I ain't skeered. Let any man who is willing to die for his country or kill for his country stand next to me in battle. Let any man who actually has have my support. This is bullshit and should definitely be ammunition for the DADT fight. This shit is getting a little old already...

I always ask in return: "What's the right answer?" That or: "Tell your fat friend over there that she can buy me a pitcher if she wants to." No shame in having a fat chick buy your beer, boys. Let her buy all of it for you that she wants to. Just remember you can always bail at the end of the evening with: "Thanks for the beer. I have to go, my wife is leaving now."

Here's a problem for you: 1. Morale is low because shoes create rules so that shoes still have a reason to deploy to enforce said rules 2. Impact is that they don't allow weapons in the Deid because if they did, someone would either off themself or a shoe. 3. Nothing has been done before. It has been a continuous sinking into the abyss of hopelessness. 4. As stated earlier, US forces are the laughing stock of the CENTCOM community. 5. COA: immediately remove all gay rules from the Deid. If it doesn't apply at homestation, it shouldn't be an "above and beyond" rule at the Deid. Increase consumption allowance of alcohol to 4 per day until situation is remedied. Remove requirement for Customs processing for transient individuals who won't have time to leave the fvcking base even if they wanted to. Remove anyone in the CoC who starches their ABUs in country. Remove the "F", "Y", and "I" keys from anyone's keyboard who is a member of any "Top 3". 6. Feasible? It started that way once upon a time; I'm sure it could happen again. a. The old Air Force approach of not blaming individuals but blaming a culture could apply. b. Level of CC/leadership is a leader who can look past the rank he/she wants to see on his/her shoulders and picks up a set of balls (and maybe some "Top Cover" to keep the SNCO mafia from trying to run over people)

If you need the surgery, they'll make sure that you get it. Also, it's a whole lot easier to get the surgery done as AD than it is to get reimbursed for it. Best to take health risks AFTER you have your wings.

"I'd love to take you flying, sir, but our recent rash of budget cuts has left us short on flying hours, ammunition, range and ECM time, as well as fuel. Plus nobody is current for their semi-annuals due to not having the required currency and/or the fact that half the squadron is currently Q-3 because they couldn't get ready for their checkrides. Guess we can try again in October..." That and I don't want you shooting off your fvcking piehole about how we defend against the TB. But we'll just stick with politically correct for now.