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First two will be there tomorrow. Get ready for the noise fellas. Damn I'm going to miss the beach...(and by beach I mean near an actual ocean)

You said it yourself. They stopped being "hot" in 2008 (if that). And don't hate on the REAL Tigers (Clemson fans can pound sand)!

Unless you're some sort of medical student, avoid the strip club with the flourescent lighting. Scariest thing I've ever seen. One chick even had some sort of scar where they had used a rib separator on her.

I agree with a lot of the points on here, but to be honest, no matter what you do, unless you USE YOUR MAJOR IN EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE AIR FORCE, IT WILL LIKELY BE USELESS TO YOU IF IT IS TECHNICALLY ORIENTED. Technology changes so fast that if you try to walk into an employers office and say "here's my engineering degree; the last time I did anything with it was 5 years ago", they will likely look at you like some sort of alien. You'll likely need some spin-up time/classes and would have had to maintain some sort of consistent "book learning" while you were doing your everday AF life. And unless you're a MPF or Finance troop (sorry FinanceGuy), you won't have time in your day to do that. You WILL however, be marketable based upon your leadership skills/experience/evaluations and more importantly to a lot of companies, your ability to hold a security clearance or to fly an airplane if that is the route you choose. This is why I say pick a major that makes you happy.

If you're going to a real college, major in whatever gives you the best opportunity to chase the most strange, drink the most beer, and that you interests you the most. No sense in suffering through something. Odds are if it's difficult, you're going to hate it; if you hate it, you're going to suck at it.

"Flying is man's second greatest feat. Landing is the first" "Every takeoff is optional; every landing is not" One of my engineers: "Sir, I'd love to take off today with a full bag of gas and ammo, but unfortunately we're still waiting on our Physics waiver so we'll have to download one or the other"

The author erroneously goes back and forth between TACP and CCT. STS members are typically a mixture of career fields (as the AF website states) where the teams can be farmed out to the units requiring the expertise in air power. In a team of 20 or so shooters, you likely have 2 or so STS guys with them. Most wear the scarlet or red beret of their PJ counterparts or gray berets (seen very few outside of that in my briefings when we do CFF training with them). As SATCOM said, most of the TACP career-field remains embedded with conventional army, while some units were absorbed into AFSOC due to the expansion of both the majcom and career field as well as the ever-present need for more JTACs to be trained up.

It was the RTB leg of a DACT sortie. Heard it from my crew chief's sisters husbands uncle who saw it on the local news...

A few inputs I have (like them or leave them, you won't hurt my feelings either way): 1) GO speed is exactly that: GO speed. PASS GO, TAKE OFF, collect $200. We base our reject speeds on the RUNWAY WE HAVE AVAILABLE. For you Herc guys, also remember the considerations that are put into your reject numbers. So you have a low-pitch stop fail to retract; you leave it in ground idle and reverse the two symmetricals, just like the considerations state you will. At 0.000069 KIAS above the GO speed, you take it airborne, plain and simple. You have entered the realm of what the numbers in front of your FE from his 1-1 state are no longer safe to reject the T/O and need to start drinking water for that upcoming urinalysis. 2) REJECT on a T&G: I brief in my T&G brief to NEVER call reject on a T&G. Do so, and when we get back to debrief I'm going to punch you in the junk. Let me know what the problem is with a brief description (i.e. "we have a crewmember medical emergency") and I will make the decision based upon my next point: 3) ENERGY: Touch and go's are all about energy. This is where we make our big money as pilots. In the gunpig, like all C-130s, we have the luxury of instantaneous throttle response because all we are changing is our prop pitch (engines always 100%). Whether your airplane has that luxury or not, you have to analyze your energy state in order to make an educated decision as to whether you are going to stay or go on a T&G. You know where you touched down, you know what your airspeed was at touchdown, you know how much runway you have left. This drives home the importance of touching down on aimpoint, centerline, and airspeed. Outside of those parameters, go around! Don't accept putting yourself into those unknown regimes and making the potential for catastrophy worse by accepting bad landings in the first place. Take out one more variable for you to have to consider when you have that high-speed emergency and have to make the decision. I think that if you live by most of these techniques that I hold dear, the likelihood of you departing the prepared surface during one of our most critical phases of flight drop exponentially. Rant off, standing by your spears. Cheers. Edited for the fact that there is no "a" in "luxury"

If you're buying a sportbike, remember that the only real difference (other than weight and INSURANCE COSTS) between a 600CC and a 1000CC usually turns out to be top end speed. And if that's your deciding factor, you're going way too damn fast! Most street bikes are even keel nowadays. That being said, I'm on my second Ninja ZX6-R. Best way to tell what you like is to trade keys around with guys in the squadron. Spent a whole afternoon with guys talking shit about how badass their bikes were and we finally threw our keys at each other. Good experience overall if you trust your buddies and it lets you do something most dealers won't.

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Whoa, now. Check fire. I'm not doubting the guy's credentials. I'm not out to discredit his airmanship or flying experience. Not to mention that you have to acknowledge that fighter guys log sorties 1.4 at a time versus our standard 8-hour plus sorties that we heavy guys are accustomed to. I AM doubting the utter stupidity of the planning and coordination required to pull guys away from their jobs or their limited free time in the AOR to put on a show for PA so we can read about this wonderful story on the AF Link. I believe the word of the day is "priorities".

The queep trickles further downstream and further into the AO. Not downplaying the importance of a Change of Command ceremony, but when you pull away from the war effort to put up three separate static displays of combat aircraft and form up your wing in the AOR for a simple commander swap, maybe we should stop wondering why the other services laugh at us and our "priorities". I'm sure that there were even quiet hours put into effect for this... https://www.bagram.afcent.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123145035

Kind of what I was eluding too... The requirements document is basically stating that they either need a 9G airplane like the viper for a trainer or they need a simulator, and you know how the argument is going to progress on that issue.

The requirements document sounds like they want to keep the Viper around as a trainer...

I'd avoid Coyote Ugly. It was a novel idea and sounds great to "go to that bar they made the movie about", but all I ended up with was a wet shirt, warm beer, and a hatred for the women that worked there. Great beer in New York New York (and on another note, the only place I was propositioned by a prostitute, hmmm....). I loved it in the Belagio, T.I., and the Venetian. We stayed a night in the Paris and got hammer-drunk (fun place). All of these places are on the strip, so if you don't like it, you just walk next door. Makes for a great non-stop day.

Well, I was the class before the scandal and her roommate was in my flight and openly admitted to her "reasoning". But hey, wouldn't want to smear her good name anymore than she admits to...

Yup...she was roomies with another chick who was fvcking a T-38 stud who told her, and I quote: "I can put in a good word for you over there at the 50th and get you a T-38". Some chicks will believe anything... Almost as good as the Team America "I promise...I will never die". untitled.bmp

The only USAF C130J unit in theater. I'm sure our blimey brothers who have been busting hump with their aerospace vehicles out of that shithole for years might have something to say about that... Ballsy move, though. That place gets rocketed more often than Lindsey Lohan gets a DUI!

Correct. The purpose of the credit check is to determine if you owe a rediculously large amount of money and are unable to pay said amount of money (making you a risk in the eyes of the government). Don't know what the threshold is, but I'm assuming you'd have to be pretty bad off for them to be concerned about it.

Why a "K" on it? I'm sure it's going to be retarded and obvious when you tell me why, but the brain just isn't processing the answer for me right now...

As stated earlier, someone is just going to have to take one for the team and have a string of accidents all attributed to the wear of the reflective belt. That'll put a stop to that. I personally am going to wear mine in the shower, just in case...

The High and the Mighty John Wayne keeps the crew alive after an engine failure right at the ETP. Classic film in which a copilot actually lays a beech-slap on an AC. A must-see.

And as recent as last summer during a couple of HUREVACs. Nothing like leading from the bunker...

They really just want to know if you owe a proverbial shite-ton of money to anyone or are in over your head so that they can analyze whether or not you will be a security risk (i.e. you can be blackmailed or bribed into giving secrets). So as long as you aren't giving ZJ's out by the freeway to pay your loans off, you should be fine.