zach braff

Anyone notice that this week's "roll call" was about proper conduct as Airmen and representation of the Air Force? Coincidence? Should I bring a copy of this months issue when we talk to the troops?

My gym got rid of personal lockers while I was deployed. Didn't bother tryin to notify anyone downrange, they just cut my lock and threw away all my stuff. And they got rid of towels recently. They say its gonna save some 100K a year or something. I guess laundry ain't cheap.

Nah dude, you should stay PA. You can make fun games out of annoying the ops guys. Try to write the most riduculous articles you can, especially ones which involve services cooks and bio-health insect technicians being the "REAL" heroes of the GWOT. 5 points for each article that makes the base paper, 10 points if its published on af.mil! Us comm guys have our own "annoy the ops guys" game. We call it "Standard Desktop Configuration..." On the serious, its good to have a few non shoe types in shoe career fields. We maintain the delicate balance. That's why I stick with comm (well, that and my 20/400 vision).

I like #1 where they say a deployment can be "fun and educational..." Last time I checked, I didn't really think of fighting a bloody war against an unconventional and unscrupolous enemy after they killed 3000 innocent Americans on our home soil as "fun and educational." Maybe that's just me though. I'm sure the families and friends of Tech. Sgt. Timothy R. Weiner, Senior Airman Elizabeth A. Loncki, and Senior Airman Daniel B. Miller Jr. are just tickled about their "fun and educational" experience. https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123037185

Your boat stops at various ports from time to time doesn't it? I'd think that would give the teddy bear more photo ops than 4 months at the same deployed base... Just my thoughts.

One of my radio troops in Baghdad was an amateur videographer. He started a 'storytime with daddy/mommy' program that rocked. He'd do videos where folks could read a story to their kids against a greenscreen, then he'd put in the illustrations to the background. He got donations to buy DVDs to publish them and guys would send them home. They came out really professional looking and were a HUGE morale booster for the deployed parents. The roaming stuffed animal stuff sounds great too. [ 10. January 2007, 11:31: Message edited by: zach braff ]

I was lucky enough to catch an incentive ride in a T-38 at Holloman as a cadet, so it can happen. I was almost lucky enough to catch an eagle FAM ride at Tyndall (thanks to my alt chamber card - GET ONE), but we were cancelled on the way out to the jet due to weather and all flights ended up scrubbed for the day. Sucko for me since it was my last day there.

Did it TWICE as an Airman, but not since I've commissioned. Free trip home (well, no leave taken). I know it exists for officers though, my ROTC det had one or two LTs do it after SUPT. Call your old ROTC det and see whatsup.

Is there a good acronym for AFI-quoting assholes? The kind of people (Mr. Gillis) that will do everything they can do stop you from doing anything productive by quoting various AFIs. I think somebody should make on up. We had a comm engineer (AFMC civilian, but for some reason still wearing DCUs) out here in the AOR that, I swear to God, wanted us to shut down our alerting system because some AFI somewhere said a radio had to be a certain distance from one of the computers. And on the A3/A6 thing, I just figured the kinds of tools that would be referencing that AFI would come from A6. Most of the AFI quoting beeyoches that keep me from getting comm sh-t done seem to come from A6. I could be wrong though.

On the global this dude is listed a A3. Wouldn't that make him an Ops Shoe Clerk weenie? Most comm weenies are in A6. [ 15. August 2006, 23:20: Message edited by: zach braff ]

I'm in Baghdad right now and the biggest issue is, well obviously, DCU tops. Apparently it is a critical mission stopping offense to have your DCU top off unless you are actively engaged in "work". Nevermind that the portapotties approach 130 degrees inside, unless you're building something inside (awaits jokes) you'd better have your top on before going in there. You take a water break from digging your trench, repairing your runway, PMIing your NavAid, your top goes back on. The security of our nation depends on it. Oh, and PT shirts WILL be tucked in. We had one come untucked the other day and two C-17s got stuck in a holding pattern until they were re-tucked. tagg

Actually I'm perfectly open to freindly rivalry among AFSCs. Even within AFSCs. Appreciate the microsoft comment, but I work the mission systems end of the comm weenie world right now so I spend lots of time screwing with the computer guys about all of the microsoftciscopatchupdatewebmailconfigurationswitchrouterport8080 stuff that makes up their reason for existence. Meanwhile they try to make fun of my ATC tower radios, LMRs, TACAN, and cable/satellite links. I usually win though . I'll probably take crap for the analogy, but its (somewhat) similar to the fighter/bomber/airlift rivalries. As long its friendly and we understand at the end of the day we're on the same team I'm all for the occasional jab. Except the engineer guys. I won't take sh-t from them... ever.

Start reading this. 95% of all "intel" reports come directly from here.

I put "please don't screw me" in my comments. My commander's comment was "He's cool, he deserves not to be screwed."