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Found an old forum from 2008 talking about this, apparently the plane had engine issues in the days prior to the bad landing, and in fact lost power on approach. Not sure if that's 100% valid, but sounded plausible to me.

I was on a SW flight a few years back and they held the jet about 10 minutes to allow a handful of connecting passengers make it from one side of the terminal to our gate. Some pax were grumpy about it, but the head FA got on the intercom and said something about "think about if it was you trying to make the connection." I was impressed.

You wouldn't want to anyways, it's a pain in the ass (no matter where you are going, they route you over Paris), their controllers pretty much blow, and the half dozen times I've been through there there's always some jacknuts blabbing to his buddy over guard. They only upside: some of the gals controlling have that super sexy voice. Another downside: I'm sure of few of those are dudes.

Isn't that the usual guy who writes about how we need a bazillion fighters?

Wait so they are saying aviation cadets flew in combat? Never heard that before...

The BBB is a sham. Saw a report on how they were black mailing companies nation wide to become a paying member of their services or get reported on their bad list. Pretty interesting actually.

I have flat ass feet. Didn't keep me from getting in.

I liked the actual gun shots at 4:00 leading into "Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo" nice!

You should see some of the comments on C-Springs news pages, they are f'n horrible.

1)is there anything someone like myself can do prior to/and durring IQT that can help prepare for that? 2)With Beale being the beddown, is the plan to start holding onto folks and treating it like a MWS?

And it was like that all day according to my FBO buddies there. Tough day for flying.

I knew this guy at IFS. Godspeed.

So you're saying there's still a chance....

That takes some balls! Safety report HERE.

Thread revival. Here at my base, they are holding the run inside due to the winter weather. No big deal right? Only if you don't mind running 24 laps around the b-ball court in the gym. It doesn't seem right or even safe to me. When I took the test in the late summer, we didn't run on the track or around a 1.5 mile course. Instead we did a 1.5 mile shuttle run (four 0.375 mile legs) thats on a slight incline. No kidding, you ran, touched a white line, then ran back to the start/finish line. I'm fairly certain that in both tests, you'll loose significant time. My run time was about 20 seconds slower than my average times I had been running in the months leading up to my test. The stop/start thing was murder. And my knees are not looking forward to the "basketball court NASCAR challenge". Does it specify in the regs on how the run is supposed to be administered?

Has anyone ever posted pics of their wife?

Germany built whore houses when they hosted the World Cup...

Any chance he has a son that went to Texas A&M back while he was up at the USAFA? Trying to connect some names in my fuzzy memory....

Then there's the three way tie in the Big 12 south....BCS polls get to decide that one tomorrow. I hate the BCS.

It is the Fist of Justice. I heard the story once, but I wouldn't tell it right. Even better, I'm fairly certain that this is on the 'standard AF screen-saver' at work.

That place is an easy drive from ABQ. There's also a place on the backside of the mountain that overlooks ABQ. When I was there in April, we were told that they had good deals for AD military but were SOL because they had closed for the season. Taos, and the ski areas around there aren't all that far either. This coming from the guy who'd drive home to C-Springs on the weekends, so it's all relative I guess.

I'm assuming your husband got C-21s? Furniture: My wife and I had the same question, buy US and ship or wait till we got here. I was hesitant on the Euro furniture, but I absolutely love the leather couch I got. It's really up to you. Check out IKEA or https://www.lederland-kaiserslautern.de/ that'll give you some ideas on what to expect here. Bikes: Bring them. One word - Autofrei! In the summer the Germans will shut down scenic roads for a day and only allow bike/rollerblade/skateboard/walking/ect on the road. I'm talking lots of road, 50+ Km. Along the way, each town/villiage will have food and entertainment. They are ton's of fun. Besides that, there are so many places to ride bikes here. Very worthwhile. Electronics: You can bring 110v stuff from the states, you will need to use transformers though. FMO will supply two large ones for you, and people PCS'ing are always selling them. My wife didn't bring a good majority of her hair styling related stuff, and it kind of sucked having to buy all that again. Also, if you have good kitchen appliances (mixers, ect) bring those as well. When we cook, we just plug what we are using into the transformer. One transformer is much cheaper than a ton of new stuff. The only major things I have that are 220v are the shop vac I use (we have all wood floors) and lights. Basically things that don't make sense to have multiple transformers for. Send me a PM and we can start helping you guys out.

You know it! Though I have yet to buy some man-capri-pants or get a purse...I mean satchel. If people don't want to be subjected to airport security: 1. Don't fly, thus avoiding all this or 2. Reduce security but increase your personal comfort, thus while accepting the increase in threat from people who want to do bad things. It was my understanding that the new scanners are a response to situations like the underwear-bomber. Just as we started going shoe-less after the shoe bomber. (what's next on the explosive attire list?) If you don't want to go through the scanner, then you get the new and improved TSA frisk. If you refuse that, well what then? Should they just take your word that you're a good guy? Is there other technology out there that can get the same job done? What happened to the puffers? *note: after watching news clips on this subject to me it seems that the people that are complaining the most about the scanners were either: A) obese B) had fake tits

And my douchenozzle of the day submission: Sexual molestation? Go choke yourself dude.

"embedded video disabled, please watch on youtube" -so we can shove a bunch of f'n advertising down your throat