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The children of MoH recipients do get to go to the service academy of their choice, if they meet entry criteria. The MSG/CC I worked for as a casual went to the AFA on this type of nomination. Father's MoH Citation

I understand how a true DITY move works, but not sure what's going on in my case. PCS'ing to Ramstein. Did a partial DITY to put things in storage back home. Same deal with the 95% ect, but it was never mentioned that I'd get anything up front. I didn't know, so I couldn't ask. So I move my stuff, come back, file the paperwork, and supposedly should have been paid within 2-3 weeks. 3 weeks later, no money. Come to find out, my paperwork never got sent to finance, the reasoning was that I had to wait until my household goods were picked up and shipped (not for another month) and only then will my DITY paperwork go through. From my understanding, I get paid for the weight of the DITY move, not a comparison of the DITY weight to the HHG weight. I don't see why one has anything to do with the other. I think they are jacking me around or, just don't know what the hell they are doing. That $800 bucks would be nice to have...

I love the fact how at my base, every 3 weeks or so, you have 20+ students (not to mention everyone else) all PCS'ing to pretty much the same bases. This has been going on for 40+ years. Yet, you have to reinvent the wheel every time someone leaves. There's no huge turnover of folks in the MPF either. Been seeing the same faces for the past 2.5 years. When I walked in and told them where I was going, you'd think I told them the AF was PSC'ing me to the moon. For the amount of time I was in the MPF, I shoulda had my own desk.

Pattern work? Better yet...AIRSHOWS!!!!

How much caffeine/crack does this "Vegas" chick take very day? Either she was the head camp counselor at gay ass kumbaya summer camp and that shit carried over into her AF career, or this chick hates her job and oozes sarcasm like some sort of foul vaginal discharge.

#1 from which side of the house? Our T-38 #1 was a salty WSO from Strike Eagles. Good dude. Worked hard, played hard too. Our T-1 #1 was a space cadet. Seriously. One of the funniest guys I know, total space cadet on the ground, great pilot in the air. Every class is different.... On the subject. My wife and I started dating just before OTS. I doubted it was gonna work out, but hey I wasn't going to be dating much at OTS so I figured I'd see what happened on the other end with the two of us. We talked every night at OTS, with a few exceptions. She sent cookies and other goodies for the SQ. It wasn't a bad deal. So we've been long distance since November of 2007, all through OTS, casual, and UPT. Saw each other about once a month, stressful at times, lots of phone calls (usually less than a minute), emails, ect. I never felt like my relationship affected my performance in UPT. Then she moved in with me halfway through phase 3. It was still great, flying was going awesome, I was less stressed out, ect. Then one day we found out that she might have cancer. The day after I hooked my first flight ever in UPT. That was three flights before my Nav check...great timing. Oh I hooked my nav check too. Needless to say, I was slightly distracted. I should have been a 'big boy' and not tried to fly but hey I'm invincible and can handle everything right? It cost me my shot at being #1 in the T-1 class, but in the end it worked out and I still got my first choice in assignments. I also learned a huge lesson about life. After we found out everything was benign, the stress/worry level went way down, I got back into my UPT groove, and finished out strong. So that's our story about UPT, and like everything else out there, how your experience goes...well it 'just depends' ;)

"the only 9-1-1 call I need is chambering a round" If I wasn't going overseas, I'd totally make the 5 hour drive up and buy a truck from this guy!

A 2 on that! And man that video by Martha Gillis is great and damn touching...1st Lt. Brian Bradshaw's mother getting the flag is rough. If that doesn't tug at your heart, I don't know what will....

They do some awesome work on custom tab patches too. Sent in a design, had patches 14 days later. Decently priced. And they can do small order too, none of that 50 minimum crap. edit for update Our SQ ordered some new patches through Mardon 5 weeks ago, thought they would be here by now. Today I got an email for the design approval. Yeah the patch looks great, but it shouldn't take almost 6 weeks to do. They say they will put it on a rush order now, time will tell once they finally get here.

I've made this several times now...holy sh*t it's good!

lol nice

Seems some Cajun down in Louisiana built his own "reaper"... This guy has some interesting videos, such as spear hunting wild pigs barefoot in his rice fields...at night.

I'm sure the MC-12 guys are jealous....

I'm busy burning the DVDs so can't upload the files yet. But here's the list of songs I used: C-17 Hickam: Some Hawaiian song Travis: Phantom Planet - California McChord: Postal Service - Such Great Heights Charleston: Josh Turner - South Carolina C-5 Travis: Jack Johnson - Breakdown KC-135 Fairchild: The Strokes - Life's a Gas (Ramones cover) E-8 Robbins: Ray Charles - Georgia U-28 Hurlburt: James Bond Theme MC-12 TBD: Hans Zimmer - Black Hawk Down - Bakara MC-12 C-21 Ramstein: Hans Zimmer - Black Hawk Down - Bakara.....then..... Des Grossen Kurfürsten Reitermarsch (some old Luftwaffe marching song) UAVs Creech: Loverboy - Working for the Weekend Creech: Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation Cannon: Toby Keith - Courtesy of the Red White and Blue Cannon: Clint Black - Iraq and I roll F-15E TBD: Audio Slave - Gasoline B-52 TBD: some old 1950's B-52 film intro FAIPs T-6: Enid America the Band - Enid America the Song T-1: Liam Lynch - This Town Sucks UH-1N F.E. Warren: Stephen Sills - Treetop Flyer C-130s Dyess: Mic and Olley - Four Fans of Freedom Peterson: Metro Station - Shake It Ramstein: Feeder - Buck Rodgers The Marines Typical Marine running jodies...

Good to hear as I'm getting ready to PCS there!

DVD is done, used some of the suggestions....thanks for the help! Might post a few examples soon.

Seen some on facebook and they are pretty good party suits...but I'm not gonna post someone's personal pics on here.

Yeah just gotta try a few times to get the channel to work...

This site is awesome....time for some happy trees and grandfather mountains! Bob Ross episodes streamed

Standing room only...but free blowjobs!

...well...it depends... ;) I hope I never have to be the guy at an airshow static display, three reasons: 1) stupid fvcking questions 2) having to repeat myself 100+ times 3) can't drink beer Probably just jinxed myself....

Note the the compact surface area of lead's facepalm....that allows him to bitch-slap some sense into you quicker than his two wingmen with their spread facepalms. Technique only. edited for picture

I've had mostly good experiences on airlines, (haven't flown Ryan air yet) but sometimes the true douchebaggery seems to come out in droves.... On southwest one I had an incident where I boarded, got a window seat in the back of the plane, put my magazine and MP3 player in the seatback, then got up to hit the head real quick. When I came back to my seat some guy was sitting in my seat, my backpack was under his feet and my stuff was still in the seat back. After pointing out the obvious that it was my stuff and my seat, he said oh well and just sat there. Asked again...nothing. There were still seats open, so I just figured I'd go somewhere else...since this guy wasn't going to move. I then asked for him to give me my stuff, and he said it was his!!!! WTF?? Luckily the 50+ year old flight attendant (the type you don't fck with) saw the whole thing and kick the dude out and up to some middle seat. Douche! edit for "douchebaggery"

He's already been...I think her song "loneliness" was the favorite song this spring...I fck'n hate that song. I'm digging some of the ideas everyone's had. Used "breakdown" by Jack Johnson for my C-5 buddy...appropriate.

I would, but when I emailed everyone to find out what their new squadron is, it took over a week to get the answers. They didn't have to make a choice then, imagine how long that would take now. Thanks for the ideas guys, I'm going to try em out today. Might post a few more examples. Edit for this gem: found this browsing YouTube could be a funny one for the rotor heads: