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discus, good luck! and it's Hurbie with a U, as in Hurlburt. ;)

at bases run by the Army (Bagram), you can't have a holster that points the gun backward, it has to point down at the ground. Just keep that in mind depending on where you go. Who does concealed carry of an M-9 anyway?

drunk drivers, high crime south of I-40...

what airframes are listed in his Bio? Pope already took it down so I can't look. That will tell you what he might have flown at the Zoo.

they came up the road and did a static/capes with us. We were all drooling over their bird, and by we I mean not me, as I was asleep (it was 9 am), but we heard all about it from the boss, who was sufficiently impressed.

https://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/...an-battles.html their bird is pretty sweet.

I'll just say we had a visit from someone in a position to have his voice heard earlier this week and I was heartened by what I heard about the future for CSAR.

some of the DUSTOFF birds have a FLIR now, yes, but it's not integrated like ours, and there are still limits imposed upon the Army crews about how low they can fly in low illum situations, which in turn mitigates some of the benefits of the FLIR. Theirs is mounted on the side of the nose, with an additional viewing screen mounted on the side of the center console (in front of the pedal adjust lever). It's an improvement, but not as capable as our system.

PIO - Pilot Induced Oscillations PIS - Pilot Induced Shittiness

which still didn't answer his question.

bingo.

the shuttle falls like a brick, so I wouldn't exactly call it a lifting body...

The USAF uses the UH-1H and the TH-1H (rebuilt UHs with upgrades) as the primary helicopter trainer at Mother Rucker. Since you asked.

which I would have done for you if only you'd posted 2 weeks ago...

I was just there last week, and they do advertise having a website...

negatory. Some of the buildings have a community kitchen in the basement. I was in the "new" building 22018 and the stove/oven was not usable due to fire code issues...so it may be the same in the other buildings as well. FYI, they (Lodging) aren't very friendly to having kids in the rooms due to the high number of aircrew there with crew rest issues. My class had a lot of feedback for Lodging on that one, so I recommend e-mailing the Safety School folks ASAP to get the ball rolling. Or, refuse lodging and find a place off base that the $39 a day (lodging cost) will cover (like Southwest Suites). They won't give you a non-A since it's an AETC/AFIT funded school blah blah blah.

no, it's another dude, who spent no shit 30 minutes going over his resume with us.

yes bring blues. Not much work required, took me about an hour to type out my article at most. Day goes from 0800-1600 then have a good time out on the town...I had a good time and found a lot of the information to be interesting. Not so much the metallurgic analysis, tho.

or, a CSAR and a MEDEVAC roll down at the same time, and the Army takes the CSAR and we get the MEDEVAC (happened to us on this last deployment).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93d_Air-Ground_Operations_Wing the 93d AGOW is the parent wing for all non-SOF ASOGs and their ASOSs.

sorry, I got having AOs for it mixed up with it being an aeronautical badge. My bad. What they said above.

all aeronautical badges are required to be worn, per 36-chow my hog. Parachutist badge is an aeronautical badge. I'll let you make the logical leap...

I count 2 flight suits in the pic. Play a little Where's Waldo. Donk's not wearing his, either (only other person I can pick out). So obviously all who participated were told to wear ABUs, and those 2 other peeps I bet had really good reasons to be in flight suits. Whatever.

at least Bagram calls it Combat Orientation and Combat Finish. And you don't have to wear a reflective belt in PT gear. Unless the new Wing King there has made some drastic changes, Bagram is the least Big Blue-feeling place of the deployed locations I've been to, considering there's a Wing there. The CCC is a great dude.

the Japanese gate guards salute us, so I salute back. FlyinGrunt is spot on.