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Yes, we used COOL at McChord for a while and it sucked donkey balls. We had multiple problems with it not accurately reflecting a pilot’s Mission Ready Status. Well, PEX has the same problems only was easier to fix. I just can't believe that with today technology the AF can't develop a simple database that tracks this crap properly %100 of the time. Additional, there was an earlier post agreeing that the system is broke, but ACs could do more to mitigate the problem. Well, that is not always the case. If I call a mission complete because training is complete... that is just it training is complete and there is not a single person on my aircraft that needs anything. The problem comes when the fill my aircraft up with pilots that do not need anything. When we came back from out last deployment, we were trying to get everyone re-current in AR. We only had a few AR lines and when I was told there were 5 pilots on my local I thought great, we will get some people current. Turns out all 5 of them were current and the non-current guys didn't want to fly Friday night. I do not know how those orders made it past the ADO/DO.

Fly what yo can, log what you need. It is sad, but the system is broken. I wish I knew how to fix it. We just don't have the training lines to go around and you can't sort out the the guys who tried to fly and are going non-current and the slackers... Yes, you can tell, but not with %100 accuracy. So, we are back to square 1.

Are you serious? If you are, go rent "The 3 Amigos", watch it, come back here and repost. "He is not just famous, he is infamous!”

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Yes! There are a few guys who still swear by them, but I was not impressed (quality or price). It is also much harder for you to get them back now, unless you do the paperwork before you leave. Now someone will jump in here and say it is easy as hell. Well, I have been deployed to LTAG many times recently and have seen more people have problems than not.

Dropped Object Report has been released. NASA Dropped Object Prevention Program 1. Date: 19 November 2. Time: 0300Z 3. MDS: Space Station 4. Type mission and mission profile: Space walk, to fix busted ass joint 5. Aircraft Tail Number: Space Station does not have a tail 6. Owning organization and base: NASA, Kennedy Space Center 7. Origin of sortie (take off base): Pad-39A, Kennedy Space Center 8. Discovery location: Right next to busted solar array 9. Geographical location of object, if known: In low earth orbit, ~900,000 ft/AGL 10. Item description: White, really expensive, big ass bag of tools. 11. Aircrew Names (all): Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (she is the one that did it... I am not putting my name on here).

Great, you had to bring that up. Some of those where handed out by worthless Commanders that knew nothing about flying and were only concerned with covering their own ass (and their ass wasn't even on the line, they were just making sure). Most notably, the fire bottle incidents!

Astronaut Drops Tool Bag, Tools While Repairing Solar Panel Joint This is why only men should use tools!

Another one just fell for the Nigerian email scam! UFB! Oregon Woman Loses $400,000 to Nigerian E-Mail Scam

Uncle: Sailor USS Yorktown, Korea Multiple Uncles Drafted, Vietnam Infantry Cousin: Retired AF, E-8 MX Not a lot of military in my family, I am the first Officer and Flyer. I grew up towards the end of the Cold War. After reading lots of Tom Clancy books, I decided to apply to the Naval Academy, wanted to drive submarines. Seemed like a good idea to me at the time, they were doing some interesting things during the cold war. Well, bla, bla, bla, didn't not get accepted to the Naval Academy, had an AFROTC scholarship to FSU. Started to reapply to the USNA, but decided that FSU was a much better idea. I was planning on being a Nav until the vision requirement was relaxed. Now, after 3 flying assignments, I am sitting at a desk, posting on Baseops.net all day long!

59-G thru 10-02. Wow, I worked with a retired B-52 pilot, when I was an intern with FLDOT, who flew tweets with 7 hrs on them. Good luck on the patch, there are some great ideas on here. I do hope you are in fact the "last class", meaning there were no less than 4 class patches (actually they were ceiling tiles) at Hondo, when I went thru T-3s, that said they were the "Last Class to Solo" or the "Last class without chutes" But, I think you are right that you have an 85% percent chance of being right.

You forgot.. 7)Good looking and 8)hot girls that want to bang you every time they see you flying it. Yea, they screw.... Guys!

Yea, they will show up on your doorstep, but they knock and usually don't have their guns out. Well, unless your address is a fortified compound in the middle of Idaho. Just tell them you bought it all to impress girls and they will leave.

Question to anyone at McChord. Since we have "Blues Monday" are they still doing BDU Tuesday?

HA HA HA, Laugh all you want guys... You are forgetting that there is always the possibility that this girl is a Mall Ninja and could off any number of you during her lunch break.

No, you just normally do not want to be around that kind of thing if the cops show up. My roommates in college smoked more than cheech and chong. I thought for sure I would test positive just being in the house. Turns out you can not test positive from second hand smoke. I was tested twice while living in that house and came up clean each time. Now, one of my roommates did start growing pot in his room and selling it... That was a little over the top and we put a stop to that. IMO, you are in college have fun, don't sweat the small stuff. Soon you will be on active duty dealing with shoe clerks, first shirts and uniform reg... you know the real world important stuff.

Steve, Thanks again for the great book. This book actually tied some very intersting things together for me. When I was at Safety School in Jan 01 on of the instructors there was the Flight Safety Officer for the F-117 program. Funny, the way he described the interview process and the trip to the hangar to see the aircraft (what the hell is that thing) was spot on from your book. He also hinted that his job included some other things that were still classified. Makes me wonder if they started brining safety officers out there after the Mig-17 crash.

I think I am going to extend my tour here in Korea. USFK is exempt from this madness. Oh, sorry Osan and Kunsan, 7th AF is not.

No, you are imidiately taken outside and shot! Just kidding. Yes they will. The next time you go they recomend sleeping with earplugs and wearing them to the test, no raido on in the car and have the windows rolled up.

Sorry dude... the hounds have been unleashed. Expect a few more days of bashing and the will move on to the next guy that does it. No, you will not have any problems storing guns on base. Unless you are bringing an excessive amount... like enough to arm 3 divisions of Gurkhas.

WTF is a refractive waiver? If that means you need glasses then after you get glasses the depth perception test becomes exponentially easier since you can now see. As for 2 waivers there is no limit on how many you can have you just have to have them approved and there is no cut and dry answer to what they will approve. For some getting waivers is easy and for other it is not so easy. Just keep at it and don't give up.

Yea, it is a "whole lot" more than any Democratic candidate has done recently.

UFB! 1. Why not fly locals in Blues... we fly in civies sometimes... the 89th occasionaly flys in Blues. 2. Traslation... don't come in early and leave after said activity. 3. Don't let anyone see you not wearing them!

Does this family member live near a military base? If they do you can call the base operator and get a phone patch very easily. They regulate the morale call phones at the Deid not sure about Manas. However, you can usually always find a phone somewhere on the base to make a call. You can also just get a pre-paid ohone card and call any base them have them connect you the the toll free number on the phone card. I have done all of the above for many years all around the world.