outbreak

I'm not sure why we have to be PC when dealing with this internal stuff. The guy isn't being called out on race or gender or religion. He's being disciplined because he is out of reg. single his ass out in front of everyone. Make him do a uniform briefing. EEO as I understand it is to make sure nothing illegal is going on as far as discrimination based on race, religion, color, gender, etc. Since when is being a rule breaker protected by EEO?

Wow, what an idiot, not to mention total piece of $#!+. When I see an old guy on base, I'm pretty sure he's someone important. If there's any place to be respectful to people, an Air Force Base seems like a good place to start.

Could it be that someone realized we're not a civilian stock broker firm and the corporate uniform is homogay. At least is looks like a military uniform again.

I always feel like the thank-you's given to me are undeserved because I haven't been to the desert. Most people don't know (or care) whether you've been deployed, just appreciate the fact that you are serving. I politely accept the thank-yous and thank them for their support, but I've never accepted anything material for it. I politely decline and make every effort to not offend them.

I had what I thought was two obnoxious youngsters and a mother that couldn't control her young sitting behind me. Turns out it was one well behaved kid and an obnoxious woman and her equally annoying kid. She was making the stupid noises that I thought were coming from the other kid. As for the airport security nazis, they must have Scotty in that x-ray tunnel beaming my shit out. I lose a lighter every time i fly, but they never ask about it. it just disappears. Then they harass me about 2oz of toothpaste in a tube marked 8oz and a couple bags of Kona my folks brought back from hawaii. The bastards took the toothpaste but let me keep the coffee.

Damn, I didn't expect such an uprising. I never said my shit was out of regs. I keep it in regs and I wear my uniform proudly. The reason no one said anything was that I WAS in regs and still am. I just don't dress like a ######ing tool-bag marine wannabe with a high and tight, spandex blousing, and more starch than a ######ing bottle of stay-flo. chill the hell out guys. I knew guys that thought they were good officers cuz their BDU's could stand at attention without them wearing them. I'm just saying I'm not that guy. I didn't look like a bag of ass. I wouldn't tolerate that, especially of myself. I exaggerated a bit to make a point. Ease up.

Here at Randolph, during casual I was in BDU's. I haven't ironed my BDU's in over a year. I didn't polish my boots (they were black IAW the regs) and since then I let my hair get to hippie lengths before getting it cut every 3-4 weeks. my bag is zipped no higher than the bottom of the name patch. The legs are never zipped, nor are the leg pockets. I haven't worn black socks in 6 months, which was about the last time i polished my boots. no one ever says a word. In ROTC, if I didn't get a haircut within 15 min of a gate inspection, I'd get gigged. We got issued flight suits when we got our slots so for your senior year, you got to wear a bag in lieu of BDU's. I had some [future] shoe clerk try to gig me on cables on my bag, so a bunch of us who had bags got together and convinced everyone that there is a reg out there banning the cutting of cables off flight suits because it could compromise the structural integrity of the flight suit. If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit.

Our squadron is all GATORs but the numbers are assigned to each pilot. We flew GATOR 80 one day and every controller we talked to got pissy about "GATOR Eighty." they wanted "GATOR EIGHT ZERO." One of our guys kept callin "GATORADER." But I know the brass here at RND has their own callsigns. AETC CC is SPUR 1 I think. Don't know any others.

The one I can't stand is a guy in the squadron who is allegedly transferring out of his nav slot for the cop shop. They put him on casual in charge of all the casuals. These folks come in for an hour or so a day and then go home or do their IFS stuff. never formal anything. We show up to the squadron run a couple weeks ago, and he's got the casuals (about 40-50) lined up for a formation run. Full drill mode. We laughed as they ran 3.6mi in formation. This morning, we hear him from across the building doing an open ranks inspection. WTF. Otherwise, I've had pretty good luck with the skycops here at RND too. They'll occasionally wander into the nav dorms for a friday night get-together thats a bit too loud. No one has anything better to do the next day but we're still being too loud. Ok, they're bored. One night a SSgt came out and we all hushed up and he said "don't worry about the noise guys, I just wanted to have a smoke." He proceeded to tell us that at the Upper class/lower class parties we have, the upper class (who is about to graduate) will call the cop shop and have some meatheads come over to harass the lower class (keep that filed away for a few months). They even gave us rides all night during the random drug tests. We were responsible and walked back from the bar and through the gate, while the random tests were going on and they gave us a lift to the test site, and a lift back home. Seem to be good folks here. Back to the original. GO RATED!!!!

Hey Sparky, Thanks for the prize! Glad I could help pick the name! Good luck with the PIT Crash Pad!

I carry my personal swiss army knife on our T-43 Strike Pig missions. We also get the Dixie 69P in our aircrew lunches, which don't come in a box (sts).

my tactic when doing the interviews was to answer their questions completely, but i didn't go throwing out any treats for them. Their job is to dig for dirt and I made them work for every bit. I was 100% truthful, and anything i wouldn't have mentioned, they already knew about. It was all in-house University stuff (parking tickets, overdue library books, etc) which they didn't give 2 shits about. They asked about a bunch of friends and I answered those truthfully too, but they tried to ask broad questions like "what can you tell me about Steve?" I politely requested more specific questions. I'm not saying to be difficult or beligerent, but don't go spilling your guts too readily. They're investigating your ability to keeps secrets and I figured laying out my life story to a stranger with a badge probably wasn't going to help that process.

Same guy did a song about 2 girls 1 cup. hilarious

Never puked in an aircraft before. Spin training turned me green but straight and level made me better. Drinking, however, occasionally does the trick. I've gotten pretty good at regulating it but every once in a while the booze get the best of me. On my break between comissioning and EAD I was home in MD for a few days. A friend needed a couch moved out to his apartment in Morgantown, WV. I have a truck. Perfect excuse for a weekend of drunken shenanigans. We get the couch out of the truck and moved in by about 2pm and immediately start drinking. around 9pm me, him and his smokin hot neighbor start walking to the bars. We get to some 2 level bar and go upstairs. its a slow night so only 1 of the three available bars is actually manned and serving. We set up shop at one of the empty ones. This bar had a 2 for 1 deal going till 11 so we stocked up. 3 people and about 12 beers getting warm and we're already wasted. I take a drink and i get that half gag feeling you get from warm beer and think "oh crap. here it comes." I've never been to this establishment before so i have no idea where the can is. I decide to stand at the abandoned bar and tough it out. my eyes are watering, i'm starting to sweat and here it comes. projectile vomiting directly across the bar. It had so much power behind it that it barely touched the surface. the aftershocks went on the floor. once i was done, i wiped my mouth, found the bathroom to clean up, and rallied like a champ. my friends found me a few minutes later at the active bar ordering up another round. They pointed out some poor barback mopping up behind my target, and looking puzzled as to how it got there. I just laughed.

Some cargo operators still fly 707, and Airtran has a pretty big fleet of 717's (the DC-9 type.)

Correct. I should have worded that differently. As for the 10 hours of PIC, that doesn't make sense to me since all the aircraft we've discussed so far require 2 pilots in the civilian world (plus other crew depending on the airframe) so a type with no PIC time shouldn't matter. You still have all the experience and credentials necessary to be a right-seater, which is where most employers would start you out anyway. And depending on who you ask, the 717 has enough differences from the DC-9 to actually be a different type. At least thats what a former Airtran exec told me. I thought the KC-135's were B-720's, but i forget what the difference between the 720 and 707 is. Whatever, its pretty minor i think.

Isn't that the SOP for EVERY CBT?

In order to fly anything with jets in the civvie world, you need a type rating. The KC135 type probably applies to the 707. Tones are just Beechjets in AF paint. Lots of options there.

My personal belief is that a day in an airplane is better than an hour at a desk, no matter what seat you get in what airplane. Thats what keeps me positive in Nav school. I wasn't PQ so I got a nav slot, kept positive, and I love it. I have my preferences for airframes, but no matter what I get, I'll learn to have fun with it. Do I work hard? Hell yes. Do I still want to drive? Hell yes. Am I going to let something dumb like what seat i get in the airplane or what pressurized metal tube i shoot around the sky in get me down? hell no. back to the original topic. I went to ERAU Daytona and all this talk about having to compete with a thousand other cadets is crap. When I got my slot there were about 40 of us that got slots, and 3 that didn't. They got alternate slots and they're all nav students now.

If the whole flight crew was focused on the "lights" who was flying the airplane?

The Swamp of M*A*S*H fame comes to mind, but the Gators already live there at RND. The Crash Pad or PIT Crash Pad sounds fine to me.