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Awesome, keep the DDs occupied by taking one for the team so everyone else can be free. Just like the guy in the old war movies who jumps on the gernade to save his buddies! Love the idea of really, really following the rules just to pi$$ em off. Rock on brother!

2 Great assignment if you like outdoors stuff and small town life. But now all the yuppies from Boise are moving in and are going to ruin it i'll bet. Spent my last 7 of 24 years there, was also my favorite assignment with Eielson # 2. Heard stories from the old duffers that there was a space of time (like almost a year or so) after the -111's left and before the "composite" wing stood up that with no jets, and the accompaning bodies to support them, the city was like a ghost town. Mtn Home's seen the future and they didn't like it, I'll bet they want the -35 real bad, especially after the Bones and -135s left town. Evil, I was on the MX side but we had to of crossed paths at some point.

2 Big time. But then there's option 2, BRAC the damn base. It'll kill, period dot, someplace like Mtn. Home, population of 11,000 40+ miles from Boise and not a damn thing in between. Not so much as a freaking tree, Google Earth it non-belivers. Close the damn base and let's see how much the city changes their tune once all those GI dollars dry up, property values tank and the retired crowd can no longer make the Retiree TriFecta run (BX, Commissary, Pharmacy/Hospital). Those idots around places like Eglin are dipsticks. I for one greatly miss the sound/sight of pointy nose fast jets flying over. As far as I'm concerned, make all the nose you want boys.

Two words: Brass Tumbler. It's what shooters who re-load use to clean their brass before re-loading. This is still brass, just bigger, a crap load bigger. Someone, somewhere, in the squadron/AMU will be a reloader. Most likely in the AMU and only because there are 250+ dudes/dudetts over there, and there is always at least one hard-core reloader in every AMU, I think it's in an AFI somewhere... Again, beer with most likey be the required form of payment.

They're weapons/ammo troops you've seen them around... now think of their female siblings... That'll keep you awake at night.

The brass is accountable because it's amunition item and the have to account for X pieces of brass for X number of rounds fired. Then they're recycled. Yes... Weapons/Ammo troops (no, their not the same thing) will horsetrade for almost anything up to and including their little sisters for beer. Have the Flt/CC or SQ Weapons officer contact either the AMU's weapons loading section to see what they can do, again beer will be involved. Or better yet, go VFR direct to the Ammo control folks tell them what you want and MAYBE they can hook you up. Good horsetrade items are, of course booze/beer, SQ patches/zaps and nomex pilot's gloves. Nomex gloves are more than "cool", their static free and therefore non-spark producing, something useful for folks who handle electrically primed explosives. The issued wool gloves create static which can make things go BOOM when you don't want them to and are therefore illegal IAW 127-100. A good munitions guy will never let their nomex golves out of their sight as their worth their weight in gold.

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THE FOLLOWING IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. Get brass, punchout the primer, insert a long bolt with the head on the inside, shank outside (sts) , use a nut and tightly clamp down on the "outside" side. Insert bolt in drill press, turn on machine (sts), brass spins at whatever RPMs the machine is set for allowing hands free ops, polish away as req'd. Use varying degrees of "sand" paper from rough to very fine (rumor control says the Micro-somethng-or-other-kit that they use to repair scratches on Viper canopys works great, or so I've been told). Since you've got a hole in the bottom of your brass (sts) insert a really skinny glass shotglass into the now polished brass. 100X easier to clean with no corrision control requrements. That's how we did it with the 30mm aluminum "brass" for going away plaques back in my hog days, don't know how it would work for actual brass brass that the M-61 uses, never bothered to try. Works awesome for the 30 mil though.

We had a guy at PSAB 1998ish do up his floppy hat with starch and iron and it looked like Indina Jones' fadora, it actually came out pretty cool. Not long after that the "floppy hats must be floppy rule" was published.

Not complicated at all, wing swings down/unfold, the crew chief locks it into place, off ya go. Watch some Discover/History Channel sometime and watch the Hellcats, Wildcats, etc... launch off the carriers these guys just started engines, taxied, unfolded wings, launched, spanked (sts) some Zeros, went back to the boat. Repeat as required. Wait for nukes, VJ Day, go home, start baby-boom.

Let’s see, UPT vs. some fickle clam that can’t truly decided if she wants you or not. What’s your goal in life? Do you want to be some sort of househusband while she brings home the bacon? Or be part of something larger than yourself? Be a househusband or travel to exotic far away lands, sample the local culture, meet interesting people while getting paid to do it. Then there’s option “B”: While she’s away on “business” banging the office college intern like a red headed whore on nickel night you’re picking the kids up after school and taking them to soccer practice in the minivan you’ll look up and see a jet in the sky; civilian or military, it doesn’t matter, you’ll feel some form of regret because you gave up the chance of flying for the miserable life you chose. I guess Alan Alda and Phil Donahue would be proud that you’ve been so completely pussified. Don’t be a stupid fvcking douche bag, dump the cougar-in-waiting and go to UPT, even if you wash out you will have given it your best shot and you’ll know for sure and you won’t spend the rest of your days wondering “if only…” I’m a retired SNCO and if by some random act of stupidity and a few hundred waivers they called and offered me a shot at OTS and UPT I’d be back in uniform in a second in spite of reflecto belts, rank-on-PT gear with man purses and all the assorted other bullcrap queep. GO TO UPT!

That's how I heard the story back in 1983. The base supposedly was Kunsan with the base personnel being strung up/hung with safety wire from the rafters of the maintenance hangar. Additionally, the tale told that while the bodies were later cut down the safety wire was still attached to the rafters years later. At that time, again 1983, the hangar was in the ROKAF section of the flightline and off limits to USAF folks, so no way to verify one way or another. I don't remember seeing that same hangar on my return to the Kun in 1992.

Reopen the Beech Starship production line. It is, Dassault is the "defense" division of EADS. Defense being the "D" in European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS). Does Dassault "do" biz jets? I'm way to lazy, nor do I give a crap to research Frog civil aviation.

Just to add some fuel to the USA vs. Airbus fire, Airbus builds a small trainer which I'm sure could be made into a lite attack acft. The EADS PZL-130 "Orlik" TC-II OBTW, I think the Turbo Skyraider is an awesome freaking bomb truck! Get some

At least Airbus dosen't build a biz jet.. yet. So says my quickie 45 second google search.

Gortex rank displayed in the window of the ID card holder man purse thingie, cheap & effective. I'm sure someone from the Desert Dildoes is trolling this web site for "ideas". So rock on Deid warriors. Rank with PT gear...WTF? EDIT: Me not spell so good.

UFB, but this is in Portland so I'm really not that surprised. I remember while stationed at Bitburg in the mid 80's reading in the Stars & Stripes about a similiar situation in a condo complex in Florida. Only this resident was a survivor of the Battan Death March. When he was liberated he vowed to fly a flag at his home for the rest of his life. His HOA said no and "fined" him so many dollars a day till the flag came down. He told the HOA to f*ck off and die, that flag was there to honor his country and his bros who died in on the march and in captivity. If they had a problem with that then they could kiss his ass (or words to that effect) so after some time and a sh*tload of bad publicity for the condo complex they caved and rewrote the HOA rules to allow the flag. HOA rules are not written on some mountain side by the hand of God upon stone tabets. Residents can and should get rules changed if they're bullsh*t rules. Granted this is an apartment situation and ROEs for renters are different. So I say have everyone fly a flag and get kicked out of the complex. It'll be a different story for management when they can make mortgage payments on the complex with a sh*t ton of empty units. Hey apartment management dudes with no nutsack For the apartment dwellers who understand freedom and the price it costs to be free.

No... not geeky at all. Should go great with this... https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/index.php?/topic/13014-aim-9-missile-lamp/page__hl__missle lamp__fromsearch__1

Got sent to me by a friend. Too good not to share here... God Bless America! JC_Penney_1977_2.pdf

Don Karnage & the Air Pirates GENUS PEDIGREE: Dogface (Anthropomorphic Fox or Wolf). KNOWN ALIASES: unknown KNOWN RELATIVES: unknown KNOWN PETS: unknown CITIZENSHIP: Pirate Island KNOWN CONFIDANTS: Dumptruck, Ratchet, Gibber, Mad Dog KNOWN RIVALS: Baloo, Kit, Rebecca PARAPHERNALIA: Sword; Airship: The Iron Vulture. 1st PRINT APPEARANCE: "Disney's TaleSpin Limited Series: Take Off" #1 (Jan. 1991); "Disney's TaleSpin" #1 (June 1991). 1st FILM APPEARANCE: "TaleSpin: Plunder and Lightening" 2 hr. television special (Sep. 7, 1990); which launched the series "Tale Spin." VOICE ACTOR: Jim Cummings SIGNATURE: unknown BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: Don Karnage is the foxy and cunning leader of a band of villianous Air Pirates. He is renown for his strange jumble of French, Spanish, and Italian accent, and his malappropriate use of the English language. Karnage fancies himself to be a swashbuckler, dashing and debonaire, but he's still a dirty rotten scoundrel, though he's really not evil, per se. Has a tremendous ego, and is constantly tripping over it. He is very intelligent, and very quick to temper. Wears a Napoleon style uniform, white breeches and black boots, and a large sword in true pirate style. He and his "loyal" band are all wanted criminals in the fortressed city of Cape Suzette. Noted among his followers are Dumptruck, Hacksaw, Ratchet, Gibber and Mad Dog. Kit Cloudkicker was once an Air Pirate as well. His secret hideout, Pirate Island, is located inside a volcano somewhere near the coastal city. His Air Pirates often patrol the outskirts of Cape Suzette in his flying fortress carrier called the "Iron Vulture." There they lie in wait within the clouds for an unsuspecting pilots to pass so they can run an air raid. Karnage and his air pirates are a constant harassment for Baloo and company, as well. See also the DTA entry under "Disney's TaleSpin." HISTORICAL FACTS: unknown LITTLE KNOWN SECRETS: unknown WORKING THEORIES: unknown

How about a “folding wing” like the old F6F Hellcat? Stuff em’ in a FRED or a C-17 and send them off, once at the overseas location un-fold the wings, lock em the place, service, pre-flight, crew ready a crap load faster than dropping the wings, packing them up, shipping them (greatly increasing the chance for damage), re-hanging them, re-rig the flight controls, a billion functional control checks, etc, etc…

Thread bump: Fresh from today's AFA Daily Report: "b]Branching Out: Hawker Beechcraft wants the Air Force to consider an attack variant of its T-6 trainer to fill the Light Attack/Armed Reconnaissance aircraft role the service wants to fill within the next couple of years. Hawker announced last week that it had conducted a successful first flight of its AT-6 prototype and would complete the next phase of flight testing in October. "We are almost three weeks ahead of schedule," said Bill Boisture, Hawker Beechcraft CEO, and added, "We believe the AT-6 offers the broadest range capabilities available in the market." For the light attack role, the company has structurally strengthened the T-6 airframe. As we reported last month, the Air Force has put out feelers within industry to find a platform that can operate from dirt fields and employ a variety of air-to-ground weapons. It wants to field the first of 100 aircraft by 2012." Unlike the wayward UAV that had to get spanked (sts) I'll bet a manned A/C wouldn't just wander off... However, I sure driving an AT-6 or similiar aircraft from the states to anywhere overseas wouldn't be a whole ton o' fun. Especially in PACAF. But on drop night I'm sure no one would cry getting a AT-6 over a UAV. To the dude/dudette who "killed" the Pred Discuss...

I was Assistant Weapons Loading Section Chief for the Albino Eagle squadron at Mtn. Home (MX and OPS were still combined at that time). Since I was on night shift that week, I was home the morning of the attacks fixing pancakes for the kids before they left for school. The TV was on at a little after 0700, something very rare, and wife said a plane hit the World Trade Center. I was thinking some C-172 driver really goofed up, and after looking at the pictures on TV, I thought how do you hit the something as big as the WTC on such a perfect VFR day? Then the second tower got hit and it all became clear. I reported to work after spending eternity waiting to get on base while the cops searched every car coming in. Once I got on the flightline everyone was busy getting the jets ready for war; full loads of 20mm, air-to-air ordinance, chaff/flares, three bags of external fuel. Since the weapons expediter, an outstanding supervisor & leader had the situation well in hand, and not wanting to f*ck up the smooth flow of things, the section chief and myself cleaned-up the coffins the missiles were delivered in (threw all the packing material back in, put lids on, loaded the caskets on trailers, tied them down on the transport trailers, etc…) so the ammo guys could tow the trailers off the ramp and back to the bomb dump. This had the added benefit of freeing up the loads crews to do their thing. Then we sat and waited not knowing what was next; CAP the Pacific Northwest? Deploy? Go search out airliners just in case? We sat ground alert waiting on further instructions for a few days before standing down. Mtn. Home was still a composite wing at the time and while the other squadrons, Mudhens, Vipers, Bones, and tankers generated for deployment. We stayed home and flew a ton of Noble Eagle CAPs for months afterwards. Was at PSAB on the 1 year anniversary launching out jets for OSW sorties, while Arab TV showed pictures of the hi-jackers honoring them as "heroes", made your stomach turn. Edited to add PASAB info.

"Mr. Thornton flew 52 missions in the European theatre, including the famed Ploesti raids on Romanian oil production facilities. As a crewmember of the B-24 Liberator "Hangar Queen," Mr. Thornton's missions sent him to targets in Italy, France, Romania and other areas of southern Europe. His service was not without hardship; he was wounded twice, and on three occasions, he had to bail out of his stricken aircraft into enemy territory." Well done sir, thank you for your service. To a true bad ass who set the standard. Edited to add salute guy.

You gotta point there, so just authorize those guys either army and/or marine stuff as the situartion dictates. As far as AF camo goes why do services, MPF, finance etc... need it? Sky cops I can see it if they get in one of those "defend the base" situations, but really. As far as flightline maintainers go, authorize as a "regular" uniform a zoom bag like coverall. The shoes would hate it as it would have no ironing requirement and let be get a little bit soiled (STS). Heck, it a working uniform. In maintenance, when a guy looks like a recruiting poster other maintenance people don't say "Wow, he's professional" they say "What the hell do you all day?" or at least "Its about time your finally gonna get served that Article 15" Just bring back the old VietNam style solid green jungle uniforms with the squadron baseball caps and call it good. Although services camo with chow hall supplies, bowling alley equipment & gym stuff on it would be good for a laugh.