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Weird quote from her in the article: “The pilots know we think of them like our heroes,” she added. “It’s just a game to them, really.” Sounds like she came in young and star struck. You would think if we were viewed that heroically by finance and MPF, we would be able to get our stuff straight more often and make fewer trips.

This was in my news feed today: "Too Tired to Fly?" by Time https://nation.time.c...tors_picks=true It has commentary asking questions about our 24/7 ops tempo combined with the report. It mentions several factors such as an exercise at the deployed location that kept the crew members from sleeping well. The commentary also questions the use of Ambien by the crew. Terrible no matter how you look at it. Edited to add: https://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/u-28_aib_021812.pdf Link to AIB report.

From what I've picked up, they're most worried about the flooding in urban areas. They've shut down subways and evacuated lower lying areas of cities because it's supposed to get on shore and then just sit and dump a foot+ of rain in some areas. It's got a cold front running in on it too that they're afraid is going to cause massive power outages due to ice storms and sleet across the northeast. It's not so much that it's going to blow everything over, it's more of the size of the storm, amount of rain, and confluence of cold front/high pressure from the northeast to keep it in place.

But as 3 different people from AFPC and AFIT have told me while trying to correct information on my SURF: "A SURF is an unofficial document, sometimes things don't translate to there correctly so don't worry as long as your actual records are correct. No one should be using your SURF for any official purpose anyway..." So no one uses it for any official purpose anyway, right?

Kind of goes with the idea that the news wasn't released for nearly a week, whereas if it had been a civilian boat it seems they would have gotten it out to the public sooner to try and raise awareness and speak to consequences.

I enjoy that training reports are the linchpin. I hope that the promotion board doesn't find out that they're canned and reused for every single UPT graduate in every single class. Just print out the MASS list and go from #1 to #bottom, open the "Training Report Bullets" spreadsheet, find the bullets that line up to number 3 or whoever, and copy paste them in to the training report... #1 guy gets: "Will be an outstanding asset to gaining squadron", #Last guy gets "Will be an above average performer for gaining squadron" ... You know, so it doesn't appear that anyone received wings that shouldn't have. It's amazing the promotion board is intelligent/prescient enough to read that BS and make a decision about someone's worthiness to make O-3. Must be some smart dudes.

I hope someone gave this Academy dude an Achievement medal or something for having his priorities straight at such a young age.

Good responses and talks to some of my major questions. She's fine shooting our 9 mm's, but she does prefer the smaller controls of guns like the P238. The Glocks seem to have a wider grip which is why I've always preferred the XD line. We have an Xdm 3.8 that I love, but working the slide and slide release is not as easy for her as it is for me. That's one of the reasons I've started to lean towards a small frame revolver for her. Less thought has to go in to its operation in the heat of the moment.

Does anyone here have experience with the Sig P238? They've got a pretty good deal on them at my local gun shop and I've been looking for something small for the wife to feel more comfortable with and to carry after we get our CCWs in a few months. We've also considered a J-frame Smith or a Ruger LCR.

Then don't be a security forces person. I would suggest getting some classes knocked out at your local accredited community college while you're sitting around making a decision. It will help you get in to public universities next year and/or in to USAFA/USAFA prep school. Get some classes knocked out now while you're sitting around, work hard at a meaningful job to save up some cash/get life experience, and apply to your local state school with a ROTC unit next fall. Your course load will be reduced since you knocked out a few pre-reqs in a better environment at your community college and it'll ease the transition in to ROTC with a full time college load. In a few years, you'll head off to ENJJPT to become the world's best fighter pilot with a commission in hand.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120927/as-f-22-problems-predicted/ Pretty extensive read that hit the AP wire today. It shows the timeline of when oxygen problems began in the jet dating back to more than a decade ago and what people tried to do about it. It at least shows that people knew changes needed to be made in the past but the funding or desire wasn't in place to fix it. Among the problems was the oxygen scheduling. Too much oxygen at lower altitudes and too little oxygen at high altitudes. A proposed software upgrade to fix the oxygen schedule was thought to have cost about $100,000 per jet but never completely researched to discover if it would solve the problems back in 2007.

Why was LeBron James one of the best in the NBA straight out of high school when there were guys that had played or sat the bench in the league for years?

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Adam Brown was a good Arkansan. Glad we've got guys like him on our side.

Pretty sure Sikhs are pacifist and preach peace and harmony and what not. That's what makes this even worse. Who the hell could ever have had a problem with a Sikh?!?! Absolutely pitiful.

Go to Gary. It's an easy ride to downtown where you can stay for the night. The airshow sets up out of there every year so they have the requisite security and fuel contracts. If that's not your jollies then go to Waukegon. It has an active fuel contract and gets T-1s and T-6s all the time. Finally, if you have to get there and those two don't do it then go to Peoria or Rockford and just drive the hour in to town.

It's not science fiction, it's what we...

"Huh, that's a pretty small ramp and hangers, where do you think they keep all those -135s and G-5s?..." I agree, I hope there were mitigating circumstances and these guys were completely in the right.

Wikipedia has a pretty good statement on what happened: "On July 20, 2012 a C-17 carrying General Mattis of the US Central Command mistakenly landed at Peter O Knight airport thinking it was MacDill AFB." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_O._Knight_Airport I mean, this is funny, right? Since no one got hurt, we're allowed to laugh at this, right?

That's the most dastardly part of being a FAIP, no functional or belonging to anyone. Just a number on old Scheely's desk at Randolph.

Since it's from the CGOC, an expeditionary one at that, you can guarantee that some hot dogs are being chugged.

I posted earlier about this Casio series and absolutely love mine. I've got the GW4000-d1a. I was originally looking at this one you posted, but decided I wanted a second hand if I was going to have analog hands. I also read about how the hands half block out the digital read out when they're in the lower half of the watch. The GW4000 does everything this one does so it still applies. It receives its atomic signal every day and stays to the second with the GPS clock and with the national observatory clock, so I never have to hack. The full analog version has UTC in the lower right displayed all the time and you can change time zones to all the same ones and it spins the hands as you go through them. It's a great watch. Nearly bullet proof, doesn't have a battery but always stays fully charged, and is to the second accurate 24/7. I can't be happier. Depending on the model it'll be $230-$330 on Amazon, but I think it's awesome. There are a couple YouTube videos of the 4000 and 3000 being reviewed and showing how they operate. After seeing how the full analog operates identical to a digital watch I was sold.

Incredible.

The Casio G Shock GW4000 watches from their aviation collection are pretty awesome. One has a rubber strap the other a stainless band. https://www.gshock.com/watches/aviation/readmore1/ The digital features in an analog watch are sharp. 20 minutes of light keeps it charged for 6 months and you always get some light on it. The atomic timekeeping is amazing too because it updates every night and throughout the day and holds to a second with the FMS clock and the national observatory clocks. It has 30 timezones (to include Afghanistan) that you can select while keeping UTC on one of the face dials. Pretty slick watch. It advertises its features that make it resistant to sustained G's and whatnot, I don't know about all that, without that stuff it's still pretty incredible. It's cool watching the hands fly around on their own as you switch modes, switch time zones, or it wakes up after it hibernates in the dark overnight.

So you're saying the Air Force should keep base Aero Clubs open? Sounds like that would reduce suicides.