Everything posted by nunya
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C.S. wildfire: USAFA given pre-evacuation warning
Are you E or W of 25?
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C.S. wildfire: USAFA given pre-evacuation warning
KKTV has live streaming. Looks devastating, to put it lightly. https://www.kktv.com/video/live
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Long-Distance Family Tricare
If it's true at all, therein lies the catch. The cases where a wife had to live separate must be the tiny minority. Most guys (like ASUPilot) are doing it completely by choice (better job, schools, not Cannon, whatever).
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Gliders to Planes?
Your ability or inability to fly gliders means very little. I've seen glider IPs do very well at UPT and I've seen them do mediocre. There are similarities, but they're limited. I wouldn't hire you to be a soaring IP with that resume, but I also wouldn't necessarily turn you down for UPT 3 years from now based solely on 10 flights in a glider. Go pay for a few hours at the aeroclub (if they still have it) or downtown. See how you do there. Maybe you won't even like it - better to find out now than after your dollar ride.
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Trident university TUI increasing tuition rates
Using your GI Bill for yourself while AD is the least effective way to use it (i.e. it's worth the least), but if you don't have any kids to give it to or don't want to use it after you get out, then go for it. I used mine for one class while active and then I crunched the numbers, realized I was retarded for doing that, and paid out of pocket the rest of the time.
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Command Sponsorship vs. Non-command Sponsorship
Steve, I'm sure the UK could handle anything medically that the US could, but the Air Force doesn't necessarily have arrangements with every specialist that a family might need. No specialist when one's required = family not cleared. For example, if a child needed their teeth cleaned, they would have to be medevac'd back to the US for treatment.
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Gun Talk
You gonna try to pocket carry it or IWB? It's been mentioned before in the thread, but look at the Crossbreed SuperTuck. Mine carries a Combat Commander (substantially larger and heavier than your Shield) comfortably. The Shield is on my buy-when-I-get-home list and it'll ride in the SuperTuck. Ask for their mil discount, too.
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Anybody fly Super 80's?
You start thinking, "That guy in 11F is NOT 170 pounds."
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Gun Talk
That's why competition is so awesome. There's several other quality levergun smiths just waiting for your business. Maybe they'll get my money instead. https://www.grizzlycustom.com/packages_custom_lever_action_rifle.html https://www.brockmansrifles.com/lever_action.asp
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Gun Talk
I agree with the last part - I walked in one day and the employee named Ken was a complete asshat. I hoped it was just him - maybe it's a company culture.
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Gun Talk
Here's the takedown I want! https://wildwestguns.com/copilot.html
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Need your input on Innovation in the AF essay
Maybe they'll help you here: https://www.au.af.mil/au/aul/lane.htm
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Awards - Al Udied
Surely a troll would troll about something cooler than awards.
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Awards - Al Udied
I'm thinkin brand new co or nav. Been MR less than 4 months, sent out the door to deploy and doesn't even know what continent he's on yet. poundcake - Am I close???
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Awards - Al Udied
OSW ended in 2003. I think you're lookin for OIF, OEF, and/or OND.
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Coast Guard info
Yep. Even if you're an O-4, you're back to O-2 and have to wait 2 years for O-3. I don't know what experience they'll accept from airframes they don't fly. edit: The requirements just say "fixed wing" but that's their minimums - not what actually gets you accepted.
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Coast Guard info
Yes. But they drop you back down to O-2. You can go earlier if the AF lets you out. I haven't seen guys switch communities - C-130 guys stayed in 130s and helo guys stayed in helos.
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