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Understanding that fly by's at 140kts are different than fly by's a 300kts or more. We were doing a fly by in Houston as part of the NHRA Championship one year. The AF NG unit sent their ground guy with a PRC (wasn't even a 112, older than that, he did have a nice Hawaiian shirt with flip flops for the full professional look). Fortunately our guy had a civilian radio we coughed up the $200 dollars for. So we tried to help out and act for the relay for the Vipers. I passed the TOT. The Viper guy got hung up on the TOT time. Somehow he confused the TOT time with his start run time (maybe TOT means something different to the TX NG). So we come up on our start point at our preset time (I had timed the speeds vs the leg start point) and notify the Vipers. As we are making our run, I am a little busy as lead trying to get the formation right and adjusting our speeds so that we cross the Christmas tree on the mark. Like 30 seconds out I hear, "Hey I am still reading the time of ###". I was a little busy and not sure what I even said back but since we were just off of the mark, I was sure they would not make it. We hit the mark +- 5 seconds and circle for our landing (one of the really cool things about doing flybys in Helicopters). As we were setting down, zoom come the Vipers. Pissed to say the least. Forgetting that I was still on the coordination Freq, I go "Hey what the hell happened to those guys". My questions was followed by a push freq on their part. They had excuse after excuse but they were still 2 mikes late. Fly buys are hard. Especially if the event coordinator does not understand how to time his singer, use GPS time and won’t set a hard time. Another time we were sitting at Ellington Field for a rain delay. Our guy called as told us they were going to start in 15 minutes. No chance in hell of making but Fvk it, let’s go anyway. We made the fastest red con one and blasted out (well blasted for helicopters). Forget the marks and the planning, we put the Christmas Tree in the nav and pulled all the TQ we could get. As we are flying in, they is supposed to be a jumper, I am trying to talk to our ground guy (with the same radio I gave him last year and probably with the same batteries) and all we can hear is static. I kept expecting to vegamatic a skydiver at any moment but we managed to cross the line at the sec (although140kts at 150 AGL makes for a very short surprising fly by). At fly bys you are a hero or a chump. I have been both. But nothing adds the pressure like knowing you’re going to be walking around with the crowd afterwards

CSAR is a mission that needs to stay. Even if it does not get used that often, the fall out is too high to risk. Having a pilot paraded out on TV never works out well. It is much too complex a mission to be thrown together. The Army has even coughed up a SME to work in the PR cell in the CAOC. However, I do not understand why there is Special Operations Helios in the AF when there is the 160th. It seems as though they are competing for missions

https://www.airforce.com/supercar/ Not that the Army is free from this kind of stupidity. I saw a H2 decked out with competition quality sound system that looked fresh out of a Pimp my military ride show. I just don't understand what kind of recruit this is going to get. I came in because of Fighters and gunships, toys that cause lots of destruction. Maybe they are going to use the cars as “bonus programs”. Enlist today and we give you everything and want nothing in return.

Just to note, the Army version of this on Kiowapilots.com is up to almost a 100 pages.

What, candle wax doesn't count as cover for nips?

My prayers have been answered. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ Edited to the newspaper home page. Scroll down to the story on Jessica Biel playing a stripper.

Lots of snide remarks about what we are doing here what we thought we were doing. I waited until one guy called us a Cobra. I then came on with a check in for the report point and said by the way, we are Apaches. Lots of silence after that. Being low level rotor scum I thought they would have a military background. Not so.

In 04 I was lead in a flight of AH-64's flying back from Ft Drum. I thought it would be cool to take the VFR corridor through NY. I was surprised and appalled by what I heard on the radio. I guess no of the many helios there though were monitoring the freq. But amount of disdain and pure venom caught me off guard. I waited until I had heard enough then I reported my point and let them know we had been monitoring the whole time. The rat F*&ks didn't say another word until we checked off.

On a PCS move from NC, we stopped over at Ft Knox. My wife’s car was 14 days past registration and I told the gate Nazi's situation. When she pulled in the search lane, they acted as if I told them nothing. Began to give her a rash. I tried to come over and help and was told that I better get back to my vehicle. Have you ever seen one of those bad cop movies where you say "that stuff never happens"? That is the way the whole thing was going down. Those guys were more than willing to pull their piece on me in front of my kids. I backed off and they finally let her through. I called the PM and talked to some friends, turns out we were lucky. I had one friend from the base that has had to go pick up soldiers in cuffs for not having their INS card or vehicle registration. Unbelievable. Nothing like a GS5 with a gun.

I bought one of the arm bands mentioned. $10 and it works great.

Alright, you guys kille me with all this "How bad the Deid" is. I went there for my time to chunk the CAOC monkey. It was a blast. You could go off base every night. 3 beers a day, yeah right. The tenders who were also CPTs. Every day at the swiming pool. AND combat pay! Spa for Army for an Army guy.

Chain gun motivation

Can't wait to see the T-WOT medal!

"Did you fly this in"

I will take your Doug Master's (who at least had good taste in music) and give you Jake Preston. I will even throw in a skanky Sean Young so you can have the matching set.

All one persons point of view I guess. I was an Apache pilot doing all that field work. Now I am a FW pilot flying VIPS around and spending most of my time being an Army guy living the AF life. Truth is I miss the dirty work. Some of us don't do things because they are easy. We do them because they are hard make lesser individuals wine like a turbine. It also depends on why you are joining. If it is simple to be a pilot, the AF is better for sure. If it is to be a warrior, USMC or Army.

I wonder if she will get pissed if you have sex with another bot? I hear the next upgrade will have a GPS so that she can tell you that you are going the wrong way.

I don't like where this is going. Next they want to control the check book and have an never ending list of honey do's. https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,465844,00.html https://www.projectaiko.com/