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thank you, kind sir, for the correction...

If you're at the Pentagon, I'd buy a big ass boat (lots of great ones for sale right now) and moor it for next to nothing in the Pentagon Marina. 8-10 years ago a slip at the marina was dirt cheap with unlimited water and electric. Edit: I did a check on the Columbia Island Marina on the Pentagon Lagoon and while it's not next to nothing ($5k/yr for a 35' boat) it does have unlimited water and electric and I believe the rates for AD military are much lower, but I could be wrong. (It's happened before)

Man oh man, could I tell some stories from the 80s in SAC and MAC when we had full up orderly rooms that did it all for you. No there weren't finance specialists in the squadron; they were actually at Finance, where you filled out your voucher at the Travel Pay counter, sat down, read half a magazine article and then walked back to the counter when your name was called to be paid your voucher claim in CA$H. It happened, not that long ago (relatively speaking)......... ......<wait>, oh was I dreaming?? Wake up, grandpa, time for your meds.....

Look, I've spent a long career (that will end at O-5) instructing, mentoring and sometimes defending my "guys". Lord knows I've made a ton of mistakes and bad decisions and luckily I've never hurt myself or anyone else, in part because someone took the time to instruct, mentor and sometimes defend me. You can blame this incident on whatever or whomever you feel you need to blame it on, but at the end of the day, it was caused by complacency and buffonery. Nothing more, nothing less. Hopefully, we will ALL learn from it and this particular crew will survive and live to fly another day. SC

Exactly. I wonder if KMCF tower (or any tower) cleared them to land. Edit: Because they should have expected a clearance to land at a controlled airport, an AFB no less.

Poetic justice: the crew bus driver at KMCF waited for over two hours for the jet to arrive at the spot and missed shift change. SC

Wow. Good thing you received a real education. You're going to be a real prince to work for someday.

Got it. I remember the IPs in UPT trying to talk guys out of the A-10. We had a guy in my class devastated that he got a Hawg and not a Viper. Just agreeing that it's cool.

###### that. Growing up underneath a Willow Grove and Martin State low level route, CAS has always been cool to me. Plus, it's cool to the bros in the shit.

This. I'd like to punch the shoe in the face that convinced the old man to tack two hours of ATSO to mandatory suicide briefings. We've had suicide standown days before. The best briefing I ever saw was my old CC having the exec thumb through the slides like he was taking the Info Security CBT and then shut off the screen. He looked at each one of us as he said (paraphrased): "The reason I don't want any of you to commit suicide is because I care about each and every one of you and your families and I want you to realize the wake of despair you would leave if you took your own life. If you feel like you want to harm yourself, talk to someone, anyone, call me if you want, anytime day or night. Now go home to your families. If you don't have a family, start one." Good guy. That's leadership.

"Get in here, we have a bomb coming in!" Sent shivers down my spine. Bad Friggin' Ass.

Pardon my ignorance as a long time reservist, but an AD sqd has to submit PRFs for a Lt to make Capt? YGBSM.

RPAs are today's navs. SC

By chance was that guy named EH? Rainman, can you PM me? For some reason, you can't receive them. I'd like to ask you about some Hawg buddies of mine. SC

That's special. Another example of a cinch to be a lifetime welfare recipient.