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HoHum

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  1. Winglet theory. Bonus: how not to blow a fuse plug. https://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_17/winglet_story.html
  2. Welcome to last month. https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/air-force-disposed-of-war-dead-remains-in-landfill/ They gave excess (beyond what the familes wanted) ashes to a contractor for disposal. Never contract something important that you can do yourself.
  3. How about they reduce the SKE wing requirements, since that's what everybody is trying to wrap up at the end of the year? Even better....make a decision about the J and SKE: certify the damn thing (and back it up with TCAS & radar) or cut the training requirements. Legacy SKE boxes have plenty of ghosts, too.
  4. I'm going to stoke the rumor mill here - is anybody else hearing anything about making some Herc pilots non-formation (like a C-17 tac qual) in order to cut training costs?
  5. You'd get your per diem (meals and incidentals) and whatever it cost you to keep your RV on base (parking, electric, not sure about the rest). Interest/RV payment? Probably not. So if you've got a big pimpin' RV that's better than a hotel room, it might be a better deal. But they're still only going to pay you $.50/mile or whatever to get it there.
  6. Arizona Do they have a windshield shot to prove it was her? If not, who are they going to prosecute? Your car?
  7. Peru Collier Trophy
  8. It's about to get ugly with the ISI.
  9. HoHum

    Col John Boyd

    2. SOS is teaching both the OODA and an 8-step decision cycle that they're trying to pawn off as an expanded OODA. Boyd might just be spinning in his grave - the whole point of OODA is to be able to make decisions faster than your enemy. If you can do that, you win the first few and get them to question their strengths, which causes them to spend time re-examining their position and makes them slower at decision-making.
  10. Well...if you're drinking American light beer, you aren't doing it for the flavor. In that case, head just slows your buzz.
  11. Salt Lake's thinking about one...
  12. ETCA has all the info. Flight records, pro gear, no pubs. Gov't laptop provided for CBTs and PFPS.
  13. Wedge. Sounds appropriate, somehow. Can you fit another "warfighter" in there somewhere?
  14. This is darkly funny. AFPC probably wants to keep TIB so that people voluntarily leave. However...they're driving away the people that "get shit done"!
  15. What? You mean they figured it out that everbody that wanted to avoid UAVs was tracking T-44s?
  16. Cool bird. I've got some shots of that bird and their B-17 laying around my place somewhere; they showed up when I was knocking out IFT in my last semester of school. One of ém needed an oil change and I had just upgraded to a half-ton, so I ran them to another town to pick up a couple of drums of oil. They has space left on their next B-17 ride, so they quietly got me on board, so as not to piss off all the folks that had paid lots of good money to get a ride.
  17. HoHum

    Gun Talk

    Browning Buckmark. I got to shoot a target model with a very sweet stock trigger. Edit...not so much on the tactical, though.
  18. I'm not going to say it won't happen, but- -Unless you're with a unit that's going to go down there and and be on the ground (get the airport running), nobody's going to lift a finger to move a guy that doesn't have much more to offer than manual labor. They've got plenty of that already. Civil engineer that knows French? Might be a different deal. -Hope you've been prescreened on anti-malarial meds, because that will be a requirement. -Good on ya for wanting to help. For lack of better options, find who's going to try to drum up aid locally.
  19. I think Zip's voucher for ya stands. And I don't think you've killed it. The Reflective Rant seems to have dried up for a bit as well. Either people got scared or the pushback worked for a bit.
  20. HoHum

    Gun Talk

    Where'd he get a grenade launcher and a RPG? Had to go back and watch again....He pays USD for a right-drive car and drives it on the right side of the road, yet has the Aussie flags and what seems like a light Aussie accent. Maybe the whole thing was filmed elsewhere.
  21. HoHum

    Gun Talk

    Found this on Gunbroker.com
  22. Does this mean that they finally fired the five TCNs they had building all of the caddies and hired a construction company? And that at least one of them is operational (without black mold all around you?)
  23. If you want to say that he's a man named Marilyn. I'm not surprised by that chick. Something about her expression - a slight smirk. In other WTF news: I got drunk and blew my fortune and want to sue somebody about it!
  24. In Flying Through Midnight, the author claims to have downed a NVA chopper with chains shoved out the door of a C-123.
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