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Just my .02¢, but I took a computer with me in 2011 and didn't use it at all. It just took up extra space in my security drawer. The CD-RW's are definitely helpful with not being able to use flash drives, but as with everything, YMMV.

Audubon cove. Live off base as unaccompanied. Submit a Family Separation Form and get $125/month for not having your family living with you. Check out the BAH rates for your present city compared to Columbus. Guaranteed that you will have more BAH for where you are coming from vs. what Columbus BAH gives you (~$900). Bank the extra money. Laugh all the way to the bank. But, YMMV. EDIT: In case I wasn't clear due to Friday night roll call, submit a waiver for your BAH to take the higher of the two locations (locations being primary residence and where you are attending UPT).

Thread Revival. Moving to Tucson in October for the Viper B-course. Looking to rent a house for me and the wife. BAH will be around $1200. Can anyone recommend some updated locations, or does anyone have any houses they'd be willing to rent out?

Looking forward to this movie. Hope it isn't over Hollywood-ized.

Big 2.

13-10 CAFB Assignment Night T-38 2 x F-16 (1 AD, 1 Guard) 1 x B-1 1 x B-52 1 x Eurofighter (IAF) 1 x Tornado (IAF) T-1 1 x MC-12 Beale 2 x C-17 (1 Reserve McGuire, 1 AD Hickham) 2 x C-130H (1 Reserve, 1 AD Yokota) 1 x E-8 Robbins 3 x KC-135 (2 Guard Wisconsin/Meridian, 1 AD Fairchild) 1 x KC-10 McGuire 1 x U-28 Hurlburt Great drop. Great group. Congrats fellas. EDIT: add locations

I'd say 6-9 weeks is more appropriate.

CBM 13-09 '38 Drop: F-22 F-16 A-10 B-52 T-6 FAIP Drank too much to remember the Toner side.

If it's the guy I know, Guard -135's.

Checks. I live in CBM. Wife lives in Dallas. I get BAH at the Dallas rate to help out with the mortgage we have back home. Live off base in CBM and never had to live on as they were getting ready for the large influx of Academy grads to arrive. The finance waiver was processed by my home unit.

Your should be able to order a copy of your driving record through either a state DMV or State police department, methinks.

I went to the Nov. 2011 class. The class in Sept had someone fail and get sent home. That person happened to be the son of a general who then wondered why a person would be sent home after failing when in the rest of the AF, you get a retest after some remedial PT. So for the rest of FY'12, they didn't send you home if you failed while they worked on finding a solution to their regulations. Who knows if that has been fixed by this point or not, but bottom line, arrive in enough shape to not have to worry about it.

CBM 13-06 Drop Only got the -38 side of the house. Drank too much free beer. F-16 x 2 (1 ANG) A-10 B-52 T-6 FAIP F-15S (Saudi Int'l)

Deaddebate can give a better answer, but I'm pretty sure you can easily(?) get a waiver for your eyes if they are less than 20/70, up to a 20/100 limit. As for the eye surgery question, you can definitely go that route prior to being accepted, but make sure you have at least 1 year of post-op doctor visits saying you are good to go; otherwise, the Flight Med folks will make you wait until you've hit that one year gate.

Dude, I can't speak to the pre-op refractive requirements, that's more of a question for Motrin and Deaddebate, BUT if flying is really what you want to do, do not think you don't have time to get to UPT. If you have the means, get the surgery, get one year post op and in the meantime, visit AFRC and Guard units all over the place. Get your name out there and show them you're a good dude. Maybe you get lucky (sts) and get hired before your 1 year post op, and they submit all of your paperwork as soon as you hit that mark. Or maybe you don't, but get picked up later and they submit an ETP for you for an age waiver. I've got several buddies in UPT that have age waivers. Do not hit this hurdle and just give up if this is what you want to do. Get answers, get some options formed, and then choose which path you want to take.

Eh, not necessarily. My unit flies fighters and I'm at Columbus. Know a few other guys who are also going to fighter units here at Columbus. I think it has more to do with when Guard Bureau gets dates, and who can work with what dates. I went to AMS with some guys who ended up at Sheppard, but they didn't do all of the schools I did before UPT (i.e. they skipped Water Survival and SERE, while I went). I really think it has to do more with Guard Bureau and them trying to make your package work (sts) within the constraints they have.

From my experience, all of my dates for school have had around a month break in training for the reason you're stating above. I would have had to come off orders if it was much longer, but YMMV.

CBM 13-04 Assignment Night T-38 A-10 F-16 B-52 T-6 FAIP AC-130 MC-12 T-1 C-130 E/H x 4 C-17 x 5 KC-135 x 3 RC-135 HC-130 C-130 H T-6 FAIP Congrats!!!

This article is an interesting take from a Russian opinion writer. A few excerpts: Americans never give up your guns By: Stanislav Mishin ... While President Putin pushes through reforms, the local authorities, especially in our vast hinterland, do not feel they need to act like they work for the people. They do as they please, a tyrannical class who knows they have absolutely nothing to fear from a relatively unarmed population. This in turn breeds not respect but absolute contempt and often enough, criminal abuse. For those of us fighting for our traditional rights, the US 2nd Amendment is a rare light in an ever darkening room. Governments will use the excuse of trying to protect the people from maniacs and crime, but are in reality, it is the bureaucrats protecting their power and position. In all cases where guns are banned, gun crime continues and often increases. As for maniacs, be it nuts with cars (NYC, Chapel Hill NC), swords (Japan), knives (China) or home made bombs (everywhere), insane people strike. They throw acid (Pakistan, UK), they throw fire bombs (France), they attack. What is worse, is, that the best way to stop a maniac is not psychology or jail or "talking to them", it is a bullet in the head, that is why they are a maniac, because they are incapable of living in reality or stopping themselves. The excuse that people will start shooting each other is also plain and silly. So it is our politicians saying that our society is full of incapable adolescents who can never be trusted? Then, please explain how we can trust them or the police, who themselves grew up and came from the same culture? No it is about power and a total power over the people. There is a lot of desire to bad mouth the Tsar, particularly by the Communists, who claim he was a tyrant, and yet under him we were armed and under the progressives disarmed. Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear. So, do not fall for the false promises and do not extinguish the light that is left to allow humanity a measure of self respect.

Wasn't sure if this should be in the Columbus UPT thread or not, but does anyone know of a decent gunsmith in or around Columbus? I'm looking to have some mods done to my AR and Gary's didn't exactly impress me when I visited. I'm perfectly fine with traveling to Birmingham, Memphis, or Jackson to make sure it's done right.

FIFY!

CBM 13-03 Assignment Night T-38 F-16 x 3 MC-12 x 2 U-28 C-130 E/H C-130J MQ-1 (Guard unit that BRAC'd) T-6 FAIP PC-7 (Uruguay) T-1 C-130 E/H x 3 (1 ANG) C-130J x 3 C-130 x 2 (1 ANG) HC-130 x 2 (both ANG) C-17 x 5 CV-22 DO-328 KC-135 RC-135 T-1 FAIP

This sucks. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/9703166/Belgian-discovers-his-wife-used-to-be-a-man-after-19-years.html

BIG 2!!! Oxford is fantastic.

CBM 13-10 Track Select T-38 2 x AD 1 x Guard 2 x Int'l T-1 8 x AD 2 x Reserve 1 x Guard