Everything posted by Vice
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WTF? (**NSFW**)
I can only ask those on UPT/Guard/Reserve/OTS boards to not associate me with this due to my age... And what the hell is with the prominence of open mouths in the photos? Are they trying to convey "awesomeness" and "fun"? Seems like a bunch of mouth breathers to me... every time I have fun I don't open my mouth like some cartoon character...
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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Good military/aviation books
You guys need to calm down with all these books. I'm only on page 10 and buying all these books is getting expensive. Stop reading for a year or two please
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Found a PDF of "No Guts No Glory" by Maj. Gen. Blesse
https://www.simhq.com/_air/PDF/NGNG.pdf Used search; couldn't find anything posted earlier about this. Found out about this after watching the Dogfights series on the History Channel, thought some of you might find it interesting, especially wannabes like myself. Thank you, -Vice
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Free Ebook on becoming an AF Pilot for Baseops readers
Thank you for the eBook; this is exactly what I've been looking for.
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How are guard units handling the furlough?
How are they handling the furlough? A few guys were grumpy when I came in for Guard weekend. Got yelled at by an ex-chief for using "his truck". You know, the truck that looked like all the other trucks, it just had no name or assignment number on it.
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Anyone looked at the Boneyard on Google Maps lately?
Hah, what city (Besides Boston) would have such weird streets?
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Close air support kills 70 bad guys in Afghanistan
https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123279851&channelPageId=s6925EC1356040FB5E044080020E329A9&programId=tA1FBF31D25AE0DF20125FF41AF4B0E56 Cool stuff, 70 guys going for a camp is no joke. Wonder how surprised they were to have those bombs dropped on them, and if the bad weather was part of their plan of attack.
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Underage Drinking on Active Duty
Last year (2010) I got into some trouble with the AF. Underage drinking. I was 20 years old, an E3. It happened off base, and it was later thrown out in court. The following duty day after it happened, I went to my first shirt and told her what happened. The commander and stuff got involved, but in the end all I got was an LOR. I wrote a rebuttal (which my shop chief read just today, and gave me props to how well written it was) and pretty much just told my commander what happened. I was at a nearby college, and wanted to make some friends, so I had a few drinks. At the end of the night I realized that I was NOT okay to drive, so I slept in my car, and a police officer found me in my car. I work MX (ammo), and from what I've heard, this isn't too much of a big deal, especially since I admitted to making a mistake and kept the stupid choices that night to a minimum. How does this stand in the eyes of a Guard/Reserve interviewer?
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Shoe Clerk Vol 3
I'm more likely to creatively go out of my way to salute officers in bags (E4 at an ACC base) as well as strike up a conversation when you're in line getting booze at the Class 6 on Fridays.
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Free antivirus download on the AF Portal
The AF portal has finally shown some usefulness. Free download of Symantec's antivirus, you have to bring a CD to work and burn it on there though. Check the front page
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All-Seeing Blimp Could Be Afghanistan’s Biggest Brain
Hmm didn't the German government try using "blimps" in the 40's?
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Navy Pilots Flew Helicopters Into Lake Tahoe for Facebook Picture [Video]
Major "aha" moment for me right there. Thanks dude.
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Good military/aviation books
I'm reading Robin Old's book right now. I'm only into the first three chapters, but I think that it's one of the best things a 20 year old enlisted kid can read. Looks like I'm not the only dude that got busted for underage drinking.
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Navy Pilots Flew Helicopters Into Lake Tahoe for Facebook Picture [Video]
https://www.switched.com/2010/12/27/navy-pilots-flew-helicopters-into-lake-tahoe-for-facebook-pictur/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYExH8hpgXI&feature=player_embedded
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Red Bull Air Race crash (lucky dude)
Well, when they do stuff like this, you'd imagine something like that to eventually happen. Can't see the video, but I'm online at base
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Wow...Epic SR-71 story.
My Basic Training flight photo was taken at the static SR-71 they have on display over at Lackland. Enormous aircraft
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Runaway Toyotas
How can a car flip when it's put into neutral? This guy is a moron, he shouldn't be operating a motor vehicle with that kind of grasp of automotive... stuff.
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Runaway Toyotas
Heard on the radio this morning that the dude that claims his Prius went 94 has been denied his claim, because the brake wear on the discs was inconsistent with slamming the brakes at 94 MPH as well as a few other things. Looks like the 94 MPH speed record isn't true after all...
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UAV (RPA) Operators to Recieve Flight Pay
His incentive is the great pay he'll get in the civilian world for the same job...
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B-17 Nav Logbook from WWII
"Went to dance last night. Four girls to every soldier." If only I could have lived back then...
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UAV (RPA) Operators to Recieve Flight Pay
Don't flight doctors and such need to have a minimum amount of hours per month to qualify for their flight pay?
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Runaway Toyotas
- **NSFW** B-2 Engine Fire
Reserved for lame new-guy post.- Enlisted to Pilot
Thanks, that's definitely changed my outlook on them, but it may be too late; I scored a 78% on my final test, and I don't think I can really recover from that unless I score in the 90's and average the two scores (I only have two sets of CDC's). And the study material for Staff & the AFOQT is way more interesting than my CDC's. - **NSFW** B-2 Engine Fire