Vice

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

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

Thank you for the eBook; this is exactly what I've been looking for.

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.

Hah, what city (Besides Boston) would have such weird streets?

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.

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?

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.

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

Hmm didn't the German government try using "blimps" in the 40's?

Major "aha" moment for me right there. Thanks dude.

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.

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

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

My Basic Training flight photo was taken at the static SR-71 they have on display over at Lackland. Enormous aircraft

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.

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...

His incentive is the great pay he'll get in the civilian world for the same job...

"Went to dance last night. Four girls to every soldier." If only I could have lived back then...

Don't flight doctors and such need to have a minimum amount of hours per month to qualify for their flight pay?

Reserved for lame new-guy post.

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.

Why not study for both? On a side note, are my CDC test scores visible in my resume? I've been doing them just to do them so I can be clear of academic obligations so I can start flying lesson and studying for the AFOQT... Booty, did you wait three years so you can get 100% GI Bill benefits?

Dude, I'm going through the EXACT same thing, except you're two years ahead of me. I've gone through my fair share of people putting their limiting beliefs on me, telling me things like "you'll never get a top secret clearance" or a Sgt from tech school saying "It's almost impossible for an enlisted person to become a pilot". The Academy just isn't my preferred method of higher education, simply because I have more of an interest in enjoying my college years in a civilian environment with the discipline I've been taught in the past year pursuing a degree that I enjoy, rather than going through tech school again for four years. The way I figure, the Air Force cares more about your APTITUDE than what avenue of education you take. As for the ARCO books, just go out and buy them, so you can write/highlight in them. I'm halfway through my CDC's and I'm going to start studying the ARCO military flight aptitude test book as well as the officer candidate book, so that'll give me two year's time to study that as well as get my private pilot's license. Check out wantscheck.com if you already haven't, it's a great resource and they have all kinds of book and movie reccomendations. It's good to see people talking about this on here, because there isn't that many threads on getting an enlisted scholarship