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It begins ,former SCOTUS Justice Stevens thinks the Second Amendment should be rescinded .https://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/27/john-paul-stevens-calls-repeal-second-amendment-and-gun-control

I thought I was in heaven when I got regular mail service and read these things us old guys called letters that were soaked in perfume. Coffee was those tasters choice packets out of a MRE. When we got 2 week old Stars and Stripes we scored, crap somebody beat me to the crossword.

Did not use sir too much unless they were very senior to everybody. MX world we addressed officers by their rank, Capt, Major etc and of course the 2nd Lt whose life was being made miserable by a MX O-5 was addressed ell tee. If I was calling out a MX troop if in casual conversation I used their last name and if I started saying Amn Snuffy you know I was about to chew your ass. If my MX officer had a uniform infraction I would just make eye contact, point to my own uniform and he would look at his and fix the infraction, then I would just smile and walk away. Always keep it professional.

That's why God invented the CNC machine. I don't think there is much original sheetmetal or castings on a KC-135.

Not the first time that was thought of.

Get a bunch of F-16's into those old B-52 and KC-135 hangers to keep ice off them plus a 12K ft runway. Used to have F-106's there.

Plenty of room at Grand Forks, that would make Holloman a paradise.

Spent my remote there, got sick of Cod and mutton. Keflavik is Icelandic for don't knock it , it beats Kunsan. Goendian.

If I was Putin I would consider this an outstanding result with few casualties. Mission accomplished!

But on the other hand it shows how easily the FBI can be duped and that was probably the national security issue the "professionals" were worried about.

So some Democrats did not want Trump to be president. I'm Shocked! Other news water is still wet.

When they got back from the desert it usually took 12 hours of hard scrubbing to get them clean. Don't know what the standard is now?

Back in the late 90's we were using enlisted Aircrew to help wash E-3's, now that was some world class bitching.

I'm sure the word shithole was uttered when the white house press corp who followed Dubya to Crawford Tx when they started to bitch about no Starbucks for miles.

They will do what they always do, start shooting protesters, hard liner thugs going house to house terrorizing Persian Joe Six packs and their families. Only chance of change if young officers in the Army and Air Force say enough and neutralize the Revolutionary Guard the Mullahs muscle. What we can do in Iraq is to take on Iranian back Shiites who said they want to go after our guys who helped them with Isis. If Iraqis start killing Americans I see a pivot toward a independent Kurdistan armed to the teeth. Turkey won't risk locking horns with a NATO ally.

Then why are they taking kids straight out of basic, most just left High School and we all know the public school system does not get kids ready for college level work. Will they freeze out 7 level folks who most already have some college or a degree to just to make sure the young 18 year old are set up to fail so they can back to Congress and say we tried it and it doesn't work. Maybe we should look at the Israeli system of pilot selection where they look at the whole countries age specific population , service is mandatory, pick the best ones even though they only had 2 years in the infantry and get it over with mentality. The ASVAB would be a good metric to use like it is used for every other AFSC. Also would it be a total waste of money to send students through the training and completion of it just to say we changed our minds your going back to finance? What happens if they find the kid is exceptional, will he be regulated to the right seat his whole career? Will the AF make them Warrants? Can they transfer to the Army if the AF kills whole thing so their flight training does not go waste? What is the cost now per student?

Hmmh, You must think getting an A&P is a piece of cake and it only takes a year of formal training to produce a fully qualified Crew Chief and or specialist.

Duh, I stand corrected, Liquid oxygen has a density of 1.141 g/cm3 (1.141 kg/L or 1141 kg/m3) and is cryogenic with a freezing point of 54.36 K (−218.79 °C; −361.82 °F) and a boiling point of 90.19 K (−182.96 °C; −297.33 °F) at 101.325 kPa (760 mmHg). It's great for cooling down six packs also.

Navy T-45 and Vance T-6's having OBOGS issues , The F-22 also had this issue. I think the big differences between the LOX and OBOGS issues are the mx practices. Any time a component of a LOX system was replaced it required a purge of the entire system. Hot purges for Lox converters and build up and vent valves and cold purges for regulators, lines and hoses. Plus purges were also a time compliance item. Plus LOX has the deep respect of anybody who handles it, -495F grabs your attention. Unfamiliar on mx practices of OBOGS but I wonder if future purity tests should be done during periodic intervals.

The last time we went on witch hunts the mx folks at Spangdahlem stopped signing anything off on jets and brought flying to a stop, caused one Crew Chief to commit suicide after he got charged with manslaughter by a over zealous JAG.

Well if any good comes from this it might get through to the USAF office dewelers that not doing your jobs has serious reprecussions.

Not a lawyer but that is not the Judges job to do the defendants lawyers job by passing on a appeals process to lower his sentence.

He will be treated as the flavor of the month by the liberal rags. I bet he will be signing huge advances for books and movie deals and get all the Starbucks coffee he can drink for free. Manning and himself will be appearing as husband and wife at Gay pride events.This is what happens when you lower enlistment standards to fill the ranks, hell he washed out of Coast Guard boot camp but made it to Sgt in the Army ,WTF.

If the MEC had a internal defect it my not show up during a ground run. If we change a MEC, mechanical engine control, we do ground checks such a basic leak check and also if it makes power and accelerates in within time limits. Most ground engine runs at high power are kept below 5 minutes due to the high EGT. Its a little more complicated with a multi engine jet since all engines need to be equal in reading and throttle alignment. I'm a big jet guy so not familiar of how they test run Vipers or if its done off the jet at a test cell then installed. Big jet engines are all tested at Tinker then shipped out and are not test celled until it goes back to Tinker. Some KC-135's still have the original CFM-56's on them that were installed by Boeing when they were converted from A/Q to R/T's back in the 80's.