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So I just showed up in Jax for the FRS and it seems that my class needs three Pilots to go VQ to fill the billets. At the moment I'm VP but on the fence about switching, partly because I don't know enough about VQ to decide. I know the VQ guys cant really talk a lot about what they do, but I'm...

Well being as it that Ft. Riley is just a few miles down the road, I'd wait for one of those cockgobblers to kick the bucket and then show up with a few hundred angry members of the Big Red One at their funeral. I'd pay good money to see that.

First off, relax. Get a good night sleep prior, wear comfortable clothes and try to calm yourself as much as possible before you go in (take deep breaths and so on). Its not that bad man, I promise. Plus you can take it over if you do dork it up. Do your best, watch the time and don't get...

My Final select date to my date to report at OCS timespan was about a month and a half. A month seems to be about average from what I understand.

These companies are all over Colorado, run by hippies, staffed by yuppies and never meeting a single deadline or quota. Yes I would love to bring my dog to work, wear Birkenstock's everyday,have a kegger in the office every Friday and take advantage of the no-drug-test policy, but I have far too...

For the price, I highly recommend the XD series from Springfield. I got my subcompact .40 for just over $400 and have put about 1500 rounds through it without a single malfunction of any kind and only basic cleanings. The guns solid, well built (in Croatia sadly) feels good in the hand and kicks...

Thats true, OPM does do most of them now. I was giving an example from when I had mine done a few years back and I got an angry call from an Ex whining about why she was getting calls from the FBI asking for an interview. I guess things have changed a little.

I was the one dumb enough to list ex-girlfriends as "people who know me" not knowing they would actually interview them. Not a good idea. I have been interviewed for a few different ones for friends and it ranges from short and painless, to long and probing. If you ask your friends to know off...

One would think, but I grew up on Army bases and know better. Call me paranoid but there was also a string of auto beak-ins here on Peterson AFB a few months ago. Lets hope the Navy is more civilized.

I'm coming from Colorado, so far I am still up in the air about my means of transportation. At the moment I am leaning towards driving just so I can stash my cell phone and some other stuff in the car whilst enjoying the nice relaxing festivities of the OCS experience. I agree about the...

Cool man, I'll be there with ya. Heres a question though, are you driving or flying? I'm curious to see what the pro/cons would be for both sides. Are you gonna show up a few days ahead of time or whats your plan?

Grats Ken! See you on Feb 2.

Grats Wolfson! It's a big accomplishment. I'll be right behind you in Feb.

Thanks fellas, I should swear in next week at NRD Denver. It cant come fast enough!

I just got the good word, Final Select SNA with an OCS date of Feb 2. Congrats Skim I'll see you there!

You only live once and do you really want to be 45 looking back on your mundane life saying "what if"?. Life is too short man, enjoy it while you can and live a life worth telling your grandchildren stories about. Even if you only get to fly for a few years, you would still get to do what...

Thanks guys, every other person I asked told me to look at a GPS and not bother with the math...another tried to teach me triangulation using trig functions. I was trying to get seconds from a 1:250,000 scale and thought I was loosing my mind trying to figure out how yall could get such accurate...

Ok, so from Hokies example of "41.42876 degrees". Where does the .42876 come from and if I were sitting in front of 1:250,000 scale map would I be able to accurately get seconds from a map of that scale, or would you just leave it at minutes? What I am really confused about is, with such a small...

Ok, that makes a lot of since. That being said, I am willing to run the risk of sounding dumb by asking if you could explain how to get the degrees in decimal notation? I understand that this is probably far more complex than I realize and the limit of my understanding stops at where the lat and...

Please forgive me but I'm from Colorado and have no experience with reading maps larger than a state park. What I am looking for is a clear/concise gouge on how to calculate minutes and seconds with latitude and longitude. I understand the basics but have an old FM1-240 as a sole reference that...

Just as a note, if Scoober has a router or managed switch/hub that didn't get jacked in the robbery, the ARP cache on the device should have a record of the devices that have used it, that should include the MAC. That or if he didn't have a router and was plugged direct to a cable modem he could...

There is no such thing as too much preperation. I took the ASTB a few months ago and just got Pro-rec'd SNA and SNFO. The math on the test shocked me at how much more complicated it was than the guides I had studied. I dedicated a few hours a night for about a month and a half to study and...

I understand that this has been talked about many times, but in the matter of my questions regarding the exams procedure and possible DP correction, I hadn't found and answer in the existing forum threads. If you know of any, could you please link me to them? From everything that I have read...

Ok, so first off this is my first post but have been reading on this forum for over a year. I just want to say thank you to everyone here for sharing such useful information, it has helped me greatly In many ways. I have just been Pro-rec'd for Pilot and passed my MEPS physical yesterday. I...