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P226, no question. Not even a contest. I owned a P226, and have fired the 92FS enough in the USMC to make a fair comparison.

Beretta 92FS isn't the garbage that some claim, but it's nothing great at all. overrated pistol for sure.. SIG P226/P228 are AWESOME, AWESOME pieces. I owned a P226 and put probably 1500 rounds through it (after a police department put who knows how many through it before me), and it still...

I should add that I was pissed at the world when I first got to flight school. I didn't even like to watch the Blue Angels or go to the Naval Aviation Museum for MONTHS after I got here. The only reason that I didn't drop my NFO slot was that (1) If I had to go to work pissed off every...

DON'T SIGN IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE AN NFO. I got fed bad gouge from an OSO on this matter, in a very similar situation. He said that taking the NFO contract would actually make it easier to switch to pilot when I got PQ'd than it would be if I stayed ground (it was right about the time they...

did the thread i made on this subject get deleted? am i losing my mind, going blind, or did my thread never actually post?

i went from doing 13-14 pulls up to 26-27 pull-ups largely by doing them with weight. oh, and do them with palms facing outward. some people find this more difficult at first, but i will almost guarantee that it will pay dividends in the long run. you almost never see a pull up monster...

I just typed up a great post, then deleted it all, because I don't feel like being a ideological martyr. Maybe it's time to register a new username, make it something that nobody could ever deduce my identity from, and then never say shit about it to anyone.

I disagree. You absolutely MUST make this decision before TBS, because once you get there, it's game over. Despite what your OSO told you about your air contract being non-binding to you, and despite the stated purpose of IFS, if you drop your air contract at TBS, you will almost certainly not...

what's MWR?

ah, i thought you were a helo guy

Come on, Big Pensacola BAH! No whammies! No whammies!

i'm a pilot's little helper

API? Yeah. Primary is a pain in the ass, though. It seems like every night I'm just sitting down reading, re-reading, and re-reading some more...and eventually just staring at--a different set of things that I have to memorize. Half the time, it's stuff that I really have to question...

yeah, there's a fine line at TBS, it's like you're standing inspection before 200 Lieutenants all day, every day. it's like they just look for some little stupid thing to correct each other on, and it's annoying as shit, and kinda treading into "boy who cried wolf" territory. and yeah...

that about sums it up now, i should offer the caveat that i'm an SNFO, so my Primary isn't quite the same. I thought API was like a part time job. An easy part time job. I studied for about 2 hours the night before every test, and that's about it (in addition to the 4 hour days in...

haha, says the guy flying the Carolina Lawn Dart just kidding...I wanted Harriers before I lost my pilot slot

^^haha, like your name, for example? ^haha

Rifle - Expert. 228 Pistol - Expert 382 and yeah, i remember that coldass qual day for Company "A" where the targets kept blowing over. what was it, like 17 degrees or something? I don't totally agree. I think if you've shot a lot before and have developed good skills, that's the best...

i wish we could wear the leather jacket with civilian clothes i sure wouldn't ever do it around Pensacola...too warm most of the time, and you'd look like a giant douche all of the time but what if i want to ride a wheelie down a taxiway at a civilian airport back home like in Top Gun...

1. No, the last thing I want is kid gloves. You'll see in the rest of the thread that I said I think we get too much of that in a lot of ways under CNATRA. Furthermore, not only did I not join the USAF, I joined the USMC. 2. Yes, IFS was a paid vacation. API was only about a half notch...

Yep. fucking CYA factor

^, ^^ i concur ^^^yeah, i just got that word, too. stalled on takeoff. i've always thought the IFS program pushed some people to solo too quickly.

right off of gulf beach highway rent is $300/month. 1/4 utilities=approx 120/month

yeah, my friend in the Army just got promoted to 1LT. She said the Army standard is 18 months, instead of the 24 months for the USMC (and everyone else, as far as i know)

oops i was kinda skimming...in a rush to make it to the computer based training room and the gym before they closed, since i elected to hit up the beach this afternoon and put off studying until tonight!

depending on altitude i'm figuring it was pressurized if it was a turbine, and they were above 10k'.

RVs are sweet. I wanna get a 1/4 share in an RV-4 or Mustang II or something comparable when I get to my gun squadron.

it's a descendant of the Bonanza

ehh, a little. not much. i felt so well prepped for it that it wasn't really nerveracking at all. and yeah, we cut off the back of my shirt and put it on the wall at Ferguson. and the takeoff distance was prob about half...HUGE difference in acceleration and climb.

Yeah, the 152 is the only bird so far to ever make me hurl, and it's because of that "every bump in the road factor". I've done wingovers and spins in J-3 Cubs, a 70 degree bank turn in a 172, an aero routine in an RV-4 (just as a passenger) and been ok, but the 152 made me yak the first few...

PRK hurt like hell. I went from 20/30 to 20/15, but it took months to stabilize at that. I have no aberrations--I'd never know I had PRK except that I can see a little better, but not that noticeably...I didn't wear glasses or contacts before. The only reason I got it was so I could be a...

anyone wanna spill the gouge for when and what the XC options are for SNFOs?

SJC...that sounds kinda right-libertarianish to me. fiscal conservative, social moderate?

pilots can take a test and get their ratings after they're winged, but NFOs like me get bent over. I can't count my stick time in, say, the T-6 in Primary towards anything. (no different for pilots, but they get hooked up upon winging).

do military sims count towards civilian instrument rating? i know military flight time doesn't.

leather jacket regs for Marines so what do we get put on this thing? nothing? just a nametag? velcro nametag and squadron patch, like a flight suit? any of the above? what's it authorized to be worn with? do you have to be old and salty to wear it without people looking at you like...

oh, for sure. i'm not saying it shouldn't be trimmed.

i only sold mine because it was a cosmetic nightmare (still shot great), and i got offered $50 more than i paid for it after putting some unholy number of rounds through it. i'll get another SIG, but the next one will be brand new and pretty now than i can afford it.

reforms needed? oh yeah. but do we need a safety net at some level? i sure as hell think so. and i don't think that there's as much money to be saved through welfare reforms as some people think, unfortunately.

haha, i like Satriani and Steve Vai...as well as Primus...not to mention Robert Earl Keen, Alice In Chains, and the Temptations. I'm all over the place. I play a Gibson Firebird, and sometimes a Stratocaster. yeah, Che was one of the most worthless faggots in all of history. I want a...

i shoot a Stainless Loaded model, myself. I love a 1911. had a SIG P226 one time, too. AWESOME, AWESOME, piece as well. prob get a compact SIG sometime.

hmm, let me see if i can explain this with reasonable brevity (and i'm a mech engineer, not a poli sci guy. anyone with a background in this stuff, feel free to chime in and help.) first of all, there is some confusion inherent in using the terms "conservative", "liberal", "right", and...

by the way, I'm a Marine. I forgot the original premise of this thread. I used to be more socially conservative, and probably not quite as much of a free-marketeer, but that change was a result of getting older and seeing how things work a little more, as well as becoming far more well...

i've noticed that there are an awful lot of right-of-center libertarianish types in the military (libertarian with a lower case "l"). i'm definitely in that category.

does anyone know where to find that long list of all the campaigns and major battles where we've kicked someone's ass?

mechanical engineering

nah, just what i've been told by the folks at Ferguson. i don't really even know any more details...just passing along what i've heard, and presenting it as such. and yeah, the rental rates around here are nasty. i think there is one place with decent rates, but i can't remember which...

the actual fighting, though, is one of the purest forms of athleticism i can think of.

i'd go with bolt action over any semi-auto, and the .223 is a good round. i've shot a built Remington .223 with a 36x Leupold on top, and it would put 5 rounds through one hole at laser-measured 100 yds. then i'd shoot out the four staples holding up the target. i'd go with a centerfire...