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Mine were all lost in a tragic boating accident yesterday. :D

Glory awaits UAV guys ;) Drone Pilot To Receive First Air Force Cross Medal Since Vietnam By Kimberly Motan, Associated Press INDIAN SPRINGS, NV – An Air Force drone pilot who managed to fly his MQ-9 Reaper for 76 straight hours through multiple firefights will receive the Air Force Cross...

Can't disagree with this. As someone from age 22 to nearly 49 that has worked in one form or another for the government I like to believe that whether it was banging off the front end of the boat at night to go in harms way or delivering a next generation SIGINT system I have given more to them...

Yepper - but Hey Joe had noted it earlier with attribution. :) http://www.airwarriors.com/community/index.php?threads/bug-roach-there-are-legends-and-there-are-legends-above-all-others.35153/

Talked to a buddy today. His gun shop in Jax had 1200 evil black rifles on Monday in stock. Today he checked and they have 3. They hit him up for any 5.56 he wanted to loan him since they were sold out and they would pay him back.

Very happy they are concentrating on window dressing, knee jerk legislation instead of anything important like a fucking budget. *sigh* we're legislated by people with the attention span of squirrels.

Let me clarify for Fog. There has never been a successful transition of a fixed wing aircraft to sea service from a shore based service. Several the other way, F-4, A-7 and A-1 all come to mind. No, the YF-17 bears too little resemblance to the F/A-18 to count.

Good article. The episode in From Earth to the Moon miniseries called Galileo Was Right is my favorite and Harrison (well, an actor playing him!) is a key figure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(TV_miniseries)

Hence winter. I suspect many of us have seen 600 kts over the ground from NUW to Offut in Jan/Feb in a Prowler. I wasn't there, just repeating what they discussed.

insert sarcasm font - Well, it does keep the crime down in NYC and it's for the children - end sarcasm font:rolleyes:

Yep VMAQ-2 flew them from 66 to when they got Prowlers and they did deploy on Sara and FID to support the CVW - Some great history here http://cv41.org/EA6A.html The Navy never used the EA-6A operationally but the CVW-20/30 Reserve Airwings flew them until 91 when they transitioned to Prowlers...

Nothing for EA. The Whales in the fleet at that time were all VQ assets and if you needed Prowlers they were deployed from Whidbey. The newest squadrons back from cruise were on the bubble to redeploy. It didn't happen much but during Eldorado Canyon Coral Sea had no Prowlers and VAQ-135 did a...

Yep - but even in 89 when I joined the fleet most squadrons had given it up. Likely was a useful marking back in the day when Prowlers were in sort supply and not every airwing had their own and the gear setting mix up could happen with an unusual player in the pattern.

Vigilanti is just another word for sexy.

Suspect that they could drop the radiation symbol on the nose, um maybe 15 years ago but I guess there's something to say about tradition. :rolleyes:

No clue how they do that but you sure hear about UXB often in the ETO.

One of my jobs involves developing data visualizations of large/complex data sets so I'm always interested in examples. This one involves plotting all the bombs dropped on London during the Blitz You can use the pull down and select "first night of the Blitz" or weekly totals or all the impacts...

Actually was female and a cutie. Saw her at the gym at the Hilton the next am and she looked good there to. That being said, don't know if, how do I put this, she had a lot of tongue in groove panelling in her home base. :D

Makes sense. Bet Cherry Point will look like DM with Prowlers soon

Cripes, I'd figure with all the G squadrons they'd be done doing any rework of Prowers and have spares on the line at NUW.

Wee dram of 15 YO Jura single malt for me. I'd not seen it in US before and found a bottle in Rhode Island over the holidays. http://www.jurawhisky.com/distillery/classic-bottlings/origin-10.aspx To keep this thread-worthy, I flew Jet Blue on Tuesday to Boston and one of the flight attendants...

I was 6 and laying on the floor in our apartment in Park Forest Illinois watching it with my parents.

http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com Someone spent a lot of time on this and it's amazingly well done. Note the little heart with Armstrong's heart rate (once you get to data). Amazing record of an amazing program and time for this country.

Always been that way in the squadron. The folks that got the additional detailed knowledge usually got it during an AIMD or NAMTRA tour and some things even there were simply shipped off. When I was a reserve program manager at the NAR Whidbey I had an NAS reserve unit and a first class who's...

If my pilot wasn't cheating then the LSO's debrief was mild compared to mine! :D . THE GOAL IS SAFE ON DAS BOAT. STYLE DOES NOT MATTER.

More than a decade before, in 1987 I stopped at the NFCU ATM (back of the bldg no drive through then out the front of Corry) to get $ as the Navy Exchange gas station at Corry CC reader was down (keep with me folks, years before debit cards) and I was flat out of gas in the old Ensignmobile 1987...

Pilots no. NFO's yes. Be very afraid. :D

Never suspect a conspiracy when government incompetence will do.

"Chewy" Roark got his as "Worlds Hariest ECMO" alas, Chewy was lost in a Prowler W-72 in the 90's. Good guy.

Thinking the same thing about 03-94-2L on TR. Bet they didn't have a JBD drain running through it though. :D

Block 89A - more like 18 years ago. :D The EFIS in the EA-6B was the result of a series of ADI failures with no off flag that lost us several jets and crews.

Seriously weird.

Yep - looks about the same. Of course, ATDS was nowhere on my dream sheet either. Everyone I knew that selected E-2's got out after their first tour although I ran into one of them who was flying with VAW-77 at Roosey once.

What's the norm for a COCOM command tour length? He's only been there since Mar 11 making this a 1 1/2 year tour. Previous Gen Ward served almost 4 but he was the plankowner too.

You think the cockpit was bad, the crew compartment in the belly for the SIGINTERS was amazingly small. I toured one at NPA in 87 and it was very clear that OJN was not going to be on my dreamsheet. They winged the last Whale NFO's in fall of 88 and I had a friend who went to VAQ-34 with them.

But you look for where the F-16 went from two heaters and a gun to a general purpose F/A and I don't think the F-20 would have been near as flexible (please don't take this as any endorsement of the Fort Worth Lawn Dart!)

Buno 163529 was once VAQ-141 as I picked it up brand new at Grumman in 1990.

Explains why it was a mystery to me. :D

No - that was a mystery to me too. Chuck was a class ahead of me at AOCS.

I see Chuck Minter, his CoS is acting. Great guy. we went through 129 as CAT I's together in 88. http://www.cvn74.navy.mil/sgbios/bio_sg_cos.html . Had many a scotch together to discuss how our Navy was going wrong. Now, he is "the man" Oh, the irony :)

No problem. A waterboard is easy to make.

Balls. Big ones. That step to the platform must have been a hard one to take.

No dog in this fight at all but as I look at his bio at http://www.usna.edu/Users/english/fleming/vita.htm it seems to me he has spent a lot of time at other academic institutions here and abroad and at least understands what a decent education is about. I also can't imagine he hasn't spent...

There's a retired WO on my hunting board that is good friends with this gent and hunts with him on that property. He reported that at least one of the punks has called and is turning himself in. You know they're local and won't be able to keep their mouths shut and someone knows who they are...

This is an interesting breakdown -...

Yes however the definition of "defense" and what gets thrown into that budget that shouldn't be there is amazing.

I killed 2 last year but they were with the 7-08 or the .257 roberts and they went right down. Of course, in general the most paltry center fire is more than the most powerful handguns. It's shocking to me how many yotes there are around. I was down on our farm in ky over the weekend and...

I had a chance to shoot one last year and afraid I'd send it's on it's way to pick up something a bit more useful unless you're really into handgun hunting. As an aside, people mention ammo costs. I thought I might start a seperate thread on reloading. I've been doing so for more than 30 years.

Only a couple that I'm aware of this and the 2 VC-25 that serve the Pres and VP.

It's a bit more complicated than that. Yes, foreign nationals or foreign contractors "defend" most embassies and compounds (really ID checks and vehicle inspections) but the host country military/police are the actual defenders. The Chancellery, the actual embassy building(s) are defended by...