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When I got my last haircut from Suzie after I winged, I told her that unfortunately I'd have to find a new barber when I PCS'd. She said "You don't let them give you high and tight...you are aviator now!"

Seriously? That is your method of telling the good guys from the bad guys? And yes, I know he got 46 dislikes and only 7 likes...but the point remains: Until we start shooting these people, they are going to keep making terrible youtube videos.

I'd bet money that cop is a prior service Marine. I love how he function checked the guys weapon at the end as well. Haha. Edit: Oregon is such a weird state. Half hippy granola smoke a joint while driving a prius/subaru, and half "Don't touch my guns."

CAI's (or whatever your acronym-du-jour is) on CD for use at home are at least halfway useful. Why don't they do that in primary or advanced again?

UH-1N's were technically named "Iroquis." No one calls the new upgrades Venoms, except maybe Bell Helicopter, and even they manufacture them with pedals that say BELL on one side and HUEY on the other. The AH-1Z is technically a Viper, but, again, no one calls them anything but Cobras. The...

You're a Marine. Don't worry about grades. Get helicopters. Fucking kill people and break things.

That's a pretty sweet freq to RIO on

Congrats Shooter. Just be awesome and you won't have any problems at all.

Yeah we shoud!

This shit is like $2.00 at Wal-Mart. Completely replaces shaving cream (Sounds like it is similar to the King of Shaves product you are talking about, I've never heard of that brand). Rinse face with hot water, use 3-5 drops and rub it on your face, rinse face again with hot water. Rinse blade...

Is it an "opportunity to excel"! or is it an opportunity to "Excel"!

You mean flying to El Centro and back doesn't count as a good deal cross-country?

The first step to change is an open dialogue, Coughlin-Puopolo said, which is why she wants to see a congressional hearing. How is a congressional hearing the first step?

WTF... Please no more: *pointless descriptive narrative text*

That doesn't sound right, at no point did you mention complaining about the horrors of having to muster for 10 minutes in the morning.

Jums ir spiegs!

10/10 Well thought out response. Would read again.

Meh, you still aren't a Marine yet...come back in 6 years when you are.

I thought it was more of a case of "My pension sucks and the gold watch didn't pawn for shit....welp, time to try for a book deal."

http://www.wzzm13.com/news/watercooler/217909/82/Ex-CIA-agent-Roswell-UFO-incident-happened Some CIA Agent is going on record saying that aliens exist. Welcome to Urf!

Yeah, I wouldn't want to be an Army WO Pilot either man, too much flight time, not enough ground job stuff, and it seems like they just do way too much troops in zone and warheads on foreheads... Seriously, I think the Army is probably at the very least worth looking into. I think that just...

Wait, so "the man" at API was telling everyone lies, but the guy who got in trouble gave you the straight scoop on what REALLY happened? That sounds suspiciously similar to the story of every other Marine/Sailor I've talked to that got in some kind of trouble...

This is not true or typical at all. An Article 32 is more stringent than a Grand Jury. Sexual assault IS (from my experience) a preponderance of the cases going to SPCM or GCM, but the case you described would be easily filtered out. Unless you had an unreasonable convening authority, the...

I mean, mostly shit on the ground, but, hey, RW DACM! YEAH!

Yeah RW DACM! COME AT ME BRO!

In helo school there is a whole week of classes dedicated to helicopter aerodynamics...and even after that the answer to how helicopters work is pretty much still: "uhh...magic?"

This is a decent video of what's happening. No sound though. ~30 seconds in it gets to VRS

True. I had to look up the walkthrough on gamefaqs.com

No. But WileyX makes gloves with a few fingers cutout.

There is a shit-load of Marines around the age of 20 who are leading small units in combat overseas as I type this. Maybe idiots are just idiotic, regardless of their age and location, and when you give them a lot of time off, they do extra-dumb shit.

If the Navy wants to fire unguided rockets off helos without the NCEA requirements that come with it, they should invest in something similar to the LAADS probe which gives CCIP/CCRP capability. Pretty accurate. How are they going to employ the M197?

Spot on. Without integrated sensors and probes, it is just a fancier version of a grease pencil death-dot on the windscreen.

Yeah, and the NVG's projected on the screen worked great at altitude. The problem is that in NOE there is a delay as well as some weird elevation illusions. For example, guys walking out to the aircraft using it would have the impression they were much higher off the deck than they obviously...

It's the Optimized TopOwl helmet by Thales. Not just Cobras, Hueys use them as well. It's beefy in the back because of magnetic tracking, so the helicopter knows where you are looking. It's beefy in the front because the sun visor goes over the display module. The original one was a little...

The safenight i20 makes it nvg compatible http://www.wamcoinc.com/Upload%5CNews%5CSafeNight%20i20%20flyer_812201131226.pdf

He had had a few drinks and was driving home, and as he sat at a red light he thought, "Oh man, I'm feeling pretty drunk...I shouldn't have a loaded weapon in the car with me." So he proceeded to attempt to unload the weapon, and you got the rest.

I would agree that at the lower end medals are pretty inflated, especially in services that use awards as a direct factor in promotion. But the same servicemember who might get a Silver Star today probably would have gotten a Medal of Honor before.

The FBO is meh. But the food in town is good, especially if you like green chiles in everything. About a 10-15 minute drive from the airport to the city proper.

His logic is that he is in a combat zone because he is threatened by terrorism CONUS. The problem is that we are ALL then in combat zones, even pilots who are not deployed. Except pilots who are not deployed STILL take more risk than a UAV driver because they, you know, go up in the air... If...

Damn, can't believe how few rounds some of you guys shoot. I don't get how APKWS is being talked about as a replacement for Hellfire. It is a completely different weapon with a completely different application. It also requires basically the same delivery patterns as existing FFAR's, it just...

Just don't get your hopes up looking for a comfortable survival vest in the Air Force PR shop

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bit-map/id337172542?mt=8

There is a flimsy screen that goes on that both protects it and make it NVG compatible. -- At least in my community, the iPad is pretty popular. I haven't used it in flight, but the guys I have talked to who have used it in country didn't talk about shooting approaches. They were using them to...

NVG screens are out, they are relatively expensive though. Someone talked about it, but the maps are geo-refrenced, so as you zoom in you go from JOG to Sectional to Tactical Map (1:50,000), etc... The problem with putting a super rugged case around the ipad itself is that it potentially...

Gatordev: Skids have been using iPads in country for awhile, and I haven't heard of any durability issues (not that that doesn't mean there aren't any).

Yeah good point on the iPad. Not so much for flight school, but afterwards, when studying for a brief means using different TACSOPs/NATIP/NTTP/What-have-you, it is pretty handy... The other bonus is that the iPad is being used more and more in-flight for different functions.

So what your saying is you haven't done DADT Tier 3?

Does the T-45C not have formation lights?

The guys that hit the tree were (as far as I can see) doing legitimate TERF training, with some obvious headwork issues. I'd say this is a little more cut and dry, they are obviously flathatting.