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Apparently the photographers think every T-45 is an 'C' bird... 244 and 218 are both Alpha's arn't they? Minor detail but just bugs me to read that all the jets are charlies. Congrats on the CQ. Hope to join you in August, god (and skeds) forbid october.

Why? Herndon was one of the highlights of Plebe year. It marked the end of the worst year there and a start of new freedoms. Herndon was awesome. I don't see how a bit of fun tradition makes you glad you went to a normal college. Now if you mentioned other parts, them I could see. But not...

in terms of calories you'll probably burn more by taking a small break because you'll be able to rest and go at the next session a little bit harder than you otherwise would have. In terms of performance of your heart it'll be a little worse off because it's not continuous. Of course if you go...

I put mine in the washer. I think it's supposed to be dry cleaned but I don't care. It came out clean. That's about all that matters. Oh and it still is comfortable to wear. It worked. You're worried about the leather band arn't you? The washer worked fine. Just don't use the dryer is my...

77. Be able to build something out of wood. Anything. If people were able to build houses and wagons and forts out of wood in the days of manually operated tools, you should be able to build something with all of these power tools you have available. No Ikea allowed.

Someone called their daddy and complained.

What's the deal with closing credit cards? Is it worse to just leave a $4000 card open that you never use or close it out and take the small score dip?

We already get to wear flight suits so your point is kinda mute. Besides, khakis suck. I'd rather wear aviation working greens. It's that distinguished thing that makes 'em a bit nicer. The navy is based around it's communities. If you want a branch where its all about the branch go join...

All I have to say is thanks to everyone who's offering their advice. Real estate just seems colossal when you have no experience with the matter... Really useful advice here. Thanks.

Thanks captain_drewski. That was a great explanation and really useful to hear. I think my main thing though has always been that 20% down payment. It would empty all my non retirement investments to make about that. I know less is doable but not as useful. I just keep wondering how would I...

That would be the classic "5 and dive," a favorite for many SWO's

So how do some guys go about owning multiple chunks of real estate? That's what I want to know. I mean I understand renting out your property after getting stations somewhere else but how do you convince a bank to let you take out multiple mortgages and all the fuss that comes with owning a lot...

Master if you need help in construction let me know. I could use a break from my non flying month...

Quite frankly I like the show. It's a side of military life that you don't get to see in the civilian world. All they see is Top Gun, Jag, Black Hawk Down, and all the other Hollywood versions of the military. They don't see that behind the uniforms are human beings who come from a variety of...

Don't know how to clean it but next time spray hair spray on the paper pages to prevent much of the ink from sticking to the plastic sheets.

Quite frankly I always thought dinner dress bozo looked retarded. I have a pair that still need striping from the academy. I'd rather do that though when I need to wear them then wear SDB's with a bow tie. Still, almost 2 years and I've worn dinner dress white only once when i voluntarily...

So you're telling me that the PS3 can be upgraded to have more blue ray functions... And it only costs $400 as opposed to the stand alone models which can cost 600 or more...? Why would I want to buy any blue ray player other than the PS3? Seriously I'm looking to get an HD player and since...

Well I just had a bud get winged on the 7th and they are leaving for Jax tomorrow so it's taken him about 2 weeks to get orders and get out of here. You in a hurry to get out of Corpus? Why would you ever want to get out of this wonderful city and all of its wonderful traffic and people and...

Yeah here's one I made. I took the C one and made it for the alpha. The second page is if you want the preflight/cockpit checks. Enjoy. And a beer at the club is always welcome.

Well that only leaves Kingsville and Meridian. If you like trees go to Meridian. It's flat and boring down in south texas. The beach is close but it's crappy compared to Pensacola area. And as far as A's or C's... The word on the street is that alphas will make you a better ball flier...

Still what happens with "radio failures" in the UCAV or jamming as it were? The little buggers just sit there until they run out of fuel? Part of the pros of having a pilot there is that you have someone to deal with situations as they develop. One good hit to a UCAV's transmitter and you...

It's the general principle that it's a great place to be from but a horrible place to be. Never changes. Every one wants to see the place change for the better but no one can ever quite agree what that is and everyone wants a say about what can be changed. Seriously it'd almost be better if...

Call it what you like. The graph has spikes everywhere. Personally I'd rather choose to have a clean environment where we choose to work against a risk that might not exist rather than a dirty environment where we choose to ignore a risk that'd kill us. Seems like a simple choice... Global...

Maybe the air force should just cut back on the golf courses and other luxuries that they like to build on all their bases... Seriously, I was up at Lackland just before Christmas. They couldn't buy a Christmas tree. But they were allowed to buy a flat panel monitor to put up the image of a...

Sounds like you have had some bad experience with the backings from wings n things. I've never had a problem with the two suits they made up for me and it's been over a year with them now... I wouldn't do all your suits there. One or two maybe.

Primary you do one. As far as you can go in three legs to get there. From corpus this means San diego, Chicago, things along that radius. Don't know about Whiting. For advanced it depends on what you're flying I guess. Jets you seem to get 3 that I know of. RI's, AN's, and IR's I think...

The wing issued one in Kingsville sucks. You would've thought that they would have let students designed it and then picked one which worked and met their criteria best but nooo they come up with the largest fastest worst checklist around. Seriously if the PCL was side open, it would have been...

corframs suck. I never understood why people loved wearing them. Most uncomfortable piece of shit ever invented if you ask me. Plastic is not made for feet.

Parents can be a hit or miss when it comes to that kinda stuff. Mine never really interfered much with the academy process. In fact, I think they helped gather up some of the paperwork that i needed to find and fill out. However the ROTC application I was trying to do as a backup totally got...

I knew I could get master's opinion to back me up on that. Avoid them like the plague!

Ha! I remember someone once giving that presentation...

In theory Corpus is faster. When I was there for most of 2007 it actually took a lot longer. Graduated API in November. Primary in August. My counterparts in Whiting were down April/May. Granted we had some of the worst winter weather last year and it screwed a lot of us over. Historically...

Flight of the Intruder definitely is one of the best movies out there. I haven't seen that one in ages...

Hunter's, hawk's, or buy a house. Can't go wrong with them. Anything else is wrong.

Still it sucks. I only had about 3000 lbs of stuff that filled up the huge truck. Took forever loading it and unloading it. Granted this was the end of August in the south texas heat. Still, I never want to do a dity move again. To hell with the money I made off of it, it was a pain to do.

So that's where manatees come from.... I always wondered...

I think the T-45's down in kingsville should get the green light for a little weapons training this weekend... Anyone else agree? Come on, a couple of blue bombs to a stupid angry crowd... Be good training. Either that or lets use em for pistol quals. Seriously these people are annoying...

Well at least it better than the air force commercials... Everyone who joins will fly an F-22 or F-117! And what they only have like 40 of them combined? Then there was also the army of one....

The marines have always had the best commercials

Well at least they came to their senses and got that part right. I hated plebes having their parents their and then when they moved herndon from commissioning week and then when they promoted the plebes early. That was wrong in so many ways. At least the sup has fixed one part of the problem...

No there should be BAH, it's that it's only around $500-600 rather than the full value. It should last until you get to your primary training. Yes, it's called the needs of the navy. You without follow on orders=options. The navy can determine if they need more people at corpus or at...

It's cheaper to get life insurance before you start flying anything. When you're a student the idiots are insurance companies think you're a smart, safe, studious person. When you start flying they think you'll die tomorrow. Therefore they charge you about twice as much for new policies then...

Yeah they started all this up in 2006. But then it was only if you were stuck around Annapolis. When you went to P-cola they gave you the full BAH. Guess they need to save more money now... Still you should get some kind of per diem since it's not permanent. We all did then. Wasn't too...

No that's actual civilian clothing. I wouldn't have believed it myself except I saw that thing sitting on a rack in a clothing store. Had to look at it twice before I realized it wasn't an actual set of FDB's. Still makes you wonder though...

Personally I never cared much for organized religion. Someone will always find a way to muck up the intent of the religion and twist it around. Its true for all religions. I was born and raised a Catholic but I never truely agreed with it. It was more of a way to please my parents than...