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You can wear Khaki's but would have to wear a different shoe to cover the over the ankle requirement. Then change shoes when you get to work. Plus a jacket and something reflective. Khaki's alone don't meet the hi vis requirement.

Take your pick. I say its the fault of both parties and both the House and Senate alike. Their job is taking care of this country and its citizens, not playing chicken with them.

How about the families not getting death benefits, or the contractors being able to pay their bills, or the servicemembers who are having to shoulder the load while the subject matter experts in many areas are furloughed. This isnt about commissary privileges, get off your high fucking horse...

To add insult to the families already going through hell. No death certificate or benefits are being issued to the Jones and Gibson families due to the shutdown. Partisan bullshit aside, this deserves a letter/phone call to your elected representatives to remind them of what their job actually is.

For Landon Jones the NFCU Acct.# is 7406575

Wanted to add an update. My Bates just disintegrated on me yesterday. Funny as other than back in API I have almost never worn them so its not like they have a ton of miles on them. That is some very crappy quality there. I'll never buy another Bates product again.

Or for those who are trained and qualified to carry firearms, allow us to carry on base. The fact that these kind of things happen on military bases and we have to rely on base security to come to the rescue is appalling. How much less likely would this be to happen if the shooter knew there...

My wife took a bunch of my old ones and put them into frames and hung them around the house. Similar to the top item shown here but nicer: http://www.usadisplay.net/patch.htm

Meant to say SIR in my post not FNEAB, that was a misspeak on my part. I'll to go PM for the rest so others dont get confused.

To me that is part of the problem. Unless someone regularly watches the news for crashes, or browses Airwarriors for them you may never know a crash happened or that you have something to learn from it. Then if I want to "search the database" I have to send an email in where I hope the person...

The fact that you have to ask about specific reports in order to receive them shows an inherent flaw in the system. Just because I'm not in a VAQ squadron, doesn't mean that I cant glean useful information from a mishap ie CRM, ORM, NAV, command culture, etc. There should be a master...

So how is it that the first time people hear about this is on a forum like Airwarriors? Sounds like an endeavor that might actually be beneficial to the fleet (unlike the billions of wasted dollars on other bs stuff) yet no one knows about it.

Assuming the helo crew has some level of training, it is a fun day for us. Not as one sided as you would think, and a fun way to send the pointy nose guys home with g-measels and no kill.

Just read the threads here about the last few Omega buys. I would never even consider buying an Omega just based on the experience of those here on the forums.

Well no good deed goes unpunished. CO, XO, A-Nav and OOD all relieved. So much for being able to trust the equipment/publications given you by the military. Its still your fault if something goes wrong...

Having been in a command where a member of the CoC was relieved I can tell you that we weren't told shit. All the info we got was that an investigation was happening. When it was done we were told that person x is not longer taking job y. The entire command found out the details from the Navy...

2 big reasons. First is brownout. You as the pilot can just look down, still see the ground and land the helo. (Whereas the way Big Navy makes all but -84 fly, with doors on as soon as you hit the cloud you have to rely on your crewmen calling drift and then blindly make corrections.)...

Not to be the bad guy here, but that should honestly be a valid question. I know exactly how much gas our airwing dumped each cycle. Combine that with the 7 day currency thing and its a fuckton of gas wasted. (And what real benefit does all that fuel buy you?) Compare the amount dumped by 1...

The other thing the Wrights did early on was fly other people in their plane, in front of large crowds. Seems like a pretty easy way to prove you are legit instead of flying 1 plane 1 time and then telling your friend in a bar or whatever "oh yeah, well I built one of those 3 years ago and I...

Similar things could be said about many of these new more better idea programs. The only problem with using logic........JSF is too big to fail similar to the v-22. So even if the Rhino's got the upgrades and JSF takes another 20 years to hit the fleet, we'll still stick to it.

I'm pretty sure that according to the current administration, if you want anything to do with space flight you need to call Russia or China. I bet they would happily accept your application to their military for the purposes of entering the space program.

You mean most of the same individuals who have not actually passed a budget since before the iPad was a reality, but seem to be able to give themselves pay raises. Yeah I really trust them to make logical choices based on the real world when they can't even do their damn job.

What a crock.... Of course when the Air Force gives out Bronze stars to O-4's just for breathing, how can we be surprised when they make an award you have to "earn" rank above it. (Not that I actually believe this will really be earned, or should rank higher than the pistol marksmanship ribbon.)

The pointer on the FLIR is not eye safe, though there is an eye safe laser but it provides range only. Don't be so sad about the HUD. Its still the crappy Navy NVD HUD. You would think we could have at least upgraded to the Army slim HUD, or actually spent some money to get a good one. You...

Probably just a showpiece for media purposes. Very small and only single engine. I dont see how it could carry any ordnance and a pilot at the same time. And those seams look pretty bad. Probably just built to look like it's has stealth capabilities.

Having done several deployments on a Carrier, including the first HS/HSL deployments I can say that it has been tried and oftentimes doesnt matter. We even had a great air ops department trying to work with usand advocate for us. I'm not saying this is everywhere and I'm not saying its only FW...

Sad that we aren't allowed to completely garnish Congress' wages while this crap goes on. At some point we will either: A. Be leaving boats at sea till they (and their crews) physically can't float anymore, with no replacement on the horizon. 10+month deployments anyone? B. We will waive...

Not exaggerating at all. I have been told (on more than one occasion). "You can have the guns on for this ATFP / Straights Transit, etc but you can't actually put rounds in them without permission, its just for show." Or that we couldn't actually have any ammo in the helo "just in case"...

Dont forget that not too long ago we had more than just those 2 communities. We had HAL in Vietnam, HCS 4 and 5 in the decades following... And while Navy helos haven't been putting a ton of ordnance downrange, (at least in ways you read about because we happen to be the worst service when it...

It is honestly sad how far behind RW is compared to FW and the disparity in investment. We can't get anything for CFIT, moving maps, terrain following radar, decent weapons, etc. Hell, fighters in WW2 had lead computing gunsights, and now you can look at a target over your shoulder with...

When I was stationed in Atsugi they were "renovating" one of the greens and in the process discovered several 10's of thousands of rounds of HMG ammo that had been buried there. Had to cordon off the area while they brought in EOD to clear it all out. With the affinity the Japanese had in WW2...

Amazing story, thanks for posting! Can't believe the remaining survivors were living off supplies via air drop in that environment for 6 months!!!

I am suggesting that as a whole the DoD makes this stuff into issues. Pretty sure that discriminating against any person because of "race, color, creed, sex, age, disability, or national origin" has and still does prohibit your use of those facilities. The easy solution would be for that...

However again the government doesn't have the moral/testicular/intestinal fortitude to actually call it a war(s) and treat it as such.... We just use that term for TV to sound like we have to be doing what we are. In reality this has all been treated as politically driven policing of the...

The fact that they feel the need to push this shows how fked the military's mentality is. It is only an issue because they are making it one. ie Look at us, we are soo forward leaning that we are openly forcing everyone to be open and acceptable.... Pretty sure most knives clubs could care...

I could write a several page thesis on what is wrong and all the stuff we see every day that goes along with it. And yes you do what you can, but there are limits to what you can do and I'll leave it at that. The short version is that we (those of us currently in) aren't allowed to mention by...

9 month deployments, back to back sea tours, ERB leading to a sudden abundance critical billets, do more with no money/parts, sub par senior leadership, refusal to accept logic and send people qualified in TMS to the right job, etc etc etc. And the Navy wonders why we have an "Alcohol Problem,"...

We do have a PCL but also carry the big book. I can personally think of 2 times I have used the big book during an EP. Some of the more important amplifying info, notes, technique etc are in the big book but not the PCL. Which is sad considering that the PCL has gotten considerably larger since...

I've seen some good AMB's (including my own) but unfortunately lately I've seen several witch hunts and downright lies and misinformation put into an SIR just so someone can make a point.... So at this point, No I don't have a lot of trust in the process anymore.

Go Pro actually makes an NVG helmet mount for their cameras now. Saw a stack at the Exchange the other day.

San Clemente is designed to give a crew the qual, nothing hard about ops out there. AUTEC depends on what is going on; Real subs are cake, and the sleds are only hard if the evaluator throws in a good profile.

When I was at the WWS the question was asked several times from the wing level and higher about how much training we can possibly do in the sim and completely remove from the helo. They were also looking at how much money it would take to upgrade the sims so that 60-80% of all training could be...

Just throwing it out there, but my daughter loves that video.

The PMA guys that I have talked to (including those involved in the development and testing of the 2-Piece) say that Coyote is the 1 color that works in every environment.

These are the same kind of people who are restricting (read: trying to eliminate) the wear of desert flightsuits because they deem them too "expeditionary." Never mind the fact that the survival folks would prefer that all our flight suits be tan instead of green. Oh and we spent millions...

If only we had more "leaders" in today's military who held similar beliefs and values...

Gouge for Conus based CVN's tends to run as others have said. Its a 36 month tour and you deploy for 7+ months. (Big Navy is pushing for deployments to average over 9 months) Don't forget that you aren't just gone for deployment. The 6+ months before you leave on deployment is spent mostly...

Kindle Fire has numerous issues with WiFi refusing the connect to networks, refusing to connect to the internet, browser not working or being slow as shit. Poor battery life, updates not installing correctly, etc. The forums have been pretty loud about these issues since November last year and...

Based on current issues "ignored by Amazon" with the Fire, I would wait a while before jumping on the Fire 2 and see what others experience.

I would recommend a full tablet, especially if Apple comes out with the new rumored model go with that. I had a Kindle Fire and even that wasn't very good for reading pubs. Half the time search wouldn't work, sizing gets annoying and it has numerous wifi connectivity issues. (Without wifi...