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I'm very likely getting out BECAUSE of the people who stayed in. Though part of me wants to stick around to be one of the few who doesn't suck (at least I believe I'd be one of the good ones), I just don't have any desire to put up with the BS any more. Even though I'm likely to get paid...

Alas, no longer.

Misawa, Japan. All the remoteness, none of the support.

ha, that's great!

+1

I hear the next version actually electrocutes people who ask that question - too bad John was too cheap to sport for that version! :D

Gonnna call that one a Class Bravo. Yeah, i think that's about right.

Wonder if we could sling a 54 on there....

You'd really have to meet him to understand. :D

Of course not. I wasn't there.

It only lasted 20 seconds, it was tactical - not strategic.

I hear the DFAC is really good there. Seriously, I did ask for an IA (more than once) in lieu of the Office Space hell I currently live in. Someone said I was "essential" - which is total BS, since I suck at powerpoint, but I think they wanted me to feel better.

Oh, like you never flew out to your rich girlfriend's house in the country side to practice "tactical insertion" before. C'mon, I know how you guys operate!

Hell, I'd love that f'ing IA. SIGN ME UP! This just pisses me off. Here I am, willing to do whatever it takes to win this damn war, even if it means playing Army for a year, and I can't get an IA. This chick just decides she doesn't want to go because she thinks it isn't fair?! I have...

Total cool points with the ladies though. Definitely a more flashy ride than just about any car out there. 20 seconds though.... C'mon Prince! You can do better than that!

50?! Holy crap. Good luck getting together 50 folks willing to drop that kind of coin on a watch, even on this site. Not saying it isn't a good deal, mind you. We had an Omega order at my last command. It was like pulling teeth to get 8 people together to place the order (I wasn't a...

When I had my picture taken after taking the oath at NRD Dever I had mutton chops, a red afro (natural), a scraggly goatee, wearing shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt. I looked like a friggen mountain man. I really wish I had that picture! I think I would disgust my own self.

If I am on the runway, it is scary.

I think the US Navy is the only institution in the world that still uses floppy disks. You can use geek sticks, but that's assuming the old ass computer you might be working on can use a geek stick...

From everything I've read about him, he seems like a stand up guy. Kind of a LOT of pressure on the guy to not be a f*ckup. He's done a few dumb things that would not cause much of a stir if anyone else did it - but this guy can't take a dump without some paparazzi crammin' a camera up his...

Does it have anything to do with clowns? :eek:

There are army couples living together IN IRAQ! Although they are married. We had two officers in my squadron who were dating (and post sea tour got married). The command sorta knew, but they kept everything so down low that most people never knew. Both of them were excellent officers. The...

Man, you guys jumped on him like a fat kid on a doughnut! This place brings a tear to my eye.

It does mean a lot to the contestants, as it should, but I think the meaning, purpose and reason for the Olympics has been forgotten. I strongly believe that the athletes are some of the best in the world and they are there to win, for their country and for themslves. I don't thinkt he Olympic...

I think trying to put out the flame is a worthy symbolic effort, so long as they don't hurt anyone. Honestly it disgusts me that the Olympic Committee flat out said that human rights were not the purview of the Olympics. If ANY international event should champion human rights, it should be the...

Well, since I live in Japan, here's what I'm armed with, Oh HELL YEAH!

If i as Navy enlisted, i'd either want to be a P-3 FE or an MA with working dog. Those animals are amazing. Absolutely fearless.

//threadjack// How hard and fast are the minimum hour requirements in the airlines? Will they flat not look at you if you've got fewer hours than they advertise as their requirement? Also, do the airlines care about a masters (in something completely unrelated to aviation)? //please...

I dunno about that. I expect the ammo for the gun is spendy. Who'd want to own one if you couldn't shoot stuff up?

For the basic flight training at VP-30 you'd not need to fly in the real plane. I will contest, however, that the need to fly at 200' over the water cannot be accurately simulated. The P-8 will still drop low and there is pucker factor in having that big of a plane that close to the water -...

Great video. Every A-10 guy i've met has been totally laid back and fun. Lots of times F-15 guys may look down upon them, but I'd take a Hog any day over an Eagle (since the hogs don't break up in mid air). Just a sexy plane - in a big boned sort of way. Great van too.

Boomstick!!!

How the hell do you do that? Those things have a hella wide stance! Was it on an incline? Having never ridden in one, I really don't know what I'm talking about. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last nigtht.

Ha, that was good. bit long, but good.

That might be the best video I've ever seen!

Those wings, like the wings of every aviator are made from mettle.

Oh, i thought this was another, "What would you take into combat in the cockpit with you?" thread. Bummer.

So the way I read what you posted there... You're saying that a totalitarian state would possibly be threatened if the citizens were armed? Something along the lines of, People should not fear their governments, governments should fear their people.? <--- I said that first...in this thread...

And I'm sure Uncle Sam would like to keep it that way! There have actually been quite a few nukes lost, which is pretty scary. This site is pretty good if you're bored some night and want to learn about lost nukes and other nuke accidents: http://www.cdi.org/Issues/NukeAccidents/accidents.htm

well, at least it wasn't nuclear! Which has happened....

HA! This makes me laugh! +1. I've seen the brass ring and i'm going to avoid it like the friggen plague. The DH tour looks like three years of utter pain.

As a conservationist i don't think that building a house to green standards is a bad thing. If some yuppie wants to build his/her house to green standards just to feel better, then that's fine - they're going to be smug regardless. When I'm back in a house I fully intend on doing all the green...

As the CoS reminds us at EVERY Quarters, .03 is the new legal limit. If you are a pax in a car driven by someone over .03, you go to jail too, and pay a huge fine. You even watch a beer commercial and you're over the limit! One hell of a way to reduce DUI's!

Anchorage is balmy man! I did one winter in Fairbanks where it was -50...without wind chill (no wind to speak of anyhow). Was f'ing cold. So I moved to Minnesota for the rest of my college education. Much warmer.

ah! you speak to my heart! Though really, the winters aren't that bad in Southeast Alaska - very comparable to Whidbey, just a bit colder (but not much). Anchorage gets f'ing cold, though nothing compared to Fairbanks (that place just sucks ass). The summers in central Alaska are pretty...

Whidbey is where the cool kids go. But, if you wana be lame, I hear HI is nice.

If a gun looks real, other than its paint job - it's real enough to me. There are services which will paint your gun up any way you like it and gang-bangers have been known to sport brightly colored guns in order to give them that split second advantage over the cops (or other gang members)...

Go north to Alaska! You can have a home on the beach in SE Alaska (don't recommend Juneau if you don't like liberals) with endless salt water, tons of tasty fauna, very liberal gun laws (isn't that ironic how the word can have a positive meaning?) and be left the hell alone. I dream of...

I go by the BradyCampaign website - states that get F's are the most desirable.

I think Alaska has the best gun control laws - or lack there of. I especially like our CCW requirements, if you can legally own a firearm, you can legally carry it concealed (except in bars, schools, the usual places).