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magnetic accelerator? The attractive part of that is that you get a lot of reusable bang out of the accelerator, unlike the current system, where you have to dump boosters. Another up side is that the more boost you get from the accelerator, the less fuel you need, which lessens the weight, etc...

If you're on a budget, I highly recommend eastbay.com(or maybe eastboy.com...whatever). You can pick up a nice pair of running shoes for 40-50 bucks. It's not that the shoes are bad, they just sell older styles. Unless you care about being in style while running, it's really good.

If anybody's interested in buying the CD, you can email tinygiant@earthlink.net(A Hog driver apparently) for contact info...he also told me about a 7 CD compilation of air power demos film he's compiled over the years.

ROTC, no guarantee. On the other hand, easier to get picked theoretically since you get the spots first along with the Academy. Next, the "guarantee" is BDCP or OCS. Either way, you're trying to get into what needs the ROTC people DIDN'T fill. Obviously, when they're cutting back, there won't...

what about everything else the S-3s do? So weird that the Super Bug is a flying gas truck too. How versatile.

Hey zak how ya been? I'll back up what he says about Cornell's unit. We're really small but that's not necessarily a bad thing. We also don't do the usual grunt crap a lot of units do(at the Citadel they make money doing their weekly parades, some schools do parking during sports events...

HAHA, JUMP in, get it? ParaJUMPers? Alright, so that was bad.

wait so that makes you a...smart marine? What's the world coming to?

You do realize half the info on Russian birds is sketchy at best, and often made up of outright lies. I remember seeing something about a MiG 1.44 equipped with a plasma cloud jammer to defeat the F-22s AMRAAMs. The other half is very vague, often claiming their planes will outperform US...

Damn...sucks to be him.

The following info is entirely based on observations/secondhand info. From what I hear: Submarine school, you NEED to have an engineering or at least science kinda degree. Surface, nothing special needed unless you wanna go to nuke reactor school, then same as submarine. Aviation, you can get...

I really, really doubt JSF will be canceled. Pushed back, maybe. Canceled, not likely. There's WAY too much riding on that bird. THREE services want and need it. It's also already out flying in test situations. But if it DID get canceled, you gotta realize that leaves the Navy with nothing but...

Rent out your hot NJROTC bodies on a street corner outside an all girls Catholic school.

If it's significant, NAMI will whammy you. Otherwise, it's insignificant so don't worry is what I say. They get two cracks at you: at MEPS and at API right? It would take some major triple A bonering to miss a serious problem BOTH times.

Good point. But INS still sucks. Count on at least a few months after you send the application(btw mucho respect for Bush after that one-finally a President who realizes someone who's willing to put their ass on the line for what isn't technically "their country" is just as deserving of...

Hey, having been/still kinda in a similar situation I'll emphasize the citizenship. Unless either one of your parents is a US citizen, it'll be a bit tougher than it should be. Lots of sitting and waiting for stuff to get done by federal agencies...which take forever. Just remember: 1)Unless one...

Ah yeah good point. I dunno what's done at OCS, but I'm guessing when the DI wants to "mash" you you're gonna be doing crunches-nothing holding your feet. For ROTC PFT, they WILL hold your feet and yes, it does feel a bit different from crunches. For me, first time I did em, my quads burned out...

Never more than ONE THIRTY!? Good Jebus man. I'm gonna take a swag here and guess pushups are not your thing right? If you're going Navy, remember all you're gonna need are pushups, situps, run. Pushups...just do them. Situps...same. Running...more of the same. 3 sets to exhaustion of pushups...

no just a son.

It's only funny as hell when you're not in the damn bird. This summer took a trip to Europe, flew Lufthansa...who ever said Germans were hot pilots? Airbuses are scary man. The highpitched shrieking on takeoff and landing doesn't help. Then we landed with the right main gear hitting first, then...

Assumptions? I'm gonna quote my Gunny on this: First impressions count for a lot...my first impression of you is ****! My guess is collegeguy and wintersibs had a baby...this is it. Bad grammar, the occasional weird logic and the cockiness of collegeguy.

Considerin' he's saying a gunner learned to fly a single seater while in prison, or that he knew how to fly and didnt get into a pilot's seat(yeah right)...i agree.

Yeah, and what's the planned date for the first operational VF-1 squadron? 2020? What's gonna be the minimum NSS cutoff for robot fighters?

You can tell phrogdrivers one of the old dudes here when you realize you have no idea who the F those guys he mentioned are. Or maybe I've just been living under a rock? Merry Christmas all.

aww now you REALLY rippin on the kid. Less games and ficitious bios that take bits out of Macross, more PT and study if you want real wings of gold kid.

I think the real challenge at this point probably would be FINDING an active duty SEAL. But yeah I'd say he's at the rather extreme end of the screw treaties and PC perspective.

It could be a bolter...

man that's one hell of a Christmas present for a lot of people.

phrog, I'm not saying my hypotheticals should be accepted as gospel. I'm trying to use them to show the dangers of excusing actions because as "riding the train to the logical conclusion" says, it's really hard to know when to draw the line...1 million people? Three? Two hundred? One? What I'm...

kimphil, if you're unhappy about the nuke in New York, change that to buried nukes in lead containers buried in various places under the First MarDiv if you'd like. whiskey, my nuke reference can be changed to package of C4 in baghdad if you don't like that reference either. The whole friggin...

Slasher has a point: If a terrorist was time-sensitive(that's synonymous with "right the F now") information regarding a nuclear weapon within the heart of one of America's major metropolitan cities, I doubt anybody here would hesitate to beat him, his family, or whatever the F it took to get...

I'm pretty sure the basic heat shield concept is basically still the same, large surface area coated with some sort of insulator(anything with low heat conducting properties). Not entirely sure though.

some ppl think this site is a game site...i had one IM me a few months back asking me how to play the game "airwarriors."

He had big pecs? That's what i always just kinda assumed...

I remember while shooting the **** with the gunny i was told that the poor bastards who go through PI at one point will look like the bugs ate them alive.

I'm pretty sure they got Navy Crosses...don't know the other one off top of my head.

...why would it cost money for Navy/USMC? They'll pay your training also, as well as college. And you get a friggin stipend. But more importantly...look at the gold wings on the top left...those are NAVAL aviator wings. USN/USMC training only here.

Prax, that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

Congressman Cunningham, right?

1...2...3...let the flames begin.

chad, this is a page back, but you actually should learn to watch your mouth. Even if you ARE winged, harassment is against Navy policy. So is conduct unbecoming. So if you go around calling ppl fags, and one of them decides to be a sensitive little fairy and presses charges, your career dies...

As ASTB time approaches, I've started looking more closely at the ASTB gouge forms on this site. My question is, can I give this to my aviation Lt to help out other people or is it gonna cause problems for someone? I'm assuming not, but I don't know if there's a regulation on this at all so...

Can't help you w/selection process info, but I know the Blues currently have two Marines.

No not the shootdown of the enemy MiG, the identity of Colonel Tomb. Supposedly it was just a local group commander who according to Duke's account was a great pilot, but supposedly the pilot was not an ace or anything.

Will do t-widget. You gangsta thug you. Y'all have a great one too.

Yeah that's what I meant by FAC(lowslow's version). And I thought it's been decided Colonel Toon/Tomb was a myth? Not to say Cunningham's achievement was any less, but the legendary NV ace story was supposedly entirely fictional.

hey zak wassup? Anyway, friggin jets man. I can't wait to start learning to trap on a carrier. But helos doesn't sound so bad...the Seahawks are getting pretty damn deadly.

Black Aces High is a good book...trust me. Really makes the case for the benefits of two seat FACs.

Yeah I've heard from a Prowler NFO that you need the NFO to tell whether or not the automated EW system is making sense...like if it picks up an SA-6 radar 250mi from the coast just after you take off...something's obviously wrong. I've also heard that radars are just so similar that telling...

aww..and you were doing so well kev. Bad kevin, no donut.