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Looking forward to it. Should be a great show.

SAFETY VIOLATORS!!!!!!

Do Ospreys use the fixed wing or rotary wing drouge for refueling?

Grab rags, IIIIIIIIIDDDDDIIIOOOOOTTTT!!!

We shall see. I was born at night.....but it wasn't last night.

You are either the unluckiest person ever to randomly pick an avatar, or you're trolling us. Which is it?

Ok. Having read it, and as stupid and unoriginal as it is, I understand the part about the DUI checkpoints. That was actually a smartass remark from the CoS basically giving "intel" that in addition to all of the city/county/state DUI checkpoints that are out there, guess what.....there are four...

Dude.......you have no idea. My kid was awesome (of course), but the other 80% of this is like listening to a cat getting a prostate exam. This is all while my wife is giving me the stink eye for "doing work emails" during the concert. If she only knew..... Looking forward to seeing the...

Send it to me now. It's not like I'm ever away from my email. I'm sitting in a middle school band concert right now, so it couldn't get much more painful. Wishing I always carried earplugs, but I don't. I guess that makes me a...... SAFETY VIOLATOR!!!!!!!!!

First I've heard of this. Last time I checked PMO worked for me. If 3D MAW is indeed saying this, they're out of their lane. The part about the whole chain of command hauling their asses out to Miramar, yeah.......MWSS was waaaaaayyyy ahead of that curve. Ask me how I know.

I'm not sure if "it" ever started. It's just something that I decided to do when I made 1stLt and had an extra silver dollar laying around, and kept it going. No big deal. When I made Captain there were two Marines walking out of the seven day store. The first gaffed me off, but the second one...

Far be it from me to stop an Attack Pilot from bashing a fighter pilots male secretary, but I'll stick up for R1 on this. Although none of the guys that I graduated AOCS with used a dollar bill for our first salutes (as well as all the other ones I've done since then) we used just "regular old"...

Check local pawn shops. I do the first salute thing (informally, just whoever happens to salute me first) each time I get promoted. I had a hard time finding them, too. Pawn shops worked.

So you're telling me that you knowingly flew with an iPad before NAVAIR had fully tested and signed off on them? What about rapid decompression? What about G forces?? What about THE CHILDREN?!?! OOOOHHHH THE HUMANITY!!!! Oh, and by the way....... SAFETY VIOLATOR!!!!!!!!!

How much did that horseshit cost? Has it been sled tested? Thanks, NAVAIR. Way to keep your eye on the ball.

Why do you hate women?

I waited off the coast of NC to offload the six pregnancies of our ship prior to going OIF 1. Had a Marine give birth three months after I got home from OIF 6-08. Had a pregnant Marine stand before me at Office Hours after OEF. I actually let her sit during the proceedings. It happens. A...

Now that was just rude. Come on, man!

Dude.....

I think we've seen enough here.

Thank God that problem is solved. Why didn't somebody think of this before? Surely this will fix it. If not, I say we pass it down to our NCOs for some small unit leadership.

There was no gun on the T-2 either (at least when I flew it....supposedly they had them way back in the day). The gun pattern was less about shooting and more about maneuvering and developing dynamic three dimensional SA.

We didn't have to do that in VT-23, but we enjoyed watching the guys in VT-19 have to do it. Über stupid, I thought. I also remember that it was 16 degrees nose up, 70 degrees AOB, and a 3G pull coming past the tractor to set up for a good reversal. Do they even do the gun pattern anymore?

I appreciate the effort, but the copyright was from 2008. COPYRIGHT VIOLATOR!!!!!!!

And all is right with the world!

Completely agree. It's tedious and painful to have to listen to people insist that they aren't, and can never be, replaced by increased technology.

I'm going to have stick up for our assault support brethren here. I'm betting that at least half of them, and probably 90% of their WTIs would know what a ZSU-23-4 is. Some of them could even tell you the characteristics and appropriate threat reaction. It's not all map folding and dropping...

Only if it were on a treadmill.

You'll get TS-SCI at the FRS.

If the canopy seal is inflated, you can't physically open the canopy. It's controlled by weight on wheels. When you feel the pressure after takeoff, you know that you can raise the gear. It's been so long since I've flown anything else (besides the C-12 and F-5), I can't remember how other...

It's 50 feet away, nosewheel to nosewheel. I've never gotten any Avi or OBOGS issues from the heat or exhaust, which is what cracked me up about the OBOGS issues in the Hornet that are supposedly caused by exhaust fumes at the catapult. Doesn't stand to reason after seeing what our OBOGS...

I think they're all Chiefs and Warrants.

Having done it, the only advantage seems to be to keep from getting blown over. Probably just "the way it's always been done" though.

It could always be worse. Did you ever have to PT with the tailhook? SUUUUUUUUUUCKS!!

Yes. No. This kind of thing is cyclic over there. Ups and downs. Nothing gets "swept under the rug" there. Every ARI is a flag briefable event. Nothing new. I will offer this for consideration: 1) If you treat people like children, they'll act like children 2) If you treat people like...

How, exactly, do you plan to enforce that? Remember, the TAD E-3 already ignored the rules about drunkenness, rape, etc. Why would he care about your arbitrary drinking curfew?

I agree. They keep moving down from New York. The gay ones came from California.

Do you think that they are capable of this kind of compromise? I don't. I think that a large percentage of their population would agree to that, but the political base, the Muslim extremists, (and therefore their leadership) are basically irrational and would never go for anything short of the...

I was speaking in general terms. I agree that Israel can't afford to be the aggressor at this point, but the Arab world, particularly Palestine and their more extremist backers, need to get it through their skulls that the best they can hope for on a direct action tack is to tie the Israelis...

With spineless leadership, you are correct. By "in this context", do you mean the Israel/Palestine conflict, or the ill-named Global War on Terror? At some point though, it's going to occur to even the most squeamish amongst us that we either need to take the fight to a decisive point, or...

Well put, and I agree. I guess what I was trying to say was that it's ok to make a point if used very sparingly and in an environment where everybody knows the person that caused the group pain, like in entry level training. I remember it working well my freshman year in that regard. If a...

I was speaking in general terms, not just this conflict. There are those that believe anything more than limited armed conflict with a diplomatic conclusion is on par with ethnic cleansing or the holocaust. Total, unlimited war is a potential COA, and should not be disregarded just because...

There is a difference between genocide and total war.

I make decisions at my own level......while acting like a LCpl.

I do see your point, understand it, and see your reasoning. I just don't see much difference in the curfew and forbidding booze completely. I don't think that either will really work on the island-wide scale. I actually do believe that "group punishment" can be effective in that it encourages...

This is the essence of the new leadership style being discussed earlier; Colonel (or lower) decisions are being made at the 3 star level, and too late to do any good. All for political considerations. And this is a simple and generally unimportant issue. The complex and important issues are...

Either way (restricting liberty or alcohol).....it won't work. Having lived there, I can't imagine how they could even attempt to keep servicemembers from drinking off base. Aside from just issuing a (guaranteed to be widely ignored) order to not drink, go to bars, eat anywhere that sells...

First of all, that was a smart ass remark about 1945. Just a joke basically, but the fact is that we will determine when we leave Okinawa, not them. There are around 50,000 Americans stationed in Okinawa, about 30,000 of them troops. Of them, a very small percentage are bad (rapists, thieves...

It's not a novel idea by any means. This happens about every six months. It doesn't work. By the way, the Japs get hooted up and run around like crazy people sometimes, too. It's just that nobody cares. If they wanted us gone, they should have fought harder in 1945.

There are also multiple times the number of personnel in Oki compared to squadrons transiting places like Souda. I deployed there, and I was stationed there for a year. The place is hyper sensitive to all buffoonery. Much more so than most other places. It's just simply a numbers game in...