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Think he's already taken over. "Steiner" has been gone a while, and his deputy should have rolled by now I think. Should put the Marine in office by now I think.

Best fighter squadron in my air wing hands down.

It's kind of like a car accident. It's ugly, but you look anyway.

WTF, are those guys not even wearing shirts with their dickies...I mean ascots?

You're looking at instant-onset G's in the neighborhood of 30 G's (or more) when the motor ignites, so there's no prospect of keeping your feet held out - your feet are coming backward. However, waiting on Airman Timmy to run over your foot with a tow tractor, nitrogen cart, or any similar...

^ Second that...you know it's bad when you reach that point of looking at your LES after taking a sh!tload of leave and think, "I STILL have use or lose left?"

The dome's overhead, so we usually don't get rain in the back. Push comes to shove we don't pull the hatch until just before doing into tension. At that point when the throttles go forward, there's enough propwash to keep any rain/water out. Same goes for recovery. Beats drowning any day...

Yes, launch and land onboard the ship w/ the CIC hatch pulled and stowed. If we launch/land and end up in the water, having the hatch out makes egress faster for the 3 guys in back. Has no effect on flight performance as far as the front end goes.

You talkin' about Bert? Good guy - met him a few mos. ago.

Moonraker - he wore a Seiko digital. Geeks of the world unite.

Right for lineup. Power...:eek: OK 3...nice pass:icon_smil Sixteen years of this has taught me that one job can't do it without the other. Yeah, some platforms are single seat, some are multi. The days of all single-seat airwings went away pre-WWII. Even if you're in a single-seat...

Don't laugh about the nickels thing - I know someone who's done it. Open pockets, change, and an ejection seat don't mix. Senior guy's comment afterward: "You know you don't have to feed these things to make 'em work, right?"

Well, as someone who's flown in three models (jet and prop, land and carrier), I could care less about a seat with a view. If it was about the view, I'd be in corporate America bucking for a corner office somewhere. I'm here to do this job. Now, as one who "rides in the tube of an E-2," I for...

What's more disturbing is that Steve actually HAS this pic to begin with...

They sneak in an ampersand on the 20/25 line. If you get it right, you get bonus points.

They didn't make you hold onto them or provide play-by-play fly-to points did they?

Yeah, the gate area is what got me thinking earlier. Nothing like eating up all that ramp space.

"We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude..."

Exactly.

It's because we don't have to worry about Mexico coming over the wall at us. Wait, did I just say that?

Ba dum bump... Thank you! Good night! Enjoy the veal! :D

Hope for your sake Kadena's diff now, but as of 2003 they were still douchebags.

^And when your loan is paid off, they automatically drop the monthly loan/ins payment down to match your insurance coverage premium. It's pretty pain-free.

Navy Mutual Aid isn't a bad deal. I've got an extra $100k coverage for $8.50 a month, and they don't care if you fly or if it's a war zone.

Actually it's listed in the Navy uniform manual right after "Service Dress Blue Yankee."

Funny - we refer to pilots as stick monkeys. Diff is that at least monkeys are slightly entertaining on occasion, although both are known to sling crap at random. It's probably your last line that has most of us up in arms. Back in my S-3 days (that'd be the "A" model before you kids got...

Touche, my one-way friend...

Yep, CA ANG flying from Channel Islands ANG Station (aka NAS Point Mugu) have the bright flourescent markings. They carry a pretty evil water/retardant tank in the back that they'd fly over and drop their load as a demo at the PM airshow. Pretty impressive.

If you're still flying w/ a -115, you're probably ok (although those magnetrons are old and possibly not that well-shielded). If you're flying w/ a -137...well, I'd find an x-ray chest vest to sit on. Me? I'll be duct taping steaks to the Hummer's dome. ALQ-99 - HAH! I pity the fool...

On the right side of Schnugg's 1st pic you can see the back of an E-2 stick bird from whence my boys had the courtesy to liberate the right rudder from the after half of the right vertical stab. Too bad, 'cause they had painted the CAEWWS logo full-size on the tail. Last time I saw it, it...

It's early. :D Our guys were pretty lackluster Monday, but finally Miami suffered more missed kicks than we did. Five years for a comeback...well, almost isn't a comeback at all. Let's hope they get their sh*t together before too late in the season. At least they helped Miami set a new...

Concur on that one...did the research and subsequently didn't bother.

Yeah, well, I noticed this long cord comin' from my house, then I noticed YOUR house, glowin' like the freakin' SUN. So I put two and two together and decided - you're pissin' me off.

I wear mine at the hangar sometimes (more often now in khakis on the shore tour), but I can't climb in/out of the plane without kicking my own a$$ and snagging the sleeve/leg of my bag on something. Can't imagine the hell it'd inflict on the leather jacket. Generally Nomex only on the boat for...

LOL - just don't ask if there's frequent-flyer miles or upgrades available. :D

Yeah, but you don't have to spend as much on our Trashy Hot Girls. :D

..."No, we changed our minds. We want to consolidate all OCS flavors in Pensacola." ..."No we changed our minds again. Now that we moved all the shoes down to P'cola, we'd rather have everybody in Newport now." ..."No, we changed our minds again...again. Nor'easters suck for training...

Would gladly trade the D-model back for turbofans, a lack of vibration, and a true phased-array system. CSA would have been such a good deal for VS/VQ/VAW/VRC had they been able to get their act together.

Because they suffer from over anticipation while jockeying for position for the EP Skipper likes golf: "Our department's gonna build a command golf course, guys." Extreme, yes. But you get the idea. :D

I don't know if I could make that leap of a comparison. The X-32 is/was a double-coyote-ugly beast. The Crusader was a righteous sex machine of a fighter in every sense of the word, looks included; same could be said for the A-7. The thought of that ugly-ass, guppy/hungry goldfish-looking...

And what the hell is a doer-bird anyway? At least the FO studs at 4 have a duck toting a martini (provided you make the extra trip to Wings to get the "old" patch). Then again I'm still not sure what the hell that whole gyro/life preserver looking thing on its chest was. Small consolation...

Points. Nice pic. Now if we could just fit ALL the O-4s w/ them...

Been there. Totally blew my 3rd VNAV in T-1's. Went off wind gouge from an earlier event vice visually estimating my winds on the route. Saw 1 (read: singular) point on the whole route. My instructor had mercy on me - looked at my previous flights (shacked them) and realized I'd just been a...

A buddy back out at Pt Mugu saw them about two months ago and said they're actually not bad at all.

Absolutely proper...had my wife pin mine on. It's nice to have your family involved. Sure beats the skipper pinning them on.

"I reckon I'll have me some of them french-fried potatoes, mmm hmm."

I'm convinced the bulk of the problems are from a string of idiots contracted by VDOT to make the loop around the I-64 / 264 interchange and make merging impossible for anyone not driving an armored vehicle (or a '82 4-door Caprice - kinda the same thing).

Oh, I'd read the rant(s) and knew she was a spouse/SO, but my point is that I don't show up on neuropsychology boards and spout off about sh*t I know nothing about simply because I've watched Sidney the head-shrinker on M*A*S*H or any other medical show/program in the past or seen a really cool...

Nah - don't read too much into it. Jax is really similar, but it's nice from the point that they love the military there, traffic is far better, the cost of living is much better, no snow, and lots of airspace.