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That is pure genius... Perfectly legal, and yes, well played.

I think they'd be proud.. I chalk it up to a difference with this modern day war... I think our troops today fight with the same resolve as they did back in WWII. I think WWII ended up having much more universal national (and international)support than this war has. We were, for the most...

Scariest f**kup I had was on my first night flight... Got strapped in, got through the checklists, armed the seat, took off, went to the moa, completed the hop, got back into the landing pattern and after a few landings I noticed that I hadn't connected my upper koch fittings. For the...

He's accumulated them over a very very long, salty career. :D

I'm with those above... I wouldn't advertise that you are an American overseas... You can be patriotic and proud of where you came from without walking around waving an American flag and flaunting it.

Coincidentally, Boeing just shipped off their first order of the Nautilusliner. It can purportedly travel from San Francisco to Japan on just 20 gallons of peanut oil.

Jesus... do you live in little Harlem or something?

I'd focus on putting the past behind you, and busting your ass to get as high of grades as you possibly can at a four year university. It's ok (although not advisable) to have been young and stupid once, usually so long as it doesn't include things like DUIs, drug use, etc. If you were a...

I figured I'd share a good story I heard from a tour guide at the Seattle Museum of Flight about the Corsair below. It was a reserve aicraft stationed at NAS Sand Point in Seattle. During a formation flight, the aviator flying this corsair had a non-fatal midair with another aicraft, and...

-1 At least fill out your profile prior to attempting to have balls.

You need to do one thing here, STFU. Let me ask you something... Would you walk up to a LT or LTCDR and say something like this? If your answer is yes, you are out of your god damned mind and are about to have your titties stomped by the next O3+ that you decide to try and bitch out. If...

This stuff makes my blood boil. They'd better let these guys off the hook for this.

Sock? That's what I used my roommate's canteen for.

Search and spell checker are your friends.

This stuff really shouldn't be that impressive to a harrier guy.:D

There's nothing wrong with pissing yourself in ocs... so long as it's not in fright, but rather because they made you drank 4 cups of water in the chow hall and run around outside for 3 hours without a piss break...

Nice pics dude! You've got talent, either that or you have a really really nice camera.

Ok... I didn't even think for a second that it had ejection seats... Learn something new every day...

Sad stuff... Never seen this close up shot before, just the video. Any idea what that black spot is near the tip of the vertical stab?

What makes it even more impressive is that it looks like they're operating at a high density altitude up in the mountains... I'll bet they could really rock it out at sea level....

Yessir. You'll be allright though... Usually if you're 6' or taller you just have to fly with your head cocked to the side a bit unless you don't mind it resting on the canopy. From what I hear it's not too bad, it just makes figuring out the ILS needles a bit confusing when you're looking at...

Hmm. Well it was true when I was in Newport... Things must've changed.

Strong work brother. Like was said multiple times, we've all hit speed bumps/brick walls in training. As one of my favorite quotes goes: "A man's success is not measured by his ability to avoid failure, but rather by his ability to overcome it."

Good stuff. I'd echo the above. Mental preparation is the most important part. As far as ibuprofen, I popped those like they were skittles while at OCS. Your class should have a 'med-body' that should get the stuff for you starting a few weeks in. They usually come with cold packs, an...

Makes me wonder how in the hell CAPT John "Lites" Leenhouts managed to get 1,645 arrested landings... That is an insanely high number.

I'm guessing that the larger the exercise, the 'stuffier' the bridge?

Seems like the T-45 is designed, if anything, for short people. I'm 5'9" and I have to fly with the rudders all the way out; even then they feel too close. Every now and again you get in there and some assclown has adjusted the rudders to be full forward... Let's just say that an oompa loompa...

Your days of delivering palates of stale bread and wilted lettuce are over, sonny boy. :-)

I'll have you gentlemen know... I'm getting close... 990 left to go. Prepare the champagne.

F**king heroes.

Huggy you'll have to share some of your U2 experiences/stories with us if you get the time. I'd love to know what that flying is like. Are Naval Aviators able to do exchange tours in U2s by chance?

Another oddity of the Air Force is that they fly WITH their maintainance/gripe records, or the aircraft's 'book'. So if something was to happen to said aircraft, the book would burn up with it. Seems like the book would be somewhat important to mishap investigations, but what do I know?

Paul Levins can't die, especially from a motorcycle accident. He is all that is man. The only reason he would be in a motorcycle accident in the first place is if he was setting a trap for the inbound ambulance, in which case he would've snared, killed and eaten all response personnel when...

No kidding. I'm a huge advocate for the space program, but jesus... Multiple governments dumping billions upon billions of dollars into something that is going to destroy itself within a few short years of completion? I'd rather them spend more money and start building something permanent on...

Another bit on uniforms. Do not, under any circumstances buy more than the bare minimum for uniforms... It will be wasted money. You will gain weight after ocs if you are at all normal. Don't be that guy that shows up to API looking like a piece of sausage because his khakis are too tight...

Regardless, it's still funny to hear people calling in all heated.

I agree with the above sentiments... There however is a fine line between teaching someone how to use the whiz bang tools that come in many airplanes these days, and allowing them to rely on them. I think the truth is that most experienced aviators do 'rely' on all the high tech stuff to get...

Stumbled across this oldie but goodie. In the spirit of the debate about speeding tickets, I decided to post it. Not aviation related, but beyond f**king hilarious. http://www.street-lethal.com/funny/iroc.mp3 Rare21 would probably get a kick out of it.... :D

What the hell? I thought it was supposed to look like this:

So as long as i'm going over 100mph i'm in the clear? Outstanding, i'll have to try that next time i'm in that neck of the woods....:D

That cloak is complete badassery, possibly because you'd look like M. Bison from Streefighter...

That is complete and utter bullshit. I've been pulled over countless times for speeding (usually when driving cross country to next duty station) and always let out of it. My recipe for always getting out of a ticket is being completely respectable, and gently caressing the ego of said...

Using this logic, does an NFO retread then have to replace his NFO wings with his newly earned, superior NA wings? :D

They even have the same paint job.

Yeah. I'm not a rocket surgeon, but I think he meant seminar.

E6 drivers have the fattest logbooks in the Navy, or at least that's what i've heard time and time again. I'd guess that E2s would be a close second.

Congrats Ken.

Anyone have any educated speculation as to when this thing will hit the fleet?

I omitted the obvious ;)