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I have 3. Well, one long barrel and two carbine, one of which was given to me by an uncle who brought it back from Vietnam (I assume it was chinese made). If you live on the west coast it seems like "Big 5" constantly has them on sale. I believe my dad bought one of the three for less than a...

I was a middie many moons ago, but my unit let take two weeks of leave after getting off the ship before flying home. I had it coordinated before the school year was even out. I wandered all over Norway and Sweden and the Navy paid for the ticket home all the same.

Honestly, you don't need beyond an 8th grade math ability. There really isn't any fancy math involved unless you want to build airplanes. It does help, however, to be able to do math quickly. Also, a good short term memory helps as well, you will constantly be reading back numbers for...

I just read way more than I ever cared to about the case. You are right and I am wrong about the temperature at which coffee should be served. Reasons that swayed the jury to favor her included -700 previous burn cases with lawsuits and claims settled against mcdonald's for $500,000 -It was...

There are foreign instructors with the Hornet FRS. They are usually given the opportunity to go to the boat and get their "10 and 6" (ten day traps and 6 night traps). However, I have never heard of a foreigner going to a fleet squadron. We DO send USAF pilots to the boat on exchange tours...

...for our shells leaving depleted uranium in their desert. This Kuwaiti environmental group also wants to sue the US for stirring up the desert as we removed the oppressor from their border in '03. Believe me, they trash their own desert; the concept of not throwing trash out of your car is...

CDOG is right. One point that needs to be made clear is that Mcdonalds 180 degree coffee is ludicrously hot. Nobody can drink coffee that hot. Mcdonalds brewed it that hot so that it stayed warmer longer than its competitors. As somebody who routinely spills coffee on himself while driving...

2 of my peers are furloughed United pilots and one of them says the same thing. He was looking forward to going back when things were looking up for them not too long ago; now even his seniority over about a thousand pilots won't save him as United shelves 100 aircraft.

Here is an update to this horrible story. As the father of a toddler I can't even imagine... http://www.modbee.com/local/story/331286.html

:watching2 These jobs are all about word of mouth and who you know.

Victory the old fashioned way (from Conan's mouth, but originally paraphrased from Ghengis Khan): "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women." If you want a good read on how we (the US) botched one of the biggest vicotries of our...

For hot pleasantly plump kitchen queens, it's Nigella Lawson for the win:

SMA? What is that for? Military? Generic for all studs now?

Hellcat, without a doubt. Much like the hornet today, it was forgivable, handled well, relatively easy behind the boat, tough, versatile, and maneuverable if somewhat on the slower end for fighters of the day. With more than 5,000 kills it had more than twice as many as the corsair or any...

We had a venezualan IP check into VT-9 as I was leaving the squadron a decade ago. I wonder if that exchange is still occuring? :eek:

Wow! Makes me glad I am flying hornets again. Not to many passengers to deal with.

What is this about registering guns? I grew up in California and had firearms all my life. I never registered anything unless I did so automatically with a new purchase. So when I inheirit my father's 70+ collection I'm supposed to register them?

When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know. I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I'd forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it. A man...

All great choices. I would prefer the A-7 or A-4 as they are most closely related to my experience as an FA-18 guy. F-4 or F-8 would be attractive for the air-to-air opportunities, but weren't those planes tough to land at the boat.

Hey, never said I couldn't do it; just that it is a good man skill to have. Come to think of it, I am a little rusty. Pictures might help. :D

I would add... 76. How to quickly and smoothly unfasten a bra with one hand, without looking, even the front fastener kind.

Tickle, A question, and an observation. Why the resignation? That seems like a pretty dramatic step when one can just quietly separate. Did you really "resign"? And... You know the prowler community has really taken it on the chin for IAs. I guess you were in for that. I would...

But... On the plus side you won't have CO's being graded with maintenance performance as the biggest metric. I always hated that aspect of the air wing - taking sub standard (meaning I'll get it off the flight deck but it won't really be useful for a mission) aircraft flying just so you can...

Usually, nothing extra. It's easy to get complacent. For OEF and OIF however, I put a lot of thought into it. I had an extra radio, a prc-90, an extra gps, some extra water, a good knife - one that was sturdy enough to dig with and dark so it wouldn't give away a reflection, and lastly...

If thats what it takes to get pulled out of the water... I think I'll swim to shore.

Saber rattling. When you start to see 7 or so aircraft carriers at sea at once then you know something is going down. I don't think the joint chiefs would seriously consider a ground war in Iran at this point. There could be tactical punishing strikes, and we could even roll back their...

HeyJoe's sea harrier thread got me to wondering (and I didn't want to threadjack). I have long since lost touch with friends who went off to fly it. What's the word in that community; is it gonna be around for awhile?

Yup. It can't hold a candle to the rest of california. It's a great location from the Navy's point of view; No "Citizens Against Jet Noise" out there. It was fine for me the 4 years I spent there. Once you get a wife and kids life is pretty much 90% the same no matter where you live. And if...

Remember that wobble up at altitude too. It kind of had this slow oscillation like a drunk on a barstool.

Careful A4's... They might try to get back at you through your pension for that comment. Oh wait...

Not to mention the DOS like ancient system for recording flight data - NALCOMIS; our logbooks are still handwritten or at best differently recorded by each squadron, and don't get me started on NMCI. Ya know, I work for a civilian company now and all of our admin is modern, user friendly...

And Wally's new callsign when he arrived at VFA-122 was... "Jacket".

You really shouldn't compare us to other cultures. The US is definitely more uptight and the greater part of our society is not ready for mixed gender/sexual preference berthing. I spent three weeks on a norwegian torpedo boat that had a male and female sharing the stateroom across from mine...

:icon_rage This website is going to ruin a lot of the fun to be had with new guys.

That's exactly what I have said and why it would be a double standard. Why do we separates male and females in the first place when it comes to bathrooms and berthing? Surely, we are all mature adults who can control ourselves and our sexual urges while sharing facilities. Right? Well the...

Yes. Muchas Gracias.

Jesus jt71582, change your frickin avatar! You are going to give me nightmares.

So much hate'n on the dinner dress. My only experience wearing them was at the hornet balls. It seemed like just about every fleet dude had them. Only the Rag students were more likely to wear SDBs. I really wish I had bought them earlier, for my wedding. I didn't even want a military...

My first choice was the foreign exchange tour. I always wanted to do switzerland, spain or australia. The only one my timing worked for was spain, c'est la vie.

I seem to have a knack for saying the wrong thing So, I am out on my way to dinner with my new boss tonight. He is an ex-marine pilot and we are swapping stories. At one point it comes up about past job assignments. I tell him how I really enjoyed being a rag instructor, but it was not my...

Well, I went through advanced in '99, and I did quite a few fams with him -he was a new IP then. So that would be 9 years now. He's gotta be a commander by now right?

Good for Rosco. He was also former war party and my on-wing when I started advanced. Well worth the time.

Also in the news, Delta is cutting 2000 (non-pilot) jobs. United is looking to make cuts also.

Just in the past year there have been two big 100 car pile ups in Fresno (about 40 mins from Lemoore).

Me and the fam will be living for a period in the gulf... No, not down the street from the flora-bama - not that gulf. The [I]other[I] one. Every handful of months I will be able to take a nice vacation somewhere. The catch is, I have a gaggle of young'ns, including one still in diapers...

It's a good idea. However, I will never use them. I would worry about my letter leaking all over the other mail in my mailbox.

Yeah, and the next time I see some clown around town with a Raiders hat or Jersey on I am going up to them and tell them that they are not really on the team and should not be wearing that. Me,personally, I never wear anything with which I do not have a personal affiliation. I won't...

Don't worry, our good friend Nancy Pelosi is looking into this. She always has the best interests of the military at heart.

This is a problem the rest of you "normals" will never understand. Why can't you just leave us pretty people alone.

Too bad they don't have a hornet shoot it down. The hornet can do anything and everything (waiting for you Nose :D). I watched hornets bring down 15 mi diameter space ships in independence day, this satellite is toast.