drink on duke. have a few for me while you are at it.

10/2/2008 4:48:58 PM

AF girls are usually the hottest.

i, too, was in the U.S. military

10/2/2008 4:50:17 PM

I really thought I was gonna see a picture of Duke doing sand art

10/2/2008 4:50:43 PM

who cares who bought the beer? I don't mind a few of my tax dollars going towards refreshments to our military, who deserve it. God knows this country wastes enough money on other stuff.

GO USAF!

I wish they wouldn't have kicked me out

10/2/2008 4:56:01 PM

Drink on dude. You deserve the beer.

paerabol nailed it.

[Edited on October 2, 2008 at 5:01 PM. Reason : /]

10/2/2008 5:00:52 PM

.

[Edited on October 2, 2008 at 5:11 PM. Reason : oops, other people posted]

10/2/2008 5:11:16 PM

duke,

are you content with being an ECMO? what's it like anyway

10/2/2008 5:16:33 PM

Quote :

"jesus christ, even if that .0000000001 of a cent of my taxed income went toward duke's beer, hell i think he's earned it. i'll buy him another one, full price. our government burns a lot more of our tax money on more frivolous things than brew for our soldiers."

You're right!

Quote :

"i probably used about $100-150k worth of jet fuel in the last week, and probably at LEAST $40k (not to mention the other operating costs associated with flying a 25-30 year old warplane halfway around the world) in the 6.5 hours"

[Edited on October 2, 2008 at 5:27 PM. Reason : .]

10/2/2008 5:27:15 PM

^^

ummm...content? No. It's not ultimately what I want to do. I don't want to continue being an NFO in the long run, and I don't really want to stay in the Prowler community in the long run. I'd like to be an F-35/Harrier/Hornet pilot, although I don't know if I'd have the g-tolerance for it (I have very poor tolerance for pulling "g". I think it's because my blood px is REALLY low). I wouldn't mind being a Cobra pilot, though.

that said, i do enjoy it, and i apply myself into both bettering myself as an aviator and learning all of the nerdy tactical stuff.


what's it like? i don't even know where to start answering that...give me a little more of a focused direction to direct my answer(s).

[Edited on October 3, 2008 at 9:59 AM. Reason : having a Prowler background would be helpful for any tactical aviator, in my opinion.]

10/3/2008 9:54:57 AM

10/3/2008 9:56:58 AM

freakin pilots.

Last night I waited 4 hours for some UH-60s to show up so we could conduct cold load training for 30 minutes.

Afterwards I came back to my room and drank room temperature water.

I share my jail-cell size room with 2 other soldiers and an Iraqi.

more power to you

10/3/2008 10:07:46 AM

i share a room with another aviator

we have hyperchlorinated room temperature water, too. it sits on pallets everywhere outside, so the bottles are always covered in sand, too.

and yeah, i've heard of our guys getting up in the middle of the night, showing up to brief 2-3 hours prior to takeoff...getting suited up with g-suit, parachute harness, huge survival vest, leg straps, helmet...starting the jet up (which requires an effort from maintainance and ground crew), flying out to where the operation is supposed to take place, then checking in on the radio with the JTAC only to find out that the mission got cancelled and the word never got to us...so unless someone can task them with something on the fly, they fly back home, land, get out of their gear, debrief maintainance, debrief intel (prob pretty quick in this case, since nothing happened), debrief as a crew, and then go about their normal day's work. that stupid shit definitely happens in both directions.

you know what, though, man? we both have rooms, not tents or worse. we have water in bottles, not canteens filled from a tank pulled behind a 7-ton. We are sitting here on the fucking internet. things could be much, much worse.

[Edited on October 3, 2008 at 10:23 AM. Reason : asdfads]

[Edited on October 3, 2008 at 10:26 AM. Reason : although i am getting tired of having a layer of sand on everything]

10/3/2008 10:22:15 AM

hell yeah dude I was just busting balls.

10/3/2008 11:52:09 AM