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Hah I thought I remembered they had that thing.... .....not that I ever look at that rotor trash stuff :p

There are US combat aircraft flying over AFG as we speak. I'm guessing it is a similar situation to what I experienced over Iraq in 2014 for about a month before we got approval to go kinetic against ISIS.....hands tied, just watching (bad) stuff happen.

Yeah I believe that is correct. Nobody got hurt/nothing got broken, but it was a startling end to a boring vul. I found my flight some new tasking elsewhere pretty quickly after that :)

Hah that reminds me of one day doing practice CAS (one of the absurdities of OEF at the time) for the dudes in Shank. A-10 is approaching their sim/dry roll-in or whatever they were doing, and all of a sudden gets lit up by the defensive guns. I guess someone forgot to turn that little guy off...

There were quite a few airfields around the country that could reasonably serve something like a C-17 if that is what you are asking. Bagram, Kandahar, and to a lesser extent, Bastion and Mazar-i-sharif, were the busiest with fixed wing (and obviously Kabul Intl). There were also a lot of random...

I think that era (and slightly newer) of British makes are all pretty horribly unreliable. I don't think that is as much the German problem, at least save a few years in the 90s when they were making wiring harnesses with "biodegradables". But when they do break, they are painful. People don't...

Funny, I know I've heard of other pom poms, but I'm pretty sure I cruised with the guy you are talking about. That was the exact story behind his callsign. We flew as wingmen on a memorable sparrow missile shoot in Tyndall in maybe 2012 as well. I remember he led us back into the overhead at...

Hell, Saudi Arabia just went ahead and published theirs on the world VFR charts. At least as I recall from planning a transit from USS ship in the AG to Jordan a number of years ago.

It's still a term. Not sure if I have ever needed to use it before.

This is absolute crazy town. How about $2200 off MSRP because the car isn't worth half that in reality? Idiots.

haha, I wish....poor grammar on my part

Same. I have a 1990 and a 2003, both also German made. Sold my 2008 (additional German car) in 2019 to make some garage space. That was the "fancy" car, along with its possible rod bearing failures and finicky electronics. The remaining cars are better that most anything on the road today, and...

I have no skydiving experience, nor do I know anything about the common gear used. For us, our gear was designed for water landings (or I should say overwater ejection), as is our survival training. Release the upper parachute fittings when you feel your boots hit the water. Is there not a way...

Does it come with the Allegiant patch where it blows an engine on each takeoff?

Fair enough :cool:

It's still here? o_O

^ Ooops by 314 I meant 312. And yeah, 232 swapped out with 323 a number of years ago for a few years.

VMFAT-101 had a long string of pretty cool looking show birds. First F/A-18 I ever flew was their brown+green camo F/A-18B. Pretty sure it has been retired from service for quite a few years now, but it was a cool looking jet. If I recall correctly, one of the wings wouldn't fold at the time :)...

Yeah was gonna guess them, but the 3 digit side number threw me off.....but I forgot they still had boat squadrons until recently.

Fancy paint job I believe. That's a US jet.