lol where do you get this crap? BTW israel owns all for air-air.

i've been on a board where the average age is 15-16 and i get more respect from them then I'm getting from you "adults".
What your saying when you bash Canadians is that you dont approve of our culture or who we are. The only conclusion that can be draw is that you dont want us around.

Thank you for being so mature and respectful.

Rob

that's a nice story.. tell it again...

Hahahahaha kilometers per hour hahahahahaha.

This thread was intended to be informative for someone wanting to join the military so from this point on, if you don't have something informative or constructive to post - then don't...

I gave what info I had.. then I joked about canada.. then we get this:

Oh grow up, learn when to drop it!

Just thought I'd quote this again since you guys appeared to have missed it. Any more OT posts in this thread will be deleted.

I know but the pissing matches have got to stop...it's not fair for someone to be uncomfortable enough around here to make them want to leave. I've been to some of the other messages boards and alot of the posts are people talking shit and are full of garbage. The reason why I decided to make HondaStyle my "home" is because it was different. Now I see this board getting to be like the others and I'm gonna do my best to see that it doesn't go any further. V8, I have nothing against you. If anything we have something in common being that we are both Air Force and if we ever met face-to-face I would be calling you "Sir" being that you outrank me but I'm asking you to please don't be so quick to jump on people's shit just to piss them off. It's not worth the time....yours or there's. Know what I mean?

One more and it's closed........

I wonder what the Coast Guard is like. Sometimes I wish I would have joined that.

I worked with someone that was in the Coast Guard before I came in the military...he worked down in Miami so it was mostly anti-drug-trafficing...he said it was pretty cool...

It would be tight as hell to get stationed in SoCal and being in the coast guard. How often are there storms out there, like never. Do they move around like the other branches or is it once you get to your first place thats where you stay?

I think they're more situated to their specific state/area...kinda like the National Guard....

Damn I shoulda went in the coast guard. I wonder if I can crossover from the Air Force.

Az you in the Air Force?

Yeah I'm stationed in Tucson at Davis-Monthan AFB, I'm a weather forecaster and I hate my job. Not the actual job but I guess its more that I hate where I work/who I work for.
What do you do?

You should be able to...only thing is you have to serve a minimum amount of time in your enlistment and then you can apply to go Palace Chase. You can look into it but I think you can apply for it and then if it's approved, you'll go Coast Guard (or any guard as a matter of fact) and be discharged from active duty. Look into it because I'm not 100% sure how it works....

I am a c130 navigator... not like those EC130s.. they don't do crap.. I do 10x the stuff they do.. I wish I was an EC130 nav..

Tight. At least you have a cool job and make alot of cash. Are you gonna retire from the Air Force? Are you gonna ever get a job with an airline? Where are you stationed?

I am in little rock until I go to north carolina.. I could go into airlines if I go to pilot training.. but flying is kicking my ass right now.. so pilot training will wait another year or so.. at least.. I will make it a career.. You weather guys crack me up though.. When I mission plan I ask you guys what winds we have.. a lot of times the weather guys here are kinda lazy and just tell me stuff like "northerly winds".. lol It actually makes my mission planning easier.

I wish I worked in one of the small weather stations. But I work in a damn Hub where everyone is anal and on the look out to **** you over. In the last year there have been about 5-7 people that have been kicked out of the military. I've had a stripe taken away cause someone didnt get the answer they wanted and thought I was trying to cover up something.

If you ever fly over to the western states we'll be doing the briefing for your trip back.

Yeah the key is getting approved, I dont think my chance of that is too good since I'm in a critically manned career field.

Really?? That sucks.. Yea they are pretty laid back even though AETC has a big representation here.. we do get decent weather briefings for tac missions though..

Yeah I hate this place with every ounce of my being.

Isn't the ICAO for where your at KLIT?

For little rock I think.. LRAFB is KLRF though

Oh yeah thats right. Arkansas huh? Hows that place?

Yea it sucks... armpit of the sound.. state can't decide whether it wants to be hot or cold.. I prefer cold... especially for tac missions.. heat sucks in the 130.

ooohhh, yeah. If you're in a critically manned career field, you're pretty much screwed. How much longer do you have in your enlistment??

Just under 3 years. Once thats done I'm going to finish getting my degree and either come back in as an officer in a medical career field(pharmacy) or see whats available on the outside. I feel like I've wasted the last 3 years of my life, since I haven't been able to get any college done.

So what do you do when you're not flying?

Whats your job and where are you stationed?

They fly me all the time almost.. right now when I am not flying I have ground training.. That is at least a break from flying. I got night flights next week.. NVGs gimme a headache. Other than that mission planning.. making charts.. but not much else..

So, you're a 6-year enlistee too, huh? Welcome to getting screwed over. Well, good luck with whatever you decide to do. I have a little less than a year and a half left in my enlistment and with all of this AEF shit going on, I don't think I'll be re-enlisting.....I don't really know what I'm gonna do yet. Guess I'll see how things go over the next year....

Oh, I always wondered. Do the pilots do the same? I used to want to try and be a pilot so I could eventually work in an airline but all that flying kinda turned me off to the idea. Plus I dont have much time til I reach the age cut off, and having to wear glasses is another hurdle I'd have to jump.

yup, when i enlisted I figured I was going to stay in for 20 anyway. Damn that was a huge mistake. The 7K$ was nice, well the 5k$ or so that actually went in my pocket. The military paying taxes what kinda damn sense does that make.

You can get waivers for everything... but yea everyone in the flying community flies an average of 3 days a week. Of course aircraft type will make the vary. If you fly high level tanker stuff it's not that big of a deal. I do 6 hour low level missions at 300AGL and it really sucks sometimes. I get headaches, dehydrated...a little sick sometimes (have not thrown up yet), plus I gotta stand up the whole time.. I would work for it if you wanted it..

300ft damn thats low. I would but I've lost interest, mainly because I'm married and my wife doesnt want me to be gone all the time even after the military with an airline.

I was told by MEPS (sp?) that my career field was only offered for a 6 year enlistment...yeah, that was bullshit...and on top of that, they didn't start offering an enlistment bonus in my career field until my 6th month of Tech School so of course I didn't get shit....oh well...and I know how you feel about the military paying taxes but that's a whole other story......

So, Whats the deal with taxes?...i thought you didn't pay or somethin...

I friggin wish!! Damn that would be so sweet. Actually we dont pay taxes on a small part of out income but its not that much of a help, a little, but not much.