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So true! I was commuting home last trip. I barely had time to get all my electronic toys out before I had to put them all away again. Back to a 3 hour commute, all off line......unless I want to do 2 legs.

What a moron..........must have been all the Jeremiah Weed, in my youth. Every fighter sq had a bottle in the freezer. I used to call it liquid stupid:o

Enjoy dinner my friend!

Ferd

Yes, but don't you do one commute a month for the 12 day trips up there? Is that hard, one commute a month?

Ferd149

11-30-2011 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg (Post 1094284)

Yes, but don't you do one commute a month for the 12 day trips up there? Is that hard, one commute a month?

Very true........But I'm a professional (and world class) whinner:D

Seriously, I'm looking forward to the jet and the trips. But my LAX commute was the sweetest I've ever had:cool: Sorry to see it go.

Ferd

JungleBus

11-30-2011 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 1094192)

Are the ceilings that high on a modern carrier? I've only been on the Intrepid and Kennedy.

That particular scene didn't take place on the carrier, it was in base ops at Miramar...after Mav buzzed the tower :cool::D.

PilotFrog

11-30-2011 10:10 PM

I did a walk around in Grand Forks, ND and the ambient temperature was -48 with WC it was -58, a light wind day. HYD froze in the tail, no flight. It isn't just the cold, it is also the dryness of the air. But trucking around water for $150K a year doesn't sound so bad.

FrankCobretti

12-01-2011 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Jesse (Post 1094281)

In my 20 years, the last thing the military ever took into consideration was stewardship of tax-payer dollars. That's not to say they didn't care about the costs; they didn't want to go over their yearly budgets, but when it came to whether or not something made sense or not, there was never a thought about actually saving the money and not spending it.

We in the Reserves are very concerned about becoming the "low-hanging fruit" in any round of budget cuts. Thus, we're hard over on efficiencies and never want to be seen as money-wasters (which we aren't - we provide incredible bang for the buck). That said, our direction is to fly the missions we're tasked. If it works out that we fall short of our flight-hour budgets, report the truth. If someone higher reduces our funding next year, the combatant commanders will ensure that we get our plus-ups if we need them.

DeadHead

12-01-2011 03:03 AM

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Originally Posted by TenYearsGone (Post 1094282)

Normally, I would agree with you, but the food at the Crowne in St. Paul is excellent, cheap and BIG.

Ten

+1 Avoided that place for a while, but grabbed a $12.00 (After Discount) Steak Dinner and was pleasantly surprised. It sure beat the $20 Cobb salad I had over in SJC the night earlier.

I usually happy with most layovers, but I think the contractual obligation to always put us downtown on a long layover doesn't always need to be honored. On some of the layovers, the short layover hotels actually have more options and at better prices than the long layover hotels. Kind of like what they do in DTW for a long layover.

forgot to bid

12-01-2011 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1094174)

Any of you guys remember the number of that truck driving school?

http://lh4.ggpht.com/-f_aHWb8ZElk/Ts...jpg?imgmax=800

Most appropriate on topic Top Gun pic post ever.

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Originally Posted by DeadHead (Post 1094405)

Amen. You hate passing commercialized areas with tons of shopping and restaurants to go to one of the many dead downtowns. It's frustrating. Sure we want downtown New York, SFO, BOS, ORD, BNA, OMA but we can skip so many others for something safer and cheaper.

DeadHead

12-01-2011 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by 80ktsClamp (Post 1094174)

Any of you guys remember the number of that truck driving school?

http://lh4.ggpht.com/-f_aHWb8ZElk/Ts...jpg?imgmax=800

Flying rubber dog crap out of Hong Kong is actually starting to look like a step up.

acl65pilot

12-01-2011 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DeadHead (Post 1094420)

Flying rubber dog crap out of Hong Kong is actually starting to look like a step up.

True. Sadly.