re: #48 eddiespaghetti

4 day work weeks for us military folks, glorious! 10 hours flight time per pilot max! (we usually average 20-25) The North Koreans are beating us right now (and they don’t even wear socks). I don’t see any change till the new fiscal in oct. Hell, many squadrons are shut down this next month, time to take some vacation. Some east coast squadrons are shut down for 2 months (and maybe more). This is the kind of sh@% we heard about in 91 with Riffs (forced reduction in forces). Hopefully it wont come to that.

Hopey f-n change indeed, 5 Billion to Acorn and the like for “community developement” to register Mickey Mouse and Michael Jordan ten times for a pack of smokes on da streets.

Oh well, I just got back, so I am happy to hang with the fam. The new guys are sucking though, you cant be a trained killer sitting on your ass for months at a time. Nothing to see here, just move along…

Hell, its all just one mans anecdote (no layers on layers of fact checking, or rigorous peer review)

Hell, just one mans idea: If we lock Representative Jack Murtha in the closet for a f-n week, we could train pilots, purchase more Raptors and suitcase this shit. Sorry for the rant…

this needs to be read twice: i remember when i couldn’t even get a windshield wiper funded for my Deuce…. then they decided he head gasket was leaking, so it went NMC. the eventual fix about a year later was when they transferred it to another unit, so they could carry it on their books.

/it may never have been fixed.