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Like the Comanche right?  Too big to fail kind of thing?  Just a thought... I know that this will meet resistance here but what about the idea of a new jet that is affordable in greater numbers (yes, F/A-18E/F, I am looking at you) where we buy twice as many for much less than the currently...

For the original poster, try checking out some military wives blogs.  My wife has one and has gotten excellent reviews on it.  I won't post the link here (don't want the pee-pee slap) but if you would like the link, PM me.  Most of the wives who do this kind of thing use it as an emotional...

For my three units that I have been in as aircrew, the respective units have paid for a grand total of zero patches.  No 1000 hour patches, no unit patches, flt safety, name tags, nada.  Same goes for my former trade.  The only patches I have ever had paid for were my IR patches! HH

There is a drink out of Royal Canadian Air Force history that may interest you.  It is called the Sam's Special.  It originates from Centralia Ontario (my home town) from when it was an RCAF Station.  The local Cadets (student pilots) Mess Hall was run by Centralia Sam Aquilia (forgive my...

Na, I'll just keep paying the extra 8 bucks for each damn patch.  I can't see how pointing out regs to a SCWO could ever be worth more than going a few bucks in the hole and it should keep me off of the s#!t list for the most part! 

Haha Zoomie!  Try telling our SCWO that!!!  ;D

Supersonic Max, I am not sure that you are going to get any respect in these forums other than from other fighter types, but you guys are pretty good at patting each others well oiled backs anyways.  Not to say that you guys didn't do a good job for a few weeks at a time (kinda like a little...

Zoomie:  Just a Tac Hel guy busting your balls  :warstory: CDN Aviator:  Point taken.  I guess the BUFF can be considered combat from 50K ft.  I prefer 50ft personally  :fifty:

@ Zoomie: I didn't know that combat aircrew and heavy jets could go hand in hand!  >:D  ;D HH

Air Maintenance Supervisor AVN WO's and FE WO's will all become AMSups.  Not sure about AVS/ACS though.  The intent is to bring all maintenance and maintenance related trades on to the same page I believe.

Sr NCOs are yes.  But our flying positions are still the same.  Essentially once you hit WO, you become more of an administrator and tied more into the AVN world to bridge that gap.  That also comes with us downranking several positions.  ie. MCpls have become D/Lds of Flts and Sgts as Flt...

This, simply put, is not the case.  The Chief of Air Staff put out a memo in 2008 stating this and the case for FE's has only grown since.  The rumour was that with the retiring legacy fleets, the newer models would not need FEs so the trade would become defunct.  The C 17 and new C 130s do not...

FE's are qualified and authorized to do most of the things that a LM can do but no hybrid trade as has been discussed before.  The problem with a hybrid trade is that only FE's have maintenance experience, whereas AESOps and LMs do not necessarily have that background. HH

beenthere, I have a few issues with the argument you are trying to sell here.  Your mock scenarios are distorted and pedantic.  Lets try to stick to actual anecdotes.  Not fun little made up stories. This is a little bit ridiculous but I will play your silly game here.  The fact that you think...

So will the crews be headed to the US this winter or spring then to do the Foxtrot model conversion?  Any idea when the names of this mystery list will be announced?

And correction to my last: It was actually fourth hand rumours.  I learned this little nugget today.  I wouldn't have posted had I known it was that unreliable but it looks like sometimes the telephone game gets some tidbits correct though eh?  :nod: HH

I know of one, and only one, aircraft comd that said he would ask for "advice from the DG in the event of a crash".  ALL OTHERS - without fail - said in every crew brief the conditions under which we would land outside the wire and immediately following that the DG would direct the defence of...

Not sure how you can call this non-sense.  If you think that BSERE, ASERE (which way too many waivers were granted and most aircrew did not even have prior to deployment) and CAC - although very good courses - stack up against actual tours on the ground by Cbt Arms troops, than yes, you will...

Newest word (aka rumour as I am getting this info second hand): First two birds will be off the line in 2012.  A large crew (approx 100 troops) will be flight testing them in Arizona (I have no idea where Arizona came from but this is what I have heard) to include pilots, FEs and LMs. ...

Inverted, thanks for the post from down-under.  I have spoken with a few of the Aussie FE's overseas wrt the M134 mounting system before we mounted ours and their system did seem to work pretty well although when I told them how we operated with two FE's they were obviously partial to our system...