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Or someone has a little too much time on their hands

Yeah, then thats odd.

...or they were just shooting some touch and goes. The crew was getting some training. Very nice pics for whoever took them. 175 Radar is gone. The nipple was left on the radome because it would have costed more money to put another radome on the airplane.

The crew has received the Air Force Chief of Safety Aircrew of Distinction Award for 2008. You have got to be kidding me!!!

I guess if you pay less of what you promised you can buy more F-22s.

What Joe Leiberman said about the CBO is absolutely true. What he didn't say though is that the CBO doesnt spend their time studying cost changes unless CONGRESS, proposes a change. So, granted it isn't a bill ready to be voted on but just the fact that those figures are in the CBO report mean that someone in Washington has recommended the cuts.

My point to posting this was not to spark up a political bonfire. The words in the meat of the e-mail are not mine. It was simply to alert folks here that they need to pay attention to what is going on regarding thier benefits and to contact their representative if they don't like what they see. Our benefits have been eroded enough. Too many people sit back and complain about what the governement (both parties) is doing but don't participate in the process. The only voice you have is your vote and your communication with your elected representative. With lack of direction from thier constituents they are going to go on thier own beliefs and desires. Some probably don't even know what is in the bill they vote on. I know the process works because my Congressman, Chet Edwards, has already introduced a bill in the house to try and prevent the cost of Tricare skyrocketing. (H.R. 816)

Anybody seen this video of a J-model getting blown up in Iraq after an accident? I guess it mush be RAF. I hadn't heard of us losing any J-models. http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=184137&ESRC=airforce.nl After a 30 second search in Google I found this story. This is old but interesting nonetheless. http://www.f-16.net/news_article3220.html

I don't ever forward e-mails or post political messages but this is real and affects alot of us here on the board. I'm sorry the post is sort of long but in a nutshell our new President and his Congress want to raise the cost of Tricare for retirees. It seems there is a movement on from the new administration to screw some of us for serving our country. How quickly they forget that many of us when we joined the military were promised free medical care for us and our dependants for the rest of our life. Even Tricare is a breach of that promise, but now they want to mess with Tricare and Tricare for life, the military supplement to Medicare. Pass this to all retirees. TRICARE (REF ACTIVE DUTY 7 & RETIREES) (UNCLASSIFIED) The Assault Begins To All, this is for real. The heavy assault has begun on Veterans'/Retirees' benefits to pay for other programs. The word on the street is that these indeed are a high priority of the Obama administration. The one most of interest to Retired Military is in Article 189. If approved by Congress the first assault wave would hit the beaches in 2011 and would hit hard. It would initiate cost sharing to require retirees to pay the first $525 of medical cost and 50% of the next $4,725 for a first year cost of $2,888 per person. It would be indexed to increase with inflation. A reason given for this action (for PR effect) is "overuse" by Retirees. This will be a major increase for anyone using TRICARE related services, not just TRICARE for Life (TFL). There is a link below to the OMB report. Search for TRICARE and read 95, 96 and 97. They are out to increase cost for active duty, retirees not eligible for TFL and those using TFL. Please review and write your Congressional representatives. Also, please pass this to any retiree's you know. I love how cavalier the bean counters are when they state "minimum out of pocket expenses" and then they further state of the savings 22% would come from a reduced demandfor medical services, which said another way is that 78% of the savings would come from retirees!!! We need MOAA, VFW and AL all over this and soonest!! If you know of anyone who is Retired Military, please forward this on to them. I don't know how many of you partake of the Tri Care for Life program but here is a very interesting note on the subject. Seems as though our President has placed a priority on cutting it out of the budget as a means to provide funding for those things he promised during the campaign. In any case, on page 189 of the Congressional Budget Office report, (see the note below on how to get to that spot), there is a strong recommendation to eventually eliminate the program as it is too expensive? I would ask that you contact your elected officials and register your strong opposition to the elimination of this program. Just another move to slight those of us who dedicated much of our adult lives to the defense of our country? Thanks for listening. Heads-up from BGEN Bob Clements, USAF Ret (P38 Bob) The following has been added to the Congressional Budget Office Web Site http://www.cbo.gov/ a. Budget, Options, Volume 1: Health Care (http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=9925 For those who have never opened one of these web sites from OMB: 1. double click on the above URL 2. click on PDF 3. click on the binoculars 4. do a search for TFL

The plane that was lost was from the 62nd. The crash site was found and some remains were brought home. The son you talked to wasn\'t Phillip Stickney was it? His father came home in 1998 but wasn\'t properly identified until several years later. He was buried in the Arkansas Veteran\'s Cemetery on Memorial Day in 2004 after a perfectly timed flyover from a C-130E with a blue 62 stripe on the tail. I know this because of probably the strangest coincidence in my life. I was an FE in the 62nd in 2004. I wore a bracelet for a lot of years with the name SMSgt Philip Joseph Stickney engraved on it. The paper that came with the bracelet when I got it described the mission that you mentioned and how he was lost. I picked that one because he was a Herc sweaty. I had the honor of presenting that bracelet to his family at his burial. Weird huh?

I got mine last year. On the back, under ratings, it says \"Flight Engineer Turbopropeller Powered\" I\'m guessing they still differentiate.

I would ask A3V for a read.

I think they do count as FAA examiners for the purpose of that rule. Look over to the right side of the text box at the up and down thumbs. Don\'t know what they do either.

Pete, I don\'t have my AFI references right in front of me but there are provisions in there to fly FAA people on our aircraft for various reasons. We just did it with one of our other aircraft so we could get an STC. Did something change on the FAA side that doesn\'t allow them to do the check in a simulator now? Thats how Rob and I did ours last summer.

1EC-130H-1

Hmmm. I guess the Multiple Engine Power Loss/RPM Rollback procedure doesn\'t count. Does anybody actually fact check this crap before the drama queens are allowed to publish it. Great job by the crew though to do the right thing and save the day.

I was an FE there from 98-03.

I read the report today, very thorough, very interesting. I won\'t comment on it here because it is FOUO but I recommend that if you have access, to read the report before you jump to conclusions about crew experience, aircraft malfunctions... All of you active flyers should be pestering your safety guy to download it and brief it to the squadron ASAP. Thats what its there for and I\'m actually quite surprised that its release wasn\'t advertised to all of the Stan/Eval shops out there.

Linear Voltage Differential Transducer. They are connected to both the throttles and condition levers underneath the flight deck and relay position to the Digital Flight Data Recorder

Yep, 0500 used to be the old Big Safari test bed had a big D4 on the tail. Lots of Senior Scout time.

Selling my arse. You have to love our foriegn military sales program. We will give you $1.5 billion of you by $1.5 billion worth of our airplanes. Half that money will go in someones pocket and we will give them the damn planes anyway. Am I turning into a cynic?

Seems like it will be pretty hard to do a proper investigation of what caused the alleged four engine roll back when you blow up the airplane and cart it away. Engines, fluid samples and LRUs are only going to tell you so much.

Anybody have any more details on this or pictures maybe?

It isn\'t here now. Unless they have it hidden off in a hanger I haven\'t been in, but I doubt it. They must have gotten rid of it right after you saw it in 2006. I got here in November 2006 and I haven\'t ever seen it.

It doesn\'t fly great on two, thats my point, not at any significant gross weight anyway. It will cruise at a greatly reduced altitude for awhile but an approach on two can be extremely challenging, especially for crews who don\'t practice it and to my knowledge only AFSOC and AFMC practice it. Don\'t even think about going around, it won\'t work with -15s never mind -7s. Sure the Coasties shut two down for search ops but they don\'t land that way, for a reason. Lucky for them the two dead ones were not on the same side. The flight manual does allow for a cruise engine shutdown for an engine losing oil to allow for a restart at a later time for just such an occasion. All I\'m saying is that if I have a few gallons of oil left and the leak isnt to severe and the chance of a fire doesn\'t look that risky I\'m going to strongly recommend you restart the leaker for the approach/landing. I don\'t know what their particular situation was so I\'m not trying to second guess their logic. Cudos to them for bringing it home safe.