Until your dad’s an O-3 and you get in trouble for ‘corrupting’ the bird’s daughter.

Air Force brat here. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

How has nobody posted this yet?

I’ve got tickets to see him and Steely Dan next weekend - love me some Elvis!

I don’t agree with a lot of the shit that’s come out of Bono’s mouth, but I used to respect him for having an opinion, and trying to make a difference. That all stopped in ‘06, when they incorporated in The Netherlands, to avoid “excessive taxation” in Ireland. So... let me get this straight... you campaign for all…

Early Metallica = metal. Crue at that time = glam metal a couple of steps harder than Cinderella

penultimate: adjective; next to the last (dictionary.com)

The guy in the truck wasn’t hurting anybody, taking extra space in the back of a mostly empty parking lot. He did the exact same thing as the Bimmer, he just didn’t do it early enough in the day. People in shitty trucks deserve the opportunity to take up two spots, to make sure that their doors aren’t dinged too!

You. I like you. There are a couple of things worse than starting to pull into a parking spot and finding a bike all the way toward the front, but I can’t think of them right off the top of my head. You deserve a medal.

Yeah, and look at the incredible longevity of that platform too. 27 years.

Didn’t you hear the man? Nothing. Not even that.

Not trying to minimize the danger in the slightest, but on CV-61 WestPac 91, the number of bolters caused by hookskips was minimal; less than 10% IIRC. We had our own set of problems - the 14 drivers kept lining up too far to the starboard, and before we’d even transited the IO they’d taken out all of the A-6 radomes…

We called it washout.

Don’t know about current boats, but.... on CV-61 (Ranger), on the centerline (and a foot or so on each side) there was a leaf spring that held the wires an inch or so off the deck. Additionally, when the hook and gear are both down with weight off wheels, the hook extended further down than the main gear. Once weight…

Do you have a source for the Tornado information? Everything I’ve ever seen said that RAF provided only the base, and no airborne assets. In addition, Italy specifically sided with the French and Spanish, in not allowing “allied” assets access.

I’m not sure that 3 (in the original article) really qualifies as “many”. Also, the comment you were specifically replying to was specifically about football, with specific football players named in it. You specifically replied to a comment about football, misread the context, and turned it into a baseball comment:

Ummmm...... there’s no gentle way to say this, so I’m just gonna throw it out there. You know the whole conversation is about football, right? No pitcher, no catcher, no bats with (or without) cork centers.

We were affiliated with the embassy over there, and were able to buy American liquors at the military bases. We’d give a fifth as a gift to the locals - they loved them. I didn’t see any “bourbon” over there, but we only got up to Germany/Austria a couple of times, and we were in it for the beer up there.

Jacques Daniels is very expensive in Italy. A fifth will run you around 60 euros... in a place where you can get 3 bottles of wine for 2 euros.

You and I are on the opposite sides of this issue, and neither of us will convince the other. I can tell you categorically though, that McSally isn’t just pandering. She flew the A-10 in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan - it’s very rare (almost unheard of) for someone to vote against the continued usage of a weapon…