Dover is a wonderful place isn't it?

Oh that's why I haven't seen you around

I check foxtrotalpha everyday when I get home too

I've tried finding you in the squadron but I usually just hang around in the training office

I was waiting for you to show up

All Hail the Mighty Katana!

Yes, us yougins who never got to fly -37s or -44s or anything besides a -6 or -1

That is Travis, and it's one of the two KC-10 bases, so it makes sense that a lot of them are there

The new engines are pretty quiet, we don't screech like a pterodactyl anymore, but I always know when one of the jets that hasn't been upgraded is around by that noise

I love my crew chiefs and maintainers, I can't get anywhere without them!

We still get them, just rarely

C-5M pilot here. It's an awesome jet and flies great. And with the M upgrades it feels like the T-1 trainer aircraft we fly in UPT, especially in the landing and takeoff phase. As for the maintenance issues, it's my opinion that, as you stated, there are very few of them, so there are very few maintenance capable…

C-5M Pilot here, it's an awesome jet. The upgrades make it takeoff and land, at least in feeling, to the T-1 trainer aircraft that we all fly before getting heavies. I think our reliability rates are low because, as you said, there are very few of them out there, and so very few maintenance capable bases that also…

We don't have ejection seats in the C-5

It's probably the same pallet footprint, but you can't stack them as high, they'll have to be shaped, the KC-10 can carry a similar amount of pallets through it's side door but only certain shapes

Everything is graded, tests, flights, how your classmates like you, how the instructors like you, and then that all goes into a math formula. A list of some 20 jets gets published as what's available to each class, in a this-jet-at-specific-base format, and each student ranks those choices 1-20, and based upon their…

The former base in Lubbock looks strange from the air, it had the same runway layout as all the other pilot training bases of several parallel runways, and you can still mostly see the runways and taxiways, but now there are buildings and windmills on it, which is just a little eerie to those of us at a pilot training…

Yeah, cause in the books it talked about how in larger barracks the curvature would prevent you from seeing the end racks from the door.

My most common tag is tehllama, or variations thereof, which was spawned when I was a young teen that had just been introduced to the internet and Monty Pythons Flying Circus at the same time. My favorite skit was the one about the dangers of llamas, and when typing I commonly would spell the as teh, this as tihs,…