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If you are a kid, you don't know what your parents are actually giving you. It may have been Vitamin D. Unless you were treated on a military base, they have no access to you medical records. There were three rules to a successful Air Force career. Deny, deny, deny.

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Buy a no load mutual fund with lots of options within the fund family with not restriction on moving among them. After going to many free dinner seminars, they all wanted between $900 and $45K to manage my money. No guarantees and if your investment get smaller, the rate goes up. None has...

Most potential USAF pilots think about becoming a pilot too late. Where do USAF pilots come from. The USAF prefers pilots to come from the AFA. If there are not enough from this source, they prefer AFROTC cadets. If there are still not enough to fill their needs, they open OTS. The ANG has a...

Many years ago, I had a friend flying Air Force Two ask me to check on his application at American Airlines. They would tell me nothing. Later I ran into a lady that used to work in pilot recruitment and she agreed to look him up and tell me his problem. She said "he doesn't have 53 points"...

Definition of an emergency: Loss of performance or control. Both are associated with this emergency.

1. T-38 Bird in left engine. Rolled back to 80% until shutdown after landing 2. C-123 J-85 failed to start for landing had bullet hole in it from ground fire. 3. C-123 blew jug on R-2800 shut it down. 4. KC-135 shelled out on takeoff out of Hickam AFB 5. KC-135 water injection flooded...

FBO vending machines snacks with free bottled water was our fare last week passing through KFMN. Good low level view of the city as I gained 100 feet in the first mile; Density altitude.

Fixed the venturi, nozzle, and floats this annual. $550 parts $165 labor.

A suggested squadron motto "No Fly: No Die"

When ever I see an oriental tramp stamp on a girl above her butt crack, I tell her that I was trained in the USAF to read them and it says "Warning wrong side"

I would suggest not forming a partnership rather have one owner and up to three expense share partners. Make each partner pay 1/4 of payment, hangar, insurance, and a per hour maintenance reserve all payable to the owner. All are on a 30 day agreement; the owner can boot them or they can quit...

We did not attend this year. Instead we went to Arlington WA KAWO for the AYA convention. We will probably return to KOSH next year.