KyiMk2 Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Been in the SF community since 1997 off an on, back for awhile I suppose. Ran Starfox.org in various guises, most of them died off because of a lack of motivation on my part.I Kinda drifted off when I went into the Air Force, and I vanished off the radar entirely when I got married. Still in the AF and happily married, but miss the old SF stuff I suppose.Cya around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 fly any raptors?welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainfyre66 Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Welcome to SFO, and back to the SF community! I hope you enjoy your return :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asper Sarnoff Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Welcome here to SF-O. Hope to see you around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyiMk2 Posted November 28, 2009 Author Share Posted November 28, 2009 Thanks,And no raptors, my butt is firmly on the ground, I don't even touch planes XD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 so your in the air force yet your a foot soilder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asper Sarnoff Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 so your in the air force yet your a foot soilder?A lot of ground personel is required to keep the fancy machines in the air Kursed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caat01 Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Been in the SF community since 1997 off an on, back for awhile I suppose. Ran Starfox.org in various guises, most of them died off because of a lack of motivation on my part.I Kinda drifted off when I went into the Air Force, and I vanished off the radar entirely when I got married. Still in the AF and happily married, but miss the old SF stuff I suppose.Cya around.welcome I'm new here too I hope you enjoy the page, there are very good people here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyiMk2 Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 Naw not a foot soldier, the Air Force has nothing like that except perhaps security forces, and they are only supposed to protect the base and be the air force equivalent of MP's. We have career fields that see combat, often when tasked to serve with the army, and they can be odd ones. For instance truck drivers and heavy equipment operators get tasked to do convoys, and EOD (Bomb Squad) is tasked because the army doesn't have enough to deal with all the roadside bombs.That said, there are career fields that have a specific role that puts them in the line of fire, Combat Controllers, Pararescue, Ect, but all are in support of air operations, or rescue pilots.As for my job, I deal mainly with chemical warfare defense in wartime, which is a problem for the AF because we can't just "Pack up and Move" if we get hit with chemical weapons like an army unit, making us a prime target. In peacetime we get tasked for hazmat response/terrorist use of WMD response. But there are tons of other career fields, everything from communications to medical to finance, who don't deal with aircraft usually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Sadly i'm too short to be in the armed forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caat01 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Sadly i'm too short to be in the armed forces.forgive me if i dared but why you want to be on the armed forces i meant it can sound cool be on the forces butwar isn't a nice thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 forgive me if i dared but why you want to be on the armed forces i meant it can sound cool be on the forces butwar isn't a nice thingwar may not be a nice thing but at least while your in the forces you get money for collage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyiMk2 Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 The AF height requirement is 58 inches but I don't know if it's waiveable.If by war you mean training stateside most of the time, or deploying to a base where you are less likely to get hit by a mortar than killed by a car back home (Or even murdered back home), the air force isn't very much "War" except for the guys on the receiving end of the JDAM and the Pilot dropping it. I have yet to deploy and almost no one from my shop has yet...and now that Iraq is winding down it's less and less likely in the near term. Air bases tend to stay the same size despite of a surge in and out of ground troops when fighting an insurgency.Now the Army and Marines, different story. Especially in Afghanistan now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showtime 1-1 Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Ironically, I may be too tall to get into the Air Force. Don't want to smash my knees if I ever have to punch out...For what it's worth from a noob, Welcome to SF-O! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Julius Quasar Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Naw not a foot soldier, the Air Force has nothing like that except perhaps security forces, and they are only supposed to protect the base and be the air force equivalent of MP's. We have career fields that see combat, often when tasked to serve with the army, and they can be odd ones. For instance truck drivers and heavy equipment operators get tasked to do convoys, and EOD (Bomb Squad) is tasked because the army doesn't have enough to deal with all the roadside bombs.That said, there are career fields that have a specific role that puts them in the line of fire, Combat Controllers, Pararescue, Ect, but all are in support of air operations, or rescue pilots.As for my job, I deal mainly with chemical warfare defense in wartime, which is a problem for the AF because we can't just "Pack up and Move" if we get hit with chemical weapons like an army unit, making us a prime target. In peacetime we get tasked for hazmat response/terrorist use of WMD response. But there are tons of other career fields, everything from communications to medical to finance, who don't deal with aircraft usually.COOL!Sadly i'm too short to be in the armed forces.sorry to hear that, Kursed...yeah, our military has been taken over by dumb f****stick politicians, paper-pushing, bean-counting bureaucrat dorks, and lawyer scum...I'm legally blind, even tho I wear contact lenses, they won't conscript me, plus I failed the psychological profile...Just what the hell is "Colonel Kurtz's Complex", anyway? because these are "pre-existing, pre-diagnosed conditions", they said I was forbidden to join, plus my ASVAB tests, although good, were not valid after 2 years, despite the fact I took the damn thing at 16 (the only time they would let me take it)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kursed Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Ironically, I may be too tall to get into the Air Force. Don't want to smash my knees if I ever have to punch out...For what it's worth from a noob, Welcome to SF-O!you can always work on the parts of the planes the shorter guys can't get to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KyiMk2 Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 you can always work on the parts of the planes the shorter guys can't get to.You can reach the things my short, angry Staff Sgt's can't reach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showtime 1-1 Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I don't think I'd make a good ground-crewman. I'd die of jealousy for the pilots.And reaching things on airplanes is rarely a problem. Banging my forehead on wings, horizontal stabilizers and struts is, though. (ow) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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