Archive for September, 2007

Curtain Call

Sunday, September 30th, 2007
     Cox & Forkum just announced they’ll be ceasing they’re regular editorial cartooning.  Thanks for the laughs for the past six or so years, guys! Message From Above is hanging in my office directly over my computer.  I hope you’ll continue the September Eleventh posts every year, too.       I guess this means I’ll [...]

Policing Ramadi

Friday, September 21st, 2007
      More on the CPT Travis Patriquin Memorial Police Station here and here.      Info on Ramadi from Michael Totten in two parts (h/t Hoystory).       At least al Qaeda in Mesopotamia keeps shooting itself in its own foot.  It’s even nicer to know that my friends were key in helping them aim [...]

Duties Not Involving Flying

Sunday, September 16th, 2007
     I haven’t been flying recently, and I won’t until about 1 Oct.  Between the end of the fiscal year and the minor surgery I just had, I’m just not going to be on the flying schedule at all for two weeks.      I wish I could say I’ll have some [...]

Heroes’ Run Report

Sunday, September 16th, 2007
     There’s a good note and a bad note to the Heroes’ Run that Mr Patriquin tried to set up for 28 July.  The bad news was that the run in Lockport, IL was cancelled.       The good news was that Badger 6 picked up the flag and ran on 29 Jul.  [...]

Check, Please!

Thursday, September 13th, 2007
     Today was my instrument/qual checkride.  The tactical portion was pretty simple; our task would be to play two of a three-ship of Red Air for Quattro’s IPUG Force Protection ride.  He was dragging an MQT student, and so was his IP of record.  They didn’t want anything crazy anyway.  We got up really [...]

Grease Is The Word

Monday, September 10th, 2007
     Today’s mission was for Cash and I to go up and practice a maneuver we call "The Grease."  I have no idea why we call it that.  Maybe because someone thought it would be a slick way for us to get to a merge with a Bandit?      Cash and [...]

Color Me Skeptical

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
     I thought el chupacabra was some sort of vampire version of sasquatch.  Not this.