What air force bases would be ranked among the best to be stationed at?

I would say sheppard in witcita falls texas. Of course thats because I got a ride in a T-38 so I might have a biased view.

Yes rppearso, you're qualified to tell people which AF base is the best to be stationed at, based on ONE ride in a jet. Just like you're qualified to give advice on how being on active duty is like based on your experiences in boot camp. Thats like taking psychology 101 and after getting a D for the semester, claiming that you're a psychologist. You're pathetic.

Thats why I said "I would say", have you been to every military base in the country? You seem like an angry person.

LOL, "I would say" like you've been there and done that. I may not have been to every base in the world, but I've seen quite a few, in both the CONUS and in Europe. So where have you been again?

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Originally posted by rppearso:
Thats why I said "I would say", have you been to every military base in the country? You seem like an angry person.

HE seems like an angry person???
Dude,your constant bitching,griping,complaining about all topics on this board make you a prime candidate for a Prozac enema.
Your constant ranting about the "evil" military and how they are out to screw anyone that thinks about joining is a 9 on the anger scale.
Dial it back a bit,for the love of God!

Its not anger, I want people to be aware, becasue I fell into the pit fall.

Everyone on here seems to want to ignore the fact that the military advertises glory and cool expensive equipment (built by civilian contractor) like F-15s, apaches, C-5's whatever. Then when you get in its a whole different story. Where as if I went to work for lockheed martin to design the powerplant of an F-15 as an engineer thats what I would be doing not moping the floor to work my way up to what im already qualified for.

You would be working on very minor parts and be supervised to the max. Also, you would need much more education than you currently have. Finally, what is wrong with cleaning a floor?

Attitude gets in the way of success.

This is why rppearso will never make it. He gives up too easily. If Lockheed Martin actually hired him, and they don't put him on Skunk Works immediately, he will quit in a few weeks because he's too good to be putting screws into sheet metal. They should make him lead designer.

I wouldent take a designer job to start with because thats not what I do (just like I dont do janitorial work), however if I were put on a more mundane aircraft I wouldent have a problem, but putting screws into sheet metal is not what engineers do. I was actually given my own project after 3 weeks at my job a year ago so I got responsible charge right out of the gate because the PE knew I was competent so one more year of responsible charge and I will have my PE locked in and be quite a bit farther from the bottem with the PE as a teather from being knocked off (PE's are in high demand everywhere, especially chemical) so I would never have to start from the bottem once I get it. Enlisted people dont see the whole picture, they just see that I dont want to do grunt work so im a POS looser, quiter, etc, etc as you spend 5 years screwing into sheet metal. If I couple the PE with a PhD in say physics (optical) I will be sitting pretty good, but that doesnt change the fact that im a POS, quiter, looser, etc, etc, right sammy.

My problem was the army signed me up for one thing and said oh well you might get that, and if you do there are all these stipulations that we dident tell you about eariler, there is no might with me, I am very focused and anything that diverges from that focus is back ground noise, I dont care what the needs of the army are I care what my needs are. That might sound selfish but there are only so many hours in a day and I dont want to spend them meeting the armys needs, if there is a mutually benifitial arangment then im game but when it becomes the military gets what they want and I get the shaft sorry, im out im not going to be a pattsy.

If others decide to do that, thats fine but dont pretend that because you chose to be a pattsy your somehow more honorable than everyone else.

To get this thread back on topic: Sheppard is a training base, so if you get stationed there it will only be for a few months. I don't think you can say there is a best base overall. I've been to several and all of them had pros and cons. What might help is if you research the area that it's located in and base your decision off of that.

Sammy likes to make off hand comments because he/she disagrees with my views. I just thought it was cool because its not just a training base its a fighter jet pilot ENJPT training base. Im sure they have other training but the jet fighter training was pretty cool, of course everyone and there brother is lined up to try to do that so you have a better chance of making a million dollars starting a buissness and buying your own plane and flying acrobatics. Good post on the blue to green im surprised you havent gotten chewed out by anyone yet.

Your anger is showing again......
think calming thoughts

No, it just was not about him anymore and he could not take that.

I made a simple statement about what base I thought was cool and got slammed for no reason.

If I could have just stated that I liked sheppard and not gotten slammed and that would have been the extent of my comment.

you probalbly got slammed about commenting about an Air Force Base, with nothing to base it on. Walking on or visiting a base for a few days doesn't qualify.

As for the ride in a T-38, did they seat qual you before hand? Go through the hyperbaric chamber?

nope, because we dident go over a certian altitude, I think its 14,500 ft. But we still pulled about 7.5 G's turns one after another, flew upside down the whole gambit. As soon as I get my pitts special I will be able to do all that over again with exception of the 7.5 G turns but all that did was make me sick anyways.

I doubt he knows what a "seat qual" is.

Sammy steps in for the 2 page debate, the crowd waits, what is going to happen.....?

I went through basic egress training, how to bail out if the pilot says it 3 times and so on. But no chambers and no im not familiar with what a seat qual exactly entails. We got fitted for a G suit and mask and that was about it.

It was definatly a life experence though. They basicly went up spun us around and got us sick but it was still a fun experence. I think I will like doing that same thing civilian though.

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As soon as I get my pitts special

lol

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Sammy steps in for the 2 page debate, the crowd waits, what is going to happen.....?

If this is an attempt at being witty, you failed miserably.

However,

You sound like a kid with that horrible description of flight physiology.

Engineer you say?