And today I learned how to open hangar doors. I was actually scheduled to fly at “blue flight, second go.” Because giving me an actual time would have been too simple. I sat in on the blue flight commander’s standup. This was the second standup I’d been to, and the blue flight commander seems to…
I came home to find a blog entry with the wife challenging the math of a someone quoted in a Newsweek report. It’s just not a good idea for her to challenge other people’s math. Apparently posting her mispost would be immature and wrong of me. I will say that she had me momentarily confused….
Every door at the Air Force Academy has a sign that says FPCON: ALPHA. It’s clearly very, very important. As best I can tell, it’s no different than the terror alert color code warnings. FPCON stands for “Force Protection Condition”. How do they come up with these things? I mean, what does that mean?? Is…
Given the rather high-profile nature of my current job and the fact that it’s so difficult to talk about generically, I’m going to have to restrict future job-related posts. The only way I’ve found to do this that makes sense so far is to require users to create accounts and login. After you login, if…
Considering that my new job is rather high-profile, I’m not sure what I’m going to do when it comes to blogging about it. I certainly don’t want anyone involved to stumble across it with a few simple web searches. That in mind, I’ll probably avoid talking about certain searchable specifics. For now. Maybe I’ll make…