Planet Descent
Community => Mess Hall => Topic started by: Planet Orange [phx13] on April 29, 2011, 10:51:28 PM
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Hey PD'ers just wanted to let you all know that I'll be leaving on May 3rd to enter into active duty in the United States Air Force. I'm finally entering the next stage in my life. I wanted to thank everyone in this community who kept the Descent series alive after all these years. The game and the communtity will always remain close to my heart. I had the chance to meet some cool people and talk about a game I've played since I was 4 years old. Anyways hopefully I'll be back by September and remember, go Suns!
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Congrats and good luck! I for one, support the troops and find them valuable and necessary!
God bless!
You're always welcome to post any topics whenever you wish to.
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Good luck in the air force, Planet Orange! :)
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The best of luck, Planet Orange. Fly straight.
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YES! GO AIR FORCE!
I was thinking about it myself. I'm actually thinking about the Air National Guard now.
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Congrats and good luck.
I was in the Air National Guard for 6 years.
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The Navy was interested in recruiting me for awhile, after I graduated from high school, but I turned them down. I really don't think I'm personally cut out for a life in the military.
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Hey, Congratulations Planet Orange!!
I wish you luck and the best at the Air Force. :)
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Initiate super off topicness:
Don't do Navy unless you want to be stuck seeing the sea for miles and miles around for months. It all looks the same. There's nothing different between that patch of water from the next patch now and a few days from now.
Fighter pilot for the Navy would be the best thing possible, but it is highly risky doing the landings that they do. It would be fun on a carrier to watch everyone back away from you just like that time when one of our carriers decided to go through the Sea of China. EVERYONE gave it a HUGE berth! One carrier has the "this is now mine" range the size of California.
WillyP, do you mind answering questions in a PM if I ever need to ask you something about the Air National Guard?
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Thanks for all the support. Means a lot.
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WillyP, do you mind answering questions in a PM if I ever need to ask you something about the Air National Guard?
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hang in there Planet Orange. Best of luck and congrats again!
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Best of luck to you, Planet Orange Citizen! Thank you for your willingness to serve the United States. My prayers are with you. ;)
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Hey everyone I've made it back alive. The past 5 and half months and being in the Air Force have definitely been a life changing expericence for me. I spent 2 months at BMT and then 3 months at tech school. I'll be going to my first duty base in October... Man I thought for sure Descent for Wii would be out by now :(
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Hello and welcome back!
What kind of tech? (curious)
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I was half-considering joining the RAF but I think my migraine condition would make that tricky.
Our armed forces are bearing a massive brunt of our financial cuts as well. Lots of airbases are closing by next year, our only carrier is now decommissioned and our Harrier fleet has been disbanded as well while the US, presumably, still operates theirs and we still don't have the F-35B to replace it.
Quite frankly, the UK doesn't take nearly as good care of its servicepeople as it should either.
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Tech School is where I learned what my job is going to consist of. My job is Knowledge Operations Management or Information Management.
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It's funny everyone here blames military spending for our huge deficit, but truth is our recent military spending only accounts for around 1-2 trillion out of the 14 trillion. Sure, our huge fleet of carriers are very expensive, but a trillion dollars is an almost incomprehensible amount of money.
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I can never understand why people hate the police, military, etc...
without them, we're dead.
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It's funny everyone here blames military spending for our huge deficit
It's really more due to the fact that politicians have been ignoring it for a couple of decades, and now, somehow to their complete surprise, they've found that it's become unmanageable. That, and a couple poor presumptions people have made about budgeting money since about when the Great Depression ended.
Oh, but let's not get too carried away with the discussion on politics, please. Besides, I believe this thread is more about Planet Orange and his new career in the Air Force (congrats again on that BTW). :)
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Oh, right. The topic.
Well, the Navy is better, and the US navy is the best, sucks to be you if you want to join the RAF. OK, that's my take on the topic.
Nah, j/k. But seriously. ;) But really, j/k. Seriously.
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Crash, when you do get those F-35B's, you will be pleased. They sport the most powerful engine ever put in a single engine aircraft and their radar signature will make it look like only a golf ball is flying by, if that. Extremely stealthy and can carry several of the new Small Diameter Bombs within its internal bays. Or you could carry two 2,000lb bombs in there to shake up the crowd.
Plus you can land anywhere using the VTOL capabilities without having to worry about tipping over because of the advanced avionics unlike the unicycle of the Harrier.