F-15 Eagle, Still King Of The Hill !

[billt]

The maximum cartridge overall length of a .40 S&W round is 1.135". Times two hundred million is 3,582.7 MILES LAID END TO END! Stacked on top of each other with a cartridge diameter of .423" would extend 1,335.2 MILES HIGH! My mother always told me my mind was a storehouse for useless information.    Bill T.

[billt]

This thread has got to get the super hi jack award of the year!  Bill T.

[GUNS-R-US]

The maximum cartridge overall length of a .40 S&W round is 1.135". Times two hundred million is 3,582.7 MILES LAID END TO END! Stacked on top of each other with a cartridge diameter of .423" would extend 1,335.2 MILES HIGH! My mother always told me my mind was a storehouse for useless information.    Bill T.

She was and is right as always (Mothers always are)

[GUNS-R-US]

This thread has got to get the super hi jack award of the year!  Bill T.

Well F15's don't have a lot todo with guns anyhow!

[billt]

Well I don't know about the DHOS but in the Air Force we shoot everything we get. The bean counters keep track and if you don't shoot it this year then you will get less next year!

I live 4 miles from Luke Air Force Base. They have the largest F-16 fighter wing in the world. The last 2 or 3 days of the month everything is up flying, with full afterburner takeoffs no less. Got to get rid of that monthly fuel allotment, don't ya' know. "Use it or lose it". And we're supposed to drive a Prius??  Bill T.

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[blackwolfe]

I just heard the cost of one soldier for one year in Afghanistan is $1,000,000.00 (one million dollars). How can that be? That is $2,379.72 A DAY!

I'd like to see a compassison to how much it cost to keep one soldier or any military member for one year stationed anywhere for one year. and exactly what they include in those cost.
I
 know that it does not cost my employer nearly that much to employ me, but if you start adding in the cost of the facility, operating cost, material cost, and they cost of management, it may approach that.

What's it cost to keep one municipal fireman employeed for one year stationed one year at a fire station?  Do you include the cost of the fire truck and station, management, the municipal government that oversees the fire department. If you hire one less firefighter, do you save $1,000,000 a year?  Facts and figure can be interpreted many ways and any comparisons and statements need to have the methodoloy explained to have a comprhensive understanding of the the true cost
  

[GUNS-R-US]

I live 4 miles from Luke Air Force Base. They have the largest F-16 fighter wing in the world. The last 2 or 3 days of the month everything is up flying, with full afterburner takeoffs no less. Got to get rid of that monthly fuel allotment, don't ya' know. "Use it or lose it". And we're supposed to drive a Prius??  Bill T.

Would that be off the end of the runway??? Jet noise is the sound of Freedom! And the end of the month thing is different than the end of the year. The end of the month is important for the fighter jocks because if they make their sortie rate for the month they get a day off! And I think they do the full Afterburner thing to boost up their EGO!!! As if it were necessary!

[tombogan03884]

I live 4 miles from Luke Air Force Base. They have the largest F-16 fighter wing in the world. The last 2 or 3 days of the month everything is up flying, with full afterburner takeoffs no less. Got to get rid of that monthly fuel allotment, don't ya' know. "Use it or lose it". And we're supposed to drive a Prius??  Bill T.

Not only that but the reservists and staff Officers have to get their flight time in to maintain their flight status (and pay )

From Pathfinder "What's it cost to keep one municipal fireman employeed for one year stationed one year at a fire station?  Do you include the cost of the fire truck and station, management, the municipal government that oversees the fire department. If you hire one less firefighter, do you save $1,000,000 a year?  Facts and figure can be interpreted many ways and any comparisons and statements need to have the methodoloy explained to have a comprhensive understanding of the the true cost"


 The cost of the truck and building would be figured in on the basis of depreciated value this kind of calculation is really pretty complicated, since you have to figure in everything from the cost of his boots to the adjusted portion of the cost of the environmental impact study of the station alarm.

Would that be off the end of the runway??? Jet noise is the sound of Freedom! And the end of the month thing is different than the end of the year. The end of the month is important for the fighter jocks because if they make their sortie rate for the month they get a day off! And I think they do the full Afterburner thing to boost up their EGO!!! As if it were necessary!

There are no live "Second best" fighter pilots, just ask them 

[fightingquaker13]

I'd like to see a compassison to how much it cost to keep one soldier or any military member for one year stationed anywhere for one year. and exactly what they include in those cost.
I
 know that it does not cost my employer nearly that much to employ me, but if you start adding in the cost of the facility, operating cost, material cost, and they cost of management, it may approach that.

What's it cost to keep one municipal fireman employeed for one year stationed one year at a fire station?  Do you include the cost of the fire truck and station, management, the municipal government that oversees the fire department. If you hire one less firefighter, do you save $1,000,000 a year?  Facts and figure can be interpreted many ways and any comparisons and statements need to have the methodoloy explained to have a comprhensive understanding of the the true cost
  

Look at it this way. An aicraft carrier has maybe a 5,000 person crew to support maybe 75 fighters. How many more to protect that carrier? How many more to supply them, recruit them and train them and take care of them and their families after they retire? Its an extreme example, but illustrative.
FQ13

[billt]

Would that be off the end of the runway??? Jet noise is the sound of Freedom! And the end of the month thing is different than the end of the year. The end of the month is important for the fighter jocks because if they make their sortie rate for the month they get a day off! And I think they do the full Afterburner thing to boost up their EGO!!! As if it were necessary!

They used to come over the house with the burner lit. It would rattle my Arcadia sliding glass door to the point of almost breaking! My Golden Retreiver was so scared he ran to me crying! They would be in a high G bank with vapor coming off the top of the wings. Now they only do that during "Luke Days". It's a really nice free air show they put on every year.  Bill T.