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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:39:00 No.8772073 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>8772090 >>8772108

sup /k/ommandos

im joining the airforce and my recruiter said he could get me a job as "in-flight refueling" and claims its a flying job. Does anyone know anything about this gig being legit, or is it just some pump-jockey bullshit with a fancy name he's trying to rope me into?

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fucking rainbow king of dick suck land !!DDm5Y17CuD8 Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:42:00 No.8772090 Report

Quoted By: >>8772094

>>8772073
pro: you stand a chance to get flight medals
con: you have to put up with other flight crew

pro: lots of travel, maybe a chance to mess around a bit when you land somewhere, but doubtful.
con: it's uncomfortable being in military transport aircraft

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:42:00 No.8772091 Report

Quoted By: >>8772097 >>8774920

most likely the latter seeing as how recruiters will lie their asses off to get you to sign the dotted line

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:43:00 No.8772094 Report

Quoted By: >>8772103

>>8772090

>>Military transport aircraft

So this has something to do with a cargo plane?

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fucking rainbow king of dick suck land !!DDm5Y17CuD8 Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:43:00 No.8772097 Report

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>>8772091
this.

If it isn't in writing it didn't mean shit. Even if you DID get it in writing, it STILL might not mean shit.

Even if you DID get it in writing, you will likely still have to fight for it with that piece of paper.

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fucking rainbow king of dick suck land !!DDm5Y17CuD8 Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:44:00 No.8772103 Report

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>>8772094
A KC-130 is a cargo aircraft that serves fuel.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:45:00 No.8772108 Report

Quoted By: >>8772123

>>8772073
Isn't that the job where you sit on a big flying machine full of highly flammable fuel and another flying machine gets behind it so you can pump it full of said fuel?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:45:00 No.8772117 Report

Quoted By: >>8772155 >>8774588

Pretty sure that's what nutnfancy does in the NG. He also has a job as a commercial pilot. No joke.

Apparently flying refueling planes gave him all that combat experience he draws from for every video. You don't know terror until Commie-Nazis board your NG refueling plane mid-flight and all you have to defend yourself with is a paracord bracelet with proprietary tan/OD coloring.

tl;dr: join up, become nutnfancy.

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fucking rainbow king of dick suck land !!DDm5Y17CuD8 Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:47:00 No.8772123 Report

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>>8772108
You got it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 07:52:00 No.8772155 Report

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>>8772117
Better yet; join up and end up in the same unit as nutn! Can you imagine spending an entire mission with him just drawling on and on with his stupid baboon-ass-mouth-thing about the benefits of durrrrracoating your penis?

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 08:00:00 No.8772187 Report

Quoted By: >>8772198 >>8772203

OP here

still not entirely clear based on reading this thread what the job entails

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fucking rainbow king of dick suck land !!DDm5Y17CuD8 Sat 30 Apr 2011 08:03:00 No.8772198 Report

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>>8772187
You likely sit around in a KC-130 for hours or days. It's either really hot or cold. People around you begin to stink. Depending on the specific aircraft and what's up with it, you may all be taking turns pissing in a bucket. It's referred to by aircrew as the "honey bucket." The new guy is the one to dump it out when you land.

You sit up there for a LONG time. Then you land. Maybe you get downtime, maybe you don't. Then you do it again. Eventually (hopefully) you get to go on "crew rest." This means take it easy, relax, get some sleep. Eventually you'll be called to do another air mission.

Wash, rinse, repeat, this is your life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 08:03:00 No.8772199 Report

Quoted By: >>8772207 >>8774942

PROTIP: Nothing the recruiter says is valid, other than you have to serve a certain number of years.

When you enlist, you are government property, and they will put you wherever the fuck they feel like for no reason which is apparant to you. It might be making the most of your talents, it might just be filling a position somewhere blindly. There is NO way to predict any of this, you just go with the flow.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 08:04:00 No.8772203 Report

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>>8772187
You'd be one of the guys in that big plane in the picture.

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fucking rainbow king of dick suck land !!DDm5Y17CuD8 Sat 30 Apr 2011 08:04:00 No.8772207 Report

Quoted By: >>8774942

>>8772199
This.

Also, there is a prodedure called "stoploss" which means they don't even have to let you out when they said they were going to.

brotip: If you re-enlist, do it in the middle east and get re enlistment bonus tax free.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 08:05:00 No.8772209 Report

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<<<.If true.

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 08:46:00 No.8772396 Report

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op here

sounds shitty

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Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 15:49:00 No.8774480 Report

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I think the bad fuel job you want to avoid is ground fuel handling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 16:27:00 No.8774588 Report

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>>8772117
>Apparently flying refueling planes gave him all that combat experience he draws from for every video. You don't know terror until Commie-Nazis board your NG refueling plane mid-flight and all you have to defend yourself with is a paracord bracelet with proprietary tan/OD coloring.
Dude, I think you meant "Dura Coat" paracord bracelet. Correct?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 18:32:00 No.8774920 Report

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>>8772091
this, again

Recruiters are the bastard mutant offspring of slave traders and used car salesmen. They will say say anything -- ANYTHING -- to get you sign on the line. They will lie to you and you will know it's a lie, and you will buy it anyway because they're telling you the lies you want to hear. And, once they've got you on the boat, you're just another warm body shipped off to serve some other master, and another notch on their quota.

If a recruiter tells you something, and you like it, hit him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 18:45:00 No.8774942 Report

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>>8772199
I'll sign off on every word of this, except for the exactness of the years of service.

There's the stoploss, as mentioned by
>>8772207
but also subtle weirdnesses like training extensions. If you're in certain jobs (MOSes in the civilized services; "rates" in the Navy), you have to enlist for six years. But, the max they can nail you for is four years. So, they get around that by enlisting you for four years and, at some point, bribing you to extend for two years. The bribe comes with a pushbutton promotion, usually from E3 to E4. This is enforced as a de facto standard, but you can buck the norm. Refuse the promotion and you refuse the extension. If you're in a situation like that, there are no billets for E3 personnel in your field, so you could damn near wipe your ass with your first rating exam and still get your promotion to E4, just a few months after your peers.

It'll be a shitty few months, though. Just brace yourself for that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Apr 2011 18:47:00 No.8774946 Report

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how the hell do you not know what this job is?
do your homework before you go to the recruiter.

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