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#41
AxtoOx said:
We joke with each other between sevices, but the fact is no branch is safe from seeing action.
In Afganistan, all those special forces units had an airman with them called a forward air controller who was calling in the air strikes and being shot at with all the rest of them.
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Combat Controller, just to be picky.

Those guys are baaaad dudes!
 
#42
Pacman said:
Combat Controller, just to be picky.

Those guys are baaaad dudes!
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When did they change it from FAC. I have an OLD issue of Air Force Times, calling them that, or are they different.
Your right they are bad dudes.
It's also not TAC,SAC and MAC anymore, It's what Air Combat Command? That's TAC and SAC, I don't remember what MAC is called now. You can tell by the Wild Weasle comment I was TAC.

Ya know what, they call the guys in the O2's and Broncos FAC, I'll bet the magazine was wrong or they changed it not to confuse the two. Let me know if you know. I still have the mag.
 
#44
Skeezix said:
Actually, they are Forward Air Controllers.
Combat Controller is something completely different.
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Having just gone to school with several of them, I'm pretty confindent in saying they're Combat Controllers.

You can read about them here:
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And from talking to my red-baret-wearing classmates, they do a lot of close air support missions nowadays.
 
#45
Pacman said:
Having just gone to school with several of them, I'm pretty confindent in saying they're Combat Controllers.

You can read about them here:
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And from talking to my red-baret-wearing classmates, they do a lot of close air support missions nowadays.
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That's why I was asking, I've been out a long time now, but I'll bet they changed the designation. I thought I was going to give it a shot because my AFSC was going obsolete. (I don't think I would have made it.) The article called them FAC, and that's what there were openings for. I was enlisted so it couldn't have been the pilots.
 
#48
well, i've got a little bit of a different take on the navy...i'm a missile technician riding ballistic missile submarines right here out of silverdale...and i rode another back in king's bay, georgia for 5 years...we carry nuclear missiles, so we never pull into foreign ports or check out all the sights...we never forward deploy or get shot at because our targets can be hit from thousands of miles away...we pull out, submerge, do an alert deterrent patrol and surface 3 months later and come back home...that's about it...join the air force...and whatever you do...i don't care...DO NOT JOIN TO BE A NUKE!!!!!!! holy crap, the navy beats the mud out of those guys...you have never seen ******** training and such silly working hours as a nuke...it's freaking ridiculous...especially on submarines...sweet jeezus, don't do it...i say again...join the air force...that's what i would've done...i can't complain, though, i guess...i made E-6 in 6 years, so the pay and advancement opportunity is alright...plus, i had friday and today (monday) off...and i'll get wednesday off, too...and friday again :D but then i'll have to do one of those 3 month patrols again...oh yeah, another thing about missile boats...we have two crews, so the ship can stay at sea all the time...when they leave, my crew is in port at home, and when i go, the other crew stays home...best deal going in the navy for sea/shore rotation...at any rate, i better hush...
 
#50
Skeezix said:
Actually, these are the folks that he was referring to...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/usaf/tacp.htm
It was TACP, not FACP.
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Again wrong, but I'm not going to quibble. TACPs and ETACs are assigned (normally) to larger army units - tank batallions, infantry divisions, etc. Combat Controllers work primarily (these days) with SPECOPS guys.
 
#52
This is funny. I was reading further about TACPs, and read the following:

TACP airmen can be recognized by their black berets. Although the burgundy berets of Air Force pararescuemen and the crimson berets of Air Force combat controllers are easily recognized, the black beret is seldom seen worn by Air Force members.
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Except by every Security Forces member!


....I guess not funny to anyone else, unless you go to work at an Air Force base everday...
 
#53
Pacman said:
This is funny. I was reading further about TACPs, and read the following:



Except by every Security Forces member!


....I guess not funny to anyone else, unless you go to work at an Air Force base everday...
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I don't want to get started again, but SP's wear Navy Blue. I still have mine from color guard. ULESS THE HAVE CHANGED, THE ARMY DID.
 
#54
See this is why you should never join the air force. They can't even agree on their own terminology and uniform accessories. In the Navy, you wear a dixie cup with all your dress uniforms and a piss cutter for your working duds regardless of what you are. For dirty work you wear a ballcap. Now, if you become one of those sailors who never go out to sea (the Seabees) , you wear cammies.
 
#56
AxtoOx said:
I don't want to get started again, but SP's wear Navy Blue. I still have mine from color guard. ULESS THE HAVE CHANGED, THE ARMY DID.
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#58
syciprider said:
See this is why you should never join the air force. They can't even agree on their own terminology and uniform accessories. In the Navy, you wear a dixie cup with all your dress uniforms and a piss cutter for your working duds regardless of what you are. For dirty work you wear a ballcap. Now, if you become one of those sailors who never go out to sea (the Seabees) , you wear cammies.
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dixie cup is still optional with working blues...i can't dig the piss cutter...i wear my white hat still
 
#59
my first introduction to the differences in the services went like this:

i went to the recruiting offices. the air force, marines, and the navy were all right next door to one another. my father was air force and i knew that would be my first option, then the navy would be my second option.

i walked into the air force recruiting office. they had three females in there and they were all sitting around jokin'-n-cokin'. they told me to come back after lunch.

so i walked past the marines office on my way to the navy office. i thought i was going to get physically dragged in by the marine standing by the door.

i went to the navy, they were a combined office with the Coast Guard. they had several people in there already ahead of me, but asked me to read some pamphlets and they would be with me in just a few minutes.

i guess the moral of this story is similar to Goldilocks. The Air Force was too cold, the marines were too hot, but the navy was just right. :)

i agree with Neptoon in regard to the nuke program. research exactly what you think your job will entail as much as possible. everyjob will have its drawbacks, but they will also have their perks.
 

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