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Old 12-04-2007, 05:42 AM
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My team is here to fly the small Raven UAV. It's pretty cool. Here are some pics.






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Hmm.. Looks like somewhere I was at last year!

AF I take it? What's the AFSC?
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awesome little machines. Save a lot of lives. I loved to hear them at night riding around when I was out on patrol
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Pred was always our friends out there. Our CCT guy was ******' **** up constantly! We played with the raven too, but not as much as we got pred support. Here's some pics:


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The last picture is in front of an entire field of weed!
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Hmm.. Looks like somewhere I was at last year!

AF I take it? What's the AFSC?

Security Forces
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i wouldnt want to be security forces but being a Raven would be a kick *** job, they are on the planes all the time
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i wouldnt want to be security forces but being a Raven would be a kick *** job, they are on the planes all the time
wtf?!!
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Old 12-06-2007, 02:50 AM
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i wouldnt want to be security forces but being a Raven would be a kick *** job, they are on the planes all the time
I'm not a certified "Raven" but we support Raven missions here all the time. I hate it.

FYI for those who don't know, a RAVEN is trained in aircraft security as in cockpit denial or security at some FOB in the middle of nowhere.

Raven is also the name of the small UAV. AF people always get confused with those.
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Originally Posted by slaytera666
I'm not a certified "Raven" but we support Raven missions here all the time. I hate it.

FYI for those who don't know, a RAVEN is trained in aircraft security as in cockpit denial or security at some FOB in the middle of nowhere.

Raven is also the name of the small UAV. AF people always get confused with those.
wait wait. So does that mean you're like observers *in* planes? Or just fly the UAV's?
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oh ok, gotcha, i wouldnt mind being a Raven (acft guard) but i dont want to be security forces (no offense to anyone who is SF)
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i was wondering what you guys were talking about...hmmm how are the eagles flying up there?
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If you just fly remote controlled planes I think it's pretty damn gay you all wear flight suits. :rofl:
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Originally Posted by socmguy
If you just fly remote controlled planes I think it's pretty damn gay you all wear flight suits. :rofl:
We just wear them when we go outside the wire. They mandated them because they are flame resistant.
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I've spent 98% of all my deployments outside the wire and I don't wear a nomex flight suit. Besides it looks like all those pictures were taken INSIDE the wire.
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So you from Davis-Monthan? Pretty sweet pics.
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Still think it's gay you wear flight suits. The range on those things are less than 15K, I know because we had to pay some afghanis to get ours back after we lost signal and it crashed in Kandahar.
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Still think it's gay you wear flight suits. The range on those things are less than 15K, I know because we had to pay some afghanis to get ours back after we lost signal and it crashed in Kandahar.
That is kind of hard to do. If they lose link, they come back to where they started. It is all GPS based.
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so your location says Tucson...are you based our of Davis-Monthan or what?
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