U.S./S.Korea Military Exercise Live Fire

[Lawman]

Wish I still had our squadron ready room maps. I hand made both of them from .pdf printouts of NGA TPC charts. One for OEF, and the second for when we kicked off OIR. I was actually really pleased with them, and I hand drew all the tanker tracks, kill boxes, and various tactically significant things/places. Would have made some nice framed posters for the house with a lot of personal history behind them. Sadly I had departed when they got home and I'm sure everything just ended up in the trash.

I turned a couple or evasion charts into table runners for my man room.

Now that I've got my own plotter printer and laminator at work I'm gonna work some other stuff for the "look at my cool job" section of the room.

 

[MikeD]

Wish I still had our squadron ready room maps. I hand made both of them from .pdf printouts of NGA TPC charts. One for OEF, and the second for when we kicked off OIR. I was actually really pleased with them, and I hand drew all the tanker tracks, kill boxes, and various tactically significant things/places. Would have made some nice framed posters for the house with a lot of personal history behind them. Sadly I had departed when they got home and I'm sure everything just ended up in the trash.

Same. Back in the day, we made our own map kits for ourselves as FACs. There were no laser printers and other cool stuff, we took the basic maps, and marked them up with airspace, etc, then CHUMd them, then laminated them with the acetate paper.

I've got complete 1:50s and 1:100s for most of our AORs, as well as other 1:250s and the general 1:1M. Used to carry......still have it somewhere......all the maps in this map case that weren't used often, but were kept tabbed as to where/what they were, for quick access inflight. That case was kept on the left side windscreen, and the right side windscreen held the laminated maps normally in use; sitting atop the Hog "saddlebag" that straddled the dashboard. The map case on the right aft console was for all the FLIP pubs.

 

[///AMG]

Nice! Yeah, I did find my marked up and highlighted hand-made fold out city map of Baghdad and a random JTAR recently.....maybe I will keep those for the future when they don't have to live in a safe anymore

 

[Nark]

I feel a generation behind... All of our maps are electronic.

The most loved and hated person at the same time is TACOPS.
"Why isn't Falconview working!?!?!"

I like the idea of using the old maps as a decorative fixture.

 

[Lawman]

I feel a generation behind... All of our maps are electronic.

The most loved and hated person at the same time is TACOPS.
"Why isn't Falconview working!?!?!"

I like the idea of using the old maps as a decorative fixture.

Because it's a thousand series task and not my F'ing job to do your planning for you!

This is probably the single biggest lapse of ability in the Apache community. PIs and PCs and IPs crowded around that green computer like the apes in 2001 banging at it with bones.

(Squadron AMSO)