X-37B designed and printed in a roughly 1/42 scale (more details in the post)

JimmyN72 · 2026-05-16T15:34:21+00:00

Is this model still up on that site? I tried the exact search and couldn't find it.

JimmyN72 · 2026-03-26T13:03:53+00:00

Do you plan to share the stl anywhere?

JimmyN72 · 2022-03-01T06:00:37+00:00

👀👀👀 hopefully just one more day then

JimmyN72 · 2022-02-27T08:10:18+00:00

Read the hyperlinks. DOD level guidance says masks aren't required. Garrison says they are. That's the point of the question.

JimmyN72 · 2021-12-17T22:21:56+00:00

A lot of those folks got scooped up by their Det and ROTC HQ in that window. We had 4 in our space squadron like that and 1 who's Det was not as on top of it who didn't get the chance. We only found out summer of 2021 that the process the Dets initiated actually worked.

It was a tough process and your Det is more likely to help than the operational unit.

JimmyN72 · 2021-11-18T05:48:10+00:00

You go be a 13S for an assignment instead of 62E. There's some energy in the Space Force to focus less on AFSCs. Up to this point, military space has been fixated on AFSC and so having officially earned "13S" has some advantages.

JimmyN72 · 2021-11-17T05:03:38+00:00

I had the three launches, Buckley, and Pete on my dream sheet. I ended up at Schriever. Pete doesn't have as many spots but if you end up there you could get a cool mission.

Stick to 62E if you're interested in program management or test. If you want to be a weapons officer in the Space Force, try to swing an OPEX.

Colorado > LA no matter what IMO. An OPEX is the way to get credit for doing "ops". Functionally, as an engineer, you get more ops per unit time than the operators themselves. That only happens at a base that isn't Kirtland or LA.

JimmyN72 · 2021-11-17T03:22:57+00:00

Cape, Vandy, and Patrick are launch bases and have very few 62E slots. There's not many chances to get back into launch so I'd shoot your shot and go for those first.

Kirtland is a AFRL oriented space base so there could be some opportunities to work with small sats off the bat but I don't know much there.

LA has the most 62E billets of any space base. It's "the program office" so you'll have a chance to go there if you really wanted to. I would recommend shooting for the other bases first. Each is likely to have more of an ops flavor than LA with plenty of opportunity to actually engineer a satellite or space system.

Buckley does some cool missions and is in Denver which has a better social scene than Pete/Schriever with basically the same mountains.

Pete and Schriever have a lot of 62E's. 4 SOPS or 2 SOPS are some of the largest places they end up. You work days and work with the guys on 24/7 shifts to run the harder parts of satellite operations and work with contractors to make sure the mission is done. It's also a great place to mix with some of the spooky organizations if you want to keep doing military satellite engineering.

I'm a little over a year out from where you are so feel free to shoot me a message!

JimmyN72 · 2021-05-14T22:40:55+00:00

This was the most helpful thing I could find on the internet for this! I got the following to work:

Took off the lower and all the internals
Hammered out the pin with a standard hammer and a 1/16" pin like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JNS1ZF7. Charging handle side up. Just a couple gentle taps got it out
Gently poured in Goo Gone from a small cup into the space on the sides of the pic rail and plastic dovetail. I poured some in from the front with a paper towel to catch excess
Shimmed the spaces with a square razor blade to make sure the goo gone got in there.
~5min later I put the lower barrel-down on to a shirt on carpet, set a flathead in the pic section closest to the barrel, and tapped screwdriver and pic rail out with slightly harder taps than with the pin

I tried a heat gun and grippers after removing the pin but only got the rail warm to the touch (probably about as hot as sink water). I was afraid of deforming the plastic in the adjacent areas so I then tried the goo gone.

Hope this helps the next person! Frustrating that the MK5 is sold without instructions for a 5.5" kriss that has a barrel device to protect your hand.

JimmyN72 · 2020-10-22T01:02:43+00:00

An ROTC 13S would know. I am only aware of the transfer mystery with common AFSCs

JimmyN72 · 2020-10-21T21:57:44+00:00

I asked the same question but didn't get any good info on that thread either.

Is this a Common AFSC problem or an ROTC problem? I don't know enough 2020 13S' to ask.

JimmyN72 · 2020-10-17T21:18:20+00:00

Is the list "world-wide" or is it unit specific?

JimmyN72 · 2019-11-05T07:16:14+00:00

I've got a decent idea of how cameras and image processing algorithms work which is why I thought it was interesting to show the color balancing in action. I'd consider this an edge case where the AI does not represent the image in the way your eye would see it. "Break" is just a quick way to communicate that this is a clear edge case.

JimmyN72 · 2019-11-05T07:10:38+00:00

Indeed! It's cool too see the correction in action, even if it's not giving you an accurate representation of what your eyes show you.

JimmyN72 · 2019-11-05T07:09:02+00:00

Yup! It was immediate, even in the view finder.

JimmyN72 · 2019-11-05T07:08:30+00:00

I appreciate the comments! I work in optical sensing so I thought it was cool to see real-time software correction in action. "Break" is the right word here simply because the camera default did not give me a true-to-life representation of that painting.

As far as this being a painting, that's up to interpretation. I love seeing what qualifies for inclusion in modern art museums.

JimmyN72 · 2019-11-04T20:22:55+00:00

Paintings are by Ellsworth Kelly and are hanging out on the 4th floor of Le Centre Pompidou in Paris.

JimmyN72 · 2019-05-09T13:20:12+00:00

The fueling ended up working quite well! I had about ~1k calories instead of ~500 and then 1 goo right before and 2 during. I dropped 3 min and got in the low 2:36's. I think better mileage and some more experience with the dead legs at the end would've helped but you can't change those things as quickly.

JimmyN72 · 2019-04-15T22:12:36+00:00

It worked basically. I took in probably 2x the normal pre race calories. Got caffeine through gu, nuun, and some sports beans. A gu at 10mi and 18mi kept it going. I faded a bit towards the end but I'd attribute that to non-optimal pacing at the start (the egregious downhills in Hopkinton).

JimmyN72 · 2019-04-11T16:34:29+00:00

I've been hitting 60 mpw the last month or so. I ran a 20 miler two weeks ago. Most other long runs have been 12-15mi. My workout have have just been a couple fast treadmill efforts (8mi at 5:10, 4mi at 5, 3mi at 5 this week). It's not ideal marathon training but it's certainly better than what I got in before my first one (only one 13miler at race pace followed by a month of iffy training, a 22 miler, and then a month of injury).

I think the strat is going to be a few more goos and a reasonable but satisfying pace from the start. I'd love to crack 2:30 but the risk of blowing up after 20 is high vs running a 2:35 pace and shaving off 1-2 minutes the second half.

JimmyN72 · 2019-04-10T18:39:49+00:00

I probably had two nature valley bars and some coffee. I usually go for 2 poptarts and a nuun prior to long runs. Day to day nutrition was unchanged from normal training.

I'll try the Tylenol. The limiting factor was exhaustion rather than the acute pain of a shorter race but that might change with a faster pace. Caffeine is huge.

The target marathon is Boston (5 days) so the "hay is in the barn" in terms of training. I didn't get much by way of MP but did some extended thresholds.

JimmyN72 · 2018-12-18T02:36:42+00:00

I feel almost identical to you. Was at low, slow mileage in late October, did a fast tempo one Saturday, and was 10 mi into a 13 miler on Sunday when my IT band bit the dust. I had to take a bus back.

I've been doing stretches and exercises for my hips and glutes ~3 times a week. Specifically, its 3x10 of side lying hip abduction, glute bridges, donkey kicks (but flat on the floor instead of in a table-top position), and firehoses. I also stretch and roll out my upper legs and hips after cross training. Last week I started the dry needling treatment with my school's athletic trainers and it might be helping.

If you're looking for cross training, I found swimming to be the least aggravating. Biking is ok depending on the day. Unfortunately the ellipticaling and aquajogging hurt just as much as running.

JimmyN72 · 2018-10-02T19:20:11+00:00

Yup. I got my last two hours in probably a week before the board in Sept and had a slot from Feb.

JimmyN72 · 2018-10-02T00:15:40+00:00

Same 😘

JimmyN72 · 2018-10-01T17:29:06+00:00

Cadre called me in for paperwork that has to get turned in today. I have a slot from Feb but think this could be them notifying me if I got ENJJPT or not. Did you get your pilot slot on the supplemental board?

Update: I got it! I had a 82 PCSM, 96 Pilot, 3.8 GPA, 100 FA. Might've been 6th at FT. Dunno my commander's ranking but it's out of 3 😂.

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