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Like a stone. Technically Audioslave. Sue me.

We currently have 2 former CV-22 students in the MC-J pipeline; they got non-vol’d to us after last years stand down. Poor guys went all the way through New River and most of the way through the ABQ CV-22 sim before they were swapped. Tough time to be an Osprey guy right now.

@QUAG thanks lol! I’ve been refreshing this site every two hours, my wife don’t want to listen to me no more on this…you guys are all I got now till they release results!🤣

At the moment Ospreys only drop from Rucker, that said, the community is undergoing tremendous change right now, who knows what is possible. While its a super cool airframe, it is one I would avoid right now. There is so much uncertainty and so few flying hours to go around, I cannot imagine it will be a healthy place for the young pilot development until it stabilizes.

Every once in a while, you gotta do a Bloodhound Gang night. Uhn Tiss Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo And the famous, Bad Touch.

This instantly teleports me back to my college days. Good to see Soundgarden still going strong even without Chris. For 1000 Baseops points: If you could describe the event at 19:15 using only the name of a Soundgarden song, what would it be?

The irony of that post is gold. Pretty sure it was a United crew that almost Asiana'd a triple siete out of Maui.

Thanks for the replies fellas.

We’ve survived the first technical week of January! I reviewed results from the previous years to try to collect some truth data. 2021 16 FEB 2022 11 JAN 2023 10 JAN 2024 25 JAN note that these are the official posting dates. WG/CC’s have access up to 7 days prior to this posting date. Hang in there dudes and dudettes! nervously, QUAG

2025 is already off the scales crazy. The Vegas Trump tower bomber claimed to have insider knowledge about the East Coast drones and China. Weird AF. Current, qualified, well-regarded Green Beret in good standing with his bros. Also claimed he was a whistleblower for war crimes committed by the US. There is also a claim that Iranian made MANPADS have crossed the border into the US and are unaccounted for. Wow.

You have a point well but over 70 years has past since the end of the Chinese Civil War, they have defended their island and they have established their national and cultural identity separate from the authoritarian power on the mainland When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. This will suck when it eventually goes kinetic, we will be attacked physically on our homeland by them and we will be significantly poorer even if we win initially, they will come back for a round two if that happens but the price is worse if we do nothing Computer chips, sovereign debt… whatever, it is who leads this planet that is going to be determined by a conflict over Taiwan We can pretend it’s not, we can say even if we lose a war over it we will still prevail but I don’t think so. Vietnam, Afghanistan were not the same animal as this would be overt direct confrontation with our rival. If we fight and we lose Taiwan (by we I mean the fractious coalition that is the Free World) then the Islamic world, the Global South and others will cut deals with the PRC to their liking Like it or not we have to be able to win and to recognize yes we are sticking our nose around the world in a dispute that a point can be made we shouldn’t but there is time when we should, the distinction between those is not always clear like art vs pornography but you know when you see it This is one of those times Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hacker is the fucking man!

I support some pressure, more than $0, but way less than the $Bs we’ve been slinging like candy on Halloween as of late. As you know, we can and should exert diplomatic and economic pressure to achieve the goals you’ve mentioned. Dumping billions at the rate we have been is not required at this point. In line with this, we need to reprioritize - not saying turn back totally on UKR/RUS, but we have other huge problems that could use the effort and money that is going to UKR in various forms, so scale back on Eastern Europe and refocus some (not all) of that energy and funds on other problems that should be a higher priority.

Hello all, This is more of a "curiosity killed the cat" post, and a post that may have been answered somewhere I cannot find on this forum, so my apologies in advance for the weak searching capabilities. Cutting to the chase, how does CV-22 Osprey assignments happen out of pilot training. I have read that dropping the Osprey only occurs out of the newer HTN training pipeline, but I have also read that you can drop the Osprey from the T-38 and the T-1 through the typical T-6 UPT. Could a UPT grad for example, drop the Osprey from say the T-1 track? I look forward to reading any and all information given, -Random

Soviet perspective. I think you meant to say Soviet perspective. Let's "re-imagine" that civil war being fomented, enabled, and supported by a neighboring superpower with a Communist ideology. Beginning in the early 1900s, with the help and assistance of that greater superpower, they begin undermining your democratic / nationalist / republican movement whilst simultaneously taking advantage of the chaos imparted by the second world war and a maniacal enemy that was running roughshod over your territory for the last 10 years. Now, "imagine" losing that war to said forces. This is not nearly as simple as you imagine it or as simple as your analogy presents it. You can argue that the US and USSR should have stayed out. Neither of us did. In the end, this is still about what it has always been about: opposing Communism and authoritarians.

I forgot about this one.

The fat SrA that torched himself for Palestine made the Green Beret's suicide look rather weak.

Don’t forget about the global chip foundries and economic gains they can’t control because it isn’t theirs. I fully understand the argument you presented, but because I’m an American asshole I think Taiwan is a hilarious highlight to the PRC’s second tier global status. They are trying the Japan 1940 playbook to expand their exclusive economic clout…but don’t even have a handle 100 miles off their own coast. Makes me happy. I’m sure it will come back at us at some point unless we significantly change course to maintain our global status, but at least I am amused for now.

I find it interesting how few people recognize the Chinese situation from the Chinese perspective. All too many folks think the Chinese are acting like expansionist trying to conquer the world starting with Taiwan. While they do want to be a great power and their actions in Africa, South and Central America are more expansionist, when it comes to Taiwan they a completely different motivation and one you might actually agree with if we put it in U.S. terms. Imagine if there was a big civil war in the united states and you kicked the other side's ass and chased them all the way to California. With the help of another peer nation the surviving army got on boats and airplanes and took over Hawaii. Would we view Hawaii as anything other than U.S. territory? Would we be upset if the peer nation signed a defense of Hawaii pact with the invaders? In simple terms that is what happened and why they want Taiwan back.

I am just an internet troll but if I were POTUS I would keep the pressure on for a bit longer. If we go all stop and Russia gets to keep all the land gains Putin can declare victory. Access tot he Black Sea is one of the keys to a prosperous and self-sustaining Ukraine. Losing the Crimea was a big hit, Putin has pushed hard at Kherson and everything around the Tendrivs'ka Gulf because it lets him hold all sea-born Ukraine trade at risk...he effectively controls the black sea. If Ukraine gives up other land but gets some of the coast back then we have good grounds to end it. Putin is feeling the pain, I would keep the pressure on until he is willing to give up more.

I find it interesting how few people recognize the asian situation from the asian perspective. Japan, Korea, the PI, Thailand, Vietnam ALL have a LOT more options than US or no US. They can just as easily comply and submit to the Chinese by way of not interfering with Chinese expansion. For an extreme example: Imagine what would happen if Japan decided that the US can't use offensive forces from Okinawa anymore. Yes, that's an extreme example that IMO will NOT happen, but options like that do exist for all these countries. Consider what would happen if the PI came to it's own agreement with the Chinese where they simply refuse US basing rights in particular places for mild territory concessions by China. All these countries have their own agendas, and they all view 'sovereignty' in a very different way than we do. The list of these kinds of 'what ifs' is endless. In general, if they observe the US taking steps away from treaties, agreements or promises made in other places, their confidence in our will to come to their aid could degrade, driving them to seek other options to secure their own interests. It's very dynamic and every single one of these countries has their own interest in mind, and being allied with the US is far from being a catch-all solution from their perspective.

@ClearedHot Rog, I get it. I’m all about what has been done to RUS, but I’m also good with acknowledging we have indirectly achieved some great shit, the RUS horse has been beat to death x69, so let’s pivot to more important things. Of course we keep an eye on things and can pivot back if necessary, but I don’t think it’s likely that’d be necessary anytime soon. @Day Man Doesn’t take much effort to find this open source info, but here’s a few items for you. There’s plenty more; #1 is a broad overview while #2 and #3 are specific examples to make the point, which is $175B isn’t simply just war materiel support, and it’s incorrect to say no money has gone to UKR that could have been earmarked elsewhere. CFR (Sep 24): Good big pic overview USAID (Dec 24): $3.4B that “enables healthcare, education, first responders, and other vital services to reach the people of Ukraine.” CSIS (May 22): $16B for economic support

This is a good article on the subject of force structure, modernization and allies / strategy for collective security TLDR: Canada needs to spend more, get the political will to do so and focus on theirs and regional security (Atlantic and Arctic) to bring what they can to NATO https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/01/canadas-military-is-slowly-falling-apart/ Id argue the same for the UK and NATO, eschew most expeditionary capabilities in favor of actually getting done significant regional / sovereign defensive capabilities USA will focus on securing the global commons and if we have allies that most can hold their own with only a modest argumentative assist from us if required, that is a feasible strategy going forward