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I'm far more impressed with the 80 million pounds than the 5 acre DZ. I guess the actual iCDS and JPADS number weren't sexy enough to mention and regular airdrop is too boring for its own article. Hopefully the next technological leap will be a DZO who can properly call winds and give a complete strike report. That'll be the day.

My answer was pretty simple, "Sure, if she's being a bitch."

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/01/air-force-suicides-rise-lead-to-standdown-013012w/ January 2012 has seen a record number of suicides across the Air Force. What does the Air Force do? Why, they schedule a 1 day stand down for additional resiliency training. How idiotic. This mindset that you can just brief away problems only causes more problems. So we have a one day standdown. During that we are reminded just how "important" we are. The Air Force can't afford to lose any one of its airmen (well, aside from the thousands they fired last year, and the additional ten thousand they are seeking to get rid of). Instead of a day off, we get another day of briefings. Monday morning we come back to more of the same. --More briefings about what needs to be briefed --More slides to create --More CBTs to accomplish --More "volunteer opportunities" --More reinvention of the wheel, and disregard of common sense --More mandatory "training" that has nothing to do with your job --More lectures implying that we're on the verge of driving drunk or raping someone (or killing ourselves) --More uniform changes and associated queep Guys who want out can't get out. Guys who stay in are constantly worried that putting up with all the queep will be met with a hearty "you're fired" from leadership that can't stand to lose you. I'm not saying anyone should kill themselves. There's always a better way, but I can understand how someone can get into a situation so miserable and desperate that the only way out that they can see is by killing themselves. Throw in some family stress that comes with multiple, endless deployments and it would be enough to push a lot of guys over the edge. The problem isn't that we aren't told enough times to not kill ourselves. Its that the root causes are never addressed. Guys aren't killing themselves because they don't know any better, they're killing themselves because they can't deal with the bullshit anymore, and they feel that nobody cares. This post may be a bit of a vent, but articles like what I linked to frustrate the hell out of me.

I see two possible answers. 1. 2. Drop a MOP, make a 360, drop a second MOP. Now your crater should be much deeper. The other option would be to put a B-61 in on the second pass, and claim it was a secondary explosion inside the target.

That shit ain't right.

But, is it ever okay to call a woman a bitch?

These two pics look way too similar, coincidence?????

Ours was Thursday. Yes, we got to go home and be "resilient" with our families after lunch. However, I lost all resiliency as I had to go in Saturday and administer 5 checkrides in the sim (I felt bad for the students). Oh, and then I spent Sunday working on another paper for my master's. Weekend gone. Resiliency my ass.

It's difficult to fly close formation when you're hypoxic.

Leave to the French to think this shit would be funny... But the bigger 'WTF' is all the 'nicely-endowed-but-shut-the-fuck-up-and-make-me-a-sandwich' women in the response videos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBkpf0NOk6I More in a second...

My third child was born while I was in tweets, and about three weeks before track-select when I went through SUPT in the early 90s . Of course, my Flt/CC knew, and accelerated me just enough that I was a little ahead of the timeline when I went on "baby watch" (meaning sims-only beginning with the due date-so the SDO could find me and get me to the hospital on time.) Her due date was a Tuesday. Fortunately, my wife gave birth on Thursday, and went into labor at 5am--so i just took her to the hospital and called the flight room at showtime to report my status. Flt/CC gave me until Tuesday off. On Monday, the mother-in-law arrived, and I was back in the jet the next day. Tip: get a trusted adult (mother, mother-in-law, sister, good friend) to come live with you guys for the week before her due date, and have them stay for ~ two weeks after the birth.

Anyone even remotely into F1 should see the documentary "Senna". Was only a limited release in theaters but available now on Netflix. Very well done with some amazing archival footage to tell the story.