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New Poll: Majority of Americans Approve of Sending Congress to Syria: https://www.theonion.com/articles/poll-majority-of-americans-approve-of-sending-cong,33752/

This is why you should go to airlinepilotforums.net if you want to read about the airlines.

Some of you must be having an aneurysm then when talking about this jet...

Source of the article (top-left under the pic) says this is from May 13'. This stuff is circulating the net now, and highlights why we shouldn't be acting on assumptions or bombing whomever we think did it.... not yet anyway. Tough to be all red liney and righteously judgemental now, when there have been reports of these kinds of attrocities circulating all summer. Nothing has yet to be confirmed, no matter what leaderships confidence level is currently. We will continue to delay, they will move and harden stockpiles, we will not supply any weapons or fire on any targets and the entire world and both sides will continue to hate us for doing nothing for different reasons. This is why you stay out of other peoples civil wars. Chuck

This will be even more hilarious if, in the investigation, it turns out he was DONATING a pressure cooker to the USO to make food for troops while they waited for their flights.

US policy on Syria should be; The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy; tactically and strategically.

Vet. Packing. Quick Reaction. Puts his gun in the robber's mouth. https://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/09/04/dnt-robber-pulls-gun-on-veteran-store-clerk.kspr.html "If I had seen just one glimpse of the actual barrel, then we'd be closed right now, they'd be having to do clean up."

Look dude, it's pretty clear you're way out of your lane. Hows about you just STFU and move on, mmmkay? We all bust each other's chops when shit goes sideways, but the fact is we aren't flying 180 pax +bags from MSP to DFW. No matter what we do or how much we prepare, sometimes our shit does, in fact, stink. It may surprise you to learn that there are a few platforms out there that are responsible for more than just an ILS 16 full stop when we zip up our pajamas. Maybe not. What I do know, is that this job isn't easy, and sometimes people fuck up. Sometimes with fatal consequences. There are far better pilots than I will ever be who now have an address in Arlington, VA. I've made my share of mistakes in this business and have come out clean, but I don't confuse my good luck with invincibility. I don't know what you do, FlyBoy, but it's pretty clear your experience in a tactical environment is limited to avoiding tipping the baggers at the commissary on a Tuesday afternoon. I am fucking tired of reading posts from whiny bitches passing judgement on their brothers without so much as a tenth of an hour in their shoes. Every single community has its challenges, and until you've been there, you just don't know what they are. Those B-1 guys didn't wake up thinking they were going to put their airplane on its belly in Diego Garcia. The guy flying the C-5 at Dover didn't didn't say, "Fuck it, I only need 2 motors for this landing." How many F-16 pilots do you think decided to roll & pull into terrain? As long as there are humans defying gravity with extreme prejudice, the lucky ones will ride out their golden years knowing they got away with one at some point in their careers. Some are not so fortunate. There is one thing that I can say with confidence: flying a tactical airplane in Afghanistan is not easy. Should these guys have been able to grease that airplane on with no problem? Sure, but I can think of dozens of times that I've landed on that very runway near the end of a max duty day on the backside of a trip turn out of OAIX. I dont care how many eyes you watered on your midphase check in UPT, that shit ain't easy. It's late, and God damn this Tullamore Dew is delicious, but how about a little perspective around here, eh? Fucking hell.