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Because impressing senior officers is a completely different skillset than gaining and maintaining the respect of your subordinates. Unfortunately, only the former gets you promoted.

The ACA is a mandate. It is also a rediculously expensive step to socialized single payer. Soon docs will know what it's like to be an airline pilot! It will take your social security from you if you are say under about age 50, in my opinion, but you will keep paying FICA and pay for more expensive healthcare, of lesser quality and access, for those that have worked their life to have access to it. I was no fan of the inflated healthcare costs to give all access to at least the emergency room. I am no fan of the lack of tort reforms driving up an increment to healthcare. Since congress couldn't actually work the problems, just kick the can, it's a hollow loss and hollow victory. Unless you really travel the world, you don't know of the dollar's true decline in the last 10 years. You won't see it in your stock portfolio directly, but if you take your nice 10-20% gains and do not realize it is in part because the dollar is falling so you get more of them and are at the real average 7% gains- stay in school. The slick trick is dropping folks off full-time employment to avoid the ACA burden on employers; dropping the growth of private sector core businesses will hide in the shadows. You'll see the military shrink to a police force again, and stay there, in the next few years. Making a full time work week around 32 hours will be the final move to socializing the sheeple- of which the vocal four or so here might catch on at some point. If you lived the 32 hour work week under "this sequestration", you can only imagine what the more vocal sections of the work force will dredge up when it hits them. There won't be enough disposable income to grow the middle class or move around big business. Killing the true middle class will make us look like every other country. (edit you to "your" and expense to "expensive", plus a few cogency clean-ups. Getting lazy w/ a real keyboard and no autocorrect!)

Its simple... the need for an FE is completely dependent on the design of the airplane. F-16s don't need FEs; C-5s do. And for everything in the middle: if you've never been qualified on the airplane in question, your opinion is not valid.

I don't know why people think government intervention is the solution to inequality, big government is the CAUSE of inequality. Welfare state policies (supported in both sides of the aisle) have encouraged a culture of dependency on gov't that ensures that more and more people will become dependent on the state. Why would someone work for minimum wage when if decreases their quality of life compared to not working? The increase in welfare, food stamps, long-term unemployment, and "disability" is a documented fact. increased corporate regulation has raised the bar to starting businesses and made it tougher to complete with established powerhouses. Corporations now spend hundreds of millions of lobbyists because they know political influence is as important as having a good business model. Any doubts, research Microsoft's habits when they were fighting monopoly charges. They didn't used to spend money on lobbyists, now they do. How about GE, you can undercut your competition if you get your friends in washington to pass tax breaks/incentives specifically to help your business, thus artificially increasing profits. How about fielding new medical equipment techniques? Good luck getting through the FDA. Not to mention the billions of our tax dollars on the failed business models of "green" projects. Government power is the problem, not the answer.

Let's just say quite a bit more than your 'cyber pay' Haha!

Teach me?

Not sure what you mean by Phase 2- that doesn't exist in the Navy world. But yes, Primary studs do get lost from time to time on their first solo flying the course rules back to Whiting. They are notoriously complicated, and can be a bit overwhelming to a new stud especially in low vis. (no joke they include such directions are pick them up at the chicken ranch, turn towards the triangle of trees - which no longer contains trees - then follow the 2nd red dirt road towards the water tower, east at the factory and report the initial.) 99.5% don't have a problem though. But hey, since we're throwing stones I'm sure all of the AF "phase 2" studs fly flawlessly, and don't do anything stupid. I'd like to see them fly the course rules around a triple class C airspace and not ###### it away from time to time.

Very valid opinion there. Couldn't agree more.

Downrange, now 5+ years ago, the AEW/CC stood up in front of all of us and described how he got spatial-D at night. The WSO recovered the jet with a 10-11g pull. The guy bought pizza, as a keg wasn't possible. Class act.

Wow. To bring it back the other way, my current sq/cc sat himself for over speeding the gear by 1 knot for < 1 sec. Good leadership does exist and gives me at least a small sliver of hope. It's too bad he seems to be in the vast minority.

So you're only lagging an s&p 500 index fund by 5% and 12% respectively and paying extra for that honor? Haven't we talked about this before?

Whatever you say about the UCP, it's a billion times better than the ABU.

The best "wedding ring" story I've heard was an article in a safety magazine about a F-18 guy who had got his ring caught in the canopy and subsequently lost his finger. The best part was post-incident his squadron renamed him.....to "Shocker"

If that is what is happening in AMC, it is an absolute pile of chickenshit. Nobody ever goes out and flies a perfect ride every time. Just does not happen. If the guy could get safely to and from the target, handle an IFE, and fly an approach in order to get another jet and go out and kill more bad guys, he was good to go. Throwing down Q-3s from Mt. Olympus is an even higher level of chickenshit. UFB. Micromanagement at its worse.

Which a computer is more accurate than any human could be. I fly with student pilot's that cross flow from KC-10's, C-5's, C-130H's, etc and when asked if they missed their FE, a majority of them state that they don't and they appreciate flying in a three person crew due to the fact it's "quiet" on the flight deck compared to their previous MDS.

If the A-10 had a FE onboard this wouldn't ever happen. FWIW, I'm a MAF evaluator and I despise EPs that Q-3 dudes for idiotic queep. If they pass the "would I let him fly my family around" test, they'll typically pass, along with any Q- debrief items.

Really? You've GBSM. Part of the reason healthcare is so god damned expensive in this country is precisely because of excessive consumption...and I'm tired of subsidizing a general public that can't deal with routine illnesses without 'medical care'. Is it really necessary to see a doctor so that they can tell you to get some rest and drink a lot of fluids? Infant child has a fever? Emergency room visit. You're a healthy 24yr old who doesn't feel so good because you have the common cold? Go to the doctor and demand antibiotics. Oh, antibiotics aren't effective with a viral infection? I don't care, I've heard good things and I want them...write the prescription. Getting a wisdom tooth pulled? I need to be unconscious for that, and I want a Vicodin prescription to kill the 'pain' afterwards too, because I can't deal with some minor discomfort unless I'm heavily medicated. I've got some lower back pain because I have horrible posture and sit in front of a computer all day. I need an MRI. MRI shows nothing abnormal? Thats odd. Well I guess you should just write me a prescription for a bunch of painkillers then. Rolled my ankle playing basketball and it's mildly painful. Need an D.O. to look at it, get x-rays, give me a pain killer prescription and an air cast to immobilize it. Oh yeah, I need time off of work so that it can heal, too. Yeah. You've got the be shitting me. I'm tired of subsidizing a general public that can't deal with being a human being.

You started a great thread, and you continue to fuck it up by talking. You're on probation - let the thread continue.

Immersive training environments.