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Imagine your friend watched an unreliable weather report and was convinced that the weather over the weekend would be bad. Instead he wakes on Saturday to clear skies and 80F. You tell him to join you for some fun outside but he refuses to even consider it and doesn’t even look out his window. Instead he stays inside, tells everyone on social media how bad the weather is and complains about how it is only getting worse and the weather is probably really bad in the next town over. When friends say “look outside, it’s gorgeous” he tells them they are idiots and he knows more about weather than they do, they must be watching the wrong weather channel and they are not empathetic to the suffering of the people affected by the weather. Finally he looks outside and sees neighbors returning from boating on a sunny day realizing it was nice...but is upset.....he doesn’t own a boat as nice as theirs and what about the people who don’t own a boat at all? How could they enjoy a sunny day? This is how I feel around my Democrat friends post 2016 election.

Saw this on an airline FB page this morning and thought it was oh so true and worth sharing as it captures the difference perfectly. Shared without consent so hope he’s not pissed. “I just got my new Delta ID. (It's been nearly 2 years already!?) It reminded me of the process required to get a new military ID. Block yourself off for at least a couple hours so you can sign in at MPF and then wait for 30-45 minutes for your turn to see a "technician." Then, sit in a chair and watch an overweight civilian with 13" acrylic fingernails or an 18-year-old scared of his own shadow peck away at an archaic computer for 45-60 minutes, waiting for that golden moment when you finally get to enter your new (not new) pin into the keyboard twice (and then twice again when the tech pushes the wrong button and needs you a do-over.) These two processes contrasted so sharply I can't help myself: I got a pop-up a few days ago when I signed in to the company system to trade the trip I was scheduled to fly for one that better fit my personal whims at the time. (No requirement to as Top 3...or any other human being...for permission on the schedule change.) The system said the ID would be delivered to my Chief Pilot's Office this month. (I hadn't even realized that it was going to expire.) "Good deal," I thought, "I'll have to look for that in a few weeks." As I was walking past the CPO to start work today I figured I might as well stop on by...on the off chance it's already there. Sure enough! Hand the secretary my old card, put the new one on my lanyard. Done. Wait! No forms to sign? No new picture required? No waiting? And this gets me into some of the most strictly secured infrastructure in the world? Yep, have a good day! (Big smile.) Pay: far better Flying: far more Time at work: far less Overall life stress and frustration: lower, beyond compare This job doesn't suck.”

I bet 90% of those parked in the desert would start right back up. You’d just need to have someone there to bounce on the wing a couple of times during engine start.

Bring back the Tweets

Let's cut funding/programs, as long as my program doesn't get cut.

Can we rename “defense spending” to “throw our money in the gutter trying to help third world Islamic shitholes become livable by western standards in futility spending” ?!? I’m pro military spending but we absolutely waste a ton of tax dollars.

Can they call it Ministry of Vigilance so we can be more Orwellian about it?

Finally got this figured out. For anyone who gets into this issue in the future: contact the OTS registrar and they'll forward the issue up the proper channel.

The first part was MPF.

Had a similar occurrence a few weeks ago regarding parking reimbursement. My company will pay for close-in hourly parking when a reserve is called in with less than 3 hours to push. I had it happen twice in December so I used my credit card to the tune of about $110 - no big deal. Fast forward a couple of weeks and I had some time to hang out in the lounge so I submitted my parking receipts to our base coordinator with nothing but my name and employee number written on them. Within 10 minutes I had an e-mail pop up on my EFB saying the request for reimbursement was submitted. The money was in my account 5 days later. It made me chuckle to think of how this process would have worked in the military. Meanwhile, on the Guard side, I still haven't received payment for a 2-day off-station trainer I did in November because of some fuck-up in DTS that was beyond my control. Citi-Bank has already mailed me two notices of non-payment and somehow I haven't lost a bit of sleep over it.

They're still out there. Unfortunately, like somebody said in this thread or elsewhere about the selective service gig, if you're just now moving to a major airline base and want to work PIRR nearby, get in line. There's seemingly been a mass exodus from the operational world in the last 6-9 months and everyone is trying to get out of the cockpit and keep their points. If you are going to commute to your airline gig from somewhere less densely populated with ties and short sleeve shirts, then you might have a shot.

There is a thread started on that topic here. https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/18929-irr-opportunitiespoints/?page=2 Would be nice to get a refresh from anyone doing this currently.

Yes but now we leave the CFS pins in so that doesn’t occur.

Surely you won't mind if I source check your "unbiased facts in public record"...can you specify what "fake" dossier claims were used as evidence in a secret FISA warrant request? Are you concerned that the FBI was able to produce enough evidence to convince a FISA court there was probable cause Carter Page was involved in criminal activity with foreign agents? Law enforcement gets leads from everywhere...why would the dossier be treated any different? Given Steele's background, he was likely a credible source to the FBI. Simpson testified to congress that the dossier was taken seriously because of how many details corroborated the ongoing FBI investigation. The FBI did their job of investigating and requesting a warrant through a FISA court. If you have a complaint about the FISA court process and what their standard for probable cause is, then by all means lets have a public discussion about what power we've given these courts. To say the FBI broke the rules and somehow pulled the wool over a FISA court judge who was appointed by SCOTUS Chief Justice is a very strong charge with little supporting evidence. Nunes is trying to drive a narrative that the FBI is tainted and being used for political purposes...which is rich when you compare the 2016 coverage of Clinton's emails vs Russian interference. For all the "collusion" the DNC did to dig up the Russian interference they sure did a bad job of actually weaponizing it for political purposes. The memo will come out in a few days, and it will be red meat for you and the rest of the (R) base. Crafted by one side to support a narrative, while conveniently leaving out the full picture. In the end the FBI convinced a judge there was probable cause Carter was up to no good, and were allowed to look into it. I see no reason to doubt the system worked the way it was intended.

I was a safety guy during part of my time at Vance as a T-6 IP. I saw first hand what the CFS does to masks, flight suits, and skin after it is fired (inadvertently...oops) in flight. I would fly with it down for awhile especially in the summer when it was hot, but not after seeing the results of a blown CFS. NFW I would step foot in that jet if the answer was, "Just fly with your mask down."

If you would have told me as an 18 year old how bad the AF sucked, I would have just said to myself that you must have not been a very good pilot/officer and it won’t happen to me. Unfortunate but true.

Any other folks get HIANG invites and care to share package details?

Nope. My fiance is a member and teaches for the LAUSD. Contrary to the popular trope, they're toothless. If an administrator wants you gone, pack your bags. That he already has baggage from the past makes it that much easier.

I just emailed them about it this week. They said they are still finalizing everything and will have more info early feb.

He set up his family in the family business, who isn't to say he's setting up his family for politics. She has a very active role in day to day business of the white house, some would call that experience. I think he is setting up her to run for president, she's a bit more liberal than her dad, so putting 2 and 2 together.

Not tracking

I think what pisses me off even more than his blatant veteran bashing is that his tirade appeared to be directed at, or because of, a student wearing a Marines sweatshirt. Ya know, if you want to come at me with your stupidity, fine, I'll stand toe to toe and argue your points down until I'm blue in the face. But seriously, what kind of low life piece of shit browbeats a student?

Go under blue four news, then scroll down to the Mishap Summary Briefs (MSB). It should be one of the top two

The many shots of the democrat party not acknowledging the good news happening in our country is quite telling. The Congressional Black Caucus not even clapping at the lowest black unemployment on record and many other instances of failing to support our country’s successes. It really makes you wonder who they are serving because to me it looks like they care about illegal immigrants more than they do their supposed constituents. I dislike the path to citizenship because I think anyone here illegally should never be allowed to vote. I also dislike the $1.5T infrastructure plan, because just like the stimulus it will add to the debt and will lead to wasteful/fraudulent spending. Other than that I thought it was pretty good.

Has the worldwide gouge that coffee makes you crap not reached the Viper community? Interesting. On deployment, immovable schedule item is the pre-Flight shit. All other events are subject to change except that. Any items that can enable a more regular and enjoyable constitutional would be welcome in a care package.

Normally I charge extra for that and get my money up front. Off the top of my head: 90+ pilot/90+ pcsm/ 3.5+ GPA/ 250 flight hours

Actually funding the war and overseas contingencies by raising taxes, whether individual, corporate, or both. This avoids the problems with mandatory service or a draft, while making everyone have some ownership of what our country is doing overseas (through their pocketbook). Don't like paying more taxes? Well, better start writing your congressman or senator and let them know that you don't believe what we are doing is worth the cost. What if the president exercises his power to do short term engagements? Well, he'd better start talking to congress to fund the long term sustainment of the fight. Added benefit, if OCO funding wasn't bottomless, maybe we won't have stupid deployments updating PowerPoints and making coffee.

Around the 8 year mark.

I’d hate to see what the O-3s got... :-D

Duh, I stand corrected, Liquid oxygen has a density of 1.141 g/cm3 (1.141 kg/L or 1141 kg/m3) and is cryogenic with a freezing point of 54.36 K (−218.79 °C; −361.82 °F) and a boiling point of 90.19 K (−182.96 °C; −297.33 °F) at 101.325 kPa (760 mmHg). It's great for cooling down six packs also.

The only time I'm a doctor is when I'm talking to a hot chick at a bar... But, from what I recall the actual doctor saying, the hyperoxia (oxygen poisoning) theory explains that breathing (in this case) 95% oxygen on the ground when usually we'd be breathing ~21% might be a bad thing. Our OBOGS-equipped platforms we fly are able to deliver 95-100% O2 on the ground, and in military flight, the mask is supposed to be on during checks/taxi. So on the ground, this leads to "absorption atelectasis". (From Wikipedia) Since oxygen is exchanged at the alveoli-capillary membrane, nitrogen is a major component for the alveoli's state of inflation. If a large volume of nitrogen in the lungs is replaced with oxygen, the oxygen may subsequently be absorbed into the blood, reducing the volume of the alveoli, resulting in a form of alveolar collapse known as absorption atelectasis. In flight, this leads to acceleration atelectasis and pulling G's can cause the base of the lung to collapse. So basically, drastically changing the composition of your alveoli on the ground, then going up and being exposed to O2 concentrations that vary between 60-80% during flights where you do multiple altitude changes is causing hypoxia (that's the theory at least). Now take a jet like the F-15 where LOX and a diluter-demand regulator is used... At 10k' altitude, 25-50% O2 (by volume). At 20k' altitude, 40-65% O2. Finally, around 28-30k' altitude, the regulator stops diluting the incoming oxygen from the LOX bottle and 100% O2 is delivered for those altitudes and higher. LOX jets historically have a MUCH lower (reported) percentage of hypoxia events per flight hour. Anyways, none of this is my research, but I just thought those basics were very interesting especially given the OBOGS issues in the T-6 (and across multiple other platforms as well).

Didn’t you hear, “any risk is acceptable cause the CSAF said so,” according to the Aircrew Crisis Task Force.