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90% a noone cares but evaluators do talk and almost always sit on TRBs so it will help your consideration for upgrades. Also worth noting some communities hand these out more regular than others, which means if you apply to a for hire flying board like U-2 or B-2 they may be taken with a grain of salt, may not. Just depends how they are doing their hiring and who is reviewing the FEFs. I guess what I'm getting at is, it's great you got these! It means you are doing well, studying like you are supposed to and you should be confident in your ability to progress in your flying career. However, my overall point being don't expect these to be some mystical rocket ship that catapults you to special operations fighter pilot or general officer overnight. Take it more as a sign to continue what you are doing and you will be rewarded with more positive things in the future.

*yawn* this whole discussion is a same ol same ol. Two neoliberal corporatist cartels squabbling over labels and cultural issues that don't put food on the table, yai. "Normie" Americans get what they vote for. Now back to lurking this thread for another 4 years, y'all have fun with the kabuki show.

Just hope that the AF actually gets the EX lol.

Meh. Still, cool to spend a few hours watching fighters on fat tires go stupid fast.

Yup but one company with their money has already done most of the homework

And all that’s needed to get this from vaporware to prototype is a cool $50M courtesy of US taxpayers.

A. He's not "my boy." I think Stone is a loathsome human being. B. You really aren't very good at this. Roger Stone arrest raid conveniently covered by CNN.  A full-up tactical team to take down a old man.  Nice...

I’m really hoping the west coast gets the F-15EX...

But OP, again, if you don’t want to “spend time in a vault” and have to brief/debrief for a lot of time versus the time actually spent in flight and be held accountable for your performance please stay away from ACC/AFGSC.

For the most part, noone cares. However, there may be a time in your career where you may apply to a job where they will actually read through your FEF (Guard/Reserve unit). So keep being a good pilot. It may help you one day.

Are you talking about the MAJCOM course or the new AETC course. Because I've done the AETC one and it was phenomenal. It needs to be taught at ROTC, SOS and at least once or twice more in there. Summary of the course: "How to be a better human being to people."

They are removing ~44 aircraft from service. The rest have/are receiving a rewing to extend their lifespan. The aircraft removed are mostly AD because the guard has mostly lower hour jets. Some of the guard units are receiving F-35s/other aircraft and their A-10s are going to AD. If you get in the A-10 you will likely do a few ops assignments if you don’t try to transition, and then eventually transition to the F-35. If you desire to play the role of CAS/CSAR/FAC(A) then it is, by far, the best aircraft to go with. Things are currently winding down in COIN, but the A-10 has been the most kinetic jet in the COIN fight, with the 354FS recently returning the most kinetic deployment (OFS 2019) since the early days of the Afghan conflict. The first time you are at a TIC, employing the gun within 20-50m of friendlies is a pretty rewarding experience. We were regularly winchestering the jet during Syria (a jet that has 11 hard points and carries more weapons than the whole formation of vipers).

Two good things for America, I believe. One yesterday, one today. Yesterday, the current Administration announced it had brokered a deal for diplomatic relations establishment between UAE and Israel. That's a very significant development. Today, the first guilty plea occured in the Obamagate investigation. An FBI lawyer pled guilty to intentionally altering a document that was used to renew, again, one of the bogus FISA applications on the Trump campaign. While I'm too cynical to believe that any of those "too big to fail" will ever perform a perp walk, that fact that a worker bee is being held accountable might, just maybe, be a hindarance for future wannabe hop on board the corruption train riders in our government. I do hope there will be more such items to follow.

The initial speed of shock waves (I believe shock waves slow down over time/distance traveled) generated by explosives is complicated and somewhat based on the detonation velocity of the particular explosive involved (way to complicated for my old ass to remember/figure out). Here's a couple examples (relative effectiveness is based on a TNT equivalent = 1.0): - Ammonia Nitrate (fert grade), detonation velocity 2,700 m/s, relative effectiveness .42; - ANFO (explosive grade), detonation velocity 5,270 m/s, relative effectiveness .74; - TNT, detonation velocity 6,900 m/s, relative effectiveness 1.0; - C-4, detonation velocity 8,040 m/s, relative effectiveness 1.37; Some basics; If you're a good distance away from a large detonation but still within the hazard zone/footprint - typically the first thing to hit your location will be earth shock, followed shortly by the shock wave/boom - plus some frag. If you're really close to ground zero, everything happens so fast you won't remember what hit you first.

I’m very interested in what you find out about the U-27.

That is a terrible list for not wanting to spend time in a vault.

Yep. I thought we had kinda gotten better about this in the last few years, and then I watched a person in our wing who is tactically dangerous and useless, who prioritizes qweep above flying at all junctures, and essentially needs as much flying oversight as a CGO that you give to senior officers get pushed for tons of awards and receive a top push line.

Of course he’s not your boy, now. Doesn’t fit your narrative. Go back to your echo chamber. Uh, the Feds don’t come to your door with one agent and ask you to come out nicely.