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The only advice I have for evaluators out there is to honor the booze bribe, you dumbasses. I was going to downgrade a dude one time (and I’m a huge Santa Claus evaluator so it was bad) and he produced a nice bottle of bourbon at the end. Q-1, no downgrades!

It’s not bribing. If you Q3 the evaluator doesn’t get the bottle, the evaluatee drinks it instead. Things like this is just weak dick leadership at Sq and Grp level.

I mean, you can’t be a military pilot and ‘not’ see Top Gun 2. I’m old enough that I remember seeing the original when it first hit the theaters. Hindsight, it wasn’t really appropriate for a young middle-school kid to hear all the swearing and see Tom Cruise thrusting and french kissing Kelly McGillis. I heard Cleared Hot and M2 saw the original as well when it first hit the theaters…right after they both retired from the Air Force, so it probably brought them back some good memories of being in the military.

This looks like a very simple set up. A well trained/experienced team of four (plus security personnel) could most likely accomplish this task in about 40 minutes or so but there could be lots of other time - consuming task/variables, particularly if installing multiple electric/mechanical triggering devices, etc. Keeping it simple = The team would have to do a detailed recon of the area/rehearse the plan of attack, prep all the demo material like cut the 5 det cord branch lines/sensitize all five det cord branch lines/check electric blasting caps/test initiation system/prep the 5 demo charges (example - M183 Satchel Charges/20lbs of C-4 each - which looks like about the approximate size of the charges used in this video), etc, etc. Next step - when the time is right the team gets to work putting everything in place IAW with the plan. Final steps/Command Detonation Mode - one person stays down range and everyone else heads to the safe area. Final hook-up takes about a minute or so = make a small hole in the ground a couple feet from the det cord main line, place the electric blasting cap/detonator (explosive end/nose down in the hole, turn the receiver switch to the armed position - most receivers have a built-in safe separation timer), after 30 second if the electric blasting cap hasn't detonated connect it to the det cord main line. Head to the safe/reviewing stand area, fire up the popcorn machine, and watch/wait for your target to arrive - then press and hold the transmitter fire button = boom.

Downgrades establish unit trends. Trends can be sourced from flight evals, testing, instructor meetings, aircrew feedback, etc. Units should tailor training to “close” trends once the training has been completed. Flight supplement evals and ground supplement evals are used to randomly gauge the unit members knowledge of open trends. These flight/ground supp evals are recorded for trend closure but don’t list the members name specifically that was given the supp eval. They are just a random snapshot to see if the training has been sufficient to close the trend. Trends are closed twice a year and are recorded via the Stan Eval Board (SEB). Downgrades on a Form 8 don’t matter for the individual (other than pride). The overall grade matters. Downgrades are key to the unit’s trends program and are actually vital to identifying bigger picture issues in the different communities.

I was beginning to think it's natural state was behind a Ukrainian farmers tractor.

My language is a little rusty but I think he said "I got you mutha fucka, and I hope I got yo mama too!"

Final Top Gun trailer. Riding in a Tomcat and a Felon cameo at 2:03. My guess: Mav and baby Goose hijack a Tomcat and fly it out of Iran. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

https://gaetz.house.gov/sites/gaetz.house.gov/files/documents/The Spook Who Cried Wolf.pdf 🤣

"Stealing Enemy Air Defenses"

I will say this about Adam. I have personal knowledge that he was extraordinarily instrumental to the evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies back in August and September. He has my respect for that.

Being an anti-Trump Republican is about as opposite from "swaying with the winds" as is possible.

Unfortunately the booze bottle to your evaluator tradition is slowly going the way of the dinosaur; have been told some FTUs are actively discouraging it. Lotta young guys don’t do it anymore.

We had an OG policy at one point that every form 8 had to have at least 2 comments: 2 commendables, 1 downgrade and 1 commendable, or two downgrades. F*cling stupid. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

While at the same time, the military is bullying it's members to take an experimental vaccine with unknown efficacy "because I said so". If the military were truly ok with non-conformity, I wouldn't hear about first sergeants yelling at troops to stop asking questions and get the shot. At heart, the military wants people to innovate, but only in a small box. In the same right, congress and the president want a military that is agile and creative, but not one that might buck their authority...even if it should when congress and the president are acting unconstitutionally. Having a soldier, who is also his/her own authority as a congressman can clearly get sticky when the soldier sees things he/she wants to change based on personal opinion, which then translates into policy decisions as the congressman. A STRONG moral compass is required.