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And they don't see it slapping them because they are so out of touch with reality. Maybe the pilots that caused his flight to cancel were home on maternity leave.

I imagine the FAA Administrator is a tough job to staff. The population of people with aviation experience at an executive level (whether public or private) is pretty small. To add, the person you nominate has to want the job. With commercial aviation reeling from Covid, Boeing's shenanigans with the MAX and 787, etc, I'd think some qualified people would respond "thanks but no thanks." However, the reality is that, in the hierarchy of qualifications for these politically-appointed jobs, experience is pretty far down the list. It's Identity Politics above all, which means the number one criteria Democrats are looking for is that the nominee either be a woman or a "person of color." When you constrain the candidate pool that much, it's no surprise that you end up with candidates who have really thin qualifications.

This administration and much of the left live in fantasy land. Reality is bitch slapping them in the face right about now.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-power-force-airlines-workers-travel-delays Industry relevant and interesting. Discuss.....

More like a PoS position.

Yeah… Congress and the services: “Unique jobs, camaraderie, quality of service… intangibles… the retirement” The free market: “I see your claims and raise you… the exact same job, same people, different intangibles (like a family), same quality of service, at 3x the pay. Retirement? Yeah, I’ve got one too; where do you dock yours in the winter?” I’m not saying staying active duty is dumb… but the market is drawing the line from A to B pretty clearly WRT compensation.

You probably could have her little beach house on a contractor's salary when that movie came out. Just like you could buy a house with just dad working at the GM plant back in the 80s.

He did a gala for my wife’s company, he was a total bro. Politics aside I love how committed he is to wounded veterans and helping them rehabilitate.

All that money Germany invested in Green energy appears to be wasted. Going back to coal! https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/20/ukraine-war-germany-turns-to-coal-as-russia-throttles-gas-supplies.html

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Sure thing, I'll call you on my phone which will be using an automatic call recording app...talk to you soon!

Meh I don’t give the air staff so much credit… Chuck

Hey Pete! Focus on the FAA! When you can get aircraft registration renewals below 5 months, let us know.

Actually most of it centered on how much the requirements are severely limiting the pool of potential applicants (several people/retired guys said they’d happily move to XL if this was a GS-13 gig). And also how much the pay would suck. And they standard wheels coming off/dumpster fire/this will work as well as the dryers downrange type stuff.

I’d take W as a CC. Probably would have pretty wild roll calls and a good party atmosphere.

Meg Ryan was the hottest chick in the orginal

Fixed that for you. Nobody fired randomly into the crowd. A reasonable, and quite forgiving, threshold for (proxy) self-defense was established by the officer and she found herself in position to be first to test it out. She was very deliberately targeted and she alone suffered the appropriate consequences. Nothing random about it. A completely disingenuous comparison as there is no reasonable expectation of threat to life. Do our enemies know that they can just waltz onto Whiteman and steal a nuke because SF can't actually do anything about it? It's just trespassing and theft, right?

This If they’re going to be “just as good” as FAIPs because they’re doing the exact same training, then why not make more FAIPs? Oh wait…they already did that a few years ago. And good luck training a civilian to the same standard as a FAIP when the civilian can only work 40 hours a week. Oh, and who is going to train these civilians?—it’s not like UPT has open seats not being filled and that PIT isn’t running 2+ months behind.

Do you know what all of those positions have in common? They don't fly and suck at executing the mission. The Air Force spent millions of dollars teaching them how to perform a combat mission. The Air Force did not spend millions of dollars to make them secretaries, which is what those positions are. Some of us refuse to play the game. I knew the Air Force was broken when they described the (old) EPR process to us at OTS. Any organization that supported that, or supports the current system is irreversibly broken. SOS only confirmed this. Remember the "Color of Money" game? I felt like I was taking crazy pills when I explained how F'd up that was. The Air Force does not exist to win wars. The Air Force exists to promote people that do busy work and tow the company line.

The Air Force doesn’t care about anything other than the strat on your OPR. I can guarantee that every aircrew member has done more and made more sacrifices than any nonner out there. We got into this mentality that everyone is the tip of the spear thanks to that tard Welsh, and won’t recover anytime soon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

She was straight up murdered. The cops own statements show that.

Video arguing the US provocated the conflict in Ukraine by pushing NATO membership. Not familiar with the author.

He teaches at Harris, which is a pretty lofty credential considering something like half the faculty there are Nobel laureates in either peace, security or economics. He's also founded and written on some theories guiding great power conflict. On his wiki bio he was also a Westpoint graduate and Army officer. Honestly, I'm reading his wiki bio now and this dude has been in the international security circles quite deep. Edit: the real hero here though is the European dude at 2:03:00 who just shit talks the EU and NATO for like 5 minutes (and he's an EU employee lol).