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There are so many kids in this position. It’s heartbreaking. Anyone who champions this trans stuff, especially in kids, is a huge POS and a truly awful human being…and too many of them are teachers, superintendents, etc.

Phrasing.

I was definitely a travel agent way before I was a USAF pilot. Hotels for the crew, check. Cars for the crew, check. Oh wait, Andrews rental car place closed at noon. Ok, we'll call three taxis. Taxi driver got arrested trying to come through the gate. Can I hitchhike to the off base rental car center? DTS approver wants to know why I didn't get a u-drive. Ok, hand it all in 14 hours later. What's that Eng? We're broke? Ok, I'll get our cars back. Let's see if the hotel has rooms - wait - it's Friday night. Now I put on my lawyer hat because the load just called from jail.

C'mon bro...don't descend into ad hominem / personal attacks. We're better than that. If there's a joke that I missed in your post, please excuse me while I go yell at some clouds.

The woke, liberal, democrat push in not only our country but in our military is sickening. And will trash our society and way of life far quicker than climate change or any other rally of the left and democrats. It’s pretty sad and scary.

I'd say that wearing a leather dog mask is a far cry from wearing a ball cap in the cockpit. I'd draw the line of distinction somewhere around leather dog mask. I don't care who/how that Col bangs. But now, how can this guy ever be taken seriously again in uniform? One more useless O6. And banging your subordinate is bad, even for gay people. This "kink" makes me think of the movie 8mm with Nicholas Cage. Edit: What pisses me off the most is thinking about our fallen being buried in that same uniform. The complete lack judgement is something I would expect from a 19 yo gunner but an O6? Really?

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/us/live-news/nuclear-fusion-reaction-us-announcement-12-13-22/index.html First ever successful fusion reaction that produced more energy than it took to make it. Game changing event.

Juan Brown currently has this pinned as a "highlighted comment" below his video. It was originally attributed to "Matt," whoever that is, and now is attributed to "Editor," although it's unclear who that is, too. That comment has 440 replies, and the video has over half a million views. As far as I can tell, it's a random comment, from a random person, and people see it pinned to a Juan Brown video and take it as gospel. Aviation and Social Media are an interesting combination. Aviation is one of those things that generally inspire people. At the same time, the barrier to actually participating in aviation is high, both in money and time. Social media fills in the gap for a lot of people - you can look at YouTube and consume all kinds of aviation-related media (some of it of incredibly high quality). At the same time, "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" holds true. Chuckleheads like Juan Brown and Dan Gryder race to post on YouTube with a video collecting the available footage and data from an accident. They present things in a digestible fashion for the general public. But then they jump off the deep end and add their wild-eyed editorializing. When they're wrong, there is no penalty. When they're right, they get to tout to the online masses about what great aviators and detectives they are. There is almost no downside for them. They both found this new niche of "YouTube Aviation Accident Investigators," so I think a lot of their popularity is that they're first in the space. I can only hope better competition comes along.

Don’t forget any and all commercial freight haulers in the state of California… That really ought to help the supply chain issues if we can’t truck from port to place of use/sale. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thats what the hose up the ass is for.

>>>-GO-NOLES-;;->

BQZip's Dad?

Thanks. I thought I might be reading an old Senate version with the $75K Bonus verbiage in it. Funny, as a $75K bonus might have been just enough tp actually make a dent in retention. A $50K bonus likely isn't enough to move the needle at all from where we are currently IMO. As usual, the US Gov't cheaps out...

It doesn't stop at the Army!

That'd be "Admiral" to you, M2.

What is the point of this DMartin17? If its a venue to vent, fair enough but this seems very LPAish. Yes, you're going to have a shitload of additional duties. Yes, pilots hate them and are no kidding getting out because of them. I fail to see the point of this thread.

Biden is a puppet. What genderless moron is really pushing all of this crap? It's a freak show in the White House. The party of "Science". Fing Clowns.

O-6 taking pictures of his junk in uniform, having sex with an O-3 in his chain, and publishing all of it on Twitter? Let me ask you... would you have a problem if an airman in your squadron wore various parts of their uniform while making OnlyFans content? Would you have a problem with an airman in your squadron wearing a mask in uniform at work?

Ok...What the actual F!....more importantly through what twisted route to the end of the internet did you find yourself on that webpage. Of all the things I do not know, I am saddened that is no longer one of them.

Usaf PowerPoint Specialist Because no-one can fly without a slideshow

In the Air Force you’re actually a finance officer first, a personnelist second, a logistics officer third, an amateur pharmacist fourth, a security forces officer fifth, a lawyer sixth, and a pilot, oh, I dunno, maybe tenth?, twelfth? Because….all of the people who are supposed to be doing all that other shit have gone home for the day by the time you’re back from your flight.

"Unfortunate"...When a U.S. senator hols that view of the military...sorry I won't just let him cook. Sorry bro but racism is NEVER ok.

I have a friend that came to the U-2 at Beale in early '94 and retire in Nov 2014, having never PCS'd. Yes he flew the entire time. While he is the extreme, we do have pilots that stay flying at Beale. In many cases, they will PCS to one of our overseas locations for 1-2 years, and then come back. I did 12+ consecutive years at Beale on my third U-2 tour.

I remember hearing guys talk about a new ops building that would be built on our base "within the next few years." That was in 2002 and we still don't have that building...and the project has already been pushed into the next decade. I expect full flight pay for DSGs to go about the same way lol. Free beer....tomorrow.

“In the Navy, you’re actually a seaman first, then a pilot second because you are what you eat”

In UPT, I Launched out in a T-38 as #4 in a 20 second trail departure in crappy weather to about FL200. Broke out on top, picked up a visual on #3, plugged in the blowers and started climbing to catch him. After some time climbing and approaching the top of block, my feeble brain comes to the conclusion something ain't right about the time I vis ID "#3" as an Evergreen International 727. Oops. Rolling the jet on its back, I see the other 3 jets about 4000 feet below me and I'm hoping they didn't notice as I rejoin. All my IP said was "Nice recovery."

Pilots antagonized by occupational peers they deem clout whores? Shocker. Ain't that like, Tuesday in a fighter squadron? Don't answer that. 😄 #rhetorical

“Known facts” lol The problem with Juan (and anyone in this space who doesn’t wait for the final mishap report to be released before speculating/ drawing conclusions on it) is that those “known facts” aren’t really known yet. I am certain that neither of these gentleman were in the brief, have any airshow experience at all, etc. So when they take the data that they have found on the internet as gospel and treat it as fact then the conclusions they draw, however minute or inconsequential, are therefore fruit of the poisoned tree. An example: there is a reason the FAA does not reply upon FlightRadar24 ADS-B position data to issue flight violations - it’s known to be just inaccurate enough that no inspector is going to hang their hat on its fidelity. But from many of these video’s aircraft airspeed airspeed/ heading/ altitude/ ground track is “known” because look at this fancy screenshot I found online. Nope.. Anyway, maybe I’m being a snob about all of this, but if feels absolutely scummy to sell one’s poorly-informed speculation as fact (on a fatal mishap, mind you) and then in the next breath mention Patreon and all the ways your are digitally begging for money from your viewership. If these individuals truly care about flight safety and respecting the memories of the fallen then I believe they would wait until the final report is issued (in a year or more, the horror) and then they can break down that report to their hearts content. Anything less than that is a disservice to all involved.

I think it’s legitimately possibly Gryder is mentally ill; if I’m being charitable, struggling deeply with profound personal issues and this is all an elaborate cry for help..

Not sure, but I bet FSU is glad they did.

TBH I think wearing mask in a clinic actually makes since and probably should stick. Not just COVID, but really healthcare facilities are places sick people conjugate. Mask are effective with some types of illness. I would like to see our culture change a bit where people do start wearing mask when they have the sniffles and work centers become more tolerant of sick leave. I'm tired of this societal nonsense that you should tough it out when you're sick and go to work spewing snot everywhere. Not talking military here but mainstream society. Everywhere else though.... Yeah get rid of it.

You know what would be revolutionary though.. if we actually buy the number of them we said we will

Note that both of those individuals served. We most definitely need more of that. Amazing what you can do when you realize you have some common goals even if you disagree on how to get there.

I'm guessing you didn't listen to the podcast. Yes, I'd like those guys as well. I seriously hope Trump doesn't get the RNC's nomination so a rational adult with a concept of humility can run instead. But I digress. Gabbard clearly doesn't fit in any red or blue box. Important to me personally: Listening to her speak her opinions in a long form setting it's obvious, she's not a tyrant. Sure, I'd prefer a more conservative leader. But she actually learns and is willing to change her opinions on topics. If she's willing to grow and evolve, I think she deserves the benefit of the doubt. Where she used to stand is not where she's standing now. What's more, I'm willing to bet that she has a rational reason for each of her positions. Like an ACTUAL rational, thought out reason. Political figures like that today are few and far between. I'll gladly take an 'opponent' like that instead of Fetterman, Biden, or Pelosi any day. We as conservatives are going to have to realize that finding common ground to move forward as a nation first requires us choose NOT to die on EVERY SINGLE HILL in the political landscape. It requires persuasion and compromise. (yes there are hills to die on, such as transing kids, and teaching CRT to the military, vaccine mandates, etc... but I didn't see any of those big ticket items on your list, but then, everyone's list is different) I specifically hope to see the Democrat party lean more like Gabbard, and the Republican party lean more like Crenshaw. Going hard over Left or Right only leads to tyranny. Yes, the Left is going absolutely nuts right now in our country, but people forget that the Right can do that just as bad. The 50's red scare was very much a product of the political Right, and it led to horrific tyranny of a sort in our country. I'm a history nerd, and I see a lot of parallels in the Right's media narrative leaning that way right now. It's not healthy. I'd enjoy listening to Gabbard and Crenshaw debate all those topics you listed. I'll have to see if they've podcasted together.

Oh how quickly we've forgotten.....

Yea it's all cost-benefit analysis and that can be hard to do in real time, at massive national scale, when there's no centralized power to act, etc. Every Monday morning QB who thinks they could have done so much better and also convinced ~330m people to actually do what they recommended is almost certainly kidding themselves. Policy is hard and we should have an effective debrief so we can do better next sortie. Shit, ask China how their zero-COVID policy is going right now, and their government already exerts WAY more control of their population than ours! All the hyperbolic responses of both the extremely, weirdly cautions public health folks and the hardcore anti-vax, anti-government folks are missing the mark IMHO. Implementing smart, risk-aware precautions is pretty much always a good idea and both individuals and governments at all levels should absolutely be empowered to do that. At this point though, few anti-COVID measures make sense beyond whatever people want to do voluntarily and encouraging folks to get the vaccines, both against COVID, the flu, RSV, all the things. Each of those is a total bitch...RSV recently worked its way methodically through my entire household and it really sucked for my new baby even though it was fairly mild for the rest of us. Again, China is super heavy handed on their lockdowns but weirdly only like 25% of their elderly folks are vaccinated against COVID...that's a really stupid policy and the exact opposite of what they should be doing, and people there are starting to get pissed. I'm excited about work that's being done on a pan-flu vaccine building on some of the advances we learned making the COVID vaccines, it will be great to have more weapons against all the respiratory viruses out there. Despite what a lot of folks here believe, the COVID vaccines were developed super fast and were very effective at preventing COVID deaths, which is great! Hats off to Warp Speed and the people behind those vaccines. The takeaway from this pandemic absolutely should not be that "precautions didn't make a difference" because like @Pooter said, measuring the counterfactual of "what if we did absolutely nothing" is really hard. There will likely be more pandemics in my lifetime, and I plan on doing the best cost-benefit analysis I can in order to balance staying safe, alive and disease-free with living a free and fun life that's a big part of why being an American is awesome.

I don't accept a whole lot of mandates. And that makes me a weirdo. And that's too bad. You have demonstrated over and over that you love mandates. You are bringing them out of the woodwork. You love mandates, they make you feel comfortable. I wish they didn't. I wish you still had an ounce of pioneering blood in you. I wish you still had a fighting spirit. And I wish you never flew on the B-1.