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Did AA recurrent training last month and they had a compilation video of vehicles hitting jets or almost hitting jets. The total number of hits on aircraft was over 200. My personal favorite was a high speed baggage tug dragging several carts and the driver makes a sharp turn thus throwing himself out of the tug. And, as our intrepid driver collects road rash bouncing and rolling across the concrete, the now driverless tug and carts careen into another tug and carts. I'm guessing we aren't hiring our best and brightest for these jobs. But it is nice to know that those guys can just swipe a card to enter the airport secure area while 50% or better of pilots are getting tagged for additional screening.

A preface to the story. My daughter was four years old. She had watched me pack my bags for for countless trips . I always came home. While packing my bags for DS she came to me with her favorite little teddy bear and put it in my helmet bag. She said "here daddy he will take care of you". I smiled and hugged her. Somehow she knew something was different. That little bear is still in my helmet bag and I've carried it to this day on sim training and observation flights. People ask why I don't get a new bag because this one is pretty ragged. I can't, the bear is still in there. Your kids know

Balloon funny

Seventeen years on gunships, first 3 1/2 as a gunner, never seen the naked gunner hug. On a man anyway. I have seen naked gunners in the showers at various locations, there were no hugs. The initial dedication of Spectre Island had a couple of pavelow dudes, they paid respects without nakedness. I retired in Y2K, what the hell happened after I left. Chugging beers from a prosthetic leg? Not sure I could do that. Drank Jim Mays moonshine from a skull that Wayne Fisk brought to a Spectre Reunion. He said it was a VC skull from Viet Nam.

I never got why these exist below O6 and Chief. Below those ranks, absolutely no one else cares what rank you retire as, but it’s insulting to the service member to be “demoted” in retirement. The whole thing seems dumb to me.

There's a drunk Lt buried somewhere beneath that group of massive women.

Pic taken of the object by the KC-46 Remote Vision System.

Always out of fucking position.

Having the time of his life…until reality sets in the morning.

@FourFans130 and @jice, I was being intentionally a little provocative. I agree the rest of the constitution matters, but I do think the 2nd amendment is categorically unique. It speaks to the primacy of violence. Which at the end of the day, underpins every system man has created.

yeah especially the part where he said “I hope the Russian political system fails” straight from RT. ukraine has always been a corrupt nation. Funny how all the corruption magically went away once Russia invaded.

Quietly inserted into 10 USC 1370 (regular) and 1370a (reserve): TIG requirement for Maj is now 3 years for it to be held. It was 6 months, previously.

Original commission was May. Transfer with no break in service was Aug, but my anniversary in PCARS and on my record is May. Most importantly, the retirement order says 28 May 2023 in the grade of O-5. I printed that in triplicate, framed one, put one in the safe, put one in my wallet, and left the digital copy up on my desktop for 69 hours so the text is burned into the pixels.

I hope your transfer date is end of May. ARPC has been telling people incorrectly they can “retire on a partial year.” This is a gross misunderstanding of the partial year concept. A good year is 50 pts AND 365/366 days in a participating status. If you already had 20 good years yeah sure you can retire anytime you want. But if you’re in your 20th year it has to be at least 20 whole years. Partial years come into play if one has a break in service. In that case 2 partial years (presumably 1 on the front end and 1 on the back end) can combine to make 1 good year. Other than that situation, partial years past 20 good yrs only give you pro-rata membership points, but don’t have any further meaning.

As long as CAs keep flying premium solving their problems for them I doubt anything Unless APA and the AA flight crews stop flying premium they (management) are not under enough pressure Just my two cents from the outside on MLOA Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Send it to Orange County! Lol

Ostrich pose is my prediction.

Do we need to run a drive like this in support of @Biff_T and @filthy_liarfighting each other? Let me know where to send the Fireball.

I've been personally wrestling with this. The answer for traditional reserve retirement: As a TR, if you retire with paperwork that says O-4, you get O-4 pay when you finally get it at age 60. My MFP troops were kind enough to show me that in writing...no idea the reg...to make sure the fight was worth fighting. After being twice passed over, I pinned on O-5 shortly before separating for the AFRC (long story). Fast forward to me with 20 good years (a few years after joining the AFRC) and ARPC started claiming that my DOR was my accession date into the reserves, NOT my actual DOR when I pinned on while on AD. Our personnelists were entirely perplexed, but it turns out that they can't call ARPC directly. Yes, you read that correctly. There is no pipeline for base level AFRC personnelists (at least mine) to contact ARPC directly. They had to submit a trouble ticket, just like I did. They got the same answer I did: "you need 3 years TIG" with no reference or reg that states your DOR becomes your accession date. Four months and much pain later: My personnelists finally found the AFI/AFMAN/REG that states with no break in service, you keep your original date of rank. POOF! Magically my retirement order is published to retire as an O-5 at my originally requested date. ARPC is a completely corrupt clown show run by GS's who will suckle at the teat until they literally die, all the while stating as "fact" what is actually "I think I remember from back in my day the reg said..." Two UTA's left.

I love football!!

Hey look: Science from the Gold Standard of study review organizations. BL: there is absolutely no evidence that masking limits the spread of viruses. Weird when science backs up common sense. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full

I swear on the Sky trident of all the SEALs of the Sky out there, I never once saw a naked gunner hug in the Gunships community. I did have a Pavelow gunner attempt such a maneuver on several folks on my crew while deployed to Osan (back in the days when the Pavelows were still stationed there). I also saw a group of Pavelow Gunner try said maneuver on Spectre Island, right after the chugged beers from Johnny A's prosthetic leg.

The chick on the far left is certainly an expert on big balloons. Would like to do balloon research with her.

And it's spectacular.

Neither do I. But I met an Eagle driver once.

This is exactly what homeless people need, more weed and booze... Canadian city councilor asks for 'weed and alcohol' donations for homeless camp, calls the donations 'incredible' - TheBlaze It sounds like an episode of Trailer Park Boys...

Oh?

Just when he got his PTSD under control, you opened it right back up!

2014, Bundy ranch in Nevada. Armed citizens won a standoff with the feds - the feds finally just quit and walked away (I think because they ultimately knew another Waco would be really bad for them).

Two lucky dudes!

You forgot to also ask which BUDS class he was in (that’s classified by the way).

Who do I contact to have my picture removed from the internet? Asking for a friend.

At about 0625 Saudi(2125CST) time is when 03 went down. We didn't know it yet we just knew they overdue. Didn't find the wreckage untill March. I'll be toasting

I agree we should have a free press. Not one that the FBI and DOJ lean on to ensure the outcome of an election...

Damn near killed em

This whole post reads like an RT special repor…..I mean Tucker Carlson rant.

How can anyone NOT be skeptical after COVID?! the burden of proof is on the feds. They have zero credibility. “Trust the experts” turned out to be the biggest hoax/crime in US history. also the 51 intelligence “experts” who swore the Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation”. That turned out to be a lie as well.