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They need to issue these to future retirees during TAPS.

@ClearedHot Facts are so inconvenient for the left

The Air Heritage Museum C-123K "Thunder Pig" had an exciting landing at the Geneseo Airshow this past weekend. I believe it's the only flying C-123 on the airshow circuit (maybe the only one flying in the US). Got to tour it at Oshkosh several years ago. Neat airplane, and good people. Powered by two big radial engines, and has the pods for two J85 turbojets. Turbojets were normally used during takeoff and landing from what I understand, but are unfortunately no longer installed.

I’m not saying we’re alone in the universe, but I will say nothing that has happened, and been publicly outed/discussed, is inexplicable or as crazy as the associated hypotheses. But, there is gain to be had by letting people’s imagination run wild.

It's wild because the dudes taking the 12 year 50 k extension were probably staying anyway. So now big AF just has to pay them more. The actual crux of the retention problem is the 90% of 2nd yr majors drowning in queep who are non school selects.. reading the tea leaves that a laughlin tour or bullshit Africa 365 are in their very near future. So maybe getting paid more to fly at the airlines with precisely 0% chance of a deployment and 0% you get domiciled in Laughlin is pretty attractive. If the Air Force is actually serious about fixing retention, they need to offer stupid money in the first few years after the ADSC ends.

Awesome. Been looking for a Snake Plissken starter kit

Basically identical to this video I've seen balloons, drones, stars, planets, farmer joe in a Cessna, and airliners etc.. many times through the pod, nvgs, and with the naked eye. If you trust that I have any level of competence operating military aircraft believe me it was not any of those things.

I flew a Huey to Uranus

I found a pic of the guy.

Ah there it is. The single most dangerous word in use in America today. You got the fairness part right, but there is nothing about Justice that has to be equitable. In fact there has been nothing in the founding of this country that has desired or guaranteed “equitable” outcomes. The left really struck a home run when they realized how easily equitable could be transposed for equality and use it to confuse the masses on what we should be striving for. Btw, here’s Cornell’s definition of justice. “Justice is the ethical, philosophical idea that people are to be treated impartially, fairly, properly, and reasonably by the law and by arbiters of the law, that laws are to ensure that no harm befalls another, and that, where harm is alleged, a remedial action is taken - both the accuser and the accused receive a morally right consequence merited by their actions.” The rest of your post is idiocy honestly. Cops killing anyone they want and eradicating LGBTQ people? Could you be more of a caricature of super leftest speak?

I only have a screen shot, but will post the actual source when I can get it.

I know one guy in the tanker world that did a 365 a few years ago. In the last year, my squadron got 3x 180s—2 guys got stuck with them for ADSC/bonus reasons, 1 guy 7-day opted. I think it’s disingenuous to completely dog the AF and denigrate folks that stay in. Around the 10-12 year point, the AF is a comfortable, easy job with good pay and benefits. For some folks and their families, sticking around in the AF is the right and easy call. A close friend of mine said that for these guys, the bonus is an entitlement—almost a “thank you” for sticking around. I know I’m not a golden boy on the path, and I’ve known for at least a couple years I’m probably gonna split when the ADSC is up next summer. The bonus is too little, too late, with too many unknowns—where am I gonna PCS? Where will the AF TDY/deploy folks? What’s the next once-in-a-career thing I’ll experience?

It’s at FSS and CCs for each wing. $50k for 3-6 years (11X full time orders, excludes RPA). It’s massively better than the AD bonus, as expected.

As you know I have spent a LOT of time in Nashville and what you are saying is simply not true unless you are ignoring crime. Aside from lunatics detonating bomb laden RVs in the center of town you also have some other statistics that are counter to your assertion. In particular, violent crime is up year over year and increasing with homicide setting new records. Over the last decade homicide in Nashville is up a staggering 78%...hardly the utopian liberal hemp fest you are suggesting. Oh and according to current reports, after a 27% increase in 2019 and 2020, the 2023 homicide rate is up another 8.7% as compared to the same time in 2022...congrats! Adjusted for population and as compared to the rest of Tennessee and the nation, some sad numbers emerge. The violent crime rate in Nashville is almost double the rate of the rest of Tennessee and nearly triple the national average. The property crime and other crimes categories follow the same trend.

I’d say closer to 23-24…so essentially a dude gunning for O-6 or beyond.

Man sure a lot of Republicans who seem to hate America these days /sarcasm…only sort of. Like is Memphis the Garden of Eden or even in my top 69 places I’d want to live in the world? No. Is it a “shithole city?” Also no. Again, I don’t live there, but any one of you is perfectly able to visit Memphis, have a good time, etc. I know several FedEx folks who live on the close suburbs and they don’t seem to be having a terrible time in life. I’m still waiting if anyone wants to offer up an rationale of why there aren’t any well-run large cities governed by Republicans that the “Dem hellholes” can look up to? Why are Republicans so uncompetitive in America’s largest population centers, especially at the local level? NYC used to have Republican mayors not that long ago, why can’t y’all win anymore? Granted the current mayor Eric Adams is kind of a Republican lol 😅 It’s just funny man, I come on here saying, “American cities aren’t shitholes that are literally burning to the ground” and am called delusional, naive, etc. AND I also get tasked to defend every dumbass local political decision ever made in dozens of places where I’ve never been in charge for a single day. 🤷‍♂️ Ok. My point is y’all’s pessimism is overblown and America is a great country with some fantastic cities (and medium/small towns, and rural areas!) and if you are terminally pessimistic and scared and angry all the time I’m sorry you are going through your one relatively short, precious life that way. I fully acknowledge that I can be irrationally optimistic in life, but my god, better that than the opposite! Congrats on coming out of your bubble! I know double than number just in my current squadron alone, and this is a ANG squadron in the south, not exactly a bastion of liberals. I also 100% guarantee you’ve known more, there are just a lot of people who don’t wanna bring up liberal political views in an environment like a flying squadron that’s typically heavily right wing, and that’s ok. When the country is relatively 50/50, surely you have to recognize that many of the people you have worked with, seen in daily life, etc. have different political beliefs than you.

Looks like they posted it. PSDM 23-54. Good luck this year everyone!

Maybe they should've put this level of effort into keeping an eye on that bio lab in Wuhan.

the advice i got is to take a few instrument rides, just to get introduced to some concepts and terminology, and then just spend time getting good at vfr. I'm probably going to try and add the complex endorsement, maybe do a mountain area checkout in addition to that. I've got about a year before upt do do that, so, yeah. my 2 cents

It really just depends on what kind of person you are. You'll hear both sides of the story....bottomline if you have the right attitude and go to UPT with any Instrument knowledge at all it won't hurt, but if you plan to spend thousands of dollars that you don't have to get ahead for UPT, it's not worth it. The times it will hurt you, are if you are cocky about it and think that just b/c you may have some Inst. time behind you then you can and will quickly fall behind. Knowing about MDAs, how to read approach plates and enter holding patterns are all things that will put you a few days ahead...but that's it. Both the dudes in my class that have Instrument experience are doing just fine and not really struggling b/c they know how to fly these approaches unlike those who need to learn from the begining. Maybe look into getting some ground training on how to fly some of this stuff, but flying a 152 is not really going to help you fly the T6, however the knowledge will help.

Strap me in an airplane/glider/ram-air-parachute, I'm golden. Get me up on the second rung of a ladder, and I shake like 14 year old boy flashed his first set of knockers.

1. Definitely a good attitude is #1. If you can't figure something out but show a good attitude, the IPs are more than willing to work with you. 2. Various forms of studying including: group study, study by yourself, study with the TV on while eating, study while playing PS2, study with as many distractions as you can handle. Basically learn to think while being distracted. 3. Talk to others ahead of you in the program. You'll get tons of valuable info. 4. Make sure you and your classmates work as a team. NO ONE makes it through as a lone ranger. 5. Patience. 6. Stay in the books. Hope this helps. [ 10. November 2005, 20:17: Message edited by: gabe2surf ]

#153 on the list of things that you don't need to worry about and probably wouldn't understand until you get to UPT. There's some techniques, procedures, and technedures that are pretty military (and even Air Force) specific that differ from civilian flying. If you are inexperienced, it's all transparent. If you are experienced, theres a curve ball here and there, but otherwise it's all easy to adjust to. With regard to the topic of this thread, I agree that instrument training (or rating) for the sake of getting a leg up on UPT isn't worth it. If you already have some experience, be prepared to work hard at UPT regardless. If you lack said experience, be prepared to work a little harder than the experienced folks, but don't think that you'll get left behind. There are plenty of UPT grads that didn't have any experience to speak of and ended up performing as well as those who had some to start with.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." I guess you forgot the first and most significant part of the Preamble to the Constitution. Life may not be fair, but we should always be striving to ensure we achieve "Liberty and Justice for all." What does Justice mean? Justice, in its broadest sense, is the concept that individuals are to be treated in a manner that is equitable and fair. This is what people fail to remember when they say "Life isn't fair" or "Fairness is socialism" or "DEI is racism". They forget that the very first objective the Preamble states is to "Establish Justice." Even if you interpret Justice in this context to mean Justice in the eyes of the law, that still requires fairness. I cringe at almost everything the modern Republican does these days since its goes directly against the Constitution. Diminish and seek to eradicate LGBTQ+ people? That's definitely establishing justice. Eliminate programs like DEI and the ultra scary "Critical Race Theory" that seek to highlight institutional discrimination? Lots of justice there. Create a state where armed individuals/cops can essentially kill whoever they want (especially minorities) while suffering 0 consequences? Definitely a more perfect Union with a ton of justice. Denying the outcome of a free and fair election without a shred of evidence to back-up any of their claims? Dang man, those Republicans really want Justice. I could go on and on with examples of Republicans ignoring the Constitution, much like how Fourfans just ignored Prozac's post and keeps asking him "Why, Why, Why", showing an excellent example of the start of the infinite regress fallacy. No matter what Prozac types, Fourfans will just keep asking him "Why" so he can attempt to win the online argument. This is a very common tactic that weak debaters use to defend their weak positions. Definitely not surprised to see it on this forum.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/ looks like the Ukrainians did it, and the US government knew this whole time.