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Apparently, the U-2 disinformation campaign at the UPT bases is alive and well. To cut to the chase: - The U-2 Program is hiring. There are no plans to not hire. If anyone tells you otherwise, irrespective of their rank, they are not telling you the truth. - The U-2 Program is accepting FAIP's. We have accepted FAIPS for at least 35 years, and there are no plans to stop hiring FAIPs. If anyone tells you otherwise, irrespective of their rank, they are not telling you the truth. - We now have some wiggle room on minimum hours. So if that is a concern, call us. We might be able to waive some of your hours. I don't know if this bad info emanates from the staff... or from UPT SQ/CC's (like it did a number of years ago)... or from exactly where. If you want the truth about the U-2 assignment, don't speak to your DO, nor your commander. Don't speak to AFPC (until it's time to get released, anyways). Don't speak to your buddy at Base X that "thought about applying, but found out a bunch of bad stuff." So who do you speak to? I'll get you in touch with the Recruiters, so contact me. One recruiter is a Reservist and I don't want to put his personal contact info in this post (he isn't on his govt email that much). Maj Beamer moved and a new active duty recruiter is settling in. Contact me privately for their contact info. As for me, I'm on the Global as Jonathan Huggins. Or you can pm me here. I'm out on leave for a few weeks and won't be checking email until mid July, so ping me here if it is time critical. If you want U-2 facts, go to the source. That source is centered in a room that measures about 40x15 in the zip code of 95903. If the person you're talking to doesn't have a desk within 22 meters of that room, take what they say with a grain of salt.

See, fundamental difference…the government shouldn’t really have a say either.

Certainly! My point is that I don't believe the AAL pilot group is actually upset enough to do anything about the situation. Management reneging at the last second on already agreed upon items or implementation of specific portions of a contract is due in part to their moral bankruptcy but also because they know they can get away with it. The operation will continue to run on schedule and unimpeded no matter the level of skullduggery perpetrated by management.

Is this the same government that allows squatters to pirate someone’s home, and then forces the owners to endure lengthy waiting periods before eviction action…oftentimes without further reprisal to the criminals? Or is it the other government that forces me to spend exorbitant amounts of money for a pool fence to prevent trespassing kids from drowning on my private property? Or perhaps it’s the other, other government that wants me to gain their permission before cutting down dead trees on my land? Loud music, gunshots in residential, trash burning…maybe you should stop being a tight wad and move out of the slums.

Appreciate your enthusiasm, but remember the other day when you asked me how to not be annoying? Well, I guess I overestimated you when I said “you know what annoying looks like.” It’s time for lesson one… Don’t be a poser and jump into a conversation, acting like you know what you’re talking about, and giving someone advice on something you know nothing about. In fact, you’re a lot further behind mocephus in this process, as you have not even taken the AFOQT or began college yet. Most importantly, you have absolutely no clue if he could “definitely get picked up by a fighter sq” or any squadron for that matter, or what a squadron will ask on an interview. There’s a whole lot more to getting selected for pilot than AFOQT scores. Also, on a personal note unless an applicant was a teacher’s aid or worked for them in some capacity, I give letters of recommendation from a college professor about the same level of credence as if from the guy taking my order at the Taco Bell drive thru. The folks answering these questions are dudes who have gone through the process, succeeded, and now have the experience to give aspiring pilots some advice. I realize that the internet is a cesspool of horseshit and people pretending to be experts, and yes these forums are full of threads where pilots think we’re lawyers, financial planners, and politicians. However, when it comes to AF pilot questions, it’s best if you left the answers to those who are. Let’s try to maintain a degree of validity here. Lesson two: Humility. Mocephus scored a 99 on his pilot, that’s as high as you can get. He knows it’s a good score. You should’ve answered his post by saying something like “Damn! Great pilot score. Do you have any pointers for me so that I can score that high too?” instead of acting like you’ve been sitting on hiring boards for years. You seem like a bright and eager kid, that’s good and I’m definitely not trying to crush your spirit here. I’m certain you’ve spent hours combing these threads and picking up whatever morsels of intel you can digest. However, don’t confuse regurgitating the words of others as personal experience. Make sense?

Truer words have never been spoken!

Easily the best contribution to this thread.

And here I thought the left said they wanted the government out of the bedroom?

It’s five o clock somewhere….

Neat video, stupid title.

The pilots group’s worst enemy is…the pilot group.

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Yet the recent Trump indictments have only increased his standing in the GOP polls. Just as the Dems want. Trump is the most likely to lose against the Dems, why is it so difficult for conservatives to see that!?

I'm a very climate/energy-oriented liberal here and I love nuclear. F all the NIMBYs and "greens" on my side of the aisle who fight against it. From what I've seen we haven't built more due to A) inertia, B) insane regulation leading to insane costs to open a new plant, and C) a political alliance between fossil fuel companies & conservatives plus tree-hugging greens who are scared of radiation that basically caused A and B. I'm enjoying the benefits of cheaper electricity living in the TVA service region where we have three working nuclear plants. I'd put a micro nuclear reactor in my garage if The Man would let me! As a country we're decades behind, but the best time to start catching up is now. Small, modular reactors, molten salt reactors, push the boundaries with fusion research, do it all. All energy that is carbon-free is good energy at this point and energy abundance is the key to unlocking an awesome future. Imagine electricity so abundant that it's not even worth it to meter it, imagine nearly unlimited fresh water due to desalination, minerals mined from asteroids and brought back to earth...all because of energy abundance...LFG. TBH we kind of do. Not a vaccine, but the beginnings of a real cure: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/5th-person-confirmed-cured-hiv/story?id=97323361 Even short of a true cure, modern AIDS medication regimes put a ton of people in a place where HIV is no longer detectable in their blood. Hell of a win for modern medicine!

Adam is a desperate, clout chasing piece of shit of the highest level.

2020 BLM/Antifa riots: $2B+ in damages, 100s of small businesses completely destroyed, 100s more w/ significant damage, 700+ LEO assaulted/injured, 20-30 people dead…0 hearings and 0 ounce of give a fuck by congress/MSM. J6: $150M in damages, 0 small business affected, 80-100 LEO assaulted/injured, 1 dead…full up congressional commission and 6.9 billion ounces of congressional/MSM outrage and vitriol. I‘m not excusing the actions of some on J6 or arguing that this comparison means J6 wasn’t a thing. But people need to understand why it is very rational to view these facts, combined with constant censorship attempts/demands, and conclude there is some very fucked up, shady shit going on in our country. Those of you trying to shut someone down because they don’t share your generally MSM-approved viewpoint need to open the aperture. Personally I look at this and all the info I can find and conclude J6 was a thing, it was not even remotely what the Dems/MSM have tried to make it out to be, and the gov/MSM has no credibility when they ignore 2020, but are frothing at the mouth regarding J6.

Yea it's those "local control" dickhead planning commissions that f everything up usually. It's a bug everywhere but incredibly prevalent in many liberal strongholds. "Environmentalists" are cutting off their noses to spite their faces when rejecting clean energy, desalination, etc. projects because we need all that stuff about 10x over if we're going to thrive on our changing / heating world. So so much new stuff needs to be build and the government needs to push aside these low-level commissions, partner with industry, and just build it. Case in point, my HOA initially tried to deny my project to put solar panels on the back roof of my house for basically aesthetic reasons i.e. no good reason. Joke's on you MFers, I'm now the president of the HOA (which I hate BTW) and approved the project back in January. IMHO HOAs are localized aesthetic fascism typically run by busybody, brainwormed Boomers and I highly recommend never living in one if you can avoid it 😅 What you do on your property is between you, the government and God, I as a random neighbor should have zero say in that. If I were king for a day I would greenlight every single housing, clean energy (including nuclear) and desalination / water reclamation project on the books and tell the private sector I want 1,000 new projects on my desk by Monday. We need a liberalism that builds and any conservatives that wanna jump on board are also more than welcome too!

Can someone please file a the Silver Alert and take this idiot to the hospital. Some incredible NBC polls just out: Two-thirds (68%) of voters fear Biden lacks mental, physical health to be president 3 out of every 4 Americans think Country going in the wrong direction