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Nothing, this is just the psychology of high school cliques at work here and if it's not a fighter but has some cool factor to it let's let only our tribe have it. #not-a-bit-cynical

Lol. That dude got a second chance at life.

Biden also said Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation…so does anyone actually believe Biden? The country is so divided ideologically that it doesn’t matter how bad Biden and Trump are—the people will vote for the candidate that supports their ideology over someone who doesn’t, especially when the ideologies are so vastly different. At some point we have to have an honest discussion on what still makes us all Americans…because when one half hates the the other half, it doesn’t make much sense to me.

That dude just needs to bail on that relationship now because you know with her feminine logic she will blame him for a Tiger mauling for the rest of his life.

Not a single one of our liberal friends on this forum has explained, defended or even acknowledged that millions from foreign companies (including one run by the CCP), ended up in accounts of multiple Biden Family members...including his grandchildren (at least the grand kids he acknowledges). Just nut jobs conspiracy theories...except for all the transactions that were flagged and are now part of the public record. Let me guess, it's Trump's fault.

The very few who are like that are quickly discovered and forced out or forced down a path of irrelevance where they can’t “do harm” to the agenda. A GO who doesn’t suck and stands up to the bullshit is not survivable in our bullshit system.

Location and an extremely high number of morbidly obese humanoids.

Not today, OSI

Good thing that's on tape! The judge would never believe that guy. "honest sir, I know we were having problems, but one minute she's yelling at me and the next minute a tiger is dragging her away".

I’m excited for our progressive friends to start parsing the phrase “in business” with greater precision. Because it depends on what the meaning of “is” is and all that… clearly these people are guilty of no wrongdoing; CH I’m sure you route pay through multiple shell companies and ultimately your grandchildren. Perfectly normal.

Anyone else notice the White House make a subtle change to their Joe and Hunter Narrative... Rather than saying the father and son never discussed Hunter's array of international business deals – language Biden himself has used – Jean-Pierre said the two were never "in business" together. Subtle, but very important distinction as more evidence drip drip drips out.

This. Everytime I had an O-6 or above asking why my generation didn't want to stay in longer, I had to explain that I simply didn't have the same memories they had from their CGO years. It takes a lot of emotional attachment to the military to want to deal with the life of an FGO and above, and frankly, we didn't have that, especially in the heavy world. Instead, we had the all-men-are-rapists campaign, the great cleansing of 2012, RIFs from my second year at USAFA until the sudden reversal in 2015, 0-0-1-3 and literal article 15s for shenanigans that were tame compared to the stories the O-6 writing the Art15 would tell in private, blah blah blah. Never mind the two-months-on two-months-off deployments to the Died that guys would do for years because the AF decided that trickfucking the 90 day flying hours restrictions was more important than any sort of balanced family life, or the camaraderie built from deploying as a squadron. Ironically, after I was court martialed (not guilty all charges) it *improved* my Air Force experience. I was immediately relieved of all the non-flying nonsense that they make you do to chase down the next promotion. I would have done anything to get "back on the path," but they were done with me, and boy when you start producing the quality of work that you would expect from someone who has been guaranteed to be passed over, they stop giving you work to do. If the AF wants to improve retention they need to accept that young people who want to kill people for their country have a lot of energy to burn in unsavory ways. Fail to provide that and they will not serve for another 10-20 years off the inertia of great memories and personal connections. Those people will in turn help recruiting.

Thats how normal humans roll. Lol.

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This statement brought up a funny story for me recently... No shit, there I was a punk ass ENJJPT student back in the day when we had just switched from the Tweet to the T-6. Everybody referred to the T-6 as "the jet" and the biggest douche I've ever met as an IP (Dutch guy) would go out of his way to make the point that the T-6 wasn't a jet. He even always had the wikipedia page pulled up where he would contribute "not a jet" on the bottom of the page. Everyone that flew with him (including me) had a God awful sortie and got absolutely abused the entire sortie. I even had to no shit do an ICE-T calculation on a whiz wheel during an instrument eval with this guy. ANYHOW, I recently stopped at Sheppard recently as an O-5, DO, Weapons School Instructor and this fucking guy is back but now flying the T-38. It shook me. I was immediately transformed back into a scared B flight student trying to remember the pattern references. I felt exactly like Sara Connor in Terminator 2 when she's breaking out of the mental institution and Arnold comes around the corner. Truly one of the most jarring moments in my career because it was sooooooo unexpected. Or maybe I'm just a pussy.

1/3 is the figure I've heard from the Bronipernet. Not as bas as XL hailmaggedon. In fairness, XL's boo boo was Toner centric, T-6s went completele unscathed... T-38s got out of dodge, I was one of those wethevacs. KELP was hopping that week. 😄 At any rate, I'm told they're returning jets to line on an inspection basis, no clue how those inspections are going at the moment. We know prop strike (ground) and control surface replacement for the more affected tails are the big ones. Some collisions between tails, and collisions against lighting infrastructure. Good times. Wasn't hail-centric, it was wind. Broke tie chains. Not at VN, but rumint is big pow wow rn regarding wx and mx arguing the one didn't tell the other. Blame game in full swing. That's all I got atm, now back to farming Ukrainian naval drone footage to edgelord the Russo-sycophants on the t-gram. Stay safe kids and don't make fun of a certain NAF on the insta, or ya get an article. yee yee!

Yikes. I sent in my fingerprints after I realized I had forgotten to and I received mine back spread out over the last couple weeks. --Edit to add, think mine were all approved around 50 or so days. They have to be most of the way through the pistol brace apps, I bet you get yours soon. Also, a friend told me that since the bottom of the approved form 1 had the restriction of something like 'IAW pistolbrace rule' that it wasn't a real full up form 1. I found this on the ATF website (always better to read laws/rules/bureaucratic junk from a .gov site rather than hearsay). Note question 12. Like any other form 1, you need to 'notify the NFA division' if you change the overall length, but I see some folding stocks in my future. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/undefined/final-rule-2021r-08f-frequently-asked-questions-and-sba-compliance-guide-2/download

Commercial airliners have reached a safety margin of about 1 accident per million flights. Let’s assume somehow these aliens have not figured out how to improve safety beyond that rate despite developing faster than light travel or interdimensional travel. David Grusch said 5 have crashed in the past 100 years, which would mean there have to have been at least 50000 UFO sorties. Yet with billions of cell phones with ever increasing quality all we get is the same grainy bs. And they only seem to be interested in Americans for some reason. Absolute clown show but hey at least congress is working together

This man is inspiring. Watch till the end. https://twitter.com/WesleyHuntTX/status/1684637952368848897?s=20

If Gunships come from the T-1 track why couldn’t Buffs? It’s not like you learn weapons employment in the 38. Is the 38 really going to make or break an inbound Buff pilot? Honestly curious!

How did the yes men get the numbers? Could you imagine having to fight WW2 in today's awesome military? Our leaders are pussies who care more about promotion and post military careers than their people and the mission. Any shitty leaders reading this, grow a fucking spine. I bet they all were mediocre pilots.

Its Trumps fault. I know it is and if he's not involved somehow Reagan is. Lol. Everything is racist and transphobic. Thats why Hunter smokes crack, hes just a victim of this white man's world. He lived a tough childhood of privilege and wealth. Have pitty on him. He probably has PTSD from his time in the Navy as well. He's just one of the boys.

just PM him politely and ask him to take a selfie...

Good news everyone. No more cancer!

I think it doesn't matter. There's not an Olds or a Schwarzkopf waiting in the wings to assume CJCS. Any candidate will have the same recent history as CQB, or they wouldn't be in the running.

The demise of the O'Club on Friday is something I miss. We used to have standard Friday stuff happening in the squadron... and around 1700 we would head to The Big House, meet the wives, and have a great time. The camaraderie among the wives was pretty high back then, as a result. They did some pretty funny shit and managed to avoid getting arrested on base. There were two years in a row when Hiram Walker sponsored an ACC Crud Tournament at D-M and the winners (Moody AFB) got a $10,000 check. It was absolutely epic. The D-M Wing CC gave the opening remarks and I was expecting the usual bullshit-cover-your-ass. Not so much. He pretty much said "fight's on" and have a great time... and still made 2-stars. I recall that every ACC base but one sent a team TDY the first year. I simply cannot imagine that happening in today's climate. Our Beale team didn't win, but we did show up to the bar at 0930 on Saturday and didn't depart until 0230 Sunday. What a weekend.

Better quality of life (paternity leave is one example). Better pay. Housing and dorms vastly improved from when I lived in the barracks. No sequestration of flight hours. Parts that are actually available. JFIRE and JCAS being incorporated across all branches vs individual branches having their own CAS methods. That’s an example from admin, ops, and tactics. I can keep going. I laugh when people say ‘what’s better than 10-20 years ago’. My dad enlisted in the late 70s, he said he got slapped around. I enlisted in the late 90s, didn’t get hit but we lived in moldy ass barracks and had no hot water. Kids these days think it sucks they have to field day the barracks. Life was always ‘better 10-20 years ago’. When people say that I ask them to actually, seriously, look at what was going on then versus now.

I think that the real issue is that kids today just don’t have any idea who Doug Masters was or what he did for his family and country. Obviously we need a refreshed Iron Eagle movie to appeal to these youngins. Make Samuel L Jackson the new Chappie.

I chuckled

Just once, I'd love to hear news about UPT getting more rigorous. Literally in any way

With this latest whistleblower, I estimate that there have been 69 million allegations and speculations from people "in the know" about the existence of aliens and alien craft. Yet not one single, solitary shred of proof in a time where our highest leadership stores top secret documents in closets, garages, and home offices. That's some amazing infosec.

I agree with you in general terms. Older generations tend to think they had it harder, uphill both ways, new kids just don't get it etc... But many of us have personally observed UPT get watered down in very measurable ways in the last 3-4 years. We're not talking long-term generational bias here. I saw the syllabi get noticeably shorter and less rigorous over the duration of one assignment. Just some T-6 examples since that's what I know: No more ELPs No more formation landings No more advanced aero for T-1 bound students Lower check ride MIF on a multitude of maneuvers 30% fewer sorties overall 50% fewer checkrides 50% fewer solos Now we can debate the pros and cons of each, but I think it's undeniable we are plainly doing less total training time and events. I've always said that if you get enough ADOs in a room who are worried about timeline, they could come up with a reason to waive any sortie in the syllabus. "What's one sortie after all?!" "Is the pattern-only solo really that important?" "Does this T-1 bound kid really need to form solo? Lets just waive it." This thought process is insidious and has resulted in a gradual whittling down of our core training. And it happens in all of the perfectly well-intentioned syllabus rewrite conferences too. Everyone is looking to "improve efficiency" because there isn't an OPR bullet for holding the line and keeping quality training the same. VR training was never intended (by the people developing it) to replace regular UPT events. Or speed up the pipeline. Or fix the pilot shortage. It was intended to improve training by providing an additional resource that was more accessible than standard sims. Having been involved with it from the very beginning, it's incredibly frustrating to watch the air force twist a good thing and pitch it as their silver bullet solution for problems they created.. But I suspect I am very much preaching to the choir. \endrant