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True UPT has never been tried.

That’s a mentally ill person we’re all supposed to pretend is a normal contributor to a healthy society.

I think you're mistaking the definition of unintentional. This officer very intentionally killed the airman. When he drew his weapon and began firing, as you stated, he was firing to neutralize the threat. And for the police, you shoot to kill, not injure. Center mass or head. He intentionally drew his weapon and intentionally fired it until the target, intentionally selected, was neutralized, which includes the reasonable assumption of death. Unintentional homicide would be like what Alec Baldwin did. He had absolutely no intent to kill that woman, but his negligence in handling the firearm resulted in it. Read the paragraph on second-degree murder again (I somehow screwed it up in the quoted block). "... Leads one person to make an intentional decision to kill the other person. It was not premeditated, but it was intentional nonetheless."

Apparently he’s on Grindr if you want to find an empty barstool next to him. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

After viewing the body cam footage multiple times, I don’t think she threw water at him. She was boiling water and put her hands in front of her face in a crouched in a defensive position. His partner even had to convince him to render first aid to her, which he begrudgingly did after arguing that it was a head shot and she “was done.” Video footage of him in jail was released where he was joking around with other officers about how he was just going to be released on bond. This is a guy who bounced around to six law enforcement jobs since 2020. He was also kicked out the Army after two years in. This dude is a murderer and he’s either going to prison for life or he’ll be dead by the Stage 4 colon cancer he has.

The acorn incident demonstrated everything we need to know about how corrupted our concept of policing has become. That's not a commentary on the actual officers. These incidents are happening too much to blame on rogue cops. They do feel like they're at war, and depending on where they are, they might be. Every time America has sent soldiers into war zones, a good portion of them come back broken. It's very hard to exist in a world where you are a target and then transition into a civilized existence. The fact that officers don't travel around with partners anymore is probably one of the biggest single factors I can identify. The simple reality is that you are much more vulnerable, and you feel much more vulnerable, when you are alone. However the incident recently where the two cops shot a woman in her own home, clearly mentally compromised, because she threw a pot of hot water at them, shows that the issue isn't just cops being solo. Another part of it is the expectation that any risk to their lives is an unacceptable risk. We don't accept that mindset in the military and we shouldn't accept it in the police. Risk is part of the job, and yes, it's better if a cop dies than an innocent person being killed by the cops. Both on an a professional level and from the perspective of maintaining citizen faith in the system. https://apnews.com/article/illinois-sheriffs-deputy-charged-cf164189d678f921deff05fa3789d3a2 You can watch the body cam footage of this shooting. I'm not arguing that people should have free reign to throw boiling water at cops, but they were in her house for an issue that did not involve her as a threat, and as soon as she started acting crazy they could have and should have backed out of her house and deescalated. Instead the cop stood his ground and barked orders at a crazy person. That doesn't mean this cop should go to jail for the rest of his life. But it does mean that something is deeply flawed with the modern view of policing and training of officers.

Flying hour shortage? Or more accurate to say a shortage of aircraft to fly those hours? If someone could wave the proverbial magic wand and put a fleet of T-7s at every UPT base, and plus-up the FTUs with as many aircraft as they wanted, that seems like it would go a long way towards helping the issue.

He said he had a "feeling" they wouldn't make it... yet, I bet not one single solitary moment of self-reflection that perhaps that his absolutely rabid support and pressure to fund and intensify the war directly resulted in the death of these two pilots. God rest their souls. Adam is a pilot. Ukraine needs two more pilots. Just sayin.

Sure more hours would be nice, but that doesn’t fix the pilot bail rate. It’s not lack of flying hours that’s pushing guys out the door.

I got to Vance Aug of 2016 and there were a max of 10 students per class T-38s between AD assignables, Guard and international. Luck and timing if you had a lot of the latter two, I saw one class with 3 AD students. If you tracked -38s you had a high likelihood of going 11F, to the extent you needed to be non-recommended. Towards the end of the year was heavily bias towards AD and almost everyone got an 11F, to the point it was a running joke if you tracked T-38s and completed your consolation prize was a Viper. FY17 to FY18 was max AB to reverse with drops. The first 3 classes had 3 11Fs between the JSUPT bases. It eased up and my Vance class (18-05) had 4 11Fs and 3 heavies. As others have stated, APFC ed over the FTUs and OPS units, guys and gals sat waiting for following courses for a year plus. There is a recent RAND study on pilot absorption at the ops units, creating a CMR pilot. It takes a lot of investment to create an E coded IP in a lot of MDSs. I became one 4 years from getting to my OPS unit and deployed 3 times in the process. It’s a difficult problem with a lot of teams but at this point I don’t even know the problem. Is it retention, is it a pilot shortage, is it a training efficiency issue, tasking issue even (air shows at JSUPT bases)? Mind boggling the shortsightedness on repeat.

Nope, cops are trained to shoot that way. It's intended to stop a threat, not kill. The fact he shot him multiple times will not be a factor nor does it make this premeditated in any manner. What it comes down to is the deputy overreacted to the site of the handgun. I have had several LEO buds defend what he did, but the video clearly shows there wasn't justification to shoot him as having a weapon in your hand does not automatically make a person a threat. However, let's be clear and the terms and what they actually mean in the State of Florida Penal Code... Homicide is a blanket term that describes any event in which one person causes another person’s death. Anytime someone is killed by the action of another person, it is deemed a homicide. Murder is defined as an act of intent, which means that an intentional act was carried out, and someone died as a result. Murder is the intentional and unlawful killing of another person. In the courtroom, establishing a charge of murder requires proof that premeditated planning took place (first-degree murder) or an act in the heat of the moment urged a person to intentionally kill another person (second-degree murder). Florida law differentiates two types of murder: first-degree murder and second-degree murder. First-degree murder is premeditated and occurs when the intentional act of killing another person takes place. It is also used to describe murder that occurred in conjunction with certain other felonies, such as kidnapping or robbery. In Florida, first-degree murder is punishable by life in prison and may even elicit the death penalty in some cases. Second-degree murder is not premeditated or planned out in advance, but it still involves the intentional killing of another person. It occurs when one person causes the death of another person in the heat of the moment but intentionally. This can happen within a fight or argument that just happens to escalate so far that it leads one person to make an intentional decision to kill the other person. It was not premeditated, but it was intentional, nonetheless. Second-degree murder in Florida can get you a sentence of life in prison. Manslaughter is the unintentional killing of someone else. It involves the unlawful killing of another person without premeditated intentions and/or an intent to kill. If someone means to harm someone else and happens to inadvertently kill them instead, it is manslaughter. A conviction of manslaughter does not require the prosecution to prove that there was an intent to kill or an intentional cause of harm. Instead, it must simply prove that the defendant killed the other person. Manslaughter is also divided into two categories: voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary manslaughter occurs when someone unintentionally kills another while they are committing another felony. It can also arise within a fight or argument, like second-degree murder. However, there is no intentional act of killing when manslaughter occurs. There may be an intention to harm but not to kill. Florida voluntary manslaughter charges will garner a maximum of 15 to 30 years in prison for anyone convicted of these charges. Involuntary manslaughter, on the other hand, involves someone killing another person unintentionally, not while committing another felony, but due to their own negligence, recklessness, or lack of responsible behavior. Involuntary manslaughter can carry a penalty of up to 15 years in prison in Florida. This was involuntary manslaughter, it doesn't meet the burden of proof for second-degree murder.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Sorry, who are you again?

When you shoot someone multiple times in the upper torso, they will likely die. The cop was using lethal force intentionally. Killing someone intentionally, without proper justification, is generally "murder." I'm sure that the cop thought he was justified in that moment, but the film doesn't seem to offer any reasonable justification for lethal force...aka he was not justified in his intentional use of lethal force. I'm not saying he wanted to murder, but any charge based on unintentionally killing is probably the wrong charge to bring. He killed the guy because his judgement was wrong not because the gun accidentally went off a half dozen times.

Kinzinger is a hero and a patriot. He’s doing the right thing. As for Trump, how about the incident at Arlington yesterday? All that just for a cheap photo op. Disgraceful and just the latest in a long line. You guys should be asking yourselves why you still support a candidate who denigrated POWs. Why’d we even do SERE then? What was the point of all that? Return with honor? POW/MIA, you are not forgotten? Replace it with Trump telling us he likes people who weren’t captured. Eff John McCain I guess. He was only a republican presidential nominee. But that doesn’t matter. Nothing matters, apparently, besides support for the dear leader. I look forward to the day the republican party is a serious party again. I really do. That hasn’t been the case for the last 9 years and it won’t be the case until Trump and MAGA are gone. Kinzinger’s doing his part and he’s not alone. More members of the military are stepping up and need to continue to step up. Thanks for freeing up the seat at the bar, I’d proudly sit next to him.

LOR was the administrative actions, no banging of anyone was the cause. Well wasn't expecting the notification of the FEB, had been told previously nobody was going to pursue one against me. I'm just looking for generalized information regarding an FEB don't want to provide all the details of my administrative actions. Well Moose, I am clueless in this regard. I'm just looking for any help or advice. I am sure once the official notice is given and the reasons are stated it will help answer some of my questions. I am seeking legal counsel and will be trying to fight this.

Has it ever not been the FTUs? I feel like we are on a 15 year cycle with this subject. For the youngins here, back in 2009 they reduced T-38 students to two per class…..and they ended up with a massive shortage in the 2007/2008 year groups in CAF. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Air Force Academy restricted all cadets to base as classes started, leading to meat shortages The fact that this horrible human has not been fired MANY times is the perfect indicator of the toxic cancer that flows through some of our senior leadership.

Exactly what Mayorofrollcall would say.

If it ain't Boeing, then it's probably going. They really screwed the pooch on the 46.

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Think he’s referring to Wills, the idiot who started it all. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

70 Years Ago This Week: 23 Aug 1954 -- First Flight of the YC-130 In 1954, President Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower sat in the Oval Office; the US Air Force Academy was founded; and the first of over 2,500 Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft took to the skies. By that time, the Cold War was in full swing. The newly independent USAF had begun to recapitalize its fleet around the atomic bomb and the jet engine, with its tactical and mobility fleets making due with the World War II leftovers. Though those aircraft were less than a decade old, the intervening advent of the turbojet engine had ushered in a new era for aviation that made the classic piston-and-propeller propulsion combination nearly obsolete. The Korean War made clear the deficiencies of those legacy transports; what was needed was a medium-sized tactical airlifter for delivering heavier equipment or paratroops quickly and over long distances to combat areas, yet capable of operating from short, rough airfields. The key enabling technology was the turboprop engine. Standard turbojet engines that relied on expelling hot gas for thrust were terribly inefficient at low speeds, making them impractical for transports. The new concept of a turboprop engine instead harnessed the jet engine’s energy to drive a propeller, combing the compact power of the jet with subsonic efficiency of a propeller. Because the Air Force had ceded turboprop development to the Navy, while they focused on turbojets, they had to derive the intended engine from its sister service’s programs. In June 1950, the Air Force released the first General Operational Requirements Document for a new medium turboprop transport, with requests for proposals coming the following January. Of the five contractor submission, Lockheed was announced as the winner on 2 July 1951, receiving a contract to build two YC-130s on 11 July, powered by Allison T56 turboprops. The prototypes were designed and built at Lockheed’s California facilities—it was just then re-activating the former Marietta, Georgia, B-29 plant for future C-130 production. As legend has it, the Hercules’ mockup debut resulted in stunned silence...and not the good kind, because it bucked the sleek-and-streamlined trend of the early Jet Age. Skunk Works founder Kelly Johnson reportedly dismissed it entirely. On 23 August 1954, just about a year behind schedule (due to both engine & airplane delays), Lockheed test pilots Stan Beltz and Roy Wimmer, and two flight engineers, ran up the engines on the second YC-130, tail number 53-3397, in Burbank, California. Just 10 seconds and 855 feet later, their plane leapt into the air for the first flight of the C-130. An hour later, they landed at Edwards AFB where it would undergo the rest of its flight test program.

On 20 Aug 1910, the first shot to be fired from an airplane occurred when Lt Jacob Earl Fickel of the 29th Infantry—an expert rifleman—fired upon a target about 100 feet below from the backseat of a Curtiss biplane. Lieutenant Fickel missed the shot by about six feet; but the pilot, Mr. Glenn Curtiss himself, took the blame for that, stating that he had to tilt the machine just as the shot was fired. For the firearms demonstration, which took place at Sheepshead Bay Track near New York, Lt Fickel used an Army Springfield .30 caliber rifle. In the photo here, Lt Fickel demonstrates how he took his shot, with Curtiss pilot Charles F. Willard at the controls. Although this first attempt at firing from a plane was a miss, the idea of weaponizing the airplane was not—and in just a few short years airplanes would be dogfighting with each other over the skies of Europe in the midst of Word War I. (Photo: NMUSAF)

It’s sad to see the utter downfall of an individual.

Seventy years ago today, the B-52A—the first production model of the B-52—flew its first flight (pictured) from Boeing’s Seattle plant. A.M. “Tex” Johnston, Boeing’s Chief of flight test, and Donald Knutson, co-pilot, flew the aircraft, taking off at 3:42 p.m. local time, and landing at 5:00 p.m. The production model of the B-52 differed from the two test models that came before it by having the pilot and the co-pilot sitting side-by-side instead of tandem. Since the mid-1950s on through to the present day, the B-52 fleet has been the backbone of the USAF’s strategic bomber capability.

Listen, in my defense, the flight attendants poured them strong and often on that flight. But in all seriousness, like so many urban legends, I bet this story is 0.69% true. There are two reasons we're not allowed to drink on a DH anymore. One is they want the have the ability to reroute you into a flying leg (not legal per our PWA anymore) and they want to save money. Everything else is bullshit.

I’m sure if you sit around and cry about Jan 6th with him, he’s great. But if you’re anyone else, his shtick would be exhausting. Without Trump, he had no purpose in life, it’s embarrassing. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app