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You're the head of HR. The old man sitting across the table for you is re-applying for his old position. During his previous tenure as an employee, he violated company working together guidelines every day. He was consistently untruthful. He hired family members whose gross negligence resulted in the death of company employees. He routinely broke the law while conducting company business, using his position of authority to attempt to gain personal advantages by withholding company funds from a brand customer the firm had courted for years. Company profitability declined 30% during his four year tenure and a double-digit percentage of employees lost their positions. When he was fired for cause, his supporters, at his behest, started a riot in the boardroom that left four dead. During his unemployment, he was convicted of multiple felonies that will make it difficult for him to do his job and illegal for him to travel. He was also indicted for dozens more felonies that took place while he was an employee. And you're going to consider hiring him?

This is about a two and a half hour video from Tucker Carlson. It honestly looks to be pretty interesting, but can you give us more than just a link? Some cliffs notes or something?

Wonder if the AH-64 hour(s) will show up on the good Col's bio

AH-64 1.69 hours. 1 Takeoff, 0 Landings

Twenty-five years ago today, on 3 Sep 1999 Capt Julie Hudson of the Maryland Air National Guard completed her final mission check ride to qualify as the Air National Guard’s first fully combat ready female A-10 pilot. She’s pictured here standing in front of an A-10 Thunderbolt II in the Maryland National Guard’s 1999 Annual Report. Prior to her training in the A-10, Capt Hudson flew the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, and in her civilian life, she was a commercial pilot for Northwest Airlines. The A-10 itself is a close air support attack plane, nicknamed the “Warthog,” that make an iconic “BRRRT” sound when firing its 30mm GAU-8/A cannon (seen sticking out of the front of the A-10 behind Capt Hudson), which can fire 3,900 water-bottle-sized rounds per minute. (Photo: Maryland National Guard)

DJ U is not, and has never been, a good QB. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Obviously, I don't know all of the facts, but this appears to fall squarely on the shoulders of the Army pilot who was PIC. We give a ton of orientation flights in the U-2 and T-38, and if we were to allow the guest flyers to exceed our capabilities to keep the aircraft safe, that's on us. What was the O-6's billet in the F-35 world?

Seriously, if it wasn't for US aid to Ukraine these guys could have been living happily in a Siberian gulag by now, while the country they believed in was ground into dust by a nuclear-armed gas station doing a Soviet Union speedrun.

I'm not giving Tucker Carlson two and a half minutes, let alone two and half hours...

And someone is going to ID this guy (he deleted his X account after yesterday's loss) and hold him to his word!!

This does ease my pain and suffering a bit...

Sometimes leadership pushes for folks to be allowed to do things. I agree..it's on the crew member ultimately but there is always pressure from somewhere. I remember when ole Bob Otto allowed a NAF CC on his sunset tour a high flight and he ended up smacking the flap on landing. The NAF CC skipped almost all of the requirements and there was pushback from the Sq CC and Group CC which was met with shut up and color.

Best weekend I've had in a long time!

Danger here (and a big reason why we put guests in the front) is the controls can be decoupled from the mechanical tubes into an emergency fly-by-wire system in the case of a fight for the controls. You also can’t start the engines in the front. The system is calibrated so that the back seater rolls their controls out first, but it’s not exactly something you can test outside of the torque settings of the mechanical roller decoupler. So even if he just froze up in the front it’s possible to take the aircraft mechanically away. I’m not aware of any instance though where that has saved an aircraft. Even still, this is absolutely on the IP unless something insanely malicious occurred. I thought my opinion of the Utah Guard’s AH unit couldn’t get much worse, but somehow here we are… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Based on age and the amount of effort you’ve put in without an interview, I don’t think enlisting is going to move the needle at all. Find a job you truly want to do in the ANG and go for that, but do not take a job because you think it’ll get you a pilot slot. I understand completely the desire for mission and something greater - go find that kickass E job and run with it for as long as you still enjoy it.

Clickbait - 100% on the PIC. I’ve let many “unqualified” people fly an F-16, would have been 100% my fault if they had done something that resulted in a class ____.

I used to let fixed wing O-6s fly but I would not let them land without me being "on the controls". Kinda like when you first "land" a Cessna. PIC should have done better. No need to investigate. For real.

My favorite part of fam flights with fixed wing guys was with them shaking the cyclic to pass off controls....

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danger would be watching his jacks playing right now ears up!

True UPT has never been tried.

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.

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.

Is it your contention that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could be most aptly described as agrarian pre-capitalist?

RIP to Matt, if y'all can, please donate to help his family out. Luckily I just saw that the Special Operations Warrior Foundation will be taking are of all of his kids' educational expenses from here on out. SOWF is one of my absolute favorite charities to donate to and support, and I encourage you to do that too if you can.