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That last debate was comical. Trump was just making shit up and acting like a child. Kamala acted like the last four years were awesome for America. She's also full of shit. WTF happened to having presidential candidates that had a little bit of grace and the mental capacity for abstract thought? Can we please start putting decent humans into the presidential race for the United States? I'm so tired of the status quo.

Wow, those are some real turbo douches. Army officers though, doesn’t surprise me.

This. Who cares what others went through. My training sorties in helos were pretty fucking scary sometimes as well. You wanna have the shit scared out of you, teach a new CP how to do 180 autorotations in a Huey. Much scarier than seeing people shoot into the air. Edit: Don't tell infantry guys about how scared you were getting "shot at" or what a badass you are for it. Hogs and helos might get a pass on this one but most others probably not.

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The best reel I've ever seen showing Kamala's lies and the media bias. Why wasn't she fact checked? Best Reel Ever.mp4

I love these hate on other platforms stories. I did 4 months in Afghanistan in Herks and we’d hate on C-17 and tankers for the same thing and didn’t call in anything or get AFCMS except the plane that came back with holes in it, but we assumed all of the other dumb platforms who don’t know what they are doing were. Like the C-17 on short final into Kandahar 5 miles in front of me yelling on the radio he was taking fire while I was staring at him on nogs seeing nothing. Everyone else that doesn’t fly what I fly is dumb!

Those in power tend to place the good of the nation below another objective...

Eating some fried chicken and okra.

Reduced benefits to be exact. My particular exchange's demographic happened to be a group of retired combat arms Army officers. One went so far as to imply there is a degree of stolen valor from veterans who receive benefits (retirement or otherwise) whose service lack the combat prefix as they see it. They also proudly display "combat vet" bumper stickers on their pov, with the combat underlined. Real divisive stuff. At any rate, when I hear this back and forth on here about combat cred among airframes, as a timing/circumstantial REMF I of course handwave it away as the usual friendly banter. But it does take me back to exchanges with people who do hold quite radical and incisive views of what qualifies as honorable service. One for whom the DoD's decision to recognize/compensate veteran service on an equal footing, is considered very much an affront to their own.

Wtf is that? Was at our local SD meetup for the game, and will be there next week. ‘Noles forever, good and bad.

As a career REMF and former CAF guy during a time when MWS got told to sit on its hands and navel-gaze in PACAF, I'm completely indifferent to the back and forth of proving one's ego/legitimacy in life via these anecdotes. But, there is a cohort of veterans who unironically advocate for the means-testing of outright retirement benefits based on a combat service metric. Nasty and divisive undercurrent if I ever heard one; I can't break bread with those people. And I do challenge those utterances publicly, as letting that narrative stand unchallenged can be materially important to all of us. Thankfully, even Congress isn't as myopic so as to buy into such nonsense as a matter of policy. Brittle egos abound.

Like it? I lived it! 😎😎😎

Same as the 130 crews filing MANPADS shots every other week in AFG 15 years in.

On 12 Sep 1947, an experimental new autopilot (or “mechanical brain,” as it was reported by the press) developed over the past two years at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, was used to fly a C-54 Skymaster from the All-Weather Test Center in Wilmington, Ohio, (an adjunct of Wright Field) to Bangor, Maine, to Miami, Florida, and then back again to Ohio. It was the second of three tests of the autopilot that year, with an earlier test conducted cross-country from Long Beach, California, to Dayton in June. The third test, occurring on 21 September, saw a crew of 11 fliers and observers flying across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to England. That third flight made national headlines, and won its commander—Col James M. Gillespie—the Thurman H. Bane Award (named for the McCook Field commander from 1918-1922) for 1947. (Photo: NMUSAF)

“Its website lists six right-wing personalities, including Dave Rubin, who has more than 2.4 million YouTube subscribers; Tim Pool, a podcast host with more than 1.3 million YouTube followers; Benny Johnson, whose YouTube channel has nearly 2.4 million subscribers; and one user on an obscure military aviation forum whose members haven’t been cool for more than a decade.”