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That alone makes me support the nomination even more!

Slife has to be pissing his panties.

Yeah F that neocon.

This bitch is going to end up in prison. Some good stuff about to drop on how he gets “paid”. F him.

Just straight up lying to get us into a conflict prior to January 20th.

fuck john bolton

Don't forget about Charlie!

One down, many more to go!

The next Top Gun poster is released:

One must respect the pure pragmatism of the Israeli's seizing an opportunity to destroy massive amounts of military hardware. Our failure to act in a similarly decisive way after ousting Gaddafi from Libya had years long ramifications across the Sahel and ME. I do wonder if Israel is over extending itself by expanding its occupation of Syrian territory, time will tell. Separate but related: impossible to watch videos from Sednaya prison and not feel empathy towards HTS freeing them. Assad was clearly evil, HTS also evil, IS evil... I don't think we can contribute anything helpful in that AO and I think we should leave.

I'm not sure what the porch is. Maybe things were better when you went through or if you've been around awhile or maybe its a particularly bad stroke of luck on my part. I don't want to derail this thread, but I think over time more and more control and more intricate process are centralized out of the Sq CC hands. I've seen some great ones, but when they need to ask layers of people to turn off assignments, swap, etc. its too much. It seems like squadron commanders are increasingly coordinators instead of decision makers, but again that is off topic.

That base is smoking currently. Along with every hardened shelter, MIG, and AAA/SAM the Israeli's could find.

I agree with you, but when things are extraordinarily inefficient in an attempt to keep the same structure alive it makes you wonder if the measure of success is how many slots did we fill or something else? I've seen people who specialized in a mission set for years be sent to teach t-6s against their will while at the same time someone at the same base who requests to go back is sent to the first persons desired assignment. At my base I watched a person in process post qual and begin out processing within 2 months because their ADSC was up (they were only 1 of 2 evaluators at their last squadron), they too were sent their against their will. I watched someone who had never flown fix wing before show up, barely make AC, but had over 3000 hours of rotary and requested to fly at minot after they did a service transfer. I think what the feelings of frustration are stemming from a grossly inefficient system that tends to find the simplest solution to problems rather than the best long term ones. I don't think solutions are more centralized control, I think decentralized solutions yield better results and giving more control to lower levels. Otherwise the system becomes increasingly impossible to properly manage.

I loathe AFPC and the promotion structure. However, the taxpayer deserves to get their money's worth for the cost of UPT etc. If there are late to rates banking on not doing 10, sucks to suck. Shoulda went guard.

Fighter FTUs are too backed up apparently, as is T-6 PIT. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

T-38 guy to Fairchild KC-135s? Can't say I've seen something like that before.

We needed a study to prove this? Was this done by the same team that "uncovered" traumatic brain injury in football players? I can't wait to see how they prove the Eagle drivers live in a disproportionate number of two-father households.

Congrats! Good drop for the heavy dudes! Only one AD fighter though. I thought there weren't enough 11Fs on AD. Anyways, you 38 dudes will enjoy flying herks and even tankers.

You can’t really be on your phone otherwise it yells at you and eventually kicks you off. I typically just sit my seat back to a comfortable position and have my hands in my lap but close to the wheel if I need to take over. Honestly though, it’s so good on the highways that I haven’t needed to. Sometimes it can mess up around town, especially with road closures, cones, etc. but I really only use it on my interstate drive to the airport. I get there rested and not mentally fatigued. The seats are super comfortable compared to the Mazda CX-5 I was driving and the ventilated seats are awesome. I would say the biggest questions are: can you make it round trip without charging or will you have access to a charger in the employee lot or wherever you decide to park, or are you okay with super charging a little bit to get home. It’s not for everyone but most of the airline guys at my guard base are using them as their commuters and they all love them too. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app