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It was just the Straight of Muz until your mom showed up.

Pentagon - “Aircraft was damaged.”

Take away (or at least reduce to max extent feasible) Iran’s ability to project any kind of influence, power, and/or destruction outside of their own borders.

The fact we started this with our strategic oil reserve at ~58% full (415/720+ million barrels) shows there was no forethought.

It has been outed as gay. Edit: The Gay of Hormuz.

Summation of the last page: several people with not a lot of actual SA acting like they’ve got it all figured out. Par for the course I guess.

Why does anyone think this is some sort of surprise. Seriously I sometimes wonder if some of you really aren't just random civilians that found this forum. Or has the military gotten so pathetic that the members have forgotten exactly how a war works? People die. Things get blown up. Planes crash and economies get hit. Iran needed to be dealt with. It was never going to be easier to deal with them than shortly after they got their dick kicked in following October 7th. So we could have waited like a lot of you seem to wish we had, and lost more planes in people when we inevitably had to clean up this mess. Or we could just done it now. I'm glad we're doing it now. I would rather not wait until we rationalize ourselves into irrelevance like Europe has.

I've gotten into the habit of twisting my entire body towards the window and looking as far back over the wing as I can when visually clearing. I find that the physical movement makes the action take approximately 2 to 3 seconds as opposed to maybe half a second just quickly turning my head in that direction and back. Makes it a lot harder to "pencil whip" the act and miss something because my mind is on another task. Basically the same idea as pointing to or physically touching the altitude window when confirming an altitude clearance. Makes it a lot harder to miss any errors when you add an exaggerated physical component.

Well survived where flying dreams go to die (MFS) for the second time. Im glad I did my FC1 two years ago cuz my eyes arent getting any better. Hoping whatever my assignment is its soon. Had a handful of the UCT and OTS reclass folks here as well.

I was SCREAMED at on SATCOM by the JFAC himself (Moseley), for going below 10K in 2002 to get below weather and support a TIC.