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Joining the UPT bandwagon it seems! Declined RPA with 94 PCSM, 97 Pilot, 42 Flight hours. Still no information on MFS

I try to watch my language in front of the grandkids

Sure, but I don't see behind any curtains anymore. In short, Russia is a dog we cornered that we have to be very careful with. We're probably doing this for the same reason the US Government limited Ukraine's starlink access as they tried to advance into Russian territory: Russia have nukes on functional ICBMs pointed at western nations. Cutting off Venezuela and Iran in Russian oil calculus has made our sanctions that much more effective. I'd imagine we now have to carefully meter just how tightly we squeeze. Too hard and we get nukes airborne. It's a position of power that has to be carefully managed. Again, that's from my non read-in perspective. If I've learned one thing, it's that open source media is never privy to the behind the scenes negotiations that end up changing all the diplomatic calculus of how, precisely, the US is screwing over other countries. I'd guess this article is us seeing 10% of what's actually going on.

26 June IPT from Laughlin here; I talked to someone from the STUS today, and was only told that the possible locations will be San Marcos, Denton, and Georgetown. I hope 26 and 30 June are the same, because San Marcos is great! Also, it seems we’re going to have a higher than usual amount of crossflow folks in the May/June classes, since ROTC / Academy grads will have just graduated.

Just got notified by my commander, alternate select for fixed wing! Current CSO, first time applying. Scores: 99 Pilot, 95 PCSM. Was also told to expect a PCS within the next 2 months, no base currently.

The issues with the Boeing Starliner were FAR closer to disaster and loss of life than was publicly disclosed. Thanks to a recently completed investigation the event was reclassified a "Type A Mishap." Some key findings are beyond troubling...it appears despite losing two Space Shuttles NASA still has serious safety culture issues AND there was a willingbess to cover up how bad the event was to protect the reputation of the program and Boeing. Here are the key details regarding the investigation and classification: Initial Classification: The mission was not initially labeled a Type A mishap, which is the most serious classification NASA has, often triggered by a loss of life or damages exceeding $2 million. Why It Was Delayed: The initial decision to skip this designation was influenced by concerns about the reputation of the Starliner program. Retroactive Change: Following an independent investigation launched in February 2025, the investigation concluded in November 2025, and in February 2026, NASA officially reclassified the mission as a "Type A mishap" to ensure lessons were fully captured, noting that costs had exceeded the threshold by a factor of over 100. The Findings: The 2026 report revealed serious failures in the propulsion system and criticized both Boeing and NASA for a lack of proper oversight and a problematic safety culture. Astronaut and Starliner first flight commander Butch Wilmore gave a very candid and chilling interview on the Shaun Ryan Podcast.

Excuse me, that's Kim Jong-Clinton to you!

@Negat0ry @Pooter @Sua Sponte @gearhog You naysayers are something else, man. I'll tell you what. It doesn't matter if we can't install a democracy in Iran. If we turn them into Afghanistan, we win. Because they don't have nukes. Last time I checked, they already want to destroy us and our friends, so the bit about them becoming jihadis is a red herring. They're already jihadis. They already hate us. We didn't need to bomb them to achieve that. WhAt's ThE pLaN?? The plan is to destroy their government. This is specific, measurable, achievable, and realistic. I'd be far more concerned if I was hearing soothing sounds of "hearts and minds" and "girls' schools" and the like. Do you guys honestly think there was a different path forward? If you do, I'd love to hear it. And ISIS? Yeah, I remember ISIS. The terror group we bombed the shit out of? Yeah, where are they now? Oh that's right. Their caliphate is gone. Finished. Accomplished almost entirely with airpower. You people need to get it through your head that war is the state of human nature. It will never end. There will never be world peace. We will always be at war. Get over it.

Talk about butt hurt... Several Adams County sheriff's deputies are suing "AFROMAN" claiming they were needlessly harmed by music videos, most notably "Lemon Pound Cake" which included security camera footage taken in 2022 when they served a search warrant looking for drugs at the performer's home. None were found and charges were never filed. Now the fat deputy is upset because AFROMAN made a music video and which caught the deputy eyeballing a lemon pound cake made by AFROMAN's mom. This officer actually cried on the stand citing embarrassment. Epic suit for court.

I was driving on 98 heading to the base one day and some clown pulled out in front of me which prompted a response. A few seconds later my three years chimes in from the back seat...."Dad, what's a F@cking &sshole?"

ProQuest published my dissertation. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/automation-induced-attrition-pilots-manual-flying/docview/3303318551/se-2

Maj Alex Klinner's GoFundMe - https://gofund.me/b45241d2f TSgt Ashley Pruitt's GoFundMe - https://gofund.me/e761976cd

Congratulations I’m so happy for you. I contacted the board earlier in the week actually I believe it was last week to try and advocate for a buddy of mine who was picked up and got helicopters and I wanted to see if there was any possibility to see if we can get him switched over to a fixed wing slot, considering the shortage, but I got told was that the program manager is currently trying to advocate for more people from the UFT list to be considered to help try and fill some of the slots. My body was notified three days ago that he was swapped from helicopters over to fixed wing and the fact that you just got notified sounds like they’re starting to look more at the UFT list

Damn, not news I wanted to wake up to. Prayers for those (and their families) involved. The Wild West is unforgiving - thank you to all the tanker bros crushing it out there, you guys are doing great work in a tough environment.

Correct…Canadian oil is still like $40 or $50 bbl, Venezuelan even cheaper. $70 is the us is very healthy. Creates enough profit for capx, hiring and future expansions. Brent at $70 and above….stupid profits I think what’s being ignored is the squeeze on china. They’re losing 50% of their oil imports, they’ve stopped exporting fuel, the longer this goes the richer irans neighbors get and china starts to bleed out. Read an article last yr how there is a push for a new economic zone with India being the manufacturing hub and moving away from china. They need a fuck load of oil and the products would flow west through the gulf and they railed to Europe. Iran was the only piece in the way.

Agreed, but the same logic applies. Forecasts of doom and chaos are worthless when the doom and chaos never comes. Your entire point is hypothetical. Maybe you'll be right. But so far the anti-interventionists have been wrong on basically every single Trump engagement, especially WRT Iran. And they can't spell out exactly how this goes sideways. What, we get another Islamo-fascist regime, but with no credibility or military might left by which to threaten the world? Oil goes up because the production of a country viral to our biggest enemy (China) was squashed and the American energy complex gets more money and power? That doesn't mean you should keep quiet. It just means there's not yet any reason to believe the sky-is-falling crowd. If we send in the infantry, I'll happily be the first to agree with you. As of yet there's no evidence we're planning that, and you can't hide troop movements like that. Too many people are still shell shocked from the failures of Afghanistan/Iraq that they are conflating all military intervention with nation-building. Now, if we send in the men with beards to capture and control Kharg Island, all the better. The message is pretty clear to anyone who is listening. Fuck with the US, and we will take your stuff and kill you. I for one am a big fan of that message. If my neighbor woke up every morning and threw rocks at my wife and kids while they left for school, promising to rape and murder them when they got home, I'd light his house on fire and execute him as he fled the flames.

Same. My guess is they’re concurrent classes between the 87th and 434th. Might call the UTM tomorrow to ask which we’ll be in

IPT 26 Jun-22 Nov UPT 03 Dec-18 May

He won. We'll see how that works out

The guy said Iran posed no imminent threat? What a dumbass, glad he’s gone.

“Joe Kent is a crazed egomaniac who was often at the center of national security leaks, while rarely (never?) producing any actual work,” Taylor Budowich, Trump’s former deputy White House chief of staff and a political consultant, said in an X post. “This isn’t some principled resignation — he just wanted to make a splash before getting canned. What a loser,” Budowich said. Here's one of the times where he leaked National Security Secrets on a podcast: And here's another clip where his Trump Derangement Syndrome is extremely apparent: He could've just said "I quit because I hate Jews and I'm a Nazi" and dispensed with all of the below gobbledygook.

https://v.redd.it/d30sxsl18hpg1 Trump, "They weren't supposed to go after all these countries in the middle east. Those missiles were set to go after them. So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked."

Air & Space Forces MagazineKC-135 Crashes In Iraq While Supporting Iran OpsA U.S. Air Force KC-135 supporting Epic Fury against Iran crashed in Iraq after a refueling incident involving two aircraft March 12. CENTCOM reporting other aircraft landed safely.

Grew up in the Marine KC community smokin a lucky. Old heads would tell of the risk aversion, how we were "high value assets", Corps was lucky to have Herks a' la Key West Agreement and all that. Fast forward to OIF week one: community had already lost one crew the prior year, I had a front row seat to a notable blue on blue, and now crews were coming back with SAFREPs of having to maneuver due to active tracking by AAA on the way into the LZ. Kinda rearranges your worldview right quick. Stay frosty folks.

Firstly, poor taste in photo choice, obviously. Secondly, the offer is par for the course across many presidential PACs that span R and D. Thirdly, this is a PAC, not the president directly - he had zero personal direction associated with wording or picture. Bottom line - whoever in the PAC made the photo choice is a dipshit, but the fake outrage directed directly at Trump is just that.

TLDR. 😁 Congratulations! Do we need to start calling you "doctor" around here now?

I’ll see y’all there!

Actually I was referring to Russia. Sorry I wasn't clear. I was making the point how a country might feel backed into a corner and feel like they have no choice but to go on the attack.

Not to take away from the fact that he's a old man, but the shoes like that are pretty in style right now with suits.

This is why we need to bring back some Old Testament laws; particularly the one where if you falsely accuse someone then your punishment is what their punishment would have been if convicted. Send both these cops to prison on felony drug charges, see how well they do there.

I was notified for my assignment yesterday, Vance with a RNLTD of early May. My IPT CSD is 5 June. Got my RIP for IPT today. I’ll shoot you a dm you for that class schedule!

S-V8I-PT is the AETC course code for the IPT syllabus. P-V4A-B is the same for the new post-IPT T-6 syllabus (other examples being P-V4A-U for the dead 2.5 T-6 syllabus, P-V4A-M being the XPW syllabus, and F-V5A-F being the T-38C GPT syllabus). If you are showing dates for one or the other, those will either be IPT or UPT start dates based on what the course code that's showing is.

Yeah I think so. Just got my RIP as well so trying to figure all the things out

That's life. We don't do nothing never we can't do everything. This isn't a Iraq, a country that was by and large doing nothing to the United States in the early 2000s. This is Iran, the country that has been actively and perniciously attacking us for decades. If your analogy holds, and the children of the Ayatollah attempt revenge, how is that materially different? In this case, the worst case scenario is the status quo. It's just not the same as the forever wars we were used to.

Brother Bill trying un-alive Hillary by pushing her into traffic. Break Break - why does she always dress like Charmian Mao? AQMnD1eaZ9nTx_usU7ZG9njlu_ozqA2WxUQTd-1fD5WSoCNwoLev7nJey670MQM8XbmDOupkxAoKDxMBQe8iVk4KXhHssDh_HEjNqiHPPQtVGA.mp4

So I’m currently driving to Columbus to drop off two of my vehicles about a week ahead of my PCS. But the information that I can pass along is that once your dates get loaded anybody in your CSS shop should be able to look at your MILPDS records and see what training you’re loaded for additionally, if you don’t know what base you got you can do the EFMP hack on VMPF essentially what you do is you start a new application and you go all the way to the end make sure you don’t hit submit and you will see your projected assignment and then once you see that just go ahead and remove your EFMP application. Lastly, from what my experience was, you’re gonna get an email from the transition flight at whatever base you’re going to to let you know that you’ve been scheduled for IPT and it will have the location on it. I know there are locations in Orlando Pensacola Atlanta, Denton, Texas, and San Marcos Texas. I don’t know if they’re still using the ones out in Arizona. Sorry for any typos I’m currently driving and using Siri

Fairly certain @M2 gave Eddie Rickenbacker his first intel brief.

Happy birthday to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale AFB 113 years old today. In 1916, the 1st invaded Mexico to try to capture or kill Pancho Villa. Probably didn't get much per diem.

And, not so incredibly, Pancho Villa knew Huggy.

Everyone forgets how much support the Soviets gave North Korea and North Vietnam to include Soviet troops participating in combat operations against us in those wars.

Dibs

You’d be pretty surprised at some of the stuff contracting companies will look past if they have a position that needs to be filled.