Boomer6

Don't forget to brief your double missed cable gear down min fuel divert gameplan. That'll put some hair on your chest.

The one that smashed his exec or the one that took over for him?

The Garmin watches are all well and good, until the altimeters start failing at the 18 month point. Even better when Garmin recommends buying a new watch if you want it fixed. Skillcraft Aviator pens are great. If you have enough cash for 400 dollar watches I'd rather get some nice shades (Costa etc.) or a good travel bag (osprey, eagle creek, patagonia etc.).

Backfire lives up to its name.. Russia claims it had an engine fire, Ukraine claims it caused the engine fire with a missile

Ukraine DestroysThird/Last Bridge in Kursk "The destruction of the third bridge over the Seym river at Karyzh would mean Russian troops on a broad stretch of the border beyond the river would now largely cut off"

Ukraine Creating Buffer Zone in Russia "Ukraine’s Commander in Chief, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, claimed last week that his forces had advanced across 1,000 square kilometers (390 square miles) of the region,"

Reminds me of the scientist Boyd referenced that declared the ideal missile would need to be shaped like a boomerang...

That whiny ass bitch hurts my ears worse than 110 decibels ever could.

Iran tells Israel, via Hungarian foreign minister, it's going to attack Like your grandma telling you what she got you for your birthday, before it's your birthday

IRGC claims short-range projectile used to kill Haniyeh

You guys think the Colonel's middle name is "Dick"? That'd be unfortunate.

Is the example of the name tag "First Name Last Name" or does it explicitly say, " Nametag must display first name and last name."? If it's the former I'd say that's just an example like "John Doe." If it's the latter, easy, we just all change our legal names.

You should get an email at some point with your flt/cc's info, but don't expect a sponsor for PIT. There aren't necessarily a list of specific places to live unless you're showing up solo then there are plenty of PIT pads (Google will help). You can find furnished places in Schertz, Cibolo, etc. that will allow short term leases.

That dude isn't going to do/say anything contrary to what his boss says and jeopardize his next assignment/rank. There's plenty of actual studies/data that the AF has commissioned and then blatently ignored. I don't think a bunch of dudes brainstorming common sense ideas on the internet is going to help. Maybe if a C-17 crewed by two T-6 direct to Altus dudes crashes into an LGBTQ+ parade during a flyover they'll 're-evaluate' the training program.

Recommend reading Operation Pineapple Express by Lt Col Scott Mann (ret.). First hand account of a group led by prior Green Berets to get former Afghan SOF/Interpreters and their families out prior to the U.S. exit. Libby has it for free on audiobook. Eye opening to say the least for someone that isn't familiar with what went down.

Finally, a counterpoint grounded in logic, and not the same ol' verbal Russian handjob from the resident apologist.

Russel Case is your spirit animal Biff.

The whole point here is that there is a local law supportig this action. It's not simply a CC telling you to violate a reg. I'm advocating the politicians shoulder the majority of the blame for passing the law in the first place.

This analogy is on par with, "if we can't trust them to wear approved patches, how an we trust them in combat?!" In the absense of a law passed ordering police to torture, maim, rape, or execute prisoners I don't expect them to be constitutional scholars. We have courts for this. Its the same reason I don't condemn college admissions officials for executing affirmative action for 60+ years. It was found to be unconstitutional, but I don't hold admissions officials personally responsible for following the law.

Yes. At the danger of talking past each other, I am not in disagreement with anything you wrote. My opinion, and yours for that matter, on this not being IAW Article IV is irrelevant. The only opinion that matters legally is the court's. The point I was trying, and obviously failing, to make is that the city passed a law specifically to empower officers to do what we see in the video. It's easy to say they should have just refused. They're officers that are trying to clean up their city and were given approval to execute per the new law. Pardon me for not immediately damning them to hell for doing what they're told. If leadership directs a subordinate to do something unlawful, I'd prefer to hold leadership accountable. Even moreso when leadership just passed a law making it "legal."

There are barely double digit guard -38 slots per year for the next year or so. You'll have no problem getting a taste for what a 9-5 job is like.

Toxic Leadership according to a 0.69" Google search, "a combination of self-centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that have adverse effects on subordinates, the organization, and mission performance." The self-centered approach to leadership is what I've seen from the majority of senior leaders I've worked for, not to mention countless stories from the bros. I'm not saying it is done with malicious intent, but that hardly matters. The desire to climb the ladder in coupled with the standard knee jerk reaction to prove to the boss that, "we're doing something" has bred this into the bobs. It's almost like they teach this at ACSC. Working for a boss that gives a shit and you can trust implicitly is something I've experienced once.

Hopefully he has good home insurance.

Valid. Supervisors should know if their ppl have a shaving waiver or not. That being said, until very recently the only dudes I saw with a beard were black. Since 2020 I have no problem believing supervisors were afraid to ask for fear of being labeled racist/hassling airmen of color.