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all these suggestions seem to point to being more like the guard... get rid of (or limit) BAH and raise the base pay a little to be more competitive with commercial counterparts. want to fly in a beautiful place? be prepared to pay higher cost of living. want more discretionary money? go to a base with lower COL.

Red Fox just summarized how insane it is we spend millions of dollars dropping some of the most technologically advanced weaponry on dudes in toyota tacomas. seriously, there is a place for low tech/high numbers flying with cheap planes and cheaper ammunition

Malaysia owns 49% of the company.. so while its not a majority owned, its still owned

When the FBI does their background check you better believe they will be able to view those files.

I vote for plowing time and money into a bachelors... what is the CFI ticket going to give you vs a UPT slot? does the 10k have to be used for that or can it be used towards the bachelors?

haha well met, ill go with poor choice of both!

dont really think it was a swing and a miss, 130 something votes isnt that great considering what the GOP was hyping her as.... not to mention it was an off cycle election year which historically has low democrat turn out. (say what you want about a group the only comes to vote when theres flashy elections going on)

I get your point man, i do.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/cia-paid-torture-teachers-more-80-million-n264756 sorry, but that is what upset me. There was little to no oversight on how these dudes were operating considering the extreme things they were doing. Im not against doing what needs to be done

true, i guess im just shocked that i didnt see it as a device to measure health vs occupational capability in the first place.

noted, thats actually the best black and white answer ive gotten on to the purpose of the PT standards, but why thinly veil it at all?

i think more of us would have sided that way if the torturing actually led to anything usefull other then furthering some peoples careers running the program

lol i always find it funny when people in intelligence agencies want us to just believe them.... like subterfuge isnt their job or something

how can you justify lower PT standards for women? Im not saying women shouldn't serve but how is it fair to disqualify a dude who maybe just barely missed the PT standards and let a women pass with lower standards, shouldn't the content of their character and their skill set in their chosen position outweigh different PT standards? if anything the PT standards need to be like the fighter aircrew with things based on a common weight multiplier i want to clarify im not being antagonistic, im just trying to honestly ask the question to foster discussion

the issue here is that: 1. we are stooping to their level and when we do that we lose sight of what ideals we are fighting for 2. this program has been run by people who are in fact their own oversight and in turn have produced misleading information as to the efficacy of these programs. and finally 3. the fact that non of the supposed cases where they said torturing led to information that stop terrorism actually did that. in fact none of the torture led to any information that stopped terrorism and that is what most people have a problem with.

BB i get what you are saying but Tree hits the nail on the head. When are we going to get pentagon wars 2 - the jet that ate the pentagon

i think the problem is not that we have to use work arounds, but more how does a company that is located in a desert, and designs, builds, and tests their planes in the desert, not fix this in the ground up design of the aircraft? its not like they are sukhoi located in the barren frozen waste land that is russia

hopefully thats true... to see the OTS pipe dry up for two years has been rough on some dudes.

id like to know where that info came from. the last numbers i saw for this FY was zero pilots from OTS for UPT.

with respect, is there ever a time to jump the chain of command?

I was thinking of the follow on to the J, have you seen some of the designs they are talking about? airships?! hah!

i could see some groups where the flying overlaps if they have excess equipment, but the better question i think is what will eventually replace the Herk?

true, but to think the whole thing started on the ground, its pretty sad. there was another one where the maintenance crews had improperly set the elevator controls because the repair manual was confusing and the plane crashed because of the reduction in control authority. that crash was not labeled pilot error, but it shows that the small mistakes on the ground are compounded 100 fold in the air. I also think as others have stated, there is a large gap between the way civilians, military, and astronauts all train and practice to fly that can effect the frequency and severity of accidents. hell a great point would be SFLs in the GA community vs the Military

this reminds me of the aeroperu flight that crashed because the ground crew covered the static ports with speed tape vs using the correctly colored maintenance tape. the result of the pilot missing it being covered (was the same color as the skin) during his midnight walk-around. They then go on to blame the actions of the two pilots for not instantly recognizing what was going on flying on a cloudy night with not ground reference. the moral of the story is the maintainers did not follow protocol which put the pilots in a bad situation where they did everything to recover. but it was still termed pilot error.

ok gonna throw my hat in the ring, not a military aviator yet, but spent the better part of my undergrad (industrial design and engineering) researching aviation accidents and how human factors in the design and layout of the systems impacted the humans and how they operated them. in almost EVERY case, human performance was not the issue, but improper training or poor documentation/instrument and control layouts were to blame. now yes, there were people that would point out humans designed these systems so it was still a human factors issue, but we are always going to have these issues until machines start building machines... and im not looking forward to that lol but seriously, pilot error is a word that upsets me very much, because the pilots are usually doing the best damn job keeping the airplane flying. Meanwhile ive done functional checkrides in GA aircraft where the autopilot is trying its best to crash the airplane