BFM this

I hope you're enlisting to crew chief for the Raptor squadron. If so, be the best crew chief on the line (also applies to [insert AFSC]) - follow direction from your NCOs and leadership - be humble - take feedback and use it to improve - deploy with the squadron, even if you have to miss a semester or two. The pilots will notice, and will put on war paint if thats what it takes to get you to UPT (they'll fight for you). Whichever unit you're enlisting with, don't scoff the other units. Your unit might be backlogged for UPT slots, changing airframes, losing their metal, etc. Be up front and honest with your unit that you want to be an officer and fly, and that includes making yourself available to all opportunities on the island.

About to add a couple more “former” entries to his CV

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Sometimes; and probably with a statistical slant toward the COVID WFH crowd; probably nailed it with "average person". My Frau has been WFH since 2015. By any measure her productivity has increased since she left the office, been promoted above her BA credentials, above standard raises; there was a minor brouhaha a couple of years ago where she was an RCH from bouncing, resume polished ready to publish on Linkedin. Management fell all over themselves to keep her. *Maybe* overall she's been paid slightly under industry standard for the work she's been doing over the past eight years; what's kept her from actively putting her resume out over these years has been the QoWL; hard to beat being able to send the kids out the door in the morning, get most of your productivity done in gym attire, then be home for the kids getting off the bus in the afternoon. Was super convenient during the pre-school/kindergarten years! I think the COVID WFH crowd has treated the experience like substitute-teacher day, everyday. Productivity...if they feel like it.

MPC churning out some half decent GRGs

Typical newhire question: if assigned LGA, how long to hold a line? Answer: around lunchtime, day 4 of Indoc.

And all this time I was spelling it Tally Hoe 🤷‍♂️

We're missing balance. When Chang was trolling us hard we had Liquid to balance out the discourse (and humor). Where's that guy?

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/aviation-company-relaunching-pby-5-as-modern-military-aircraft

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article276969778.html

2021, 6y FO who was active on union committees punched, AA for FDX Rare, yes.

Term limits seem like an easy fix, but much like the 17th Amendment, the devil is in the details. Just term limiting congress-critters would power shift further toward entrenched bureaucrats. Not necessarily a positive outcome.

Yes I actually believe that he does. He’s a raging dumpster fire, personality wise, but yeah, I think he has better intentions and ideas that anyone either party is going to put forward. I do believe this, in the face of all propaganda we’ve been fed.

This was the guy that was big news around MRA circles a few years ago. Big-D single shot kill criteria (don't mean Dallas). Hadn't heard of a similar case ivo Ramstein.

fwiw... Certain health practices will never see the light of day in terms of well funded trials...sorta like cancer itself, too much money to be had in the treatment to bother looking TOO hard for a cure. That said, my personal quiver includes both daily intermittent, and long term fasting. Lots of content out there for your consumption from the likes of Attia, Huberman, Patrick, etc. My regimen is 24h per week, 1 x 72h per month, 1x 120h per quarter. I'd explain the benefits but I've got a pilot's level grasp of communication, so I point you to the above Doctors. The goodness is brought to you by the vocabulary words cellular autophagy, mitophogy, stem cel production, gluconeogenesis, among others. Enjoy

Scuttlebut was that it could be used in a Line of Duty determination for SGLI, so all played along. That said, I had a Hazardous Activities worksheet that included gliders, light GA, motorcycle, boating, and shooting, so it wasn't as though they were being pricks about it.

lol, I flight planned this out before starting phase 2. My planning showed me how many HOURS it was gonna take to cover half of northern MS trying to vis recce the pattern, MOAs, LL routes, etc. 100kts vs 250kts/350kts (tweet, talon). We're talking gas stops, over multiple days of flying. ...it was an idea quickly dismissed. OP's idea would cost a small fraction, and with google earth embedded in the most recent sims, not a bad idea. Best bet is if UPT now allows open sims--->>>do that! In 2004 this was considered a SylDev, but my FC did sign off a few sessions so I could go over with classmates who were struggling.

Agree, but... The courts aren't actually breaking up families, per se. The courts are incentivizing the breakup of families, via application of shitty statute and case law. It's a low risk payoff for one of the parties that enters family court, statistically speaking. But, even then, the table is set long before the divorce petition gets filed. Social media has only poured gasoline on an already raging dumpster fire of demonizing men and devaluing family in popular culture. Hooray single moms! Pay no attention to the adult outcomes of children raised in single parent homes, much less those without fathers.

If China manages to sail a full CBG and make it east of Indonesia, color me shocked and awed.

If they do, then that could be a very slippery slope indeed. Thinking of the legal review about a decade ago that looked upon service members in CONUS driving to work if that work included over the horizon ops in theater. The droid was in international airspace. Is it a lawful threat (target) if it is a sniffer platform (RC-135) orbiting over Poland?

Don't know what the current climate is, but I was able to extend my retirement PCS move twice before I pulled the trigger and moved the Family to my domicile.

I only break out my IDGAF waiver when it’s a .80/320 one leg home on day 4.