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Steve, This opinion coming from a non-fighter guy, but a guy who has worn the mask almost my entire career (3800 hours), because the gunpig is unpressurized. I think the answer as always is "it depends"... First, was he hypoxic because of lack of oxygen or because of other contaminants in his bloodstream. As I recall carbon monoxide bonds with hemoglobin 230 times stronger than oxygen so simply dropping the mask may not be a simple recovery solution. There are too many unknowns to kn ow the actual situation. Second, A lot depends on his altitude at the time of the incident. As you know the higher you are the less time you have to react, and in the high 30's you may have less than 5 seconds of useful consciousness. Hypoxia is nothing to fuck around with. I can tell you I had an IFE in OEF where multiple members of my crew began to experience hypoxia symptoms as we climbed unpressurized to our combat altitude. The aircraft had just returned from heavy fuel cell maintenance. We just crossed the fence and were climbing to altitude when folks started complaining about an extreme fuel smell. Our bold face tells us to have everyone get on the hose and go 100% oxygen...we were already on the hose and within a few minutes several of my guys started experiencing hypoxia symptoms. It took us a few minutes but we determined the oxygen hoses were mistakenly soaked in J-8...I was faced with a dilemma but I order the crew to drop masks (against the Dash 1), and started an emergency descent to 10K. I got lucky and judgement carried the day.

Forking Aye...mine went up $350...I also just hit a longevity milestone and we get another raise in Jan. All together = $800+....bourbon for everyone.

Electronic flight bags could boost operational safety, effectiveness https://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123283385

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/stratolaunch-plane-people-earth-orbit-203001086.html

Last month the story was about a "few" remains, now 270+ have been confirmed and possibly into the thousands. "The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago, records show." "This week, after The Post pressed for information contained in the Dover mortuary’s electronic database, the Air Force produced a tally based on those records. It showed that 976 fragments from 274 military personnel were cremated, incinerated and taken to the landfill between 2004 and 2008."

There is so much negative news blasted at us everyday that we sometimes become numb hearing about, this story has me physically angry and my stomach hurts...how could we as a service do such a thing.

Fucking SHAMEFUL! https://news.yahoo.com/remains-274-us-troops-dumped-landfill-report-081234306.html

He gets kicked of an American Airlines flight and turns it into a rant about the flight crew... https://simply-showbiz.com/blog/archives/14322 Apparently Mr Prima Donna was asked to turn off his phone and he did not comply...according to Baldwin's camp he simply took a little too long to turn off the phone and was subsequently kicked off the plane which led to him tweeting the following: "Flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing WORDS W FRIENDS while we sat at the gate, not moving." "Last flight w American. Where retired Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950's find jobs as flight attendants." The real story is a bit more revealing..."some of the other passengers and the flight crew have revealed that in addition to playing the game he was also yapping away on his phone, and after being asked repeatedly to turn the phone off since the plane was leaving the gate, he pitched a diva fit and started slamming the bathroom doors, punching the bathroom walls, and basically acting a hot mess, which is what really got him kicked off the flight – Fellow passenger (and non-celeb) Steve Weiss tells the NY Post that “He got up, threw his papers on the floor and stormed into the bathroom, slammed the door closed, beat on the wall and then came back." I thought this stupid fuck was going to leave the country.

The BSC is a corrupt mechanism that ruins the game. Bama had their chance, time for all the SEC idiots to smell some reality and fairness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2SUaoVy_iU

Holy Grim Reaper...maybe you should have taken an assignment to the Pentagon so they could shut that down too! Thanks for your service.

I always preferred the "they replaced the airspeed indicator with a calendar" joke better. Whats the big deal?

A little late to the party considering all the P models will soon be in airparks and the boneyard.

Somewhat disagree...yes it is another map, but I would rather see more features, although the train blasting through Zombies is kinda cool.

looks Like Patti is being sued by someone else for aggressive behavior...she made a toddler vomit! https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/11/15/patti-labelle-sued-for-allegedly-causing-toddler-to-vomit-out-fear/

Ummmm....They are not the only ones doing it.... https://maps.google.c...=h&z=18&vpsrc=6 You will be surprised when you scroll out and see where it is.

Almost put this in the WTF thread, but I think it deserves its own. Prophetic words from the Liberal Anti-War Law Professor and an enlightening view of his opinion of U.S. service members..."I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings." https://abovethelaw.com/2011/11/law-professor-objects-to-solicitations-to-help-our-troops-in-afghanistan/

Sort of...Govt workers in the NCR used to get up to $230 a month towards mass transit, but they never paid you in cash, instead, they gave you metro coupons. Some fools used to try and sell them which is a big no-no. They changed the program two months ago and now each month you file a claim and they load the funds onto your metro card. It is a mess because it is only good for one mode of travel (Sometimes I take Metro, usually an express bus), but you have to sign up for one or the other. Stay late (happens a lot), and miss the bus and you are forces to take the Metro at your own expense. The metro has gotten expensive...close to $15.00 a day with parking. More than anything it is supposed to encourage the use of mass transit.

Release the HOUNDS!

No, it is not unbelievable, it is unforgivable.

Pandefuckingmonium!