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I remember a staff meeting on the third floor of the AFSOC/HQ, the then AFSOC/CC was openly bashing CAA and the 6th SOS. I am paraphrasing but he kept saying "tell me one time when this program got me access to a country".

All week long in my area we heard the chant of Gator fans proclaiming they are back and they are going to crush Kentucky in this grudge match. I must say it was enjoyable watching Kentucky RUN the Gators. What up with Coach Prime and clock management...they came roaring back and burned six minutes off the clock with horrific play calling. No time outs so you run the ball up the middle 4 times...unreal. Also nice to see Brian Kelly and LSU get popped int he nose by Ole Miss...Hotty Totty! Finally, Michigan pummeled poor Nebraska, anyone remember the last time the Huskers were good/relevant...yeah me either.

I was there for a long time, a few of the Commandants included Bert Field, Baba Rand, CQ and K9.

DAYUM...next Huggy will be measuring socks at the DFAC.

Ever worked with him? I was NOT impressed.

Because it is Michigan...bias just like for the SEC teams. While we are the subject of bias, all this BS love for the Irish came crashing down. They were so Tumbleweed they played the last two (and most important downs), of the game with only 10 players.

I never talked to CQ, don't really care for him after having served under him as the WIC Commandant. I don't think Kelly fit the model you outlined above...I know Sparky, Francis and Baba didn't. Scorpions CERTAINLY enabled integration...you've never seen the set up. Maybe I am a dinosaur, if you prefer a sim over being in the air have at it. Sim (especially the new ones), always have a place, but I will always choose to be in the air.

I hear what you are saying, your big bosses felt differently. For the record I can see some of argument around the AT-6, the project I worked on did it with the Scorpion Jet flying in the low 40's at 400+ knots.

@brabus I think you are looking at this as just a plain Jane T-6. ACC has been approach multiple times about dropping a MOSA avionics and mission setup in the T-6. These systems would look and feel like you are operating an F-22 or F-35. While the speeds and altitudes would be different you could for a fraction of the cost build muscle memory touch skills for employment while airborne at a fraction of the cost. Think of it as 90% of the sim in an actual airplane so you are building Airmanship, SA, and buttonology while actually flying. Finish the stortie with a few approaches to a real runway, dealing with real winds and weather and real comms buffoonery. There is a LOT of value to be had if you step back and look at the possibilities rather than the limitations.

Obviously you can't trust the casualty claims form either side but there is some rather stunning and sobering data that can be extrapolated from Russian compensation spending. Russia has spent $25.6 billion on compensation to families of deceased soldiers and $21 billion on compensation to the wounded. Putin has previously signed a decree earlier in the year ordering the payout of $68,800 to the families of deceased and $41,300 to soldiers that are wounded. Using this we can get a glance at potential Russian casualties...assuming zero corruption and money laundering. KIA: 372,093 WIA: 508,474 Total Casualties: 880,567 That’s in 18 months. The US lost 420,000 in 4 years of WWII. Very sobering.

Odds it was Craig Button's cousin?

I was on FB this morning and for some ungodly reason they showed a post from the Gator Nation page recommending I join the group 🤮. The post included a long group of posts claiming the Gators are the #1 team in the nation, obviously the fan base needs a random urinalysis.

Sorry but watching two overrated SEC teams play to 29-16 was not entertaining, especially when Florida fans now proclaim they are "the best team in the nation"...true except when you are getting pounded by #11 Utah I guess. Great game an incredible comeback, Shedeur Sanders is the real deal, he was throwing darts on ropes and carried CU to the overtime win. Most exciting game I've seen in any sport all year.

The "dem reps" you mention are all ensconced in the liberal media...fairly obvious they have all agreed on the new narrative on behalf of the Democrats. ABC Story MSNBC Story Bloomberg Story La Times Story

Sad but true and clowns like Cat 5 are even worse. He OPENLY called for AFSOC to shut down the Weapons School yet SURROUNDED himself with patch wearers when he was down range.

I try to rotate around the various news outlets and listen to how the other side presents things (if they ever talk about anything other than Trump). This morning I was running errands and switched over to CNN to hear their coverage of the Hunter Biden indictments. The guest was a former DNC appointed federal prosecutor who was commenting on the three felony gun charges against Hunter Biden (she didn't want to talk about the tax evasion.) She started by saying that they rarely punish this crime when a drug user is associated with a drug user (I thought that was the whole point of the law), and that while he was "technically guilty" she thought his prosecution on three felony counts was politically driven. I can buy her argument for first time offenders and diversion programs but then she went totally batshit crazy. According to her, there is a "serious Constitutional challenge" to sort out...BECAUSE...here it comes boys and girls....because Hunter Biden has a second amendment right to keep and bear arms and laws that seek to restrict ownership because of drug usage have yet to be challenged up through the Supreme Court. The left is so determined to protect the Biden crime family they will surrender one of the center pieces of their political ideology as part of his defense. So in most liberal states leadership is passing law to restrict you 2A right but the left would now like to use the 2A to protect Hunter Biden.Truly bizzaro world and beyond hypocrisy.

I've worked with the Brits for years on many things and I have never seen this reaction. I was with them after the Tube bombings in 2005 and was stunned at their reaction...more than put on a brave face, it simply FU terrorists as we press forward with life...we saw far worse during the blitz. By chance I was with a very senior recently RAF pilot traveling through one of the heavily bombed areas from WWII when he showed me the article about the almost shootdown. He shared some other details I won't publish and I said I was surprised the truth leaked out, he was not surprised at all given the underlying anger and contempt for what almost happened.

Cat Five hits Hurlburt Chow Hall. IYKYK.

RAF Airplane with RAF service members is not an airliner (not sure if any Brits were on that flight....and BREXIT has changed a few things. I've been in London all week and there you can feel it in the air when this story hit BBC.

It was an RAF airplane and from what I hear they would have responded in kind...

Full story of the Rivet Joint incident finally coming out. We came EPICALLY close to Article Five thanks to incompetence. Crazy that both missiles failed thankfully saving the 30 man crew. This could have been FUGLEY! Rogue Russian pilot tried to shoot down RAF aircraft in 2022