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Revival. Poking the Dragon. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/03/05/590803578/a-u-s-aircraft-carrier-is-docking-in-vietnam-for-the-first-time-since-the-war

wait...what? edit...RTFQ. Yeah, I'm was moving at herc speed on that one.

Missileers everywhere are getting the tingly feelings. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43239331 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43248794 Quality of all the sources on this crap aside, I personally like how they're targeting CENTCOM...it's about time.

If you're into NATO and Italian food, look up the DACCC at Poggio Renatico, Italy. Sits in the middle of motor valley. Two year accompanied remote because the nearest school for kids is a 1+30 drive. The USAF presence is significant enough to have a healthy national support element. It's one of the best ways to punch the short tour box if you're single or you've got a family that can homeschool. Ferrara is a great little city. Lambo and Ferrari main factories are a quick trip too.

Of course not. It hasn't sat untouched for a week yet.

Just ordered some for $102. The gortex sage appear to be sold out unless you've got size 6 feet.

...solidifying my decision to separate early...

Yeeeeeeeeah, not in today's Air Force. BREAK Bottom Line: Everything AETC does can wait until tomorrow. The training mission IS important, but it's not worth blatantly risking lives to accomplish. Reference how no Americans died or were put at risk as a result of the T-6 pipeline shutting down for safety. The same cannot be said of line ops squadrons. Flying is hazardous enough without intentionally taking a broken jet into the air. Maintain aircraft control, analyze the situation, take appropriate action. It sounds like they are skipping straight to "take action" regardless of the "appropriate" part.

With that many retired GO's involved, the 10% rule is definitely in play.

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2018/02/20/nato-command-change-to-address-deficiencies/ Part of me said: "Wow, NATO is going to make a logistics command? Cool!" Then I realized that the last sentence addressed the timeline: "NATO is still fleshing out the details of the changes." ...right after a coffee break.

"In reportedly deploying T-50s, the Kremlin is outright gambling with precious prototypes and their pilots’ lives. It has sent into an active combat zone two supposedly “stealth” fighters that are anything but stealthy, that possess inadequate and incomplete sensors, incomplete fire-control systems and self-protection suites, no operational integrated avionics and are powered by unreliable engines. They have undertaken hardly any weapons-separation testing except for two types of free-fall dumb bombs and lack any other operational weapons bar their 30-millimeter internal cannons." ...yeah, but does the OBOGS work? Seriously, who's running this place? Monkeys?

He's a SSgt who appears to be giving instruction to the selfie queen...

"The Air Force takes a balanced approach to maintain core capabilities and is committed to providing the competitive military compensation necessary to recruit and retain high quality and experienced Airmen..." Is this a satire document?

If it's your leg, do what you want with the bug. If you're the Captain/AC, pipe up on how you want it run. Don't mess with someone else's way of flying unless it's outside of procedure or it's a technique that can end in a violation death. I think it's just a stupid detail for sim instructors to be constantly harping on in order to browbeat the importance of a solid cross-check. That may service a purpose. Once on the line though...not helpful.

This. Why would any pilot on the BRS look at their potential in the private sector/airlines and NOT get out after their UPT ADSC?

Nah. They'll find that the squadron fostered a "culture of insubordination" because you can't go stepping on the some individual's freedom of speech. It's the internet...which is basically a safe zone, right? Just fire the squadron commander, promote the wing commander, and move on.

When standards are dropped, fighting forces get weaker, regardless of what's between a soldier's legs. This is not a good move.

In the C-130 (classic and J models) tactile switch difference is clutch in several time sensitive situations (airdrop, NVG airland, etc). Several switches require touch only for identification, and that streamlines human factors. Touch screens are neat a ground speed zero, but they reduce capability in a tactical and time sensitive environment because they require visual verification (a.k.a. diverted attention). Compound that with turbulence, smoke/fumes, and task saturation, and those screens will be a liability. Thank engineers, but i'll keep my switches.

I'd pay money if they'd let me take my 1911 .45 and as many mags as I want. Although that GAU-5 sounds like a great idea to have strapped in a few places in a herk.

...and they probably want to call it a flight deck, not a cockpit. How progressive. Autocorrect is gunna double my data inputs times.

Doesn't merit it's own thread, and no better place to put this: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/02/05/deploy-or-get-out-new-pentagon-plan-could-boot-thousands-of-non-deployable-troops/ Nothing so useful as applying an Army fix for an Army problem to a Joint environment. Having worked in a "Joint" staff for over a year now, I'm ready to never work with the Army again.

ClearedHot said it best: Follow your heart. You will have doubts. Don't sweat someone else's experience. This is your journey, choose to fully engage in it.

Can they call it Ministry of Vigilance so we can be more Orwellian about it?

"words, words, words, government shutdown wasn't that bad...more words...who should we blame..." It's on par with a 500 pound morbidly obese man arguing how getting off the couch and walked to the refrigerator should count as a workout so he should be allowed more food. The government failed at it's basic function: operating. How long has it been since congress passed a complete budget? The system is thoroughly broken. We should not be measure inches of failure here, we should be demanding success. But seeing how excellence in any form is frowned upon now, I'm pretty sure that's a lost cause.