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Love the SIIs that are complete lip service and serve zero utility. Since I’m required to brief them, this means 90% of the time it’s, “SIIs are on the wall, you can read.” The 10% that actually make sense get covered.

I know, and am friends with, several great dudes who are WSOs. They’re also smart and very capable human beings. That said, get rid of their positions in totality as aircraft advancements allow. There’s good reason we don’t have FEs on airliners anymore or navs on almost all aircraft models. There was absolutely a time and place, but those days are long gone. Stop trying to force a square peg into a round hole. They all need to accept this fact and move on… retire/get out early and transition to civ employment Shift to a different AFSC USAF reduce WSO production commensurate with current WSO-required aircraft retirements Stop trying to stupidly argue WSOs are required on new aircraft

I think Trump confused sedition and treason (and the max punishment for each). Regardless, another example of not thinking it through before opening one’s mouth.

It’s funny how many portions of the AF have obviously tried to emulate the Weapons School patch. I’m all for finding ways to be the best at whatever you do, but come on guys, trying to copy the WIC’s patch is lazy and the opposite of innovative (assuming that’s a tenet of any of these courses).

Completely unsalvageable. Now the remaining question is if inspections were complied with correctly, and if so, then timelines need to be adjusted. If not, well then some heads should roll substantially.

Not even a CPO guy, just a line guy who’s clearly the front runner for biggest douche of the airlines 2025 award? I can’t even fathom that.

Barry name tags and dicks in 4 stars’ hats (and also their backup hat, suck it exec!) Those were the days.

Could have also replaced the right seat in a U-28 with a CSO since that pilot did a lot of sensor work (WSO mafia thinking)…until you need him to fly the plane. Same problem in any aircraft, especially high value/low density assets like B-21. I’m not saying a WSO isn’t capable of managing sensors, AI, etc., but you create a gaping capability hole and increase risk when you cheap out on a WSO vs. pilot in the other seat. And if it wasn’t for their very long sortie durations, I’d say make it single pilot.

Not a lot, but I didn’t say I did. Do you live there and know better than my family who has lived there for 40 years? Although it does seem like things have become better, so good on the city for that. That said, I’m actually not picking on San Fran, it’s the same problems any major city has. There are nice spots in most big cities, but nobody should be naive enough to think those spots are representative of the whole. The Boston layover is nice, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t MANY neighborhoods/areas that I would be an idiot if I went to them.

Not great if you live there (I have family there)…crime, cleanliness, safety. I’m sure it appears “great” if you’re in the right spots. Kind of like when we visited friends in South America and they said, “oh it’s great, totally safe and clean”…as we drove by 3rd world slums and into the affluent area that had security rivaling embassy compounds in Afghanistan. Yep, THEIR area was great, but everywhere else was not by a long shot.

I’ve heard lots of credible source negatives about Crenshaw for several years. Unfortunate, I had high hopes at the beginning.

Just listened to it. I’m not really surprised by any of it, but it is still absolutely blood boiling. I hope the Trump admin steps in and rights this egregious wrong.

Please DM me if you have any SLC tanker contacts. Prefer patch/DO/plans, but any aircrew to start is better than nothing.

Unfortunately haven’t seen those in many years. Too bad. Sincerely, Hugh Jorgen

@ClearedHot Completely agree. Just would be great to see the super dipshit progressive wing of the Dem party either separate and become its own (Dems go back to what they used to be), or the not batshit crazy people in the Dem party break away and establish a new party. Bottom line, the progressive socialists need to be their own thing; currently they’ve simply hijacked a major party.