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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.

Your age is a pretty glaring factor. It’s extremely hard to get hired by a fighter unit when you’d be going to UPT near/at the age waiver requirement. It happens occasionally, but data shows it’s very rare. I think many units won’t even entertain interviewing someone who’s in that position, regardless of how stellar their app is otherwise. When a unit sees your app vs. a very similar app (but the guy is 23), they’ll take the 23 yr old 9.9/10. Your best bet is keep submitting apps, but hit your home unit with all you got - put in the extra time to interact with pilots as much as possible, make it known ASAP to them you are excited to be a CC, but your ultimate desire is to fly in the Wing. Your home unit is probably your best bet given your timeline. If no luck by 30, I’d start throwing out apps to heavy units if you really want to fly mil. If you don’t want that bad enough/fighters or bust, then so be it, but be at peace with the decision and never flying for the mil (if it comes to that).

It feels like a pipe dream, but I hope there is a successful movement on the “near” left (e.g. the mid 90s Dem mindset citizens) to establish a new party and send the Dems the way of the Green Party. AOC, etc. can enjoy their irrelevancy on ballots and in the public square. We don’t want everyone to be in lock step with one party - we need rational debate and different ideas, as well as shifting leadership over time (e.g. not having one party dominate for decades). But we also do not want a socialist shit show party who hates everything about America and wants to completely reinvent it into an abomination.

Probably matters less in heavies, but in the CAF, OHWS has been a huge benefit. I hope it never gets shut down, especially for the young guys who were lucky enough to have it since day one.

I think this about the 5th cycle of colored shirts and name tags in my career. Thankfully I’ve been able to mostly ignore all of the knee jerk decisions and keep doing the right thing: morale shirts and call sign name tags (and no hat/sunglasses on head), as God intended.

Or simply performance, independent of the crash discussion. The average performance level is noticeably lower today than it was 10 years ago. That’s not a referendum on the individuals today, it’s the training quality/quantity sacrificed in name of cost savings, bureaucratic bullshit, misplaced priorities, etc.

When you cultivate douchbaggery at the lowest level of NSW, it’s not surprising the leadership side is also flush with d bags. Obligatory shout out to the really good dude SEALs, just too bad they’re in the minority.