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With those resume highlights, a squadron would be real dumb to pass on interviewing you solely based on an 88 PCSM. I think you’ll be fine, at least on the scores front.

Since Trump took office (not all of them, just a few top ones): TSMC $100B Stargate $500B DAMAC $20B Eli Lilly $27B Apple $500B (after an additional 10% tariff on China) Hyundai $20B J&J $50B CMA GCM $20B GE $1B NVIDIA $500B (yesterday, even amid a potential further tariff increase on chips) Also FWIW, combined $1.1T in planned investments/trade increases with Saudi and India This is not an opinion on the tariffs at all, but saying investments are not being made/not in motion is straight up wrong. Saying tariffs are going to crush investments and businesses will want nothing to do with investing amidst tariffs has so far, been wrong. All the fear- mongering regarding the tariffs has so far panned out to be sky-is-falling bullshit, which is the main point I’m addressing. How will everything look in 4 years (hell even 18 mo), fuck if I know. But I do know right now, even amid Trump’s seemingly volatile economic gameplan, companies and domestic and foreign investors are more so running towards the US economy than away. Ultimately, I’m just glad we’re not continuing to execute the same shit we’ve always done - need to mix it up, stumble/learn/adapt, etc. to get to a more economically independent future. Maybe this will all pan out, maybe it’ll fail and we’ll have to adjust fires, but at least we’re trying to solve the problems instead of just defeatedly accepting the status quo.

Took me 3 sec on google, here’s the first three sources that came up: GE Aerospace Apple Industry Select And I’ll even show you my work for extra credit: Pretty surprised you’ve been living under that big of a rock and hadn’t heard about any of this, and apparently you were too lazy to google it yourself instead of trying to challenge me to prove the sky is blue.

You must have missed it, because multiple companies are doing exactly that, in addition to other related investments. Trillions invested, not just billions. Check news source.

You didn’t mesh well with this unit, but doesn’t mean you won’t mesh well with others. I wouldn’t put another thought into this unit, you’re wasting your time. That all said, recommend getting some very honest feedback from current coworkers, people you casually interact with, etc…not from your family or best friend. You need max honest feedback on how you’re perceived by those who casually know you, but not those who are emotionally attached to you like family or a best friend. Whatever feedback you get, take it to heart and act positively on it.

So far this year businesses have committed to ~ $1.5T over the next 4 years and that number goes to ~ $3T when you add in the 10 yr UAE commitment. This isn’t a disagreement with the overall premise of your post, but frankly I’m in wait-and-see mode because it is not the “sky is falling” scenario that people are screaming about. Though I do understand some of your points and the long term direction of big payoff (or free fall) is unclear.

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Consider if you go down this road and get hired by the ANG unit you are probably pushing your UPT date back considerably. I would also talk with your SQ/CC and tell him the whole story, see what he says. That conversation will tell you if pressing forward with the ANG application will be burning bridges or not. I don’t think you’re wrong to be considering this, but if you try to go this route and keep it a secret from your current unit, that can backfire hugely.

The boys are doing great work. Hope it keeps going well and everyone comes home safely.

Combat (strafe/show of force is flyby-ish) only nowadays…too bad.

Absolutely 100% agree. It should not be difficult to admit a mistake, learn from it, and perform better in the future.

@Banzai Nah, my credibility is just fine, but copy emotional, personal attack. I’ve seen PA commit far worse OPSEC mistakes than what was put on Signal by SecDef. Again, not a defense of him being a bonehead, but you are simply being a politically charged hack trying to make it substantially more than what it is (a fuck up, but not a “straight to jail/burn him at the stake!” fuck up). The problem with the CUI data is aggregate collection that can lead to compiled secret, and that’s the real concern with fuckery like the Signal incident. But you probably didn’t need that info because you’re smarter than the rest of us on how classified works… Have said multiple times it’s not fine (but you ignored that so you can make me a boogey man in your mind). Valid concern about what else could get out due to incompetence - but reality is you can just go ahead and discharge half the combat pilots in the AF, 69% of SOCOM, etc. right now if this level of reaction is “warranted” for this level of fuck up. The right thing to do is action that is commensurate with the fuck up instead of this “straight to jail!” attitude for everything (that people you don’t like do).

@chase Never saw specific targets and their locations, units, callsigns, comm plan, routing, AR track locations, CAP locations, etc. I will retract my statement if those were indeed released (absolutely could have missed it). And as previously stated, this is not support of what was put in signal, but merely caging reality vs. hyperbole.

Secret is basically the new Unclass, or at least that’s the prevailing attitude we’ve developed due to decades of lazily classifying shit higher than necessary. Hell, the available Signal “bombshell” screenshots are CUI at best, but you’d think the F-47 just got fully leaked to Beijing based on the reactions (that’s not a defense of said actions, just tempering the actual vs. perceived level of fuckup). S//NF cellphones are easy to get, the CUI app is mentioned above - people/orgs just need to normalize using those. That’d go a long ways to minimize spillage. Also, don’t be an asshat always applies.

The problem lies with LM (and perhaps DOD for not demanding more ownership in the early days) - it should have been Viper/Eagle/Hornet pilots wearing patches who were still active providing SME guidance. 6th gen SMEs are at least relatively recently active/active 4G and 5G patches - it’s a step in the right direction. Unfortunately the F-35 was like asking me for my opinions on 7th gen 20 years from now. We all expire - accept it and enjoy the next phase of life!

So he posted an ATO on Signal to a journalist? Cool, go with evidence. I’m 100% open to anything being possible and am not at all saying said level of evidence couldn’t possibly surface in the future, I’m just saying it hasn’t as of now (that I’ve seen anyways, happy to take any and all point outs). I make zero judgments or opinions on this topic as of right meow, just stating there is a lot of hyperbolic reaction from the political opposition without supporting evidence. LOL. Yeah, the Atlantic and this “journalist” are totally credible. Maybe they get something correct this time, but also maybe they don’t and it’s completely blown out of proportion for political reasons, which is their historic MO.

She was processing TS//SAR material at home. Is that what got put out on Signal in this case? As of now, I haven’t seen anything beyond some screenshots of who-gives-a-shit content. Not saying this couldn’t end up blowing up into something really bad, but for now there’s a lot of hot air blowing around without evidence to back up the level of “rage” responses on SM/MSM.

4+ decades to be more precise. The whole system needs to be destroyed and rebuilt.

The two companies took different approaches to meeting the requirements. Boeing came up with a better concept - I don’t know a single fighter pilot from any service that doesn’t share that sentiment. Sorry, can only be vague on the internets. FWIW, it’s badass and a slam dunk…in theory. The pessimist (realist?) in me says they’ll fuck it up and it’ll be F-35 2.0 from a programatics perspective. At least there have been some solid fighter guys involved in the program up to this point, unlike the F-35 where the fighter SMEs of the early days were F-4 guys, who God bless ‘em, had zero fucking idea what a 5G fighter should be like (though they may have carried their balls in wheelbarrows, respect).

Frankly I’m glad Boeing won over LM - we all hated LM’s. Timeline and programmatic fuckery will happen with either company anyways. 10-15 years before that thing is combat capable - sad, but I don’t think I’ll be proven wrong unless some serious changes are made to our acquisitions process.

My first full motion sim IP would disagree with you!

How do people like this think they’re going to get away with it? It’s one thing to throw it out there at a bar to a stranger, but to live the lie to PA, have an article published, etc? Level 10 retard.

Absolutely. Multiple countries already using A330 tankers, it’s the best gas passer I’ve ever taken gas from, and it’s not a Boeing. We are retarded for not having done this years ago.

Depends on the community. I can’t speak for Army RW, but a 1000 hr IP in a fighter is fairly experienced. Flight hours cannot necessarily be compared across communities to determine comparable experience/capability levels.

Marlins (not a Remlin) are my favorite. Winchester and Henry are great too, model dependent (subjective of course). If you’re looking for fun range shooting, don’t go too big on the caliber…if you’re looking to knock down Griz, moose, etc. then big is better.