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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.

Would have to kill that and Medicaid to have a chance. But nobody from either party wants to do that because it’d be political suicide. The people will yell about taxes and debts, but they are simultaneously hooked on their gov free shit/programs. Voters want their cake and eat it too. Pragmatic people know we’re never getting out of debt without significantly curtailing entitlement programs and/or significantly raising taxes. And so the march to defaulting continues…

The better phrasing is did anybody think any president in the 21st century was going to reduce the deficit? This is not a current or future excuse for the Trump admin. But just a means to highlight this is not a Trump problem, it is an everybody problem. To be fair, Trump has done better than his predecessors, but by no means am I cheering the current state that he, along with the guys prior to him, have had their hands in helping perpetuate.

@BuddhaSixFour To be honest, DOGE and this bill combined are cutting trillions in wasteful spending, not “pennies.” Now what I don’t like is why are we possibly adding upwards of 3-4 trillion to the deficit? Essentially this negates all the wasteful spending we’re cutting. I suppose the positive for one side is at least the money is potentially being spent on things they agree with/can accept vs. the alternatives. Regardless, I don’t like it at all. I’d like to know what spending falls under the massive amount earmarked under ways and means? Don’t have time to dig into it, but they’d be very hard pressed to convince me it makes sense to add to the deficit.

We finally found Biff’s red line, it does exist!

The gov is responsible for stupid requirements/requirements creep (this category is quite expansive), forcing the B model (part of requirements cat, but worthy of specific mention), establishing the JPO and giving 69 seats (hyperbole, but it’s a lot) at the table to literally vote on simple shit like what a button on the stick does, a fucked up like a football bat IOT&E program, etc. I hate LM too, and they share in the fuckery for sure, but the gov is not innocent. And I think that was CH’s primary point above.

@Biff_T That may be true, but would you dibs?