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Yep, and not a surprise. Congress is horrible across the board - maybe it’ll shape up some day, but I’m not holding my breath until we have term limits and some investing restrictions while in office. What you fail to grasp is the majority of voters see this “destruction” (to use your description) as a very positive thing. We want the number of fed employees slashed, we want entire departments completely erased, we want gov spending/budgets massively curtailed, etc. That “destruction” is significant progress towards a more prosperous and stronger America - you don’t believe that, but the majority of America does. We all know by now Trump’s MO is to say wild things as part of his negotiating tactics. Every time in the last month he threatened tariffs people like you went wild and said he was buttfucking the country to death…except they worked immediately and perfectly, every time. Now if we actually “occupy” Gaza, I’m against that, but I am not worried about that happening for now - this is most likely Trump par for the course coming off the top rope initially to settle where he actually wanted to be later on. Same comment on slashing the defense budget 50%, though I do support some significant DOD slashing. The mind losing over Elon is laughable. DOGE has no inherent authority - they provide the info, Trump makes the decision (or has legally delegated authority in some cases). Is the General not in charge when I make large impacting decisions? When I decide how millions get spent, is the General just for show and playing second fiddle to me? Absolutely not, and you know it. He can shitcan me in a second, or immediately deny/turn back something I’ve done - at any point and for any reason per his judgement. He is unequivocally in charge at all times, even if I’m the guy making daily decisions, because in the end the General can’t do everything and micro manage, he has to have people like me to get it done. Bringing in Elon is no different. By the way, Trump has a long way to go to match Clinton in gov “destruction.” It’s just not your team doing it this time, so be mad about it is the only option.

Good example of a squadron scarf. The LPAs out there don’t have a hair on their ass if they don’t get this done (unless getting away with morale shirts, then carry on).

A fairly standard technique was wear it “normal” for the most part, but when you went somewhere outside of the squadron and felt like raising some blood pressure, do the tie thing, ascot, etc. Had a bro get his new ID picture with full ascot. They pushed back hard trying to say he couldn’t have that in his picture and he whipped out a printed card with the applicable regs - he won. The small victories were priceless.

Then you push back with wild chest hair. And if you don’t have an adequate amount naturally, find or make a chest hair dickie! The LPAs out there are more valuable now than ever before!

Why?

Sweet, no change from what I remember. The only possible bump is if you have a wing cc who’s a total douche and doesn’t approve scarves. As far as good taste, you all know your O-6s - if they’re not that cool, then just do a squadron color (maybe with the aircraft silhouette of what you fly in a pattern) and call it good. It’ll be enough to stick it to the douches.

Way back in the day when I went through my first “no morale” iteration we decided to do scarves. The regs didn’t specify how you had to wear it (other than generally around neck and tucked into flightsuit) or what color/designs it had. So welcome to chief aneurisms when you have a bright red scarf worn like an ascot on any day of the week as you walk into finance. It was 10,000 times “worse” (from the chief perspective) than shirts. It was the ultimate “you play fuck on me, I play fuck on you!” The ability to give a massive middle finger to the d bags and let them know you have bested them on a daily basis was 100% worth wearing a scarf. The entire wing did it for about a year until morale shirts were back. Do it boys, you won’t regret it. Only disclaimer is I have no idea what current reg says about scarf design/wear, so QC that before full commit.

They are min force for my last hurrah; only way to go out is with a bang. I imagine it’ll be like a movie where I’m walking away from absolute carnage in the background, laughing all the way back to DAL.

And your squadron’s shenanigans are epic…a model for others to follow!

Visual search from the RJ approaching 300’/1nm from touchdown is a red herring. PCF: helo altitude control/vis lookout RC: asinine procedures IVO DCA IF: Change the procedures/amount of traffic using DCA/immediate surrounding airspace. This is an easy fix that should have, and could have, been done years ago Everything else is just noise in the big picture.

Once saw a dude sprinting down a road (thinking he’s going to outrun death) and get speared through the back by a rocket that dud’d…the precision of that weapon is incredible. I don’t know about “ coolest,” but it was sure an impressive way to die!

Kill Obamacare while he’s at it…come on Congress, do something good for once!

I want to know when we’re going to see arrests of all the leftist outwardly hindering ICE. I’ve quickly lost count of how many govs, mayors, city board members, not to mention the countless random idiots, are happily breaking laws and think they’re untouchable. Frankly I’m disappointed in Trump’s admin that this has happened yet.

Elon’s not wrong, he’s just about 20-30 years off a realistic timeline (unless our entire acquisitions process massively changes, doubtful).

We can’t be too hard on Huggy, he did do UPT in a Stearman and has spent a lot of time at altitudes with very little oxygen.

No amount of base/equip seniority will make me fly the 73. The French have thoroughly destroyed Boeing on this one.

Sadly, impossible. Most of the Arab world, and many of its similar-minded neighbors, will always be filled with so much hate and will always be completely incompatible with western values and society. We cannot solve this because whatever re-building, AFPAK hands bullshit, etc. we do, it will never change their ideology that has existed for thousands of years. Best we can do is try to keep them away from us.

Those recommendations better include repealing the NFA and erasing the ATF.

Well the FAA has bypassed thousand(s) of qualified applicants for quite a while based on immutable characteristics. And after a handful of years controllers are making well into the 100s. Not sayings it’s airline Capt pay, but it’s not dogshit either. And the systems/NAS structure is pretty antiquated - there absolutely needs to be some significant tech overhaul in addition to restructuring the NAS (both of which they’ve talked about for a long time but not actually done shit…until 67 people die).

Have not validated this, but heard yesterday CSAF says long term shaving waivers are dead and if people have actual skin irritation problems, they should learn to shave better/use steroid cream. I DGAF about all the guys who are probably total BS artist regarding the waiver, but I’m sure there are dudes with real skin issues - sucks for them.

I don’t think CRJ has ADS-B IN, so its a moot point. ADS-B is a great tool, but it’s likely nothing beyond a minor CF in this accident. Honestly this one is not hard to figure out that the major fix is don’t do stupid procedures. None of the discussion about NVGs, chick pilots, ADS-B, etc. even matters if you simply stop putting aircraft at the same lat/long with only 100’ of vert separation and your “backup” decon is pilots promising they’re visual on the correct traffic/some controller being directive end game to avert disaster.

“Character of war…must be fully prepared to execute operations from austere and challenging environments…our airmen represent a key competitive advantage over our enemies”…you know what really captures all that into one succinct package? Uniform inspections like we’re in ROTC! Fucking idiots.

Literal flying in the civ world can be a lot more challenging than mil flying. Employing mil aircraft tactically is where the challenge eclipses civ aviation.

Regardless if the Biden admin had these deals made or not, the fact is our neighbors didn’t give a shit about the problems or executing anything to help solve them. That is until they got a Trump boot up the ass. I don’t care if there was zero “heavy lifting” and all Trump did is threaten something in a tweet. I care about the results, and so far, the results have been exceptional and the majority of the country is happily receiving all kinds of things they voted for.

I think TW is great training and does make a better stick & rudder pilot overall (because laziness and below average skills are punished more immediately and apparently). The better stick & rudder skills gained tend to transfer to flying as well, even though TW only technically affects ground handling and takeoff/landing. Also flying GA aerobatics helps improve aircraft handling skills, even transferable to jets. If we’re going to go for pre-UPT training, a fleet of citabrias could do well.