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They (the delusional that think what Novosel does is a well oiled machine) aren’t interested in hearing what the other services do. If they were I wouldn’t be asking for this information informally through a social media forum to then take as talking points to the Senior leaders forum. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes. Some overzealous people have it in their heads that we can get more dollars and serve more “customers” to consolidate a basic entry rotary program under one roof at Novosel. Then the idea would be to push people to follow on advanced airframes and mission sets and back to their respective services. This would coincide with divestment of the Lakota as our entry trainer to a new trainer or possibly 2 platform solution. I’m firmly in the 2x platform camp on teaching the basics of rotary wing flight in something like the R66 then moving to a more capable aircraft to replicate tactical and national airspace flight training as an intermediate lead in. That way when we put you in a chinook or a 64 we aren’t having to spend much more expensive blade hours teaching the fundamentals of formation flight. When it was brought up that what we qualify as complete in comparison to our friends at Whiting as well as the entry training fixed wing programs that preceded other services rotary phases you got this confused look from people that they wouldn’t just adopt our shitty model. We also do absolutely 0 mission planning in our advanced airframe training syllabus but we tell units when they get this new winged pilot that they are “mission ready.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is good stuff. A month ago we had a group of senior aviation leaders who were incensed at the fact that there was resistance to the Army making Rucker into a joint rotary wing center of excellence. “What do you mean the AF & Navy aren’t on board!???” Some of these people are so delusional about their position in the universe or how little we actually train it’s terrifying they are in charge. We’ve been screaming for a decade that our training model is inadequate and units are echoing the same. Don’t give me a “qualified aviator” that I have to teach all the basics to again and who’s only qualification seems to be able to ride along and not turn the aircraft inside out by accident during normal procedures. Right now we make pattern familiar pilots, who have just enough instrument knowledge to execute an emergency recovery badly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In preparation for talking points at the Army senior leaders conference… Our effort is to force the Army to admit the product we are getting out of our flight training program and arriving to their first units is sub standard. On that point, I’d like to get anything along the lines of documentation or policy letters discussing the known fact that Army ratings mean nothing due to a long history of guys not passing muster when transferring services and the Air Force recognizing that the base line Army aviator has severe gaps in training where the only remedy is to fully reprogress them through the UPT program. We are attempting a “see ourselves” discussion with a service currently led by an Artillery officer who doesn’t understand why we keep crashing helicopters due to pilot error mostly based off experience and the quality of the limited hours they have. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He’s technically elected to the next session and publicly stated he won’t take his seat. The reason he won’t has nothing to do with him not wanting to continue in Congress, it’s because this report was going to be the prelude to his expulsion vote from Congress (which takes 2/3 majority). Again, none of the republicans on the ethics committee have come out to say the report is false or inflated, they just don’t like that it went public even though this guy is making comments about running for Senate now. The fact he’s leaving is a long term god send for republicans in Congress because they won’t have jackasses trying to defend him or “other side” this and keep him in Congress. Democrats would have gladly kept this spinning the same way they did with Santos where it’s admitted he has no business in the house but they keep just enough votes away to have him sit there and be a talking point come election time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is absolutely no LIE about the actions claimed to be committed. You’re choosing to apply a burden of proof sufficient to criminally convict to a job where no such requirement exists. Voters can choose to send a convicted murder to Congress, Congress is under no such requirement to then seat them. Of course the guy caught with the 17 year olds texts in his phone is being honest… it’s the “Deep State” that’s making shit up. That’s the entire purpose of the ethics committee, that’s why it’s Bipartisan, and your attempts to say “well if the won’t put him in jail we can’t pass judgement and everything must be a lie” is an excuse to yourself because you’d rather defend an A hole on a favored side. You’d rather stick it to the libs and the establishment or whatever other windmill you want to tilt at than accept the fact that the burden for evidence to go for and achieve conviction is well and above the burden for simply proving somebody is unfit in character to hold high office. I doubt if we saw charges dropped against a sitting democratic senator caught in bribery schemes you would have cared whether or not they were their electorates chosen when a vote came to expel them. I doubt you fought to defend Santos this hard either so why for all the idiocy would lining up behind Gaetz be worthy of any effort. If you want to play the legal argument of guilty and innocent criminal conviction being the bar to clear I’d recommend you go read Powell vs McCormick first and actually realize that isn’t relevant to whether Congress has to let him continue to serve. The Voters can choose a convicted murderer as their representative, Congress is under no obligation to seat them. The ethics committee had him dead to rights and the republicans on it aren’t denying the evidence they are peeved that releasing this report sets precedent to do it to everybody and they could come under that knife some day. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh what a crock. We aren’t trying to deny him his constitutional freedom and put him in jail. We’re talking about fitness to serve in office. There is no presumption of innocence in whether or not he’s an asshat and a creeper, that doesn’t take a jury of peers to establish. Bill Clinton is one, I doubt you’d be quick to defend him. “The voters” sent a crack abdicated mayor back to his office and elected that rube from NY as a congressman that took a year longer to be thrown out of congress once it was evident of what he did because of this “but the other side!” Bullshit. There are plenty of populist idiot groups to be taken advantage of for political position (AoC, Omar, Etc). Gaetz has a demonstrated history of asshattery. He is unprofessional in every manner and exists for the apathy of his political constituents who either are interested in WWE politics, the advantage of incumbency, and the lack of a viable opposition population to elect somebody worthy of the position. He should never have been considered by any sane person for the position Trump nominated him for, and the way people lined up to “but the other side!” This is as ridiculous as Trump nominating his Limo Driver to the position only to watch people defend him. This guy is trash and it literally took the ethics report to get him to leave prior to censure because he knows he’s in an indefensible position. In case some people forgot the ethics committee is BIPARTISAN. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

A reminder to the room full of people with security clearances that are required to keep their jobs… That dipstick went into a SCIF live streaming from his cellphone to make political points. He’s a moron and should be discarded on the side of highway 77 next to the puddle of vomit and possum shit. The number of people standing up to defend him is absurd. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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No I’m fine with who they picked from the SEC. I also don’t think the spread between the best SEC teams and the best teams in other conferences has ever been as wide as they like to pretend, hence the SECs underperformance in bowl games in recent years that weren’t the playoffs. What is and has been ridiculous is the year on year repeated “well the SEC needs another team” mantra that all their in conference losses don’t count and they shouldn’t tumble in the ratings the way other teams do when they happen. And we will see that crap again next year in preseason rankings with teams like A&M or Ol Miss getting some over ranked position so the first few in conference SEC losses are always to “ranked teams.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The SEC is routinely granted in preseason and throughout the season a level of BIAS that is outsized to what the league has actually accomplished. “We keep winning the NC!” Is the dumbest defense of a group of people that doesn’t understand self fulfilling statistical bias. If I give you more goes at bat with the same quality or near quality it will lead to an outsize of statistical victories and it was used to justify putting multiple teams into the playoffs or championships and then ignored as outside norms when they lose to say Oklahoma in a Bowl game. If they lived up to the hype a Buckeye team would not be putting 3 touchdowns and controlling that game for an entire game not just individual quarters. If not for OSU making errors like fumbles and PIs it would have been a shut out and this is the “second best” team in the SEC. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

But every team in the SEC does is better!!!!!! They deserve 5 or 6 slots! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They saw the writing on the wall before it happened by a few days… I don’t think they are getting this stuff back without some serious thought on the new leadership in town getting a say so. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Given the condition of the ones in use by parent nations, the feasibility of some kind of buy back would have been immediately dismissed. Most in service outside California Fire were decrepit. The Phils were flying them sans most of the instrument panel and the ejection seats until they lost a few in quick succession and at most had 3 PMC aircraft in 2014, shortly withdrawn from service afterward and replaced with a few that Thailand wasn’t doing anything with. They aren’t in much better condition. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sawyer should have been getting a game ball at the end for that interception, except the couching and play calls for the offense was so stupid as to piss away downs trying to run up the middle and “dominate the run.” The one and only offensive drive that the team owned the field was a no huddle tempo offense and it was almost all in the air…. That tells me leaving these guys to think to long as couches is the problem, not the players getting 2 yards on a rush instead of 3-4. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Somebody let Ryan Day know we hooked him up… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s been all over the local news how expensive those tickets were going for. People paying Super Bowl money for a rivalry game (because if their is anything Aggies have it more money than sense). I’m on the way to Disney world right now and the tickets were cheaper. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

On the line today…. Bragging rights, and Ryan Day’s mortgage. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They need to change their constitution to allow for a military partnership necessary to achieve anything. The previous president was in no way gonna go for that. Current one probably won’t either as she follows lot of the shadow she came up in. Unfortunately too much political favor to be made opposing Trump to actual work with him even when it would be for their end benefit. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I was gonna say the better comparison would be the jackasses stateside telling us that war over there wasn’t our problem and what Germany was doing wasn’t really that bad. Luckily some of our grandfathers didn’t gargle Reddit level stupid coming out of a coordinated IA campaign. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

He’s not even going to pretend to acknowledge all the “mystery fires” and sabotage or the no kidding Russians that have been arrested carrying out actions in Europe. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Aussie cardboard suicide drones are an interesting take on asymmetric warfare. https://www.forbes.com.au/covers/innovation/the-aussie-cardboard-drones-hitting-russia-in-massed-attacks/ The people that think they can take on the world with this stuff are clearly in the dark, but the idea of some SOF team able to dump 30-50 of these on a major industrial center or airfield and then vanish is pretty terrifying…. Also why we should start doing more to model REDFOR SOF in our war games because it’s going to happen. Imagine some random cargo ship with a couple connex’s of these sitting in random ports just waiting on the word to create casualties at random. Say in a random no-name place like…. Shreveport… nothing important there right? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Geo-fencing is not a new concept, and we discussed it way back earlier in this thread. Though with a total post count in the single digits I doubt this is any sort of normal post to just suddenly join in the conversation with. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A lot of Trump’s proxy voices have said as much but I’ve never seen anything official come out of his statements. Basically it’s portrayed as being the carrot or a VERY big stick to negotiate with. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk