Everything posted by Swizzle
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Ever any boats or other watercraft silhouetted? And guess our Navy marks their boat's with Battle Stars (or Es) instead of silhouettes.
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World War III Updates
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The Next President is...
Anything to cancel student debt....
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Money and Finance
UBS has a NYC Americas HQ, big HQ not USA, and... Switzerland says UBS may need more cash. The bank is fuming A year after the failure of Credit Suisse, the Swiss government says UBS may have to find as much as $27 billion to absorb potential losses and protect taxpayers from ever having to bail out a major bank, reports my colleague Hanna Ziady. Now, the giant Swiss lender is hitting back, saying its finances are robust and warning that the proposal could harm Switzerland’s standing as a global financial center.
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Unsolicited T-1 Replacement Proposal
https://www.navair.navy.mil/product/T-54A Perhaps, but it WILL fly in the valley-of-the-downs! Ah the good ole' days of doing an NDB approach sucking O2 mask with an engine simulated out. And uphill both ways.
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USAF bringing back Warrant officers.
Wonder when the E8/9s realize WOs displace their billets by DOMPMA...
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CCW Choice
The right one, just in case, just to ask, 'so are you feeling lucky...punk?'
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Did you 'dibs' Biff just now!?
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Yeah. About that. Pretty sure I'd take a coalitions' financial and operationally-ready weapons support to the tune of $278B as of Jan 24'....especially American and German tech, they seem historically kick-ass and dominant in lethality and effectiveness. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/these-countries-have-committed-the-most-aid-to-ukraine#:~:text=The majority of committed support,billion in aid to Ukraine.
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I didn’t make Major rank what next
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157283917915330
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Lighten Up Francis!
Thick read at 1,000+ pages. I like the 1 paragraph benefits version instead. Choices, choices.
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I didn’t make Major rank what next
Scroll early and often
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World War III Updates
Meh, Big Sky/Space theory...what could go wrong!? (/s) Also, do TBMs or ICBMs have ADS-B out? Or just in? Or not supposed to at all but it got included because that military didn't pay to remove that feature? (/s)
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The Iran thread
TRANSFER OF TRAFFIC BETWEEN TEHRAN FIR AND BAGHDAD FIR (ORBB) TEMPORARY SUSPENDED THEREFOR ALL AIR OPERATOR ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO PLAN AND CONDUCT ARRIVAING TRAFFIC FROM BAGHDAD FIR TO TEHRAN FIR AND DEPARTING TRAFFIC FROM TEHRAN FIR TO BAGHDAD FIR https://www.notams.faa.gov/dinsQueryWeb/queryRetrievalMapAction.do?reportType=Raw&retrieveLocId=oiix&actionType=notamRetrievalbyICAOs
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Artificial Intelligence: Discussion and demonstrations
Perhaps because AGI needs an input, rather than already having a purpose. A purpose which is its reason or input-into-life's-abacus. Also, any self-fulfilling purpose of an AGI is just scary because of its potential, speed, and limited understanding/control...which is what makes Terminator series so entertaining. Begs the question: does a street-smart AI = AGI? Or book smart?
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Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)
Peddle force augmented and some other nitnoid stuff
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Lighten Up Francis!
The 'Juice' has been squeezed.
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Belly flopped T-6
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Belly flopped T-6
The airfield or aircrew seemingly rated it a '5', seeing how the 5-board is upright, nearby
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Belly flopped T-6
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/t-6-emergency-landing-texas/ ..having executed a belly flop landing.
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Lighten Up Francis!
- Changing/Switching airframes
FYI: nearly all pilots will get deneid reclama is the scuttlebutt. I know of 1 approved of many. But that's not all. TIFWIW. What MAJCOM? Do they use TM? AFSOC doesn't, it's a facade for them it seems.- Bird Flu
Step next: lockdown/declare emergency, approve mail-in ballots, hell...just mail them out despite not being requested and then blue-wins "stolen" election again Rinse and repeat as needed...- UPT Class Patches
- Changing/Switching airframes