Danny Noonin

For real?

So the company that makes air to air radars and AMRAAMs gives out an award to units that use air to air radars and AMRAAMs and it's somehow a slap in the face to everyone else? Aren't there more interesting things to bitch about?

Nowhere does it say that this award is the overall squadron of the year or CAF squadron of the year or fighter squadron of the year. This award has been around for decades and is given out to the top air-to-air squadron by Raytheon. So I guess I'm missing how this should have gone to a unit "in the fight" if the award criteria were purely air defense related.

I'm just telling you what they sent me. Believe it when you see it.

Completely agree. But dudes here are up in arms about the investigation conclusion that it was not a CRIME.. Let's everybody understand what that would really mean had the investigation turned out differently...arrest, court martial (which--if convicted--would leave a felony on their records), possible jail time, etc. I also think these clowns should be flipping burgers and hope they are soon. But I don't think stupidity, no matter how horrible, offensive or disrespectful, should be the bar for criminal conviction. Get rid of these guys...today. But it wasn't a crime no matter how much anyone wishes it was.

I don't think the casket picture is even remotely acceptable, but are you fellas seriously saying it is a crime?

Not true according to the Roth TSP fact sheet they just sent me. It's up to 5K in Roth IRA and/or up to 17K in Roth TSP. Separate issues.

Did I miss something in the article where friendlies actually died?

Like anything else...it depends. If you can max out TSP after maxing out a Roth IRA, then great. But maxing TSP without first maxing a Roth is, for most military guys, lunacy. That's a lot of money for most of you guys...if you're married, that's 10K in Roth + $16.5 TSP + any spousal 401K contributions + bolstering liquid savings + kids college funds if you're so inclined. If dudes can save that much, fantastic. But not everyone can. When you do your taxes this year, look at your effective tax rate. I mean the effective tax rate you pay relative to ALL of your actual pay...including your tax free BAH, any tax free months you had, etc. For most military guys, your actual effective tax rate now is absurdly low. So low that you won't possibly get close to that after the military. Meaning, why wouldn't you want to pay the taxes on that money now, at the absurdly low rate, instead of paying it all at a rate that can likely only go up later on in life when you have fewer tax benefits (BAH, tax free, mortage interest deductions, child tax credits, etc). I get that TSP is cheap. It will be great if they do a Roth TSP. But just because the fees are super low doesn't necessarily make that your smartest option for the long run.

HOSS, on 12 February 2012 - 10:15 AM, said: ....Reminds me of BQZip's Mom I bet you'd like to have that post back.

Quit reading regs. In the AF we return salutes from the gate guards whether we're in civvies or in uniform.

The point Davies made was about the french being allies. Not about the giant brass stones it must have taken to fly through Libya's country-wide super MEZ without so much as even NATO to back them up (gasp!). This is not about the bravery of their pilots. This is about the country and its government. As for allies, I suggest you educate yourself. From Eldorado Canyon to Southern Watch to just selling counter-US jammers to anyone wih a checkbook, that country has a long history of being no one's ally but their own.

Brabus, seriously dude. Do you have to pipe in (with no SA) about everything? go practice your FLUG briefs or something. How the fuck would you know what they're doing now days with respect to majors and AFSCs? You wouldn't. You even admitted as such when you started you post with "I think...." yet you couldn't stop youself from continuing. Things change every damn week in the AF, so your expert opinion about the matter based on your professional ROTC experience is a bit laughable isn't it? Never pass up the opportunity...

I didn't know it was possible for anyone's SA to be this low.

You're right. You usually hear them called cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

You can't be serious

Don't be a dumbass. The point is the same as having Eagles or Vipers sit alert. Are there other fighters at Elmendorf you'd recommend sit alert instead of raptors? And do you even understand what super cruise is used for? And you can always punch the tanks off if you need to. That's why they're called "drop tanks"

No reason to be defensive. I don't like the craptor.

I'm curious why you think anyone needs super cruise to intercept a Bear.

Well dude we typically don't wait to intercept Russian bombers until they are over our own bases, so it takes a bit o' gas for any fighter--stealth or not-- to get to a location where we'd prefer to intercept anyone.

If "slaughtering" the bar for military intervention in our vital national interest, then I trust you also believe we should have intervened in all of the other slaughterhouses in the world, e.g. Darfur. True? The strategic question for our nation is: despite the obvious moral implications of standing by and doing nothing in Syria, are there unintended consequenses detrimental to our national interests should we intervene (successfully or not)? Will that stoke the fire of hatred for the U.S. in the middle east as we once again try and force regime change (the only real option here) in a sovereign country? Or will we be seen as good guys who saved they oppressed and brutalized Syrian people from their tryannic regime? If we don't intervene, will that make people hate us more? Would that hatred be enough to recruit more terrorists or otherwise support the anti-American cause? How has that worked out for us in other interventions? Serious questions and I'm not trying to flame bait anyone, nor am I taking a side. I just think successful intervention in a foreign country is usually much easier said than done. Do we have the national will in this case to deal with a potential messy aftermath of military action?

Panzy. Use the gun like a man.

This is 100% serious advice--quit being a tool.

I bet the ladies really dig you.

Is it me, or was that story neither funny nor really impressive in any way? Is telling some geek he's out of regs somehow a victory of some sort now? Did it even require any balls? Maybe I'm missing something.