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Damn it’s such a shame when you illegally park combat aircraft in another country and your “hosts” can’t even keep up with the fire code standards! I bet Vlad wants to speak to a manager about a refund.

I’m willing to send many more billions because A) it helps keep the Ukrainian people free from Russian tyranny, and B) it continues to bleed out one of our biggest geopolitical opponents without costing a single American life. Sounds like money well spent to me!

We professional warfighters in the Air National Guard would never condone the exchange of bottles of whiskey for signed-off PT test paperwork…never! 😆 I’m actually working an initiative right now to allow our OG to experiment with what the Space Force is doing. Unit funded and issued wearables tracking health metrics year-round in lieu of once-a-year testing where you can kinda cram your training and meet the mins while being a fat boi for 90% of the year. Accelerate change or lose amirite?

You don’t remember him actually being here, do you?

Yea agreed with @Standby, not even a wingman, but truly a 1-of-1 alone and unafraid. Don’t get me wrong, the kids will figure it out of given the opportunity by AFSOC leadership to make some mistakes along the way and learn from them. I have no doubt about their dedication. Draco had a spate of tail strikes early on and that aircraft is not particularly difficult to fly. I just don’t want everyone to get canned and have to wear diapers when problems inevitably occur and obviously I don’t want to see anyone get hurt. I am more critical of the concept in general; I think the AO requirements made a ton of sense for 2004 but in 2022, I would have written them differently if the intent was to replace Draco, continue to mow the grass on VEOs, but also play a role in MCO ops in EUCOM and PACOM. Maybe that’s not the intent but IMHO it should be. Forward fuel & arm off of some dirt road in shithole country X because we don’t have basing just doesn’t strike me as the majority of our weight of effort going forward. Hell, we didn’t need that too often during 20+ years of GWOT! I would have wanted a small number of tails along the lines of how AO was written for the top tier teams to own organically, and then buy something that flys higher with much, much longer legs for the more usual AFSOC ISR with occasional strike requirements. Could have been nicely datalinked and equipped with fancy pods to assist with MCO. My 2 cents, probably worth about that much too…

💯💯 Giving a brand new pilot & young CSO a 16,000 lb trail dragger armed to the freaking teeth with 6-9 different weapons, all to fly lower than snake-shit to land blacked out on a dirt road on NVGs sounds great, unless you have a risk averse senior leader who punished predictable mistakes and mishaps with diapers for all. Hope it works out!

I have to imagine T-1 track dudes will be eligible for the AT-802. Another issue I raised with a friend in the community is this: Draco is 2x pilots, 1x CSO all times 4 squadrons. AT-802 is 1x P and 1x C...so there's either gonna be a lot of excess pilots that need to fuck off and find a new home, or you're gonna need a bunch more CSOs, depending on exactly how many -802 tails replace XX number of U-28s at each location. Our conclusion is this has not been well thought out at all yet given that Skytruck would have had the same crew complement and that was potentially a viable option until the selection was made recently. I'm sure it'll get ironed out...but the road may be bumpy in terms of right-sizing the squadrons & manning mix. If/when the time comes always remember that the grass is greener in the Guard 🍺

Related because it's another AQSL death day. Here's to many more!

I’m happy for all my friends at L3 who will be working hard to deliver a great product and for all my Draco fam who will ride this mighty crop duster into combat 🇺🇸

America, fuck yeah! 🇺🇸 I only wish I could have pulled the trigger personally 🍺 Fuck that guy.

That’s taking the “Captains I don’t want to fly with” list to the extreme!

Exactly! This is comedy, and I gave it a +1: Whereas as this is bad photoshop + a Qanon conspiracy that is not funny in any way: So yea, agreed, more funny stuff and less political BS unless it’s actually funny stuff about politicians 🇺🇸

Some of y’all have brain worms man. This obviously-photoshopped photo is pretty gross TBH and the Capitol police “let the Jan 6th insurrectionists in the building” 🤨??? Have you seen the extensive amount of video from that day? Be conservative, hate on AOC, make fun of Biden for being old, elect your guy next time, whatever. But try to be better than the people you loathe and retain some grasp on reality. Shitposting your way through life isn’t a good look. WTFO.

In a utopian genderless future, everyone is treated equally 😁

God love em! 😇

I've been to all of those places except Portland relatively recently and they were all really nice! Millions & millions of people live just within the city limits of those places. Literally ~6.9m people, I ran the numbers lol. I've never lived in any of those cities, but the city I do live in/near is also nice! Some folks are just overly negative about life in general and especially places where they aren't from and where people from the "other group" like to go. e.g. right-wingers think they hate NYC/SFO, left-wingers think they hate "flyover country," etc. Both NYC/SFO and "flyover states" can be really nice depending on what you're looking for.

Yea I don’t think that’s an indication one way or the other on armed overwatch. From what I’ve heard the AT-6 is the least likely of the three contenders to be chosen because it failed to meet an important capability requirement in the competition. Now maybe that just means it will in fact be chosen just because USAF acquisitions is fucked up like a football bat 🧐

Looking up from my MQ-9 GCS with the plane doing like 150 KTAS for a 6-9 hour transit…

💯💯 People need to stop harassing other people, including public officials, and going home thinking they’re Rosa Fucking Parks or MLK Jr. 🙄 I don’t support it when progressive do it nor when right-wing people do it either.

My opinion is you’re either really quirky or you’re an AI chatbot. Either way, I don’t really wanna engage here. GL!