Negatory

I read about it and I agree. Democrats are shameful in this case.

I agree wholeheartedly with your first paragraph. The second paragraph, in my opinion, tries to make a non-partisan issue partisan and cast blame. Crime and Punishment and the protection and the over-empowering of the criminal justice system/police in the US is just as much Ronald Reagan’s fault as it is Bill Clinton’s (and those that support them).

It’s unfortunate, but every person I know that’s “100% disabled” can still get around just fine and could easily work. Don’t you also get tax free or something?

Why? I’m not looking to buy, just wondering

Maybe they could use VR/cameras for the landing task? I’d also be concerned about nonstandard g-forces/kinesthetic effects in the cockpit. When you move the pilot position aft, often you will experience a non-intuitive reduction in g (a sinking feeling) initially when you pitch up (as your tail drops). Makes flying by the seat of your pants a lot more difficult.

Absolutely, include all of the training. There is definitely a perception now that the desire to push dudes through AETC to units could be a contributing factor in these incidents. Heartbreaking 🥃

A toast 🥃

Baseops, like most military social circles, is an echo chamber of people who have never had their views confronted. You ever sit back and just let the irony that you all live and work in a socialist paradise wash over you? Once you're in, your job is secure (you face no chance of an immediate layoff, and the VAST majority of people can make it to 20-40 years if they want to), your healthcare is paid for, you get an affordable housing allowance based on your status in the system (oh and it changes based on where you are in America), you have a perception that budget doesn't matter (who cares how much that FHP or those TVs costs, just fly it and buy it so we get more money next year), you get basically guaranteed promotions that are based more on timing than on merit, you're handed a ridiculous retirement package that requires no self-involvement or contributions, the worst workers are paid the same as the best, you get paid when a pandemic causes you not to work at all for weeks, you get regular wage increases that keep up with or exceed inflation, you have 30 days of paid leave a year. The military organization keeps hundreds of thousands of people on payroll (in a money bleeding way) just in case they need them, paying them way more than the value we get out of them (the vast majority of the military is a self-licking ice cream cone when we aren't at real war). The military system is the antithesis to self-reliance, meritocracy, accountability, ROI, or profitability. But it sure is nice to be in it right now when the system out there isn't taking care of people.

There was a supplemental reg put out that said no rank on shoulders, just special 2 line name tags. I’ll have to search for it.

Fair enough I see your point.

Do you not like people showing emotion? Maybe his views don’t mesh with everyone’s but I respect that he actually shows how he feels in regards to some comments, as opposed to just being politically correct and staying quiet.

I’d love to hear what these defensive capes are and how truly effective and useful they are. My bet is not much. Seems to me that mobility assets never have significantly more capes than turning to put the threat at their six and accelerating to whatever max Mach is. Honestly against any China/Russia scenario I don’t see how you can make a tanker any more survivable against PL-12/AA-12/SA-20+ without going and entirely redesigning it to make it a stealth asset. IMHO, you’d need a paradigm shift like the MQ-25 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_MQ-25_Stingray If we’re giving up the ability to carry over twice the gas for diminishing returns in defensive suites, I struggle to see the value.

Holy shit, what a foul. Dudes thinking they will be pilots for 2 years and now won’t get to because we can’t just ramp up/down when we make a decision. Instead, it seems like we always elect to overshoot/undershoot dramatically and rebound from the new mean. Short sighted manning decisions are a large part of what got us to our current rated crisis. Things like this will totally be great for retention of those year groups. Maybe bonus take rates will finally turn around in 2032?

Well I don’t think you can argue we need new airplanes for the medium/long term timescale if we expect to maintain parity with the likes of China. It’s just that our acquisition process is bogus and ends up costing way more time and money than we are led to believe. Also doesn’t help that we are constantly deployed to CENTCOM and other AORs and have very little to show after 20 years of effort.

If you’re the best pilot you will get what you want. In my experience age has nothing to do with drops. Plenty of fighter guys that were older/faips. Anecdotally, older guys often had other responsibilities like a family to take care of, so I saw some of them that couldn’t put in as much work as the single 21 year olds. But there is nothing stopping you from flying whatever you want other than standard luck and timing (which affects everyone).

Not to get sidetracked, but tax brackets don’t work that way. You only pay the higher rate on the dollars that exceed the tier values - taking the bonus will have absolutely no effect on the rest of your “normal” pay/“the % you are used to paying.” It’s impossible to lose money by bringing in more income.