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The original Hawg going old school medieval on jihadists. I give it two tusks up!

Let's see.....you sort through scads of people looking for both mental and physical attributes that will make them among the best aviators in the world. Once you find these people, you train them to use their mental and physical talents to operate high speed, sophisticated machinery. Among these skills is the always functioning, never ending risk versus benefit cost analysis. Is the weather good enough to get in? Can I get to my alternate? Do I have enough energy left to put my nose on the bandit and kill him? Does the AF really care about my future? How do the hoops required to get a shot (but no guarantee!) at that future weigh against the hoops required for an alternative path outside the AF? I find it rather rather amusing that the AF management (notice I didn't say leadership) is surprised at the departure of their prized masters of cost benefit analysis. So, as opposed to Chang's happy talk pile of BS, I would suggest that the AF needs to make the path to a successful AF career very transparent. You want to fly? You can fly. You want to drive the bus? You have a drive the bus path. Rated and non-rated are not equal. Hence, the terms "rated" and ""non-rated." Not everybody gets the same trophy. Move the risk versus cost benefit analysis further towards the benefit side of the equation, make it easier to get there with fewer hoops, i.e. BS, and fewer unknowns.

It's a type of gambling machine in Glasgow, Scotland. "Ah lost a wee bit ina sloot machine."

bbc.com Indonesian man's body found inside python - police - BBC News Image copyright West Sulawesi Police Image caption Police said they had cut the snake open and found the man inside A missing Indonesian man was found dead inside the body of a python, according to local police. Akbar went missing on Sunday on the island of Sulawesi, after leaving to harvest palm oil. In the search for the 25-year-old, police told BBC Indonesian that they had found a huge snake they suspected had swallowed the man. The reticulated python, reported to be 7m (23ft)-long, was cut open and the man's body was found. Video shot by police showed the snake being cut open with a long knife, slowly revealing the man's clothed body. How can a snake eat a human? Reticulated pythons are among the world's longest reptiles and suffocate their victims before swallowing them whole. Pythons rarely kill and eat humans, although there are occasional reports of them swallowing young children or animals. Image copyright West Sulawesi Police Mashura, a spokesperson for the police in West Sulawesi province told BBC Indonesian that villagers reported to police that Akbar had been missing for 24 hours. Police then conducted a search and found the snake near the family's palm plantation. "They didn't find him (Akbar), but the villagers saw an unmoving python in the ditch. They grew suspicious that maybe the snake had Akbar. When they cut it open, Akbar was inside the snake," Mashura, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, said. Village secretary Salubiro Junaidi told The Jakarta Post: "People had heard cries from the palm grove the night before Akbar was found in the snake's stomach. "When the snake was captured, the boots Akbar was wearing were clearly visible in the stomach of the snake. "Resident cut open the belly of the snake and Akbar was lifeless." Nia Kurniawan, from Brawijaya University, told BBC Indonesian that a python of this size would hunt for large prey, such as boars or wild dogs. While they normally avoid human settlements, they would see palm oil plantations as a good hunting ground, he said, as they attract animals like boars, primates or dogs. The reticulated python (Python reticulatus) Is the longest snake in the world Is believed capable of reaching over 10m (32ft) in length The longest in captivity is held in Kansas City, US, and measured 7.6m (25ft) in 2011, according to Guinness World Records Lives in forestry, is normally fearful of humans and is rarely seen Is often treated as a sacred animal in parts of Indonesia when caught Is one of dozens of python species, which are found in sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, China, and Southeast Asia

There was a RAND study published that said building three different models specifically for each service would have been cheaper. Too late for that, I guess.

(Tapping the sarcasm detector...) Is this thing on?

Today, there's some cadet, sitting in his academy dorm room decorated to look like his mothers basement who's only wish is to be a space geek. With his thick glasses perched on his pale nose, he is going to hammer out a letter on his Doritos stained keyboard to Captain Sandecker telling him that, as a cadet, he is ready to sit in and be a satellite jockey. He was a member of the rocket club, has his HAM radio license, and is well versed in all things Dungeons and Dragons. Captain Sandecker, reflecting on the reply from one each Mr. Toro, will answer this young, ambitious basement dweller that the Satellite Operations facility is no place for an amateur, radio operator or otherwise, hazards like hot coffee or tipping over vending machines abound. Discussions of Kirk vs Picard would probably not be understood by just a cadet. Staring at computer screens is for professionals so stop calling, texting, #leaveusthefuckalone. So, the dreams of a lowly cadet get crushed because of a prior Toro Fox 2 to the face (nice shot!) of an earlier wannabe.

Named after her Aunt Mary Ann Burns?

Not necessarily, if you have your bagged packed, uniform ready to go, and are sitting in the house, maybe no big deal. But if you have just drained the oil out of your car doing an oil change or are on the road knocking out miles running or cycling, you could be in a time crunch. A long drive on short call might limit your sphere of activities.

By designing a fuselage compatible with all models, the B model was the big driver to fit the lift fan, gearbox, etc. into the jet. That compromise led to the larger compromise in aerodynamics hence the limitations on speed, turning, acceleration. It's a serious boat anchor that limited the A and C models.

Did a summer rotation during Southern Watch at Al Jaber, Kuwait. We were the 2nd A-10 squadron to fly out of there so facilities sucked. Power was sketchy and would quit so no A/C on occasion. Food was marginal with MREs or rice with breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sleeping quarters were tents or crappy trailers. EOD hadn't swept the whole place yet so you couldn't venture too far off the marked trails. There were some F-18s there and I forget off of which boat but after a couple weeks with us they were notified they had to fly back to the boat. I've never seen a more depressed bunch of aviators. When I asked why, they said the boat was worse than our current condition.

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/articles/ncis-identifies-hundreds-of-marines-from-facebook-group 1200 names. Firing squad? Guillotine?

The fireball from the airburst is expanding rapidly: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marines-nude-photo-scandal-expands-to-military-wide-explicit-message-board/

Dang, $20+ for a movie? Screw that. I live southwest of Ft Worth in a small town and tickets are $5 before 5pm, $7 after.

Must be a suds Zen master to be able to drink beer AND ski at the same time and not spill anything.

Using the frag pattern of Tailhook and collateral damage generated as an example, I'd say this scenario has to possibility to get exceptionally ugly.

I'm trying to envision single pilot ops on a snowy day with deicing operations in LGA taxing out in the conga line waiting for takeoff and needing to do a wing inspection as you hit the end of your holdover time for the anti-ice as ground is giving taxi instructions from hell stacking up jets all over the airfield. Wouldn't want to be in the middle of that but I'd pay money to listen in on the radio and watch. That would be some quality entertainment right there.

There was a rumor that the FAA required the iPad to have a demonstrated ability to survive a rapid decompression at FL600. Sounds crazy enough to be true.

No kidding. The FAA is just starting to allow WiFi to be used in front of the cockpit door due to safety concerns and folks think we're going to be doing single pilot or autonomous aircraft ops in the near future.

I am a believer in never say never but I think there is a long, long way to go. I've been flying the 787 for just over a year now and it's a fairly advanced and sophisticated commercial jet. That being said, glitches are common. Some are just irritating like having to do multiple resets on the datalink to get it working prior to departing the gate. Others are significant like the FMS dumping the whole freaking route over the middle of the Pacific. This is highly entertaining when sleep deprived.

Autonomous ops with pax? Sitting in an aluminum tube conveyor system with nobody onboard with your best interest in mind or skin in the game is going to be a hard sell. Also, weather, fuel load, and alternate practicality is divorced from reality on too many flight plans due to laziness and penny pinching. Somebody on scene needs to have the hammer and call bullshit to stupid ideas.

With this dude pouring millions into keeping things stirred up to foment hate and discontent so he can profit off the pain and suffering, I don't think we are going to see the end of this for some time. https://www.city-journal.org/html/connoisseur-chaos-14954.html

There is a Dave Ramsey course for High School kids. Our kids did it through home schooling. My 23 yr old already has 10K in a ROTH.

With money left over in the Clinton Foundation and an unopposed run for a New York Congressional seat, there is a possibility of the virus Clinton 3.0.

The problem is how many other programs were affected. Most effective would be a complete disk erasure and reload the OS but don't see that happening. Here's some of what might happen to start the restoration process: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts