Everything posted by TreeA10
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Mid-Air Collision in DC
Are the rumors true about the most extensive collection of Asian midget porn known to man?
- China & Chinese Shenanigans
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Trump's Cabinet
Wow. So attributes of a Nazi are giving money to causes you support and fathering children with the help. So George Soros is a Nazi? How about Doug Emhof banging the nanny? Nazi behavior there to, I suppose. Sounds like you are grasping at straws which I'm sure are paper, not plastic. Where can I get one of these magic Nazi behavior decoder rings?
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Trump's Cabinet
Congratulations! You outed a Nazi! Somehow, Musk had given hundreds of speeches, been subject to thousands of hours of video recording, been followed by countless reporters recording his numerous meandering thoughts, been the subject of multiple documentaries, and, yet, cleverly concealed his Nazi leanings but your detailed analysis of a couple seconds of video finally broke the code and you figured it all out. Genius!
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The Next President is...
Classic projection. Biden knows what a corrupt DOJ could do because he did it. Therefore, he wanted to protect other Biden Crime Family recipients of the influence peddaling they benefited from.
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Music
IIRC my connection colors of live vs training, Does the power cord come with a black or orange connector?
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Aerial Firefighting
During a past fire, the water droppers asked to use sea water since it was closer and plentiful but were told no because the salt water wasn't environmentally compatible. I don't think they are complaining about salt water now, however.
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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CV-22 Osprey assignment out of pilot training, how does it work?
It was indirectly the Marines that drove the design because it had to fit on the assault ships. "The Dream Machine" written by Richard Whittle covers the whole history of the V-22 and the limitations thereof. Lots of compromise to get the weight and size down to make it fit on the boat.
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USS Gettysburg downs Navy Hornet
I flew a CRAF mission (2003?) into Kuwait City international and picked up the Patriot battery that shot down the Tornado and Hornet. Flying back to Frankfurt, the Battalion Exec was sitting on the jumpseat and we talked about the shoot downs. IIRC, the Tornado was interpreted as a ballistic missile track, had the wrong squawk codes therefore didn't respond to interrogation, so they shot. The Hornet was in a side lobe and the battery wasn't completely set up to fill in the lobe, also got interpreted as a ballistic track, the Hornet had the correct codes but the side lobe problem somehow affected the interrogation which failed, so they shot. The Exec said they would have to do some serious overhaul of their procedures when they got back to Ft. Bliss.
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USAFA Conscientious Objector
I failed to direct attention to the point I wanted to emphasize. It's not the money but the number of people: 130,000. I agree the government should attract and retain qualified people but I'm trying to wrap my cranium around the need for 130,000 that are being paid more than a governor who deals with the complex running of a state.
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USAFA Conscientious Objector
Data from about 5 years ago showed the governor of PA as the highest paid governor at @ $200k. At that time, there were approximately 130,000 federal employees that made more than the highest paid governor in the U.S. Fauci was the highest paid at @ $416k. Are we getting our taxpayers moneys worth out of these people?
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Drug Testing Confidence
I got "randomly selected" multiple times in quick succession as a Reservist. After the 4th test, I sent a letter to the WG/CC with a courtesy copy to the Medical CC with a list of possible OSHA violations. Never heard a thing from anybody but was never drug tested again over the next 8+ years until I retired.
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China 6th Gen Fighter?
That thing is so huge that it's shadow has a RCS.
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Looked like the bird proximity fused on the tail.
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Gun Talk
A moose in Alaska soaked up a BDU-33, got up, and ran about 400 yards. That's what I heard, didn't see it, never saw confirming video, I can't remember who told me, please refer all questions to my attorney.
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Trump's Cabinet
Some background on the Gaetz accusations and, more importantly, the accusers. https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/17/house-probe-into-matt-gaetz-relies-on-witnesses-doj-found-lacked-credibility/
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Trump's Cabinet
Laptop - real as admitted by the FBI. Gaetz allegations investigation not enough to charge - also FBI. If there is proof of crimes committed then charge him, convict him, and I'll gladly join the firing squad. Unsubstantiated anonymous accusations which seem common in the last couple years or rumors do not a criminal make but do make for great reputation destroying MSM fodder.
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Lighten Up Francis!
Took some jets to Nellis for some night A-10 FWS support. Can't remember the building we were flying out of but some F-15s from Elmendorf supporting the F-16 Weapons School were also there. I bumped into a former student now F-15 dude as he was coming from a 4 vs I don't know how many and they start to debrief the ride. Anyway, that was around sunset and I launched with the 1st go. Got back, took over as Top 3, and launched our second go. We recover those jets, put them to bed, finish the paperwork, and completed the schedule for the next night. Sun is coming up and F-15/16 guys ARE STILL DEBRIEFING.
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The Next President is...
Some district in CA has successfully counted 76% of ballots. I'm envisioning some 90 year old dude with an abacus pulling sacks off the dusty delivery donkeys before dragging the bags into a 1930s vintage country store counting a few ballots between conversations with the locals about that new fangled telephone on the wall.
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The Next President is...
I'm baffled in this age of near instantaneous information exchange, Google searches in microseconds, and real time tracking of millions of package locations by freight carriers, why the hell can't votes be counted in a day? A week is just plain stupid.
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The new airline thread
I've got recurrent training next month. I'll get back to group if they have added a low level gun jink maneuver to the syllabus.
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The Next President is...
Few on the Dem side had the testicular fortitude to call BS on this but a week later, everybody saw it coming and thought it was a losing path. Maybe they were also in China with Tampon Tim when Tianamen Square want down. The scary part is none of this would come out if Harris had won and then the past policies are good to go for another 4 years.
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The Next President is...
And as I type this, CA District 13 has only counted 57% of the vote according to the Real Clear Politics page. And there are 8 CA districts total that haven't finished counting! WTF California??? Yeah, we really need to spread those California values across the nation
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Reading List
Currently reading Spies by Calder Walton covering east vs west from the Russian revolution to relatively recently. https://www.amazon.com/Spies-Epic-Intelligence-Between-East/dp/1668000695