MooseAg03

Yep, I’d say that’s pretty bad. You’ll probably hear a lot of people argue that Obama also violated campaign finance laws and paid a $375k fine, but those were for missed reporting deadlines and delays in returning donations that were too large. Directing someone to break the law by paying a large sum in hush money is in a different league. I’m convinced they are all crooks and if we had special investigations on every politician we could probably turn them all in to felons. Bring on the Convention of States. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I particularly liked the one about how they increased Flight Pay, when right now they aren't paying many of us the maximum amount allowed by law. Pretty disingenuous.

You’ll be singing a different tune when Kanye is elected in 2024. Oh wait, the left already shunned him because he thinks for himself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’d say a 40,000lb airliner with a suicidal pilot who has already committed several felonies is closer to 9/11 than a 1,600lb Cessna wandering around NORDO. Apologies if I don’t follow your logic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Stupid pay walls, it let me read it from a link on Twitter. By Bernard-Henri Lévy Aug. 13, 2018 7:07 p.m. ET U.S.-Turkish relations are mired in the worst crisis of their history. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is demanding that President Trump turn over Mr. Erdogan’s sworn enemy, Fethullah Gülen. Mr. Trump, meanwhile, seeks the release of the American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was imprisoned on the pretext that he had been involved in Turkey’s July 2016 coup attempt. The U.S. government has levied economic sanctions on two senior Turkish officials, akin to those imposed on Russian oligarchs after the seizure of Crimea. Turkey responded by freezing the plainly nonexistent Turkish assets of two Trump cabinet members. As tempers flare and accusations proliferate, it’s worth underscoring what is taking place: an unprecedented standoff between the presidents of two North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries. The two leaders—recognizing one’s America First and the other’s New Turkey as opposing faces of the same populism—may soon come off their testosterone high and stage-manage a spectacular reconciliation. Mr. Trump has shown himself capable of this with Kim Jong Un. Meanwhile, Mr. Erdogan, sensitive to his country’s currency woes and dependence on foreign investment, will be looking for a way to halt the escalation without losing face. The conflict nonetheless points to a deeper rift that is too serious to ignore. As Western democracies worked to stop the spread of Islamist extremism in the Middle East, Turkey and its intelligence services engaged in a double game. Witness the government’s delivery of arms to groups affiliated with al Qaeda and later Islamic State in January 2014—several months before the latter’s pivotal siege of Kobani. Or consider the all-out offensive by Turkish planes and artillery against a Kurdish enclave in northeastern Syria earlier this year. Afrin, like the Manbij zone near Aleppo, was under Western protection. Yet the U.S. condoned the attack on its staunchest and most courageous allies in the region, even announcing the pullback of its own troops shortly after. Between these two outrages, as if to highlight more clearly his neo-Ottoman ambitions, Mr. Erdogan posed with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and—in Ankara this April—with both! The trio met at a summit called to find a “solution” to the violence in Syria that they have fomented, spitting in the face of every friend of democracy and international law. Mr. Erdogan’s relations with Mr. Putin are not limited to photo-ops. The sultan-in-the-making, who already had signed an agreement with the Kremlin to build massive nuclear power plants in Turkey, turned again to Moscow late last year for S-400 antiaircraft missiles that could pose compatibility problems with NATO weapons systems. Mr. Erdogan is going forward with the provocation even after the U.S. suggested it could jeopardize the Pentagon’s promised delivery of F-35 jet fighters. At the 10th annual summit of the Brics nations, held in Johannesburg in late July, Mr. Erdogan was received as a guest of honor. There he very conspicuously raised the prospect of a strategic rapprochement with Xi Jinping’s China—and, once again, Mr. Putin’s Russia. Mr. Erdogan’s ambition of resurrecting the ancient Turkic empire has snuffed out the secular, modern ideals of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Leaders of other illiberal states across Eurasia help him along, dreaming variously of reviving the caliphate; restoring the China of the Han, Ming, and Qing dynasties; re-creating a czarist empire; and bringing back the reign of the Achaemenid and Persian kings. The U.S.-Turkish crisis is about much more than the egos of two phony tough guys. We must ask, calmly but unflinchingly, about the wisdom of our relations with an admittedly great country possessed of a great civilization that is no longer a friend or ally. Should the West continue to share military secrets on which our collective security depends with a capital that is forming strategic partnerships with the powers most hostile to us? Mr. Trump said on July 11 that Mr. Erdogan “does things the right way.” The rest of us cannot say the same of a leader who increasingly opposes the West on virtually all of the issues on which liberal civilization depends. Not long ago Europeans were debating, prematurely, whether to admit Turkey to the European Union. Now the time has come for the West collectively to demand not simply the release of a hostage, but the expulsion of Turkey from NATO.

They’re not going to. Word on MAF Facebook page is that the new rules apply for anyone notified of training after 1 Nov 2018. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is ridiculous, if the Airman or Sgt or whoever it was that I talked to LAST SUMMER about ADSC for re-qual was able to inform me that the 36-2107 was being re-written then everyone knew about it. When I was in the process of signing my RIP and completing training, I was checking the E-Publishing site every day to make sure it hadn’t changed. Upper management needs to OWN this, and it’s just the latest example of their ineptitude in how it was rolled out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This about sums it up. https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-should-give-turkey-the-boot-1534201627 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Aww man, I had no idea Kimbo Slice was dead. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A lot of us here have been arguing for a return to paper ballots, here’s a good reason why. There was another video floating around of a woman demonstrating hacking an actual machine and it took less than 2 minutes to gain admin access. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/08/13/11-year-old-hacks-replica-florida-election-site-changes-results/975121002/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not to mention he just created a Twitter account and has a Go Fund me page looking to raise $150k. Disgusting. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve never been stationed at McChord and I’ve only flown there twice. If this guy had turned toward a populated area, would there have been enough time to take him out? I’m hoping that one of the jets was constantly staying in the WEZ as they were circling.

Are you saying because we use Tricare that it can’t be a bad system? Have you ever argued with them over referrals? Has your family ever tried to get an appointment on base? I had to wait 5 weeks for my flight physical appointment a few months ago. Plus our med group has multiple doctor vacancies. Turns out spending a quarter million on med school isn’t very conducive to a career in socialized medicine.

Savings from negotiating directly with drug makers and reduced administrative costs (I’m guessing from fewer insurance executives) would total about $2.4T. From the same article: “It’s showing that if you are going to go in this direction, it’s going to cost the federal government $2.5 trillion to $3 trillion a year in terms of spending,” said Thorpe. “Even though people don’t pay premiums, the tax increases are going to be enormous. There are going to be a lot of people who’ll pay more in taxes than they save on premiums.” Thorpe was a senior health policy adviser in the Clinton administration.” Who cares if insurance companies are spending less on administration if it means more money in taxes paid by the average American. All while taking away their liberty to get whatever sort of health care they want or don’t want. It’s not fitting with the spirit of the Constitution to steal 40%+ of my income just to make sure I can have treatment if I ever develop cancer, and I don’t give a shit what the legislate-from-the-bench Supreme Court said about it. Our country is about having liberty and freedom to do what you want, it wasn’t fought for and founded to become a nanny state to take care of people from cradle to grave.

We’re still planning to sell these bastards the F-35? We should get out of Incirlik and work our damndest to get them removed from NATO. That prick leading their country is nothing but an Islamofascist. If we let them touch an F-35, they’ll have Russia and China closely examining it in short order.

Paragraph 1.4.13 says you can’t go TDY during PC application process without coordination between CC/DO and AFPC, the update also says “Exception: Does not apply to aircrew members.” The intent of the exception should be to allow aircrew to continue to execute missions while awaiting PC results, but I could see it being utilized for nefarious purposes.

Because after two decades of flying RPAs, this is the first ever paired manned flying program. What happens when you pull pilots from the cockpit and stick them in a shipping container for 4 years? You get crusty bitter old pilots like me who hate the Air Force.

Sad that quite a few of these would not meet the approval of management in the USAF. How can we be losing in our own tradition to the Canucks?

I believe an estimate was released that Medicare for all would run about $32 Trillion for 10 years. Government run healthcare is not the answer, we already have tens of trillions in unfunded liabilities for social security and medicare.

If that happened to me I would refuse to re-qual. I’m pretty sure I could explain that in an airline interview.

Screw the Army, I joined the Air Force.

We wear AMC on the left shoulder, reverse flag with squadron patch below it on the right. Why we couldn’t keep the normal flag on the left I have no idea.

Truth. I will never recommend active duty Air Force to anyone. Unless they’re going to be a contracting officer.

Claiming old Barry as a centrist is the most full of shit thing drewpey has said so far. Now we know he’s just trolling, so I’m guessing the rest of his BS was along the same line.

I don’t pretend to know everything about RPA contract jobs, but from what I’ve seen you will work your ass off to earn that money. Either by working 60 hour weeks stateside or spending months at a time deployed, which a lot of us are trying to avoid. Some of those gigs mean you get months off at a time between deployments, different strokes for different folks. Another alternative to signing a 3 year ADSC would be to utilize the 750 hour R-ATP at a regional. Anyone who was non-vol’d to RPAs should meet that hour threshold (unless we’re talking TAMI guys). Prepare yourself financially for a substantial pay cut by paying off debt and saving, and/or put the wife to work if that is an option. But would you rather spend an extra year or two stuck on active duty catering to the whims of Air Force upper management, or would you rather work for a company that you choose and be able to live where you want? I know which I would pick.