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Was the plane in for a panel upgrade? Rear seat panel looks new. He was big on Garmin as his beautiful RV-8 had a Garmin panel as well. Didn't know him personally but a lot of respect for Dale. Both finished pilot training in the same year but a world of difference between the AF and Navy and how they operated back then.

WTF, that and still having issues of finding the flap handle does not give me a warm fuzzy as a retired non revver. I commuted 1200 miles for 25 yrs never missing a trip but in this age of packed flights, no way would I commute today. NERD

After retiring from airline flying @59, I consider flying my RV-8 3 times a week the pinnacle of my flying career.

Had to tap burner occasionally with the RF-4C behind a ANG KC-97. We were at high AOA because the AAR speed was so slow.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/22/military-has-watchdog-stopping-extremism-now-it-wants-teeth-and-independence.html?ESRC=eb_210623.nl The Military Has a Watchdog for Stopping Extremism. Now, It Wants Teeth -- and Independence In this Jan. 6, 2021 photo, protesters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) 22 Jun 2021 Military.com | By Stephen Losey The Defense Department's Office of Inspector General is asking Congress to take steps to empower its new deputy IG in charge of rooting out extremism in the ranks, and secure its independence. The Pentagon's deputy inspector general for diversity and inclusion and extremism in the military was established by the National Defense Authorization Act that took effect Jan. 1. It is in charge of conducting audits and investigations into supremacist and criminal gang activity in the armed forces. Advertisement In a report to Congress released last week, the IG's office said that it is already working on projects that directly cover those areas, such as evaluating the Pentagon's efforts to address extremism, diversity and inclusion programs, and sexual assault at the Naval Academy. Read Next: After Capitol Riot Indictment, Marine Major Remains at His Quantico Job And the IG has its eyes set on more projects it could work on beginning next year, such as auditing how well military entrance processing stations identify supremacist, extremist or gang member recruits. But if the office doesn't get more resources, it said, it won't be able to get all of those projects done. The IG said it needs more funding starting in fiscal 2022 to hire 80 more employees over a two-year period, as well as additional facilities, equipment and operational expenses, to work on diversity, inclusion and extremism. The Office of Personnel Management also gave the IG permission to hire three more Senior Executive Service members, including the new deputy IG. The hiring will start this year with a dozen new staff members, paid for with money already in the budget, to stand up the office and lay the groundwork for its mission. If the IG gets the rest of its funding in 2022, it will hire the rest of the core staff then. The Pentagon's IG also needs money to speed up the deployment of an investigations case management system to other IGs throughout the military, the report said. The Pentagon and the IG must develop new ways to track and report extremist, supremacist and criminal gang activity by service members, it added. But the IG cautioned that Section 554 of the NDAA, as it is currently written, has provisions that "significantly challenge" the office's independence and should be changed. The IG's office said the section of the law giving Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin the power to appoint and assign duties to the deputy IG, and having the deputy IG report to him, is particularly problematic. As written, the deputy IG would be "required to simultaneously serve two leaders with distinct and often divergent interests," the IG's report said. "In practical effect, the deputy inspector general is a DoD employee detailed to duties in the DoD OIG, which undermines the independence of the DoD OIG from the DoD and the secretary of Defense in fact and appearance." This could undermine the new deputy IG before it even gets started, according to the report. If complainants don't believe their concerns will go to an independent, objective organization, they might not come forward with reports of extremist, supremacist or criminal gang activity in the military, it explained. The IG also said the NDAA has redundant reporting requirements that compromise the office's independence. Section 554 of the NDAA requires the new deputy IG -- not the Defense Department's IG -- to submit semiannual reports to the secretary of defense and the IG. But the deputy IG also is required to submit annual reports to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, as well as other additional reports when directed by the SecDef or the IG. The defense secretary's authority to direct the deputy IG to write reports puts the office's independence at risk, the IG wrote. For now, a temporary fix appears to have been found. Austin agreed to delegate power to appoint the new deputy to the Pentagon IG, and clarified that the deputy will be a member of the defense IG's leadership team. But the IG said it is still possible -- albeit unlikely -- that a future SecDef could rescind that delegation and reclaim power to appoint the deputy. The IG said it has worked with lawmakers' staff and the DoD Office of Legislative Affairs to propose an amendment to the law that fixes the independence issues, clarifies roles and responsibilities, and clears up the redundant reporting requirements.

Delta CEO announced they will be hiring 1,000 by this time next year. First class started June 22.

Roundabout, are you the ex AF fighter guy that recently wrote a book and retired in England? Curious (more like jealous) about your decision to retire there. I know there is a retired Navy F-4 Mig killer that retired to St. Andrews and owns a B&B.

I heard the same from a 330 instructor friend. Ret NERD

I commuted 1200 miles for 24 years but early on realized it was not worth racing home on the last flight to save a buck just to be wiped out the entire next day. Having said that, I was single and had an airport car the entire time. The locals were very friendly at the home base.

Military Watchdog 4 days ago MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Important article, important book, pay attention. Amazon Reviews: ( initially 66% 5-star, 33% 1-star, nothing in between). Book now 5/17 rated # 1 by Amazon for all book categories, not just military, and 75% 5-stars, 22% 1-star. There is so much more: Concerned Veterans should article search for "SOCOM's Richard Torres-Estrad" and also DOD's "Meet Bishop Garrison: The Pentagon’s Hatchet Man in Charge of Purging MAGA Patriots and Installing Race Theory in the Military." "Pentagon's operation against Trump supporters, conservatives, opponents of globalism is worse than imagined." DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, now a propaganda agency, recommended a brand new suspicious-soldier category called “Patriot Extremism” which occurs when a citizen believes the US government has become corrupt or “has overstepped its constitutional boundaries.” Garrison, a Veteran and West Point graduate, is defended here: "Human Rights First by Bishop Garrison." My point is this: make sure you understand what is really going on inside the military. You read, you decide. Oriana Pawlyk and Milcom did a good job with this article. Pentagon may have started fire it cannot put out.

When Reckless Military Training Creates Preventable Deaths, Accountability Must Go to the Top | Military.com Military Watchdog a day ago MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Seemingly every day we read stories like this. Today we pay the price for the principally Obama administration changing the long established and at least more successful, if not perfect, promotion criteria selecting senior officers and NCO from peer-superior ranked evaluation and performance rather than political fidelity and ideological servility. The result is philosopher and compliant generals more like Senior Executive Service (SES) than Lee and Grant, Eisenhower and Patton .......... Here we go again, lots of luck fighting the Chinese and Russians with the Austin-Garrison purge.

Thanks for the link Blue. Great stuff by Military Watchdog. Don't know who he is but here is another great one by him: Military Watchdog 3 days ago MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Memo to Bishop Garrison chief of inclusion, diversity, political purification, and other nitwittery for the Department of Defense and defender of the 1619 Project critical race theory propaganda and nuzzler of Black Lives Matter leadership. The United States military has suffered fools before and endured. So far you show no aptitude for understanding the problem. It is not the Armed Forces that stand, fly, and sail in formation, fight the battles, and defend the nation. We mostly get along just fine. No, the problem is you and others like you who find mutiny and conspiracy around every corner. You are paralyzed by Trump. The real problem is the ineptitude of Washington government, political sewage, particularly the Pentagon, and by extension the national intelligence community. You cannot solve that because you are part of it. The problem is a woke Congress who fails to believe in its military. You are insulting to all of us who wear or ever wore the uniform of this nation, the able bodied and irreparably wounded. You stand in front of mirrors in your WW II uniforms thinking you match their sacrifice and valor, you talk the talk, but cannot walk a straight line. You are ruining the military like a cancer. Kindly get out of our way and let the military be the military. Our military was called to protect against 23 different insurrections (act of 1807) since 1808 and never failed. The United States military is consistently polled the most respected (70 percent) government institution by the public; Not you or your minders. The Congress only 10 percent. Get out of our way, take your sycophants with you.

Kaputt it was in Miltary.com this morning in the comment section of the below article. The comment was written under the name of MILTARY WATCHDOG. You would have to dig through all the comments to find it. I just now found it, so it has not been removed. If you find his post click his name it will lead to other posting by him. I could not include the link. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/20/space-force-co-fired-over-comments-about-marxism-military-now-subject-of-ig-probe.html?ESRC=eb_210521.nl

From Military.com: MILITARY WATCHDOG -- I apologize in advance for this tome – the subject too critical for abbreviation. I leave to the Air Force to determine the procedural compliance of LTC Lohmeier’s record setting (first printing sold out hard copy and paperback) book “Irresistible Revolution “ sales which as of May 21 an 85 percent 5-star Amazon ratings and reviews and similar elsewhere; a pittance of 1-3 stars. Pay attention. Most important is the crux of his book – exposing the purging of the military of all who stand up against critical race theory, 1619 nonsense, compulsive pseudo diversity, equality, inclusion and Marxist style indoctrination by a cadre of mostly BLM advocates in the Pentagon led by Bishop Garrison. He the architect of the purge as head of the Countering Extremism and Patriotism Task Force. Yes, there is such a thing. A position which he created. Garrison is a military academy graduate (2002) with a short and less than distinguishable military career (which he elects to purge in any articles about his service). Leaving the Army, Bishop found a way to milk lucrative Pentagon study contract funding as a Washington Beltway bandit. A shill who convinced his way into a senior executive service (SES) position absent requisite experience. That's called a political appointment. He is entwined with a tangled web of mutually supporting racial-enraged groups (Human Rights First) with self-supporting government contracts. What really happened is that this group was successful, instrumental,inserting into the Defense Human Resources Activity Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide Fiscal Year (FYS) 2019-2020 President’s Budget, a Center of Excellence; $ millions. “The Center of Excellence for training, education, research,and consultation in matters related to diversity and inclusion; military and civilian equal opportunity; and the prevention and response to sexual harassment, harassment, hazing and bullying across the total force.” Yet Bishop regularly bullies. They created their own program and their own positions and no one in the Pentagon smart enough to intervene. Biden and Austin subscribed at once – Susan Rice told them too. From his own bio: Garrison served in the Obama 2012 re-election Campaign. He served on the presidential campaign of Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. These are his principal credentials for a key leadership position purging the military. (I have no affiliation with Lohmeier)

As an example of an extreme $$$ hog, my bro-inlaw at DAL flew almost nothing but "Greenslips." As a senior narrow body A320CA he made $500K, $500K, $602K in the last three years. He went on LTS last May and was making $44K/mth due to the look back clause until he retired (65) in Jan '21. I early retired 11 yrs ago and bet I outlive him and his mansion on the lake in DAL's ATL base housing.

My roommate washed out in the formation phase as I recall. Became a F-4 WSO. Later the AF sent him to law school. There was no offer of a non-fighter aircraft. Everyone that washed out was offered a nav slot. As a side note, the AF sent my roommate to law school who later investigated/ruled on some very well known cases. He became a Federal Judge after retiring from the AF.

"Skip class or slack off?" I majored in that @ U of Hawaii.

Huggy are you a CA on the 777? Do you fly 2 CA/1 FO or 1 CA/2 FO or 2/2? Is everyone in the cockpit for TO/LD? Ex UAL "570"

Easy to go into the "salvage mode" when you're alone. First leg of my first flight as a newly minted Bus CA landing at the shortest field (SNA) in our system I fu*k'd the approach and somehow had the fortitude to go around. 20+ years later I still have nightmares of trying to salvage the approach and going off the end of the runway. Heck, even this morning I went around in my trusty RV.....I was high but at least I was fast.

Huggy, let me guess....you flew all 4 of those years?

+1 for the Halo. Would not fly with anything else. No interference wearing a hat or sunglasses. Light and comfortable.

My FE and ATP ratings (paid via GI Bill) gave me two classes worth at Riddle.

While going to the U of Hawaii I majored in sailing ( no shit 3 yrs sailing scholarship) and struggled thru business school after dropping out of engineering. Took five years to graduate (who graduates from U of H in 4?) and was a DG out of UPT. Go figure. Studying hard for an exam: