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Also worth noting with hostilities increasing against Russia, US AWACS is only a fraction of total airborne early warning available to the alliance. NATO has its own AWACS which is still slated for service until 2030, and there is also the UK, France, Turkey and several other allies with AEWC&C platforms. It's good the USAF is doing this now. It was a problem that needed fixed a long time ago, but better late than never.

The EC-130. It's the same stort, quick buy of the EC-37 as a gap filler. JSTARs are also on the cutting block. The good thing is, it appears the AF is serious about renovating these support role EW/C2ISR aircraft. I think a lot of these crew members will go to staff to fill still vacant fighter and bomber billets. They will be there with the crap ton of MQ-9 pilots that are also being divested. That will last 3 years and then enough aircraft will start rolling in they can start filtering some people back or attriting others. Just my opinion.

This: https://time.com/6171183/elon-musk-free-speech-tech-bro/ That is why this is a bad idea.... Read these people and realize how fucking lunatic they sound.....

1.) We aren't proponents of sovereignty because we also violate it routinely without justification. Panama.... Iraq 2..... Syria...... So your point is simply an opinion. 2.) Believe it or not there's a vast population of people in the US that don't care about other wars people get involved in. It may be an interest to you but there are a lot of Americans that would question why their sons or daughters should have to bleed for another country. And if they bleed for another country, who is left to bleed for us when our security is threatened. If American citizens lives or freedoms are jeapordized (civilians) defending a foreign power, the US did not practice good stewardship of defending those lives or freedoms.

Let's be honest, you have no mandate or idea what the average Russian does or doesn't think.

Quite fucked yes, but to be fair, Kendall does call this a bridge platform which I believe is what is really needed. Seems like almost all of the big brains I talk to agree the next gen C2 platform should be distributed sensors with geographically centralized control, but while the concept is there a framework to make it happen isn't. So if the E-7 is just a stop gap while we flesh out what a distributed sensor platform looks like (probably a mix of manned and unmanned ISR), than I'm ok with that.

Quantity is a quality all of its own. Its not that conservatives can't put an opinion out there. Its that its completely drowned out if not censored by the enormous majority of liberal media. These organizations cooperate to do this and calling the gaslighting of conservatives for the last two decades anything close to ethical would indicate a complete lack of moral character to me.

What are you defending here man? What's your position? That tech shouldn't be regulated? Is it only convenient to decree regulation when it's an industry you find inconvenient or do you also believe we should remove all regulation on energy, automotive or lending? What a bizarre year this is. COVID-19 and tech meltdowns and suddenly progressives are pro business for big pharma and social media.

Yeah sorry, totally meant a coop for all intents. Just wanted to clarify this was an area where finding non coop housing can be limited or difficult. Not all bad. I guess I get to be a proper millennial and bitch about having to afford a down payment.

Can you use your VA loan to buy into a coop? If so what are the ins and outs of that? Anyone ever live in a coop and have relevant experience? Looking at high rise luxury condos in a major financial metropolitan.

Truth. And based.

My opinion, because we actually aren't short pilots. That's the biggest myth in the AF. We are short staff officers that are required to have rated background. I can take a 10 year AD pilot and send him to some random staff. I can't do that with a guard dude assigned to a guard flying squadron. By the way I'm not defending the AF. The AF just needs to wake up and realize what it really wants. On paper ops squadrons are 95% or higher manned right now. (We can debate whether crew ratios are appropriate somewhere else) Cockpits are filled. But the staff billet is still at like 70% and the consistent direction from the last 3 CSAFs is that ops squadrons will be manned before staffs. This hits generals personally because it's their staffs that suffer. And it's right in line with what this General is saying. He doesn't need pilots, he needs officers, people to work in his staff. I strongly suspect the 13O career path was an attempt to make a non aircrew body of staffers that would be qualified to fill these positions but when they realized that teaching a cyber guy air interdiction in a 3 hour lecture doesn't bring the nuance of having trained for AI for years, they just cut the program.

So here's a cool video about Disney "Heterotopias" and why Disney losing governance of its park can have an intrinsic effect on what actually causes us to believe Disney is a magical place while we are there, and the subsequent fallout that may have on their branding. This was made a year ago before this controversy.

Yeah it was dumb. I hated it but as a Lt/Jr Capt at the time I didnt have a lot of sway to buck the system.

What'd Id really like to see is a Republican legislator come in that realizes we have given the executive far too much power for rulemaking, and retake their rightful constitutional powers to be the lawmakers in the country. Would be great to see some reforms passed to relimit executive power and thats something both parties could benefit from.

Man, I remember flying heavies in ACC and we would do night sorties with a land time of like 2am. Post flight paperwork, mx debrief, what not... get home at 3. Have to be at work at 7:30 the next day. The squadron and group leadership was always "sorry, there is no post mission crew rest in ACC." That was 10 years ago. I hear its gotten better since.

He definitely needs to be careful. There is no "guaranteed" safe way to go about it. What is happening is the German authorities are using things like this as evidence to say that the service member has intentions to remain long term in Germany, and that their job for the US DoD is only a secondary factor of their being here. Then they argue that this invalidates their SOFA status.

Its particularly a problem in Kaiserslautern. The US population there is so large and the city feels its being unfairly required to provide municipal services to Americans that don't pay into the tax system. EUCOM knows about it but refuses to do anything because they either believe its a DOS responsibility or it will upset German partner relations. Worse yet, it was revealed OSI at Ramstein has been approached, and has leaked info on members to German tax authorities to assist in their investigations. (Things like frequency of gym use, commissary shopping, etc...) When CMSAF visited last year she was asked about what was being done and she was completely unaware of the issue which tells me EUCOM and USAFE are completely dropping the ball because it is definitely going up their channels on a routine bases. One thing that has really frustrated me working in EUCOM over PACOM is that in EUCOM we absolutely bend over on a daily basis to European governments and let them interpret their SOFAs however they want. We do not protect our forces or our assets from liability here at all. Things that will make you particularly vulnerable: Marrying a German citizen, buying instead of renting your home, purchasing any time share or vacation property, registering with your city, registering in the census, registering your pets, your spouse getting employment in Germany or remotely in the US but working from Germany, or anything else that could be construed as an intention to reside within Germany full time. Edit: Wanted to add some new vulnerabilities I've thought of: enrolling your children in German schools or a child attending German university.

Possible some people started spamming comments about him and they removed it for the family. I get the accusations are very serious but I also believe to his family he was someone very important and I'm sad for their loss. Noone raises their little boy to be a sex predator. Whole situation is just tragic. Like I said. I knew him as a different dude. A little arrogant but overall decent. If the accusations are true, I'm truly sorry he didn't choose a different path because he had potential to be a decent human.

I don't want to sound jaded by my guess is a good deal of these medals go out when there is significant media spotlight on these events.

I think a lot of clickbait articles like this are AI written now and just grab feeder info from social media and patchwork sentences together about the general topic. You can tell because the tone of the article is completely different than what the tone should be about a tragedy/travesty like this.

Was in his SOS flight....... 😳 He was probably very close to DG. Definitely #2 in our flight and our flight leader. I can't say I kept up with him but holy Fuck........

BLUF: US working with GA to contemplate sending MQ-9s to Ukraine.

Right. This "disinformation war" is entirely a product of the lefts doing. The want to denounce anything that goes against their narrative. Where were they for the Steel Dossier, the Hunter Biden Laptop, the Russia Collusion Hoax, the 'peaceful BLM' riots. The left is the biggest purveyor of disinformation in the country right now and they go one step further of actively trying to gas light people who bring attention to that.

I can't see how they're expecting anything short of slaughter on the mid terms....