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Semantically no. War is by that level of technicality between nations that actually has protocol, and we haven’t declared one in 8 decades. They have authorized many uses of force, though, that we all recognize as “war” against states and non-states that are technically just hostilities. Since the UN has forbidden war (except for security council authorization essentially) since WWII… no one declares it anyway because why would you incriminate yourself? Korea and Iraq I we were acting on UN’s behalf so no declaration required apparently. So there’s validity to the semantics in some sense, but there’s also the practicality in practice.

I’m sorry are you trying to talk about Russia and Ukraine in this thread?

Second all of the above. The R-ATP with your experience will open the doors to national carriers like Breeze, Allegiant, Sun Country, etc as well as the regionals. Keep your big airline apps updated and leverage your Reserve/Guard opportunities in concert with civilian employment.

Since he considers himself one of the greatest orators of all time, chances arrrrrreeee…

Sir, this is a Wendy’s. The AI bot probably wants a substack where it just publishes its copy and paste bs while it doesn’t have to deal with all of us stupid people, but seems to have gotten sidetracked.

Ah yes, the AI chatbot with no actual point is back. Those of us humans with a budget already have the answer.

Ran across this one today: Apparently the House Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into Afghanistan exit isn’t actually trying to hold anyone accountable.

I will be inclusively holding Kinzinger in contempt with the many other sell out politicians he joined, and for labeling his activism as “protecting democracy.”

He’s just the lovable white grandpa looking guy, right?

Clark was the epitome of a good leader. This guy is an asshat. Says the guy who was promoted to AFSOC CC when not ready: https://popularmilitary.com/new-usaf-academy-superintendent-says-the-academy-will-become-more-demanding-and-cadets-will-only-be-promoted-when-ready/

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Don’t forget they also want beards.

It’s called humor regarding Austin not knowing. You’d have to be an idiot to think it’s a direct comparison.

cat 5 takes over

Bomb Smuggled Into Tehran Guesthouse Months Ago Killed Hamas Leader

Fair.

They had an experienced IP onboard who didn’t uphold standards or do the other things expected of someone in that role. There were a shit ton of complacency problems in this crew that are a unit problem. The commander and DO set the tone. There are things within flying that are independent of flying skill that are easy to set the tone on. These people weren’t doing any of those. You can blame big AF for a lot of things, but lackadaisical complacency isn’t it. Instructors and squadron leadership should be setting the tone on the admin and tactical discipline. These people ed up, and their squadron mates displayed a lot of the same deficiencies, whether the AF has screwed flying training and hours over the last 20 years or not. Quit trying to provide a cop out. Edit: as much as can be believed from the nav AIB pres, anyway.

Well shit the author is a nav. Hadn’t considered that.

Sounds like if they didn’t brief or pay attention to those things on this sortie, than it’s symptoms of the same problem that plays into not reading notams, not mentioning or briefing low vis crm, not using the appropriate callouts, etc.

Have any of these people seen Navy flyer’s Thursday flight suits? Or the Friday ones with embroidery? FFS.

Dean Phillips and Biden were the only pres candidates who got votes from my state, so I don’t know how Democratic Party delegates can go and put their say in at the convention for someone else and claim “democracy” is under some existential attack from other sources than their own organization.

Wait, you started the same thread two times without doing something as simple as searching to see if maybe anyone has ever asked about Laughlin UPT in the last 69 years?

First off, UTFSF https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/index.php?/topic/23503-Laughlin-UPT-info/page__view__findpost__p__498463