SurelySerious

You still have yet to make a coherent point about how Gates saved the day. Russians still in Crimea? Check. Chinese still expanding in SCS? Check. Afghanistan still run by medeval warlords? Check. Go back to your parents’ basement.

WTF are you talking about? You think China and Russia are going to stop what they’re doing because of our “cohesion”? If you’re not a bot or high school student, I’d be surprised.

When you put together more than one coherent sentence, you keep changing the subject entirely, which points to you not having an argument. Gates made the force hollow chasing a pointless metric.

No way man. Gates’ obsession with and increase to 69 caps of RPAs was a total waste due to the utter inefficiency of the Army intelligence priority and assignment system. We could have given them so many fucking drones to cover every inch of Afghanistan for every hour of the day and they would have fucked it away. The USAF crews that were working those AORs did indeed do great work, but it was in spite of the way it was waged. Gates does not get credit here.

Whatever you think makes a solid wingman, please.

Until you don’t have but a few majors left...and it does.

Hell if I know; I think it was some sycophantic play to try and look good to the commander because he became mayor for the wrong reasons. I also think he lost control.

Unfortunately, no.

Could be worse: your mayor didn’t open up a safe space during roll call.

WHMO is looking for O-4s as well... for when Duck inevitably gets picked up.

It’s probably easier to tweet about how tough you are on companies by touting a $1.7B fine than tweeting about restricting them from building critical infrastructure for the country that could include ways for an adversary to cripple the US. Or something.

Agree with Lawman on this one: China is already in a trade war with us, just not with tarrifs. They’re using other less conspicuous means. IP violations, abusing their “3d world” status with the worldwide shipping agency to leverage rock bottom mail rates through competitor post offices, hacking, etc. So when they say they’re “not going to start a trade war,” they can say it honestly because they aren’t going to, they already have. Just remember, they’re not militarizing the reefs in the SCS either.

GSC is about on the order of getting your tired, your poor, your huddled masses and the wretched refuse of your teeming shore for priority.

8th AF probably made sense...in WWII.

It’s not much of a bet when the odds are nearly guaranteed.

I recently had a staff person ask for info on a “5x8,” and my reaction was WTF is that. So I asked nicely for an example of this format. And it was just a stupid quad chart. Ugh.

He missed the boat a while back: Fat Amy. I also assume it’s not “panther”...it’s “sex panther,” but maybe that’s not fit for print in a questionable internet blog.

The email from CSAF says to hold focused forums to ID current seams or developing conditions for future unsafe conditions. He also listed several recommended topics, and then after the safety review instructs to pass feedback through chain-of-command to MAJCOM safety office. He wants to know where we have high risk areas, and that’s the way in which the UPT/FTU sortie cutting was framed.

At the glorious safety down day in at least one wing, the continual cutting of undergraduate flying training and MDS initial training was submitted as a safety issue. Chances that makes it out of the wing? I’m not holding my breath.

I thought we clarified that it would be wepons free on @BQZip01‘s mom.

$6k/month?

See also: https://www.zianet.com/tedmorris/dg/bombers4.html

Tick off scheduling, end up in the family model every flight. Sounds terrible.

It really is infuriating every time our POM guy from MAJCOM tells us why we’re waiting 6-9 years just to start new programs on our jet. So the Army and Navy can say why we don’t need X, Y, or Z in step 3/64.

Let’s be real.