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And those people are called communists.

It was a thing in 2008.

The Middle East at an Inflection Point with Gen. Mattis at the Center for Strategic and International Studies https://csis.org/event/middle-east-inflection-point-gen-mattis On Obama's characterization of our allies as freeloaders: On what we can do in a time of fiscal restraint: About an hour of your time. #worthit SPOILER ALERT: knife hands make multiple appearances

Do you want requirements creep? Because that's how you get requirements creep. Seriously, though, to keep costs down they probably shouldn't try adding anything. Ref F-35.

Irrelevant.

Ditto, on it not really helping the RPA manning situation and I just don't see it working very well, just my opinion but for these missions a multi-crew aircraft works best. Can't speak to the talent level as I have never been in a MQ-9 squadron but that is UFB on the level of training 18X'ers, you said dudes were getting 10 hours in MQT then on their own, has that improved? Yikes, 70 CAPs coinciding with the first group's ADSC expiring? Fire meet gasoline... No, that's the MQT syllabus for you. Because of the manning problems and lack of training capacity, training is cut short at every corner. Undergraduate, FTU, MQT, and CT. Some of the guys that get to the squadron have the smarts, just no experience with aviation so they take time to develop. You know the theory that some people might develop into good pilots if they had 60 weeks of UPT instead of 53, but we only have training resources for 53 weeks so tough luck? It's like that, but with 20 weeks of training and we're graduating you anyway so good luck CAF.

We have an excess of GOs.

Constant exercises, control exerted from on-high at a level far exceeding anything in ACC. For everything.

Penfed has great rates as well, however you have to do ALL the leg work when doing an auto loan whereas USAA makes it super simple with digitally signed forms, etc. +1 for Penfed auto loans. Wasn't too difficult.

Standard it depends. Some of their best funds are indexed...where performance is pretty similar across companies, and since their expenses ratios are much higher than, say, Vanguard, it's not a good deal.

Yes.

No, but if their record keeping is that poor, I don't want to be a part of it.

So were you at fault in an accident? Not as I understand it. Hit a deer; to my knowledge that's a not-fault, which was reinforced by my conversations with several other insurance companies who questioned why it was at fault.

Just had USAA increase my premium (no accidents), and as a kicker they have a past incident classified as an "at fault accident," (it was not) which means quotes with other companies, while still lower than USAA, are higher than they should be. Nice two front tactic USAA, but I'll be dropping your auto insurance.

Big Blue may just make them sign on for another 6-10 years after finishing the pilot FTU. You know, just like the officers Because that 6 year urt commitment is solving the problem effectively.

They keep pitching this as a fix for retention problems. They can't keep an enlisted sensor operator on AD to save their life, but they can't see that somehow it will likely be the same.

Par for the course.

It was also overweight and couldn't meet requirements at the early DT stages, if my memory of the PBS series serves me well.

U.S. Supplied TOW Missile against Russian T-90 RUS making a big deal out of this would be like us throwing a tantrum every time an RPG was fired at our helos.

Because we're backfilling one bomber with another? I think the intensity of the proxy war has little to do with that.

Or the best qualified person with a good outlook and judgement despite their background. Pilot or not.

The satire was almost too subtle. Good thing it was on Duffleblog, otherwise a lot of people wouldn't get it Love it.