SurelySerious

I'm pretty sure they don't understand their own data or method, whoever is replying.

There's always this.

Did they forget to make highest suicide rate an inverse contribution to rating?

It has to be propaganda.

They left off Creech. It's 69th. Edit: and how the F did Grand Forks, Cannon, and Holloman beat bases in Colorado Springs?

Unfortunately, no. Our CGO force is so inundated with this crappy feel-good-not-concerned-with-being-a-combat-force bullshit, that they come up with those questions on their own. No kidding.

I've been in several multinational environments when I was outside of my airplane and there wasn't any question whether I was American. No flag patch required. Is your crew confused in the brief who you are? It's not that I have an unnaturally strong desire to wear a wing patch, it's just that I don't have the irrational insecurity that I MUST wear an American flag all the time. Listen dudes, in the previous post I pointed out why guys from other communities poke fun at the idea of always needing to wear an American flag. We're all inherently dedicated to the American ideal represented by the flag, and don't constantly need an American flag to remind us. When you get offended and throw around childish things like "it's because fighter guys never go anywhere outside of their own base," it doesn't help your argument.

I'm glad you're attached to a patch, but we're all in the U.S. military... by definition we are all dedicated to the United States and the ideas behind the flag itself. Unit cohesion and identification is, in fact, and important concept, but it doesn't mean that we're not dedicated to the country. Our presence (with the American airplane, in the case of AMC with an American flag on it) speaks for itself. You should be proud of the years and thousands of miles you have flown to different places supporting our country, but it wasn't special just because of a flag patch. Dude, everyone goes somewhere to be "ambassadors" for the country, even if it's just to Cope Tiger. Global Strike guys don't wear a patch around; they go plenty of places, and everyone knows it. Let your airplane do the talking.

You're inferring a lot about COMACC and his installation commanders. I'm sure that's not why they prescribe the wing patch option. It does not transcend patches, we're all in the U.S. Air Force. It's just you feeling obviously more American than the rest of us and whining that you don't get to do what you want. You've made this issue about yourself, not patriotism. Let your airplane, that you're inside of when you're wearing that flight suit, do the talking.

True, but in another thread where this was discussed she was portrayed as well regarded, regardless of her AFSC.

The thing that you never seem to understand (and that the article totally, in every way, ignores even in the snippet you posted gets wrong, see below) is that the U.S.A, like other countries, is a governed place. A sovereign nation, if you will, you know, with laws. Every law restricts someone in some way, but is done to reflect some kind of social norm, mostly when the actions of one start to infringe on the rights of another. When people enter the country illegally, for whatever reason, be it wanting to better their life in an upright manner or something illicit, at the least they start to benefit from whatever the government provides without contributing to it. Essentially, they defraud the government at the cost of everyone else. Defrauding is illegal. When most of the immigrants were entering via ports because they were from across an ocean, the immigrants were registered and known in at least a basic form. When they get to walk across the border at any time or place of their choosing, this isn’t the case. In your magical world, if it were legal for anyone to come across they would go straight to immigration office and register themselves because it is legal and there are no barriers. Except it wouldn’t work that way. If we were to implement legal immigration to all, it would still be in the better interest to control where the immigration happens so it can be documented and the people can be registered as citizens. Otherwise, under your free-for-all system, you’re still making the system less efficient with a bigger government that increases in size and decreases in efficiency and detracts from everyone else. This then, is where it starts to infringe on others. This is a dumb position. Unspeakably. Should the government not say where roads are? Most of those are public property, where apparently no one can say how the land should be used. We also shouldn't have any government facilities because no one can say how the land should be used. All military bases, gone. No Police departments, courts, City Halls, or public parks. And no zoning laws of any kind.

Most of it is the environment. No one is being asked to go through terribly difficult air defenses, like WWII, right now. If we were, our aircrew would respond and do what was needed; the focus would quickly move away from that.

It's just learning to take off and land. It's a basic skill that ought to be (or could be) taught during initial qual. There is no amount of sitting at altitude that will correspond to the ability to launch or recover. Conversely, people in MCE could stand to learn a great deal by learning the LRE side. The 690 hour OG prereq to send someone to LRE was nonsensical.

The one with the accessories on the side instead of the bottom, specifically designed for a low ground clearance airplane? Too innovative for the AF.

An F-16 is advantageously area ruled so it doesn't have 690% more boat tail drag than any fighter in the last 69 years and doesn't need 40k+ lbs of thrust to do it.

Isn't that just nomenclature for trying to use a piddle pack on a pond crossing with a poopy suit?

JP-5 has FSII like JP-8.

There aren't any names in the publicly available AIB full narrative. The information would have to have been knowingly released upon request, reference my FOIA rant above. This isn't an SIB/AIB issue.

It is definitely not legal to release PII of personnel in overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units, even for a FOIA request. 5 USC 552 b 3 and 10 USC 130 b. It's a specific FOIA exemption. We get hammered for emailing a recall roster to our own personal email, and some legal team thought, "Give out names to the press when the law says not to? This seems right." Agree that there is no further public good that arises from knowing who the MP was.

Solid WTF to the fact that they released names of dudes in units that are overseas, sensitive, and/or routinely deployable. Protected from FOIA release under 10 USC 130 b? Who cares.

They stopped making the normal Airwolf a few year ago and went to the one with the rubber bezel, and now that isn't in production either.

Clearly, since Navs pass IFS. I'll spell it out for you: this isn't an FBO with a 152, or American Eagle. Being able to get an airplane off the ground and being good at tactics require an incredibly different amount of work.

People whose aircraft have tactics to fight other people trying to kill them may have more to study than loading an FMS and reading magazines.

It goes well with his triple thread post.