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What the actual Fuck. This is maybe the dumbest thing the AF could've done retention wise right now. Every careerist sack of shit O-5/6 is gonna rack & stack their guys based on this shit, SECAF guidance mentioned above aside. We're already in a personnel shortage WRT instructors and evaluators (at least in my corner of the AF) cause the majority of the FGOs are gone. The 1st time someone doesn't get promoted (or thinks they didn't? based on a lack of an AAD it's just gonna make things worse. Rant off, anyone know if AMU/Toro/ERAU has stock available to buy?

Quick work by the Igla gunner.

How the Battle for the Donbas Shaped Ukraine’s Success - Foreign Policy Research Institute (fpri.org) Good read/analysis.

Yeah that whole complaint sounded like a lesson in general douchebaggery.

Not sure where to put this given that no one's actually been fired yet that I'm aware of. I do not consider "Just the News" to be a particularly reliable news source but there's a lot of details on the below linked news story, whistleblower complaint is also posted on there. Overall the complaint seems absolutely stupid/absurd to me but in today's climate that doesn't matter. Veterans of Furry Wars: Air Force pledges crackdown on airmen wearing kinky sex toy merch | Just The News Couldn't come at a worse time for the people caught up in this; CAT 5 just took over AFSOC a couple days ago. He's going to crucify/proper FUCK anyone that he even suspects could possibly make him look bad.

Good read, thanks for posting.

Not an Osprey guy so all my info is second hand/comes from a very experienced-22 guy I worked with at Kirtland. His opinion was only rotating the prop and not the entire engine nacelle would be very beneficial. I believe there’s an ongoing mod program to fix the IR center body issues but could be wrong about that. I always viewed the Osprey the in the same vein as the early helicopters or maybe some of the century series fighters, first of their kind, pushing the technical/engineering envelope, still figuring things out. My buddy referenced above said there were a lot of issues with the aircraft that only manifested themselves after the aircraft was in production/already in the fleet and the number of available spares for the parts that ended up commonly failing were low. Honestly hope that the industry takes all the lessons learned from the -22 program and incorporates them into the -280.

Engines are fixed on the -280, one of my Osprey buddies told me that alone would help to alleviate some the MX shenanigans the -22 experiences. Also, it being a second-generation tilt rotor, you'd hope they'd incorporate some lessons learned into it.

Nice pics of a slightly used Tu-22, too bad it's missiles didn't cook off and level the whole area.

Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022 | Royal United Services Institute (rusi.org) Good read.

It’s Jabber now, same guy from what I can tell, super sleepy, and constantly irritated you’re interrupting his Kuwaiti soaps.

I'm glad I stayed in. Almost punched at 14 years when I got a staff gig I really despised (extremely poor leadership at the beginning). Decided punching for one bad assignment was a little reactionary and ended up staying. I truly think I would've regretted it had I punched but since that's a hypothetical no way to truly know. At the end of the day serving my country is still a really big part of my reason for being. I love the flying and camaraderie. Hit 20 next May and will probably stay another 2-3 years beyond that if I'm still positively contributing. Different strokes.

The club manager probably threw in a couple free steak dinner early bird specials since I’d venture the whole event wrapped up before 6pm.

Damn that’s terrible, thoughts out for the families.

Pretty incredible to watch the impact/rise in importance unmanned systems are playing in all facets of war.

https://apple.news/A_SeedtW4TzCjObobu51bbw That South Park episode might not have been so far-fetched.

Holy Shit!

ETIC was called parts plus 12, they’re not sure if they have the part, still, parts plus 12.

On a positive note that’s one less Su-34 for the Ukrainians to worry about!

One guy had a pre-existing foot issue that resulted in him not being able to complete some ruck marches. Don’t know about the other guy. From what I was told (wasn’t personally in the rooms) Slife made it pretty clear that he wasn’t a fan of assessment/selection in general, prefers ACI as a concept. Slife had several problems with the 6th as an organization; this was just one of them.

Don’t know. The video certainly looks that way. Have seen some other speculation on Twitter that the damage pattern didn’t look like a VBIED and looked more like placed large charges. Either way happy to see it.

Nice birthday present for Mr. Putin.

Lol. Tom Clancy had already promoted him to CO by the time we read about him.

That’s a fair point, and if the discussions I’m referencing had been with some O-6 or higher pushing an official narrative to drive funding I’d have taken things with a bit more skepticism. As it was, the gentleman I had personally talked to on this topic was an XO on a fast attack boat who’d been playing sub games with the Russkies for over a decade. One guy’s opinion.