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Can confirm preventing at least one dumb copilot from pancaking an aircraft. ...but don't call the Huey names. She doesn't deserve that.

Wait, are you suggesting leaders at an academy that is supposed to develop leaders should demonstrate good leadership rather than contracting out their responsibilities? What a novel concept.

They decisively blunted the first push, then gained initiative to push back, and are now in a stalemate. I don't see how that is a "absolutely cannot win" scenario, so long as outside sources are willing to give them more weapons, ammo, and support. Sure 1v1 Ukraine would lose...but it doesn't have to be 1v1.

The single-action trigger is quite nice. The rest of the design I could leave. Maybe some day CA will get slapped hard enough by the courts that they will decide it's not worth constantly violating the 2nd Amendment anymore...but I'm not holding my breath.

Sounds suspect on 1st Amendment grounds...

I have friends who washed out of IFS and UPT. A lot of them went on to do some pretty interesting things. A hit hurts, but you can certainly get back up and do great things.

Well, the AF never buys too few aircraft...

So, the bad news--pre-solo CR probably has a low chance of a reinstate, unless something was very strange in your scheduling/someone missed teaching you something important. Good news--if you show a good attitude and work hard, your leadership should help you get whatever next AFSC you are going for. You should have a non-flying backup plan, and now is the time, most likely. Take the positive things you learned this far, the skills you improved recently, and use those to help on your next goal.

Ukraine is at an economic and manpower disadvantage, it would be stupid NOT to continually beg for better equipment and money from outside nations. That's not a indicator of losing. Terrain-wise, it's pretty much at a statement with local advances of sub-kilometer distances by each side. Take away external support and Ukraine will lose the conventional fight, due to material shortages and likely increased human losses. They may choose to go unconventional at that point, but why let that happen when they have rough parity via donations/loans?

...and that is the reason helo-only is a thing again. It's also the reason we are giving LTs wings with 115hrs total time. Not quality, quantity.

IMO, long term it's bad. Helicopters are already widely misunderstood in the AF. Now keeping them in entirely separate training pipelines from fixed wing is only going to make it worse. Also limits cross flow opportunities. Can you make a quality helicopter-only pilot? Sure. That's not the hard part. Getting students with way less flight training would require a pretty big syllabus rewrite, but it's not impossible.

It was an actual, legit insurrection....oddly/chaotically enough. DC could have sent the 82nd Airborne. Probably would have ended poorly, and the local government let it collapse under it's own stupidity. I have mixed opinions on whether letting it go until collapse or making a statement (with lots of firepower) saying "treason isn't a laughing matter" was the better option.

If someone says "United States" do you think "POTUS, SCOTUS, and Congress" IS the United States of America? I hope we can define it a little bit larger than just that, otherwise "we the people" have literally become irrelevant.

Very much disagree. The government represents the country, more or less. (More when democratically elected, less when a dictatorship/oligarchy.)

The will to fight is both social and political. For Russia, it is mostly Putin's will. Judging by the reported nationalism and popularity of the war, I'd say the Russian society is supportive of the war (or at least going along with it). As far as mobilisation, as long as someone else gets to fight and die... Ukraine seems supportive as well, as it is an existential fight for the nation and culture. That said, the opponents of continuing are being silenced in reporting (unlike western reporting on Russian dissidents).

You could do either, while the injunction is in place. Might get screwed if the case doesn't go our way, although I'm cautiously optimistic (both on APA and 2A grounds). That said, as a stock, a real stock is better. If you don't plan on moving/traveling with it, I'd go SBR.

Ukraine has also been taking unsustainable casualties and has been "on the verge of collapse" for at least a year, depending on which news source you read. They might be close to failing, or maybe not. I don't trust the avg news reporter to get that correct.

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I recommend a bit more research, because that is not how that works. If you wash out, you don't get any aircraft. The AF doesn't hand over C-17s, etc, to people who aren't pilots.

Weak attempt at trolling. Ten yard penalty, repeat first down.

Shia militias in Iraq don't like the US government? Who would have guessed.

...but what happens when no one tells them they are being stupid? (They become lawyers and politicians...)

It would make for a pretty good office comedy, if people didn't die because of DoS's incompetence.

I was reading that an Israeli gun license allows one to own 1 pistol and 50 rounds of ammo (total!)... Not great odds against a squad of Hamas fighters with AKs!

Pretty tough to have a conventional total war in the nuclear age... Unless the losing side is non-nuclear. (i.e. why Kim made sure NK got nukes)