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This is a terrible strawman. No, we don't allow presidents to just decide to commit mass murder. There is a "road to war" that involves many outside sources. The mass murder without any reasonable cause is the war crime, not the particular weapon here.

It's an interesting one. On the one hand the Chief Executive is the sole legal release authority for nuclear weapons. On the other hand, anyone following an order to randomly nuke a country would almost certainly be committing a war crime, and thus have a duty to disobey.

Saying you are going to do something treasonous if something else happens is not the same as commiting treason. Slow your roll there.

Can you afford a major market drop? Don't sucker yourself into a bad situation. If you can take the hit, it's probably a more acceptable risk. Is this a normally increasing market, or is this rise an abnormality in a usually stable market?

Sure..."for that"... Context clues say that Gates didn't like the way AF leadership was trying to prep for high-end fights at the expense of another couple dozen Pred CAPs over Iraq.

The administration has already admitted that their policy is designed to punish those who have not received the vaccine. It's one of the better reasons all the forthcoming lawsuits may actually succeed (also, some ADA provisions).

Sorry to hear that, but good on you for not going 100% into despair mode. Success at UPT should probably be factored in graduation numbers meeting goals and producing acceptably skilled new pilots. The AF is fairly good at tracking the first metric, but the second is much more questionably measured I know I took the full syllabus plus a few rides, back when it was like 90hrs in T-6s. New iterations don't give students that much time to figure it out. Is that necessarily bad? Not if you can meet production and quality goals... although I question the quality side. We are either cutting the slower learners or graduating pilots with lesser knowledge/skills, imo.

Yeah, I am looking for whole house versions, not just a room.

Any tips for family/pet friendly PIT pads?

(non-faip) Do a good job and remember that you were selected to teach the basics (because that's all you probably know at this point). Be humble, approachable, and don't try to give any "in the real AF" lectures. As far as in the office, look for projects that interest you, and when given a task, go do it well. The young officers who can be tasked "fire and forget" style with consistently good results usually are looked kindly upon.

If you go early enough that the issue is still minor, maybe. For significant issues, I don't think there is a ton of trust from the aircrew side. ...there are plenty of alternative options, fortunately.

Generally agreed. For things like security clearance investigations, I don't think reviewing public associations and posts for indicators of compromised personnel is going too far. Those are valid, imo. They should be on a schedule, known to the personnel being investigated, and strictly limited in use. Nebulous "monitoring" of all social media for administrative and punitive purposes is almost guaranteed to generate abuses.

Let's extend that argument to it's logical (and historically practiced) conclusion:. You are free to say whatever you want, but if the government doesn't approve, it may fine, imprison, or kill you. ...does that sound like "freedom of speech" to you? I'd say your argument is dead nuts wrong. The 1st Amendment is PRECISELY there so that you can voice opinion without government punishment.

CDC says vaccinated people don't need masks. ..and the talking heads explode. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/05/13/health/covid-cdc-mask-guidance-vaccinated-wellness/index.html

I really don't want the government telling reporters what they can say... That said, perhaps changing the libel standards would help. I think you should be able to sue against companies that intentionally report false information. (I don't think there is a good legal solution for slanted reporting, as it is so subjective.)

Indeed

That's a good turn around. My form 4 for a can has been sitting since Aug...

The market will go down at some point. The question is more how deep and how long? (Sts) For retirement savings a 10-20% dip for a year or two should be recoverable. If you get a decade of negative returns, that will hurt people's plans a lot. If you are about to retire, it may be a good idea to have a couple years worth of money in super low risk savings/funds. That way, you don't have to sell at a loss during a temporary crash.

Ding!

Assign everyone to Laughlin. That should fix your "over manning" problem right quick.

The formula of basic, primary, and advanced trainers has worked since before WWII. I don't see any serious arguments as to why it should be scrapped. As to whether you should have a T38/T7 split with T1s, I can't speak to that very well, although introducing a CRM habits to those going to crew aircraft earlier makes sense. Having all fixed wing students go through a universal set of training also makes sense. Helo only track is a bad idea. The AF already doesn't understand helos, and further divorcing them from fixed wing aircrew won't help. Also, siloing helo students from the start will limit the student pools on both sides.

Hopefully they'd send a link to Ceelo Green's "Forget you" right back. ...but that would suck (sts).

I mean, I appreciate dying less. That said, losing a war because your 100 high-tech things got destroyed by 1000 middle-tier weapons isn't acceptable. We are failing to maintain the "high/low" mix we occasionally talk about.

One can argue we won WWII because we had a vast quantity of decent quality. The Panther and Tiger tanks were better than the Sherman or T34 in many respects...but not when facing 10 or 20:1 odds... We seem to have forgotten that lesson. 187...

If you have an extra $300-400k for a new GA aircraft, you probably sit in the upper brackets of income levels. That's more than the average US house price. Let's not kid ourselves about how rich one likely is to be able to afford a new production GA aircraft. I wish GA was a middle-class hobby, but it isn't if you shop new.