reloder Posted February 9 Posted February 9 I miss the good old days when we obsessed over black socks and grass in the sidewalk cracks. 1
ClearedHot Posted February 9 Posted February 9 On 2/8/2025 at 2:10 PM, HuggyU2 said: It takes that sort of attention to detail to ensure Boeing's commercial sales are humming right along. https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-rhatigan-1814b622 Expand All is not as it appears, read beyond the headlines. Just because commercial sales are humming along does NOT mean you are making money, quite the opposite with Boeing: 1. Losses piled up for Boeing in 2024 - BLUF - They lost $11B in 2024 2. Boeing has lost $32 billion since 2019, with no end in sight. How long can it keep losing money? 3. Boeing’s Self-Inspection Program Is Deeply Flawed - BLUF Boeing has long operated under the Organization Designation Authority (ODA), which allows them to sign off inspections in lieu of FAA inspectors. With all the recent issues including the recent door blow out, the FAA has severely restricted their ODA.
SurelySerious Posted February 9 Posted February 9 On 2/8/2025 at 2:10 PM, HuggyU2 said: It takes that sort of attention to detail to ensure Boeing's commercial sales are humming right along. https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-rhatigan-1814b622 On 2/9/2025 at 12:32 PM, gearhog said: I didn't realize this. Bad leadership doesn't just retire, they go on to assist screwing up billion dollar industries. On 2/9/2025 at 4:58 PM, ClearedHot said: All is not as it appears, read beyond the headlines. Just because commercial sales are humming along does NOT mean you are making money, quite the opposite with Boeing: 1. Losses piled up for Boeing in 2024 - BLUF - They lost $11B in 2024 2. Boeing has lost $32 billion since 2019, with no end in sight. How long can it keep losing money? 3. Boeing’s Self-Inspection Program Is Deeply Flawed - BLUF Boeing has long operated under the Organization Designation Authority (ODA), which allows them to sign off inspections in lieu of FAA inspectors. With all the recent issues including the recent door blow out, the FAA has severely restricted their ODA. I think Rat fits right into the rotted corporate culture there. 1
dream big Posted February 9 Posted February 9 On 2/9/2025 at 10:30 AM, Sua Sponte said: Worst Sq/CC I ever had. Expand Didn’t get much better as a Wing Commander. Herk bros under him just about almost blanket partied him. 2
HuggyU2 Posted February 9 Posted February 9 I think that's my third post recently where my sarcasm didn't come though. 2
SurelySerious Posted February 9 Posted February 9 On 2/9/2025 at 8:21 PM, HuggyU2 said: I think that's my third post recently where my sarcasm didn't come though. I got it, sounds like a CH problem!
uhhello Posted February 9 Posted February 9 On 2/9/2025 at 4:19 PM, BashiChuni said: general chang provides excellent insight at the flag level. like him or not he is well connected and has the pulse of leadership. Expand I'm just impressed you haven't slipped up over the years. Impressive. 2
Majestik Møøse Posted February 10 Posted February 10 On 2/9/2025 at 4:58 PM, ClearedHot said: All is not as it appears, read beyond the headlines. Just because commercial sales are humming along does NOT mean you are making money, quite the opposite with Boeing: 1. Losses piled up for Boeing in 2024 - BLUF - They lost $11B in 2024 2. Boeing has lost $32 billion since 2019, with no end in sight. How long can it keep losing money? 3. Boeing’s Self-Inspection Program Is Deeply Flawed - BLUF Boeing has long operated under the Organization Designation Authority (ODA), which allows them to sign off inspections in lieu of FAA inspectors. With all the recent issues including the recent door blow out, the FAA has severely restricted their ODA. Expand Boeing stock down 50% since he became Director, Americas Sales.
Guest nsplayr Posted February 10 Posted February 10 On 2/9/2025 at 11:05 PM, uhhello said: I'm just impressed you haven't slipped up over the years. Impressive. Expand Live look at Chang / Bashi
uhhello Posted February 10 Posted February 10 (edited) On 2/10/2025 at 2:38 AM, Majestik Møøse said: Boeing stock down 50% since he became Director, Americas Sales. Expand One of my better purchases pre 737 debacle. Down 51.7% to be exact 🙂 Edited February 10 by uhhello
FourFans Posted February 11 Posted February 11 On 2/9/2025 at 8:21 PM, HuggyU2 said: I think that's my third post recently where my sarcasm didn't come though. Expand Performance issues? It's not uncommon. 1 in 5 I'm told. 2
Sua Sponte Posted February 11 Posted February 11 On 2/9/2025 at 4:58 PM, ClearedHot said: All is not as it appears, read beyond the headlines. Just because commercial sales are humming along does NOT mean you are making money, quite the opposite with Boeing: 1. Losses piled up for Boeing in 2024 - BLUF - They lost $11B in 2024 2. Boeing has lost $32 billion since 2019, with no end in sight. How long can it keep losing money? 3. Boeing’s Self-Inspection Program Is Deeply Flawed - BLUF Boeing has long operated under the Organization Designation Authority (ODA), which allows them to sign off inspections in lieu of FAA inspectors. With all the recent issues including the recent door blow out, the FAA has severely restricted their ODA. Expand Boeing also had the C-17 ATS contract terminated and is currently in rebid due to their poor performance. I'm sure they'll be bidding, unless prohibited by the USAF due to the C-17 ATS performance, on bidding on the KC-46 ATS later this year (Est. Value $500M).
uhhello Posted February 12 Posted February 12 (edited) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFyffoFycnT/?igsh=YzlndWNrNHE2Mmw2 well played internet Edited February 12 by uhhello 1 3
Guest nsplayr Posted February 13 Posted February 13 (edited) One of the last bastions of freedom has been breached: no more Friday shirts in flight suits, even just in our own building ☠️ In a GUARD flying squadron on an independent GUARD base. The fun police have truly entered the cathedral and are busy defiling the alter. Morale is now alive only in the smallest crevices of my cold, dead heart. There’s a strict don’t ask, don’t tell policy when it comes to morale. Any public displays of morale will not be tolerated. And to think…I’ve heard stories from the old timers about busing in strippers on drill weekend and people didn’t even own hats let alone wear them… Edited February 13 by nsplayr
Boomer6 Posted February 13 Posted February 13 You know, all this fuckery is getting insufferable. However, I can't imagine having to deal with this crap and be a liberal in the military. Between uniform inspections and Trump's EOs it must feel like the apocalypse cometh. 1
Guest nsplayr Posted February 13 Posted February 13 On 2/13/2025 at 3:10 AM, Boomer6 said: You know, all this fuckery is getting insufferable. However, I can't imagine having to deal with this crap and be a liberal in the military. Between uniform inspections and Trump's EOs it must feel like the apocalypse cometh. Expand It's not great Bob! 😅
Lord Ratner Posted February 13 Posted February 13 (edited) On 2/13/2025 at 2:44 AM, nsplayr said: And to think…I’ve heard stories from the old timers about busing in strippers on drill weekend and people didn’t even own hats let alone wear them… Expand Isn't it hilarious that the same senior leaders that will complain about how our generation doesn't want to stay in and only thinks about the airlines, somehow completely misses the fact that when they were company grade officers they were basically living a frat boy's wet dream, with no real deployments, mission, or sacrifice? I had one Colonel tell a story about drunkenly arriving his car into a light pole at the OClub, only to have SF drive him home and pick him up in the morning to retrieve his vehicle. That same colonel then defended the 0-0-1-3 policy and giving article 15s to officers who were drunk in public. He had nothing to say when I asked if he had a bottle of scotch in his desk as a wing Commander. These guys are nothing but cowardly hypocrites. They enjoyed a system that was so awesome and carefree that it gave them the camaraderie and memories to stick around when the job inevitably gets lamer and lamer as you gain more and more responsibilities. But they can't see that without that first decade of awesome memories, there's no nostalgia to keep you tied to the organization. It is bordering on criminally stupid that the leadership of an organization desperate to retain talent can't see that allowing colored t-shirts and large mustaches is a no-brainer. Edited February 13 by Lord Ratner 4
busdriver Posted February 13 Posted February 13 No one should be interested in the things I'm not interested in anymore. 2 1 2
SocialD Posted February 13 Posted February 13 On 2/13/2025 at 2:44 AM, nsplayr said: One of the last bastions of freedom has been breached: no more Friday shirts in flight suits, even just in our own building ☠️ In a GUARD flying squadron on an independent GUARD base. The fun police have truly entered the cathedral and are busy defiling the alter. Expand This isn't the first time they've tried to take Friday shirts away. The last two times I remember them trying that, we just kept wearing them. It drove the Chiefs (outside of ops) nuts. Eventually the winds shifted and Friday shirts came back. If you're off station, instead of wearing your ACC/AMC patch, wear the ANG patch...people generally leave you alone. On 2/13/2025 at 2:44 AM, nsplayr said: And to think…I’ve heard stories from the old timers about busing in strippers on drill weekend and people didn’t even own hats let alone wear them… Expand You just have to get your own, off-base establishment. Our state doesn't allow alcohol on base, so we found a building just off base, rented it and turned it into a bar. Way, it is easier to have shenanigans off base anyway. 1
SurelySerious Posted February 13 Posted February 13 On 2/13/2025 at 3:43 PM, reloder said: What's a Friday shirt?I can’t recall, I lost mine on a fishing trip to the Gulf of Buccees. 1 1
brabus Posted February 13 Posted February 13 On 2/13/2025 at 1:35 PM, SocialD said: Way, it is easier to have shenanigans off base anyway. Expand And your squadron’s shenanigans are epic…a model for others to follow! 1
SocialD Posted February 13 Posted February 13 On 2/13/2025 at 3:43 PM, reloder said: What's a Friday shirt? Expand In our case, it's a Thursday and Sat of drill shirt lol. On 2/13/2025 at 4:01 PM, brabus said: And your squadron’s shenanigans are epic…a model for others to follow! Expand I'm sure they were thankful for your top cover....they might need it again lol.
brabus Posted February 13 Posted February 13 On 2/13/2025 at 4:13 PM, SocialD said: I'm sure they were thankful for your top cover....they might need it again lol. Expand They are min force for my last hurrah; only way to go out is with a bang. I imagine it’ll be like a movie where I’m walking away from absolute carnage in the background, laughing all the way back to DAL. 1
Biff_T Posted February 13 Posted February 13 What does the AF say about wearing a dicky (fake shirt not donger) instead of a T shirt? 1
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