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Either scenario plausible. Ego is an enemy and we should only fly rested. I can't believe the dumb risks I took flying tired. Without Gods grace I would be CFIT too.

Big Air Force to AFSOC:

Like Epstein

U-2 bros right now

Tangentially related. On a trip to Europe in January I got to spend a day in Normandy. BTW a day alone is nowhere near long enough. Please put a visit on your bucket list. Standing on the beaches of Omaha and Utah to the Cemetary at Colleville-sur-Mer to the D-Day aid station in the 12th Century Church at Angoville-au-Plain that still has blood-stained pews 80 years later I felt like I hardly deserved to be in the presence of such greatness and sacrifice. Our guide (former British Military so he could discuss it from a military perspective) not surprisingly said not many tours come by in the cold winter months, but the silence afforded in his mind allowed a proper solemnity for the time and place. One fact he mentioned was that only 550 or so German troops were on duty at the time of the initial landings which dumfounded me because we all know the carnage inflicted on the American troops.

Do both... Pretty sure an Only"Fans" account that just posts gratuitous close up photos of C-130 engines covered in leaking oil and hydraulic fluid would make you a millionaire overnight just from @M2's secret combat pornography budget

Pretty crazy. Lots of videos that confirm this view.

R, D, L, I, whatever. If they’re ing around with kids (or anyone for that matter) they should be hung Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network mobile app

If there is/was a list of rich dudes who like to fuck children, I'd like to know who else was on said list besides Prince Andrew. This is something that should not be allowed to be just forgiven. I don't care which political party the rapists are affiliated with. I have zero trust in our civilian leadership regarding this issue.

Comey, Brennan, and Clapper under DOJ investigation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-cheers-fbi-probe-of-former-foes-comey-and-brennan-over-russiagate-investigation-they-re-crooked-as-hell/ar-AA1IhLHm?ocid=BingNewsSerp Would love to see some SWAT-style raids and perp walks. A boy can dream...

I completely understand what you two are saying. It would be roughly $3,000/mo to purchase the adjacent property. It's within the budget. But I'm at a point where my priorities are changing. I don't want to work full-time anymore, I'd like to split my time between San Diego and N CA. Time is the only thing we can't make more of. If I can put that extra $3,000/mo towards the property I purchased, along with a couple decent big principal payments I can have it paid off in about five years and go fully part-time. My daughter is seven and son is two and I want to spend more time with my family while I have time and while they're young. I'll never get that back. I don't think there is any chance of there being a "neighborhood" around there. We have no mailboxes, no delivery options, no infrastructure for electricity or plumbing. Everything is completely off-grid up there and there is no industry, so little chance or development. Plus, I don't think many people want to live with bears on your back porch! Buying it would mean my chance of going part-time moves from a five year plan to 15+ which means I won't get to spend much time up there... Maybe I'll stop and pick up a few lottery tickets on the way to work this morning. Or just sell my home in San Diego.

Over the last 25 years I've been on this forum, I thought I'd already read the most inane and pointless chaff possible. (checks Baseops and reads this thread) Ope, I guess not. This is the low-water mark. Carry on.

Absolutely. I didn't see in the initial reports who was asking the question and who was denying touching the switches, I just assumed it was the fo denying it. But if it was the other way around, I have no difficulty imagining your scenario. Like I said, High context societies... It was always 99% that this was going to be pilot error

I don't really have an opinion on Tim Kennedy because I don't really follow him or know the story. I didn't even know who he was until recently. I'm just truly skeptical when stories suddenly come out of the woodwork about people like this. He's become a political figure, and when you do that, hate will follow as your opposition tries their level best to discredit you. When it comes to military haters, the hate really flares up if your service is used to propel that gain, especially if it puts you in the spotlight. Then all the dick measurers come out to compare number, suck factor and duration of deployments, as if they charge the machine gun nests at Utah beach. Of course many have no problem using their service to get them a high paying civilian job, often one where they continue to suck off the government tit while collecting a pension and VA...100% of course because their sleep apnea and plantar fasciitis flared up at year 19. You must do all this quietly without any fanfare. I've never bought into the idea that the government gets to exploit you for all your worth, but you must not exploit your service to get ahead in the civilian world. Based on their actions, many who tout this don't really believe it either. As far as claiming medals, ya that ain't cool. I truly despise our medal system as it's become more of a check box or a system to help propel the shiny pennies. The ribbon rack on my blues collecting dust in the closet is still the ribbon rack from when I was a SSgt.

And the depraved things they've done. Why young girls, never understood it. Sick f@cks.

Wonder who he works for now. Drones, they got some pretty high speed ones nowadays.

Need one of you airliner guys to do some scientific work here. Need times from cutoff to non lethal fan speed. Only way this is getting solved.

F-104s out of Kennedy Space

Yeah, I was taken aback, said 2 star had been at a couple meetings, visited my boss to talk shop / bullshit a bit and seemed ok overall. I was surprised that a fighter guy would crap on it, LA posed and still poses no threat to the manned fighter mission. They operate in different roles now and really even during GWOT. When A-1s and AT-37s were introduced in Vietnam, they didn’t take missions from -105s, -4s, etc… same thing in GWOT and now.

Haven't watched Capt Steve.

Is he they guy in the pilot uniform doing videos? If so, I don't watch just for that fact alone.

If this doesn't hit you in the feels then you ain't got no feels. Daughters are different than sons. I think you have to have both to truly know the difference. I've got grandaughters now that have been in car seats in my truck. Not saying sons are any less special.

Wonder what the autopsy will reveal as the cause of death. COVID?

Dual engine failure is ENGINE CONTROL STITCHES (Both) - CUTOFF THEN RUN. Next step is RAM AIR TURBINE SWITCH - PRESS.

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Whichever country was running that operation had it nailed. Bad ass island party with tippy top of the food chain from every corner of the world. Get a bit of booze in em, hey check out that girl, filmed in the act, and bobs your uncle.

The amount of money and power on that list.....

The odds that this was going to be anything other than crew-induced was always astronomically low. Simultaneous dual failures, while at the most critical phase of flight, in an established aircraft is possible, but come on.

Mayorkas deserves the book thrown at him. Biden was braindead but Mayorkas knew without a doubt the treason he was committing on the border. Try him and hang him!

Down goes Frasier, er, Horner! https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/red-bull-says-longtime-f1-team-principal-christian-horner-has-been-released-from-his-duties/ar-AA1IfDME?ocid=BingNewsSerp Sorry , not sorry

I'm not defending, but look at MAGA tweets during the LA Fires. Same bullshit.

Solid points, love the priorities. Enjoy life away from the city bullshit! If you don’t have to carry a gun for wildlife protection on your own property, are you really even living?!

There is a search function believe it or not..

The US manufacturer will immediately sue them and say they need to develop something in house that works half as well and costs 3 times as much. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lesson learned, especially as a newbie (not even a SNAP), never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut. Everyone wants to be a youtube star...I even have a small channel with some flying videos, but dude you don't even know what you don't know. If you truly want to be a military pilot, go all in on that task. Don't divert your attention with podcast thought pieces. Every year 4 million men and women turn 18 in the United States...a substantial number of those have at least dreamed of being a USAF pilot. USAF picks between 1200-1400 to enter UPT each year....the odds are against you so don't distract yourself with trivial BS. If you want internet fame, start an OnlyFans, if you want to be a USAF pilot get to work and focus on that task.

I've seen 10% +/- a few points depending on the class but seems to be trending higher. OP, I've been part of about a dozen commander reviews now (the process for removing someone from UPT). Attitude is probably the biggest discriminator for what your follow-on will be. If you gave it your all, with a good attitude, but just didn't have the hands....you tend to get helped out. Huge douch-nozzle blaming everyone else? Not so much.

OA-1K can't fly IMC yet so they aren't ready to be a tanker...

...or just continue being a spaz...your call

Back at cha. Biff says adios and you get in my grill over this? Dude dove in. He was a gonner regardless of crew actions, including trying the shut the engines down if they saw him. Sorry Biff, but dude got triggered by me for some reason and not anyone else, so calling it out.

agree, but point of order in that video it'd be hard to even see that guy from the cockpit

My bad if that isn't AA specific. You all look the same if you're wearing a striped tie and taxiing at 8 knots. (I kid, I kid)

I've seen some pretty questionable "boots" in shoe clerk world. Some of these rules end up happening because we have asshats out there clearly abusing the intent of the regs in uggs or coyote brown air force ones. But I don't disagree with you that we are refocusing on stuff that absolutely doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things and it has been a significant downward trend for quite a while.

Thrust production (and the associated vacuum pressure in the intake) drops off very quickly without combustion, while inertia keeps the fans spinning for much longer. Besides, what point are you making? Fuck it, let him die? You think you're going to continue taxiing to the runway after they wipe his brains off the acoustic panels? Christ, are you this obnoxious in real life? 🤣😂 I know you're putting it out there with your user name, but still...

Does this count as a kill?

Saw this tidbit in an article about Norway acquiring the Whiskey https://breakingdefense.com/2025/07/us-clears-norway-to-purchase-hh-60w-helicopters/ This move shifts the mission from the Huey, originally slated for the Boeing MH-139 Grey Wolf, to the more advanced HH-60W.

I’m not 100%, wasn’t an OTS grad. Fairly sure you incur a 4 year commitment with your commission regardless of source, otherwise it would be pretty easy for OTS grads to say F it, I’m out and just quit if they decide they don’t like their job/tech school. AF all about getting their pound of flesh, they ain’t going waste time/money sending people to OTS to have them quit a couple months later. It’s fairly common to not get a scholarship through ROTC, I didn’t, although I went through in the height of the sequester years, so maybe that’s changed.

Like just about everything in the world of military aviation - it depends. It depends on the circumstances of your departure. Did you resign or did you get kicked out? Did you get kicked out because of inability to perform, or because you were being a shitbag? Better circumstances have better outcomes. There's also the needs of the Air Force. A decade ago they were sending everyone to missiles. I don't know what the needs of the Air Force look like now. There's also if you have a specialized skillset. If you have an engineering or medical degree there's a good chance you're going to do that.

I'm not so sure anything in space is safe if shit really kicks off