BFM this

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/aviation-company-relaunching-pby-5-as-modern-military-aircraft

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article276969778.html

2021, 6y FO who was active on union committees punched, AA for FDX Rare, yes.

Term limits seem like an easy fix, but much like the 17th Amendment, the devil is in the details. Just term limiting congress-critters would power shift further toward entrenched bureaucrats. Not necessarily a positive outcome.

Yes I actually believe that he does. He’s a raging dumpster fire, personality wise, but yeah, I think he has better intentions and ideas that anyone either party is going to put forward. I do believe this, in the face of all propaganda we’ve been fed.

This was the guy that was big news around MRA circles a few years ago. Big-D single shot kill criteria (don't mean Dallas). Hadn't heard of a similar case ivo Ramstein.

fwiw... Certain health practices will never see the light of day in terms of well funded trials...sorta like cancer itself, too much money to be had in the treatment to bother looking TOO hard for a cure. That said, my personal quiver includes both daily intermittent, and long term fasting. Lots of content out there for your consumption from the likes of Attia, Huberman, Patrick, etc. My regimen is 24h per week, 1 x 72h per month, 1x 120h per quarter. I'd explain the benefits but I've got a pilot's level grasp of communication, so I point you to the above Doctors. The goodness is brought to you by the vocabulary words cellular autophagy, mitophogy, stem cel production, gluconeogenesis, among others. Enjoy

Scuttlebut was that it could be used in a Line of Duty determination for SGLI, so all played along. That said, I had a Hazardous Activities worksheet that included gliders, light GA, motorcycle, boating, and shooting, so it wasn't as though they were being pricks about it.

lol, I flight planned this out before starting phase 2. My planning showed me how many HOURS it was gonna take to cover half of northern MS trying to vis recce the pattern, MOAs, LL routes, etc. 100kts vs 250kts/350kts (tweet, talon). We're talking gas stops, over multiple days of flying. ...it was an idea quickly dismissed. OP's idea would cost a small fraction, and with google earth embedded in the most recent sims, not a bad idea. Best bet is if UPT now allows open sims--->>>do that! In 2004 this was considered a SylDev, but my FC did sign off a few sessions so I could go over with classmates who were struggling.

Agree, but... The courts aren't actually breaking up families, per se. The courts are incentivizing the breakup of families, via application of shitty statute and case law. It's a low risk payoff for one of the parties that enters family court, statistically speaking. But, even then, the table is set long before the divorce petition gets filed. Social media has only poured gasoline on an already raging dumpster fire of demonizing men and devaluing family in popular culture. Hooray single moms! Pay no attention to the adult outcomes of children raised in single parent homes, much less those without fathers.

If China manages to sail a full CBG and make it east of Indonesia, color me shocked and awed.

If they do, then that could be a very slippery slope indeed. Thinking of the legal review about a decade ago that looked upon service members in CONUS driving to work if that work included over the horizon ops in theater. The droid was in international airspace. Is it a lawful threat (target) if it is a sniffer platform (RC-135) orbiting over Poland?

Don't know what the current climate is, but I was able to extend my retirement PCS move twice before I pulled the trigger and moved the Family to my domicile.

I only break out my IDGAF waiver when it’s a .80/320 one leg home on day 4.

Flew with a senior CA who'd recently left the training dept after a couple decades to return to the line. He'd had a front row seat when single engine taxi was rolled out, long before my arrival on property. The pilot group, being the aforementioned Type-A widgets that we are, were on it like Khloe on the very last cupcake. That lasted, oh, about a fiscal quarter or two, until... Company financials were released, touting record setting executive bonuses. Same CKA, a few years later, sitting in another company meeting where a VP had data up on slides showing SET rates at all major carriers, of which we were distant last in the race. VP turns to the peanut gallery to ponder why our pilots were so far behind industry practices regarding SET. Of the dozen or so pilots lining the wall of the conference room...blank looks.

Thats enough internet for today I think.

What Haiti really needs is a politically connected benevolent charitable foundation to step up and help out.

If by immediately start working you mean line number at a legacy, this story will go legendary status.

Maybe. Way back in the Peace Dividend days, I showed up to my first Marine Squadron, and days after I arrived my roomies (maintainers) started pulling 12/6’s. Why were they doing 12/6’s, you ask? Well, it’s because when the Skipper said in a staff meeting that he wanted Mx on 12/7’s, someone slipped him a note that said can’t do that…

That's gotta be a leak of a draft that was never meant to see the light of day. "KC-135 units will coordinate to provide a conceptual means of air delivering 100 off-the-shelf size and type UAVs from a single aircraft." That right there was a spitball idea from the back of the peanut gallery, maybe got put up on the whiteboard for discussion purposes, but should have not made it onto paper. OTS UAV = no legs. Which means if delivered by air, is done OH or near the target, so...KC-135 means uncontested airspace, which flies in the face of the rest of the memo. ...Duffle Blog?

yootoob algorithms got me down some deeeep rabbit holes 🙄

Sukka Infatuated with Mediocre Pu$$y

In other news, flew with a CA yesterday that does interviews. That made for some fun cruise conversation. I finally had to stop the endless string of stories, many on par with GoT Red Wedding, of bad interviews of late. Asked: "Ok, are there any positive interviews you've had lately? Ones that give some hope for the incoming generation?" "Oh, yeah, mostly the .mil folks. Anyway, then there was the one with multiple DUIs, lost all their tickets, and then..." 🤯