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A few more details as I live here and it has been the main topic of conversation in the news and social media. This was not even a demo flight, it was a fam flight in preparation for the airshow this weekend. The jet that did the flyover was #3, NOT the solo. Important because he was not running down the showline, just trying to do an impromptu flyby as part of the rejoin and he obviously overshot the crowd line. The Boss did a local interview where he stated (paraphrasing), "it was a mistake, it was debriefed, we are moving forward with the show." One of the troubling comments came from another local press interview with #4 who said (again paraphrasing), "we are not backing off, push it up for the show this weekend." A few friends I flew with (all Navs I will point out), told me I am talking like an old guy, it was cool. I simply replied - "there is a reasons I am old guy." I FULLY understand he made a mistake and long ago I adopted the leadership tactic of a senior leader I think a lot of..."we should not electrocute an Airman over a single mistake." This is a debreif item, not an FEB or some other punishment. HOWEVER, we should not celebrate breeches or mistakes and cheer the outcome. As folks like @disgruntledemployee, such actions will only fan the flames and encourage the next guy to go lower/fast/inverted.

Nope....simply outlining Pete's latest policy decisions and the opportunity for this to run off the rails.

Not being forced to take anything....YET. No Black Generals or Admirals. No women Generals or Admirals No Air discipline for anyone, have at it boys. Give me an Fing break ladies...

And like clock work the acting clown gives them a blessing.

The locals are cheering it, they want more. Carry on Patriots, until someone gets killed. 500 knots, 90 degrees of bank at 70' AGL. I hope to god the Boss is professional enough to know this was a major F'up!

AP NewsHegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testo...Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops.Some of you are in big trouble...Unlike me. Seriously Pete has to go.

I did two exchange tour with the Marines and have close friends around what happened...this has NOTHING to do with his visit to VMX-1 and EVERYTHING to do with optics and questions the Commandant had to answer. Complete toolbag...he was previously rebuked by a military appeals court for his “personal interest” and bias in overseeing a hazing court-martial. How he got promoted to this role is another unanswered mystery.

If you actually watch the video or read the story you'll know the Commandant would not even give him the courtesy of a meeting...he asked. By all counts an excellent dude and if you watch the video and listen to all his saw and sensed as he made his decision to eject, hard to imagine anyone one of us not doing the exact same thing...F the REMF Commandant.

You knew Fat Tony wasn't going to leave without going scorched earth one last time, truly a sorry excuse for a human. And, a FULL payout of his contract so it is not for cause....it is simply for pushing back on Blubber Bauernfeind. Air Force removes athletic director Nathan Pine over clash with superintendent

The rest of the story... He was cleared and went on to assume senior command as an O-6 only to have the Commandant (a non-pilot), change his mind and remove him from command months later. Sickening but our F'd up system.

40 hours?

Have we? Have you seen what we "depleted" giving things to Taiwan or are you just parroting the talking points? 31 Abrams Tanks 300 Bradleys 180 155MM Artillery pieces 72 105MM artillery pieces 18 155MM Paladins 10,000 Javalins 10,000 TOWs ATACMS 2 Harpoons...TWO! Not a lot of need for any of this in a fight with China over Taiwan. The fight with China is about BIG stand-off, maybe if we degrade enough you can argue the AGM-88s HARM, but they have all been older versions. We did give some ALD-160 MALD missiles, again all older and the new jammer version is being delivered to USAF in quantity. On the Air-to Air Front we gave them: AIM-7s - oh the humanity...whatever will we do without the great white whale? AIM-9M - Old! AIM-130A/B/C8 - Again older variants and if you know anything about air to air procurement you would know a LOT of new stuff was already in production and being delivered when the war started. Only two weapons system concern me: Patriot - The Ukrainians are now making them indigenously. Artillery rounds - production has quadrupled and they are still wanting to produce more, but that is not for a fight with China. Have you bothered to look at the NDAA and what the services are trying to buy on the weapons front? ALL Standoff, goolge FAMM, SCM, JDAM-LR...

Has nothing to do with Iran...going back to your previous statements that Ukraine was gonna lose. For less the $200B (one fifth of one year's defense budget), Russia has suffered 450,000 KILLED, including 1600 in one day this past weekend and they are farther from victory than ever before. Those numbers are STAGGERING, equating to fully one third of all births in a single year. Russia is changed for a generation if not longer.