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FourFans

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  1. Please tell me this is you Chang...yeah, the guy who said stop hiring white men because you all think alike.
  2. Apparently we learned nothing in the past 3 years. Fun fact refreshers: - According to Johns Hopkins It takes 5-10 years to completely develop and study a vaccine. History tells us it take longer then that. Logic says it takes 20 years to do a 20 year study on the 20 year impact of a vaccine....weird. It's been 3 since this show all started. - Modern news agencies exist to do one thing: Make Money...which they do by getting us to click...which they do by posting scary stories. - Politicians want a crisis during an election. This should shock no one. Stop feeding into the real enemy's game (politicians trying to polarize their bases). They don't care about you, they just want to retain or gain power. Everyone chill out. Frankly, I think @Biff_T has the right line here. Can we somehow link the word replacement game with a drinking game?
  3. I've spent time in Germany. It's true.
  4. Hey @Prozac, you're a brown dude, right? You've been here a while, what are your thoughts?
  5. Great question. Consensus of dudes I've spoken with seems to be that 67 would be a complete PITA, as those dude couldn't fly outside CONUS because of ICAO rules. That would necessitate making a whole set of unique domestic lines for 65-67 year olds, many of whom are on the international fleets. So maybe they're trying to kick the 67 can down the road until ICAO is sorted, as well as voluntarily shrinking the fleet as package volume declines. Two birds, one stone. Hell, from 2008 to 2014 when we didn't hire, they shrank from 3100-2200 pilots. That could well happen again. Long story short, no one knows and Brown a telling, but it would make sense...though I won't be surprised when they announce their parking the entire MD fleet in January...but that's 100% RUMINT. One fact for sure: We won't be hiring until COVID-24 kicks in.
  6. Can confirm. That slide is valid. It should simply clean out the dudes that were going to retire in the next 12 months...which was about 60 mandatory retirements anyways. Add in the dudes that are in range and just done, and I think we'll hit that target no problem. But it's not a good harbinger of things to come.
  7. I've only met a couple kids like this. In every case the parents are completely disengaged. This is why I laugh when older generations hate on younger generations, as if they had no hand at all in how those kids turned out. We don't have a lazy kid problem. We have a lazy parent problem. I'm with the rest of you gents. A kid in high school, and one in middle school. They both have their plans pretty well wired. It's awesome to see.
  8. In case anyone one the fence didn't hear it: Don't take the bonus.
  9. They might, but then they actually assemble the jets with superglue and the aerospace equivalent of drywall screws that are left exposed. Lo-vis? Sure. Stealth? No.
  10. I'm not on either side of your debate, but do bear in mind that this is a Russian war. Historically speaking, they're just getting warmed up. Russians are decidedly eastern in their views on the value of human life, so using a body-count in any argument concerning this war completely mis-understands the utterly genocidal and horrific cultural context. Not saying I approve, but facts are facts. If you want a real tour-de-blood, go look up the Russian revolution or the history of the Cossacks (Ukrainian ancestors). It's absolutely brutal.
  11. This was so accurate for my last AD squadron.
  12. ...and somehow also Chang's IRL actual exec. Crazy times.
  13. That is absolutely and in all imaginable ways depressing for everyone on that base. Individuals who've never been responsible for so much as a flight meal order and letting them lead an entire wing. Wow.
  14. ...until you realize that if it were up to a straight popular vote, LA and NYC would set the federal agenda...yeah, that popular vote that would replace the electoral college that so many keep saying we should abolish. Crazy to think what would happen to the coasts of this country if they were divorced from the center of this country. Mass starvation, for one. The modern woke liberal agenda is so far removed from reality that it's literally suicidal.
  15. So @nsplayr and @Prozac, you both have defended your support of Biden, and you've both been rather quiet recently. What do you guys think about this?
  16. You guys sure do know your cows. So, which is it...ya'll AWACS backseaters, or do you just hang out at the AJ's by Hurbie?
  17. ...soooooo ops normal for an AWACS unit?
  18. Did I just hear a ClearedHot/Biff_T ticket with M2 nominated as the head of ATF?
  19. Quote that for posterity...and all the new three letters have definitely learned that lesson...
  20. H3 hearing waiver here. Yes. You can have HORRIBLE hearing and still be on flight status. The booth of pain is nothing more than a screener to see if you need to go to the real booth...which isn't painful at all. The real one is preceded by a device clammed to your head (not BQZip's mom) that plays sonar sounds and maps what your hearing should be. Then you sit in a real sound proof booth and you play the game again with high def speakers and not a headset, which tests the connections between brain and ear. The device maps what your hearing should be. The booth maps what your hearing is. The only reason they need the booth is to make sure your brain is actually receiving the inputs the ear is sending. Bonus: If you have a competent audiologist, the high def speaker test will have a "repeat this word" test, which is the result of a 30 year speech pathology study examining how hearing degradation impacts speech degradation as we get older. Basically what we hear turns into what we say, and it's very subtle. But once you hear it, you can't unknow it. BTW yes, at 40 years old I became a hearing aid recipient. Interesting sidebar: After having personally gone through that audiology and speech pathology wringer, it is clear that our current president relies on lip reading, an ear piece, and is stone cold Boomer def. The signs are easy to pick up once you know what to look for. It sadly explains some of his gaffed responses...(that, and the outright lies...fo example his academic record...no hearing problem there)...definitely not an excuse, and frankly a reason he shouldn't be in office...but I digress. God help us. TLDR: You can have horrible hearing. So long as you can still do your job (i.e. your D.O. signs of that you can still hear the RWR tones), you're good to go. H3 waiver takes about 3-4 months to process. If you lead turn it, you'll never leave flight status. P.S. Tinnitus gets you 10%. Hearing loss gets you 0% (but they pay for your hearing aids every 3 years...supposedly)
  21. No. They don't. UPS just eased up on that too when they allowed beards recently. Of course UPS isn't hiring at the moment, but knowing UPS, that can change in a heartbeat.
  22. Samuel L Jackson would be droppin the MFing Hades Bombs all over that bitch! How do we make this happen?!
  23. Noted. I'll bet you're great at parties. Be aware that just because your perspective is jaded doesn't mean the rest of us have to adopt that perspective. Yes, the premise for going there was broken from the beginning. The leadership was, and is trash. Just because the task is misguided doesn't mean the workers have to be automatons with no judgment or power to alter the outcome towards good. Maybe you were. I'm sorry to hear that. I refuse to be and I did my best to make life and the mission better for everyone in my sphere of influence. You may have wasted your time, but I didn't waste mine. I know many who didn't. We are not defined by the negative view of the those who wasted their time.
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