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Holy shit, prayers for all affected. So weird to see it post-rotate and not climb at all.

I’ve done (forced) cop-led active shooter drills with everyone using their M9 (and pointing at each other per instructor direction). Yes they were 2-person checked unloaded, but I still felt it was a dumb idea. We’re not talking highly trained shooters, we’re talking mostly run-of-the-mill shoe clerks. Only two of us in the group had firearms experience beyond basic AF training.

It’ll be bad for America, not just NYC. Cancer spreads, don’t let it take hold anywhere.

Socialism is merely a stepping stone to communism, Marx said that (paraphrasing). Yeah they’re technically different in some ways, but they’re also very intertwined. Frankly who gives a shit, they’re both bad - people try to use the technical distinctions as a “look how smart I am/dumb you are,” but reality is they’re not that smart and “you” aren’t that dumb. Bottom line - both bad, capitalism better (despite the problems that capitalism has), history has proven that for 100% of the earth’s existence since these systems originated.

So failure to adhere to one of the most basic gun safety principles. You can’t fix stupid.

Question for UPT grads from early 90s and before… Along the lines of Lord Ratner’s post, wasn’t one of the reasons for historically much higher washout rates back in the previous century the fact everyone flew 38s, which meant guys washed out for sucking at 4 ship form, etc. - things that were largely irrelevant to heavies, meaning these washouts probably would have been fine to graduate had they fast forwarded to SUPT with a tracked system (flew T-1s). If I’m not off base, then hopefully that is considered when designing a single-airframe UPT program. More hours in primary trainer, maybe track guys in the first third of advanced trainer (e.g. everyone flies the same aircraft, but the syllabus becomes different for fighters vs. heavy track), etc.

400 FPM passing through 35k…that is crazy. I’m impressed.

The transfer is “just paperwork.” Your losing unit/AFRC will have to release you to the new unit/guard, transfer your UPT ADSC over, etc. I would tell your SQ/CC you are starting to look into this plan due to the hardship on the family and its long term unsustainability. Any good human should understand and be supportive. Hopefully he’ll also be willing to help you with the search (e.g. reach out to other CCs in your local region to vouch for you, ask for transfer help, etc.)

Personally I’d find a unit closer to where you live, and consider changing base to ORD. Get both jobs within the “local” region - your family QOL will be much better. Look at the guard too, don’t just limit it to reserves.

Do you live in base for the airlines? If you’re commuting to both, especially as an O3 with a long ways to 20, you are going to crash and burn with one of your careers or your family.

Are you planning on trying to get an active retirement? If so, that’s the only benefit I could see in taking these orders (given the factors you mentioned). As a side note, if that is your goal, you’d better move close to the unit or else this will be a long, painful road. If you are good with a TR retirement, then take the airline deal and go heal up at home.

@Banzai Let us know when a dem introduces the legally required resolution for her to be sworn in by a judge, another not-the-speaker congressman, etc. Has it happened and I missed it? It is that easy, so why isn’t a dem doing it? Did I miss that happening and the GOP shut it down?

*should*…as in that’s not reality. The point is there isn’t any nefarious politically-driven (in)action going on, it’s simply how it works. Don’t like how it works, that’s cool, and frankly I agree. But, Banzai’s painting a picture that Republicans have a choice and they’ve chosen not to swear a Dem in while doing the opposite for a Republican. That picture simply is not true' and that’s the point of my post.

The Senate confirmed a federal judge yesterday. On the contrary, the Speaker of the House swears in new members of congress. They are two separate processes, but you are trying to pull the wool over our eyes that they are one in the same. That said, the House could pass a resolution to swear her in during recess. But that resolution must occur before she can be sworn in. If you want to assert Johnson is stonewalling a resolution, then go ahead…but provide evidence that he’s actually doing that other than “your gut.”

Depends on model and dealer, but 25-50%. It’s a no brainer to buy through blue label. Related note, a lot of shade is thrown at Glock for being “sub par” because owners upgrade a lot of the parts. But, even when I have chosen to do such a thing, my end result is still cheaper than the other guy’s factory gun, and matches, or out performs, its capability. That said, I think the gen 5 barrels are pretty solid and really just the trigger is what needs to be replaced. Meh money spent, especially when you get the gun via blue label.

I’d be so proud of whoever did it.

For some reason, @Biff_T was the first suspect name that came to mind.

Those are rookie numbers!

AGR-20 has been one of the best weapons we’ve produced in a long time.

- I’ll give them one thing before I bash them: current day tech is insanely more complicated than the 1940s. Our manufacturing advances are awesome, but somewhat “nullified” by how complicated our products are. So to even match 1940s manufacturing rates of current day tech is a pipe dream. - Industry is very bureaucratic and moves slower than molasses. They suffer the same bloat as the gov. They would have to fire thousands of middle managers to start to even have a chance at actual efficiency. They would have to substantially overhaul their processes, from R&D to production. They would need to shelve a lot of attorneys - litigation and legalese adds years to the overall process. Basically, imagine how badly the fed gov needs to be gutted and apply the same level to industry. Example: there is a thing that I was working on in 2015 - it’s nearly 2026 and it’s still a thing, but it’s still not in production. 11 years, still nothing operational to show for it. And it’s a very important, needed thing. I’ve got many examples just like this one; this type of situation happens routinely - a “straighten up guys!” from the gov will not fix that malaise. We’re basically at a burn it all to the ground and rebuild state. - The C-suite down to middle management are driven solely by profit; there is no patriotism involved. This mindset is woven deep into everything the company does, including slimy contracting tactics that the fed gov seems too stupid to ever see. They’re not willing to lift a finger on a fix to their fuck up until max, additional profit is extracted. Contracts and processes are purposely dragged out to max profit (e.g. they know problems will arise from X, but they will purposely let it happen so they can achieve the aforementioned). It is criminal negligence at some points in my opinion; they’re basically stealing taxpayer dollars and not doing what they’re paid to do. The “worker bees” are patriots, they just don’t have any say. Could these upper guys be shaken awake and become patriots over profit? Sure, hopefully - but it is this problem that has built the monolithic beast they now have. It will take years to undo, and they’ll be the proverbial “a day late and a dollar short.” - There are smaller, more agile companies (subs) that are decent at what they do, but they cannot overcome the above that the primes have. They don’t have the capital, size, etc. to be the solution. Those are the highlights.

Zero chance. If you get enough time in/around industry, you’ll understand.

Not a lot. The simple problem is we’ve let “perfect” become the enemy of good (and industry is greedy as fuck and doesn’t give a shit about the country). The days of pumping out war materiel like WW2 will never return.

You know you’re going to have a great time when you have to hand prop!

My guess is Israel will not follow the historical US path, which is leave/stop conducting kinetic ops in place X, allowing the vacuum of “peace” to fill right back in with whatever terrorist orgs were there previously. If they do follow suit, then give it a couple years and Hamas will be right back to a meaningful force strength. The peace deal is historic, but it’s naive to think any peace deal made with Islamic terrorists is going to last. My bet is Israel realizes that and will act accordingly.

Boeing brought in @HuggyU2 to test out the new cockpit entry system…