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All the pilots forced to be in this video were the last to say NOT IT. The ghost of Rainman lingers...never talk to the media!

Still doesn't know how to act in public...shocking.

Wait, your hats actually leave your desk or leg pocket?

I can't figure out why my insurance premiums keep going up.

Which means it's going to be a great time. Just don't make it a long time.

This. One of our pilots was a former cop. He said if he's asking to do any tests, it's just adding more evidence fort he case WHEN he arrests you after the tests. In my state, implied consent does not force you to submit to roadside breathalyzer. So you can say you want to go to the hospital for a blood draw or go down to the station to use a real breathalyzer machine. Ball walking on your FAA medical, but I could see how a case could be made that you're not refusing the test, just this test (as roadside units are known to be finicky). I'm not anti-vaccine, just anti-this-vaccine, type of thing lol.

So recently a buddy (Captain on my shop) was accused of being drunk by one his FAs. He found out when an ops guy stepped in the cockpit and asked him to step in the jet bridge. After a quick discussion, all of the 4 or 5 ops people were like clearly this dude isn't drunk. So much so that they said it was unfounded and were going to let him fly. Wanting to prove he wasn't drunk, he wanted a breathalyzer. However, after a call to the union, they said do NOT take a breathalyzer if they're calling you good. Reason being that if he hit a false positive, it would open up a can of worms he didn't want to deal with. Hadn't thought of it from that angle. Either way, he said fuck that, I'm not flying with this FA so remove him or me. He got to go home with pay from 4 day.

Real airline pilot talk! This pilot is junior to me so no gain for this guy. 🤣

Ya latest is that it is fake news that somehow leaked before it was resolved. A friend posted on FB that this pilot doesn't even drink. Hope this doesn't cause to much of an issue for the pilot.

Ya, no way I'd see that guy. We can't even see our wingtips on the 717. Besides, dude would have to jump pretty high to get into our engines. One night in Afghanistan, I had a guy walk from the nose of the F-16, down the right side and go between the inlet and the wing tank. I was looking the other way and only caught him out of the corner of my eye when my crew chief started yelling WTF. He was already in a safe area before I could shut it down. Apparently a big lip Block 30 doesn't have as much suck (sts) as they say. As a former crew chief, I can't fathom what made this dude do that. We had a very one-sided conversation later.

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.

Replace hope with expect, and it conveys what most intelligent people knew would happen. Hard to tell if he hoped for American deaths or just knew that this was likely the most expeditious path to peace, knowing that Iran leaders would need to save face. I'm no fan of the anti-American sentiment on college campuses, just not sure this dude actually wished ill will towards Americans.

I'd wager that it was "Attacked." Good face saving move.

Only if you view ALL of it that way, which I do not. I agree that there are plenty of the types you mention, I just question how many of those Afghanis fighting us were only doing so because we had killed their fathers/grandfathers (not to mention Mothers/sisters/siblings) and/or the fact that we were simply occupiers in their land. I can tell you that if you invaded my land, occupied it for decades, killed some of my family, and/or randomly schwacked a neighbor with a hellfire, I'd vow to kill as many of you as I could as well (wolverine style). I'll concede that we may have stopped some attacks on American soil, then again, maybe not. Did we really gain anything by sticking around A-stan after we got OBL? It truly felt like we just played the world largest game of 'next man up," as we killed the top guys, then their replacements, then their replacement, etc... Probably a discussion for another thread, sorry to hijack the thread.

Not under the ROE we had at the end...unless you really like watching ANA/ANP get rolled by the Taliban and being unable to do anything about it. I was specifically referencing camaraderie. Sense of mission accomplishment just wasn't there for this guy. The flying was cool and I did some cool stuff for sure, I'll never discount that. It's just that none of that was used on any of our deployments....[bad] luck of the draw I suppose. Up to a point, I believe that was true. Toward the end, I couldn't help but think we were now just killing (or not) the product of our own doing. The proverbial self licking ice cream cone.