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Somebody should tell the OSS/CC he should never go full retard.

Another opinion on the testosterone testing. https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/07/29/the_pentagons_testosterone_initiative_is_really_about_something_bigger_1197165.html

Add a sandwich maker attachment and Hoover would be vacuuming up big bucks.

Logbook Maintenance Entry: Gun Ops check good. No descrepancies noted. Return to service.

I know a couple guys that did Project Season in the 1980s which was UPT grads going into Guard units. Results varied. The lack of structure compared to an AD unit resulted in lack of training/mentoring. Also, brand new idealistic Lt.'s witnessing sketchy documentation of training/checkrides and flying practices then calling them out ruffled some Guard feathers. I'm assuming the expansion of TFI had improved the program since then.

With the enormous loss of people and hardware in the current entanglement with Ukraine, how is Russia going to pull off going further afield attacking several more countries (with a couple nuke holders in the mix) in the next 4 years?

You can see the main gear doors are open which tells me some sort of maintenance work was going on and a gear pin wasn't installed.

I know the EA-18 Growler demo team isn't going.

Turns out doing a demo without the most basic of formation flying skills is not ideal.

Have the F-16/15/35 doing the Sandy mission? Sandy 1 is a never ending helmet fire centered on finding the survivor, authenticating the survivor, protecting the survivor, and making the final go/no-go call. Sandy 2 has to manage comms to keep track of all the players while executing the FAC gig to defend the survivor. Sandy 3 needs to find a way in and out for Pedro/Jolly and troll the route for threats as the helo transits. All Sandys need to be down up close and personal doing "Hover Cover" with eyeballs on the pickup ready to deliver ordnance quickly on pop up threats to the helo or survivor. Doing that at 400+ knots up in the Bozosphere is not going to work. Doing that at low altitude at 400+ knots won't be any easier and certainly not an improvement over the A-10.

The Air Force decision process is much like the pendulum on a clock but without the ability to remember what the pendulums location used to be or predict the future location. So, the AF just repeats history thinking it has found something new and unique.

A lot of those people are becoming my neighbors here in Texas. 95% are nice but the 5% complaining about the weather or "how we did things in California" are getting on my nerves.

Yes, there are places that have a high suck factor and most people with a choice don't want to live there. But people with a choice are choosing to live elsewhere and a lot of them are leaving what used to be a very nice state.

You can throw all the stats you want but the biggest indicator of the desirability of remaining in California is those voting with their feet and U-Haul vans. Price for a 20 foot truck from Dallas to LA, $1602. You want to flee what California is and what you fear it will become, that same truck from LA to Dallas will cost you $4656. Dollars and feet don't lie.

I don't want to throw Biff under a Frontier Airbus but, holy moly, I've never had a car stolen or broken into and describing those issues as "comes with the territory" is a sad summation of civilization in a once great state.