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08Dawg

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  1. I would subjectively say life in the bomber force is busier than when GWOT was a thing. Everybody wants a BTF, and the old "I'm going to Guam for six months every eighteen months" is long a thing of the past. I always said Buff life was great for stability because in the course of a normal ops tour, you could pretty much pin down exactly you were gonna be gone over your three-four year tour. Now we're on the road a whole lot more than we used to be, much more often and with much less predictability. Like Brabus said, holding the line against the next war.
  2. I’m not saying we all haven’t seen aircrews do some dumb shit with airplanes, but PCN, PPR, etc is basic Day one stuff, and especially old hat for you AMC types who land all over the place. The more I think about it, something seems rotten in Denmark, and by Denmark I mean Stillwater.
  3. One guy (who I guess is the program manager or ramrod for this thing) was enthusiastically defending it on various facebook pages and was "overwhelmed with the huge turnout"...I haven't heard or seen shit since the summer.
  4. ~$250 for O-4 with dependents at Offutt...I'll take it (sts)
  5. I find Juan Brown is usually at least respectful. Dan Gryder is condescending and exceedingly full of himself.
  6. I've been trying to avoid digging into this too much because of the vitriol, but I've seen a couple of things posted from what I consider to be fairly reliable sources that the P-63 may have hit a drone (footage supporting this exists), which could have been a contributing factor to the mishap. Thoughts, anyone?
  7. You want to stay at one base for a long time, go to the Buff. I did nine years at Barksdale.
  8. Yawn….in the Buff we call that “Tuesday”…
  9. All it takes to know this administration isn’t at all about “Unity” is look at their social media. Every third post from both the POTUS and White House IG touts how great Joe is and how much Republicans suck, and the world would be such a better place if the GOP would just get in line with Joe’s policies.
  10. A certain meme producer on a certain platform has been calling loudly, screaming even, for anyone flying the -46 single pilot to be blackballed by the airlines. That may be where the ALPA talk is coming from
  11. Tell me where the bad EW touched you…
  12. Not a tall tale at all. The EVS generated a certain amount of disturbance around the pitot tubes so the post-EVS Buff has a .84 indicated Mach limit. I believe it was .91 prior. Maybe we’ll get a little speed back, though as a downward firing ejector, I appreciated having the FLIR for orientation.
  13. Ya know…I keep waiting for foot to mean face and by figuratively I mean literally…9mm Makarov would solve a lot of problems right now
  14. This fleet management is gonna be a nightmare. Ops Sup giving a step brief at KBAD circa 2029- “OK, DOOM91, you are an old engine new radar jet. DOOM92, you are new engines new radar jet. Your spare is a legacy old engines old radar jet. I know this is your new radar checkout ride, but if you have to go to the spare, you still need to fly duration. Questions?”
  15. Man, part of me says…just let the dude live out his remaining days in peace. We’ve done without him for three decades.
  16. The fact that you used the specific word malevolence is chilling. Firmly reinforces my already deep seated belief that I will not let an Air Force medical person do anything with regards to my wellbeing beyond what is minimally required, ie PHA and dental, and that only begrudgingly.
  17. Not to bust your bubble, OP, but the only place I’ve heard it called Strike Eagle II is your post. All the official literature calls it the “Eagle II”. That in and of itself is telling as to what Big AF intends to do with this platform, if it even survives. Read this
  18. Not flying, but I’ll be there
  19. It's almost like....people who do stupid bullshit don't like being called out for their stupid bullshit. Oh BTW, if I'm, I dunno, ANY OFFICER in that formation, no fucking way am I letting myself be inspected by some former MTI trying to relive his glory days.
  20. Woohoo August pin on…Aug 23 that is. 51X here!
  21. That’s bullshit. Sorry to hear that.
  22. I’m very curious if anyone who wrote these requirements actually knows a damn thing about aviation. Anyone meeting these requirements is gonna be eligible for the R-ATP at 1000 hours, coming out of a university 141 program. They’re gonna go right to a regional, do three years with 1000 turbine PIC and then get picked up at a major. At the same time, our erstwhile “CAIPs” will have just now begun actually instructing in the T-6, while their college bro is an FO at Delta or Southwest or FedEx.
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