SurelySerious

Isn’t that what the instructor is for? Pitt is acting like this crew airplane was flown single seat by one inexperienced crew member…it was not. Most facets of crewed aviation involve an experienced pilot and an inexperienced one.

Depends all on how the contract and syllabus are written, on site or off.

Fit to fight!

Why not advance your business interests in exchange for legal favors?

Tangentially related, has the AF acquired enough of anything since Gulf War I other than Bob Gates’s obsession with Predator? Edit: maybe C-17?

Have they scheduled the self immolation yet?

Checks…unfortunately.

Hopefully enjoying himself in eastern Washington.

It’s not simple-minded, it’s the strongest parallel, but I’m not doing your work for you. You have written a lot… of verbose personal attacks. It’s not worth sifting through to find the needle that may have been a logical, coherent argument. Your justification of Putin’s actions requires accepting a revisionist history authored by the man himself, which does not make it a just war; it makes an excuse to do what he wants. As he did in 2014. No reason to believe he stops where he is now given his history.

Guess I was confused why you were so into an OPM mandate. Have fun with that retirement, then.

It is by definition busy work, regardless of the amount of time. Musk even said it himself in a tweet. Just because it only takes X amount of time doesn’t make it right. You want to participate in Elon’s loyalty test (and I must assume you’re a DoD civilian then, because that’s what Hegseth said), by all means. Join the Party.

Commissioned officer bro, OPM can’t fire me.

I simply don’t care how long it would take, it’s still wasted man hours for no gain. Directed from someone (Musk) with no authority, to boot. Fraud, Waste, Abuse.

That’s not how NATO works, but anyway.

What have you posted that would lead anyone to believe you’re not actually describing your own actions?

You do a lot of mental gymnastics.

Guess NATO isn’t such a big threat to Russia after all lol #excusetoinvade

Well, the topic is appeasing authoritarian dictators in Europe who used mechanized armies to invade neighbors under false pretenses…so enlighten us how you would like to expand it further than someone who has done that in the last 150 years. I’d love it if you gave us relevant examples across history that aren’t Hitler. Hell, name a book. Need some new reading.

Still all bullshit busy work. Taking more time away from subordinates reaping no gains. That’s bad business.

That’s rich.

I don’t care enough about The Atlantic to notice one way or the other. I do value Garry Kasparov’s opinion on oligarch-based authoritarianism.

Probably indicative of the subject. TASS may be more your jam, if that’s your criteria.

Trump not siding with Putin is a start. Don’t be obtuse.