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Fair enough. I'm glad to hear there are still some good leaders out there. Game off.

@nsplayr You should run for press secretary. You literally reworded and reinterpreted every question and statement I asserted. This is the hypocrisy thread after all, so...par for the course. To respond to your specific questions and assertions. No, because the US military does not directly work for the a church, a dietary persuasion, or a fitness group. We work for politicians, which means that our political opinions are subject to a unique level of scrutiny, as they should be. Specifically, we don't get to disobey orders based on political opinion...though I've seen some try. To clarify my statement about "hard over": That's implying that someone ISN'T capable of keeping an open mind and is no way willing to change their opinions based on a line of reasoned logic. Not debatable. You literally said those exact words in previous threads. Go re-read you own posts. The green transition being physically unsustainable with current technology is ALSO not debatable and it's certainly not a political discussion. It's a fact. There isn't enough lithium ON THE PLANET to sustain only the USA's intended EV transition. Again. That's a fact, not a political debate. Not the question I asked. I asked how it impacted your unit, not how your unit deals with DEI issues. Has going to mandatory training about 'you are white and you have prejudice that needs fixing' (a direct quote from DEI training at my southern, mostly white AFRC unit) hurt or helped your unit moral or unit capability? Is the unit better able to accomplish it's mission because of this training? I'm glad to hear your unit is able to remain focused on the mission. I'm curious if you can tell if the current senior leadership is focusing on social issues instead of mission ones. It was clear to me and many of my in my cohort. It wasn't good.

In my opinion if someone is hard over "I'm a democrat" or "I'm a Trump supporter" or "I only vote ...insert party or single topic here..." should be exempt from any form of command. That sort of mental ossification proves the lack of dynamic thinking that should be mandatory for leading people. It kills credibility and approachability. It proves that said individual is willing to become beholden to an ideology, no matter how unrooted it is from social impact or scientific fact. It's not that you can't have strong opinions. But when those opinions are so publicly displayed that your subordinates are made keenly aware of their importance in your life, you become unapproachable to at least 50 percent of your people. To paraphrase Heinlein: The hammer should have strong opinions in the how it's used, so long as it's lawful. @nsplayr you have has specifically stated that you agree with every policy that Biden has put into place. So you are in command of people. How has DEI impacted your command? Beyond that, do you still adhere to the idea that a green transition is a good idea, even though it's been proven impossible by the simple math of lithium required (we don't have enough on the planet) or the fact that Germany (the country farthest along in the 'green transition') has so failed in it's transition that it has de-transitioned back to using lignite coal and having it's residents burn wood which are the absolute worst carbon producers? You lead people: your words. You are a hard over democrat: your words. Do you recognize how declaring a hard over political line (regardless of party) undercuts your credibility as an approachable leader?

Who would you prefer, specifically?

I don't get it. That's a song about a standard @Biff_T and/or F-15 pilot's standard weekend. Or just another day in Thailand.

Alrighty then. I must have been wrong.

Exactly. In none of my interviews were there any serious questions about logged time. The only real sim question were the interviewer asking about how we taught in the J, as students did a full IFR qual in the sim. Not sure if that's the still the case. He was an old school herk driver and was curious.

Interesting. No offense to you personally, but I have never, and will never trust a single word concerning real world level details I I hear from any staff...because I worked on multiple staffs. As of 2020, the line guys doing sim cert for the C-130J sims at both LRF and BIX disagree with your assessment, seeing it's was possible to gain and maintain currency in the sim. Granted, that USAF checking USAF and the FAA doesn't care. However that was backed up by the FSDO at both Little Rock and Birmingham as I asked them that exact question in person. However, I don't doubt that that they could have been wrong. I've met more than one federal staff expert who knew nothing about C-130J stuff while being responsible for C-130J stuff. Is your work AMC wide or specific to an airframe? Beyond that, I completed and passed eight airline interviews from 2019 to 2021. Sims and sim training came up in three of them and I asked the exact question about sim time counting, and one guy told me that if he saw nothing about sim time in a logbook he saw it as a sign the applicant was either fibbing or lazy. The other guy in that interview agreed and acted as though the other guy had just given away a secret. That's where I come up with my 'log your sim time' advice. It ain't total time, but it is training. It is what it is, but C-130J sims are currently still the best I've ever flow, and I got a different type rating in one FAR worst while training at MIA. I reserve the right to be corrected. What exactly do you do on staff concerning simcert?

Recently finished the whole series right up thru Bear and the Dragon

All I keep thinking is "The Ryan Doctrine"

Do ICBMs count as drones?

So @Biff_T how was requal?

Mineral exploration

Sad part is that if we decided to take the non-nuclear gloves off, the US could shut the ayatollahs down permanently in about a week and let the Persians have their country back.

Dude I’ve got a CONUS-Dubai leg coming up in a week. I’m kinda hoping I get to see the OCA push from WAY far away. Better yet, make me divert. That always leads to some nice bonus money. Especially in that particular cornhole of the world.