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Targeting missile production in this week’s episode

I’m currently a contractor and know the difference between a background check and security clearance. I’ll say it again, you’d be surprised at at how some things get overlooked if the company needs a billet filled.

Passing a background check is one thing; maintaining a security clearance as a contractor is another thing.

You’d be pretty surprised at some of the stuff contracting companies will look past if they have a position that needs to be filled.

Probably claimed he was a lady during the Biden DEI hiring boom.

I was wondering the same thing. From what I'm hearing from dudes that knew him at my airline, there's no way he had a TS after how he departed our company. Alcohol, physical altercations, and denial of all of it.

“Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” -Donald Trump, June 22, 2025

Reported to be U.S. 5th Fleet HQ Bahrain which was evacuated days ago. AQPrpaQf-i2DF_gfRowJD1TFzAWg5lLSoH8CX0hauY9Aa1gGmUYH9_HIGhu98NkElW8CLltevbbsKIfoawFOA67x2nJ2TXrDAQsCueJoPg(1).mp4

It’s begun. US/Israeli strikes on Iranian leadership buildings confirmed

Easiest way to put it: F-Kill vs. K-Kill. This isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

Off to court we go... Yahoo NewsHegseth declares Anthropic a "supply chain risk to nation...Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deemed artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a supply chain risk on Friday, following days of increasingly heated public conflict with the AI company.

how the fuck did his resume pass background check to get hired as a sim instructor and still keep a security clearance?

Same, I thought it was a drunk boating party that you would see go thru Jupiter Inlet that had a terrible idea and tragedy ensued

The bar wasn’t set that high, and yet…

“The registration number for the boat provided by the Cuban government, FL7726SH, showed it was a 24-foot Pro-Line center console fishing vessel built in 1981.” As a boater, this whole thing is making me chuckle. Leave it to modern day media to sensationalize a nearly 5 decade old fishing boat as a “speedboat.” Before seeing the contents of the headlines, I envisioned some douche from Miami in a jet powered F-U money special trying to take a quick trip for that proverbial mojito.

So he was a Loadmaster? Now I'm confused.

From AFPC this morning: Unfortunately, that rumor has some truth to it. The single UPT scheduler that works UFT Board also works all the UPT training for the USAF (number varies but normally 1200 to 1500 per year). Recently she has been bombarded by AETC taskers regarding short notices to UPT at Laughlin; I am sure you have heard that rumor as well. Bottomline is that although there is a training plan for everyone in out UPT select list, the scheduler has not been able to load everyone yet. Loading is done based primarily on expected RNLTD dates, therefore those with earlier planned dates will see the training loaded more quickly than those planned towards the end of the year. You can pass on that ENJJPT and UHT are unlikely to move before Q3 (training pipeline delays), therefore they may see their training loaded later in March. Everyone else, just hang in there, it will get done. No one expected what is going on with Laughlin short notices…

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/irans-nuclear-facilities-have-been-obliterated-and-suggestions-otherwise-are-fake-news/ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/us-iran-nuclear-talks-oil-middle-east.html

I heard he was in the Epstein files, too.

I think he was a F-4 WSO, then UPT, then F-111, then A-10, passed over for Major, hired by the Reserve A-10 unit in New Orleans, hired on at United but invited to leave during training (lying on his application?), invited to leave at New Orleans for flying violations and personnel conflicts, tried to get hired at Columbus Reserves but blocked by the NOLA A-10 folks, hired at UPS and fired after a conflict on a Asia flight with the other two pilots that resulted in them locking Runner out of the cockpit. After that, it is a mystery that I'm sure we will learn more about. Quite the resume, if you ask me. Maybe he was a plant to screw up the Chinese PLAAF.

I copied something I wrote on another site and occurred in the 92-93 timeframe. As a Flt CC,I took 6 A-10s from Shaw to Little Rock to support the Army doing Army things at Ft. Chaffee near Ft. Smith. Runner brings a jet back with a broken windscreen. No worries, that front panel would occasionally Crack from the window heat. Well, that wasn't it. He had hit the grounding wire on some high tension power lines. No call. No controllability/ damage check. He argues he did nothing wrong. The front windscreen on the Hawg is 7 layers of laminate that will stop a 23mm cannon round. That windscreen is supported by a very stout I- beam looking frame. The grounding wire hit on top of the AAR door, slid over the windscreen cracking the glass and shearing off windscreen attachment bolts before scratching the top of the canopy. The wire completely missed the engine nacelles and rudders. Any other jet and he would have been sliced in two and he thinks he did nothing wrong. Arkansas Power and Light was replacing that wire and sent us the piece with gray paint on it and said it was 292 feet off the ground which was below his cleared altitude. His excuse was rising terrain despite that handy, dandy radar altimeter warning which was not used. He also almost put a Vark in the dirt during Desert Shield after screwing up a LGB toss. You might have seen the video updating your altitude chamber.

His crews said he liked to drink and start fights…..seemed a common thread in most stories..