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You said "children." So that means you have more than one? And I'm sure you love each one in their own way. They're very similar, but one's a little shorter than the other? They're different, but both very special to you, and there's no way you could choose one over the other and having multiple enriches your life. I know I could never choose just one. Child, that is. Of course.

They’re already buying them.

Just throwing my hat in the ring for anybody applying in future years who might get CSO instead of Pilot, because I was in that spot a few years back. If you’re not 1000% sure you want to be a pilot, I would definitely take a UCT slot. I’m glad I did. For those who end up liking pilotage, we’ve got airframes where you get plenty of stick time in a small cockpit (F-15, OA-1K). For those who end up not liking pilotage, we’ve got airframes for that (RC-135, EA-37B, AC-130). New CSO’s have unique opportunities that pilots don’t get straight out of undergrad, so if you like airpower but don’t feel like you need to be the bus driver, you’ll probably love being a CSO.

MP5 or MP5K? Either will be a clone, but I am having more trouble with this decision than I had naming my children. Either will be suppressed.

26-05 drop, decent variety for a smaller class: 3x F-15E 2x RQ-170 1x LC-130 (Guard) 1x C-130 (Guard) 1x EA-37B 1x HC-130 1x B-1B

RQ-170

Does anyone here actually believe that Trump is going to try and get the US to invade Greenland? If he does do you really think we'd actually do it? This is political theater. We reminded the world that the western hemisphere is ours. Now he's trying (poorly) to remind NATO that they really need us and we don't need them.

A bit more than 10 years ago a team was down by more than 10 to come back and win it all… Let’s see what Mario says in the locker room and how they come out.

Was out of town starting on Friday so just got home. Under Projected Training on my CDB I used to have MFS from back when I did it as an RPA pilot. Just checked and I am no longer showing anything under Projected Training, hopefully it's a sign they cleared it out to load something new.

Per OSINT, executions have stopped (hangings) but they did beat one dissident to death.

So Germany really needed Poland, Japan really needed Manchuria, North Korea really needed the south, North Vietnam really needed South Vietnam, Argentina really needed the Falklands, the USSR really needed Afghanistan, Iraq really needed Kuwait, and Russia really needed Ukraine. We were with the defenders in every single instance. The only people excited about the US shaking down a NATO ally are Russia, China, NK and Iran. This will not end well for the Republicans.

So like 20000 have been killed. More than in Gaza but there’s no protesters? I don’t understand?

Greenland doesn’t need shit. This is fucking ridiculous.

Is trump trying to get Denmark or nato to buy more f35s?

The funny thing is every tail flash and litho I have is somewhere in the crawlspace. The bar from Korea 16 years ago though, that shit is non-negotiable!

One of the primary impetuses for Greenland is arctic competition due to a more accessible northern trade route along with rare earths and hydrocarbons becoming accessible as ice melts.

Thanks CH, since that story has been going around for quite some time (yours is not the first time I've seen it posted), I've been meaning to look into it to either substantiate it with facts or put it to bed as disinformation...especially the "One in every three players have spent time in the slammer" comment! According to my research, the "search‑verified number" is somewhere between 31-41 of the 121 players from the 2008 University of Florida football team who were arrested either during their time at UF or later in life. This figure comes from reporting cited by The New York Times and summarized in multiple outlets, noting that 41 of the 121 players on the national‑championship roster had an arrest record at some point. Other articles discussing the Urban Meyer era confirm widespread arrests but do not contradict the 41‑player total; they simply reference the broader pattern of player misconduct during his tenure. While some sources mention the arrests in the context of the American Sports Story series, they do not provide a different number and instead reinforce that “many players” from the 2008 team had legal issues. Because the full list of all 41 arrested players is not published anywhere, the only verifiable information comes from publicly documented cases, and aggregate reporting on the types of charges and patterns across Urban Meyer’s teams. Media reporting on the 41 arrested players describes a wide range of offenses, but only in general categories — not player‑by‑player detail. · Alcohol‑related offenses — underage drinking, DUI · Disorderly conduct — fights, public disturbances · Theft and property crimes — including Cam Newton’s laptop case · Assault and battery — several incidents across the roster · Weapons charges — including high‑profile cases · Felonies committed after UF careers — including violent crimes · Domestic incidents — reported in a few cases · Drug‑related offenses — possession, paraphernalia These categories come directly from the reporting that cites the 41 arrests but does not name most players individually. Only a small number of players from the 2008 roster have publicly documented cases tied to their names in the search results. The first was Aaron Hernandez, a story no school would be proud of. Hernandez was charged with murder (Odin Lloyd), weapons charges, assault incidents and multiple violent offenses after leaving UF. He is the most widely documented case. When Aaron Hernandez died in 2017, his 2015 murder conviction for Odin Lloyd was automatically vacated under an old Massachusetts legal doctrine called abatement ab initio. That rule wiped out a conviction if a defendant died before their appeals were completed. According to reporting, the court overturned the conviction immediately after his death for that reason. In 2019, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reinstated Hernandez’s murder conviction, ruling that the abatement doctrine was outdated and had never been formally adopted into state law. The court ended the practice entirely and restored the guilty verdict. But it’s important to note that Hernandez played at UF from 2007–2009 and declared for the NFL Draft after the 2009 season, meaning he effectively left the university in January 2010. The murder occurred in June 2013, about 3½ years after he left UF! The most notable other case was Cam Newton, who was arrested at UF for possession of a stolen laptop but charges dropped after pre‑trial intervention and no further criminal issues after leaving UF. And so you know I’ve done my due diligence, I found a few other arrest reports and their outcome… Chris Rainey was arrested in 2010 after sending his girlfriend a text message that said “Time to die”, which led to a misdemeanor stalking charge. But the case did not end in a conviction. Prosecutors allowed him to enter a pre‑trial diversion program, and once he completed the required conditions, the charge was dropped. Jamar Hornsby was convicted for misdemeanor improper use of a credit card, not the original felony charges, making nearly 70 fraudulent charges on a BP gas card belonging to Ashley Slonina, a UF student who died in a motorcycle crash in 2007. He used the card for months after her death. He got a one-year of probation and paid early $10,000 in restitution and court costs. Hornsby was a current UF player at the time of the credit‑card incident, but he was immediately dismissed from the team after his arrest. He later violated his probation by getting into another criminal case (a 2009 simple assault), which resulted in 90 days in Alachua County Jail. So here’s the key point…no sources actually list another 2008 roster player with a confirmed criminal conviction. They only say “many players were arrested” or “multiple star players were arrested,” but they do not name them or document convictions! In this day of FOIA and government transparency, just a list of names would convince me the numbers are valid; but as the New York Times can’t or won’t provide their research results, or even publish the names of the alleged players involved: I am bound to take this reporting with a grain of salt! That NYT reporting you shared is the only source of the 41‑player figure claim. Every other article—CNN World Today, Zolentz Entertainment and others—is simply repeating or summarizing that same article!

What does this have to do with global warming?

Does this mean MAGA believes Global Warming is real now?

Libs don’t like it, but the rules have changed. Power begets power. Alliances must be reconsidered. And if it requires some constitutional understandings be re-litigated, we should do it to ensure our country is prioritized.

The security environment has changed / gotten more dangerous I don’t like it but methinks behind the scenes the other players are maneuvering their chess pieces, developing systems they are not publicly disclosing, preparing for another major military action to change the world order to their benefit. Blocking this is in our interest and Europe’s. Perhaps a bit over dramatic but a scene from the Netflix series the Diplomat gives a fictional but realistic reasoning why we need a new status with Greenland It’s strategic real estate in preparation for the inevitable tension and stand off in the Arctic, for basing and securing the North Atlantic and a source of the minerals we will need to build tech, weapons and prosperity to keep authoritarian regimes at bay. We are not perfect but we are a helluva lot better than the alternative hegemony.

Retook my TBAS, now have a 96 PCSM now! Going for the FY27 UFT Crossflow! Glad I retook my TBAS. AFOQT Pilot: 86 PCSM: 96 2xAnnual Award winner (JrCGO/IP) PPL w/62 hours Chief of safety (safety school grad) IO for major fighter mishap Multiple DG awards Lt MQ-9 Evaluator pilot and high support from Sq/WG leadership. Thanks for the inspiration on this chain.

I suppose it could be that Trump wants Greenland to be the 51st star on the American flag. I doubt that's the plan though. I don't know what he wants, but I assume it's something more mundane (new SOFA as @Prosuper pointed out, maybe some kind of mineral rights, etc). And when Trump wants to move the needle on something, but he knows he'll run into difficulty, he has a well-worn strategy: If he wants X, he proposes X2. When he knows he's going to face some kind of challenge on an issue, he proposes the most hyperbolic, most extreme version of what he wants. The media melts down and the public melts down. Whoever is on the other side of whatever the issue is, melts down as well. After all of the chaos, Trump backs down, and the other side backs down, they negotiate, and Trump often gets what he wants, or close to it. It's not even all that unique. Developers do it all the time. When they want to put up a new 10 story building, but know they're going to face a bunch of NIMBYs, they go in with plans for 20 stories, take the attacks, and eventually walk it back to the 10 story plan they wanted in the first place. I suspect that's what's happening with Greenland.

I chuckled. Sorry about the FB https://www.facebook.com/reel/1251878460121486