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If you fly at or below (not above) the required altitude for that route, the helicopter route worked. Also, if you hear any aircraft cleared to land on the runway that crosses said route, use your hands and maneuver the helicopter out of the path of said runway. If you're cleared to maintain visual separation, you need to do so.

I miss juicey girls.

@Swizzle This is a Dibs!

It'd take at least a 12 pack to dibs that.

One of those other cops called for “backup” should have immediately called him out for this level of dumbassery. He needs to find a job with no authority over anyone or anything. He acted like a small child pissed off that mommy took his toy truck from him for nap time.

My back yard...My son went to the rival high school which ironically had a similar situation a few years ago. In that case a retired USMC Gunny worked as a NJROTC instructor. He was pursuing a female student. She told her friends who went to authorities.

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2025/07/30/molly-mersereau-gulf-breeze-high-school-teacher-arrested/85438300007/ Burner phone, teacher and student, Crime Stoppers call = drama First thing came to mind was South Park... ....but wait... @Biff_T?

Slightly off topic, but somewhat related, anyone have a recommendation for an AME in the Pensacola/Ft Walton area? Recently separated and moved back to the area, and probably going to need to reup my medical before starting at my civ job next month. Dr Brinker in Gulf Breeze had some good reviews, doc in Ft Walton seemed to have some more negative reviews. I thought there was post someone asking the same thing awhile back but I can’t seem to find it.

I gotta call BS. Maybe a good on-the-fly excuse to his leadership and a face saving option for media consumption. Sure. But if anyone in the business actually thinks that abortion of a maneuver and near destruction of beach side property and potential death of numerous innocent beach goers is a better alternative to taking a bird or two, they’re not playing with a full deck. He wasn’t even going that fast. The canopy is easily rated to take that and if an engine gets involved, well he’s got another. UFB.

More time in Itaewon, service member life expectancy plummets…they didn’t think this one through!

So congress is addressing something that had zero to do with the accident - “look, we’re doing something everybody!” Or, maybe you change the procedures, which actually will make a difference. Idiots.

Got my optics squared away on my MPX. Large Field of View Green Dot with a fold away 3 X Magnifier.

In their report, the Washington commission cited six incidents since 2021 with “uncommanded” discharges involving the M17 and M18. The M18 incidents were: In 2023, a Japanese security guard at Camp Foster, Okinawa, “rested their right hand lightly on the rotating cover of a weapon holster” when their M18 discharged. Also in 2023, at Camp Pendleton, California, an officer in the armory stopped at a clearing barrel to empty their M18. The officer pulled the pistol out of the holster while it was on safe and removed the magazine. A round discharged from the M18 into the clearing barrel. The officer was “sure that they never touched the trigger of the M18,” and had “ample weapons handling training,” according to the report. In 2022, a service member was preparing for his shift at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, when his M18 discharged at his home. He was taken to the hospital for a penetrating gunshot wound with the bullet still “lodged in his knee,” according to the incident report. With the M17, previous incidents included: A military police soldier at Fort Eustis, Virginia, in 2023 injured his foot after his pistol “inadvertently discharged” after making contact with another officer’s gun holster. The gun of an Army civilian attending a law enforcement course in 2020 at Leesville Police Range in Louisiana discharged while he drew the pistol from his holster. A service member attempting to holster his pistol in 2021 fired a round through his foot at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

Army, Marine Corps, Navy have no plan to stop using M18, M17 pistols The Army, Navy and Marine Corps are not planning to pause use of the M18 pistol as a primary, daily service sidearm for their troops, the services told Task & Purpose, even as units in the Air Force pull the weapon from service after an airman was killed when his M18 discharged last week. The Air Force owns close to 75% of the military’s inventory of roughly 165,000 M18 pistols, according to data provided by the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and procurement documents from the Navy. Exact numbers of M17s currently in use were not immediately available. The Army and Marine Corps indicated in testing and evaluation documents that they intended to buy several hundred thousand of the handguns. A January 2017 contract announcement included a $580 million contract with Sig Sauer to replace the Army’s M9 by 2027. Officials from the Army, Navy and Marine Corps told Task & Purpose that those services have no plans to pause use of the weapons... Discharge issue discovered during Army testing The Department of Defense discovered unexpected discharge issues with the Sig Sauer handgun when the Army began operational testing for the M18 almost a decade ago. The service found that during drop testing with an empty primed cartridge inserted, the gun’s striker struck the round’s primer and caused a discharge. Army officials directed the company to correct the problem by implementing lightweight components in the trigger mechanism, according to a fiscal year 2017 operational test and evaluation report. Follow-on testing “validated” that the change “corrected the deficiency and the pistol no longer fired when dropped,” the report stated, adding that the new version with the changes was submitted for production. Sig Sauer conceded the early issues with the Army pistol, noting that testing “above and beyond” national, state, global military and law enforcement standards found that “after multiple drops, at certain angles and conditions, a potential discharge of the firearm may result when dropped.”

Ted Cruz looks to force changes to military flights near airports, after deadly airline crash Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz said Tuesday that he will introduce a bill that would force changes to the way the military uses helicopters around congested airports, including prohibiting the Army from turning off location-transmitting technologies such as the one under investigation as part of an inquiry into the January midair collision near Washington that killed 67 people. The technology Cruz’s bill seeks to mandate, known as ADS-B Out, was not transmitting on the helicopter involved in the disaster. The NTSB is still investigating whether the crew had switched off the technology — which allows air traffic controllers to see an aircraft’s speed, altitude and location — or if it was simply not operational. Its final report on the disaster’s causes isn’t expected until next year. “We should not tolerate special exceptions for military training flights operating in congested airspace, no matter the circumstances. Any aircraft flying near commercial traffic must fully adhere to safety standards,” Cruz said during a press conference debuting the bill. Cruz was accompanied by some of the family of those who died in the crash as well as officials investigating the catastrophe, including NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy. The Army’s propensity to operate without the technology enabled for flights in the Washington area has drawn sharp scrutiny from Congress since the crash. At the time of the accident, the Army’s policy was to keep its helicopter transponders off during sensitive or classified missions with commander approval, according to Brig. Gen. Matthew Braman, who testified at a March Senate hearing on the crash...

While the citizens of Troy get to pay more property taxes to cover the eventual settlement the city will pay to dismiss his now federal lawsuit. I wouldn’t be surprised if the cop didn’t live in the county he worked, thus not having his taxes go up.

A new DoD Korea policy makes Korea a two year unaccompanied and three year accompanied. Longer assignments coming soon for troops heading to South Korea

Cop distracted or on his phone while sitting at traffic light. When traffic light turns green cops doesn't move...after a while the car behind him honks his horn. Cops gets extremely butt hurt, circles the block and follows the guy home where he then ARRESTS him for unlawful horn use. All charges dropped by prosecutor, lawsuit filed, cop still on duty. Just sickening.

First weekend has some great games. I got an Airbnb in Charleston for the weekend with two friends. Big screen TV and close to all great bars and restaurants...prepared to drown my sorrows should we lose to ND.

Kinda pointless article, other than the NTSB will start hearings on January's crash today... NTSB hearings will focus on fatal Army helicopter-passenger jet crash. Here’s what to know The National Transportation Safety Board will hold three days of hearings starting Wednesday on January’s midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter over the nation’s capital that killed 67 people. The goal: Pinpoint exactly what went wrong and what can be done to avoid similar midair crashes between passenger planes and military aircraft. The accident was the nation’s deadliest plane crash since November 2001. The hearings in Washington will involve NTSB board members, investigators and witnesses. Panels will focus on military helicopter routes in the Washington area, collision avoidance technology and training for air traffic controllers at Ronald Reagan National Airport, among other subjects...

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-south-korea-tours-longer/ Would you guys have wanted to do 2 years at Osan/Kunsan? Salute to the "Juice Girls" who ruined marriages and caused a few Airmen to lose clearances by marrying them.

Spanish air force pilot has been praised for his “exemplary speed and professionalism”, after he performed a maneuver to avoid a flock of birds during the International Air Festival in Gijon. https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/clyr2qx0y87o https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/clyr2qx0y

Soooooo....... Not an appendix carry fan I take it? 😄