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It’ll fly until they find cracks in the wing boxes like they did the C-141 and they immediately field a replacement.

Former Fox News anchor possibly courts martial retired Navy test fighter pilot and astronaut mission commander. What a time to be alive.

The Drudge headline was.... BONDI BLOWS IT

AP NewsJudge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding th...A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at Presiden

The War ZoneC-17 Will Fly Until 80 Years Old Under New USAF Airlifter...The Air Force does not expect to have fully transitioned to its Next-Generation Airlift aircraft until 2075.Family of systems, new engines for C-17s, etc… lotta ideas in the article. Family of systems is a buzz phrase but probably the best COA. Crewed / Unmanned fleet

keep telling yourself that. i only see one side offering peace plans.

Biff at MTG’s front door next Friday

Second M2. PSA is honestly pretty solid for range toys. Personally I’d go higher quality for anything I plan on using to save lives (if faced with that situation). I’m assuming truck gun means part of your self defense plan.

Absolutely would NOT buy an ATI, they made shit AKs back in the day so I don't trust them one iota! Palmetto State Armory makes far better AR pistols for not much more!

Anyone shot the ATI Alpha Maxx? Door buster cheap AR pistol ($309), on Guns.com, comes with a 60 round mag. Wanted a cheap truck gun and put it in my cart but didn't pull the trigger yet...sts. https://www.guns.com/firearms/p/ati-alpha-maxx?i=465610

Big difference between "losing" and "losing badly," and I am very well aware of how much territory has been lost and the costs on both sides from legitimate intel sources. Putin isn't winning...

I bet they're doing a deep dive on how UPS does the engine mount/dismount.

do you dispute that ukraine is losing? i'd much rather be in Putin's strategic position than zelensky's

that's the russian playbook. to western eyes we think those attrition numbers = losing. that's not how the russians see it at all.

Investigators found: Both forward and aft lugs of the left pylon’s aft mount had fractured The spherical bearing’s outer race had sheared away Multiple fatigue cracks around the lug bores Additional overstress fractures mark the final break In short, fatigue cracks had been growing inside the mount. Under heavy take-off loading, the weakened structure could no longer hold the engine. The right engine’s mounts also fractured—but only on ground impact, not in flight. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA26MA024%20Preliminary%20Report.pdf

Where are you getting your intel? And I'm talking real intel, not the Internet...

Concur, starting a private range will be a lot easier than a public one...

Dibs

I think a snapshot in time...and disappointing in many ways. Electing a communist mayor in NYC...an Attorney General in VA that no only called for KILLING his opponent, but also putting a bullet in the head of his opponents kids...that is the new DNC. I really wonder what will happen in the mid-terms with the DNC slipping so far left they are openly supporting socialism and in some cases communism. Seriously, the new leaders are FAR left lunatics. Nancy just tapped out, Schumer is on the ropes. Who is the leader of the DNC? Is it Jefferies? Pete? Come on... Kamala is talking about another run perhaps linked with AOC ("they" think they will win all 50 states with that combo....ummm yeah). Hating Trump is one thing, but is it enough for the rest of the country to go full retard?

Years ago in a different state I worked on that. The amount of hurdles you face will be very dependent on where you live and the mindset of your state/local gov and their laws. Building an NRA “to code” range is a large and expensive undertaking, do your research on that. We started a 501c3, which helped the tax situation, made donations and tax breaks for donators easier, etc. I’d say finding the location that works for you guys and the gov may be the hardest part with second hardest part being funding the construction of a “legitimate” range. That all said, again, it is very dependent on your location and state/local laws, so really impossible to throw out any universally useful timelines or costs. Other odds and ends you need to sort out: who runs it daily. Is a ranger required or is it self-administered (e.g. members have a code to the gate and follow the rules they’ve signed saying they agree). The answer drives liability discussions with legal/insurance company Who maintains it. Member volunteers, pay someone, etc. You can’t just let thousands of cases pile up, shredded paper targets blowing all over, erosion will happen over time, etc. I found many companies were willing to give nice discounts on their products to help it get going (and of course its advertising for them). Targets, target stands, etc. Best answer: Buy enough land that you can build an awesome personal range and invite friends over!

I attended the funeral this weekend for Richard Wartenberg. In addition to all his Squadron mates attending there was a large UPS pilot presence as well. I was talking to one of the UPS pilots about their MD-11 and plans to replace them and he was saying that UPS has been working on an Airbus/Boeing widebody freighter for years due to the increased MX issues with the MD-11 and scarcity of parts and engineering expertise. One interesting point he said was that UPS elected not get the STC (supplemental type certificate) pylons that the FedEx MD-10/11 fleet have. These are stronger pylons that require less MX and replace the original pylon.

What a bunch of random people on the internet think about you is irrelevant. But I've flown with multiple guys in Kinzinger's squadron, and nobody had anything good to say about him from both before and after his time in Congress. Being perfectly honest, you seem like you would be yet another politician who has no fundamental grasp about how a huge portion of the population thinks or lives. But you've never seemed like the type to seek out power as some sort of extension of narcissism, so that already puts you at an advantage. Good luck, and thanks for participating

I don’t think Ukraine is losing that badly. Russia is getting it pretty bad as well. Yes Russia is very slowly moving the line, but at a cost.

Lots is happening on the gov't side as related to cybersecurity and IMO none of it is good. I can't speak to DoD anymore, so I won't focus on that. On the civ side the overall focus from the administration seems to be that cyber not a national strategy concern. They've de-funded or cancelled many of the coordination groups (ISAC's) between gov't, business and local leaders. ISACs now require a fee to participate, if they're continued at all. The FCC just rolled back the cybersecurity standards that were proposed in the wake of the Salt Typhoon hack that popped a ton of US telco's (and those around the world). The rule required - Create and implement cybersecurity risk-management plans Submit annual FCC certifications proving they were doing so Treat general network cybersecurity as a legal obligation Since retiring I have done Incident Response for everything from a local school board, city governments, state agencies, and businesses from non-profits to multi-billion dollar, world wide critical manufacturing organizations. I wish I could completely articulate the complete shit show that most of these organizations are when it comes to cybersecurity, especially the bigger ones. They only care about 2 things - what is the minimum amount of security to show legally (customer lawsuit) we did due diligence and what does the gov't require us to do? The fines are not high enough and counted as "the cost of doing business" (re: Facebook fines) and they lobby actively to have a "self evaluation" standard for regulations. We all know how that goes. The fact that these companies successfully said making a risk management plan is "too hard" really tells me all I need to know. Step one of incident response (and I'd assume anything critical) is "have a plan." The telco's said, "no." Big business basically says no, unless they're a bank. Don't even ask me about the health care sector, you'd think $10K HIPPA fines per instance would be a forcing function. It's not.