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There are more people than just Trump who have been associated with Epstein in the past. I saw that Cameron Diaz is also linked to Epstein. Where is all of the concern about her? https://www.wtrf.com/top-stories/epstein-list-full-list-of-names-mentioned-so-far-includes-president-trump-bill-clinton-al-gore-george-lucas-cameron-diaz-and-more/

Dibs!!! I just had to be patient and it was well worth the wait.

Anything to distract from this. It’s almost time to reveal the aliens!

I know right! Kinda of like removing all historic statues and changing the name of bases.

Chicago's last GOP mayor was in 1931, Big Jim Thomson, I enlisted in Chicago in 1980 in the southwest side Mount Greenwood where the majority of Cops and Firemen live my cousin being one of them. I went to two of High School reunions there and both times it gets worse from the economic downturn I see in the old neighborhood. The progressive politicians whose base is on the Chicago's north shore white affluent liberals keep electing even more out of touch Democrats who are running the place into the ground. I bet if Da Mayor old Richard J Daley was still alive, they would consider him a Republican. It still makes me tear up when our class president was murdered by 3 POS's from the west side because she couldn't open the safe at our local McDonalds in 79. The trigger man is still doing hard time for it, today he would have beat the rap due to the Cook County DA being hyper liberal.

I'll bite. I get it, another renaming of a department so someone can put their name on something and say "hey, I did that!" I don't disagree this is exhausting in and of itself. However, I think a change of mentality is needed. Everyone is telling us to prepare for war, and they're even throwing out dates. Yet, at all echelons no one seems to be acting accordingly. If that's really what we're collectively supposed to be focused on then we need to get in the right mental state. Is a name change going to do that, no. If the name change is backed by actual action, forcing people to make decisions at all levels w.r.t that end goal, then I agree. We need to get on the same page as a military.

Dept of War renaming def a good use of tax payer funds.

This Why at least one 3 star or above can’t just say something euphemistic about all these UPT changes/thrashes and begin to level the wings, ask for a supplemental from Congress and just fix this. Project Liberty has room for criticism but it did get ultimately what it was created to do, deliver quickly and reliably an acceptable solution, not perfect but not bad either. That same kind of VFR direct to a 2 mile final is what is needed. If ACC / PACAF can just say screw the source selection method just buy the E-7, budget shenanigans aside after that public direct call for it by Gen Wilsbach in 21, then a GO could call for a surge and fast recapitalization of UPT. No pointless “reimagining” or other bullshit, just buy already flying trainers, remission a Guard or Reserve Wing if required to expand capacity for some time frame and just get it the hell done.

The bobs dont have the balls to publicly acknowledge they can't produce their own requirement of 1500 pilots/year with our current resources and lack of retention. Instead of standing up and telling the giga-bobs this fact, they're massively cutting the training you received to produce more, drastically less experienced, pilots to keep the slides green. For old bastard reference: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=giga

But then we couldn’t cut training and lie and say we’re innovative and agile. Instead of just saying, we want to produce more pilots, senior leaderships has determined this is the ALR to produce more pilots with resource constraints.

I suppose that includes me...T-41/T-37, and T-38 at Moody, 1967. Leaving aside the issue of airframe age, would not this type of pilot training meet the needs of today's aircraft and mission types?

Otherwise known as Grandpa's UPT.

General UPT, regular T-6 then advanced trainer phase Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What is GUPT?

Yeah, I see a snowball having a better chance in hell than the AF doing anything other than more insanity but you gotta hope / post on BO for something better than what they are planning on A resurrection of GUPT I see as possible with the right leadership & Congressional support but don’t see anyone picking up that cause Google AI says there’s 2 USAF pilots in the House, none in the Senate, need them to pick this as a pet project IPT via ESAs at private schools is the crux of this, it’s the outsourcing of arguably the most critical training in the AF, how this has not been noticed and really examined in a harsh light by interested parties I don’t get IPT taught at a military institution via mil / contract instructors under direct mil supervision could work to deliver a consistent product and one capable of a slightly abbreviated primary T-6 or like aircraft phase but that’s not in the plans right now. Fantasy IPT: 85 hours in Cirrus SR20, 25 hours Piper Seminole, 25 hours Gamebird GB1. Gamebird tail dragger would be the first taste of high performance and last hurdle to clear to set the tone for the next phases. Then FUPT for T-6 / T-7. I would still sport bitch for a ME mil trainer but with all that flying with mil and specific mil training contract instructors I think you would get a pretty strong graduate.

pretty sure they do, but the better question is did the seat have the TCTO done to replace the legacy digital sequencer with MASS?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOR7QnxgQLq/?igsh=MTB3YmMwZ2t0cDNkMg== Basically what I sent to every Gator fan I know. As dumb as it’s gotten for them, I still have more respect for them than the Bama people trying to take a victory lap off last nights pee wee football team they played against. I especially like the ones calling for targeting or unnecessary roughness on a kicker making a tackle but ignoring their guys going lights out against a guy when they were up by 60 pts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gatornation is melting down...

Just let Napier stay through the season please.

The Air Force is trying to divest whole airframes. There wont be another trainer. The best to be hoped for is congress stops the t-6 divestment, forces a full ARP, and we go back to GUPT.

Just my two cents but joke is kinda a strong term for the T-1, concur with breadth and experience / MC-12 program AMC could fill that gap sts with a Project Liberty like new MDS, a super liaison aircraft program. All new graduates of FUPT would go there first before reporting to their FTU for their assignment awarded out of FUPT. Finishing school for Mobility pilots. Lotta reps while executing valid mission requests. Small regional airliner for routine air land support, all civilian training before their tour begins. Buy the jet with the capability to operate in low threat environments if required. Liaison, medevac, ROBE, stand off launch platform, etc.. hard points for pods for those missions, nothing deeply integrated into the existing systems, try to keep it low risk, expense to develop. E-175 E2 Freighter be an example, probably 40-60 tails. Get each pilot 75 sorties then on your way. 0.001% chance

Is it a provocative tweet...absolutely, and intentionally so. It forces the Democrats to continue defending the wrong side of an 80-20 issue to most people on the streets in big cities run by Democrats over the last century. It's curious how the last 2x times the Trump 2.0 sent in troops, in Los Angeles and D.C., Karen Bass and the LA City Council, Gavin Newsom and the CA Congress, and Muriel Bowser and the D.C. City Council, all remained in power and continue to this day in D.C. to exercise their rights and responsibilities as the duly and freely elected civilian government. I mean, if Trump wanted a takeover, he would physically remove the government and install a puppet local government, ala Iraq in 2004 under G. W. Bush in the immediate post-OIF op. I think Johnson and the fat billionaire Pritzker will be physically ok as their lie of "what else could we do?" is exposed against crime. Emotionally, they'll be slaughtered, but physically, they and their families will be fine. This experiment in freedom didn't turn to shit just because G. H. W. Bush, Lyndon Johnson, JFK, Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, Grover Cleveland, Hayes, Grant, Lincoln, or Jackson sent in federal troops to local municipalities since 1807...lots of precedence in support of it. Until there's a direct and actual threat against elected governments, I'm less than concerned about troops moving in.