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Looks like a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner while Trump was there. No casualties being reported. Gunman in custody. Crazy to me that someone would be able to get a weapon into an event like that, but where there is a will, I guess there is a way. More news coming out now and it looks like the dude just sprinted past a security checkpoint inside the hotel and shot a Secret Service agent (who luckily was wearing a vest) as he blitzed by.

Van Dyke was charged with “unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and making an unlawful monetary transaction.” Semantics aside, my point stands.

Deal.

This is great data. Thank you! I have been contemplating who/where my LOR should come from and have chatted w/ my Sq/CC about it, but I agree, don't want it to feel generic!

Yes, Trump mentioned the 2001 AUMF. And frankly, the 2001 AUMF does support the current war. In fact, Biden also invoked it to target Iranian groups. I’m not defending the 2001 AUMF, but it is very widely applicable. For those who want the War Powers Act to actually matter again for many potential conflicts, they’ll have to kill the 2001 AUMF.

Valid point It’d probably only be airline like in type jet flown though, with as many pilots as they would have to cycle thru an FY, it would have to move a quick pace methinks. 3 months for type course plus added training. Academics, PTT / FTDs and Sims plus observation rides. 1 month allocated for 10 training flights, I’d keep it pretty simple and all local to knock it out. 1.0, launch to rendezvous nearby with another 320 to a precontact position, hold it for 3 minutes, depart & recover to base, 1 GA or discontinued app, land out of next approach. Swap seats with your training buddy as you’ve been riding jump (another reason this would need to be in the Bus). 3 flights in your syllabus would be as a simulated tanker. 2 months to get 6 trips accomplished. 4 day trips to bounce around the system. 2 student pilots allocated to a trip, team certified after 3 trips, IPs supervise from jump trips 4-6.

Wait. Did I miss that the admin said this was authorized under the AUMF for GWOT? Been head down in a lot of work.

i understand the move...but you can't have insider trading without...trading.

The last thing the Bobs want in a first assignment airline gig with a type to teach em all on airline life. That's like putting the revolving door on quick spin mode.

Yeah but we don’t practice it completely, not really a self critique no one follows their professed ideology perfectly as none divide evenly into reality, there’s always some remainder, capitalism just happens to have the smallest remainder requiring less objectionable exceptions compared to the others. As to the buy in at Spirit, this would never happen but I’d rather see Uncle Sam buy some of their iron, equipment, facilities and mx support and acquire some 320 family aircraft for added Air Lift and Transport category experience for new AMC bound aviators. Because it’s the government even a company in distress would get better than market price but the jets, parts, AGE, sims, etc… could be had now, no waiting. First assignment out of UPT for all AMC and other big wing bound pilots. Manned and run by AF Reserves based at/near airline domiciles, hip shot for basing: Travis AFB for west coast, JRB Ft Worth for central, Andrews AFB for east coast. Bus type course, 10 training flights then a six month tour, on your way… Get a combi conversion for people and cargo Not a bad looking jet…

Based on Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden? 20 years or so.

Ya, you'll have to excuse my cynicism, it just gets worse the further out of service I get and the more I read about our leaders, past and present.

If that airline tries to make a good (in their view) business decision and merge, but the government disallows that merger due to "competition issues," which forces them to die, how is that fair? If you're going to play the fairness game, they should have stayed out of the merger and then I'd 100% agree with you. Also remember that some of their woes are due to getting planes that are unusable because of engine manufacturer defects.

He allegedly was using non-public (classified) information to make wagers. He pulled a Pete Rose, except he bet on his team to win 100%.

Both can, and are, bad. The government bailing out certain industries of US companies (e.g., airlines) when times get fiscally difficult just rewards poor business decisions.

The same government stopped it from merging with another airline because less competition is bad... So now they let them go under leaving one less competitor....yay competition!

Isn't capitalism letting it fail and go under?

Of a sort, yes.

are you saying the army dude was 'insider trading'?

U.S. Government eyes using Title 3 ‌of the Defense Produc...Trump administration could invoke Title 3 ‌of the Defense Production Act that allows the U.S. government to invest in industrial capacity to ensure supply chains for national defense. The Defense Pro

It's only fraud when someone other than Congress does it.

Just stopped in to see what was up after a many year hiatus. Reads and navigates like it has since 2004. Carry on!

Insider trading and fraud. Classified info or not, this is pretty clear cut.

Really?

Lol, so they're not even driving down the OPSEC path, just the, he could have slipped the word out before we officially made the announcement. If there is one thing those in power hate, it's stolen thunder. What's funny is those in leadership/government are probably going to try to rail against this guy because of "ethics." 🤣