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I think the intent behind the demonstration is to be a deterrent

Question How many hours of T-7 time will SPs get if they go (ultimately) to this T-7 only UPT model?

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised that Maduro at some point gets the Soleimani Treatment depending on how the stars align. Clearly the strike was a very public message the gloves are off. That said now we should use a lot of nonpublic strikes that don't make the news if we aren't already. Out of sight out of mind for all but the targets. Strikes at sea especially leave very little evidence behind. I know semi-submersibles are used to try and evade sensors especially from above though real USN Submarines excel at tracking acoustic signatures. Of course, if you're using a semi-submersible that's Prima Facie your up to no good and are a candidate to become an artificial reef. To me our drone capability is perfect for these types of missions and has benefited from last 20 years of operations worldwide and present minimal risk to our side.

I didn't see any posts related to DIC.. but I'm currently paying a SBP which would net a surviving spouse 50% of my retired pay. I just read up on DIC which I'm not sure I even knew existed. From what I stand, DIC will pay $1653.06 to a surviving spouse if the cause of death was a service-connected condition. Previously they were offset, but now a spouse can receive both benefits in full...? I was going to get rid of SBP and use the $400 to put into other term life insurance something else and hope for DIC if it came to that. But it seems like if something (service-connected) were to happen to me my wife could get close to $4600/month with SDB and DIC? Is this correct?

This statement woefully overestimates the value of the people on the boat, to the people who own the boat. But hey, it got a cool headline and maybe distracted from some files Pam Bondi promised she was going to release...

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The damage from legacy to UPT 2.5 in the T-1 was more in the grading and less in the hours, IMO. The syllabus was shaved a bit, but the bulk of the bell curve could keep up. Those who couldn't keep up, obviously resulted in more 88s 89s. Those failures were retained or pushed to stay, which resulted in a climate of "no matter how hard we grade, leadership will graduate them anyway" which in turn leads to easier grading. You can talk about holding the line, and lots of IPs tried. But at the end of the day leadership isn't sending that message. Only worse now with T-1s gone. The sim syllabus was an absolute joke.

I've always been a fan of "Out of Court Settlements"

Nice move.

Very similar for me, 108 & 44 in the early days of 2.5. The legacy classes ahead of us were in the same ~150 total ballpark but with a more even split between the T-6 and T-1/38. UPT 2.5 T-38 tracked guys got a bit more than that because their syllabus was markedly longer than AMF-F.

The Trump administration offered justifications for why it carried out a lethal strike against the drug boat instead of just interdicting it and arresting those on board. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said previous U.S. interdiction efforts in Latin America failed to stop the flow of drugs. “What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them,” Rubio said on a visit to Mexico. Earlier in the day, Trump said he was sending a message to the cartels. “On the boat there were massive amounts of drugs,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “We have tapes of them speaking. There was massive amounts of drugs coming into our country to kill a lot of people, and everybody fully understands it. But you see it, you see the bags of drugs all over the boat, and they were hit. Obviously they won’t be doing it again. And I think a lot of other people won’t be doing it again. When they watch that tape, they’re going to say, ‘Let’s not do this.'”

Deadly Airstrike On Cartel Boat Signals Major Shift In U.S. Drug Interdiction Strategy The U.S. will continue to carry out lethal attacks against people belonging to drug cartels designated as narco-terrorists, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this morning. His comments came a day after the U.S. made a deadly strike on what President Donald Trump said was a drug boat operated by the Tren de Aragua (TDA) cartel, which is closely tied to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. “It won’t stop with just this strike,” Hegseth told Fox News about the attack he said is a “very clear” message to the cartels. “Anyone else trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco-terrorist will face the same fate. It’s important to the American people to protect our homeland and protect our hemisphere.”... (Full article at title link) A lot of people sharing their opinions on this op...

Unsure about legacy syllabus but I graduated a few years ago from UPT 2.5 with 96 hours in the T-6 and 46 hours in the T-1.

They vary quite a bit, life happens and people migrate between classes. All said and done they’re typically 10-20 people. Cant speak for UPT, not a pilot.

They could make a movie about that airport and all of the shenanigans. Too many quotable quotes to count.

In before Biff calls dibs 😂

It's that time of year again, gentlemen!!

Nothing would be funnier than SMU and Texas Tech becoming the new juggernauts of the sport.

This is something I thought of, but have never looked into, how big are UCT classes compared to UPT classes?

Same point was made the other night on ESPN. Talk of firing the current Alabama couch and what his buyout would cost per contract, turns out when your boosters aren’t making oil or Fortune 500 money and your fan base largely shops at dollar general, you can’t afford nice things. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve read he’s on the museum’s board, too

Just get ready for the NEW new curriculum…

Just finished the Cowboys documentary on Netflix. Really glad they grabbed Jimmy Johnson or FSU’s legacy would’ve been in jeopardy!