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After an incident like this MX will get anal probing. Back in the 90's the F-15 had a known discrepancy in the tech order on how to rig the stabilators, these were rigged backwards, and pilot didn't notice it until he tried to takeoff from Spangdahlem, it was a fatal mistake. The following actions where the tech data was finally fixed and maintenance personnel whose name was in the 781 were court martialed, later one committed suicide and the MXG guys refused to sign any red X off in the forms because the witch hunt that was going on. The mission of that wing slammed to a stop because mx folks were in full career preservation mode and screw the sortie count. I bet JBERS will go through some painful soul searching, lives destroyed, careers scuttled, MX actions going into slow crawl mode. Mueller v. US Dept. of Air Force, 63 F. Supp. 2d 738 (E.D. Va. 1999) :: Justia PLACING BLAME AT ANY COST | TIME

Fox NewsSomali daycare in Minnesota broken into, key documents st...A Somali-run daycare in Minneapolis was allegedly broken into amid ongoing fraud investigations. Important employee and child documents reportedly missing. Shouldn't we feel bad for these poor immigrants just trying to make a life? And, on top of that, they were robbed!!! Because of all the cash and valuables stored at a daycare...a perfectly normal place to break into.

Yeah, their defense looks stout. I'd root for Miami if my wife went there, but she didn't. Would you ever root for the gators? I think it'd be pretty awesome if Indiana wins personally. However, whoever wins certainly deserves it with how many games are played now.

I did a CDI once for a group of maintainers who had sucked up the engine covers into the engines of a kc-135 during an engine run at night. This was a group of five maintainers, all of whom had forgotten to bring a flashlight, and so instead of either finding a light source or just walking up to the engine to see if they were covered, they just skipped every procedure and rule to prevent this mishap fired them up. Sadly this is completely believable. I hope he went quick.

Of course he wouldn’t. Thought you had nothing to hide Dan?

My wife, who graduated from FSU was pulling for Miami just like I did for FSU like when they were unjustly left out. Oh well haters gonna hate...hope it keeps you warm at night... Of the remaining four I will be happy if any one of them wins but Oregon. Miami's defense was swarming and violent at the point of attack. Indiana is a freaking machine. Ole Miss is a Cinderella story and F@ck Lane Kiffin.

Beyond violation of TO procedures, voice comm isn’t required/a factor here. This is all avoided by guy in cockpit not touching anything until someone on ground gives him the thumbs up to do so (and that guy has 1. visually cleared the area surrounding moving parts and 2. Has signaled to others what’s about to happen so they don’t go into any “danger areas.”) So this is a major, double fuck up.

Crenshaw and Ryan pod isn't happening. Crenshaw wouldn't sign the release that all Ryan's guests have signed since the very early days of starting his podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eszt7iyjvX0

In my experience, if power is on and hydraulics are powered, headset communication was used.

I'm a longtime reader of Karl Denninger's Market Ticker blog. His tagline is "Commentary on the The Capital Markets," but the subject matters range from politics, to technology, and elsewhere. Every year he does a "predictions" article for the year ahead, to include scoring of his predictions from the previous year. He gives himself a 59% for predictions from last year, so he's not Nostradamus, but the fact that he actually goes back and scores himself puts him above most other professional prognosticators. Article here, with predictions below.

Didn't digest the whole report, but this bit from the Executive Summary seems to sum it up. TO guidance is to use the PMA (a laptop hooked into the aircraft) to actuate the launch rail. Instead, the team lead sat in the cockpit and used the cockpit controls (in violation of TO guidance). When sitting in the cockpit, there is poor visibility to the weapons bay. There was some confusion amongst the team members, and the launch rail was retracted by the maintainer in the cockpit while another maintainer had his head in the way. That poor soul had their head fatally crushed. Maybe. I want to know more about how JBER personnel got to the point where they were actuating the launch rail from the cockpit instead of the laptop, in violation of TO guidance. The report indicates this was something that was "routine" at JBER, so it would be interesting to know how that came about. Sounds like classic "normalization of deviance" going on. Contributing, but they were doing this work in a hangar, with the APU running. So couldn't communicate verbally due to the noise, and had to rely on hand signals. Maybe I'm showing my ignorance of these things, but is that normal? Don't you typically have power in the hangar you can hook up to, or other ways to avoid running the APU?

Incredibly sad and entirely preventable. Someone needs to be charged with manslaughter.

Eventually you realize that the entire organizational pressure to sacrifice is driven by nothing more than the unquenchable need for promotion and power of those working their way up towards the top. It's been a long fucking time since anything we were doing in the military actually mattered from the perspective of defending the Homeland. Sure, small operations here and there, but nothing that justifies the institutional insanity that everyone experienced while they were in. It's just a bunch of losers who desperately want to be generals. Even the "good dudes." Your personal and family life was meaningless to them because they didn't even care about their own. Flag officers. I still think there were some (rare) good O-6s.

Must’ve missed your second paragraph initially. I pray all is well for your family.

A thread for guessing what’s gonna happen https://www.theblaze.com/shows/glenn-tv/3-blazetv-hosts-give-their-top-2026-predictions-and-theyre-wild Based on the article, Clark’s prognostications: Geo political: Ukraine War ends by summer, tense peace, Russia continues grey zone actions but shifts to Baltic shenanigans. China does more encirclement exercises but does not invade. Venezuela destabilizes further but does not fall. Oil and China keeps regime a float. Iran cracks down and survives, IC navel gazes and allows brutal repression. Turkey gets refugee influx, they ship them to Europe. Europe intakes them reluctantly and governments get wobbly but order remains. Other migrants attempt to enter with this influx. Aliens No disclosure even if governments have made contact with them. Markets DOW finishes above 50k USA faces debt mini crisis, inflation comes back but not as bad as Biden era, above 4% by end of year. Interest rates freeze. Gold and precious metals surge, crypto grows. AI begins culling entry level knowledge workers, nibbles at middle level, has largest effect on junior executive level. Politics Republicans hold both houses, Democratic Party goes further left. Semi serious calls for Bluexit occur. No effort is made to contain spending growth, reference mini debt crisis above, bond markets are nervous but buy Treasuries at higher interest rates.

Agreed, CH will be intolerable if they do! 🤣🤣🤣 Same if a SEC team (UGA, Bama or Ol' Miss) wins it! 😁😁😁 I still can't believe they beat Ohio State, but I'm not unhappy about it! 🏈

I don't like being a hater, but please let anyone but Miami win the NC.

It’s fascinating to see the left’s media machine spin up into action to tell us none of this is true.

Valid. I had a situation where I was being pressured to choose between spending time with my wife having our first kid amidst some last minute hospital shenanigans, and planning/executing a wing verification. Easy choice but the OG/CC held a grudge against me for the rest of that assignment. I look back and can't help but shake my head at it still. Maybe the pressure at the group level and above is insane? I can't understand the crazy work expectations at non-deployed assignments sometimes. Full caveat that I've deployed and done the thing and worked my ass off past crew rest when required, but that experience just went to convince me that when we're not deployed or preparing to deploy we should ease off the throttle a bit for some quality of life considerations...

Rough one https://www.afjag.af.mil/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=dxoQ_pf1qG8%3d&portalid=77

And young guys should take notice. Don't sacrifice your forever family for an organization that will drop you without a second thought. Work hard at your trade. Take care of your people. But remember none of your AF leadership will attend your funeral. It's not personal, it's just business. Treat it accordingly.

That's tough. I've seen and heard a few stories like this of a leader losing their career over some relatively pointless stuff and can't imagine sacrificing so much effort and time with family over the duration of a career for it to just end like that.

Reviving this thread again. I was just picked up ANG for a rated spot. I had to fill out a 2807 for the application and i gave them pretty much my entire medical history, and they still hired me. I had a depression episode May of 2018 that culminated in 5 day psych ward stay (High school/Juvenile) and 6 months of Lexapro. I did therapy monthly for a year, and was released. Following that, I obtained my FAA class 3 medical, having to enroll in the HIMS (Human Intervention and Motivational Study) program for a special issuance medical. Met with a HIMS/AME and an aviation psychiatrist starting in 2020, and meeting with a local LMFT for "monitoring" through the HIMS program. In August of 2025 I was cleared Medically to hold my second class medical with no special issuance, and was discharged from the HIMS program. Furthermore, I have been enlisted in the ANG since 2021, requiring a waiver upon entry. I am currently working with my unit to schedule an FC1, and I was wondering if there was anybody on here that had a similar story or a flight doc that would have some insight on the likelihood of obtaining a waiver, or if I will need a waiver since I have so many medical records documenting my case. And if I do need a waiver, what can I do to be most prepared and have the best chance of approval. Thank you in advance.

Cool. This is not my bailiwick but concerns me in general for preserving a strong pilot culture in the center of the AF. The MAF having a finishing school after UPT but before FTU is where this idea really would be focused. Just as commercial operators look for minimum hours, experience levels and track records of success prior to hiring, the MAF needs that in the pilots it assesses. Again strong pilot culture. A first short assignment like the first job a civilian pilot lands, can start their careers, training and ultimately lead to a more capable MAF. I’m just day dreaming on BO but if a post graduate universal 1st assignment system (multiple steps) was synched up to MAF and other big wing / crew bound graduates, it could handle the intake and steadily produce better aviators prior to heavy FTUs. Would it produce the immediate mass they say is needed now? Probably not but methinks the cost of a glut of less than optimally trained pilots is greater than waiting a bit and getting the heavy customers accustomed to getting better pilots at a slower but steady cadence. My druthers would be for the AF to petition for a military B737 MAX 7 with reasonable mods and have this be a short assignment for all heavy tracked grads. The sequence would be a multi engine refresher and short experience builder course, all contractor provided. A short break for some leave then report for a contractor provided type course with additional sims, a type plus course. Then report to one of three units flying this jet, get about 25-35 sorties, then move on your way. This is fusing advanced training with operations, reducing the investment of the AF into training only aircraft but gaining new reliable, efficient, organic steady airlift capabilities.