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In all seriousness, the threshold for getting an MoH as a living serviceman is incredibly high. And there's not one shred of doubt in my mind that this administration would happily violate the customary burdens for qualification so they could say that their operation had one more piece of flair on it. If the guy lives up to the standard set by previous recipients, then by all means. But getting shot and continuing the mission is not enough. And unfortunately for that pilot, everybody knows Trump is going to be pushing this as hard as he can, regardless of whether or not he deserves the medal.

Okay, I wouldn't have...but my brother would have

Wonder how many army pilots have taken bullets and continued flying? Did they all get MoH’s?

Sua’s minimum is 5, ideally 6 or more hits for a MOH, and preferably would’ve got at least one practice approach in upon RTB.

Lol. Sure you would have. You're just old and lame now. I don't know many rowdy young men who wouldn't want to say they chugged beers with the FBI boss.

The Struggle is real.

He was shot FOUR times including in the leg and hip, but flew on and conducted the air assault.

You sound like you disagree with him receiving it? Unless I’m misinterpreting the tone of your post?

The issue with Anthropic is a bit more nuanced than what is described above. Specifically, Anthropic's CEO (Dario Amodei), refused to let its Claude models be used to conduct US domestic surveillance or in fully autonomous weapons systems. Not saying he is right but I can see his moral argument.

Well deserved and earned.

Exactly. Many of the big tech names work in the black world, but publicly they’ll cry for world peace and shit on the DOW, an administration’s foreign policies/decisions, etc. They don’t actually give a shit about all of their professed “ideals,” they only care about money and power. They are more than happy to participate in things that result in death and destruction (and they’re fully aware of it).

Heard he was shot up pretty bad early on and continued on to finish. Heard, nothing concrete.

Medal of Honor for flying into Venezuela?

Most of the prep for flatbed loading is complete ✅

I guess the good thing about being out of gas is no fire.

Nice looking Piper. "Someone tell me what to do."... I would sure like to know more about his flight training. Wow.

I heard a horrible situation unfold in real time today that ended in a crash, I tried to help but everyone overwhelmed the kid and he crashed...fortunately the he survived, but made some epic mistakes along the way. I was flying from Huntsville back to Florida when I heard what sounded like a young guy come up on guard and you could hear the fear in his voice: "N85RW I don't think I have enough gas to make it." Several people chimed asking him to repeat, this time he said "N85RW I don't think I have enough gas to make it back to Murpheesboro." We asked him where was and he replied, "I don't know and now I show I have no gas, someone tell me what to do." Everyone on guard jumped in, "LAND, Squawk 7700!, LAND, LAND!" I have Starlink in my plane so I pulled him up on Flightaware and he was 14 miles west of Murpheesboro. On my map I could see he was 5 miles from a restricted (Private), airfield and he was at 5,000' AGL. Before I could get that out someone told him to switch to Nashville approach freq 118.4 because they had him on radar. I switched over but could not get a word in, felt like I was the only one with SA. Seven minutes later he was down in the trees. He passed multiple roads and empty fields and ended up in the trees...you can see one of the fields in the background of the crash pic. I hate to judge pilots after the fact but damn...

Sounds like typical big tech. We want those sweet DoD dollars, but we want to pretend like we stand for world peace and non-aggression. Fuck them. They should feel privileged to serve the military that created the world they profit so richly in.

My MFS from 15 Jan fell off my CDB as projected training today, so fingers crossed that means they’re going to start uploading dates soon!

At this point I just want to move. If I still don't have an assignment by 28 Feb, I will probably reach out to the assignments team and let them know that I can move ASAP. Not worried about UPT base preference at this point. Ready to go where there is an open slot.

Philosophically, Anthropic. Pete terminating the contract is right also. Threatening punitive actions will result in a lawsuit and DoW attempts to use the software against design probably wont go well, discovery and all. Anthropic is also kinda wrong here because they engaged in a dance with the Devil and thought it would be money.

If you’re an AI company and want to do business with the DOD, then you have to be OK with them implementing it in ways that will result in death and destruction. If you don’t like that, then don’t do business with the DOD.

It seems like the issues are with filling the earlier class dates at Laughlin, hence the “pick up and move now” offers people are getting. Similar to what was mentioned in this thread where people are getting offered to go with a March RNLTD. Curious if those of us who put Laughlin first and are still waiting for dates are also going to have an earlier class date. Will let y’all know

There is a meeting today between Hegseth and Anthropic. Anthropic's AI, Claude, is integrated within the Palantir Software used in the Maduro raid. Anthropic found out and informed the DoD Claude's terms of service stipulates is should not be used for applications involving violence, weapons development, or mass surveillance. Claude has guardrails in place to impede/prevents its use for such. It appears Claude is the only AI model approved for use on SIPRnet. Hegseth is unhappy. He says all AI models with DoD contracts need to remove any such guardrails so the full capabilities can be used by the DoD for "all lawful purposes." Hegseth is threatening to terminate Antropic's contract and deem them a "supply chain risk". Who is right? Hegeseth or Anthropic?