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Pretty impressive landing roll. Actually a no roll.

The door event was 16 years ago. It’s been a couple years since the last “oops, our bad” rental return.

Changes in tone are natural and expected in the fullness of time. Organisms that don't adapt to a changing environment become too dissimilar from that environment to extract organic essentials and survive. They die. So yes, in the decade of enshittification preceding this latest war of choice, my tone has become more serrated. That doesn't make me an impostor. Nor does it supply the foundation for suggesting I was dishonest in the first place. I'll agree I could have been more constructive in some of my previous comments. But let's not get excited about painting "f***" on an airplane that is dropping napalm on thatched hut villages. We're discussing war crimes, jus ad bellum, and other profound subjects. None of us is dismounting a Higgins Boat. So maybe we can thicken up enough to punch and counterpunch enough to break through the patina and learn something.

Iran knows Hesgeth/Trump aren't going feet dry. Otherwise we would have done it already. Its now really a game of chicken, but we're not on a collision course. Its turned into a game of mean tweets. Israel is shaking its head, going WTF, but they got their useful idiot to perform a bombing campaign to further their goal to neutralize Iran. This deal Trump wants is just figurative so he can say, "look what I did. I'm impressive. I want a ballroom. And a statue of me with Epstein in the ballroom, where we hold each other while we diddle each other. Melania, film that. Oh, I need my IRS guy to exempt me from taxes. Where's my US Supreme Court? I need some ball licking. Pam, get in here... wait, damn, I fired her boobs. Or his boobs. No wait, those were Noem's BOOBS. Such bigguns. PS. No TDS's were harmed in this production. Yet. Mike Mike Mike... Hump day!!! PPS. That is what rando thought Trump does at 3am every night.

Not on my bingo card....lucky no one was hurt. ABC NewsSinkhole shuts down runway at LaGuardia International Air...The runway, one of two at the airport, is expected to be closed until 6 a.m. ET Thursday,

I don’t think you’re far off here, just that the players are reversed. Someone is definitely stalling and it isn’t Trump. Trump has signaled he’s desperate for a deal (which is why he pinky promises we’re about to get one every other day) while Iran has either rejected negotiations entirely or countered with their own maximalist demands they know are complete non-starters. The narrative that they’re desperate and that time is somehow on our side doesn’t seem to be what Iran is betting on.. at all. They see Trump searching for off-ramps, flailing in his public messaging, midterms looming, approval ratings plummeting, all while energy and commodity prices across the west continue to spike. I also think forcing Iran into more destitute conditions just enables a deeper IRGC crackdown and isn’t going to have the revolutionary effect many are hoping for.

AF378/DL8719 Denied entry to the USAir France 378 CDG-DTW is being "denied entry to the US for health reasons" and diverted to YUL due to "virus concerns". Unfortunately in the year of our lord 2026 "virus" could mean multiple things, but this is likely having something to do with the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola and the related emergency order banning noncitizens from DRC, South Sudan, or Uganda from entering the US. Maybe a name of a passenger alerted with past travel records? A situation to watch for sure. PYOKAir France Flight to Detroit Banned From Entering U.S. Ai...An Air France flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Detroit has reportedly been barred from entering U.S. airspace after officials became aware of a ‘virus’ on board the aircraft. Air France flight A

I'm not so sure that needs to be admitted. Trump has said publicly that he thinks the Iranians are just screwing around. The only way to "win" is to get us to give up. And I think they're looking at the last 30 years of American conflict and hoping that the American people are going to get bored of this, and eventually the administration will be pressured into giving up. So the name of the game is stalling. I actually think the administration figured this out a while ago, which is why we aren't dropping bombs right now, despite Trump's penchant for blustery language. A blockade is boring and cheap, as far as the court of public opinion is concerned. It's also devastating to Iran. And Europe, and Asia, if this thing continues through June. But no one's going to get shot down during a blockade, Iran is obviously out of any meaningful number of drones or TBMs, and so there's nothing particularly newsworthy about what's going on now. Gas prices are up, but not to the point that we're seeing any sort of major disruptions in the economy. And Trump has the ultimate lever on gas prices, so if things do get out of hand he can bring them down (in the US) instantly and persistently. So... We wait. I think it is notable that the administration was telling the Iranian people not to protest or leave their homes throughout the first month of the campaign, and they have given no signal suggesting otherwise. I wonder if they're waiting for the economic situation to get so bad that the people are "primed" for another rebellion, this time with a greatly weakened IRGC.

As interesting as it is to conceptually debate whether war crimes should even exist as a category (Jesus Christ guys) I’d like to circle us back to the thread topic of Iran. We’re now on our 3rd or maybe 4th iteration of: threaten total obliteration->back off the threat->promise a super stupendous deal is right around the corner. Apparently this time the Saudis, Emiratis, and Qataris asked us to postpone so it totally wasn’t a taco (although it is hilarious these ultimatums keep coming due on tuesdays.) So I guess now our force posture is.. ready to exact total obliteration but also eagerly awaiting a perfect, amazing deal. I’m sure this new status quo will last literal dozens of hours. Honest question: is there a point here where we just be honest with ourselves and admit we’re being fucked with?

So I saw the Snowbirds are retiring the CT-114 Tutors with CT-157 Siskins (PC-21s) https://aviationweek.com/defense/light-attack-advanced-training/canada-commits-pc-21s-replace-snowbirds-team and I knew their demo team came from all career communities in the RCAF, kinda has to because of the size of the RCAF and need to cast a wide net then. So I thought with the T-7 eventually becoming the universal trainer for the USAF why not re-equip the Thunderbirds with T-7s, open the application to all MAJCOMs and build a demo team from the entire AF rated pilot communities? Why? Represents the whole of the Air Force better; inspires, motivates and invigorates new pilots to reach for this opportunity thus bettering their communities; reduces the stovepipe cultural problem across the rated force and invigorates the demo team as a concept with this new direction. Yeah, there’s some staff guy writing in that paragraph but I think it would be a good thing just because you’re telling the other guys, we want you to represent the flying skills and traditions of the Air Force in this very important way. Training, costs, risk, implementation and all factors are important but I argue here for the concept, not details. I yield the floor…

Believe Moose has previously identified himself on this board (view post history). Although the change in tone from ~10 years ago and this kind of writing below make me wonder if his account was hijacked, or maybe he wasn't who he said he was initially.

As the IP told the story in the bar afterwards...probably

Have not seen any reports but it appears a T-6 from Vance AFB made a gear up landing at McConnell AFB yesterday? AQM_tS1xRWGRDP1Wo28twAPU4ofQXY5BmqGlUOGwNA9nZ-SzzGXSU3xrZ3q5DWfwj0cEOVLfMkYCJGKfFTJMzvJvpNy5Kqq4qQWtxyHPApmfsw.mp4

Except more cool...

Sounds like you sat on the wrong uncle's lap or tortured too many house pets as a child and now struggle to escape the distortions of your own psychodrama. Do you hear your own theme music when you walk from your pontiac to the commissary door? Do you have nightmares about track select and wake up clutching your big blue wooby? Devaluing the service of a fellow veteran to enhance your own sense of worth is desperado territory. And if you need me to agree with you to feel better about yourself, then you don't even believe what you're saying. Maybe because you know deep down, in places you don't talk about at post-midnight interstate rest stop parties, you know it doesn't deserve belief. I know I argued it's best to prioritize substance over source. But once a source proves they have no substance, ignoring them becomes a useful shortcut. Something tells me you get ignored a lot, so maybe this will help you get why. Granted a lot of time passed between my visits to this place, but I can't stop being astonished at the sheer enshittification of dialogue. There used to be more balance. Defining oneself by MDS used to get someone kicked in the pills so hard their dead grandpa's wingman would cry out from the grave in pain. Now it's, like, what the cool kids do. It's normal to define yourself by residual inadequacy when you're young and still figuring things out. To still be engaging in popping your polo collar at this stage of life suggests a deeper vein of psychic sludge. Good luck with it, we're all counting on you.

I do speak for myself. Unfortunately, the president speaks for all of us. When he uses his power to shield child rapists, we all become complicit, because he has no power apart from that which we grant to him. When SecDef invites to the Pentagon someone who openly says slavery was cool, we all become complicit in that too. Bad news: we are no better than our enemies, and at our current rate of closure will turn them into the good guys very soon. Direct intervention might prevent Iran getting a nuke, at least for now. But this isn't a single-move game. It's an infinite game. What helps now might work against us later. Or it might not even help us now. I'm struggling with why, if the case for this war was such a slam dunk, it didn't get made in the manner required by law. I'm struggling even more to understand why a bunch of USAF officers don't think laws are important. If you can explain to me why we needed to conduct MCO to re-obliterate something we just obliterated, it would provide a theory at least as promising as us being captured by a foreign government, which is currently the leading theory. I think I asked it before, but I'll try again: what evidence would change your mind? I needn't argue that both Iran and the USA are immoral nations. We've been proving that to ourselves and the world for a while now. But moral sufficiency isn't the reason to go war, and representative republics that don't fight to keep their voice in matters of war don't stay representative for long. I'm not saying that applies to us. We haven't had representation for a long time. Elections are not about us or policies. They're about money and propaganda, which was again proven in yesterday's weaponized Kentucky primary.

USAF taking an operational pause on ALL T-38s pending an as of yet undescribed inspection. Someone knows something or at least has an idea of a mechanical failure. U.S. Air Force T-38 Operational Pause From the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs "ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- Out of an abundance of caution, the Air Force is implementing a fleet-wide operational pause for all T-38 Talon aircraft, impacting units across Air Education and Training Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Materiel Command and Air Force Global Strike Command. This pause in flight operations allows an ongoing Safety Board to locate and assess evidence from a May 12, 2026, T-38 mishap involving an aircraft assigned to Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. The pause ensures the continued safety of Air Force personnel and equipment involved in flying T-38 operations while the investigation progresses. The duration of the pause remains undetermined pending further engineering analysis and development of an inspection process to clear aircraft for a safe return to flight. Inspections are anticipated to begin as early as this week. Individual aircraft may resume flying operations once the inspection process and, if necessary, any corresponding maintenance actions are complete. This operational pause strictly applies to the T-38 Talon fleet. Affected major commands are actively working to mitigate impacts to operations, training and readiness. During this period, aircrews will maximize simulator training to maintain proficiency and currency requirements."

We had a rental van in Germany year ago. We were flying down the autobahn when the dude in the passenger's seat rolled down the window....the combination of speed, airlfow and age on the van was just enough to tear the headliner loose.....BOOM....we were all suddenly sitting there covered in a cloud of insulation, it looked like a scene out of a movie, all we could do was laugh. Took us a while to get all the insulation out of our hair, teeth and flightsuits. The next day one of the guys super-glued the headliner back into place. We turned the van in a few days later and never heard a word.

In the last 20 years? I've had nothing but issues with overseas rental cars in European countries. DO fought a battle with a compnay in Italy for a year over a busted bumper.

There are always USAFE AND PACAF jobs popping up that don’t require SDE or IDE in res. If you’re after multiple years of adventure OCONUS (and adding to your TAFMS), no need to do school to make that happen. Also, only have had one guard wg/cc who did in res school, the rest did SDE in correspondence.

Your use of indiscriminate here is at best willful ignorance, and at worst a self-serving lie. I suspect the latter. Again, I'm shocked that you're aghast the Commander in Chief would direct the objectives of the armed forces, and then voice those out loud to his constituents. There's no we there in relation to Trump. Although, I see we've finally admitted there's an argument going on. There's no circularity, other than the mental circle jerk one must go through to paint both Iran and US/Israel as immoral actors. You seem to think Israel's official or unofficial policy is to conduct terrorism, specifically target civilians, and wipe out a race of ppl. I know they both start with the letter "I" but I think you have Israel and Iran confused. The path to preventing Iran from getting a nuke is direct intervention, which is what is occurring. You're reading things I didn't type. I made specific references not to the Iranian people but to the leadership. I have a friend from Iran who still has family there, I'm well versed in the differences between the ppl and the immoral/evil cult in power. Check the name of the poster. I didn't say you were antisemitic. Although, white ppl that used HOAs to gentrify neighborhoods also claimed they weren't racist either so.. You're missing the point intentionally or otherwise. Maybe Google who Isaac and Ishmael were and why the Jewish ppl have been under threat from Islamists since that time. Speak for yourself.

I’ve returned a car OCONUS missing a door. Said “have a nice day” and left. Never heard about it ever again. Seen many GTC rentals returned all kinds of screwed up over my career, never seen or heard of anyone getting screwed (questioned by the CC is a different story).

Very true. The substance of your argument is purely theoretical and virtually useless in a real world sense. Sounds like you were a C-17 dude who touched down a couple times in Bagram. Or maybe an AWACS back seater. In any case, the substance of your argument reaches its useful limit at the door of the classroom where you heard it. Speaking of classroom, sounds like you didn't study that war or it's implementation very well. Sober up, go read "Dereliction of Duty" by H.R. McMaster, then reassess. Not even close to absolute or total war. While you're on that war, go read Flying Through Midnight...because every airman of our generation should read that.

I'm glad they didn't have a radar gun on the Destin bridge 40ish years ago.