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That was not within Q1 standards for a V1 cut.

Your entire point relies on mischaracterizing every element of the war. Israel has not targeted civilian non-combatants. At any point. However terrorist combatants, or military combatants depending on how you want to characterize Hamas, have absolutely hidden themselves and their equipment under and behind civilians. Which, as anybody who stayed awake during a law of armed conflict class would remember, makes them viable targets. Hamas did not Target Israeli military installations on October 7th. They targeted a music festival and a bunch of pacifist towns. They didn't walk away from women and children who were alone in the house unarmed, they raped and killed them. The women and children were the target, not collateral damage. So you're either a troll, an anti-semite, or an idiot. I suspect all three.

Everything you argue depends on non-combatants in Gaza and Iran being culpable for October 7th. They are non-combatants. They have no agency. Collective punishment is antithetical both distinction and necessity. You're answering the question "how can I justify this?" But the right answer to the wrong question is still the wrong answer. The right question is "why are pretending to be great while settling for being Israel's military gimp?"

I was there Saturday and thought they were really sloppy and spread out but gave the benefit of the doubt to the 30kt winds. Maybe they are new to the demo team, but it was sad display compared to having seen the same demo team in the past. Certainly nothing like the Viper demo.

Looks like they failed the blind exercise... Glad they all made it out!

Were these Growlers from the same squadron that crashed on the low level last year at Whidbey? Doing a little research and I’m ascertaining that all Growlers are based in Whidbey?

A little local police blotter activity to show how some of our young Airmen continue to impress. This after an incident several years ago that saw a group of USAF motorcycle riders doing 100+ over the Pensacola Bay Bridge. ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY CLOCKED AT 130 MPH IN 35-MPH ZONE ON U.S. 98: A Gulf Breeze Police Department officer was on patrol around 11:45 p.m. on May 14 in Gulf Islands National Seashore on U.S. 98 when he observed a speeding vehicle traveling in the opposite direction. The officer did a U-turn and clocked the vehicle at 118 mph in a 45 mph zone then 130 mph in a 35 mph zone. The suspect, who was successfully stopped in Publix parking lot, was driving a Toyota Camry and identified as 22-year-old Cori Thomas. Per the arrest report. Thomas stated he didn’t have a reason for driving so fast other than wanting to “open it up.” Hurlburt Field was notified of the arrest.

Based on the SCOTUS ruling which declared that a president has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken under core constitutional powers, and presumptive immunity for all other official acts, you would think there would be a counter balance that restricts him or her from dumb $hit like this. I see the potential for abuse by both sides.

Well, on one hand you believe in the actual definition of genocide, but then on the other you twist terrorism into fitting something that it is not. We just keep coming back to this world of utopian hypotheticals. There has never been a war waged on the scale of what Israel did in Gaza with so few casualties. Ever. Not even close. There are no wars where women and children are spared. Even the concept of innocent children is wildly inflated. If a 14-year-old is holding an AK-47, is he innocent? Is he a child? You keep trying to frame the action itself as the key element of moral versus immoral. Blowing up pagers for example. I'm baffled that someone could be in the military and not understand how obviously useless that framing is. Distinction, necessity, and proportionality are loac concepts specifically for determining whether an action, murder, is moral or immoral. None of the women or children killed on October 7th needed to die to protect the Palestinians from a lethal threat. Not only that, it put them at far greater danger. I just keep going back to how crazy it is the amount of effort you put into excusing the actions of groups like Hamas or the IRGC when they don't even believe in the nonsense you're spouting. They are not defending their wives and daughters against the Israelis. They believe that it is a religious catastrophe of the highest word that Israel exists. They are completely uninterested in peaceful coexistence, and they do not pretend and be interested in it. It's so curious when people get indignant at being called anti-semitic, when they are carrying the water of groups that are openly and proudly call for the actual genocide of the Jewish people. It's akin to saying "I'm not racist, but I think the KKK has an interesting point, and you should at least be able to see things from their perspective." If a man straps his daughter to his chest, breaks into your house and attempts to kill your family, putting a bullet through the girl to stop the murderer is a tragedy. But it is not a immoral.

Well, the judge on this case ordered a hearing set for end of May just to figure out if this kind of suit could continue. The issue, quote, “Although President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction. It is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other so as to satisfy Article III's case or controversy requirement. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28072859-trumpirsord042426pdf/ But Trump headed the judge off at the pass by ordering a settlement, before the case had a chance to be heard in a court of law. A massive grifting of our money. Thus, a new political play has been created. Create a massive lawsuit against the government you run, and make them settle. I know a guy that's been fighting DFAS for YEARS over a few grand that DFAS is at 100% at fault. No such thing as small claims court against the Fed, so unless someone wants to spend tons of money to sue the govt, he has to exhaust administrative process. And he can prove harm; DFAS has filed adverse actions on his credit. I told him to file a claim in the new Trump fund for a million as these actions happened under Biden, see what happens.

Never said it was. Genocide is a specific word with a specific meaning and I don’t think it’s applicable here. The hyperbole the far left uses on this topic very often torpedoes rational debate. But I think we are having a rational debate and we can both agree that something can be bad, even deeply immoral, without being a genocide. My point was simply that all the child deaths in Gaza aren’t 100% on Hamas because they built tunnels or launched rockets or had meetings in hospital basements. Someone still has to drop the bombs. And Israel was using AI to deliberately target family residences, never mind the rest of the people living in those buildings. That is not only not OK, I would argue It’s a form of terrorism, akin what Hamas does. If Iran was tracking IDF soldiers cell phones and TBM striking their neighborhood once they got home from work we would rightly call that terrorism. Inconvenient details like this really cloud the good guys versus bad guys narrative.

Neat. None of that is genocide.

AFSOC had a mixed model for many years. In the Gunship, basic C-130 Qual CP/AC/IP training was accomplished at Little Rock. All mission training was accomplished by the training school house (19th SOS), at Hurlburt. Slife broke that model and moved Gunship training to ABQ along with a bunch of T Coded birds. A huge loss in my opinion and not at all efficient for a small fleet. Under the previous construct new folks would fly with a variety of current and qualified folks on joint training lines, the transfer of knowledge was MUCH faster and they graduated combat ready. As is usually the case there was a political play to keep iron in ABQ.

What the actual F two? And that was the Demo team?

Kind of reminded me of the B-17 and P39 mid air in Texas.

Or it could be this: Edit: Not directly related to Gaza but also in 2024, Israel remotely detonated thousands of pagers/walkie talkies which I will admit was a badass logistical and tradecraft achievement. But when you remotely blow up thousands of PED’d with no possible way of knowing where they all are/who’s around at the time the side effect is obvious. They maimed dozens of children and killed a few, and hurt/killed dozens of unrelated adults as well. I think this pretty well sums up the IDF’s level of collateral damage concern. But zooming out back to the Iran conflict I think this discussion has kinda circled back on itself. Some here like myself are trying to evaluate the actions of the US/Israel/Iran/Hamas from a neutral observer perspective to try to figure out what’s actually going on and if any of this is a good idea. Others view it as a pure good guys vs bad guys dynamic. Everything the US/Israel do is a justified response to past transgressions by the bad guys. Everything Iran/Hamas do happened in a vacuum with no historical context or justification, because they’re the bad guys and that’s just how they are. There’s not much that can be said to bridge the gap between these two viewpoints, but I have no doubt we will keep trying.

It was not to be…. https://theaviationist.com/2026/05/16/aeralis-collapses-ending-british-advanced-jet-trainer/

Well you're on a roll. "Championing." They're dead because their parents love Islam more than they love their children. They're dead because the leadership in Gaza, that's Hamas, has created an environment so unfathomably miserable by spending every penny the world has given them on tunnels and rockets and guns instead of food and shelter, that the idea of Islamic Paradise is more appealing than the idea of survival. They're dead because the overwhelming majority of Palestinian sentiment was elated by the rape and murder of other innocent children who have a different religion than theirs. They're dead because boys between the age of 12 and 17 were disproportionately likely to be holding an AK-47 when their life was ended by an Israeli strike. Show me one Israeli parade over those dead Palestinian children. Just one. Send me the recording of one Israeli man calling his parents in orgasmic elation because he had just murdered a Palestinian family. I don't think you're evil. I think you're highly emotional, and not intelligent enough to filter out the incredible deluge of propaganda and lies that you are exposed to. Unfortunately, they need you to think that I'm evil. Because if you were able to think clearly for more than 4 seconds, you would see the insanity of the things that you're posting here. You would stop and consider how the things you're suggesting have no historical precedent, and no basis in reality whatsoever. You would see that you're asking other people to accept the death of their innocent children in order to protect the innocent children of others who wish them nothing but annihilation.

So you're completely oblivious to the photograph of the dude shitting in the streets in California? Simply Google "pictures of people defecating in the streets of California" and you'll get a near endless list of photos of it happening. Or how these facts.. "It’s an empirical fact: San Francisco is a crappier place to live these days. Sightings of human feces on the sidewalks are now a regular occurrence; over the past 10 years, complaints about human waste have increased 400%. People now call the city 65 times a day to report poop, and there have been 14,597 calls in 2018 alone. Last year, software engineer Jenn Wong even created a poop map of San Francisco, showing the concentration of incidents across the city. New mayor London Breed said: “There is more feces on the sidewalks than I’ve ever seen growing up here.” In a revolting recent incident, a 20lb bag of fecal waste showed up on a street in the city’s Tenderloin district." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/18/san-francisco-poop-problem-inequality-homelessness That article is over seven years old, are you claiming it's gotten better, because that's extremely doubtful! And being cute only amplifies your cluelessness. Yes, Austin does have a homeless problem and yes, they do defecate but not in the middle of public streets. Unlike California, such behavior is not tolerated in Texas and even the liberal city of Austin (which condoned homeless encampments for years) is finally pulling its head out its ass and eradicating them (which a push from the Governor). You can be as delusional as many Californians are, but the truth is that state is quickly becoming a failed one and only a change in government as the result of the people forcing it will stop it from spiraling into an even deeper hell hole!

An International Drivers License is not a drivers license per say but a translation of your US license. While encouraged to have, especially in countries were English isn't widely-spoken; they are not required. I've driven in Europe countless times without one and it was never an issue. Most of my speeding tickets were from cameras and sent to the rental company anyway! 😁😁😁 Also, it's been a very long time since I rented a car on military orders; but quick research showed if you use your GTCC it does provide rental car insurance for official government travel. It provides Collision Damage Waiver and Loss Damage Waiver (LDW), but does not cover damage/injury to other people or property or if you use the car off-duty or for personal travel. However, when you book through the DTS with approved vendors rental cars often already include full insurance in the contract thus you usually don’t need to rely on GTCC coverage at all. But don't trust my word, confirm that! Personally, I would much rather have a vehicle at my disposal than depend on the Transportation Squadron!

64,000 children killed or maimed in 2 years. That includes 1,000 infants. For the sin of being born in the wrong place. That's what you're championing. And people are still mystified when I explain that the USAF is not a dependable firewall vs genocidal political intent or unlawful orders. With that comment, you demonstrate that the door to your mind is closed and effort to pry it open will fail unless you are somehow de-radicalized, which usually only happens with mortal shock. Just remember, anything you let your government do to someone else, it will eventually do to you.

It’s possible but if they select it, I doubt it would be them choosing it vs being told YOU WILL CHOOSE THIS. Since they are less concerned with actual FCLPs but only planning on FCLPs to waive off, they might make the USN buy the T-7 to get the program healthier / maybe a decent price per USN T-7 tail.

Ruskies are building a family model Felon https://www.forbes.com/sites/sebastienroblin/2021/07/30/russian-two-seater-su-57-stealth-jet-is-aimed-at-exports-controlling-killer-drones/