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1. Did anyone use their gi bill? If so how much did it pay out and how many months did it use up? 2. Sanders offers onsite accommodation. How is it or book a hotel?

Anyone know if the IPT locations have or will have AD liaison or IP positions?

Non stealthy Tanker Fleet. The Achilles Heel of a moder Air Force. In WW2 the lightning advance to Germany from Normandy stalled due largely the inability to keep the vehicles gassed up. Same reason the German Counter Offensive died in the Ardennes. No fuel to keep the Panzers moving. Even in Ukraine the original invasion stalled because of lack of fuel and the Javelin. If something is carrying a lot of fuel, it's inherently ready to turn into a fireball.

Only if you view ALL of it that way, which I do not. I agree that there are plenty of the types you mention, I just question how many of those Afghanis fighting us were only doing so because we had killed their fathers/grandfathers (not to mention Mothers/sisters/siblings) and/or the fact that we were simply occupiers in their land. I can tell you that if you invaded my land, occupied it for decades, killed some of my family, and/or randomly schwacked a neighbor with a hellfire, I'd vow to kill as many of you as I could as well (wolverine style). I'll concede that we may have stopped some attacks on American soil, then again, maybe not. Did we really gain anything by sticking around A-stan after we got OBL? It truly felt like we just played the world largest game of 'next man up," as we killed the top guys, then their replacements, then their replacement, etc... Probably a discussion for another thread, sorry to hijack the thread.

We should take used compact car tires and cover all of our heavies with them.

The Trump/Elon relationship lasted longer than I thought.

Those going to Oshkosh planeless stop off in Minneapolis, pick up my RV-8 and fly there in style. I'll even throw in a full tank of 100LL with the sale.

Fair. I'll take Sept to Dec 2019 ROE..

Mil2ATP was a great course. It’s not a pay to play program, but the instruction is top-notch and it’ll make you a better pilot. I did the CTP through the Delta training center (highly recommend) and the ATP practical in Goldsboro.

Same here!

Isn't that just falling into the common attitude that "if we only understood them better and found common ground we would all get along"? There is an extreme faction of a particular middle eastern religion that wants us all dead and wants to take over our country and wipe any record of our existence off the planet. We have no ability to affect that one way or the other. So, the premise that we have anything to do with the actions or goals of those on the other side of that war or the current less obvious war is ludicrous in my opinion. Their end game remains unchanged regardless of what we may or may not do.

Not under the ROE we had at the end...unless you really like watching ANA/ANP get rolled by the Taliban and being unable to do anything about it. I was specifically referencing camaraderie. Sense of mission accomplishment just wasn't there for this guy. The flying was cool and I did some cool stuff for sure, I'll never discount that. It's just that none of that was used on any of our deployments....[bad] luck of the draw I suppose. Up to a point, I believe that was true. Toward the end, I couldn't help but think we were now just killing (or not) the product of our own doing. The proverbial self licking ice cream cone.

I don’t think we need very many tabV harden shelters like we have in Europe here in the United States. But pretty much every valuable airplane to include tankers and high dollar transport should be in enclosed building. Drones can fly into open doors or into hail, sheds or sun sheds. This is such an obvious precaution to take. I doubt anything like that will ever happen instead will be laser and microwave energy, directed weapons that built by one of the big contractors for a few million per unit and we can only afford one per base that’s the most likely outcome of what we can learn from this Ukrainian Pearl Harbor

China at it again!

Affordable? Our MIC is not interested in affordable!

Honestly, it was a goal to make it to retirement. Fortunately, I had fantastic assignments and pretty much got to go where I wanted, even ended up with a pretty sweet gig as an exchange officer with the Canadians despite it being non-flying. My most rewarding job was also the most challenging and exhausting, I loved the people and the Herk mission, but I was burnt out and ready to move on. Yes, the grass is greener with the airlines, but it's a different shade if you catch my drift. I definitely don't regret staying in for 20 years.

Considering that these types of drones have relatively small payloads, we don't need to build shelters hardened against 500lb bombs. An enclosure that guarantees relatively low levels of protection and standoff would probably render FPV attacks mostly ineffective...and might actually be affordable.

They didn't have bazooka microphones in my time so no, I didn't talk $hit....I was an angel.

Dude, you played football at Miami right? You never talked $hit? At least he didn't murder a teammate. 🤨

I stayed 21 years because people were great and mission was awesome; I wouldn’t have stayed if we weren’t at war. Although the war was managed poorly and much was wasted, we were killing terrible people and I’m convinced my 20s and 30s were spent doing tasks worth my best efforts. That’s very cool and rare in life.

That phenomena is real. Happens at a different point for everyone, but it usually happens.

Was never an argument. The contrast between camaraderie and sense of mission accomplishment was my point. Of course the airlines are a better QOL for a family/raising kids long term, no denying that.