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The old girl is completing her final combat deployment...sad to see her go, but she is tired and it is time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRsYDYnv1rg

Respected and honorable statesman? I think you misspelled Marxist Terrorist. https://americanfreepress.net/?p=11873 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing https://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/nelson-mandela-media-fawns-though-marxist-terrorist/

Really? What was the unemployment rate before compared to after Mandela and the apartheid? The rape capital of the world ring any bells? It depends on how they did it and what they did once in power. Rather naive viewpoint. That's like saying Saddam imposed order on Iraq while ignoring him gassing the Kurds or killing his own people. And no one has any issues with Obama hustling off to South Africa, yet ignoring our ally when Margaret Thatcher died?

What we need to do is head over there with a few crowd pleasers and be done with it. I'm over it, fellas. We need to pack up our shit and GTFO. If they don't want us, why are we spending American lives, money, and time there?

5,000th post for Toro! You get a patch for that! You can't wear it until after the CUI is over though... Bendy

Exactly. Shut Up - before you get too spun up, I suggest you also look to see if there's a local sup to 2903 (assuming your command chief doesn't send out 6-9 references it prior to the CUI). It may specifically detail how patches are worn on that base. If still nothing, just take the patch off until the CUI is over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp5gdUHFGIQ

Bands have been a part of military tradition and history since...forever, unlike TIB who is just a bunch of singing, dancing fags. Well done, USAF band for this performance at the Air and Space Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIoSga7tZPg&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgIoSga7tZPg&app=desktop

^^^^ I got the AC-130W Nav!!! Beyond excited. It was #1 on my list. :D

Maybe, but your view is very cynical. In this age of technology, you can look at anybody's life and if it doesn't conform to exactly how you want it to, you can rip them apart for it. By using your logic, Mother Teresa can be viewed as a terrorist, Michael Jordan isn't the greatest because he's an asshole, and Elvis isn't the King because of drug use. Mandela did great things and it's easy to second guess every detail in hindsight. I'm not saying these things shouldn't be scrutinized but good deeds need to be celebrated since they're far and few these days.

Ah yes because a stable country, prosperous economy, is lesser preferred to the countries of Rwanada and Uganda. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad apartheid is gone, it was a horrible system. However, when the ANC came to power their Affirmative Action policies and the outright murder of tens of thousands of whites and confiscation of their property has in fact led to a worse South Africa. Johannesburg is now the rape and murder capital of the world. Did things need to change? Absolutely, however the process that they took while it improved some areas (minority rights), it also severely hurt others.

I'll answer you question with another question: Is it ok for the Taliban and/or Al Qaeda to purposefully target civilians in order to push their agenda and achieve their goals? Yasser Arafat really cared about his people and pushing his agenda to benefit the Palestinians--did he deserve our American flag lowered at half-mast when he died? I agree about the terrorist vs freedom fighter remark, and it is largely about point of view. But I never support direct targeting of civilians to push an agenda. Timothy McVeigh believed is his cause, but I'm not about to sign his praises either. Any revolutionaries who intentionally targeted civilians were also wrong.

What if the PNF started checking the things the PF set, like the glideslope for example? If that's too drastic, maybe the PF could verbalize what he's setting or something like that. Would that help? Maybe we could make that a rule... Nah...it's probably the ORM thing. Let's keep going with that...nothing to see here. Bendy

5,000 hours in those those whistlin' shithouses, Loved/Hated every minute of it. The sounds, the smells, the vibrations, the feelings of boredom coupled with exitement(yes, tingly too) I need a beer to wash down the lump in my throat

I'm having a big WTF moment...where the hell is the Squadron Bar Daily Picture Thread!?

Legal info? I wouldn't trust what you read on here. I recommend you head to your base legal office and get their take on this uniform travesty.

Aim point Airspeed Cap-10

Nuggets up Y'all, I just completed my FIRC CFI refresher course using American Flyers online. It seems that they have revamped their courseware as there were no time requirements like before. Very CBTesque, just click through as fast as you can, then take the 5 question test at the end of each section. 16 sections total, took me an easy peasy afternoon to complete. I recommend having two screens open, one to the test, the other to the lesson. BL, good value for your money, paid $75, good for as long as you live, and it didn't steal away a weekend of my life. Cheers!

All these "tools" are useless unless "leadership" (in some cases tools themselves) actually follow them. Story time: Had an instance deployed where a tac airlift Bravo crew showed clearly fatigued for a mission in OIF because of the switch from days to nights on the flying schedule. Bravo crews were rarely used at the time, so sitting Bravo was like a day off, and generally AMD never launched them...regardless, for some reason the crew wasn't well rested. They all signed in maxing out the ORM for fatigue so it required OG or WG/CC approval. They were all still willing to fly, they just wanted to make it known that they were tired. OG said go. DO didn't want the crew to fly because they physically looked exhausted and this happened to be a high priority mission with a max duty day so, the DO said "nope ya'll aint going. " In other words, he exercised some leadership and judgment knowing that the crew had minimal sleep the night before for whatever reason. Information the OG/CC didn't care to ask about before just saying "go" Anyway, DO calls AMD to recommend canceling the first line of the day (normally scheduled water pallet shuttle) to cover for the Bravo crew, which is exactly what AMD did. Word gets back to the OG and the DO got scolded, the original crew nearly got sent home, and...that's right...the ORM got changed so that you could max out fatigue on ORM and still be legal to go without OG or WG/CC approval. Basically the "leadership" didn't want to have to make a decision on a high priority mission that might make them look bad if it goes badly. That was the moment I realized we have been promoting the wrong people. No one with any authority wants to make decisions anymore...it might make them look bad. They pass it to the lowest level so they can hang them when things don't go well. ORM shouldn't be used to try to get the lowest possible score so decisions can be made at the lowest level, but rather the highest potential score so you can identify ALL the risk and mitigate them if possible. If it requires senior leadership approval, then that should be your red flag. Yet, we pass off high-risk decision making to the lowest level relying on a pseudo 'experience' levels that may only exist on paper. Problem is we are running out of leadership above and experience at the execution level. Its ok though...we'll just keep blaming those at the lowest levels and the cycle will keep repeating itself...and we'll keep asking why and paying for more studies when the "why" is in our "leadership" or lack thereof. Another J. Daniels rant...ya'll are doing a great job! Keep it up...blah blah blah. Exactly right pcola, the problem is "leadership" above still wants their fingers in the chili on this, but want to only blame the crew when shit goes badly. Sometimes there just isn't enough experience on a crew to make a well informed decision to call out TACC like you mention above. Some of our youngest go getters are just trying to stay looking good for "the man" so those school slots are still attainable. What do you think really happens to the guys to alter the commander's priority 1 mission because they didn't feel safe completing it as fragged?

My kids love this, we check it a few times on Christmas Eve.

Holy fuck, I hate people. BTW, newsflash: The cheesy video with the fighter escort has been around for a few years. I can speak with authority because I'm a certified Santa Tracker.

Keep telling yourself that...

Nothing to add, just want to be in the thread in case Gravedigger's buying...

Why is it an issue? Because of dickbags like this? Anybody who has issue with this might want to try and read the US Code: Position and manner of display It shouldn't be terribly surprising that somebody from South Carolina is making a huge stink about it.