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Yay! Virtue signaling! I wonder if those airlines are going to be making the same changes to their relationship with the FBI and the Broward County S.D.?

These political types can’t help it. I only want a safe space to talk about airplanes, killing Commies for God, and bitching about how the worlds greatest pilot is wasting away on DTS and SAPR briefs. #triggered

Unfortunately it makes up 96% of social media activity.

Passing students who meet standards? That's horrible! Or did you mean to write something different?

LOL. Don't forget, "Thank you for your service." This killed me.

FIFY

So....no spins, cross country, or solos?

Darkest Hour. Uplifting story of a young black girl trying to pay her way through college by working the pole yet keep a positive view of humanity... What?! Oh, sorry. That was a pay per view movie plot...my bad. Real movie did a good job of keeping what is essentially a historical-ish and 98% talking between old English men movie interesting. Of note, nearly all of the English characters were portrayed as having lisps. I knew Churchill had one, but not the stuttering King George VI, Viscount Halifax, et al. Not a good first date movie unless she's a history buff or over 50, but a well done piece of film Gary Oldman turns in another outstanding performance in mannerisms, physical looks, and capturing the spirit of the subject as Churchill.

They are placing a lanyard to the "duck call" to quickly disconnect it after you pull the green ring. Expect another change to the checklist/boldface (again)--ugh...

the ugly ones fück the best

It's ugly.

Meh, washing them out is a big improvement to the timeline. I successfully invited a few people to try a new line of work at the SUPT and RTU level, the paperwork sucks, but its do-able.

Cliff Notes: - Steele Dossier played NO role in opening the Carter Page investigation. They began their investigation prior to even receiving it. - The DOJ did in fact inform the court of the origin of the Steele Dossier. - They accuse Nunes of deliberately misrepresenting the underlying FISA Warrant intelligence. - Four different judge's approved FISA warrants including judge's appointed by Bush and Reagan. Multiple DOJ officials also approved the applications prior to the court even seeing them including Trump appointees Rosenstein and Boente. - They actually started listening to Page after he left Trump campaign so the idea they were watching him to spy on Trump is absurd. - Page has a long history with Russia going back to 2004 and was being actively investigated once before already in 2013. The FBI had even interviewed him in 2016 again prior to receiving the Steele Dossier. The Steele dossier was referenced in the application as corroboration of certain things, and not to independently demonstrate. - A bunch of blacked out additional evidence with a bit in the middle noting Page lied to the HIC in his testimony in 2017 about meeting with Russian officials. - It included the footnote that discusses the Steele dossier source which SPECIFICALLY STATES ..."The FBI speculates the the unidentified U.S. Person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1's campaign." Candidate 1 is Trump I believe. - DOJ timely informed the court when the FBI fired Steele and why. - The attacks on Bruce Ohr for knowing Steele/and his wife working for Fusion GPS are 100% baseless. He was not involved in the FISA process and disclosed his relationships in November 2016. Basically Nunes and Gowdy lied whole cloth that the FISA warrant was primarily based on a news article and the Steele Dossier. Those were in fact the least used and most minor pieces of evidence and they picked them out specifically for that reason to discredit the investigation and lied about their use.

Looks like the D memo got released. I'm sure it'll explain everything. After initial read - much better than the first memo, though the target was different. Answered a lot of the questions I had about timing, which the R memo "just seemed" to overlook. I'm growing less and less enamored with the Party I've voted for, for over 20 years. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/ig/ig00/20180205/106838/hmtg-115-ig00-20180205-sd002.pdf

I wonder if he'll be non-deployable for 12 months...

If a US military aircraft participates in any airshow, it is by definition being sponsored (in part) by the Government. Should I assume by the implied conviction of your belief that you've never participated in or attended an airshow with military aircraft performing? I will agree that this parade thing is a bad idea. Not because of the funding, but because I'm afraid everyone marching will look like the USAFA cadets at the Trump inauguration - embarrassing.

oh good, this threads getting political too.

His point was, with the exception of a couple of years here and there, there has historically generally been some sort of pre-UPT screening program. Nice white paper on the history of USAF screening programs here: https://www.aetc.af.mil/Portals/88/Documents/history/AFD-061109-020.pdf

What's the story on this dude?

Yeahbut...

Ditto. I don't know if this generation of AF "leaders" / other public officials (very last boomers / oldest Gen X'ers) desperately trying to seem cool realizes that Millenials can smell their cheesy lame attempts at "connection" a mile away. My oldest is amongst those oh so ironic sensing cohort and I may be naive but I have her respect by not attempting to be just like them, you know young kids, but I act like an adult, reasonably mature and not ham handily trying to emulate their idioms, mannerisms, humor or fads. Unsurprisingly, I am treated well by her and her friends because more than anything people respect honesty. This goes not just for AF leadership but other public officials: people (especially young people and those serving in a defined hierarchy) want to respect the person in charge more than they want to identify with them on a personal level. You can't respect someone that is not genuine and honest, you may not like someone but if they can have your respect and loyalty if they are honest, capable and moral. Give them reasons to respect you rather than reasons to like you.

Reminds me when Larry got fatwa'ed: NSFW

Strictly responding to the "microaggression" apology at the Academy. Senior military leaders do not know how to respond to social media criticism and demands. The conventional thinking is to immediately appease to the younger generation and the social media witch hunts because it will win internet points and avoid online backlash. This method is effective in temporary quelling the social media faux outrages (often not the core audience), but in the long run it erodes good standard and discipline, esprit de corps, and effective military command and control. The correct thing to do is simple, everything in the military comes back to the standards/core values. Defend the standards and the core values and you will eventually be absolved from the internet accusations (whether or not the person has the courage to do this is a different topic for discussion). Mattis is the only person I've seen unaffected by the social media and traditional media attacks. He receives generally favorable supports from military members and civilian alike, because he stick to his core values/principles, simple and truthful with his answers, and his body of work gives him credibility. When I think of the SECDEF I think of lethality, he only cares about lethality (have stated many times) and it's my job to support his priority. I cringe when I see senior managers create selfies and mannequin challenges (Debbie James) or the NSA Director wearing t-shirt and mom jeans in Vegas (Keith Alexander) in an effort to connect with the younger crowds.

Curb your ISIS enthusiasm. Why did I laugh so hard at this?

We must be more careful with our words. If we want our young leaders to be successful in macroaggressions during war, we must avoid exposing them to, and victimizing them with microaggressions.

Or we can send them straight to vipers since 38s are no longer required...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/regularly

Ditto. Saw a video on the Orion spacecraft system and it was designed specifically with plenty of dials, switches, physical buttons, etc. for human factors and with touchscreen capacity for reversion capability. 20 lb. brains working on a multi-billion dollar spacecraft think keeping a conventional control system is a good idea, it probably is.

I just don't understand the scorpion love, you guys getting paid? It looks underpowered (from reading the specs, A-10 sort of power) and just butt ugly. If we are going to train the next gen of fighter pilots, we need something that will blow the doors down when you go AB.