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We can hope. He's already demonstrated that he can handle a crisis with logic and reason. If someone would please shut down Trump, that would be great.

Sounds to me like we don't have an educational, social, or economic crisis. We have a complete failure of the parenting. I've said if for decades now: If you heal fatherhood (i.e. incentivize men to stay in the home where they procreate instead of incentivizing single parenthood, divorce, and abortion), you heal our country. The second problem...which is related to fatherhood...is that American parents appear to have adopted the belief that it's someone else's job to teach their children truth, morality, logic, and reason. No wonder millennials (i am one) are so lost: we were raised by public schools. I've got two teens, and my bride and I are working hard to make sure that no university education or any other life experience will upend their faith foundation or their logic and reason. If they launch with a solid relationship with God and a thirst for truth, it won't matter what lies they encounter, college or not. ANYWAY, we're finally done in Afghanistan and it feels like we're right back to the mid 70's with the end of a horrid war, wild problems with energy, social upheaval, and a couple of political parties that have lost their minds. ...now, where's our Reagan?

50th Anniversary of LB2 missions. I post this every year, but it's a well put-together video with some great audio and info graphics. I highly recommend the book "The 11 Days of Christmas" about the BUFF LB2 missions. Enjoy!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year you all. I purposely waited to think about this board until today and was glad to see the projected slots increased. With around 230 applications it's looking like about a third will be selected for UPT. Fingers crossed

The way I see it, we are exactly 2 weeks away from being able to say "any day now"

I really wanted to go TDY and party when I was younger. Then 9/11 happened. For those who served in GWOT thanks! Enjoy the break and hopefully you'll make it into the golden parachute club before the next war. For the young guys foaming at the mouth to fight, enjoy these times. You'll most likely see a fight before your UPT ADSC (or Enlistment) is up.

There's probably a governor named Ronald running in 2024, just saying.

College was taken over and misused by a bunch of unproductive pseudo-intellectuals who figured out the only way their obviously stupid ideas could gain a foothold would be to form indoctrination camps for inexperienced adults. That's probably not surprising to anybody here. But while they were doing so the world changed and the distribution of information was radically redesigned by the internet. While colleges probably could have adapted to this new landscape, they were far more concerned with dogma and societal change. At the same time, the government wildly distorted the economics of education with, go figure, unlimited money. Now the cat is out of the bag as my generation, the millennials, are facing the reality that their degree did not, as they were promised, result in a more lucrative life. It did give many of them an inescapable financial anchor around their neck. The gen Z kids behind them, at least the latter half of the generation, are beginning to reject the system that is quite obviously built on false promises and lies. I suspect at this point it's too late to save the system, and there will be a split. College will return to the playground for the rich and breeding ground for politicians, while everyone else will shift back towards on the job learning, heavily supported by much cheaper and adaptable online courses. We haven't reached the final act yet because the money printing has only just stopped, but when unemployment starts going up and the long due pandemonium from the last 15 years of intentionally blind spending comes due, the idea that middle and lower class kids with no road map for their entire adulthood will just go to six figure institutions to get drunk, fuck, and occasionally sit in a room with 500 other people learning subjects they don't need to know, well that just isn't going to hold when people can't afford it.

Poor people can’t afford solar, ergo solar is racist, but the left pushes “green energy”…but they’re “anti-racist”…hmmmm. The progressive left is such a dumpster fire full of shit.

Still plenty busy with real world stuff, but not necessarily including shooting and dropping. We’re back to holding the line for wars we hopefully will never fight.

Imagine how much we could reduce the carbon footprint if we all just gave up control of our thermostats? Man. That would be nice. I'm not Nostradamus but I can predict that the left will try to push this agenda at some point in the future. I have solar panels. I wanted to stop relying on CA to supply my power. The power companies in CA are starting to try and add frivolous charges to people with solar. They complain that the power companies are forced to charge the poorer families, who can't afford solar, more. This is bullshit. They have lost one element of control over people's lives for profit, and they are doing shady things with the CA government to keep them alive. All the while, CA keeps pushing for residential solar. There is going to be some sort of shady deal to keep solar customers paying for power. As it stands, Edison power has to pay me for using excess power. They're trying hard not too.

I board with the unaccompanied minors. The FAs are so nice to you when they think you're a child.

FIFY. have some respect you're a A10 pilot for fucks sake!

I was skeptical at first, but the Tapatalk app is working fine and I'm able to see all of the content as if it were on the computer. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

It's the Walmartizination of airline travel. Cut product and personnel trying to maximize profit and leaving no margin for error. Cancel one flight when running 90% load factors and folks are going to be stuck for a while. Cancel a bunch of flights and fit hits the Shan.

The Baseops app was actually just a skinned version of the Tapatalk app. Unfortunately, they (Tapatalk) really quit making that an option. I'm trying to get it working again, it'll just take some time.

This was actually a Forensic Files episode for those who watch it regularly. I am always trying to learn new ways to strangle the wife... Sent from my SM-F721U using Tapatalk

I grew up in CT and I vividly remember the whole trial as it was big news and dominated local headlines in the days before the Internet. My old man worked for the Dept of Corrections starting in 1992 until he retired. He worked in “prison industries” where the prisoners would come in and work. His section did computer data entry for the State and other private entities. I’ll never forget him coming home one day early in his tenure with a look of disbelief. He said “remember that guy who put his wife through the wood chipper? He works for me doing data entry.”

If college was what it SHOULD be, I’d encourage my kids to go. But good luck getting college, or even public primary school, to be what it SHOULD be by any means short of “burning the system to the ground and rebuilding from the ashes.” The dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with are college grads and many of my non-degree friends and acquaintances are very smart and capable people. On the whole in my experience, I interact with more dumbasses with degrees than I do without degrees. That’s a sad reality and not what I want, but it is reality.

I was in that same boat...until several conversations with non-college grads who now operate international airliners. We discussed simple things such as supply and demand economics, civics, statistics, basic biology, and even the foundations of what calculus is and how it touches, well, everything...(I get it, that sounds higher level, but explain how you "derive" a solution to someone who hasn't touched math beyond algebra...it's painful...turns out derivation and integration thought processes are kinda handy)...and a load of other subjects that were basic pre-recs at my school. It was honestly saddening. I honestly had to explain the difference between miles-per-hour and kilometers-per-hour to two dudes...I wish I were joking... Am I for everyone going to college? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Are there a LOT of subjects that should be covered and assumed as a baseline for a college education that allow a higher level of social and economic understanding and interaction? Definitely. The current American 'college experience' does not meet that standard. But it should. If for no other reason than the fact that IT SHOULD. University education should STILL be a high standard, and I refuse to let leftist liberal doorknob licking morons debase that standard like they have with every other standard they touch.

Two of the worst places I've ever flown wrt noise abatement rules are Madison and Burlington. They both have ridiculously dumb rules to appease the America hating, granola eating, self-fart sniffing, smug cloud following, pinko-commie bastards that hate the sound of freedom over their neighborhoods. So it makes sense that they'd drop F-35s in both of those locations. It's genius...big fuck you to hippies (Ben & Jerry's being one) in both locations.

Obviously in ICN, fell for the age old lie of “we’ll just grab one kettle and then head back to the hotel.”

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If the state of Vermont can have a 5th gen fighter, then the Marine Corps can too.

Comment from an old school Flight Attendant: "Sexual harassment will not only be tolerated, it will be graded."

Boy, I have bad news for the commentators here who aren't familiar with unions. You've got some of the most unstable people I've ever met in my life flying planes every day, and they are almost perfectly shielded from any consequences by the way unionized work functions. Off the top of my head, there is a guy who threw the TV out the hotel window because it didn't have the channel he wanted. The guy who shot his neighbor's mailbox multiple times because he was mad at him. The guy who got caught creeping around the union headquarters at night on the security cameras. The guy who called flight attendants "sugar tits" in 2020. The guy who punched a gate agent in a foreign country. The multitude of pilots who have shown me graphic, personal sexual photos in the cockpit. Guys who have entire second families in South America. I have one guy explained to me the whole Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy. How Kanye West's vice presidential running mate in 2020 was one of the Epstein child prostitutes who had been drained of their blood by the billionaires, and who had a demon possessing her body. He was dead serious. At a certain point, you just realize that there are lunatics everywhere. My friends in the medical profession have stories about highly credentialed surgeons and specialists that are quite similar.

At least the gear was down this time.

"Rectum?? Hell, damn near killed him!!"

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/19/gen-z-on-new-college-and-career-plans-in-post-roe-america.html I cant have an abortion for convenience so I want to move to another country. It's a lot cheaper to wear a condom. Why is the USA so infatuated with getting abortions? Did George Washington fight for abortions? If I fry up an endangered sea turtle egg and put it into my breakfast burrito, I'll go to federal prison. Most of the people fighting to remove defenseless humans from a woman's body will be the same people lynching me for eating that burrito. Are they too stupid to see the irony in this?

That’s why you gotta have a cover story man! Especially in Canada, FAWG could be Fuckin’ A Wayne Gretzky for his hockey prowess, Find a Way to Gander for his overland navigation skills (bonus points if from Newfoundland), Freely Acquires Wayward Geese for his work on the Canadian Geese migration, or even Fries Always With Gravy for his poutine obsession. Come on Canucks!

The PDSM for the FY22 results says that "officers who accept selection will be scheduled for training at the earliest possible date consistent with their age, time on station and date eligible to return from overseas. Priority will be given to those approaching the maximum age for entry into UFT." Lookin at the last few years' forums and the same PDSM, it seems that you'll go to MFS pretty quickly after the results come out, then IFT if you need it sometime over the summer, and then get a RNLTD sometime late in the year. MFS and IFT are TDYs from your home base. The way the PDSM for applications is written makes it sound as if you'd get yeeted out of your current job a few weeks later, but it seems like minus those TDYs, you can expect to not PCS until wayyy later that year.

For a point of reference, I got an email from Delta this morning with my availability 10.5 months in the future.

30,000 unsorted bags sitting on open air tarmac due to no more storage space inside 🙂