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Lol. Always do this. Never leave it in, even if she’s begging for you to.

Last minute hasty decision wrought with taxpayer inefficient pork for special interests.

My dad flew KC-135’s, Huey Gunships in Vietnam as a Green Hornet, EC-135, F-111’s, and retired flying 135’s again. This is as a prior enlisted guy who enlisted in his 20’s (actually got drafted into the Army while at AF BMT). Earned the nickname of the “oldest Captain in the Air Force” in Vietnam. The craziest part to me is that he was sent to the Huey as a thousand hour Tanker AC as a brand new 1st Lt. No casual time between training like now.

Hilarious, at 6:20 the old man slips into his speed jeans and crams a stogie in his pie hole as he steps to the jet...ahhh the good ole days.

FIFY before your VA physical.

I was having a rough time in 2021. I wasn't feeling 100% healthy in the mind. During this time, my mom let me know that she found a news clipping that my Grandfather wanted her to read to me over 30 years ago. It fell out if a book randomly. He's the one who got me into aviation. The universe does some weird shit sometimes.

It's amazing how many I have run into who think that the pilot's name on the jet is the only one who flies that jet, and I'm not talking about civilians who just don't know any better. Back in my days as a maintainer, I was at a tech school and I was the only prior service guy in the class. One of the guys in the class (straight out of boot camp) asked the instructor why the Guard pilots always did so well in competitions. The instuctor's reply was "It's because the Guard pilots are assigned a jet and that is the only one they fly and no one else flies it so they get it set up the way they like it and they know how it drops and shoots."