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United just expanded their military pilot program (UMPP) eligibility to include AGR: "To be eligible to participate in UMPP, all Candidates must satisfy the following requirements: ...currently serving as a full-time Active-Duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States, including active reserves currently serving as TAR, FTS, or AGR" https://careers.united.com/us/en/united-military-pilot-program

there needs to be serious prison time.

HoR Select Subcomittee on the Coronavirous Pandemic staff memo .pdf. Worth reading the whole thing. https://t.co/xGylpy3aUR Prison.

Why do you think that? It's not like we have a weak-on-international-policy presidential administration right now. I mean, come on...look at how secure our own borders are! I'm sure the world is more than happy with the limp-wristed enforcement of our international presence right now. Nothing to see here. /sarcasm switch - off/

I'll be T-6'n it all week (original version)

Fast forward to 35 min.

Taiwan inaugurated its new President, Lai Ching-te, who says he will assert Taiwan's sovereignty. China has apparently encircled Taiwan earlier today in a "surprise" military drill called "Joint Sword". Just now reading some WH Press Briefing notes and trying to coalesce a big picture view of what's happening. - Jake Sullivan was asked about the UK's assessment that China is giving aid to Russia. He says we haven't seen that and looks forward to talking to the UK to find out why they're claiming this. I thought this was a foregone conclusion. He goes on to say, "What I would point out is that just recently we have been articulating, in quite urgent terms, our concern about what China is doing to fuel Russia’s war machine — not giving weapons directly, but providing inputs to Russia’s defense industrial base. That is happening. That is something we’re concerned about. " - China sent a delegation to attend the funeral of the Iranian President. China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil. India's Minister of External Affairs has expressed his frustration with the US over a port India and Iran are partnering on. India has surpassed $50 Billion in trade with Russia for the first time and looking to sign a long term oil deal with Russia. - China is accelerating its record breaking US bond selloff and piling into gold. - The interests of Russia, China, Iran, India are becoming more aligned. Anyone who looks at a map can see why this is a problem for us. BRICS nation economic growth is double that of the G7. None of these developments are new. But the rate of change and scope is increasing. We have major players constituting a huge part of the global population, and the trends: diplomatically, militarily, and economically are away from the United States. Each challenge to US dominance, be it Taiwanese airspace incursions, getting kicked out of Niger, etc lowers the threshold for the next one to occur and our leadership only instills confidence in our adversaries. Perhaps we have an opportunity to change things somewhat during the next election, but I personally doubt it. I think the probability is high our adversaries realize their best opportunity to create the most destabilization in the US is during the next 6 months.

Once in a lifetime leader - should’ve been the next CSAF The one individual who may have revectored AMC from a bunch of careerist bus drivers to a command focused on war fighting.

https://www.amc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3784670/to-the-c-130-with-love/ There's the non-Facebook link. That was awesome!

palenske fucks

You guys really need your own thread

Ridiculous, no one would ever let goats roam around a helo in flight. except the Afghan Air Force…. But they promised me it was just the once.

And our President offered condolences for the President dying of the country who launched those drone attacks. Yeah, I don’t understand it either.

I'm not rationalizing it dude, I'm explaining it. I'm also not sensationalizing it like you are. January 6th sucked, but it was not an insurrection. End of story. I'm not voting for any of them because I will never vote for someone over 65 again, however, the entire root of the problem and why Donald Trump is going to win again is specifically because his opposition insists on treating him as a unique threat when in fact he is the exact same product with an uglier label slapped on. The regular people out there see right through this now, they don't know what the crimes are, the sins, the comparisons, or any of the other details. They just know that Washington has been lying to them for a long time and funneling a tremendous amount of wealth and prosperity from the middle class directly to their family and associates. They wanted a hero, but they are settling for a villain who at least validates their experience. Go look up the stats for how many Democrats thought the election was stolen when a Republican president won, and specifically Trump. The numbers are functionally identical to 2020, just reversed. It is unfounded sanctimony.

And you've ignored the same egregious behavior on the other side...that IS the problem.

The douche canoe below known as Cat 5 (he has done more damage than a Cat 5 hurricane), also known as Fat Tony. As a SQ/CC he gave out 20+ Commander directed Q-3's, he tried to punish a U-28 crew dog with an LOR for losing his weapon only to lose his weapon a short time later and have it covered up when his Chief found his gun in the shitter. He was "soft fired" by the SOCOM/CC Gen Brian Fenton. Multiple people in the room/on the line for numerous confrontations between the two including a VTC in that dissolved to a shouting match. Fenton being the four star CC called CSAF and said move him or I will publicly fire him. USAF in it's infinite wisdom decided to save this piece of $hit and screw all the cadets at the Academy. They don't want any more bad press. Former AFSOC/CC and now VCSAF Jim "Slife the Knife" Slife has maneuvered to PURPOSELY keep gunship guys out of play (In the history of the only command that has gunships there have only been three gunship guys to command AFSOC....three out of the last four CC's have been Pavelow dudes...Fat Tony is a Talon turd, the only platform that will lift him off the ground. Slife is a complete sycophant who thinks only BPZ folks are qualified to command. He knows better than ANYONE...truly a HORRIBLE HUMAN. BGen Mike Conley is a well respected Pavelow/CV-22 dude, has been nominated to go from BGen to LtGen and become the next CC. He is level-headed and thoughtful and will hopefully bring some peace and stability to the command.

Dash's crash was 15 years ago today. Nickel... https://www.edwards.af.mil/News/Article/395729/t-38-crash-claims-life-of-edwards-pilot/

For those not in the AFSOC-know, can someone break down who is who... where are they going... who and how did they promote from O-7 to O-9... and which ones are the douchebags? I can't keep up.

I think this is why he is so hated. He shows everyone what our political system has created. But rather than buckle down and fix the system that lets guys like this get into office from both parties, people would rather pretend that the system is OK, that he is just a single aberration and that if we can get rid of him then everything is going to back to being fine. We have gotten here by an absurd mix of a shockingly extreme level of willful ignorance, stupidity, selfishness, and a host of other problems in America. We need to get back to a system that creates national leaders like Doug Burgum, but he has zero chance because I'm betting 95% of America has never heard of him. He is the personification of the American dream; a self-made billionaire that has turned around and became a public servant rather than enjoy his money on a yacht. While I've never met the guy, I'd like to think that it is out of a genuine desire to make America a better place. That is the kind of people we need in Washington.

Yawn. It was a riot incited by a liar. It was not an insurrection incited by a would-be tyrant. If it was, why did they give up once they had successfully taken the capitol? Trump thought the election was stolen from him. Just like Hillary thought the election was stolen from her. Just like Gore thought the election was stolen from him. No one gave a shit when all of those people questioned the Democratic process by blaming the Russians, or the Supreme Court, or voting fraud. I quoted you because of all people you should be keenly aware of why Trump "gets away" with everything he does, since you were projecting it on to Hilary at the time. It's because he is not remotely the first person to do it, he's just the trashiest. In all of the hyper liberal and vehemently anti-trump jurisdictions that are currently prosecuting him for various crimes, isn't it strange that none of those crimes are insurrection or any other violation of the Constitution. And the only remotely legitimate charge against him, the Florida case pertaining to the classified information, is the one most obviously violated by hundreds of politicians, including presidents and vice presidents, over decades preceding the Trump presidency. I've said it time and time again. The law doesn't matter to the people, they just care about the law being applied fairly. The Trump supporters don't care about anything he does because he's not the first to do it, just the first to be dragged into court for it. - Cheating on his wife - Using campaign funds to hide an affair (Why isn't John Edwards in jail 🤔) - Questioning the results of an election - Passively condoning rioting - Using his position to enrich family members - Lying about his past - Golfing when he should be presidenting - Accusing other candidates falsely - Taking drugs to maintain performance - Abusing executive authority - blah blah blah I wish Trump was uniquely odious. He's not, he just looks on the outside the way Washington has always been on the inside.

…and the White House offers their condolences. From the same county that just a few weeks ago launched a massive attack against our greatest ally in the region, and that we used our own military to stop. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4675189-us-offers-condolences-criticism-in-aftermath-of-iranian-presidents-death/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1SB9nmEg7TYr6iGKPEonzgoSIObuhtM6bOKHH5DI5OFD0o8l5luHmOt7E_aem_AenWzSEhLKq6lwo0StfQZ0LPvtyV4TCgQm3gekjrKG0MCqF1i0_3GjlyS61y5SRkoTUqZLLwpOvuVMxMCitu8G9D

Turns out, our fault again. Do we paint the helo on the Deid WX shop?

Nothing Racist to see here. I like her bald head though. Doesn't make her look like a Black Neo Nazi or anything like that. She is my enemy. Fuck her. Edit. Like her, I'm tired of black men murdering my Aunt Julia for no reason. I'd call that failing up. https://www.thewetumpkaherald.com/news/reoccurring-nightmare-parole-hearings-force-victim-to-relive-murder-attempt/article_beced49e-2abf-11eb-9e1d-139022db17b7.html The cool thing is Oprah did a special on the guy who pulled the trigger, Benjamin Oryang. She praised him for being a model prisoner but Oprah never once talked about what he did to my aunt Julia Lindsey. She had just dropped off Christmas presents for my cousins and myself at my Grandmother's house as my Aunt had guard (Army) duty over Christmas. My mom had to identify my aunt by her hands, as my aunt's head was pink misted by a high power rifle at point blank range. I woke up on Dec 17 at 0300 hours to my mom's screams. That was her baby sister. She had to identify the body. My birthday happens to be Dec 17. Needless to say, that kinda ruined all of my birthdays since then. Tell that racist Rep. Pressley about my aunt and she will say I'm racist somehow. If the murderers would have asked my aunt for a beer instead, she would thrown them one with a smile. Edit: Here’s a review of that sweet book! Thanks Oprah!

That goes back to Rainman's mantra of never passing up the opportunity to keep your big mouth shut!

To be honest, I'd rather die than have Biden or Newsom (or any other government officials Rs or Ds) tell me how to survive another "pandemic". They will fuck this one up too.

This is how you do "science".