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Yes 100%. You want to have a big spectacle anytime you have the “first all female cockpit, flyover, etc”? Time to put your money where your mouth is feminists. I’m all about equality. Same PT standards while we are at it!

Should give something for the Chiefs Group to do, out here deployed they are an essentially having an OPT on base uniform wear. A fellow CC said it best: “if this is what we are focusing on while Iran is lobbing drones overhead, then we must be getting everything else right. If not, shame on us.”

Certain staffs where that’s the norm, and you don’t get to fly. Factor that in to your decision to stay AD.

Me, after a brutal gunship TAC Sim debrief. "Holy shit, we should get a patch after that"

I hear the feminist screeching already

https://www.aetc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3415004/first-class-air-mobility-fundamentals-simulator-course-graduates-at-vance-afb

FY25 NDAA proposal: Make women register for the draft. LOL

Some good news today. Not that I’m personally a huge fan of using bump stocks other than for a fun range toy, but it once again tells the ATF that they can’t redefine something just because they don’t like it. Hopefully this will lead to the forced reset triggers being able to be sold again. https://www.fox13news.com/news/bump-stock-ban-struck-down-supreme-court

The red bird sim program instead of actually flying the T-1. Air Mobility Fundamentals-sim

In the end, Ukraine will likely have to either give up some territory or at least agree to not fight for their remaining claims (likely Crimea). That can only happen after both Ukraine and Putin decide the cost of further fighting isn't worth it. As we have seen, Putin isn't afraid to have people die for him. He might reconsider if further fighting is likely to reduce Russia's/his power. That might happen if Ukraine can keep inflicting losses at a high rate for the foreseeable future.

Flyin, they custom made the short bus one for me.

Let's make sure to give the Russians back Finland, the Baltics, and Poland as well. They'll be turning over Kaliningrad in the exchange, of course... unless historical land claims only work one way? The US will be handing Texas and California back to Mexico, obviously, and the Kosovars need to get used to being massacred by Serbs on a daily basis. Historical ownership is the key to sovereignty, the will of the people be damned. /s

If it's a boom operator, it's all one and the same.

Flyin hemmet? motorcycle hemmet? short bus hemmet? what are we dealing with…

One of the greatest has flown West. Maj Gen Pat Halloran was 95. He had 100 combat missions in the F-84 before being selected for the highly-secretive U-2 Program in the 1957 time frame. Pat went on to be one of only 18 pilots to check out in both the U-2 and SR-71. After retirement, be remained involved in flying experimental aircraft and homebuilts, including some very exotic replica aircraft from the Tom Wathen Collection, like the De Havilland Comet. He was a regular at Oshkosh. Just a fantastic guy and incredible pilot. A toast to the General...

Chuck Norris doesn't use the GAU-8. He round house kicks the cannon rounds through armor.