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There is further reporting on this which I am working to get released at this level...

Yeah, you're not gonna live that down..

I guess we figured out where Rainman went.

This is how beer goggles work.

Yes, but most of the stories are anecdotal “new pilots suck!” Which everyone has said since forever. The change in how the slicks do business is actual change in how we operate as a result of new pilots sucking after pilot training.

We can argue about the right way to teach assault landings. My point was things were mostly fine until UPT started changing, then the rash of hard landings followed by limitations placed on our new pilots. I feel like the quality of FP is linked to the UPT issues, and it’s showing in a lot of ways. This was the most obvious example I’ve seen so far.

SECRET//REL BASEOPS LOL.

Houston. Nothing else needs to be said. It's a swamp that needs to be drained as much as Washington, DC! But she later apologized, which makes everything OK. Of course, she claims the redistricting is "Trump's attempt to disenfranchise Black and Brown people." To quote Governor Abbott, "If the House Democrats who deserted Texans were serious about delivering results, they would come back to the Texas Capitol and do the job voters elected them to do!" Here's the background... The newly proposed map increases the number of congressional districts that would have voted for Trump by at least 10 percentage points by five. Republicans currently control 25 of the state's 38 Congressional districts. The new map makes some big changes in North Texas. It moves Democrat Rep. Marc Veasey’s district from Tarrant to Dallas County, Democrat Rep. Julie Johnson’s district moves from Dallas and Collin County to more conservative sections of East Texas, and Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Dallas seat becomes one of just two majority Black districts in the entire state. The Democrats claim the redrawn maps will violate the federal Voting Rights Act, but that may be difficult for them to prove. In Central Texas, Democrats Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett would find their districts vastly different from the current map. The district currently held by Casar would no longer include Travis County, while the district held by Doggett would no longer include a portion of Williamson County. In Houston, the new map reshapes four currently Democrat-held districts. The biggest change to the districts would be in the seat currently held by Rep. Al Green. The new map would shift the district from covering southern Harris County and instead move it to the eastern part of the county. Abbott said he will continue to call for indefinite special sessions until the matter is resolved. He and Attorney General Ken Paxton have also filed lawsuits to vacate seats of absent Democrats.

Had a CA telling SEA stories from the 80s - if those statute of limitations expired, then so can yours! Though I still recommend avoiding them with your employer’s CVR in the mix.

If I had to guess the whole point is to "traumatize" certain populations long after a particular party/administration has left office and no longer has direct decision making authority. Policies often change but the bad taste of how people are treated can last a long time in the mind of potential recruits. It can make certain demographics second guess going into the military in the first place. The lesson is your career can be taken even years later on the whim of leadership.

Counting illegals is not really an error or mistake if you’re looking to get them on the voter rolls. Sounds like they did a bang up job.

I sooo want to share a story but that statue of limitations will likely never expire.

He also fired the head of statistics at Labor...Not sure if that person was confirmed or not. Reading how the stats have been "revised" ...criminy there is nonsense at every level of the government. Watched special on the last census, the mistakes are unreal and shockingly gave the DNC more seats in 12 out of 14 cases.

Sure. That's a "holy shit, the rabid tiger escaped it's enclosure and is about to pounce on a 3-year-old kid - shoot it!!" solution to a problem that was avoidable 10 minutes earlier with a simple 360 or a "no circle to 33 with a helo on route 4" mandate. There's lots of blame to pass around. But saying the solution lies in the last 30 seconds of the event is not very realistic.

I like my Sig. Just need a sling.

Something like this: Half a wing (like the non pilot Brits) and a giant rocket.

Being retired enlisted in a huge maintenance squadron OMS, AGS, or AMXS, pilots do not get or very little exposure to enlisted unless they fly a heavy with loadmasters/boomers, Flight engineers or flight mechanics. But that is a small exposure just to get todays mission done. They don't deal with the personnel issues such as EPR's, training, or discipline. We have junior mx officers with a MSgt Pro Super tied to them to keep them out of trouble before a O5 SQCC makes their life a living hell. My neighbor is a retired Army Apache pilot who was the MX officer in his unit, he flew all the OCF/FCFs before a line pilot flew it, totally different culture. It's been a while since the USAF had rated Mx officers and awhile MX was assigned to Ops squadrons. In the early 90's many OPCC's flew their jets into the ground not managing acft hours telling the MX officer and Senior Es to shut up and color. Try being in those squadrons with a bunch of whiney ABM's.