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Oh God, “The kid” is going to need a lot of therapy if that’s true.

So he was a Loadmaster? Now I'm confused.

Easiest way to put it: F-Kill vs. K-Kill. This isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

Khamenei is dead. The Jerusalem Post | JPost.comIranian officials, Ali Khamenei killed in Israeli strikes...Israeli officials informed of Khamenei's assasination • Netanyahu says objective to end Ayatollah's regime • Trump confirms US operation in Iran, tells IRGC to lay down arms

Probably claimed he was a lady during the Biden DEI hiring boom.

Important safety tip for tyrants, dictators, and theocratic thugs, next time Trump says you have 10-15 days to come to an agreement before something bad happens, round that down to 7 days. Started college in 1979 working on my engineering degree. The Iranians had stormed the embassy earlier that year and had taken hostages. There were also Iranians attending the same college with me and I had 3 or 4 of them in a Physics class and lab. They wore the standard militant uniform fatigue jacket and apparently were adverse to any form of personal hygiene involving bathing so they absolutely wreaked. Times were tense and during a conversation with one of them, he said "How can you allow the CIA to read your mail?" I replied, "They don't read my mail but I'm sure they are reading yours." The startled look on his face was rather amusing.

Both of the handles that are reputable reported it but nothing to confirm from what i can see

A group of MIG-29's met their end against F-35s.

A lot of that depends on the investigator.

Targeting missile production in this week’s episode

You’d be pretty surprised at some of the stuff contracting companies will look past if they have a position that needs to be filled.

Off to court we go... Yahoo NewsHegseth declares Anthropic a "supply chain risk to nation...Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deemed artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a supply chain risk on Friday, following days of increasingly heated public conflict with the AI company.

how the fuck did his resume pass background check to get hired as a sim instructor and still keep a security clearance?

From AFPC this morning: Unfortunately, that rumor has some truth to it. The single UPT scheduler that works UFT Board also works all the UPT training for the USAF (number varies but normally 1200 to 1500 per year). Recently she has been bombarded by AETC taskers regarding short notices to UPT at Laughlin; I am sure you have heard that rumor as well. Bottomline is that although there is a training plan for everyone in out UPT select list, the scheduler has not been able to load everyone yet. Loading is done based primarily on expected RNLTD dates, therefore those with earlier planned dates will see the training loaded more quickly than those planned towards the end of the year. You can pass on that ENJJPT and UHT are unlikely to move before Q3 (training pipeline delays), therefore they may see their training loaded later in March. Everyone else, just hang in there, it will get done. No one expected what is going on with Laughlin short notices…

An AFSOC C-146A Wolfhound struck a concrete barrier while taking off in the Philippines causing substantial damage to the aircraft and some injuries to the crew. When this appeared on my feed my first question was what the hell is a C-146A? It's a Dornier Do 328 twin turboprop aircraft that's part of the eclectic coterie of Key West Agreement sized aircraft that the Air Force operates with a diaspora of aircrew in far-flung corners of the world. When I worked at ATA years ago I used to jumpseat on these all the time, I cannot remember which airline operated them but they had a fairly modern glass cockpit layout at the time and had a unique navigation system. Instead of INS, IRS, or Ring Laser Gyro they used a system that would triangulate multiple radio Navaids for a position solution. I don't remember what it was called but the crews seemed to really like the aircraft. The Do 328 was short lived in US Airline service and quickly replaced by Regional Jets so I'm sure the AF picked up some of these for a reasonable cost.

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I think he was a F-4 WSO, then UPT, then F-111, then A-10, passed over for Major, hired by the Reserve A-10 unit in New Orleans, hired on at United but invited to leave during training (lying on his application?), invited to leave at New Orleans for flying violations and personnel conflicts, tried to get hired at Columbus Reserves but blocked by the NOLA A-10 folks, hired at UPS and fired after a conflict on a Asia flight with the other two pilots that resulted in them locking Runner out of the cockpit. After that, it is a mystery that I'm sure we will learn more about. Quite the resume, if you ask me. Maybe he was a plant to screw up the Chinese PLAAF.