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Absolutely it is worth it. There are some things worth sacrificing material comfort for. It's called taking a stand on principles.

2007....... "A B-52 bomber flew the length of the United States last week loaded with six nuclear-armed cruise missiles" http://mostlywater.org/usas_wmd_nuke_armed_b_52_overflies_us_by_mistake

Joe, The disgust is not towards a specific race or wealth class. It's towards a mindset. If 100 million people (by your math) out of ~275mil do nothing but take, then demand even more to be handed to them, how in the ###### is this sustainable? It has become an outright epidemic which will destroy our country in short order if not taken care of ASAP. I think most of the lemmings feel an entitlement, and based off the fact that they are either American, or are at least living here, that somehow they are exempt from both under-consuming as well as the consequences of their repeated poor decisions. You site the poor plight of a single woman with two kids and a shitty job. Well guess what, if you don't graduate high school and have multiple kids out of wedlock before the age of 20, you probably are going to be in a shitty situation. By bantering to the absolute lowest common denominator, your perpetuate the ideal that non-contributors mistakes will be covered by those that sacrifice and achieve. Unfortunately in the real world (a non-socialist world, at least), eventually when you take too much for too long from those who make sound choices in life, the incentive to continue working hard and "paying in" disappears, and there is either a dramatic fall in the overall self-worth of a populous, or a mass exodus. Either way the outcome is the same: the lazy and selfish reap what they sowed. So how would I tell a single mother she needs to prioritize her expenditures, to include Medicaid? The same way I would to my son if he was ever dumb enough to put himself in the same boat..."You made continuing truly awful decisions which, as hard as they are to accept at the moment, You have to live with. Hopefully, in time, you will accept these as personal responsibilities, and make better choices in the future". Daniel Patrick Moynihan foreshadowed the current state of our nation decades ago - "A declining society accepts as normal the bad things that are not normal"

Texas will gladly take them and their jobs, with open arms.

It was rough flying tanker support out of the Med...

Turn your house into a spooktacular haunted house with stuff popping out all over the place (picts of pelosi?), hand the keys to the cops, and wave them on in. You can sell video of that stuff on ebay. Boo

There's a lot more to the J than that...that being said, having the automation available to use has benefits. A. I've got about 2k hours in E-H2.5s and Js. About 1,500 of those hours are in legacy airplanes and about 500 hours in Js. I've shut down one motor in the J for a low pitch stop fail ACAWS in Afghanistan, and that was precautionary. I've shut down no less than 6 engines in the E and H, some were precautionary and some just failed or were about to fail. So what's your point again? The low pitch stop fail issue is a known defect that's being worked at the AFMC and manufacturer level to redesign the PCU. The low pitch stops don't actually fail, it's just a sensor problem. From my time working wing safety, the legacy had the J beat in ESPs by a mile. B. As for the ALZ issue, dunno about that one. Operator issues, I guess. I clear the ALZ just as fast in a J as I do in the E or H. C. The "Super Hercules" thing is said mostly to irritate the legacy dudes, IMHO. Who cares. D. The J can do no-flaps. There's a reason they don't on a regular basis...the J-30 WILL strike a tail skid if you land it zero flap. The short Js can do it just as fine as the legacy Herks, but they don't practice in the airplane because 95% of the fleet comprise the J-30 and it's just one of those USAF-isms of "if most of the fleet can't do it without risk of damage, then none of them should". It lands just like a legacy bird in zero flap configuration....and other than emergency procedures that necessitate it, why risk damaging the airplane? E. Actually, the airplane only takes a snapshot of data every few seconds, so if your overspeed is very transitory, it may not even capture it...not any worse than a FE that notices your overspeed. Again, what's your point? F. This is the part that is most controversial...and having gone from E/H to J and back to H again, I can say with 100% honesty that I'd rather have the J flight deck. You have lots of SA from all the displays and only a few people talking on intercomm. It's actually much more chaotic on a legacy flight deck on a low level and I'm always having to tell someone to "standby" so I can catch a radio call...plus if I lose SA, I have to have a conversation with someone in order to regain it, versus in the J I can just pull up a display and figure it out. The legacy intercom system sucks, I have to listen to the copilot breathing into his hot mic and the nav talking over the radio calls...you get my point. For what it's worth, I love both the legacy and the J...both great airplanes. But the J is a very good improvement. You can't speak to that if you've never flown one.

Absolutely I am. The end result of the liberal design is not something I will support, and the road there, by nature, must be insidious. This is the first vote I've seen in Colorado which is, in my mind, a definitive move towards that. Hence, I'll put my revenue into a different state. I'd rather move, keep what I feel is not the CO state governments to take, along with my money, than have a "Molon Labe" bumper sticker but abide and begin the slow journey towards an unarmed populous.

That logic might work if revenues were based on the GDP. They're not. FIFY

So you're giving up "hunting, fishing, skiing, climbing, paragliding, mountain biking, golfing, NFL games, camping, and free Coors" because of a 15 round magazine limit and background checks. I understand it sucks... but damn.

The guys who signed up for the AFRC unit will still be flying Herks, just not for the FTU. All active duty USAF C-130 guys come through Little Rock for the FTU. Gunship guys just get an instrument qual before going on to their own FTU.

YGBSM? 6 shutdowns in your E/H career? I had that in a month at Pope in the 41st back in the mid-90s. Heck, I shutdown the same motor on the same plane 3 days in a row in 2004. You were lucky...

Did you just have a stroke?

I think he may be referring to this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory

From what I've seen on here, I think I'd rather not.

I'm not sure why, but HiFlyer calling people DBs is funny.

I'll repost the wise words of a then-Major (now a Brig Gen) who had similar critiques about the way the USAF handled medals during ALLIED FORCE in '99 (posted to David Hackworth's website back in the day). Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose:

aerobatics.