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Recruiting Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMwoe8m31U

For those that watched the Vice documentary, remember this guy? The spokesman? Looks like he fell just short of his goal. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-spokesperson-reported-as-dead-9682738.html

FIFY...and you're right on target Also...the dude on the left in the video (and politics coincidentally) is a f*cking moron. Yes, it is semantics: correct and incorrect. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congrats. The AC should always buy the first round.

It's where they think their opinions matter. Now back to the shenanigans.

Great info. Just to clarify, my comments on the SOFA issue are an attempt to address only the criminal jurisdiction element. I assume that's what di1630's concern was.

To commemorate it, you should order a batch of Defensive Egg tee shirts with Beaver's diagram printed on them. And then offer them to BO users at cost price.

Do I win for biggest thread revival ever? This is six years now. At any rate, I just wanted to put this on top for the new guys so they can find some of the finer conversations in BaseOps, and what better one than the "Defensive Egg" to kick it off? Have spent the better part of a deployed work day reading through the threads labled "Classic", and I advise any new guys on here to do an advanced search in the titles for the same.

Unfortunately, the author's background and experience is highly relevant to the ideas presented in the article. Someone with no training or practical experience in air combat who is proposing "innovation" in that area is like virgins writing papers on how to improve their readers' sex techniques. For example...his "Figure 1" image of a machine performing VID based on shape recognition in some EO sensor. Great idea...except any pilot who has that same view of a full-frame planform of your adversary in the HUD could make that same identification with probably the same level of accuracy. More importantly, someone who has actually engaged in air combat knows that such views are extremely rare and reflect something that is a component of maybe 1% of the BFM/ACM/ACT scenarios out there. Again, it is like someone who thinks that every girl loves anal and a facial "money shot" because that's what seems to be in all the porn they've watched. Conceptually, he's not wrong; eventually there will be technology that will be able to have the SA to make autonomous decisions faster and better than humans currently do. Machines will be better able to ID, better assess range/position/energy/maneuvers of an adversary, better know ownship energy state and capabilities, and will be able to more perfectly select the correct tactic, and execute the control inputs to more perfectly execute the maneuver, time the shot, etc. Everything will be better than what a standard 1-each human could do. That time is just not now.

You obviously have never been to Arlington...

Back in UPT at CBM, the Wx is getting bad and the vis is decreasing. They called a mass re-call of all solo studs to RTB. My bud is on a long straight on final in a 38. The RSU asks him what he estimates the visibility. He responds, "Poor, maybe 1 mile" Now they're starting to worry in the RSU. Then RSU responds, "Call when runway in sight" Instantly, my bud responds runway in sight, RSU states 'Say DME?" he responds "8 DME????????????" He wore a huge footlong dog-bone around his neck for a week, which was a punishment bestowed to the stud who did the biggest "bone-headed" thing that week.

So, ISIS should have picked.....their battles....a little more wisely?