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With how many cameras are built into vehicles now, it is absurd that every vehicle doesn't have this feature. Why should I need to install some dash cam from amazon when my truck has 6 cameras already?

Don't sell it short, the last student sortie in the Tweet was 2009.

Do I hear Dibs?

Agreed. But I think that engagement needs to be in person, whether directly with the undecided voter or them watching/listening to the candidate engage with someone else. If I was running for office, I don’t think I’d waste money on mailers or mass texts. I’d maximize human-to-human engagement - me, plus volunteers. Go door to door, set up a table at X location on the weekend, radio/podcast/print news interviews, rallies/speeches, post at least weekly videos on SM answering crowd-sourced questions/addressing stances on the hot topics/responding to the inevitable 100% bullshit statements your opponent has made about you, etc.

Glad they got out. T-6 isn’t aging as gracefully as the Tweet.

T-37: 1954 - 2005 T-6: 2005 - ...wait, what? Are you shitting me?

I mean, if you like Shatner, he's all yours.

I'm not arguing they don't need new iron, but a landing hard enough to break the T-6 gear very well may have broken new iron gear, too.

One more T-7 render, aggressor

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At least one per day, usually more, never respond. Technology continues to evolve and change the game. I think the DNC mastered that first when Obama ran, but the GOP caught up. Recently, I was asked to run for local office and seriously considered it over the summer but the BS associated convinced me otherwise. I met numerous times with the local "leaders" who wanted me to run. They have an interesting machine and the local GOP group is moving away from flyers and TV ads with a huge focus on geo-fenced direct engagement. There is so much data on each one of us out there and the software uses it to know party affiliation, likeliness to vote, key demographic and geographic data points. From what they showed me (which I take with a grain of salt), in the last local election they used half the budget of the incumbent and defeated him by 15 points. For what it is worth, they still believe the attack ad sways voters. One of the reasons I dipped out was I told them I would not resort to attack ads under any circumstance.

I've been spammed by the election texts this cycle. I find them annoying and have not responded to a single one.

Random question for the 60ish people left on this forum (based off voting on tapatalk question), if you've been getting texts for your local elections, have you replied? Did a person respond? If I were a candidate, all my money would be on texting and in person replies. Engage the person, empathize, get em to vote for me. A million spend this way is votes. Attack ad bullshit is a waste. Thoughts?

UCT 27-02 (the last of a syllabus) HC-130 x 2 (1 guard) LC-130 x 1 (guard) MC-130 x 1 B-52 x 2

True. Heard that part this morning. Shit happens in training sometimes, glad the seats worked as advertised.

T-6 production line is still open, the simple answer is right in front of us. 🤷🏼‍♂️ But also I’ve been in acquisitions and know it’s not that simple, even though it should be. Glad they got out and are okay 🍻

Glad they got out, controlled ejection, new iron people (leaders lurking on this forum), AETC needs it ASAP.

Laughs in DSG. Still once a year for us part timers.

In this case I think it could have been worse if he continued inside. They already charged him with fleeing and eluding so they would have claimed exigent circumstances and knocked the door down with guns drawn.

Filed under: expectation management.

Saw the Monday Night Football flyover

Keep this junk in the 'next president' thread, or the Iran thread, or the Ukraine thread, or the Trump cabinet thread, or start a Russia policy thread. There are enough threads that have been taken over with complaining about evil orange man. We get it, you think everything he does to include taking a leak qualifies for WTF.

Prediction. Next press sec will be a max looked man. Don has been talking a lot about man looks. He likes his blondes bimbo, how does he like his men? Looks over ability to form a sentence is my bet. Polymarket that!

Wait till you learn we have Refueling probes, too, and taught the 160th how to HAAR when they gained that capability.

Navy allows the member to choose run, bike, or swim, regardless of age. That said, I always found it easier to get a high score with the run. The bike and swim are crazy easy to pass but difficult to get a good enough score to only do the PRT once a year.

UPDATE: While I was at OTS, the leadership specifically said "We read everything online about how the physical training here is not challenging, so we are specifically inceasing the intensity and frequency of PT." Personally, I thought the PT at first was a bit forced. We seemed to do 5 days straight of running (~ 3 miles at a slow pace), then rest for a day or two, then 5 days of mainly chest exercises. At the end of the course, a lot of people had complaints about how the workouts weren't "varied" enough. The leadership seemed to take notes on that and I'm sure it'll be more of a mix of muscle groups for the next few classes. Our class was specifically told we were doing a lot more PT than previous classes, so YMMV... All in all, I can't complain, but I would liked to have had more personal PT time to hit the gym instead of always doing body weight stuff... But you can't make everyone happy.

I can see some of this... But do we really think no one knows where Dhafra, Al Udeid, or Ali Al Salem are? Do we think the Taliban is still in the dark about the location of Bagram or Kandahar?

This is so not surprising to me. I can’t tell you how many opsec briefs I’ve sat through pre-deployment and then had squadron members (from FNG to leadership) posting the exact stuff we were just told to not post. The most egregious was a Major posting a picture of the globe with every place (ICAO ID’s) our community had been throughout the world over the last year and talking about how busy they’d been. The Commies don’t even have to try anymore. We’ll just give them the info eventually.

I was 6'3" and 240 first time in the 'fuge. Hate running and it shows... Did 5.8 resting g tolerance. YMMV