Everything posted by Boomer6
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College Football
The last time your team was relevent the Motorola razr was the new hotness, The Rock had hair, ppl actually wrote in cursive, and BQZip's mom had a body count below triple digits.
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KC-46 & F-15 Incident over CA
Are you asking why they tried a second cable engagement on a RWY that had another cable available w/ calm winds. Or why they chose to fly ~30 miles away to Lemoore instead of 140 miles with minimum fuel and a hydraulic problem?
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Delayed B Course Date
- Delayed B Course Date
Go Guard.- KC-46 & F-15 Incident over CA
Don't forget to brief your double missed cable gear down min fuel divert gameplan. That'll put some hair on your chest.- Is the T-1 totally retired from the UPT syllabus?
The one that smashed his exec or the one that took over for him?- End of FY $$$
The Garmin watches are all well and good, until the altimeters start failing at the 18 month point. Even better when Garmin recommends buying a new watch if you want it fixed. Skillcraft Aviator pens are great. If you have enough cash for 400 dollar watches I'd rather get some nice shades (Costa etc.) or a good travel bag (osprey, eagle creek, patagonia etc.).- Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Backfire lives up to its name.. Russia claims it had an engine fire, Ukraine claims it caused the engine fire with a missile- Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Ukraine DestroysThird/Last Bridge in Kursk "The destruction of the third bridge over the Seym river at Karyzh would mean Russian troops on a broad stretch of the border beyond the river would now largely cut off"- Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Ukraine Creating Buffer Zone in Russia "Ukraine’s Commander in Chief, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, claimed last week that his forces had advanced across 1,000 square kilometers (390 square miles) of the region,"- Russian Ukraine shenanigans
- Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Reminds me of the scientist Boyd referenced that declared the ideal missile would need to be shaped like a boomerang...- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- The Iran thread
- The Iran thread
- B-1 Down at Ellsworth
- What's wrong with the Air Force?
Is the example of the name tag "First Name Last Name" or does it explicitly say, " Nametag must display first name and last name."? If it's the former I'd say that's just an example like "John Doe." If it's the latter, easy, we just all change our legal names.- Information on PIT (Pilot Instructor Training)
You should get an email at some point with your flt/cc's info, but don't expect a sponsor for PIT. There aren't necessarily a list of specific places to live unless you're showing up solo then there are plenty of PIT pads (Google will help). You can find furnished places in Schertz, Cibolo, etc. that will allow short term leases.- UPT Next
That dude isn't going to do/say anything contrary to what his boss says and jeopardize his next assignment/rank. There's plenty of actual studies/data that the AF has commissioned and then blatently ignored. I don't think a bunch of dudes brainstorming common sense ideas on the internet is going to help. Maybe if a C-17 crewed by two T-6 direct to Altus dudes crashes into an LGBTQ+ parade during a flyover they'll 're-evaluate' the training program.- Finally done in Afghanistan?
Recommend reading Operation Pineapple Express by Lt Col Scott Mann (ret.). First hand account of a group led by prior Green Berets to get former Afghan SOF/Interpreters and their families out prior to the U.S. exit. Libby has it for free on audiobook. Eye opening to say the least for someone that isn't familiar with what went down.- Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Finally, a counterpoint grounded in logic, and not the same ol' verbal Russian handjob from the resident apologist.- How do you feel about your airframe and mission?
Russel Case is your spirit animal Biff.- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
This analogy is on par with, "if we can't trust them to wear approved patches, how an we trust them in combat?!" In the absense of a law passed ordering police to torture, maim, rape, or execute prisoners I don't expect them to be constitutional scholars. We have courts for this. Its the same reason I don't condemn college admissions officials for executing affirmative action for 60+ years. It was found to be unconstitutional, but I don't hold admissions officials personally responsible for following the law.- WTF? (**NSFW**)
Yes. At the danger of talking past each other, I am not in disagreement with anything you wrote. My opinion, and yours for that matter, on this not being IAW Article IV is irrelevant. The only opinion that matters legally is the court's. The point I was trying, and obviously failing, to make is that the city passed a law specifically to empower officers to do what we see in the video. It's easy to say they should have just refused. They're officers that are trying to clean up their city and were given approval to execute per the new law. Pardon me for not immediately damning them to hell for doing what they're told. If leadership directs a subordinate to do something unlawful, I'd prefer to hold leadership accountable. Even moreso when leadership just passed a law making it "legal." - Delayed B Course Date