Boomer6

Wrong on both accounts. Are you/were you a fighter pilot? I've taught quite a few dudes with a lot of non-standard civilian experience prior to UPT. Those dudes had average progression in UPT/IFF/B-Course. I've seen more ppl with broad civilian experience wash out than those with no prior experience. In the CAF I know a lot of dudes that have received the quals mentioned. Cool experience, and airmanship I'm sure is better. Does it change their tactical abilities, no. The correlation between the disciplines are too far apart to provide meaningful impact tactically for fighter dudes.

For guys going fighters I think a seaplane qual, helo qual, STOL etc. doesn't buy very much. Will their overall airmanship increase, sure, but will that significantly increase their ability to employ, no. I'd argue F1 drivers (the car not the jet) are a good example of the progression the AF executed (until recently) in fighter training. We start with slower acft and rapidly progress to solo flights in high performance acft. F1 drivers do the same thing, and I don't see them in a CJ7 doing rock crawling contests because it will make them a better driver overall. I need students to have a single seat mindset and to think at a minimum of 350KTs when they get to B course. If you think the heavy/afsoc etc. communities could benefit from non-traditional quals in UPT then I'll take your word for it.

The number of times I've wished I had acft MX experience is pretty high versus the number of times Ive needed seaplane experience. Unless Clark gets his wish and we buy a fleet of the spruce goose, I think having pilots with MX experience is going to be useful when it kicks off with china.

Not of sea planes or hot air balloons.

If it's not crazy it's fucking retarded at best and poor stewardship at worse. Let's waste more tax payer dollars on additional quals. A hot air balloon license would increase their airmanship, plus we can use it to weed out the idiots. If we're gonna waste money I'd rather we have them all get an A&P.

Can't tell if you're being facetious or not. Seaplane training, really?

How many helo dudes did she cheat on you with? Where's Biff..

You're thinking of chang/bashi/gearhog/torqued. 4 chaches in one.

I'm saying being Eskimo bros with Biden could/would be worse. At least HCM was a patriot for his country..

That's exactly how it works.

You fucked Jill Biden? Gross.

Eskimo bros with ho chi minh? That sounds worse than the viet-clap she has.

Can you or CH explain how DoD is to blame for all the shit with fat amy? I can't help but want LM to burn for all the bullshit we're dealing with, but I'm not privy to what the gov is responsible for in that dumpster fire.

If any of that has a chance of getting done I think it's during the current administration. I'm hoping DOGE and SECDEF commit on Lockheed/Boeing/NG/Raytheon as soon as they get done culling the fed work force.

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Your future mayor, probably.

Poland has vipers and is under our nuclear umbrella...

When he invaded Georgia he didn't continue into Turkey. I also don't equate election influence, which we do/have done as well, to knowingly attacking a country that will trigger WWIII. A war like that would risk his hold on power and that's what I think he cares most about. I've got no problem assisting Ukraine, but that's not because I think he's going to invade a NATO country if we don't assist.

Do you think Putin equates invading a country that is not a part of NATO as the same as invading a NATO country?

You know, all this fuckery is getting insufferable. However, I can't imagine having to deal with this crap and be a liberal in the military. Between uniform inspections and Trump's EOs it must feel like the apocalypse cometh.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/10/politics/us-spy-planes-mexican-drug-cartels/index.html

Yeah, I'm curious how many alt accounts/trolling it takes to have some action taken..

I'd like to see the Arab Nations put their money where their mouth is and rebuild. Only, instead of rebuilding a shit hole they put some serious $$$ into infrastructure, schools, hospitals, hell even resorts etc. Possibly make it something akin to the Vatican. Overall, give the next generation a big lift out of severe poverty and stop them from being bred into hate. They could provide scholarships to all the kids to top universities across the world, or just build a world class university in Gaza itself. We could leverage surrounding Arab states (Jordan being the primary) to administer Gaza, and charge them with also rooting out and preventing extremism. They'd act as a relatively friendly buffer between Palestinians and Israelis. A pipe dream for sure, but the Saudis alone have more than enough money to make this happen. Maybe DJT can make something like this happen, but I won't hold my breath.