Buddy Spike
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3 hours ago, ViperStud said:
Words words words epic story words words
Crisis averted.
SuperWSO, back to your nerdery.
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11 hours ago, SuperWSO said:
Improper application of 10% rule. Go around for another attempt.
You just got SuperWSOwned.
The only acceptable solution at this point is harakiri. RIP.
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38 minutes ago, VMFA187 said:
"Large portions of the aircraft, including a wing and the fuselage, were found intact after the crash, allowing investigators to identify it as an F-16, police said at the time of the incident."
Incredible investigative skills at play here.
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http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2017/10/saints_fan_boo_players_who_kne.html
Keeping it classy in New Orleans.
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3 hours ago, Seriously said:
You aren't allowed to own your own fighter and an inventory of Mk 82s either...
Says who?
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1 hour ago, Darth said:
While not negotiable, it is changeable.
"For an amendment to be proposed or repealed, it requires two/thirds of both federal legislative bodies — House and Senate — to vote in the affirmative (two/thirds in the House, two/thirds in the Senate). It also requires two/thirds of the state legislatures of the 50 states to vote in the affirmative. The move to propose or repeal can begin with the American people, with a majority of the populations in two thirds of the 50 states voting for the amendment or its repeal. However, even if the people do this, the push to propose or repeal still has to garner two/thirds House, two/thirds Senate, and two/thirds of all 50 state legislatures."
Go for it. While you're at it, let's fix the anchor baby and term limits issues.
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2 hours ago, RTB said:
So anyone should have access to the full range of military weapons? This is where the pro-2A argument goes off the rails. Musket v musket, it made sense. With today's military weapons, not so much. Like I said before, there's a reasonable limit beyond which your average joe doesn't need to be armed. So if that's the case, where do you draw the line? Does a semi-automatic AR with a 100 round drum magazine and a bump stock make sense? Should a full-auto rifle be allowed? Should we let Hoss have his Hellfire missile? The other side see's our arguments FOR bearing arms as a slippery slope in that direction.
Yes. Next question.
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Some of you are quick to give up rights.
Here's the problem: once they're gone, you'll never get it back.
The Second Amendment protects our right to bear arms just like the First Amendment protects our right to free speech (Congress shall make no law). It's not a negotiable document.
As stated above, we have a violence problem and a mental health problem in this country. Making law abiding citizens into criminals won't solve that. Punishing the millions of law abiding gun owners because of the acts of a few psychopaths won't solve that either.
Whether you agree with it or not, the Second Amendment was designed to defend the First Amendment. We are absolutely intended to be as well armed as the military because the founders wanted the government to fear the people and not the other way around.
We've already given up enough (NFA, etc). Now is not the time to give up because of one horrific incident. It's a very slippery slope.
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Just now, Lord Ratner said:
Because the law can be changed. Hell, let's not forget that you couldn't buy the AR15 we see everywhere today back in the 90s.
If your plan for the debate is to hold a document up that can be changed by the majority and tell them they can't change it, you may not get the results you expect.
I'm very pro-second Amendment, but the one thing I hate about the people on my side is that they refuse to engage in the debate. They say stupid things like, knives kill people too, or guns don't kill people people kill people. These are stupid arguments by stupid people. Of course knives kill people, but they don't kill as many people as someone with a fully automatic gun in the top of the Mandalay Bay can kill.
You don't need a 30 round magazine for hunting. Most reasonable people would say that you don't need an entire Arsenal to fend off a home invasion by a group of well-trained Highly coordinated and numerous villains. We have to do better if we want to keep these toys. And we're not going to convince anyone that the framers of the Constitution foresaw the type of weaponry available to people today. In their day, if someone went on a rampage with a musket, they'd kill maybe two people before they got punched in the face.So if you're "Very pro-second Amendment" then what is your solution to avoid violating infringement?
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Just now, Lord Ratner said:16 minutes ago, Buddy Spike said:Shall not be infringed.
It's the only justification necessary.
You'll lose. Automatics are illegal. Grenades. We need to do better than arguing the old men who wrote the 2nd amendment surely would have been cool with what happened in Vegas.
Automatics are not illegal and neither are grenades.
Why would using the Second Amendment cause me to lose? Do you support the Constitution or not?
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3 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:
If the only outcome is that bump fire stocks are outlawed, the NRA will be lucky. And they should have been illegal already.
I'm a big fan of the 2nd. Bigly in favor of it. But you can't answer this massacre with "that's the price of freedom."
Gun owners need to be ready to justify all the toys we have access to. At the moment I'm having a difficult time thinking of a justification for removable magazines.Shall not be infringed.
It's the only justification necessary.
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No fucking way was it just a dude having a bad day. This was planned.
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On 9/28/2017 at 5:51 PM, pbar said:
Two of three Navy Aggressor squadrons are Reserve squadrons IIRC.
All of them are. VFA-204 is the only Navy Reserve squadron that pretends to still have a "strategic reserve" posture. VFC-12, VFC-13, and VFC-111 are all adversary-only and Navy Reserve. With Legacy Hornets, VFC12 and VFA-204 struggle to provide enough flyable aircraft and usually have to rely on each other to supplement support detachments.
NAWDC is active duty and does Top Gun support, but they are not an adversary squadron per se.
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1 hour ago, brabus said:
Well at least this won't come back to haunt them in a few years. I'm sure the bros will let it slide.
At this rate, there won't be any bros left in a few years.
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3 hours ago, GypsyGhost said:
Good afternoon, FEB went bad, I had a really bad month and Q3d then didn't do well during requalification. Any advice to fight this and or gain a flying waiver to still save my wings?
Does the "Bud Day" legend still exist out there to ask advice?
Col Bud Day died four years ago.
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3 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:
SOS, as it is constructed today, is a value added course. The material is good, but more importantly, since they changed the way the cadre are selected, the underlying tone for the program is greatly improved. Zero sarcasm.
Pilots love to think they are above learning leadership from books and workshops, but this thread has countless examples of how shitty pilots often are at leadership.
I hung out with a bunch of people my age, drank a lot, worked bankers' hours having conversations about the AF with people from different backgrounds, spent my weekends fishing in the morning and drinking on crab island till sundown, got to speak to academic power-houses in the field of leadership theory, and all while getting a break from the desk work and sims. I wish I could go every year.
If SOS is the problem, I'm no longer interested in y'alls solution.Nerd.
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3 hours ago, JS said:
Out of curiosity, can you give a few sentence summary of the culture problem there? I have only known one CBP pilot and he said it was a good deal and seemed to like it.
I am also sort of asking for a good friend who is an Army Guard helo guy who is looking to get into something bigger/better.
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/military/100650-cbp-aia-new-thread.html
There are also other threads on it and some info on other boards out there. But that seems most relevant and recent.
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4 hours ago, brabus said:
GS-11 first year, 2 years to 13/step 1? That's a massive pay cut for a mil pilot off AD, and not very desirable locations additionally. Even some young guys who aren't flight leads are GS-13 in the guard, and the rest are bare minimum 12s.
CBP needs to greatly step up their hiring baseline pay to even remotely be competitive with a shit load of other aviation opportunity out there for guys leaving AD. I can't imagine any pilot would be interested unless they were dead set on living in Laredo.
Not just the money. There's a lot of info out there on a terrible culture problem in CBP Air that's just as bad if not worse than DOD Aviation right now.
Cool mission with some badass opportunities, but you're absolutely right. They're going to need to fix their pay, locations, and culture if they want any shot at drawing dudes away from the airlines or even full time ARC jobs. If they hadn't gone full retard for 8 years hiring rotary wing or dual-rated only, they might not be in this mess.
Although in all fairness to the money argument, you need to add LEAP in that comparison. It's still not even close.
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Any chance of getting a decent location, or is it still just West Texas or Arizona? (Hammond, perhaps?)
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11 hours ago, MooseAg03 said:
You guys haven't reviewed the slide show? I particularly liked the scenarios discussing how to handle a member scheduled to deploy who is currently undergoing sexual reassignment therapy. Good God, why would anyone want to be a commander in this Air Force and have to deal with that shit?
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1 hour ago, HeloDude said:
Did the GOP just slip an amendment into the FDA spending bill to remove suppresses from the NFA list?
Is it retro like the last one? Will I get my tax stamp money back?
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2 hours ago, HossHarris said:
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but that doesn't really exist (like it used to be) on ad either.
And the airlines pay you enough to throw your own strippers and beer naming party if you feel like it. Every weekend if you're really feeling froggy.
And as an added bonus, the strippers make excellent ex-wives for you to bitch about to your FOs as they take half your $300k/yr paycheck.
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5 hours ago, Hacker said:
From my perspective as a career fighter/trainer guy in the AF, and now having flown at both the regionals and the majors...could not disagree more.
Herding airliners around the sky, from both an airmanship/decisionmaking/judgment/thinking perspective and a stick-and-rudder perspective, is "vastly" easier than 90% of the tasks I had to perform even as a wingman in the Strike Eagle. The military flying required greater "headwork" and flying skills on an acute basis, task-for-task and hour-for-hour.
There are a good number of airline pilots that I work with now who would not last a day doing what I did for a career in the AF -- and I now, sadly, have to include myself in that description. My skills have atrophied even in a couple years of droning in the flight levels and babysitting the FMS. Even the most challenging situations I've run up against -- maintenance issues, challenging weather, dealing with unruly pax -- don't require the skill and proficiency I had even a handful of years ago when I was turning-and-burning for a living.
This. Airline flying is just the motherhood. 95% is just busy work and dealing with the other assholes in the airplane, 5% is actual flying.
And that's why people love it so much. It's an easy job for a good paycheck.
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On 7/4/2017 at 7:46 PM, GDAL said:
Forgive my dumb question, but what's wrong with blue suit and red tie?
Nothing. In the spirit of the mass exodus to the airlines, it's the standard interview attire for Delta wannabes.
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