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    Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Not affording a US Citizen due process in accordance with the constitution is a bigger issue (and risk) than "mitigating risk" of a terror attack.

    Sometimes one must sacrifice a little security in the name of freedom and liberty. Ideals and ideas like this are what used to make this country great. (Gun control and warrant-less electronic eavesdropping on US citizens are just two more examples off the top of my head of the same erosion of this nation's ideals.)

    The easy road is usually the cowardly one.

    It is of my opinion that this entitled baby-boomer generation is absolutely destroying our country (fiscally wise, liberty wise, security wise). Fortunately, I have met some incredible people while serving and it gives me hope that some of you guys out there will someday help fix all this and get us back to where we used to be.

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    WTF? (**NSFW**)

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    These ######ers show up to Schriever every October to protest the military use of space. My favorite line: "those sneaky sneaky Air Force base people."

    I wonder if they used GPS in those vehicles to find their protest spot...

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    CV-22 Osprey info

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The CV-22 community has neither the resources, the time, the inclination, or the demeanor to play stepping stone for you. Its a serious airplane flown by serious people. Go elsewhere.

    It is my opinion that every airframe and every pilot in active duty could make the same argument.

    Continue.

    Panetta to Lift Ban on Women in Combat

    in General Discussion

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    If Panetta thought so strongly about this and he had the moral courage (which I would expect no less from someone placed in this position with this much responsibility) I would think he would've initiated this change much earlier vice on his way out.

    That aside, I would say this is generally a terrible idea for two reasons:

    1) If women are held to the same fitness standards as men this will not be a factor, but I really feel that in the name of "fairness" they will not be. Women when held at a lower physical standard than men will place themselves and the men they are serving with at danger for obvious reasons.

    2) Most men will generally try to protect women from danger. This complicates tactics for the squad leader etc... For example, who is leading off to go clear that house? Two people are wounded - which one do you drag to safety? The PC answer is that this shouldn't matter, but the probable answer is that it does and it will.

    The bottom line is that we should not be putting American lives in danger in the name of "fairness".

    If fairness is the name of the game promotion should certainly not be based on natural abilities and everyone should be given an equal shot at promotion, leadership etc... Combat is not fair.

    More SARC briefings soon.

    in General Discussion

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    I can only imagine what the public thinks. This worked out well for the AF PR wise...

    If you MUST decorate your cubicle with pictures - maybe stick with stuff along the lines of:

    Pictures from http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp - to be safe stick with non-historical pictures so you don't run into any questionable wartime nose-art etc...

    "Inspirational" material from http://sos.maxwell.af.mil/ or http://acsc.maxwell.af.mil/ dependent on your career development.

    Or maybe something from http://www.afsec.af.mil/organizations/education/medialibrary.asp - because safety is everyones responsibility.

    Gun Talk

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    Here is the official fact sheet for the President's gun control measures.

    • Take executive action to enhance tracing data: When law enforcement recovers a gun

    during a criminal investigation, they can trace that gun’s path from its manufacturer, to the dealer

    who sold it, to its first purchaser. This gun tracing process helps law enforcement solve violent

    crimes by generating leads in specific cases and can reveal gun trafficking patterns when large

    amounts of tracing data are combined. However, not all federal law enforcement agencies are

    uniformly required to trace all guns they recover and keep in custody. The President will issue a

    Presidential Memorandum requiring them to trace all such firearms.

    This scares me.

    I recently read that 323 murders were commited with assault rifles in 2011 - that's 1/100,000,000 odds.

    The hi-cap magazine thing is garbage too. The law-abiding US citizen should not have to rely on the police 100% to protect him or her from criminl acts.

    I expect more from America - people are so quick to give up incredible liberties, purchased over the last few hundred years with the blood of people who fought for this country, simply over irrational fears. It is shameful that politicians use the sandy hook tragedy to advance their own personel agendas.

    If you don't feel safe here with the gun laws, move to a country like the UK which has much tougher gun laws and a HIGHER violent crime rate (I think it's somewhere around 3x). There is also no fifth ammendment in the UK - which means you can be forced to testify against yourself. That should theoretically eliminate crime too right? Maybe we should go after that one after we're done with the second amendment.

    U-2 Dragonlady info

    in General Discussion

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    Last i knew, the U-2 has a decent glide ratio...I bet high key for the f-16 is substantially higher

    Copy - the U-2 is basically a jet powered glider. What's the HH-60 glide ratio? I'm curious - my guess would be somewhere around 1:1 with autorotation and around 0:1 without. I think the viper would be around 1:1, but I don't know.

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