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He just meant that it stayed at $25K per year, which is the same as it has been for over a decade. All that changed were the options and durations.

Have you read any of this thread at all? The whole point of IFS is to screen for adaptability to the USAF's training methodology and basic aptitude in an aircraft. All of that crap that you are bitching about in your rant is exactly the haze you are going to encounter at "what really matters". They run the program that way intentionally -- you will see all of that again at your UPT base. Good luck with scoffing at the actual gate-keepers to a set of silver wings. Tell us how that works out for you.

And yet, Gen Welsh fails to mention that much of Bud Day's "act" -- both in the air and on the ground -- would be seen as "not part of the current AF culture". Day would be sitting on multiple Art 15s and FEBs in today's AF. How fantastic that we can pay homage to the whitewashed, PC actions of our heroes.

The problem right now with fighter staff billets is that Big Blue is only putting shiny pennies in them -- in-res grads, graduated SQ/CCs, etc. They're ridiculously under-manned as is, and their bar for entry makes it an even smaller circle of "acceptable" people that can fill them.

Just to save folks the trip to the link:

He was a pretty damn impressive attorney as well. I met Col Day as a young ROTC cadet, and his attitude and personality had a huge impact on my officership and subsequent airmanship. As always with men like this, I'm sad that they're gone, but more thankful that they lived.

Doesn't sound like you've spent much time reading up on anything at all based on this statement.

I don't see anything about that particular ejection that the "old" T-38 seat would have had problems with.

Everybody has to add "special operations" to their job description to make themselves feel like a real warrior, right?

FWIW, the mechanism that makes BLO a wood protectant is that it polymerizes and hardens as it dries. That polymerization is actually accelerated by heating it up -- if the microwave treatment was to increase its penetration into the wood, it is actually a little counterproductive. Cutting the BLO with something like mineral spirits gets the overall mixture thinner, and will thus go deeper into the pores/grain on the initial applications. The mineral spirits will evaporate while the BLO can still flow, so it will smooth out into a light coat that fills deeper than just straight BLO will.

How many coats of BLO did you put on? I usually put 4 or 5 coats of a 50/50 BLO and mineral spirits mix, with a 30-minute post-application wipedown with a rag and 24 hours of drying between coats. I also reapply coats every couple years, which keeps the finish looking better and better over time. The more coats you can apply (with proper dry time between), the better the oil finish will look. FWIW, if that's only one coat on that Mosin, I'd recommend slowly applying several more light coats, one every couple days with full drying in between. I also occasionally use raw linseed oil (flax oil) depending on the stock and how the oil soaks in to it during the application process.

Dear SARC at my base: At your next presentation to the Wing, are you going to have a PowerPoint slide to retract the previous slide you showed during the SARC Stand-down in which you drug this officer's name through the mud as a sex offender? How are you planning on wording your apology for jumping to conclusions without all of the information, and slandering this officer to 100s of personnel, including enlisted Airmen? https://www.sfgate.co...cer-4671899.php Yet again, guilty until proven innocent...

Depends on when you got in on them. If you bought RGR in '11, you made a nice profit if you sold within the last year.

The sooner that we realize that we're just a manning number to Big Blue, and the only people that might actually care about you are some of your squadronmates, the closer you are to achieving nirvana.

Because as soon as you "turn your back" on Big Blue, you're dead to it.

This is exactly the problem right here: someone who thinks that a reference to anything sexual is "sexist". Suggest you go pick up a dictionary and look that word up, then go back and reassess if "69" is what it describes. This is as asinine as the slide I saw recently at the sexual assault stand down that said: Anything offensive = sexual assault = UCMJ violation

Yet again...."Unlawful Command Influence" seems to be a term that is completely unknown to civilian lawmakers when they comment on UCMJ cases. A reminder of the results of the previous round of commentary from civilian leadership: https://www.stripes.com/judge-obama-sex-assault-comments-unlawful-command-influence-1.225974

Why would any of these actions have an impact on a security clearance?

Nice work. It is too bad that she doesn't believe that we peasants are worthy to own an AR-15. https://startingpoint...arget-practice/

I have no issue with a superior rank correcting a subordinate rank in public. All too often, it is the opposite that takes place, and I find that to be way out of line.

When Colt's leaves Connecticut, then we'll know it is really on.

That California bill is just through the Senate -- not signed into law.

How well does that mag function?

He didn't have 1300 rounds of ammo. https://usnews.nbcnew...nds-police?lite Listen to what she says in the news conference: "If all of the magazines that we collected were in fact loaded fully, something on the order of about 1,300 rounds, and that's an estimation". She is doing math based on the number of mags they collected, NOT the actual tally of cartridges. The news media ran with the ball after COMPLETELY misunderstanding what she said, and -- weird -- the police never bothered to correct the errant reports. Anyone who has had a 500-round case of .223 ammo delivered to their house knows it is just not in any way realistic to carry around 1,300 rounds, regardless of if they're in magazines or not.

That from Cad west?