Everything posted by BFM this
- Military, Aviation, Spacecraft Technology that won't necessarily replace us
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The Next President is...
Paul Bannon, huh? I get what you're saying. Wouldn't hang my theories on one of that guy's quotes, regardless of leanings, but whatever blows your skirt up man.
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The Next President is...
Based on what? A wet dream you had? Really, now that the Meuller investigation is dragging itself into Ken Star proportions, I really want to know if there are any crimes behind the curtain, or if we're going to be subjected to years-long fishing expedition. "Don't be surprised..." GMAFB; if there's something we're missing spill it, dispense with the VagueBooking. Birther-gate was about as tiring as this trope.
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The Next President is...
Yep. Irrelevant dots. Carter Page, maybe. Collusion by Trump, not so much.
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The Next President is...
On the flip side, the Nunes memo, for all of the hype leading up to the release, is about as big a nothing-burger as the dossier. Like the dossier, it IMPLIES plenty, while proving little. Like the dossier, it's implications are a cause for concern (the impartiality of law enforcement within the executive branch), but there's no actual proof offered, and no specific illegal acts identified. It's a collection of political sound bites, stamped with a classification header, only to have that header scratched out with much pomp and circumstance. Political theater.
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The Next President is...
Minimally corroborated? Yes, the subject of the dossier, DJT, is a real person. Aside from that, what has been corroborated? It’s been well established that the dossier itself was spun from whole cloth. It’s fiction, connecting irrelevant dots to imply nefarious intent that did not exist. It does not illustrate real illegal activities, such as directing subordinates to remove classification headers from documents and transmit those documents across lower clearance channels, nothing like that.
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The Next President is...
Not tracking
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Raise Taxes, Fire up the Draft.
E-3's got sponge baths? 90's was weird.
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Raise Taxes, Fire up the Draft.
That's the current prevailing sentiment.
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Taxes, the Deficit/Debt, and the Fiscal Cliff
That would be full retard. Don’t doubt it for a second.
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The Next President is...
They're not whores. Fucking is their Job.
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Info on flight boots
...why?
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North Korea at it again
That could get sporty.
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The new airline thread
Slightly on topic What was the outcome of the great Gearpig mystery?
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F-35 Lightning info
So, then...yes.
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F-35 Lightning info
“Self deployed”? As in island hopped/Alaska tour?
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Finance Problems
Not true. It was updated. We went from "if you like your password, you can keep your password" to "Password will expire every 30 days"
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The new airline thread
Huh. Ok. So, a guaranteed trip for all my friends, or just forewarned is forearmed type thing?
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F-16 Students skip Phase III
Science project. In the research/data gathering phase with emphasis on accepting limitations and/or debunking hypotheses, but also not loyal to traditional dogma. Exploring all off the shelf technology readily available, including VR and limited "AI" (quotes to caveat a limited subset of AI, not necessarily learning, but programable feedback mechanisms). If the original poster wants, he can put his full writeup here.
- F-16 Students skip Phase III
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New BAH rates are out.
This is interesting. This seems to be a perennial discussion like dual mil BAH families. It also seems to suffer from the same biases and stunted thinking as that issue. Maybe I'm wrong, too lazy to look up citations, but there is a reason for the two BAH rates. First rate is to cover housing costs, second is not to cover an ever expanding litter of rugrats. It's to cover the career opportunity costs of being a military spouse. Those costs are not only significant, but very relevant in today's retention climate.
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Air Force to begin testing enlisted pilots
That’s actually a quicker pace than average. My year group was something like 113 per month till the last two months of the year, when the last 900 or so numbers were pickled off in mass chunks.
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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T-6s Grounded; More OBOGS Issues
Every O2 system has procedures for contamination. Even LOX has steps to disconnect and pull the green ring. Asking for more from any contaminated system will likely give more...contaminants.
- F-16 Students skip Phase III