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On 7/4/2023 at 6:42 AM, TreeA10 said:
Just make sure your fireworks release parameters ensure safe separation and don't frag the release platform.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article276969778.html
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10 minutes ago, HeloDude said:
I guess in the last several years I have yet to hear of a pilot who had more than 1-2 years at a legacy leave to go to another. What kind of numbers are we talking about who would fit that criteria?
2021, 6y FO who was active on union committees punched, AA for FDX
Rare, yes.
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2 hours ago, Biff_T said:
We really need term limits for Congress. I think this would help. But it will be really hard to convince the people who have the power change this, to act.
Term limits seem like an easy fix, but much like the 17th Amendment, the devil is in the details.
Just term limiting congress-critters would power shift further toward entrenched bureaucrats. Not necessarily a positive outcome.
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On 6/17/2023 at 12:11 AM, Clayton Bigsby said:
lol you think Trump actually gives two fucks about anything beyond himself
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I actually believe that he does.
He’s a raging dumpster fire, personality wise, but yeah, I think he has better intentions and ideas that anyone either party is going to put forward.
I do believe this, in the face of all propaganda we’ve been fed.
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1 hour ago, HeyEng said:
And on the topic of military retirees living on overseas bases does anyone remember the homeless guy living on Ramstein? The rumor was he was a Colonel who lost his wife and kind of fell off the deep end?
I cannot vouch for the story but I actually did see the guy on base pushing around a shopping cart full of cans and other detritus, I wonder how he managed to fly under the radar living on an overseas Air Base.This was the guy that was big news around MRA circles a few years ago.
Big-D single shot kill criteria (don't mean Dallas).
Hadn't heard of a similar case ivo Ramstein.
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fwiw...
Certain health practices will never see the light of day in terms of well funded trials...sorta like cancer itself, too much money to be had in the treatment to bother looking TOO hard for a cure.
That said, my personal quiver includes both daily intermittent, and long term fasting. Lots of content out there for your consumption from the likes of Attia, Huberman, Patrick, etc. My regimen is 24h per week, 1 x 72h per month, 1x 120h per quarter. I'd explain the benefits but I've got a pilot's level grasp of communication, so I point you to the above Doctors. The goodness is brought to you by the vocabulary words cellular autophagy, mitophogy, stem cel production, gluconeogenesis, among others.
Enjoy
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19 minutes ago, FLEA said:
I remember this too but being older and wiser now I'm wondering how enforceable that really is. In other capacities of service you can't actually tell a service member what they can and can't do during personal liberty so long as its lawful. Not saying its not true but part of me does wonder if it was just smoke.
Scuttlebut was that it could be used in a Line of Duty determination for SGLI, so all played along.
That said, I had a Hazardous Activities worksheet that included gliders, light GA, motorcycle, boating, and shooting, so it wasn't as though they were being pricks about it.
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On 4/27/2023 at 8:49 PM, Clark Griswold said:
Looking back I think renting an aircraft and flying in the local area on the weekends during academics is what I think would have been helpful
Just to see the visual refs and in general the local area / nearby aux fields is what I wish I would have done
Not related to the OP’s question but added FWIW
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalklol, I flight planned this out before starting phase 2.
My planning showed me how many HOURS it was gonna take to cover half of northern MS trying to vis recce the pattern, MOAs, LL routes, etc. 100kts vs 250kts/350kts (tweet, talon). We're talking gas stops, over multiple days of flying.
...it was an idea quickly dismissed. OP's idea would cost a small fraction, and with google earth embedded in the most recent sims, not a bad idea.
Best bet is if UPT now allows open sims--->>>do that! In 2004 this was considered a SylDev, but my FC did sign off a few sessions so I could go over with classmates who were struggling.
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2 hours ago, skybert said:
Incentivize the courts not to break up families without cause.
Agree, but...
The courts aren't actually breaking up families, per se. The courts are incentivizing the breakup of families, via application of shitty statute and case law.
It's a low risk payoff for one of the parties that enters family court, statistically speaking.
But, even then, the table is set long before the divorce petition gets filed. Social media has only poured gasoline on an already raging dumpster fire of demonizing men and devaluing family in popular culture. Hooray single moms! Pay no attention to the adult outcomes of children raised in single parent homes, much less those without fathers.
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2 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:
Test their equipment, people and tactics by using their own CBG to deter intervention by the US and defeat/intimidate the RN?
If China manages to sail a full CBG and make it east of Indonesia, color me shocked and awed.
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23 hours ago, uhhello said:
Ol' Lindsey Graham just always itching to send others into harms way. Don't think he's ever encountered a foreign policy choice where he doesn't choose force on force.
https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-recommends-shooting-russian-jets-response-us-drone-1787812
Does Russia have a leg to stand on(LOAC) if they can somehow prove that the reapers are providing intelligence to UKR and therefore is a lawful threat to be taken out?
If they do, then that could be a very slippery slope indeed.
Thinking of the legal review about a decade ago that looked upon service members in CONUS driving to work if that work included over the horizon ops in theater.
The droid was in international airspace. Is it a lawful threat (target) if it is a sniffer platform (RC-135) orbiting over Poland?
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Don't know what the current climate is, but I was able to extend my retirement PCS move twice before I pulled the trigger and moved the Family to my domicile.
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On 7/26/2022 at 8:40 PM, Seriously said:
Meanwhile, the enlisted force have blitzkrieged with shaving/religion/IDGAF waivers and are all wearing beards these days.
I only break out my IDGAF waiver when it’s a .80/320 one leg home on day 4.
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Flew with a senior CA who'd recently left the training dept after a couple decades to return to the line. He'd had a front row seat when single engine taxi was rolled out, long before my arrival on property. The pilot group, being the aforementioned Type-A widgets that we are, were on it like Khloe on the very last cupcake. That lasted, oh, about a fiscal quarter or two, until...
Company financials were released, touting record setting executive bonuses.
Same CKA, a few years later, sitting in another company meeting where a VP had data up on slides showing SET rates at all major carriers, of which we were distant last in the race. VP turns to the peanut gallery to ponder why our pilots were so far behind industry practices regarding SET. Of the dozen or so pilots lining the wall of the conference room...blank looks.
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Thats enough internet for today I think.
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What Haiti really needs is a politically connected benevolent charitable foundation to step up and help out.
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5 hours ago, VMFA187 said:
He was kicked out of his squadron about 15 months ago and sent to the MAG. He was on admin hold, receiving Tricare but no pay for about the last nine-ish months. He did immediately start working once his pay ceased.
If by immediately start working you mean line number at a legacy, this story will go legendary status.
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On 1/28/2023 at 2:25 AM, dream big said:
Been saying this for years. Want to improve QOL for maintainers? Get rid of the AMXS and PCA everyone to the flying squadron. Marines and Navy have no problem with this model. 0-4 leadership position is MX OIC as a pilot.
Maybe.
Way back in the Peace Dividend days, I showed up to my first Marine Squadron, and days after I arrived my roomies (maintainers) started pulling 12/6’s. Why were they doing 12/6’s, you ask? Well, it’s because when the Skipper said in a staff meeting that he wanted Mx on 12/7’s, someone slipped him a note that said can’t do that…
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1 hour ago, nsplayr said:
WTF is this memo real??
That's gotta be a leak of a draft that was never meant to see the light of day.
"KC-135 units will coordinate to provide a conceptual means of air delivering 100 off-the-shelf size and type UAVs from a single aircraft."
That right there was a spitball idea from the back of the peanut gallery, maybe got put up on the whiteboard for discussion purposes, but should have not made it onto paper.
OTS UAV = no legs. Which means if delivered by air, is done OH or near the target, so...KC-135 means uncontested airspace, which flies in the face of the rest of the memo.
...Duffle Blog?
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yootoob algorithms got me down some deeeep rabbit holes 🙄
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We're missing balance.
When Chang was trolling us hard we had Liquid to balance out the discourse (and humor). Where's that guy?