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Sammy Hagar says he was abducted by aliens. Seriously.

Man throws cottage cheese at girlfriend and locks her in a shed

Sorry my rhetoric did not properly transmit...what I should have said was get rid of USAF PA.

So on the AF.MIL website they have a story celebrating the 50th anniversary of the T-38. For some reason our USAF PA folks decided to use a copyrighted picture from Jo Hunter (below), does that mean that after operating the jet for 50 years we could not find a suitable picture of our own? Time to close Combat Camera in the name of efficiency.

My wife will not allow me to look in that thread...actually usually at work and definitely won't open there.

A righteousness case of payback... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43nsMWUnB8c

I think its been covered in another thread, but short story...USAA helped my buy and finance a house (actually their investment folks suggested it). PCSed away and kept the home as a rental. When I returned we purchased a bigger home (again using USAA, who advised me to keep the first home as an investment), they immediately dropped my homeowners coverage on the rental because it was in Florida and the refuse to insure more than your primary residence (even if the suggest it). Went round and round, told them I was taking ALL my business elsewhere and they did not believe me...so I moved four mutual funds, canceled our credit card, other home owners and car insurance.

Back when Orville, Wilbur and I went through UPT, they gave the you had the option of taking the written right before graduation. I left UPT with a Commercial Multi-Engine with a center line thrust restriction. When I went to Little Rock for AC school I took my logbook and Form 8 down to the FAA office and they removed the thrust restriction in about five minutes.

Why would anyone watch NBC... Prayers to those affected.

From the article and the AGR Col they quoted, that is not the case...they are no shit restricted to base even after duty hours.

Citizen Soldiers Denied Family Visits

The bigger laugh is Columbus and ORI in the same sentence....really....Flush the T-38's to meet the Russian hordes!

vMPF is not AFPC... The AFPC site was the unsecure AFPC reference that listed promotions lists, board dates, and other information.

Teach Afghanistan the power of the Defensive Egg.

Yup...absolute fail!

How much longer will it be down?

Yes

The last thing I feel is "called out". "Pointy Talky CAS" is a loose construct floating around in my pea-brain based on having done CAS once or twice in my mediocre career and having used an iPad to surf porn...err do market research. CAS can be the best of times or the worst of times. More often than not it is confusing, chaotic, frightening, and did I say confusing. When the bros on the ground are getting shot through no malice of their own, they tend to speak fast, come in broken, send bad coordinates, keep their nuggets down, spend considerable time fighting back....rather than talking...I would certainly do the same. In my mind an iPad or some similar device that can present what the guy on the ground sees AND what the guy in the air sees in a COP that is interactive to both parties, offers hope in eliminating confusion. I certainly like the idea of sticking my claw up to the window with an IR pointer to circle and confirm a target location, but if environmental, urban, or combat factors preclude such a thing I think it would be nice to go John Madden and circle a part of the image like a telestrator that both parties can see. A "shoot here" capability that both parties can view/agree upon/manipulate does move the art of the possible a little further down the field and maybe helps us kill bad guys and more importantly save good guys a little bit better. Just my .69c and not something I am going to get all butt hurt about if folks disagree. If someone has a better way, lets move out, but I see no harm in at least thinking about ways to do things better.

Sadly, it will only get worse. Is the Westboro church distasteful, abhorrent, sickening...yes. Was the Supreme Court decision the correct one, yes. "If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." George Washinton “Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.” Colin Powell

Story developing on CNN. Fox actually has a little more detail... Shots Fired at Bus Carrying U.S. Soldiers in Germany

With Russia's $650 billion rearmament plan, the bear sharpens its teeth The graying bear is getting a make-over. Russia's military is launching its biggest rearmament effort since Soviet times, including a $650 billion program to procure 1,000 new helicopters, 600 combat planes, 100 warships, and 8 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines...

Different strokes for different folks, I DO want to do pointy talky CAS or have any additional assets possible to improve SA and effectiveness. IR pointers don't work during the day, in urban situations, or in some environmental conditions. I certainly would not want the iPad to be the primary reference for CAS, but as another tool in the cockpit (aside from myself), I would welcome it. Perhaps it won't work in a fighter cockpit, but I don't have room for MFP's (or funding for them). It would be a very simple and economical fix to put an Ipad with velcro on a thigh strap, which should solve the issue of a wayward iPad surfing around the cockpit during a defensive maneuver. What you should really be wary of is the day we get X-Box controllers instead of a stick (yoke) and throttles.

There are SOOO many ways we could use this, but yes I would want it somewhat ruggedized. Aside from takeoff, approach, and landing think about the tactical uses. If it was integrated you could use it as an electronic knee board or put it on the link and commence "John Madden" style pointy talkie CAS...