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Many remote pilots at Kunsan extended to 18 months to get a better assignment on the backside. Most accompanied tours at Osan started at two years. On the Army side, I knew multiple guys that extended their two year accompanied assignment to three years as the Army pace of life was much more family friendly in Korea than stateside. Especially during the height of Iraq and Afghanistan. Might have changed a bit, but given that many Army units are doing 9+ month rotations still, I'd be many guys are choosing to extend to have some family stability. Obviously that is for guys there with their families, probably a bit different for single guys...

To be clear, I don't think you should refuse a breathalyzer if you are told to take it. What I said, and what ALPA says, is do not offer to take one to 'prove your innocence'. There is a big difference. Pulled over on the side of the road by the police, absolutely refuse the invitation to a field sobriety test. They are not mandatory in any state that I know of and it is a no-win scenario. I'd be interested to know the stat (probably doesn't exist) on the percentage of people that pass a field sobriety test. Probably low single digits or a percentage that starts with 0. The test is 100% subjective and the person grading the test is already convinced you're drunk or he wouldn't ask. A sober Olympic gymnast could fail it. If a cop tells you to take a breathalyzer, there are many states where refusing to do that also is an automatic suspension of your driver's license, which is probably where the FAA got that idea.

Not yet an official law, but the Kelly Loving Act has passed the Colorado House and would authorize the state to revoke a parent's custody for misgendering their own kids.

Never volunteer for anything like that. If you're not absolutely required to take the breathalyzer, don't do it. If a cop tells you it'll go better for you if you step out of the car and do a quick sobriety test, don't do it. Way to many chances for a bad instrument in the breathalyzer and if a cop ask you do to a field sobriety test, it's because he already thinks you're drunk. Then he's going to be the judge of if you are drunk while giving you tests that the vast majority of the population will fail every time. And if I take a required breathalyzer and it fails, I'm going to instantly, constantly, and loudly demand a blood draw.

So you can still buy high capacity magazines, an AR-15 without the 'safety course', and prevent your kid from 'transitioning' in Douglas County?

They shouldn't have been parked in the bike lane. Reminds me of this gem:

I would totally buy that theory. I've flown with a 64.5 year old that took long enough to answer EVERY radio call when they were pilot monitoring that ATC made a second radio call to us multiple times when the guy obviously heard it and was just still processing the first call for a simple freq change. Many/most guys would be totally fine flying for a few more years but there are a few I've flown with that make a solid case for going back to age 62 rather than up to 67. Problem is not just a simple IQ test; I'm sure they're just as smart as they were 20 years ago, but the synapses just don't fire in the same way as you get older. But if this is the case, we will likely never know unless he left some concrete evidence. It is taboo enough in the States to consider calling something like this out, I can't imagine anyone documenting anything like this in India.

Can you imagine being married to someone for years only to find out via some online viral video that your spouse went to a Cold Play concert? The shame is unimaginable....

This might be the first time I've agreed with @disgruntledemployee, but I've seen a 10 knot wind make the engine windmill enough during the walk-around that looked to me like it could cut off an arm. Also, it's not a fighter in an ACM CAP. Your eyes are 95% inside on the ground if you're not moving. Absolutely 0% chance that I'd notice someone running towards the engines and think "I bet they're going to commit suicide, I'd better shut the engines down just in case."

100%. A blatant and unconvincing appeal to authority when I don't really trust anything that some random captain has to say, let alone some dude on youtube that has poor enough sense to do the video in uniform. Far too many "experts" have never experienced a significant emergency themselves but are all to happy to leap to conclusions about an incident with a significant amount of assumptions that often turn out to be incorrect. For example, there was the United plane that went off the end at Jackson Hole. Many pilots that should know better immediately and with zero evidence publicly said that the pilots landed long and fast in bad weather. Turns out the brakes weren't wired correctly and gave good enough braking that crews didn't notice for a couple landings in nice weather, but as soon as they asked for max performance for a short runway in the snow, the brakes gave something like 50% of what they should have.

WSJ article today indicates a pilot might have shut off the fuel. That would be completely bizarre if true but the available evidence does match that scenario. The 787 engines start so slowly that if they were accidentally shut off at low altitude, I doubt you'd have any chance. Also interesting that everything so far is only mentioning two pilots, so apparently no IRO to watch out for buffoonery like critical switch errors. With the flight being over 8 hrs, you'd think they'd have an IRO. The article points out the abnormal delays from India in releasing the accident data. I infer from that an intentional delay that the results are so embarrassing that India as a country is hoping that the world's attention is elsewhere when the final report is released. Maybe they're going to slowly leak the info over a long time until it isn't a big deal when it is finally released.

I'm sure it would stretch the budget, but if your budget can be stretched to buy it, I would for sure. And this isn't empty sideline advice, I've personally done exactly this to control my surroundings as much as I can afford and I have had no regrets. Especially when I see some properties down the road getting subdivided and suddenly a quarter section that had a single house now has a small neighborhood. Can always sell later if finances stop working out or rent/lease it out. I know multiple people that had an opportunity to buy adjacent land and didn't that lived to regret it when a bad neighbor moved in and set up a bunch of junky trailers on the edge of the property and junk like that.

No change from current tax under the current Senate version. But, the House Rules Committee is pushing back against the Senate version, so there's still a chance.

My understanding of the process is the parliamentarian goes through and throws stuff out that's policy rather than taxes but the majority leader could add it back in. My guess is based on the 51-49 vote, there was one or two "Republicans" that didn't want that included, so it wasn't put back in. Should have put it back in and forced the people to vote. Easy to remove it and vote again but at least everyone knows where their Senators stand.

Helps to have 180,000 pounds to throw at a problem.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-gunman-shot-dead-after-opening-fire-sunday-church-service Churches and schools are some of the places most often legislated to be gun free and most often are the places of a shooting. Good thing this church thought differently. Luck is no substitution for a defensive plan. If anyone in your church protests against an armed defense, tell them to read Nehemiah.

I don't think Biff is an Eagle driver

And where did both fatal 737 MAX accidents take place? It was an absolutely stupid software update for the trim to do that and Boeing was dump and culpable, but I don't think its a coincidence that both accidents happened in non-Western airlines despite the fact that the west was likely flying far more Max flights.

Could be flaps instead of the gear. India to London with a full pax load is going to be at or close to max weight, so the engines might not be able to overcome an early flap retraction, especially if the flying pilot didn't immediately go max thrust. That or fuel contamination are probably the two most logical possibilities I've heard so far.

I don't see the RAT deployed, did someone else see it in the video? Tough to tell from a cell phone video like that. If it were a dual engine failure or significant electrical issue, then it should deploy automatically. Also deploying it is the second step on the dual engine fail memory item. Flaps 5 is the norm. Strange that the gear is still down, but if they had a dual engine loss shortly after liftoff then they probably aren't thinking much about the gear.

Shit talking in baseball actually makes more sense to me than in football. Talk too much in football and the guy might get some extra anger strength and make you pay. Baseball is 90% mental, so you get inside their nugget, you might get an advantage. Not to say that wouldn't happen in football, but a bit tougher to knock a lineman out of his game by talking smack.

Man, that's some serious stupidity there. First of all, carrying a gun in the back pocket of your jeans and obviously sticking out enough for someone to not only see it but easily grab it? And then following that person when they are now armed and you're not? The dude gave enough intent by shoving him and pointing the gun at him to show he obviously wasn't giving it back. Call it a lesson learned and move on.

No, but if you get one, please let us know. That looks awesome and I want one, although I could see the 9mm not generating enough gas to cycle properly. Have a WWII original, but I generally try not to shoot those guns much, more of the safe queens...

It is good for a single squadron guard base airspace, but hardly one of the largest complexes in the US and I think it'll show itself to be inadequate for the EX. I think the MOA is only like 40 miles wide which will be a problem and unless they can move some of the jetways the high altitude is too short for a long look. Just off the top of the nugget of airspaces I've used that I'm pretty sure are considerably larger: the UTTR, NTTR, San Diego west coast complex, Edwards, basically the entire East Coast from Boston to Orlando, Berry Goldwater, Holloman, Gulf Coast, Hawaii, and Alaska. And many of those airspaces are multiple times larger than Alpena and just the one's I've used, I'm sure there are more. Overall the Alpena complex is great for A-10s, ok for F-16s, but hardly what the EX needs.

Having flown both with and without a WSO, I'd take the extra gas instead.