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7 hours ago, HeyEng said:
On a completely unrelated matter, the Navy found the poor scapegrunt not guilty of setting the Bonhomme Richard on fire.
I don’t know what the rate of not guilty Court-martial convictions are in the Navy but I’m guessing they are pretty low so I’m guessing the case against him was pretty weak!Fr.
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48 minutes ago, jice said:
Which demographic are you talking about?
The ones who resemble the remark, naturally.
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1 hour ago, Danger41 said:
And I get the overall vibe about joking about instrument flying and just make it happen but I’ve lost a couple of friends to mistakes in instrument flying (which I’m sure a lot of you have as well) so I am a hammer when it comes to instrument procedures.
Indeed I have, as well.
The irony of course, when it comes to that insufferable "your entire livelihood...is just my motherhood" attitude, is that the plurality of that demographic's personnel losses rests squarely at the hands of the very mOthErHooD they deride as scutwork. Miscontrol/Loss of control in IMC, spatial-D causal.
Statistically far and beyond mechanical causals, to say nothing of a galaxy's worth of separation from anything resembling enemy action causal. But you can't talk about fight club with that crowd without being shouted down with appeal to authority fallacies. Arrogance is made of such ways, wcyd.
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I didn't even need to click the link, I knew it was gonna be that guy's channel. I've already had to debunk his Pepperidge farms story about how " back in edwards" they flew 105KCAS final approaches. Internet pedestrians eat that guano up. The boomer may mean well, but his shtick is misinformation by dated brain proxy. The fact he puts up pictures of the CBM Japanese student crash as his lead-in, as a guy with fvck all safety access anymore, tells me all I need to know.
BL, there's definitively a demand for youtuber subscribers fascinated by the "10% story" musings of .mil has-beens.
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interesting. Is it because of O-5 TIG or some such? Usually folks use the IMA to get to 20 Reserve; the folks who want to manipulate the airline schedule (but we don't talk about fight club) tend to prefer the TR/DSG over IMA as it offers more footprint.
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it's a big effin club...and we ain't in it!
The serious answer is the sclerotic FAA FSDO side is ruled by certification folks, and ops is generally considered to be woefully understaffed and underrepresented to said management, so they're forced (in their view anyways) to defer to the DPE side just to not let the airman certification sausage to grind to a halt and cause a panic in Congress (airlines mostly).
So DPEs runs amok, FSDO ops is captive audience because their management (generally Certification background folks) want them tethered to the office catching up with all the gargantuan metric ton of paperwork that job is renowned for. Which exacerbates the DPE malfeasance.
As a career Reservist, I'm intimately familiar with OPM and the ART world, which is to say I'm familiar with inefficient onboarding processes. That said, I don't know what's the prevailing dynamic as to why the FAA is so incapable of just properly staffing their FSDO Ops (ASI) numbers. Perhaps it's said FSDO management sabotaging the office. Similar dynamics have been claimed by CBP Air Marine folks when it comes to their frictions with their internal hire Border Patrol background management/supervisors.
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I know this place is a conservative echo chamber, but rhetorically imputing disloyalty/impurity in a fellow service member's reason for choosing to serve, absent a dismissal or dishonorable discharge, is not good optics. I know it's the internet and all, but we all come from different backgrounds, very different backgrounds in fact. It's one of the things I have most appreciated about my time in the military, vis a vis what I've always considered to be, a banal conglomeration of rather insular and nativist regional cultures of the continental US. The irony of which does not escape me.
At the end of the day, we are all guilty of disagreeing with 6-9 things that the State does which we tacitly support and get called baby killers/sympathizers/Empire-facilitators/bystanders for, by virtue of merely putting on the uniform on a voluntary basis. Given that political discourse non-starter, I think we could do without the true scots fallacies coming from our own side of the proverbial trench.
Happy anal eclipse, er, annular eclipse! 😄
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AD and Diet-AD would have NJP'd them for violating social media policy. (check go pro mount left side). tsk tsk.
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apropos of nothing, this "legal vs moral" debate reminded of a skit with ol' billy Burr, about people remarking it's legal for stay-at-home prospectors to financially scalp high earning spouses in divorce: a woman in the audience smugly throws the rationalization: "well, that's what the law says!" and Billy goes : "yeah? 100 years ago I could beat you with a broomstick for backtalking! ....tHat's wHat tHe lAw sAiD". May not "win" an argument in nerd debate club, but he's a winner in my book 😄
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good ol' geopolitics. There'll never be peace in that god-forsaken (pun very much intended, as a secular humanist mind you) infertile soil part of the Levant.
As to Hamas' angle, my bet is they're making an accelerationist (poor bet) play to get Israel to carpet bomb Gaza, and get all the critters to come out the woodwork. It's already started in the Golan Heights, again. The neoliberal west is pretty much in lockstep with the israeli status quo apparatus, so I think the guerrilla overplayed their hand, even from an accelerationist pov. Non-state actors tend to be short-sighted like that though.
In the end, the apartheid will persist, the bystander pawns will perish on both sides of the border, the status quo will prevail. The Israeli/Palestinian chasm makes Anglos' handling of the Native American "question" seem courteous in the macro. Yes, I'm being slightly incendiary for effect, but it's not too far off.
My 10 year old asked me where that was going on, while I was listening to it in the car. After I explained where the Levant was and a 5th grade explanation of the history of tensions, he promptly said to me: "oof, good thing we live in place where bombs are not falling on top of our houses". Small and salient observations thru a kid's eyes, for what many in the Americas take for granted indeed. I promptly and simply agreed with him. I certainly don't take his assertion for granted.
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11 hours ago, Danger41 said:
One thing that kind of made me laugh about this program is that they state you’re eligible a year out from retirement. Delta says you’re eligible 2 years from retirement and 1 from separation. Good program but Delta will have a full year to pick through military applicants if that’s the way the all important algorithm is written.
The linked document doesn't appear to contain a timing ceiling, only a floor, unless I missed it in some footnote. In this case the floor appears to be "greater than six months" from completion of active service. (see 6 and 7).
Matters not to me, as they proceed to by-name exclude AGRs from eligibility in the very next chapter anyways.
At any rate, I was curious about your source about Delta allowing 24 months out of available date applications. They have the one junior BES that'd fit my preference/life circumstances post .mil.
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15 minutes ago, LookieRookie said:
That T-6 that Patty flew is at CBM. Talking to the FCF guys there, it always has problems. Apparently it was over-G’d constantly during her demos.
Yeh, ol' Patty has always been a ham hands (and a mean drunk, but I'll stay on subject). Lotta hype on these cliques/sub-cultures, prima donnas abound.
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1 hour ago, LookieRookie said:
They aren’t timeline obsessed. HAF/A3 has provided an order to produce.
Which AETC can’t do anyways because the s-rate for the T-6 and T-38 is in the shitter.
Indeed.
Book of Exodus, Chapter V. Still salient.. 2,500 years later. But inNovAtiOn 🤡s rather "dinosaur" ad hominem everybody who disagrees with their specious arguing, future afterburner consultant shtick, than acknowledge what was already self-evident to illiterate bronze age goat herders.
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Looks good to me. Wholesome piece of Americana.
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Typical FTU-centering mindset, always trivializing what goes into the undergraduate output, yet never wanting to pay the bill for the deficit they argue they know better about in the first place.
BL, I still go back to the more neutral, actuarial argument. FTU thinks they got the ab initio code cracked? By all means, slide those first-500 to the uber-expensive right of the PL asset continuum, and fvck around and find out.
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1 hour ago, Standby said:
I was playing devils advocate in my response to Pooter. My real belief is that if you have trained someone in the basics, why not put them in their MWS sooner? You can practice 6K setups in the T-38 all day…but why do that if you could drop someone into their F-XX and actually train?
I get the notion that we shouldn’t be deferring basic training items from UPT to FTU to ops…but there is something to be said for doing the job in the actual airplane you’re going to do it in. Basic stick/rudder airmanship at UPT. Then why not get them to their FTU sooner? I’m classifying basic airmanship as the minimum proficiency level to advance to the next block of learning. For the SOF folks: there is no AMP-3/4, fixed gun engagement, nap-of-the-earth LL in the T-6 or T-1 program…so why extend their time another 3-6 months? I get that any time in the jet is valuable, and it’s cheaper in a trainer…but this is the cost of doing business.
In my opinion the benefit of white jets is actuarial in nature. 500 hours. First 500 is where the first spike in accident risk of the bathtub (the other one is the experienced/complacency spike, which we also have good historical precedents for, even recently). When you move more of that window to the zone where the preponderance of your iterations will be done in the expensive jets, well by all means fvck around and find out. That's it, no RAND study needed.
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hot dayum you bois are spicy playa hatas.
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23 minutes ago, FourFans said:
Hey @Prozac, you're a brown dude, right? You've been here a while, what are your thoughts?
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My LTE reception was pretty solid after taking the Pfizer. Would recommend again.
It's the J&J one that I saw giving people pentecostal leg syndrome...🤣
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I knew that ^^^^^retort was coming form the Lost Decaders.
*runs to kitchen* Hold on y'all gotta get the popcorn!......
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holy jesús carpintero on a mule cart, now the Ukrainian flag is a proxy for covid lockdown sycophant ? the anti-vaxxxers have officially jumped the shark.
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well 6 of yours, half a dozen of mine. I find for-profit incorporations (HMO/PPO/Medicare part C) exercising that same supposed level of life censorship, a rank distinction without difference. That, "leftist bullshit" does not make.
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It's not just POGs/Nonners, plenty of pilots in that grift train. Problem is you're gonna step on toes here because a subset will resemble the remark, don't kid yourself. It's a "we don't talk about fight club" topic. People can spare me the plausible deniability. We all know them, class-I holders running proverbial marathons with tournament player level VA documentation wordsmithing in order to grab the rating golden ring and get puh puh puh paid son.
In TX it's even worse, since it nets you [effectively, spare me the sales tax pedantry] zero-state tax burden if you play your cards right. People will continue to profit while hiding behind the govt's inclination to protect the status quo in order to not run afoul of extending benefits to the legitimate cases. Human shield dynamics.
If you raise the issue, you'll get told off/met with (literally in my experience debating this topic in person) a "mind your business/ hate the game not the playa". Fair enough, but it is our collective business as taxpayers. This is as far I'll spend time engaging on this topic on a forum like this one, given the demographic.
If the FAA is finally "hating on the game", even if accidentally/second order effect?...GOOD. Those who resemble the remark are a f--- disgrace, you can @ me all you want, I'll still call it out for what it is.
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womp womp, that's pretty weakass trolling effort, and I say that as a non-airline lifer mind you.
Commanders are dropping like flies this year
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yup yup, rumint down here close to said water cooler is exactly as the piece highlights, regret-rape run amok.
Given the service's expectation of political expediency when it comes to embarrassing flag officer related disciplinary hearings (as opposed to us lowly scutwork degenerates of field and company grade variety), there's little doubt in my mind the regret-rape will be readily dismissed, and with it any further incentive for the service to proceed with the CM.
Homeboi will get his slap for the frat indiscretion, lady 'RR' will have some splainin' to do at her own divorce hearing, if the future ex has any self-respect left and leave her that is. And just like Cooley in '22, homeboi will take his reduction in rank and sweet sweet O-6 retirement check, and bob's your uncle.