Steve Davies
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A British word used as slang for association football.
Nice.
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What the hell's soccer?
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And there are plenty more where she came from, no doubt. This place is a haven for intolerance and racism, but only if you belong to an ethnic minority. If that's the case, no one will say a bad word about you. And, if you do, you're the one labelled 'racist'.
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To commemorate it, you should order a batch of Defensive Egg tee shirts with Beaver's diagram printed on them. And then offer them to BO users at cost price.
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If there was ever a valid 'pictures or it didn't happen' response, this is it.
I should clear something up and brag obnoxiously before I get in trouble. I made a joke of it, but we're still happily married 17 years later. We had 11 addresses in the first 10 years of AD, lots of TDYs and deployments while she raised the kids. But she's not your average fragile woman. She's the kind of woman who will wake up, work out, tag and castrate a new calf in the morning, teach a full day of school, come home run a Case 2096 and 15' batwing mower while I take a break and take the kids to practice, have an amazing homemade beef risotto waiting when we get back, and look hot while doing it all. Military life was always a minor inconvenience at worst. Your results may vary, but UPT was a great start for us.
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Any Lakenheath guys interested in three boxes (around 75 books). This batch was never collected by the previous LN PoC.
As before, there's no charge for the, but you'd have to collect from Milton, Cambridge within the next week or so.
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I think that photo was at Lockheed's facility in Ft Worth, so the pic is accurate. Jet is exhausting copious money onto Lockheed, as designed.
Fair play.
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That image is ass-about-face: the thing is burning money (intake), not creating it (exhaust).
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My last post on this topic.
Here are the main takeaways for you: don't put something into the public domain that you don't want, er, in the public domain. And when you do, don't cry like a little girl and blame everybody but yourself for the fact that that information is no longer protected.
Here's why I blame the media (the following is a quick comparison of SIB vs AIB., not 100%, but close enough for here):
Your safety world and your colleagues may have been compromised as a result of the inadequacies of your rules, as written and enforced by your employer, but it's all someone else's fault? Fuck me.
I've seen plenty of "media" pieces that included names in them, but redacted for first names only or callsigns, Amn Joe, Capt Maverick, or Major NeverTrustTheMedia. Granted those were friendly pieces, but it can be done. The names included in the OP did nothing to enhance the article and may have done long-term harm to them personally and to the Safety world when it comes to future investigations. the barracks rumor-mill can always point to this article without a clue about the SIB vs AIB difference and make SE job more difficult.
You're comparing apples (FOIA requests) and oranges (interviews).
1. When an editor receives a FOIA package that features some names redacted but others not, it is perfectly reasonable for him or her to conclude that the Air Force has approved the release of those names. Indeed, the very fact that some names have been released and others not would tell me that the Air Force has conducted a risk assessment of some kind to determine that those names can be published. That is exactly the logical thought process I would have, and I have a conservative approach to this stuff - as some people here with first hand experience of my work could tell you, I don't fuck around with people's privacy or their safety.
2. In contrast to receiving a FOIA package, when interviewing members of the military, it is perfectly acceptable to offer them anonymity. So, yes, you will have seen that in cases where anonymity has been offered or requested, names are redacted by the media. This is, as I started the paragraph by saying, a completely different situation to receiving a package of material that the Air Force is, by releasing it, approving for dissemination into the public domain
3. I have already explained to you that putting a name to a quote gives it credibility, and new outlets are all about credibility. If you don't understand that, there's nothing I can do for you, but please stop saying that naming some of the speakers did not enhance the article. I for one would not have believed a couple of the quotes had there not been names in the article.
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Sure, someone in the AF messed up by releasing the names...
There is real damage done to those people who were named, even if it was legal, and I argue it added nothing to the value or message of the article.
a) You cannot expect the mainstream media to understand that. From their perspective, putting a name to the quote lends it credibility, and that's a powerful metric. So... if the Air Force (implicitly) says it's OK to do that, then why should they be expected to know any better?
b) You should expect your employers to ensure that a) is irrelevant (by not releasing names).
It's a pretty simple situation.
I fully accept that the media can be very, very bad news for serving and former members of the armed forces. But sometimes there needs to be greater introspection and less propensity to blame the convenient scapegoat that is 'the media'.
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Thanks media!
Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!
Copy. It's the media's fault that your employer has released names into the public domain in direct contravention of its own rules.
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Since when did Spey become a co-designer of the F-16?
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So, Obama invites the father to say a few words at the White House. Nice.
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Totally going to buy it.
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The British Army is now running border patrol?
And, by the looks of that picture, that's the WHOLE of the British Army, too.
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Writers can miss detals?
Your sarcasm detector appears to be inop.
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His profile talks about his time with the Georgia ANG in the past tense. The writer perhaps missed that little detail.
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Also, has anyone read Air Superiority Blue: The F-15 Story by Donn Byrnes? Saw this while browsing Amazon and after reading about the F-X debacle in Boyd I was hoping this might go more in-depth.
Everyone knows that the there's only one book worth buying about TWGASF: Eagle Engaged
But on a serious note, going to buy the Byrnes book. Could be a great insight.
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Yup. I'm pretty sure that the family and the news inadvertently screwed to pooch on that one. It's always the media.
And Vice has a lot of awesome documentaries like that. The DPRK one is probably one of the best.
The day before Newman was to leave North Korea, he and his tour guide met with "one or two Korean authorities," his son said.
During that meeting, Newman's service record was discussed, he said.
"I understand my dad was a bit bothered," Newman said. But neither he nor his traveling companion believed there was an issue.
But, yeah, you're right. Totally the media's fault.
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Seems as good a place to post this as any. Not sure whether you can get this abroad, but this is a fairly interesting monologue about the psychology of UAS operations.
Interesting that they called it the box. I am guessing that his community doesn't use STS.
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Definitely some gray areas but, needless to say, I'm working several angles on this.
A word of warning: Lockheed Martin and now threatening publishers with legal action for even using MDS designations (even though they I am pretty sure it's the customer's designation, not theirs). So, if I write a book about the F-16, LockMart want me to pay to write 'F-16'. True story.
Anyway, the point is that you really need to think more broadly about the intellectual property that you may or may not be using. If LockMart are consistent with their money grabbing approach, you're not going to be able to use C-130J on your product, for example...
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London is better about good food, but many of the pubs will over promise and under deliver as far as food quality goes.
Any time you eat in a pub, you're going to get 'pub grub', regardless of what they tell you.
If you want good food, eat in a good restaurant.
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I particularly liked this gem on the website: "Please do not send any Boy Scout letter requests to General Yeager. As he receives over 500 per week; he cannot personally answer ALL of them, so he answers none."
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"PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS TO ASK FOR EAGLE SCOUT COMMENDATION LETTERS. Gen. Yeager believes that a Scout's sense of accomplishment that comes from within is more important than a letter from a stranger"
Saddle up for Syria? Or Op Deny Christmas '13
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Return to F/A-22 designation?