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1 hour ago, Danger41 said:
Not a mobility guy but what’s the elevator speech of who is responsible for what in an airdrop? Who rigs the chutes, QC’s them, etc? AC ultimately responsible for that or not?
User initially rigs the load in their shop. A before loading JAI -Joint Airdrop Inspection is completed at that time and before its at the aircraft. The loadmasters flying the mission load and rig what needs done on the aircraft. An additional JAI is completed after it’s done. The JAI completing the inspection on the aircraft works with the loads flying to complete the process. The JAI typically doesn’t fly on the aircraft and is definitely not primary crew. Lots of signatures on the JAI form to ensure it is correct. There are certain things the loads can’t see such as the guts of the parachute. You have to assume it was packed properly.
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Where does this Michelle Obama talk come from? Has she ever publicly said she has any interest at all in running? A quick search on the googs didn’t pull anything up.
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I don’t think the Dems can contain this issue with Biden anymore. There is absolutely no doubt that he is in rapid decline. It’s sad and very hard to watch but most of all, it’s dangerous for our country. The world is watching this unfold. The special council’s report, whether intentional or not, is the death knell for his presidency. I think we are a week or two out from Biden’s resignation. The Dems will get their woman/woman of color as POTUS at least until Jan 2025 which is what they really want. The election will play itself out without Biden one way or another. It’ll be really fascinating and sad to get the truth about what really happened with the Biden’s when he’s gone. The truth will come out.
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Attack and destroy the two parent traditional family and abort millions of babies. Import illegal immigrants to make up for the declining birth rate.
I also read somewhere that this administration is pro illegal immigration because of the money. Lots of articles above related to mayors, governors and the feds needing billions and billions of dollars to handle the influx. It’s a way to funnel massive amounts of money into the system. No different than Covid. Makes sense….
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20 hours ago, FourFans said:
Not a poke in the eye, this statement just got me thinking.
When did we start looking at flying in the weather and pushing it hard in training as a bad thing? It's the military. We're supposed to be able to deliver anytime, anywhere, in any conditions. In my last 5 years before retiring last year, I saw anything that even approached that attitude as being reviled. In a different world (think Cold War...which we're in again...) this crew MIGHT (depending on what actually happened) have been commended for bringing the jet all the way back and mostly in tact despite what appears to have been an airborne fire. Instead, the default now is 'who's to blame' and 'why did we take so much risk'. The military culture used to embrace risk takers. Go look up documentaries of how the British SAS/SOE used to train their operatives. Death was normal and expected. Hell dudes in the USAF in the 50's used to routinely crash jets. Not abhorant, just expected and normal risk. Save your life, save the jet if you can. Get yelled at. Go do it again tomorrow. Do difficult and dangerous things specifically because doing those things makes you better.
Now...not so much.
Observation, not critique.
I think we should be able to discuss ORM without jumping straight to this is the military so we should be all gas and no brakes. I’m glad we aren’t crashing airplanes like we did in the 50’s, getting yelled at and doing it again the next day…
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10 hours ago, 08Dawg said:
RUMINT in the bomber community is a very serious EP (jet on fire) prior to the approach. Weather was an eyelash above ILS mins. First day back flying after Christmas/New Years. Helluva first day back…
I get it. We fly and are qualified to operate in bad weather. However, you’ve got to look at the bigger picture. It’s cold as shit there, first day back from the long holidays and the weather was horrible. Approach a day like that anticipating the worst case scenario and break the error chain on the ground by cancelling a training line. You can do it another day. Sounds like these guys experienced that worst case scenario (serious EP/jet on fire). The accident report will be interesting to read. I’m curious how much blame goes to the SOF or leadership for leaning too far forward.
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12 hours ago, Danger41 said:
That’s how I remembered it as well. He then said something how everyone needs a Q3 for some reason since he’d given out dozens.
As the CC or DO, you (CAT 5) should be taking a long hard look in the mirror at your own leadership style if you feel like you need to hand out dozens of Q3s in your own damn squadron. I can’t imagine looking at my section and seeing a single Q3 let alone dozens.
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Nice 3 star officiating…. Don’t see that too often for a LtCol promotion. I guess everyone gets to see where the 3 star stands on the subject.
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a few thoughts.
The Colorado (not lots of electoral votes) play is likely designed to get the SCOTUS response. The next State (CA) (lots of electoral votes) will know how to more effectively get him off of their ballot having seen SCOTUS’ cards.
We are in the middle of a “cold” civil war. There is no way for either side to win.
The left ALWAYS does what they accuse the right of doing. It’s their standard play. Collude with foreign actors? The Trump collusion story was completely fabricated but it’s becoming very clear the Biden’s did exactly that. Threaten democracy? Republicans aren’t doing anything close to threatening democracy. The border is wide open. The left is attempting to remove Trump from state’s ballots, changing state election laws, trying to keep him in court on baseless accusations, keeping him off social media to suppress his voice, etc. Insurrections? You can say the word all you want but that doesn’t mean a bunch of pissed off citizens (for the reasons above) were doing anything other than rioting. They certainly weren’t trying to overthrow the US government. Meanwhile, federal buildings and police stations were attacked for an entire summer by leftist. Racism? Democrat policies are DESTROYING the black community. Always have. Hell, the Republican Party was literally founded to fight the expansion of slavery. Tyrannical government? Look at the difference in red and blue responses to Covid. I could keep going but I won’t.
This is all pure fucking madness. It’s like living in a bad dream. And it gets worse everyday.
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2 hours ago, Negatory said:
Go ahead and explain why does it affect your poor Christian family if another family that you have never interacted with gets an abortion 2 cities over? Get out of people’s lives. Also, are you suddenly okay with it if it’s just across state borders? Choose a side. If you’re gonna play the pathos argument and then go straight to a legal logos you just sound disingenuous. Which you are. But you sound like it, too.
Disingenuous? This argument would stand a much better chance of being solved if the pro-abortion side was honest about their intent. The truth is, people who are pro-abortion are scared of ruining their careers, commitment, finances and scared of the changes to their body should they have a child. Can’t have stretch marks in this social media crazed day and age.
Instead we get to argue over some arbitrary number of weeks. It’s all the same in the end, you’re ending your own child’s life. Or, we get to talk about things that are statistically irrelevant like rape and incest. Or, we get to talk about the life of the mother which is getting harder and harder to argue with the advances in medicine.
The left will never agree to something firm in this argument. As stated by many above, it’s a political football that consistently produces winners and losers. It’s too valuable of a political commodity to put to bed. Meanwhile, millions of children are being murdered in the name of politics, selfishness and irresponsibility.
It’s all disgusting.
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On 10/16/2023 at 3:31 PM, ClearedHot said:
F-ing NitWit sold off half of the SPR for politics...what could possibly go wrong when we might have a hot war in the Middle East.
Biden sold off nearly half the U.S. oil reserve. Is it ready for a crisis?Russia invades Ukraine. We send over 100 billion, who knows how much ammo/weapons and deplete our oil reserves. Iran waits for this to happen. They then use their proxy militaries and attack Israel. We send more money and ammo/weapons. Two carrier strike groups, fighter squadrons and a marine amphibious unit are now tied up. China makes a run at Taiwan next? Terrorist cells go live in the US via the open border? All without a functioning congress, a president in bad health who is probably compromised with a son facing felony charges and a ex president in court. All while we fight over identity politics.
Nothing to see here.
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I call bullshit on that email. I seriously doubt it is authentic.
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6 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
The absolute LUNACY of the DNC base in this country.
Hillary Clinton calls for 'formal deprogramming' of Trump 'cult' members
“At some point maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members,” she said. “Something needs to happen."
This is actually pretty scary rhetoric and an evil way of thinking. She’s talking about forcing people to change their views and opinions.
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26 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:
The left is so determined to protect the Biden crime family they will surrender one of the center pieces of their political ideology as part of his defense. So in most liberal states leadership is passing law to restrict you 2A right but the left would now like to use the 2A to protect Hunter Biden.Truly bizzaro world and beyond hypocrisy.
It is comical watching the left have to navigate the minefield they’ve created through virtue signaling.
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Sanctuary cities? Yeah, not so much anymore. Turns out virtue signaling has consequences. It’s funny listening to Mayor Adams blame Texas. I think Texas has bussed 13k illegals to NYC. Apparently, there are over 100k illegals in NYC at this point. It’s your dem policies not Texas that has you jammed up Mayor…. It’s also funny how the federal government was and probably is still flying illegals around the country but Governors bussing them is the problem.
As for NM, I always get a kick out of the “blame the gun crowd”. It’s the most ignorant, weak and chicken shit argument anyone can make. It’s patently absurd to think crime will slow down because you ask people to put their guns away. I’m not an expert in how the DAs in NM treat crime but I’m guessing they are pretty soft on criminals.
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1 hour ago, disgruntledemployee said:
And that is who you want back in office?
Please reread my post if you’re referencing me.
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A large part of me wants Trump to win just to beat the damn system. He is an ass. That is for sure. But, he’s been attacked at every turn for years, often with fabricated stories and complete falsehoods. I’d love to see him continue to take on everything that I see that is wrong with our government and media. I despise the elites and their double standards in this country to my core. He’s the only one I see who is fully in the ring with them. I would like to see him win. And I would like to see things change.
And then what if he wins? We get an even bigger ass with a bigger, louder chip on his shoulder. We get the other side who will become even more unhinged and desperate to ruin anything and everything he does. Not seeing any of that outweighs my desire to see him win the next election.At this point, I want to see him beat the system in court. Not in politics.
I like Ramaswamy. I’ve been listening to a lot of what he has to say. He’s certainly refreshing and isn’t part of the system.
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So, who got to Hunter when all this first started? It’s pretty obvious that some bad actor on the word stage caught wind of the “US Vice President’s drug addict son”. Hunter quickly became the easy target for the bad guys to exploit and Hunter quickly sold out. Joe wasn’t initially involved but got roped in. And then things got out of control.
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Major Tyler Clark was selected to fly the number 3 jet in 2024-2025. He’s a F-15C guy in the Oregon ANG at Kingsley Field. Found that on their FB page.
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4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
You sound unhinged and you are most certainly all over the intellectual honesty map.
I as a conservative do not agree, support or condone MTG's actions...at all. That being said her actions do not wipe the slate clean on the Hunter investigation. You are trying to insinuate everyone is laser focused with an obsession on Hunter when the real issue is did Joe through Hunter commit a crime.
You have repeatedly referred to the "evidence" so lets baseline a few issues of fact, please tell me what is not true. In my opinion all of these facts tie together and paint a much bigger picture that calls for an investigation.
1. The Trump Dossier was fake.
2. Hillary Clinton paid for the Trump Dossier.
3. The FBI Knew the Dossier was fake and that Hillary paid for it.
4. The FBI used the Dossier as a basis to pursue FISA warrants on folks in the Trump administration.
5. The Hunter laptop was real.
6. The FBI knew the Hunter laptop was real AND had a copy of it.
7. The FBI sat quietly while Secretary Blinken orchestrated a memo signed by 51 "Intel Professionals" who labeled the Hunter laptop as Russian disinformation.
8. Big tech used that memo as rational to suppress the Hunter Laptop story during the election.
9. The Hunter laptop has a lot of circumstantial evidence that says Hunter promised foreign policy favors from his father in exchange for cash. Notice I said "Hunter" promised, not Joe.
10. As of yesterday the House Judiciary Committee has thoroughly tracked approximately $17M in transactions from overseas donors including China, that went to over 20 shell companies and ended up in the bank accounts of many Biden family members...including his grandchildren.
11. At least one of the Chinese donors has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
12. 150 of those transactions were flagged by U.S. banks in SARs filed with the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
13. The $17M identified by the House Judiciary Committee is from one bank, they are working through the records and flagged transactions at six more banks. There is at least one report that says the total is $100M.
14. The FBI has been approached by multiple sources that say the pay for play scheme is real.
15. The FBI tried to suppress a 2020 unclassified FD-1023 that outlines the pay for play scheme.
16. Tony Bobulinski came forward and gave multiple interviews saying her personally met with Joe Biden. Biden denies that meeting, someone is lying.
17. In 2021, Hunter Biden repaid more than $2 million in past-due taxes after receiving a loan from one of his private attorneys.
18. One of the reasons Hunter owed unpaid taxes is because tried to deduct sex club membership and prostitutes by classifying them as business expense.
19. The purchase of a weapon by Hunter Biden while using drugs was a felony.
20. IRS Whislteblower Joseph Zielger alleges investigators AND assigned attorneys, which included DOJ tax attorneys, all agreed to felony tax evasion charges and misdemeanor charges related to Hunter Biden's 2017, 2018 and 2019 returns.
21. IRS Whislteblowers testified DOJ attorneys stopped the IRS investigators from seeking a warrant for Hunter Biden's Virginia storage unit then notified Hunter's Defense Lawyers that the government wanted to search the unit.
22. David Weiss wrote a official letter stating that he has “ultimate authority” to bring charges against Hunter Biden in any jurisdiction, and he said Friday that this is still the case.
23. IRS Whistleblower Gary Shapley testified he was in a meeting with David Weiss and Weiss told him that he was not the deciding person in whether or not charges were filed. "He told us that D.C. U.S. Attorney had declined to allow charges, he told us that he had requested special counsel authority from Main DOJ.” Rep. Jordan: “And was denied?” Mr. Shapley: “That's correct.”
24. Gary Shapley captured the meeting in a memo which was endorsed by his supervisor who was also in the meeting. Either Weiss or both Mr Shapley and his supervisor are lying.
In most neutral investigations the above facts would at least raise the possibility that something illegal happened. If there is even a 1% chance the President committed a crime shouldn't we look? I think we have a right to know and when you look at the situation in totality and have questions, that doesn't make you a nutjob conspiracy theorist. It is way past time for a special prosecutor.
All while impeaching and charging President Trump with little to no evidence, total hypocrisy or based on complete fabrications.
The truth will come out just like it did on the Russia hoax, the laptop, the covid shenanigans, the teachers unions, the BLM movement, various police shootings, etc.
And when it does, the loudest defenders of the Bidens on this forum will go completely silent just like they have every other time.
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15 hours ago, VMFA187 said:
From another forum I frequent.
True story.
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3 hours ago, douglasjones said:
Any tips or advice is greatly appreciated. I would like to be home more for my first assignment until my 2 kids grow up and are a little easier to parent 😁
This shit really pisses me off. It’s called service and it’s called sacrifice. It’s what the rest of us have dealt with and managed for years and years. I can’t count the holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and everything else I’ve missed in my 21 years.
Your kids will take 20 years to “grow up”.
Find a way to stay in AETC and get out.
The rest of us will continue to handle the tough part.
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WTF? (**NSFW**)
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Posted · Edited by lloyd christmas
The starting point in the conversation should be: Why at this point in history are human beings, at an incredibly higher rate, having these mental issues?
It’s clearly a cultural phenomenon or societal issue and not biological.
The lack of parenting leads to kids raising themselves under heavy heavy influence by a new phenomenon - social media.
The adults should be addressing this and not condoning or supporting it. Especially, medical providers. But, it’s big business and generates huge sums of money.