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By "Had a model of the B-58 as a kid" he means when he was an aircraft commander in the B-58 as a young captain and they put his name on the side. Hence the active memories of losing an outboard engine.

Seconded. In a real situation your first rounds with a pistol are rarely actually aimed, they are pointed. With a pistol in a startle situation, you point and click before your frontal cortex takes over, so practice doing that at the range. Sights on a reactionary weapon are often ignored until after the first rounds are fired. If you can get good with your iron sights, stick with it. If you've trained enough with a red-dot that it's reactionary, stick with that. Get good at whatever you pick. Practice your entire draw from the seated posture that you'll likely be in. Additionally, many I've talked to recommend a double action/single action pistol. Purportedly it slows you down just enough to start thinking and it gives you peace of mind when you've got chambered round staring at your twig and berries. Not sure where I stand on that (I carry a glock 48 with iron sights), but it's a common refrain. The max comfort I've seen is a wheel gun carried high inside the waistband. Wyatt Earp would approve.

Meh. If all the ways the Service moves POTUS around were revealed, we'd all be very surprised. People are likely to respond as though Trump thought that up himself. I've seen behind that curtain. It's creative, not cosmic. More to the point, if all the threats against POTUS were revealed, we'd all be rather shocked. It's the NY Times. They'll literally print any headline that makes the uneducated basket of MAGA deplorables look bad, and make their target audience cheer, click, and share. They'll soil themselves over unorthodox security measures that work well, yet not say a word about a black man murdering a white woman. It's partisan BS. Move along.

We could call them America's Technical policing Force.

I personally love the fact that "butthurt" is one of the quantifiable characteristics.

...and the Moderna vaccine has a 95% efficacy... Read this instead: Anyone who knows stats knows to never take the face value of a quoted statistic. If you dig into the details, you'll find a curious definition shuffle of a lot of misdemeanors and felonies in New York City's released stats since Mamdani took over. Most interesting is that REPORTED rapes (the real number is always at least double if not higher) have, by most accounts DOUBLED this year. You'll also find that trying to get those specific numbers requires serious digging. I just did for an hour and still didn't get a good solid public services source with raw data. Yet that stat is being dismissed as a 'classification and reporting' issue instead of recognizing the fact that, like in EVERY SINGLE EUROPEAN CITY where Islamic military age men have been allowed to reign unchecked, rapes have increased dramatically. Definite correlation. Causation? A solid probable. Mark tape: Every place in the next few years where cultural Islam and sharia law are allowed to flourish, crime will go under reported, until the truth is discovered later that outright human rights violations were actually occurring. This isn't Islamophobia, this is recognition of the true track record of every single place Islam in it's cultural form has been allowed to take over since the year 632.

Not Lackland. We want good cops.

Not according to the pictures. Apparently he just took command in June though. In those pictures, he gives off the air of a 'dude' who wears tight pants, a polo, and leather shoes to squadron cookouts. Didn't know the 36FS was transitioning to Eagles.

The drop in quality of cops is a direct result of the defund the police movement. Not that the movement actually defunded anything, but it changed the atmosphere powerfully against cops. Ask the question: what sane person would sign up to be a police officer today? Understaff, underfunded police forces will be undertrained and overtasked with poor recruit quality. These events are the obvious outflow. Many here said as much back when de-fund the police first got traction.

It's a standard trope now: Trump's name is somewhere in the Epstein files, therefore he raped a child. Therefore, obviously, anyone who has ever supported anything Trump ever did, even if they didn't vote for him, therefore is in support of rape and child trafficking. It's a level of argument only liberal boomers and internet trolls find completely sensible to imply...but only ever imply, they're too cowardly to say the words themselves.

Anyone on the left want to address this? I read @17D_guy saying in the Iran thread that the Democratic party isn't going violently left...but most of us on ALL sides see it different and tend to agree with Mahar here. If your response is going to be ad hominin against Mahar, save it, we've heard that with Rogan. I'm a legit independent and I want a healthy system. Letting actual communists gain any power over one half of our political system is absolutely unacceptable. Seriously, what is the plan for a healthy Democratic party? Where are your open mic debates on campuses? Where is the pride in being American? Where is the recognition that communism is, in fact, a horrible idea?

True on both accounts.

Better than my current employer. We could actively take a missile and the company would send you to a termination hearing for taxiing in too slow.

Elon built a Gen X Chatbot and called it M2. As if Grok were a grumpy old military vet. Perfection.

...says all the people that don't currently work in the Strat Division... noted

Usually right after they pranged on the landing. There is something pathologically narcissistic about the Boomer's interaction with the world. It feels far moreso than previous generations when they got to that age. Instead of giving back to their families and communities and helping guide and uplift the next generation, they've chosen to move to 55+ communities where they're blowing the generational wealth they accumulated as well as the Social Security benefits they voted for themselves. As if they didn't get enough out of life and they deserve more right before they die. It's gross. I still fly with a few of these guys and they are almost universally on the edge of unsafe as pilots. There are the odd few who still fly little planes, and those guys tend to be a lot sharper than their cohort. Unfortunately they are few and far between.

I propose a new amendment: All sitting NCA individuals should not be allowed to use social media while in office. Almost all Silent generation and many Boomers on the socials don't understand the simple fact: Most thoughts you have don't deserves and audience.

Looked mostly peaceful to me.

Did you listen to the podcast? Who would you prefer be our next president?

Back to the thread topic: Listen to Mike Rowe interview JD Vance. Politics aside, I genuinely hope we get a man like Vance as our next president. A sincere, humble, honest, blue collar, military vet, entrepreneur of a man with a young family who actually represents the majority of America. It would be so refreshing to have a leader who's not putting on a narcissistic front, and is simply trying to do the best they can for the country and people they love. https://mikerowe.com/podcast/

HA! You guys are full of great stories. That's rich, cheap FPV drones delivering warheads. Jumper must have laughed out loud. Next you're gunna tell me there will be land war in Europe in the 2020's!

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As I recall, that was in the pattern at Sharana LZ, which was King Kong of the AFG LZs. 2 Engine assault at 7000 PA to a 4000 foot strip (IIRC) in an H-model. That's tough. Army pleaded that the C-130 ran over them going the same direction....but with no IFF turned on.

I didn't know being a 21R these days was so bad dudes are doing stuff like this to get out of commitments.