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    Gun Talk

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    39 minutes ago, HeloDude said:

    Kind of like a “well regulated clock”…clearly the government needs to regulate our clocks.

    Oh. I am a full believer that the US federal government should play absolutely no part in 'regulating' our weapons.  The regulation isn't talking about making a registry or some such.  

    Use the analogy of a pickup basketball team.  You got the guy who practices alone all the time.  Great at shooting freethrows on an empty court, but never practices or plays with a team.  Another guy who never exercises and never shows up to practice but still declares he's on the team. Another who claims to be the team leader but has no clue how to run a play.  That's not a team.  That's an unregulated bunch of people who think they are something that they aren't.  

    The intention behind the 2nd Amendment to not about making sure you have a gun.  It's about making sure that you have a gun that you're able and willing to use in defense of your local community against tyranny (from abroad or within) while operating as part of a team, militia, or unit doing the same thing.  The founders wanted to make sure that the country maintained it's ability to have grass roots self defense forces that were not mandated or controlled by the federal government.  Remember that the revolutionaries were largely volunteers, and were largely disbanded after that war.  There was originally to be no standing Army.

    The heart of the 2nd Amendment is two fold.  A: Citizens - Keep your weapons and yourself ready so that if you're needed and you choose to volunteer, you can actually be useful.   B: Government - Stay completely out of their way.

    Beyond that, the Amendments were never meant to stand individually.  The biggest thing we as US citizens have forgotten is that citizenship is a responsibility, not a privilege.

    Gun Talk

    in Squadron Bar

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    1 hour ago, Herkdrvr said:

    I'm a 2A proponent and government's extensive overreach into firearms/ammo is ridiculous.

    However I'm not a fan of ghost guns. 

    It's like a car without a VIN or license plate. When an a$$hole hits your car in the parking lot, no way to track them down. Or when your expensive mountain bike gets stolen, how do you submit the police report without a serial number. The FAA needs a registration for an sUAS and they're less deadly and used in less illegal crime than ghost guns.

    Minimally having a serial number would aid law enforcement & could maybe help recover your personal firearm in the event of loss.

    Genuinely curious why permitting ghost guns is a good thing? Or rather, why overturning this rule would be beneficial. 

    Perhaps there's a nuance or piece of specific legislation I'm missing. 

     

    People tend to forget the first portion of the second amendment and proceed directly to "shall not be infringed"  For reference:

    "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

    Nothing says well regulated like lack of accountability (which is effectively what an untraceable gun is).  'A militia, being necessary to the security of a free State' goes on to indicate that this right to bear arms is not for my own personal liberty, but me contributing to the liberty of my community.  With regulated and controlled force if necessary.  It implies that we have this right in order to serve and defend something bigger than ourselves, such as a community, city or state.  I've yet to encounter law enforcement, military, or paramilitary organization that doesn't place a high emphasis on accountability and training. 

    Karen with her .38 special that she carries loaded but never trains with does not fall into that category.  Moreover, it's kinda difficult to rectify untraceable firearms with a well regulated civil defense.

    Not saying I'm totally against production of your own weapons.  I think that's great!  But it needs to be done responsibly.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    3 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

    i would like to thank you for proving my point about post WWII foreign policy being a disaster.

    we constantly do what you just described above to "allies". i'm not sure why anyone is surprised we're doing it to ukraine.

    and yes, i do argue that we should stop feeding

    Have you done any international assignments?

    World War III Updates

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    1 hour ago, brabus said:

    Don’t.

    Oh, I know how I WANT us to respond.  Respond with rational and reasoned thought and applying common sense while still holding out enemies accountable for their actions.   But that's NOT how we've been acting.  I'm curious about the most likely action our current leadership would actually take.  It could get kinda interesting when you consider that those making recommendations to NCA are probably argyle wearing academics who have never had their lives placed in any form of peril.  Put those people on the receiving end of a suspected nuclear launch and I'd be surprised if they make totally rational inputs.  Beyond that, I highly doubt Joe Biden has the cognitive ability to make a good snap decision in such a case.  Hence the question: What would we actually do?

    World War III Updates

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    Interesting thought experiment I came across: What do we do if Putin tries to launch nuclear weapons, and they don't work?  We now know that a large section of China's rocket forces are inop due to corruption.  It stands to reason that Russia's might be suffering the same fate.  How do you think we'd respond to that?

    Today in hypocrisy...

    in General Discussion

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    @nsplayr You should run for press secretary.  You literally reworded and reinterpreted every question and statement I asserted.  This is the hypocrisy thread after all, so...par for the course. 

    To respond to your specific questions and assertions.

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    Would you feel the same way about other things? What about professed and vocal Christians? Or atheists? Or vegans? Or Crossfitters?

    No, because the US military does not directly work for the a church, a dietary persuasion, or a fitness group.  We work for politicians, which means that our political opinions are subject to a unique level of scrutiny, as they should be.  Specifically, we don't get to disobey orders based on political opinion...though I've seen some try.  To clarify my statement about "hard over": That's implying that someone ISN'T capable of keeping an open mind and is no way willing to change their opinions based on a line of reasoned logic.

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

     You have has specifically stated that you agree with every policy that Biden has put into place.

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    The first sentence isn't accurate.

    Not debatable.  You literally said those exact words in previous threads.  Go re-read you own posts.  

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    If it's a political discussion primarily

    The green transition being physically unsustainable with current technology is ALSO not debatable and it's certainly not a political discussion.  It's a fact.  There isn't enough lithium ON THE PLANET to sustain only the USA's intended EV transition.  Again.  That's a fact, not a political debate.

    6 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    I think my unit handles any DEI issues well

    Not the question I asked.  I asked how it impacted your unit, not how your unit deals with DEI issues.  Has going to mandatory training about 'you are white and you have prejudice that needs fixing' (a direct quote from DEI training at my southern, mostly white AFRC unit) hurt or helped your unit moral or unit capability?  Is the unit better able to accomplish it's mission because of this training?  

    I'm glad to hear your unit is able to remain focused on the mission.  I'm curious if you can tell if the current senior leadership is focusing on social issues instead of mission ones.  It was clear to me and many of my in my cohort.  It wasn't good.

    Today in hypocrisy...

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    9 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    I am in charge of both, thanks 😃

    Do you seriously think that Democrats are not in the military or in other positions of authority? New flash, people of all political stripes serve and do so well. My politics has little to do with my service in uniform.

    A fellow pilot on my team is a HUGE Trump fan and we joke about it all the time, but we work great together. He gives me shit, I give him shit, we fly the mission, etc. We'll be checking different boxes on election day 2024, but pretty much every other day we're fully aligned on killing our nation's enemies and protecting it's friends & interests with airpower.

    If that seems weird or foreign to you, I in turn hope that you are retired. TYFYS.

    In my opinion if someone is hard over "I'm a democrat" or "I'm a Trump supporter" or "I only vote ...insert party or single topic here..."  should be exempt from any form of command.  That sort of mental ossification proves the lack of dynamic thinking that should be mandatory for leading people.  It kills credibility and approachability.  It proves that said individual is willing to become beholden to an ideology, no matter how unrooted it is from social impact or scientific fact.  

    It's not that you can't have strong opinions.  But when those opinions are so publicly displayed that your subordinates are made keenly aware of their importance in your life, you become unapproachable to at least 50 percent of your people.

    To paraphrase Heinlein: The hammer should have strong opinions in the how it's used, so long as it's lawful.

    @nsplayr you have has specifically stated that you agree with every policy that Biden has put into place.  So you are in command of people.  How has DEI impacted your command?  

    Beyond that, do you still adhere to the idea that a green transition is a good idea, even though it's been proven impossible by the simple math of lithium required (we don't have enough on the planet) or the fact that Germany (the country farthest along in the 'green transition') has so failed in it's transition that it has de-transitioned back to using lignite coal and having it's residents burn wood which are the absolute worst carbon producers?

    You lead people: your words.  You are a hard over democrat: your words.

    Do you recognize how declaring a hard over political line (regardless of party) undercuts your credibility as an approachable leader?  

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    32 minutes ago, LookieRookie said:

    The military determines is own qualifications for currency.


    That has nothing to do with valid FAA hours for an ATP.

     

    As well, to have the legal ability to count as hours for an ATP, the device needs an FAA ID, which C-130 sims dont

    Alrighty then.  I must have been wrong.

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

    Are you military? Are you breathing? You're hired. I made a single cover sheet with a summary of hours, and handed that over with my Air Force records. I let them do the rest.

    Exactly.  In none of my interviews were there any serious questions about logged time. 

    The only real sim question were the interviewer asking about how we taught in the J, as students did a full IFR qual in the sim.  Not sure if that's the still the case.  He was an old school herk driver and was curious.

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by FourFans

    4 hours ago, LookieRookie said:

    This is completely wrong.

    I work SIMCERT stuff on staff.

    AMC self-certifies its sims to level C+/D “equivalency” (AMC has its dets go to the FAA course) but none of it is FAA certified.

    The time counts for nothing and do not put it on your apps.

    Interesting.  No offense to you personally, but I have never, and will never trust a single word concerning real world level details I I hear from any staff...because I worked on multiple staffs.  As of 2020, the line guys doing sim cert for the C-130J sims at both LRF and BIX disagree with your assessment, seeing it's was possible to gain and maintain currency in the sim.  Granted, that USAF checking USAF and the FAA doesn't care.  However that was backed up by the FSDO at both Little Rock and Birmingham as I asked them that exact question in person.  However, I don't doubt that that they could have been wrong.  I've met more than one federal staff expert who knew nothing about C-130J stuff while being responsible for C-130J stuff.  Is your work AMC wide or specific to an airframe?

    Beyond that, I completed and passed eight airline interviews from 2019 to 2021.  Sims and sim training came up in three of them and I asked the exact question about sim time counting, and one guy told me that if he saw nothing about sim time in a logbook he saw it as a sign the applicant was either fibbing or lazy.  The other guy in that interview agreed and acted as though the other guy had just given away a secret.  That's where I come up with my 'log your sim time' advice.  It ain't total time, but it is training.

    It is what it is, but C-130J sims are currently still the best I've ever flow, and I got a different type rating in one FAR worst while training at MIA.

    I reserve the right to be  corrected.  What exactly do you do on staff concerning simcert?

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