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Yes. However, as mentioned, somehow the President is exempt from the clearance investigation requirements while in office

Point of order: No we don't. I actively refuse. Someone wants me to call them something specific? That's fine, we can discuss that in that moment. But someone else's mental health issue is not mine to track until I meet them and I learn the specifics of their case. In my world, there are men and women. Some have mental health issues.

At my new company it's delineated who's operating and who the relief pilots are, which is kinda nice. If a relief guy needs the landing, we just audible at the plane, never had an issue with that. My prior outfit was slight less...organized.

I always found that amusing. More amusing were the FO's who were intent about seniority and authority they had as the acting CA. Rare, but I did see it happen. Outright silly.

If only there were some way of identifying toxic people before they are given command...

At my current employer we fly in and out of Kona in a 747 using CTAF VFR procedures and picking up IFR clearance after takeoff. I did that in a cessna or USAF C-130 doing VFR flying. Never thought I'd be reporting at VFR pattern entry in a 74 though. "Any traffic please advise"

On the flip side I got to learn Part 121, ORD, JFK, LAX, MIA all during COVID, when there were only 5 planes moving. Hell I cleared Runway 18 at EHAM and got to taxi to park with the tower (about a 5 mile taxi) as we were the only one moving on the entire airport. But you gotta love follow the greens man. Everyone needs to get on board with that system.

Cashing out what specifically? Are you trying to see how you can ride out WWIII investment wise? If so, it's a complete crapshoot. It all depends on how and if the US decides to get involved. All the markets will take a hit, but it's possible that riding it out IN the market will be just as profitable as riding it out OUTSIDE (meaning cash) the market. War is big business these days and a LOT of companies will profit. My tealeaves prediction: if Biden is president all bets are off, as nuclear war is definitely on the table due to his complete ineptitude. If Trump is president, I'll bet the US profits bigtime off this war.

I fly the black sea corner routinely as civil traffic. Couple months ago we made the turn and completely unmasked our GPS antennas to face north and immediately got an ANP of 20+. It's a bit of a hazard.

Got that same experience back in OIF. Also had one of our crews watch one fly directly into a mountainside near Bagram. Apparently ATC told them there was co-altitude terrain and they responded "we see everything" shortly before merging with said terrain. That's why US troops were never allowed to fly on them.

The Japanese love child of a biker rally tryst between Metallica and Styx. Those dudes are rad.

This is why you don't drop it from C-17's using hi-v chutes. The mission planner should get choked out for that. They're too worried about coming back with a bullet hole in their precious budda. Hell, the crew probably gets decorated for this drop. It's like we didn't spend a decade dropping shit in afghanistan and learning all those lessons (A: Don't let C-17's drop it, and B: use low-v chutes if you don't want to kill unaware people and break the shit you're dropping).

Let me get this straight, that 'fact check' says he was falsely accused. But the part that's false isn't the fact that these people were flown in, the part that's false is that it was illegal? Did a bot write that?

Have you ever considered that just because we're not involved (officially) yet, that WWIII can still have started? It's on full bore in Eastern Europe. It's on with Diplo, Info, and Econ with China N. Korea and Iran (almost Mil with Iran as well). Two questions: When do you think WWII started? What is your tripwire to believe WWIII has started? Please bear in mind that the USA is not the only belligerent. Fully agree that we're headed right for disaster, especially if Biden is re-elected...but it's looking just as bad if Trump is elected too...

I live in Gaetz district and voted against him. Fully agree with you.

Apparently you haven't noticed, but WW3 is already on. Now it's all about the roll we (USA) is going to play in it. My guess is we reprise our WWII showing and stiff arm it until even the far left and far right isolationist in our country can't ignore it any more. Then we hit heavy. In WWII terms, it's 1938-39. How we should play in it is, and should be, hotly debated. But ignoring that international hostilities (remember your DIME levers of power?) have already commenced is flat-out ignorant. This thing is happening whether you want it to or not. At least acknowledge that fact. The sooner you move on to the solution phase, the less it will cognitively hurt. I don't want it either. No one should. But thanks to the likes of Putin, Xi, Kim, Khamenei, Biden, and others it's happening. Gotta take the world as it is, not as we want it to be.

...yeah, and there was no border crisis over the past 3 years...

Based on the number of cloth masks covering chins and mouths I see while commuting through ATL, my personal assessment is that they haven't yet.

Can confirm. - Verified User

Head game was weak? That seems to be the trend...

What are the odds that our feckless leaders have now guaranteed the burning of what sounds like a possibly quality inside source, just so said leaders could make some political moves. The source of a leak that shared this intel from inside Russia can't be too hard to pin down (assuming it's non-technical). I see no way the American public could benefit from knowing about this threat other than to somehow impact the upcoming election. These clowns are outright irresponsible.

Point of reference from a data perspective: My first year of retirement last year (half actually, as I retired from the reserves halfway through) working year 2-3 at an airline, after taxes, I made literally double my O-5 active duty pay (including BAH) while working less then half the number of days, doing a simpler job with Union support, and I attended all of ZERO DEI training events. To say nothing of retirement/401k/TSP/DC/matching stuff, which is all invisible until we actually draw it, so it doesn't feel like it counts yet (but OH YEAH, it counts) I could even do AOC work (arguably the easiest job for a flyer in the USAF) and be home every night for 3 years and then come back to the airline and collect a full AD retirement check...still not worth it. Why on earth would I go back?

Come on dude. You can do better. Two things can be true at the same time. I want Ukraine to win, and I want our border secure. Different pots of money. Hell, our southern border simply requires the current executive to admit he was wrong and reverse his own actions. Likewise, Ukraine doesn't require us to kneecap our own capabilities. We can have both. Not everyone opposed to a LOT of the current admin's decisions are just binary about that decision. Maybe narrow down the brush a bit.

What ever happened to the US's stance of "If you start a fight with me, I'll finish it" ??? Seriously. Now it's "please don't start a fight...please please please please...ok fine I have enough dead Americans now and my populace is rather pissed...I'll strike something NEAR you, please don't hurt me" This weak dick foreign policy needs to go.