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I’ll be interested to hear how the training for the sky warden will address that problem. The PC-12 is relatively clean by comparison. Hopefully they reach out to the cropdusting community for some lessons learned so we don’t have to re-experience some avoidable crashes.

I find the full timeline graph even more interesting. Not a single administration in the past 40 years has done this. That includes the Gulf War, OIF, and OEF, just to name a few massive possible drains on our reserves...

What does that have to do with the violently liberal shut-up-and-comply agenda that's clearly being implemented by our elected officials...predominately democrats? Trump is a raging twit. Fact. Stop saying his name like it's some kind of defense or excuse for the horrific policies of the current administration. Our current administration has exacerbated or outright caused complete failures in America's economy, foreign policy, military readiness, immigration policy, border security, energy and transportation management, trust in our healthcare system, and faith in our baseline governing civics. The former president had nothing to do with ANY of that.

...sarcasm but not really...good point...

C-130J-30 has a 1 second reaction written in books, at least in the last -1-1 I read. Then again I'm retiring. In reality it's a 3 second reaction from recognition to throttle and brake actuation. The book numbers are all way off anyway because they never updated the performance numbers for the carbon brakes, which makes all the numbers "conservative" and the actual performance during a reject is WAY better than the book number, both in the sim and the airplane. I've heard they fixed that in block 8.1 though. Any 8.1 dudes here that can set me straight?

Do you understand the phrase 'imaging seeker"?

Good thing he slapped that thing down before it released it's payload.

Santa Rosa?

@Internationalmesa I've got some thoughts to share...but give it a second...

Meh. If every missile our country created and fired in the last 50 years had performed exactly as advertised, warfare wouldn't exist anymore.

I'm sure they appreciate you quoting that image so it shows up twice on this thread. You Ass.

1970's - 2020's Reagan - Desantis Russians - Chinese/Russians Severe 'self induced' Inflation - Severe 'self induced' inflation ('self induced' reads: "democrat controlled legislation induced" seriously...read history) Negative Media Bias - Negative Media Bias...with a heavy Left tilt High waisted pants on my wife for no reason - High waisted pants on my wife for no reason Entitled generation of toddlers hanging in the balance - Entitled generation of toddlers hanging in the balance Just exited unpopular war that left a bunch of vets really unhappy - Just exited unpopular war that left a bunch of vets really unhappy. So, this is what the 70's were like? Cool

So which side ARE you on?

Good to know. Thanks! EDIT: Reading @hindsight2020 above, and applying general common sense... WHY THE F IS GETTING A MILITARY BENEFIT SO F'ING HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously. We gave you our prime years for skill learning. We gave you our prime years for child rearing. We gave you our prime years for career development. We gave you our prime years for physical output. We gave you our prime years for finding a co-level partner for marriage. Yet some 67 year old impotent congressman/senator-who-has-never-seen-so-much-as-a-parking-ticket (his driver took care of that) gets to decide what your benefits should be. I'll admit that I am one of the few lucky individuals who came out of this meat grinder with my sanity, my marriage, my self-esteem, and my perspective in tact. That's not normal. We need more veterans in congress. I argue we should have a MAJORITY of veterans in congress, most decidedly from both sides of the aisle. Dirty confession: I sincerely want many progressive veterans fighting for veterans rights. I've heard the most convincing and most accurate arguments from that side! OK OK OK yea....wrong thread... got it

Original commission was May. Transfer with no break in service was Aug, but my anniversary in PCARS and on my record is May. Most importantly, the retirement order says 28 May 2023 in the grade of O-5. I printed that in triplicate, framed one, put one in the safe, put one in my wallet, and left the digital copy up on my desktop for 69 hours so the text is burned into the pixels.

...so long as you're looking for hostile re-naming fodder...

Do we need to run a drive like this in support of @Biff_T and @filthy_liarfighting each other? Let me know where to send the Fireball.

I've been personally wrestling with this. The answer for traditional reserve retirement: As a TR, if you retire with paperwork that says O-4, you get O-4 pay when you finally get it at age 60. My MFP troops were kind enough to show me that in writing...no idea the reg...to make sure the fight was worth fighting. After being twice passed over, I pinned on O-5 shortly before separating for the AFRC (long story). Fast forward to me with 20 good years (a few years after joining the AFRC) and ARPC started claiming that my DOR was my accession date into the reserves, NOT my actual DOR when I pinned on while on AD. Our personnelists were entirely perplexed, but it turns out that they can't call ARPC directly. Yes, you read that correctly. There is no pipeline for base level AFRC personnelists (at least mine) to contact ARPC directly. They had to submit a trouble ticket, just like I did. They got the same answer I did: "you need 3 years TIG" with no reference or reg that states your DOR becomes your accession date. Four months and much pain later: My personnelists finally found the AFI/AFMAN/REG that states with no break in service, you keep your original date of rank. POOF! Magically my retirement order is published to retire as an O-5 at my originally requested date. ARPC is a completely corrupt clown show run by GS's who will suckle at the teat until they literally die, all the while stating as "fact" what is actually "I think I remember from back in my day the reg said..." Two UTA's left.

Hey look: Science from the Gold Standard of study review organizations. BL: there is absolutely no evidence that masking limits the spread of viruses. Weird when science backs up common sense. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full

Neither do I. But I met an Eagle driver once.

Try this phrasing on for size: Forcible insertion of anything into a 14 year old against the will of the parents or the child. Yeah. I get that vibe too. Apparently "No" doesn't mean "No" if COVID is involved.

I heard it was called snoodling...

Wow

In my defense...that statement is also true in many scenarios...

I think I disagree on that...but it's a near thing. I don't think a well regulated militia has ever been used to enforce the 1st amendment...or any other for that matter...in modern history. I think show-of-force has been an excellent use of the 2nd amendment recently. The deterrent influence of a good man with a guy gun cannot be understated. There is also the tactical truth that only a good man with a gun stops a bad man with a gun, but that's a low-level fact that rarely actually changes real legislation. Beyond that, I don't have the history data on whether or not an armed American citizen force has ever stopped or reversed a federal or state law enforcement action in modern history. Our citizens simply don't go armed and organized toe-to-toe with state or federal forces. In any case, I think freedom of the press and freedom of the speech is incalculably more important at a morale and practical level. History has shown that the ability to freely exchange ideas is immensely more powerful than the ability to display raw military force at least in the long game. Free exchange of ideas can in fact generate military force, even in an oppressed society.