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...and that's why we need corporal punishment...

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?

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?

Fair enough. I'm glad to hear there are still some good leaders out there. Game off.

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

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?

Who would you prefer, specifically?

I don't get it. That's a song about a standard @Biff_T and/or F-15 pilot's standard weekend. Or just another day in Thailand.

Alrighty then. I must have been wrong.

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.

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?

Recently finished the whole series right up thru Bear and the Dragon

All I keep thinking is "The Ryan Doctrine"

Do ICBMs count as drones?

So @Biff_T how was requal?

Mineral exploration

Sad part is that if we decided to take the non-nuclear gloves off, the US could shut the ayatollahs down permanently in about a week and let the Persians have their country back.

Dude I’ve got a CONUS-Dubai leg coming up in a week. I’m kinda hoping I get to see the OCA push from WAY far away. Better yet, make me divert. That always leads to some nice bonus money. Especially in that particular cornhole of the world.

I’ll bet there are some Raptor dudes in the sandbox begging to get let off the leash.

I’d have to defer to the sim cert team at LRF. My knowledge dates to 2020. That’s the last time I was in the know with those guys. They’ve since PCS’d on. Well ain’t that about a bitch! I got it put on my ticket in 2019. Seems dumb not to have the equivalence. Anyone here tried to get a 382J type recently? It felt like every all C-130E/H was utterly unique, while every J is exactly the same still. Can’t see how a 382J would be any different than a C-130J. I’ll bet it’s the block upgrades. 6.0 and 8.x are treated as different quals by the USAF.

C-130H and C-130J sims are certified Cat C or D (Full Flight Sims) sims and count for sim hours in the civilian world for maintaining currency. Yes there is a civilian type for the C-130J (L-382J type rating is different than the L-382 type). Yes, there are civil carriers that operate the C-130J. They exist, the end. If you doubt the certification of all the C-130 sims, go look up the Sim Cert folks at Little Rock. Certifying our sims to an FAA standard is literally their entire job. It's sim time. Log it and keep track. It doesn't count toward total time for civilian companies (though there may be a few exceptions). Don't expect to get anything for it though RIGHT NOW. Realize that at the drop of a hat the FAA or some airline you might fly for in the future may want to see that sim training, or even count it towards some time counter they track. The civil aviation career field is known to be ossified and immovable...right up until it changes over night. Be ready. Long view: It's professional training you've accomplished. Keep track of it in your own logbook. If you don't have a personal consolidated logbook (all civil, UPT, mil flying) start one. You're a professional and that is your professional resume and professional journal. I've met more than enough airline pilots who stopped logging their own hours when they got hired at their "forever" airline, only to be shocked years later when they needed to find a new flying job and had to scramble to make sense of the 'flight log' that their company kept. Pro Tips: DO NOT TRUST USAF HARMS RECORDS TO KEEP TRACK OF YOUR FLYING Keep your own logbook. Also, yes it will be years before your log PIC time. That's normal. Don't fudge those numbers to make it look like you've got turbine PIC before you should. Airline hiring shops see right through those tricks.

I know, I know, two seasoned veterans having a serious discussion about ethics and yes, innocents dying is legitimately never good and it's a tough situation...but all I keep hearing is:

Rule number one of fight club