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The recovering alcoholic is one thing, but this is literally frat (oh excuse me, they never fraternized, they just instantly were married one morning so it wasn’t an issue after that).

Own your words. I don’t feel sorry for these dipshits at all.

To continue Pawnman’s example… ”OK, but have you ever been depressed” ”I’ve had down days with disappointments like everyone else.” ”Yes I understand, but yes or no, have you been depressed?” ”No, I have not” The medical world defines it as a mood disorder, so if you say you’ve had it, you’re saying you’ve had a disorder. Do you think you’ve ever had a disorder, or just a few bad days/weeks? Normal people know there’s a difference, docs don’t for the most part. You have to understand your definition of “depression” is not the same as the psych’s definition of “depression.” You think “depression” innocuously means, “yeah I was down about a break up for a few weeks and moved on.” The psych sees it as, “I almost ended my life and was mentally unstable for a period of time.” This sounds like a ton of bullshit. Sorry you’re dealing with it. Get ready for them to ask about what kind of childhood you had, how do you feel about animals, etc.

How do you assess mental health to prevent cases like this? Seems nearly impossible when you throw out the “obvious” nut cases.

Yes, I was talking more about the first 2.5-3 years of training. Once MQT complete, things will settle a bit into more “routine.” TR life balance is still something you have to work at, because you now have two employers to please, plus your family.

Manage expectations - family will not always be #1 (exceptions like emergencies/tragedies obviously). Don’t get so wrapped up in work you forget you have a family, meaning make time for them as best you can around work requirements. This means doing things she wants to do/is cool with on Sat during UPT. Take 30 min when you get home and sit down for dinner/hang out with your wife. It’s probably all you can give most of the time during the week, but you both need that 30 mins, for multiple reasons.

To be fair, the EU guy in the above meme also represents an alarming amount of America.

Is suing her in civil court an option? Seems like it should be…and he should take her for all she’s worth. False accusations should come with a minimum 10 yr sentence. They’d stop real quick if a few women went to prison for it.

Every community has their off ramp options for low performers, and the GO “community” is no exception.

Obviously a Spirit FO about to make a run through KCM https://www.foxnews.com/us/two-stabbed-including-police-officer-domestic-terminal-atlanta-international-airport?mibextid=2JQ9oc

Sure, that’s great. They should do their best, but given the existential threat to their survival, and the fact they were attacked horribly in their own beds, it’s not prudent to just play whack-a-mole. They need to eradicate Hamas AND their sympathizers to have any real chance at a more stable and secure future. Handing a little slice of ass and then walking away isn’t going to cut it. History has repeatedly demonstrated that. Hezbollah, Iran, etc. are all watching - the message they receive is also very important for Israel’s future.

You’re right there are some “innocents” there who will die, and that does suck. But the only long game move for Israel, for literal survival of their country, is to go scorched earth. A place like Gaza is not comprised of very many “innocent” people, children included (it’s not their fault they were raised to be evil POS humans, but they are still in fact, evil POS humans).

Honestly I’m glad so much of this barbaric shit is now readily available on Twitter, etc. Nothing that has happened in Israel is new to the world, it’s just the average 1st world civilian actually has seen it/heard it described in detail for the first time. Maybe this will actually wake up all the latte-sipping meat bags that evil is in fact real, it’s everywhere, and we should actually do something about it. Kill everyone in Gaza, destroy all infrastructure. If the civilians haven’t left after the more than ample warning, fuck ‘em. Zero sympathy.

I read the last couple pages and got roughly this out of it…

Not remotely what I am referring to. But cool dude, you seem to be really interested in a dick measuring contest. Have fun with that. I’m only here to say America is capable of doing what needs to be done, the only question is what does our current crop of leadership decide to do. I do not concur with implications that we’re not capable, that’s all I’m saying.

Poor comparison - we haven’t fought a mostly conventional war vs. a mostly uniformed, state-sponsored military in the 21st century. But still, seen plenty of comparative violence levied on our enemies. I get the frustration guys, but maybe throttle back on the emotion and apply more logic founded on knowledge of capabilities and the warfighters who employ them. I have plenty of real world experience to support the fact we absolutely do “push people’s shit in” when desired. Should we do that more often, yes, but to say we don’t ever do it or lack the capacity to do it now is false. And if you’ve never been a part of it, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

Several times. I’m not saying we go to Russian levels of Geneva convention violations or sub-human evilness of ISIS. In my opinion, neither of those are required to be considered “all in” for winning war. I’ve also seen plenty of terrain denial and other stupid shit, so I get the frustration.

Meh, seen many raids where we “knocked with a Gustav.” You’re not wrong that we’ve been generally CDE/ROE driven to retarded lengths, but we absolutely are willing to do things that throw all that out the window. When it’s important enough to us, or shit hits the fan bad enough, we will do whatever it takes to win (while maintaining our humanity).

https://www.outkick.com/british-pilot-snorts-coke-off-topless-woman-tries-to-fly-packed-plane-to-uk-report/ This guy has to be a former RAF dude…or Biff pretending to be British, one of the two.

I don’t know that specific answer, but I will tell you be prepared for orders to get cut a day or two before leaving for OTS. Be prepared for orders being delayed to the 11th hour your entire career, regardless of gov shutdowns.

@Chida How does NVG play into the FAA world? I had no idea that was even a thing outside of mil/LEO.

First time at the FSDO? The DMV is full of high speed individuals and provides amazing customer service…compared to a FSDO.

If you can actually get an appointment at a FSDO location you want on a timeline you’re cool with, go for it. If you can’t meet one of those two, then just pay a DPE and be done with it. As far as ease, you can email everything to a DPE (they do need to check your ID). If you go the FSDO route, it’ll be a couple hours of your time sitting there (in my experience). So ease probably mostly depends on how close you are to a FSDO.

What I mean is a physical airplane won’t ever solve the lack of consistent integration training for the CAF. The ability to jump in a sim at your squadron and fly virtually with several other MDS thousands of miles away on a regular basis is a huge training value. The crux of that solution is time/money to mature it to a desirable capes/accuracy level. I would rather have that solution than another aircraft - substantially more bang for the buck (cost-wise and training value-wise). Also the importance of the security piece is rarely talked about - right now only virtual environments solve that problem. I don’t, but I also live in reality where resources are finite and there are also legitimate security barriers to training “full up” in live flight. As much as the “dinosaur” in me emotionally wants 300 hrs a year for every wingman, the current day expert in me knows we have to go a different way, and right now that way is a higher ratio of virtual to live training. The downfall is our procurement process is fucked and it’ll take way longer than it should to make this a reality…but it will be reality some day, just over cost and years behind schedule.

They also know nothing about flying fighters beyond the days of 45 HADBs, scary SA-6s, and MiG-29s with the venerable 10A. GOs and SESs are the fighting force’s worst nightmare more often than not. There are a few good ones, but most can’t put their ego aside to actually follow the advice of current-day experts and instead act like they’ve “still got it” (they don’t) while simul following the lead of industry hawking products (and promising future employment). That’s cool, really. But the cost and timeline (short and long term) for something like that is likely a loser compared to making the sim aspect better and going to a 50/50 fly/sim gameplan. Sims also enable a lot more integration where as scorpions doesn’t help that part. There are also security reasons for sims > live fly.