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I would love it if they were no-kidding fired, and walked off of the base with cardboard boxes in-hand. Previous experience has shown me that SES folks are never exactly "fired." They're just given new, less visible jobs elsewhere on the base.

Am I the only one shaking my head at all this? When OBOGS problems first cropped up, the very first thing that should have been looked at was the maintenance interval of the individual components. Based on the above, this all sounds like the Air Force is the proverbial idiot who never does any preventative maintenance on their car, then bitches when their brakes fail, or the engine blows. Firing some folks in the T-6 SPO sounds like a good start. As a next step, how about finding someone to do some tracking of the performance of the system after parts are changed? The airlines all have robust programs monitoring reliability of various systems, and making a cost/benefit decision on what should be replaced proactively, and what should fly-to-fail. Someone at the SPO should be doing this going forward.

Ehh....., always thought the shoulder punch was kinda dumb. And every now and again someone would actually get hurt.

I don't have a dog in this fight. However, the above sounds like "Normalization of Deviance." Lots of stuff out there on the web. From one link: https://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2016/01/07/the-normalization-of-deviance.html The sociologist Diane Vaughan coined the phrase the normalization of deviance to describe a cultural drift in which circumstances classified as “not okay” are slowly reclassified as “okay.” In the case of the Challenger space-shuttle disaster—the subject of a landmark study by Vaughan—damage to the crucial O‑rings had been observed after previous shuttle launches. Each observed instance of damage, she found, was followed by a sequence “in which the technical deviation of the [O‑rings] from performance predictions was redefined as an acceptable risk.” Repeated over time, this behavior became routinized into what organizational psychologists call a “script.” Engineers and managers “developed a definition of the situation that allowed them to carry on as if nothing was wrong.” To clarify: They were not merely acting as if nothing was wrong. They believed it, bringing to mind Orwell’s concept of doublethink, the method by which a bureaucracy conceals evil not only from the public but from itself.

Quoted for truth.

USAF may be screwed, but damn do they make some good-looking powerpoint decks!

Just to back up a bit--how much flying have you done? 0 hours? 100? PPL?

Eh, it's a two-race sponsorship (The 4th of July Daytona race and the November Phoenix race). A long way from the early 2000's, where they would sponsor a car for the whole 36-race season. Can't say I agree it's a good use of taxpayer dollars, but in the grand scheme of things, there are bigger wastes.

This sounds like one big opportunity for LockMartNorthropBoeing to sell a bunch of expensive gold-plated technology. You know, the kind of high-tech gee whiz shit that kinda sorta works...sometimes........

Would be interesting to see a final summary of the AMP Program, from start to finish. Especially a total summation of how much money was put into it, and what exactly was gotten out of it. Even though the full-up AMP program was never completed, I'm sure there still were some benefits gleaned (AMP-light, mods installed on J-models, etc). But it sure seems like it was primarily a jobs program for Lockheed, Boeing, and the C-130 Program Office.

Pick the battles that are big enough to matter, but small enough to win....

I'm not a Boeing guy, but I've bounced around the Aerospace and Defense industry for awhile. This job title and job description sounds like something you'd see someone with a Marketing degree and 10 years of experience doing. Certainly not a retired O-6. Maybe there is justice in the world.....

Yeah, so a computer flew........another computer. Great. Real earth-shattering news....

Three years to the A-29? Where have I heard that before. Oh yeah, that's right. In the very first post of this entire thread. About eight years ago.....

WTF are you babbling about?

While Ron Paul can be a divisive guy, I think he brings up some good observations: Does anyone believe that on the eve of peace talks, just after the White House said the Syrian people should choose their own leaders, that Assad would launch a gas attack to turn the whole world against him? We don't either. We're back to the same lies that got us into Iraq. Do we never learn to question the propaganda? Our take in today's Liberty Report: Syria Gas Attack: Assad's Doing...Or False Flag? https://youtu.be/LULzvg1gA5U

Don't know what the relation is between the T-45 and F-22 O2 issues. However, this was kinda discouraging....... Anticipating the pilot protest, the Navy sent a team of engineers and other specialists this week to its T-45 training bases in Kingsville, Meridian and Pensacola for talks with the pilots. A meeting Tuesday in Meridian “got heated,” Fox News is told. The pilots told the civilians from Navy Air Systems Command their complaints about the oxygen system were being ignored. When a senior Navy pilot showed photos of a faulty oxygen system he claimed had been sent up to NAVAIR’s headquarters in Maryland, the engineers said they never received the photos.

I didn't like Moonlight--I don't think it deserves all of the acclaim.

What job that you do "for a half day a month" is worth the hassle of getting involved in what sounds like a very gray area?

Ah, yes. Because the National Security Councils of the past gave been so infallible, and have such an impressive track record of good decisions......

Yeah, this. Sorry nsplayr, I didn't read the wall of text you put up. But on a superficial level, I don't understand the issue with Bannon and the NSC. Open to hearing the counterpoints, but it still seems like a whole lot of sound and fury over nothing.....

There is a lot going on in DC. I like most of what I hear. However, how do I keep score? We hear a lot about what the new President and Congress are going to do: Bring back jobs, fix immigration, repeal Obamacare, fix healthcare, etc. When you look at the news, there is a lot of analysis on the day to day, and who said what to whom. But, I struggle to understand exactly what the road map looks like for all of these changes, and how far along we are. Is there some resource on the web that illustrates what concrete steps are being taken to get to the administration's goals? What bills are being introduced, what bills are passed, what executive orders are being issued, etc?

Done a lot of business over the years, with a lot of different people. Rarely is everyone rational, with "easily discernible goals"............

John Q. Public was less than than impressed..... https://www.jqpublicblog.com/revolving-door-politician-tapped-secretary-air-force/ Her nomination is likely to face some opposition. She was at the center of a Department of Energy Inspector General investigation into the almost half a million dollars paid to her company by four nuclear laboratories in 2009. Shortly after leaving Congress, Wilson established consulting contracts with the four nuclear labs—Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Nevada National Security Site—generating over $450,000 for Heather Wilson and Company, LLC., between 2009 and 2011 -according to a report by the Project on Government Oversight. The investigation found almost no documentation of any services provided by her company. Despite the investigation finding almost no evidence of consultation being provided, her company -in which she was the only employee- kept almost half a million dollars after repaying $442,877 of taxpayer funds. According to a report by the Albuquerque Journal, when Wilson left Congress on January 3, 2009, she began working for Sandia National Laboratories for $10,000 a month the very next day.

Eh, I knew Obama would eventually go away. He was like a bad version of Windows. He'd eventually be replaced. I'm more excited about finally getting rid of that nasty Clinton virus. In the past, it seemed like, just when you thought you got rid of it, it popped up somewhere else. Out of the White House, then into the Senate. Then the State Department, then it tried to get back into the White House. Thankfully, not only does it seem like we finally got rid of the virus on our system, it looks like we've been able to disinfect it out of existence. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/16/clinton-global-initiative-to-lay-off-employees-shut-down-amid-dwindling-donations.html