pawnman

Been there with the B-1. Jets with and without Sniper pods. Jets with new and legacy radars. Jets with and without Link-16.

What on earth makes you think Russia would stop at Ukraine? And do you really think other adversaries aren't watching our response and gauging what they can get away with?

It's a real shame the CDC didn't take the opportunity presented by Covid to message that being morbidly obese is a huge risk factor.

Russia's demographic makeup in 2022 is very different than their demographic makeup in 1942. I think it's going to take a very long time for them to recover from the loss of this many people in prime working age.

A lot, I hope. As others have pointed out, I'm willing to spend a lot to destroy Russia's military with zero threat to American lives.

They also point out the white school teacher doing 14 years for the same crime? https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/07/28/marc-fogel-teacher-russia-prison/

Related to my current situation:

We got them at Dyess. Sold them as "personnel recovery devices" if we had to eject.

Random Guy is downright cordial and reasonable compared to the other guy. Nutty, and with a singular focus, I'll grant you. But polite and knowledgeable.

Berlin Airlift II?

Our economy is deeply enmeshed with China's, no doubt. The point is that covid, and CCP policies, are convincing US businesses that it's less and less profitable to do business there. No one thinks that the two will be severed overnight. Rather, that we should be heartened by the gradual erosion of China's market power.

It's not every day. It's 90 minutes a week.

Different guy. He's got his own website where he chronicles his perceived slights against the system, individuals, organizations...he's the poor man's Mikey Weinstein.

He does, in fact.

I don't think you need to be a professional or invest serious time to know this was what would happen after the US left.

What if I wear a mask on my butt?

So it isn't just monetary policy making housing expensive there. It's deliberate refusal to build enough housing to meet demand, coupled with the insane notion that letting people live on a sidewalk is somehow more compassionate than getting them into a treatment program.

Surely it has nothing to do with California regulating building so tightly that a 1500 sqft home costs over a million dollars to build, right?

She's a US Congresswoman. Policies she puts forward affect me as a US citizen. I'm in the community she has influence over - the US.

Someone should let Maxine Waters and AOC know. Since apparently they think threatening Supreme Court Justices or shouting at GOP staffers having dinner is the path to change.

Agreed. I don't know why they narrowed the constraints so much. There are definitely CFIs who would jump at the chance to fly aerobatics in the T-6 out there.

Seems to me the reason they're hiring civilians is so the functional can't deploy them, PCS them to staff, send them to a school, lose them to an MWS... Your approach has merit, but in the end, it's only as stable as the support from the top. By the time they graduated UPT, the next CSAF could decide they have different priorities and now these folks who signed up to be FAIPs are heading to B-52s and C-130s, and UPT continues to be undermanned. One wonders if there was this level of consternation when they first hired civilian academic and sim instructors...

I'm kinda surprised it took this long.

Well, my wife isn't a public figure, so there is that. Alex didn't go to AOC's home and didn't threaten her. As opposed to some of the protests she has supported. Was it all political? No, not really. He did call her dumb...is that a political argument? Because if it isn't, then a lot of Trump's critics should be making apologies as well.

She set the rules. "Protesting should make you uncomfortable". "Don't give them a moment of peace".