10 hours ago, dream big said:

Which deployments did you go where you were able to escape the queep? I want to go on those..

The most queep and E-8/E-9 debaucherry I ever faced was downrange. 

Go forward enough and you can espcape it for the most part.  Just have to be somewhere bad enough that nobody wants to come "visit".  

4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

The loss numbers for Russia are staggering.  In my humble opinion as a knuckle dragging ham-fisted pilot we need to do the following:

1.  Continue to enable Ukraine to punish Russia.

2.  Provide Putin an off ramp.

3.  Think about a post-conflict Ukraine and what happens to all these weapons we have provided.

 

 

Agreed.  There are a fuck ton of manpads floating around out there.....

5 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

How many more BILLIONS are we gonna send our Ukrainian heroes?

What's your course of action?  Curious.

1 minute ago, Clayton Bigsby said:

So what’s shooting the HARMs?

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u-s-confirms-air-launched-anti-radiation-missiles-sent-to-ukraine?fbclid=IwAR1f7pWPQlNtsmgTt-4eZ9swzskGs1UB_cZ-2ps7XJImSQpQ0OoOa0_0jV8

Ground launched

1 hour ago, M2 said:

This just gets weirder and weirder...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/my-copilot-just-ran-out-the-back-of-the-plane-chilling-audio-from-aerial-incident-near-fort-bragg
 

 

Wow, weird indeed. 

29 minutes ago, herkbum said:

 

I think everyone would have been better off if he had resigned.


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He can't have it both ways.  He can't be "used" in something so egregious that it warrants him completing a resignation letter but then decide against but then leak it years later.  So brave.  

So brave!!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mark-milley-resignation-letter-lafayette-square/index.html

29 minutes ago, pawnman said:

Related to my current situation:

Probably the most accurate one yet for that meme.  

17 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:

Not possible for energy/oil/gas on the volume required to sustain their population.  
But if we break a blockade with Airlift, I assume we could break it with naval power.

certainly an interesting tactical issue.

Wouldn't want to be the first C-17 in.....

2 hours ago, StoleIt said:

Kadena

Look for the cock

2 hours ago, pawnman said:

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. 

Or that they weren't doing it while we were there. 

11 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:

On a fixed gear airplane, though, right?

Good point.  Didn't look that close

4 hours ago, SocialD said:

 

 

 

Only thing that seems logical is that he went back to "take a peek" at the gear and fell.

That's the only thing I thought of as well.  Strange situation.  

1 hour ago, Majestik Møøse said:

Where is this list?

https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/asvab/asvab-and-air-force-jobs.html

 

 

13 hours ago, dream big said:

 

2nd lowest ASVAB scores (I think Life Support, sorry “AFE” have the lowest but I may be mistaken).

 

4 hours ago, dream big said:

 

2nd lowest ASVAB scores (I think Life Support, sorry “AFE” have the lowest but I may be mistaken).

AFE is lower middle of the pack for requirements.  Services, Cops, and Stewardess have the lowest component requirement.  

1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:

The annual Congressional Baseball Game which raises MILLION for charity and it supposed to be a "unification event" has AGAIN been tarnished by the DNC.  "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the coach for the Democratic team, said in an interview with Fox News’ Chad Pergram that comradery and the players’ love for baseball was the reason the congressional members continue to set aside their differences for the game."

Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) showing her true colors.

 

So brave

1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:

Reading the Air Force AMN/NCO/SNCO page on Facebook is both comedy gold and shocking at some of the BS so called leaders are doing.  In the latest installment when have warrant-less phone searches en mass.

 

 

Even more hilarious is that it's in the SP squadron to boot.  I bet you poll your local cop squadron and 75% of folks will say this is legal.  Makes you think...

The new arrival ramp at AMARG would take out 95% of the world's air components.  It's pretty impressive lately. 

59 minutes ago, Clark Griswold said:

But the guy said she was “really hot” 

How an Unqualified Sex Worker Allegedly Infiltrated a Top Air Force Lab

Holy hell that just keeps getting better (worse).  There are a shit ton of worried contractors and scientists burning phones/laptops and empty bottles of viagra out there currently.  

Single pilots ops waiver for the 46?

24 minutes ago, kaputt said:

Not defending the overall actions of the group of officers, but some of the situation probably does deserve context. 

The guy with the punisher logo on the phone was checking it because he was just called by his wife who was in one of the rooms getting shot up. She didn’t survive and he was removed from the scene shortly after by other officers. 

Yeah I read that later but it just makes it worse for me.  It's his own blood in those rooms and he's standing there.  

17 minutes ago, M2 said:

Tread carefully, gents!  Apparently the First Lady is now considered an "official"...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/retired-three-star-general-suspended-from-army-contract-after-tweet-that-appeared-to-mock-jill-biden/ar-AAZnIcp

What's more baffling is that we have metric shit ton more general officers than is actually needed and to top it off we hire retired GO's at an hourly rate to consult the bloated ranks.

4 hours ago, tac airlifter said:

Thanks for this post.  I’ve been following the conversation until now and had been completely baffled by what point you’d been driving at.  I think your point is simply the cops needed better training? 
 

I totally disagree.  Those cops are not worth investing in.  I get the initial chaos, but after 10 minutes without a decision?  It’s go time and if that isn’t innate then you should turn in your badge.  They were worse than frozen by fear or incompetent C2, they actually tazed & cuffed parents!  Disgusting.  Indefensible.  Happy to have a training discussion once every cop on scene has been fired & prohibited from employment in public safety.  Accountability first.

And to back all of that up, there are loads of previous shootings where the police went immediately in and ended the threat.  Case studies show shooters give up immediately after encountering any resistance either through suicide or surrender.   This isn't a groundbreaking new occurrence.  

1 hour ago, tac airlifter said:

Thanks for this post.  I’ve been following the conversation until now and had been completely baffled by what point you’d been driving at.  I think your point is simply the cops needed better training? 
 

I totally disagree.  Those cops are not worth investing in.  I get the initial chaos, but after 10 minutes without a decision?  It’s go time and if that isn’t innate then you should turn in your badge.  They were worse than frozen by fear or incompetent C2, they actually tazed & cuffed parents!  Disgusting.  Indefensible.  Happy to have a training discussion once every cop on scene has been fired & prohibited from employment in public safety.  Accountability first.

Bingo

5 minutes ago, busdriver said:

How many days of drilling over how many years of training? 

How many years of training within a culture of constant learning as an aircrew member before you started acting in a leadership role?  Academically knowing what you are supposed to do, is different than doing it with proficiency under stress, without thinking.

Whatever training system produced those cops will produce the same in the future.  "Courage under fire" isn't innate.  It is taught and built over years.

So you're saying none of these police officers were cowards?  I'm not getting what you're throwing down other than the obvious.  This isn't rocket science.  This isn't SEAL team six taking down a giant building full of bad dudes.  This was one confirmed shooter in one room and these assholes ran away from it versus engaging.  These guys from leadership down to the youngest cop on scene there failed to take ANY sort of action when it was required of them to do so.  You sound like the Uvalde mayor.  Nice.