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    The Next President is...

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    46 minutes ago, torqued said:

    Ever played poker? If you're a politician and you're sitting on a trove of information detrimental to your opponents, it can be of tremendous value. Once it has been made public, it no longer has value.

    My point is: the laptop is real, and it does contain information. Everyone wants to know everything that's on it. I think Trump and his team know how much they need to allude to this information to get public interest, how much proof they need to provide to eek out a win, and how much they can use against their opponents for the next 4 years.

    Perhaps, it's a bluff, perhaps it's not. Don't expect to get any more proof than is necessary to lock up the election.

     

    Do you honestly think there is ANYONE left in this country who hasn't had their mind made up and then some?  Trump could shoot someone in the street and his base wouldn't care.  Biden could be found feeding pigeons in Central Park not knowing who he is and his base wouldn't care at this point.  

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    1st female Air Force combat vet in run for congress

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    1 hour ago, hindsight2020 said:

    Neither was McBlinky in the A-10. Didn't stop her from running for office. Considering the political bent of this forum, I think the question is moot and banal. I'm more interested in hearing some anecdotes regarding the claims of her service.

    Was her telling of the story of the events during that LZ exchange legit (to include her rather incisive accusation of cowardice onto the AC of Pedro 16), or is this another female making it difficult for others to gain and retain credibility in the military due to embellishment and foot-shifting about the predictably perennial sexual harassment tit-for-tat or gender-bent pandering that seems be at the root of many 'ascendant' female officers in political life?

    https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/595057/33rd-rescue-squadron-crew-earns-mackay-trophy/

    I personally know two of the crew on Pedro 16.  Her recall of the events and accusations of cowardice are mind boggling.  

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    USAA

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    I've looked into leaving quite often.  Nobody has been cheaper overall with two vehicles/house/and rental property.  I really really want to leave them but it hasn't made fiscal sense yet.  I've had zero claims (knock on wood) since I started with them in 2006 while overseas.  

    Saddle up for Syria? Or Op Deny Christmas '13

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    1 hour ago, jice said:

    I understand the sentiment, but is having an enduring presence in an “unconquerable” land that borders China in the West worth (some) blood and treasure? Maybe even some embarrassment in negotiations? 

    Are you volunteering as tribute to be the next casualty in a "mission" that has no objective other than to maintain a presence?

    The Next President is...

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    1 hour ago, slackline said:

    We need a reset button. By no means advocating revolution, it would just be awesome to fire every single elected official at the federal level, so people understand their job security isn't so secure, and then elect people that understand what their job is: make the country work well.

    That's not so much to ask, right? Haha


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    Clancy had it figured out decades ago

    Saddle up for Syria? Or Op Deny Christmas '13

    in General Discussion

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    1 hour ago, Clark Griswold said:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/world/asia/trump-milley-afghanistan.html

    I get that no one wants to be in the seat when the fall of Kabul happens and seeing the last helicopter get the hell out with the last group as the inevitable happens but the CJCS has got to realize this is going to happen, America is no longer interested in continuing this operation and that we are leaving come hell or high water.

    He doesn't have to like it but don't drag your feet.  

    "Senior military officials have argued all year that a quick withdrawal from Afghanistan would effectively doom the peace deal reached in February with the Taliban."

    Do you think they honestly believe this "peace deal" is the real deal?  That place is doomed.  

    Eglin F-35 crash

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    28 minutes ago, Hawg15 said:

    I’ve talked to a guy who ejected out of the T-6 a few years ago who also had the det cord explosives in the canopy basically turn it into a grenade going off right next to his body. Said he was filled will glass that he could feel underneath his skin for months. I don’t understand why it’s the new hotness in ejection seat design. Even if you actually fly with all your shit rolled down (which almost no one does) it still messes up the pilot when they have an explosive embedded in glass go off a foot away from them. 

    Had bad wreck in high school   Lots of windshield in knee and arm joints.  You could feel it in there most days and then just randomly sitting around you'd look down and see a piece breaking the skin and would pop out.  

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    is it worth dropping everything I am doing for military aviation ?

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    1 hour ago, jazzdude said:


     


    One time while PCSing, I stopped in at the Houston space center, and they had a "meet an astronaut" talk. The astronaut was a Marine fighter NFO/WSO, then went to med school, then got picked up to be an astronaut, and was only in his late 30s. Pretty incredible path/career. So yeah, those guys are out there, and I know I'm nowhere near smart enough to do two of those things much less all three

    Jonathan Kim (born 1984) is an American US Navy lieutenant (and former SEAL), physician, and NASA astronaut.

    A born-and-raised Californian, Kim joined the United States Navy SEALs in the early 2000s before earning a Silver Star and his commission. While a US sailor, Kim also received his Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) in mathematics, his Doctor of Medicine, and an acceptance to NASA Astronaut Group 22 in 2017. He completed his astronaut training in 2020 and was awaiting a flight assignment with the Artemis program as of January 2020.

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    Eglin F-35 crash

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    HH60 Whiskey is a prime example of barely "good enough".  Bringing USAF into the 20th century with PR capes.  

    4 hours ago, jazzdude said:


     


    No worries, we (c-17 community) are be HUD babies, no doubt about that. But our jet was designed to use the HUD as our primary reference, with the best of 80s technology. Good news is our new HUD is pretty sweet. Not perfect, but is sole source IFR certified without limitation.

    And I think C-130J block 8 will give you gps approach capes.

    Just comes down to money/budgets, and drawing the line at where "good enough" is. Need good dudes/dudettes in A5/8 to make and defend those budget cases for the line flyers.

    The hard (worrisome) part is that our budgets probably not going to get bigger, limiting what we can but as far as improvements, and training is being cut on the front end in UPT, undercutting the ability to just "be a pilot and make it happen."

     

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    Marine 130/35 swap paint

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    1 hour ago, Clayton Bigsby said:

     As absurd as this guy with the phone seems, keep in context the terrain surrounding the area, and the locations of radar antennae and radio transmitter/receivers - for Centers they're optimized for talking to people in the flight levels above 10k, and around terrain (which there's lots of in that area)  you lose line-of-sight and radar contact/comms very quickly below those altitudes.  Assuming the aircraft is semi-controllable, which it obviously was, and someone on a multi-crew aircraft is able to maintain communications, passing along a phone number while you can is a prudent move and it wasn't just so the mishap aircraft could cancel IFR on the ground.  

     

    This wasn't the run of the mill IFE.  There was absolutely nothing a phone number was going to do in this situation to assist or help the crew or anyone else.  These guys/gals were assholes and elbows troubleshooting and running multiple checklists.  Just clear the airspace around them and leave em' be.  

    The Next President is...

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    1 hour ago, nsplayr said:

    Mike Bloomberg, known for data-driven analysis, as well as Howard Schultz, Justin Amash, Bill Weld, Joe Walsh, etc. would all disagree. There is little appetite for a third-party or independent run this cycle due to President Trump's highly polarizing nature.

    If you support Trump, you're going to vote for Trump. If you oppose Trump, you're going to vote for the person most likely to beat him (Biden). There aren't very many people undecided on Trump. Honestly the same can be said for almost every modern US Presidential Election but the effect is especially strong in 2020.

    I'm also consistently surprised by the level of support for Tulsi Gabbard on these boards. She's a random soon-to-be former Democratic Representative back-bencher with an odd assortment of policy views and a very troubling level of accommodation and support for Assad in Syria. She never polled much above 1% in the Democratic primary, she's not very conservative, has little governing experience...honestly other than being hot I see absolutely nothing that is appealing about her at all.

    I do appreciate that she's a servicemember I guess, more veterans & reservists/Guardsmen should serve in elected office.

    She's female, "did two tours in Iraq", isn't hard leaning either way, and was on Rogan 🙂

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