Everything posted by Majestik Møøse
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How difficult is taking regular leave?
I used to be AMC, now I’m ACC. In AMC we had a complete bullshit “leave lottery” at Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years where only 10% of every crew position could be deployed. Fuck those fucks and whoever came up with that. Now I’m ACC and I take leave whenever I want. Although I’m a U-2 guy so YMMV.
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Standups at UPT
The internet is weird. And it’s only going to get weirder as we get older. Imagine responding directly to one of Robin Olds’ forum posts bitching about finance.
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The Purge Pt 2 is coming
Cowardly
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U-2 Dragonlady info
Never get advice from people who aren’t in the U-2 program about the U-2 program. Just call up and talk to the recruiting shop.
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Tulsi Gabbard, a democrat I could behind. STS
Guess which language the words Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Espionage come from?
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The Next President is...
It turns out that, due to the American court system, conspiracy theory propaganda has a limit. Newsmax and Fox News collapsed at the threat of a lawsuit and clarified that the voting machine conspiracy theories postulated on their programs have no basis in fact. Stop supporting those who would lie and mislead, regardless of political affiliation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/20/business/media/smartmatic-lawsuit-fox-news-newsmax-oan.html
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B-17 crash at Bradley Intl
Extremely interesting reading. They’ve even got the B-17 -1 in there for reference. Damning testimony from the survivors, especially the one who happens to be an expert in 4-engine propeller TOLD and passenger handling with years of military leadership experience. Limited budgets don’t make for great training environments.
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Space Force
Possibly sort of. https://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1294
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WALSH: A Woman Played In A College Football Game And Immediately Proved Why Women Don’t Belong In Men’s Sports
So Hnida was the first and Power 5 is made up. The is the real convo
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The Next President is...
Don’t worry man, most of your party are still the Silent Majority. They voted for Trump, but they know he lost, and now are appalled watching the Alex Jones crowd act like total fools. It is disappointing to see Republican leadership sit idly by and not throw down on the embarrassing factions.
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The Next President is...
Here’s a group of bunch of Trump’s personality cult clowns that think the election was stolen. They hate the GOP now. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/protesters-chant-destroy-the-gop-at-pro-trump-rally-1102967/ Don’t be in this group.
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Enlisted aircrew not saluting?
And then everyone stood up and cheered
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WALSH: A Woman Played In A College Football Game And Immediately Proved Why Women Don’t Belong In Men’s Sports
Oh, IDK, think back to a point in your own lives when someone who had no SA on your intent analyzed the hell out of a thing you did once. She doesn’t even have a trend line yet.
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WALSH: A Woman Played In A College Football Game And Immediately Proved Why Women Don’t Belong In Men’s Sports
You guys are analyzing one GD kick. Maybe wait until she kicks a few more.
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The Next President is...
You know, you can still be a Trump supporter while also realizing he lost the election due to being very unpopular. But at some point, you’ll have to let it go. Trump himself will be working “the election was rigged” quibbles into every conversation he has for the rest of his life. Don’t lump yourself into that boat.
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F1 Thread
I’d say he was well on the side of leaning on luck vs engineering there. Considering he went through the Armco, he could’ve just as easily been pinned under it while on fire.
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The Next President is...
You guys realize that these are professional quibblers, right?
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Flying Videos Thread Part 2?
Going IMC in a glider with no ADI. I don’t understand how they’re not dead.
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Enlisted aircrew not saluting?
Just say what base you’re at.
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SHAW Viper Crash
BEs were always the best. Especially with a basic crew as God intended. No home station bullshit. No TACC bullshit. Just go somewhere and fly as required for a week. Fill the tanks every time, free gas for everyone.
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SHAW Viper Crash
A bit of a drift from the Shaw crash topic, but still relevant. My time at Travis thankfully ended 6 years ago, but I remember a lot of wasted effort primarily designed to lick Travis’s own balls. 4x KC-10s would launch in both the morning and evening, all flying 5 hour sorties and burning 100k lbs of gas to maintain C-17 and C-5 AR currency. Entire AR tracks would be consumed by non-current reservists bobbling around in pre-contact for an hour solely for the extremely unlikely chance that someone would ask a C-5 (or a non-airdrop C-17) to do AR operationally. At the same time, mission commanders at LFEs are struggling to figure out fallout plans in case 1 of the half-full -135s no-shows. God forbid if the only one left is drogue-only. The idea that half of D$N night or NH may have to RTB early for lack of available airborne fuel is downright shameful. And now, reading that West Coast fighter units and FTUs don’t have enough tanker availability to maintain basic fighter AR quals, it’s even more apparent that the priorities are out of whack. Maybe it’s all fixed now, it’s been a while.
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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SHAW Viper Crash
How is there always a shortage of tankers at LFE vuls? I swear the -135 patches won’t graduate unless they gnat’s ass the fuel to the pound. Then someone’s TCAS breaks and the whole thing is a wreck.
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The Next President is...
Life is much easier if you just hate all politicians. Then you can just call them out whenever they say bullshit rather than trying to figure out how to defend their ridiculousness.
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The Next President is...
That battle came down to 4x counties in Florida. But this time Trump will have to overturn 4x states (assuming he wins NC and Biden wins GA) to reclaim the 37 electoral votes he’ll need. That’s why I say that it’ll never happen. It’s unaffordable and a horrible look for the Republicans.