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To be fair, all the close states are correctly colored.

I’d guess the rest of the RNC is already doing discovery of their own, and will shortly stop supporting any lawsuits vocally and financially. Lawsuits in multiple counties in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia? Nobody’s going to pay for that, and it’ll make them look like a bunch of litigious shits for 2024. edit: to be clear, this is only a prediction with no specific source

But there are rules!

Was responding to the idea that there’s nothing strategic in Eastern Iran by pointing out that the distance to the heart of Iran is similar to everywhere else. Never been a strat airlift pilot, so you’ll have to fill that TACC job yourself.

Tehran is 550nm from Herat, 400nm from Kuwait, and 650nm from AlUdeid and Dhafra. Also, the route is significantly less defended. Maybe not worth the logistical expense, but it’s certainly not inconsequential.

WTF am I reading? He wants to give WSOs some pilot skills? Just takeoff, landing, and AR, lol. If only we had a 100 year old training program to do that.

Safe to say, here’s all the info you need: https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2375297/u-2-federal-lab-achieves-flight-with-kubernetes/

Have you ever talked to the guys who work for contractors? Especially the small boutique ones that have a monopolistic sole-source contract for 100% of some random base function? Like when CE tells you they can’t fix something without a specific company present because otherwise it’s a contract violation. All those companies are run by ex-SNCOs.

Is there a “just fly like a regular jet” mode?

They’ve since apologized for the mistake and corrected it.

TL;DR? Or at least a time stamp

Hypothesis: it cooked the books enough to increase the production numbers for one particular leader’s tenure.

They do. We did away with black t-shirts and now everyone graduates UPT.

Senior military leaders often commit a perception error by assuming the rest of the world has been following their problems the entire time and will understand their solutions. Obviously, the man on the street has no idea about the micro-politics that take place in the AF, much less AETC. So when the opposing sides of the media discover that our attempt at solving perceived organizational bias is literally segregation, those AETC leaders are going to have a really hard time explaining their decisions in the one sentence they’ll be afforded.

Again, it sounds like you guys could solve this mystery annually at Gunfighter Flag! Post results here.

Sounds like some flying competitions will be in order. Same jets, one has a WSO in it.

Heinous. Be sure to cite the root causes in the AIBs.

Machines do difficult things easily and make easy things difficult.

Just what the MAF needs, worse hands. No way this is real.

Just imagine if the drone was rocket-powered instead of air breathing! Like Mach 4 speed. And I bet we could make it pull 30g. And of course, there’s no human in there so we could give it a one-way mission. So we’d better make them cheap - like less than $1m each - and light so one fighter could control 8 or even as many as 20 of them. They can even have little radars or IR sensors in their noses, but they wouldn’t need them until close in because the controlling fighter (the mothership!) is guiding them most of the way to their target.

Where was the AI getting the human PPLI from? The human was using his eyeballs, I suspect the AI had perfect data.

There’s a disorder called Face Blindness that keeps people from recognizing different faces. These people (maybe including brickhistory) simply have Flanker Blindness and don’t understand why the rest of us would care. edit: someone please post the Facebook link

My opinion: morale and operational efficiency are degraded when functions that must work together are in different commands. U-2s at overseas locations are mostly organized as every function under one umbrella: ops, mx, intel, life support, supply, logistics, personnel, comm, and even security forces in some cases. There are always some bumps in the road, but everyone knows who they work for: their U-2 pilot commander that suits up and blasts off on a mission right in front of them. How I know that cross-functional team model is effective: the exact same people RTB home and start working for different commanders that report to group commanders who report to a wing commander, and everything slows down.

Also at M9 qual.

How about the “Ukrainian” (aka Russian) honeypots? It wouldn’t be Xanadu without the overt espionage threat and all the bros talking around things