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“Stillwater Regional Airport has briefed the offices of Sen. James Lankford, Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission and the Federal Aviation Administration.” Not too far out of the realm of possibility. Trying to get some of that $1.7T spending bill that just passed? The airport has big growth aspirations and is planning to build a commercial terminal in 2024. Personally I’m rooting for the C-17 crew to show up guns blazing with facts.

I’ve had to walk Airfield Managers through their own pubs to figure out weight bearing capacity twice. They no shit had no idea what their taxiways were good for. I’m guessing there’s a good chance the Stillwater manager thought he was ok until he wasn’t. Keep those emails, kids.

That they need due to lack of trust in other services to be there when they need it. And they’re right, based on both history and one what other services will be forced to focus on. They Navy will support the ships needed to get them to disembarkation, then they’re on their own as the Navy’s attention wanes. The best jet for Marine Air maybe wouldn’t be an F-35B if everyone had a do-over, but it’s certainly better than a Harrier, and it’s theirs now.

When’s the last time any of us has worked with Marine infantry at an LFE? I’m trying to remember the last time I worked with Marines at all in training; it was probably their C2 guys in a tent. When do you think the last time a Harrier or C-model Hornet squadron worked with other Marines? Rhetorical. When it comes to a MEF/MEB/MEU, the Marines are always the best option to support other Marines. I sure as shit wouldn’t trust my survival on another service showing up; we’re all too busy with our own activities. When the Navy has to choose between CAS and Carrier survival, or the Air Force has to choose between CAS and DCA and strike package size / regen rates and also Carrier survival, support for a thousand Marine infantry holding or advancing to an objective is going to get backburnered. Even the resupply from other services will have to be fought for at every instance, which is why a quarter of Marine expeditionary units is dedicated for logistics support, Hercs and all. They’re geared to survive by themselves for 30-60 days, because they’ll have to. It’s actually a pretty enviable setup, because it’s self-contained “joint” by nature and commanded by a guy that knows what he’s doing. Maybe Red can shed more light.

The worst part is the scapegoating of great people like Beau Marks. We’re lucky to have him on our team.

According to the Ottawa Citizen, the call sign was FAWG (“Fucked A Woman Gay”), bestowed on a pilot whose ex-girlfriend was in a lesbian relationship afterwards. According to his bio, he’s a patrol and cargo pilot.

So…yes. Because if they didn’t fly fast sometimes, imagine how slow their brains would be then

Companion trainers should be fast. Fast jets make brain fast. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/video/take-a-seat-in-the-cockpit-of-nasa-s-t38-jet-1002459715572

Guy behind the camera is this idiot neo-Nazi: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11469729/amp/Army-commends-composed-soldiers-restraint-against-neo-Nazi-Poland.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyim_Defense_League Based on the ever-escalating nature of his stunts, I don’t see him being alive for much longer. There’s something about these guys, I swear they must be borderline suicidal before they decide to yolo on insane behavior to see how far they can get. Guarantee this dude was all out of options before he figured out how to livestream.

None of the ARES promotional materials mention 50k’. They all say 40k’.

CH about how many of these high-flying platforms would we need?

True, but if your airplane is dependent on space to do it’s job you’re going to have a shitty time during the war.

Worldview confirmed, there is no such thing as “over the horizon”, just increasingly smaller graze angles where the calculations don’t work anymore

I’ll have to take your word for it, never ran a LOS plot that low. Edit: looking at the dozens of bizjets currently flying on ADS-B exchange (with zero extra military hardware), not one is flying above FL470. I’m not really buying the idea that a military version is going to get much above that, especially carrying RTB gas.

I can’t think of a better way to kill 6-9 EWOs and ABMs. Bizjets will get fucked pretty quick by any weapon.

Hmmm…let’s continue this thought process. You want a high altitude jet, a guy in it, that’s extremely reliable, and has a lot of indigenous connectivity, maybe some 5th gen datalinks, maybe a sideways AESA upgrade in development…

Don’t forget the ops sup. And SOF! That’s a 4-pilot airplane.

This past Spring the Deid didn’t seem to care about uniform stuff anymore. Floppy hat, baseball cap, big mustaches, no one cared.

Contracting out essential combat capabilities will be the death of us. Contractors don’t have ALR.

I’m slightly wondering if the Navy would try to pick up the boneyarded KC-10s

Don’t forget that scene from Goodfellas where they drive Joe Pesci to his initiation.

Increasing the bonus by $50,000 per year would cost a few hundred million, or 0.1% of the Air Force budget. That’s money that would directly decrease LM and NG income, while starving the airlines of their free pilot training program. In turn, you get happier pilots that’ll be more experienced to fight a war you never actually plan to get into.

They’re also going to make you get a shit ton of other vaccines. Also you may be ordered to fly until your death if it comes down to it. Or, if we’re all out of planes, you may be ordered to pick up a rifle and fight until you die defending your base. Or, even worse, you may be the one issuing those orders. Or maybe the orders are to kill a million civilians - including women, children, and other Christians - using nuclear weapons, which will likely cause a retaliatory attack that kills your family and friends. All for a war started by an old man that half the country doesn’t agree with politically. I guess you’re cool with all those things. But getting the COVID vaccine, now that’s a bridge too far for a Christian. So if you’re quitting because you don’t want to get a shot for political reasons (religious reasons? nah), then I say adios and thanks for making the decision early. Wouldn’t want to find out about it after you’ve wasted years of everyone’s effort and money getting you CMR. Good luck in civilian life, I’m sure you’ll find an airplane job if you work hard enough. Please pay your taxes.

Dude it’s because you’re blaming your own country based on theory and conjecture. You’ve come up with a hypothesis based on news articles. Were it an airplane accident, the cultural mantra of “wait until the investigation is complete” would’ve stopped you from publicly drawing conclusions. Yet in this case, you’re willing to do so and throw your own country under the bus. For nothing. That’s why people hate conspiracy theorists.

Hey so I’ve been seeing on some instameme accounts that Chief Bass said “the Air Force has too many fighter pilots” or something to that effect. Does anyone have a source?