StoleIt

The Guard and Reserves are gonna have a huge retention problem, IMO. Everyone I know who is retirement eligible is punching the second they can. It was already a funky math problem to get the numbers to work in the favor of military when compared to current airline pay but, add in never ending deployments in even worse conditions than before with a much higher risk factor in an unpopular conflict with unknown objectives... Yea, I think most people would rather risk being furloughed than that. And, anecdotally, a lot of my buddies leaving AD aren't even trying for ANG/AFRC jobs. Just straight cut to the airlines.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/20/state-dept-again-deems-cuba-threat-amid-talk-us-push-regime-change/ Expect another regime change in the near future orchestrated by the "no new wars" admin. Because we aren't busy enough...

Not sure why the B-21 needs it's own UPT program. Why not just continue to send (high speed) prior-rated people to UPT like normal and then drop airframes from?

https://nypost.com/2026/07/13/us-news/ex-iran-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-said-to-be-under-house-arrest-over-reported-israeli-contacts/ Not gonna lie, the headline made me laugh. In this day and age who even knows what's real anymore. This could actually have been a plan to get a predictable leader installed back in Iran OR it could be a false flag by the IRGC leadership to keep him out and them in.

That dude who ducked wins the luckiest guy of the year award...but then when he touched the hot barrel is LOL.

RuAF Su-35 (shot?) down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzBcFdznH7I Unconfirmed, 3x F-16s and a Patriot worked together to do it.

Going to a first assignment non-AD unit has been occurring much more recently than the 80s, I dropped a TFI Sq in the Guard out of UPT and that was in 2010.

$3.50 says he runs for political office.

Well that lasted all of negative one day. Hezbollah (Iranian backed incase anyone forgot) kills four IDF soldiers and Israel hits them back...as is tradition.

The reasoning behind Trump deciding not to drink is one of his few respectable qualities. The way he orders his steak (and choice of condiment) is added to his many unrespectable qualities.

Didn't everyone think Tulsi was a Russian agent or something? What ever happened to that narrative?

For now...

The only airplane with a side opening canopy I want to see at an airshow is an OV-10 or an F-104.