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Twitter? Seriously? People quote that shit as truth/news?

Since you two are "in the know" why was it now that hostages were rescued? They have been sitting there for a while. And they can use the medical excuse for the one dude all they want, but I would think that excuse would warrant a QUICK response. Not this one after so long.

Link Inop.

Seriously.

WASHINGTON: The Air Force's RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft appears to be the latest big-ticket program to fall victim to the Pentagon's budget axe. The venerable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance drone will be nixed as part of the Air Force's upcoming fiscal 2013 budget proposal , according to Loren Thompson, a consultant and defense analyst. Specifically, the Air Force will retire the Block 30 variants of the drone already in the service's fleet and end production of the platform entirely, he wrote. The decision comes as Global Hawk-manufacturer Northrop Grumman is developing a new Block 40 version of the drone for the Air Force and a maritime version -- known as the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance system -- for the Navy. The cancellation also comes at a time when company officials have been aggressively pushing the Global Hawk into foreign markets. Deals with NATO, South Korea, Japan and Australia were potentially on the table until today's announcement. "Obviously, it's a disappointment," company spokesman Jim Stratford said, noting that the Pentagon issued an Acquisition Decision Memorandum last June that concluded Global Hawk is "essential to national defense and no other platform could do this mission at lower cost." The ADM was issued when the Defense Acquisition Board approved a massive restructuring of the program. But the Global Hawk's multiple breaches of federally-mandated cost caps, including the one that prompted the June restructure, have proven a persistent headache to the Air Force. Ultimately, that concern pushed service leaders to offer the ISR drone as a "bill-payer" in the 2013 budget plan, according to Thompson. The Global Hawk's cancellation may ultimately leave the brunt of the Air Force's high-altitude ISR operations to the aging U-2 spy plane. A burden that will only get heavier as U.S. military forces begin to pivot from Southwest Asia to the Western Pacific . Since the Global Hawk's inception, Air Force leaders have repeatedly claimed the drone would replace the legacy U-2. But as years passed, service leaders always came up with reasons why the RQ-4 was not yet ready to take the manned aircaft's place. What will be really interesting to watch is, if the Global Hawk program is killed, will the Pentagon order a new aircraft capable of doing the same missions. Source: https://defense.aol.com/2012/01/24/pentagon-mothballs-air-force-global-hawk/

Fireworks then a fly over right under? Looks epic...but is there no worry about ingesting a bunch of firework remains?

Or it's Cosplay? Which is like all the sluts from Halloween who want to dress up when it's not October 31st...

My next two projects. Going lightweight with the one with the M4 stock and SPR Mk12 Mod0 clone for the one with the PRS stock. And Action report...I LOVE my M1A. Fucking tack driver.

World's biggest super-jumbos must be GROUNDED, say engineers after cracks are found in the wings of three Airbus A380s Cracks found in two Singapore Air super-jumbos, and one Qantas Both airlines admit cracks, but say planes are safe 'We can't continue to gamble with lives' - engineer https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084242/Airbus-A380-Worlds-biggest-planes-sky-worthy-say-engineers.html

Uh o...so technically I can't wear a watch cap when in my flight suit?

$355 million? For 20 fucking planes? $17,750,000 each?! A T-6 costs under $5 million each. WTF?! Are we buying fighter jets or CHEAP CAS platforms? Seriously?!

Now now...I am sure Col Old's turned around right after this picture was taken and told the LT to put his sleeves down before they lost the war due to poor attention to detail...

Well made it 9/10's through my deployment while sporting the OLD pt sweatshirt (the one that says "Air Force" on it) before I got Chiefed today. DARN! And it was a double whammy since I had my sleeves pushed 1/3 up on my arm too. I still refuse to buy the new PT sweatshirt out of principle that I already paid for this one and I only need to dig it out of the closet when I deploy. So I will continue trying to be as loud as humanly possibly in my PT's swishing down the hallways and through base.

That would be great if the totalizer was only 500lbs off. It is generally more along the lines of 5k off. On my last sortie with a working totalizer the grand 7k offload had the totalizer reading 3k. That's fairly normal. Seriously, the thing is worthless. And 90% of the time it's INOP anyway.

This coming year might a be a juggernaut for movies: Prometheus: The Dark Knight Rises The Hobbit: The Avengers: The Expendables 2 DAMN! EDIT: Fucking file limit. Last couple are just normal links.

PLEASE explain your reasoning on this.

If it was up to me I would. But some the intel briefs in the past couple of days does raise an eyebrow for a military aircraft with absolutely zero form of self defense. From the tanker perspective...I'd say 1 out of every 5 receivers so far is as fragged. Generally they want less...but if there is a TIC or something going on they will ask for a top off. And I have yet to have a single mission where the entire offload went as planned according to the ATO. There has always been last minute adds, receiver cancels, token offloads (4k to some Mud Hens...WTF guys), or top offs.

That is definitely something I have noticed lately. More and more often on rendezvous we are asking the receivers if they want the normal speed or non-standard. So far we are generally flying 10-20 knots slower than the book says. Don't hesitate to tell the tanker to slow down. Doesn't hurt us a bit and if it makes it easier on you, we will do it.

Well it's the 20th where I am. ברוך אתה ה' א‑לוהינו מלך העולם, אשר קדשנו במצותיו וצונו להדליק נר שלחנוכה.‏

Quoted for truth. My personal favorite is burning from the mains while draining aft while pumping from that tank. If that AR isn't a top off then it's going to be off by a couple hundred pounds at least. Let's see I'm burning roughly 2.5k an hour per engine...but the AR only took 7 minutes...minus that difference from the amount that was in the tank that now isn't from the offload...WTF! If you want any precision then pray the new KC-46 has a totalizer that works. Otherwise the game of AR is generally going to be a guestimate. The -135 tanks will move +/- 500lbs in a turn. So I thought I gave you 8.0 until we started the turn and then suddenly it is 7.5 or 8.5. Honestly though, this shouldn't be a battle between fighters and tankers. Yes, I find it annoying I have to juggle tails on the MISREP for some reason I don't really know. And then my Boom gets really pissed when that tail isn't in his little spread sheet when we get back to Ops. BUT, all I care about is giving the guy his gas so he can go help out the guy on the ground. Nothing is more rewarding than seeing a jet come back for gas with some empty pylons on it's wings. That's what our job is about.

Also try Lucas Group.

Good point, doesn't look like the Navy/Marine Corps Parachutist Insignia have any ratings beyond "basic." Do Marines wear foreign jump wings like the Army?