Everything posted by magnetfreezer
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1821664/air-force-to-establish-weapons-school-for-acquisition-officers/ Not sure if they could get anything done in the 6 month WS class timeline
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Gov Travel Card abuse?
Your APC should put the card in mission critical status - upsets Citibank a little, but prevents them shutting off your card, etc. and the other actions normally associated with late balances
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Ordering Patches (name, morale, fun meter)
Got mine from https://www.wings-and-things.com/, decent job
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Owning stock in a marijuana farm...
SF86 guidance for foreign investments says diversified/public funds that happen to have foreign stocks need not be reported - it'd be logical to extend that to weed stocks. Caveat - requires logical govt behavior
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F-16 Was Used By Pakistan, IAF Displays AMRAAM Missile Part As Proof
In India (and other countries using the RAF rank structure) the "wing commander" title is their O-5 rank, O-6 is "group captain" (flipped compared to our ranks). +1 on getting him home and the situation deescalated though.
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Form 2030
Try disabling protected mode in Preview (if that's an option) - that error is most frequent in Adobe when opening a form from the internet in protected mode.
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Taxes, the Deficit/Debt, and the Fiscal Cliff
Many European countries have the 20%ish VAT, but on top of the 40%+ income tax - worst of both worlds.
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Fighter/Attack/Bomber Pilot Lifestyle?
Some bombers can do 540 knots at 200 AGL, close enough. Thought about 100' but that gets sporty with a wingspan > 100'
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Fly-Only Track in AMC
It's possible... It's called flyers downrange on 180s, or 120s.
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Buffs - What can’t they do?
Call it an instructor paper since they usually write/rewrite 69% of them anyway.
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And Yet Another Deadline Missed
At least our functional was honest... looking for 365 volunteers said "list your top 5 follow on choices and we'll try to get you one of them"... would work as long as options 1-5 are Dyess.
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Gun Talk
Yep - those other two conflicts POWs had to endure a lot, but at least had a chance to make it home vs immediate beheading or burning alive in a cage.
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USAF Reveals Timelines And Basing Plans For Adversary Support Contract
Wow. Is it a reaction to the idea of GS pilots specifically? Since the train of GS you can't take disciplinary actions against left the station decades ago. IIRC AFMC has GS test pilots and the CSO training T-1 pilots are also GS.
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B-1 Landing at Midland
Probably because it takes an investigation to determine if the failure is bad mx on that jet, part failure, widespread defect, etc.
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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
I'm guessing that would generate a referral training report at the very least - was he already designated as golden/protected that young or are we just that skosh on options for AMC wing commanders?
- DoD Being Sued
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317 AW (Dyess) commander removed over ‘toxic environment’
The Vista (crossflow) and Pathfinder (ID MAJCOM shiny pennies to send to staff as midlevel O-3) programs seem to be borrowed from AMC as well and will certainly be a roaring success.
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Questions on broken bones
Nice try OSI...
- Border crisis
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Was told by a cop once that civilians would be denied from base... Mil article 92 or something similar for "failure to obey the instructions of a sentry" or something similar. Not a JAG but sounds sketchy for forced consent. They do have the right to search for force protection per the standard base signage but unknown how that interacts with the search/consent/admissibility deal.
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Info on flight boots
Two piece will probably never be authorized for ejection seat aircraft, so unless they make ocp coveralls you'll probably always have bags in the supply system.
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Maybe they can do an ORE on how to be on the same tower frequency as the rest of the base first
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Raise Taxes, Fire up the Draft.
- Raise Taxes, Fire up the Draft.
Service guarantees citizenship...- B-1 (Bone) questions
And there's the problem, people think sniper/litening pods are good for CDE scans. Real big picture sure, but FAR from the fidelity/accuracy of scans accomplished by the guys who actually are meant/built for such a thing. A buff should never be doing those scans, and its overselling capability to say to the Army a sniper/litening can effectively accomplish scans (especially to the level the army wants/expects). Again, we need to tell the Army to off and play each asset to what it's for, not try to make everything persistent ISR...those assets already exist. And recognize the realities of war.. plenty of unavoidable CDE to win Mosul and Raqqah. Funny how rolling back ISIS accelerated when we focused more on tactics to kill people vs how to not kill people. - Raise Taxes, Fire up the Draft.