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Important safety tip for tyrants, dictators, and theocratic thugs, next time Trump says you have 10-15 days to come to an agreement before something bad happens, round that down to 7 days. Started college in 1979 working on my engineering degree. The Iranians had stormed the embassy earlier that year and had taken hostages. There were also Iranians attending the same college with me and I had 3 or 4 of them in a Physics class and lab. They wore the standard militant uniform fatigue jacket and apparently were adverse to any form of personal hygiene involving bathing so they absolutely wreaked. Times were tense and during a conversation with one of them, he said "How can you allow the CIA to read your mail?" I replied, "They don't read my mail but I'm sure they are reading yours." The startled look on his face was rather amusing.

I think he was a F-4 WSO, then UPT, then F-111, then A-10, passed over for Major, hired by the Reserve A-10 unit in New Orleans, hired on at United but invited to leave during training (lying on his application?), invited to leave at New Orleans for flying violations and personnel conflicts, tried to get hired at Columbus Reserves but blocked by the NOLA A-10 folks, hired at UPS and fired after a conflict on a Asia flight with the other two pilots that resulted in them locking Runner out of the cockpit. After that, it is a mystery that I'm sure we will learn more about. Quite the resume, if you ask me. Maybe he was a plant to screw up the Chinese PLAAF.

I copied something I wrote on another site and occurred in the 92-93 timeframe. As a Flt CC,I took 6 A-10s from Shaw to Little Rock to support the Army doing Army things at Ft. Chaffee near Ft. Smith. Runner brings a jet back with a broken windscreen. No worries, that front panel would occasionally Crack from the window heat. Well, that wasn't it. He had hit the grounding wire on some high tension power lines. No call. No controllability/ damage check. He argues he did nothing wrong. The front windscreen on the Hawg is 7 layers of laminate that will stop a 23mm cannon round. That windscreen is supported by a very stout I- beam looking frame. The grounding wire hit on top of the AAR door, slid over the windscreen cracking the glass and shearing off windscreen attachment bolts before scratching the top of the canopy. The wire completely missed the engine nacelles and rudders. Any other jet and he would have been sliced in two and he thinks he did nothing wrong. Arkansas Power and Light was replacing that wire and sent us the piece with gray paint on it and said it was 292 feet off the ground which was below his cleared altitude. His excuse was rising terrain despite that handy, dandy radar altimeter warning which was not used. He also almost put a Vark in the dirt during Desert Shield after screwing up a LGB toss. You might have seen the video updating your altitude chamber.

ID to vote??? Racist, sexist, and a crime against democracy !!! ID to shovel snow? Absolutely required in the workers paradise by Comrade Mamdani. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/02/21/mamdani-snow-shoveling-n2671695

Not that there are problems with our voting system.

Hard to prosecute a case if all the required documentation that was meticulously maintained was mysteriously stolen.

In that first video, the boat was not under way. Was any info given as to why?

Looks like #2 is a tad wide.

An expert legal analysis; https://www.dailywire.com/news/cornell-law-professor-shreds-entirely-unconvincing-war-crime-accusation-against-hegseth

I left active duty decades ago after getting hosed bigger than Dallas and getting the shoulder shrug when I asked someone to explain what happened. It was a bitter pill to swallow but the AF paid for my education, my training, and gave me job experience that I could use elsewhere. I initially went full time with the Reserves then got hired on with the airlines, went part time, still got promoted, and retired years later. Not having to move every 3-4 years, I got to pick where we live and 25 years ago became part of a wonderful small town. I didn't have too worry about the next job, the next promotion, the next school, or what the AF might do to me next. Even with getting hosed on active duty and going through 9/11, faux bankruptcy, age 65, real bankruptcy, and a couple mergers at the airline, I'm retiring in 9 months with more money than I'll ever spend. Revenge may not be the best word but success is the best form of it. I still look back at getting screwed over as a personal insult but, in reality, I'm far better off than had I stayed in. So, the point of all this is you have skills that the AF is throwing away. Take those skills elsewhere and you can be quite successful and happy with your life. Best of luck to you.

New rule to add to the motherhood: Egressers, defenders, and football players in the tunnel have the right of way.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is real! https://www.wsj.com/opinion/is-trump-derangement-syndrome-real-a603e4a1?st=Jpq9jv

How's this affect the TDY name tag? Will the McGroin brothers, Pat and Phil, reappear?

Those that can have moved out of NY, CA, and other high tax states and they have taken billions in tax revenue with them. I suspect that trend will only escalate. What happens when the free shit crowd runs out of money? We have neighbors that moved out of Washington. They just walked up to house that wasn't for sale and offered a bunch of money for it. They wanted out that bad.

I was A FAIP and instructed in the T-38 from 85-88 at Columbus. Most losses in a UPT class occurred in the T-37 with a wash out rate around 30%, IIRC. We would usually lose 2 or 3 students in the T-38 in the contact or instrument phase. I don't remember anyone washed out in the formation phase. There was a change in the syllabus after a mid-air during a 4 ship rejoin. Those going to heavies got more nav and instrument rides and the guys going to fighters did more 4 ship. Worst class I saw in the 38 was when the AF decided to push more students through and limited wash outs. We had a class come to us in the T-38 that lost students in the T-37 for medical or SIE but not much else. It was a blood bath and we washed out half the class.

When the radar is all yellow and red (and magenta if you have turbulence detection), which way do you turn for weather avoidance?....Kermit apparently doesn't give a shit and extends the middle finger (prop?) to Melissa.

Good a place as any for this.... Time to cut down on uniform flair? https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/overdue-for-de-norkification-of-our

Can't recall exactly. Go on the U.S. website for Glock. Search for Blue Label or you can go to their map for Glock dealers and look for the dealers with a blue circle with a B in it. Call them, ask what guns they have in stock under the Blue Label program and they can tell you the price. (Program is called Blue Label because the label attached to the box containing the gun is a blue label instead of the normal white.). You can also submit information to Glock and they will email you a complete list of guns and prices including modification costs if you want them to upgrade the weapon.

For those that don't know, the Glock Blue Label program is a really good deal for active and retired military.

I think Trump was going to allow the IDF to invoke the Gen. Lemay theory of "You kill enough of them, they will stop fighting." After the Israelies put a missile into a building in Qatar probably with U.S. blessing, supporters of Hamas had to take the theory seriously.

The New York Times..... Now there is an unbiased source of information.

I'm headed back next month for a re-attack. I'm take that under advisement.

How many 1 Liter beers is "a few?"

i just had a Frankfurt layover in Mainz and NONE of the chicks looked like that. I'm obviously doing something wrong.

I hope Trump added Ride of the Valkyries to that as background music.