TreeA10

For youse guys that love history and haven't watched or listened to the "What We Saw" documentaries, you are missing some good stuff.

Genocide, man , woman, peaceful demonstration, border control....... Yep, definitions keep changing. I'm wondering if I need to start using Google Translate for what I thought was the English language. Maybe English 10 years ago to current English.

I gave up my FFDO weapon since I fly internationally and i truly miss the ease of pulling out the badge and breezing through security. I'm still the same person with the same background check, etc. but now I'm back to the random BS. I don't bother with KCM and just do the crew approved TSA Pre-check line. 50% exceeds any definition I assign to the term "random."

I've wondered the same thing. I've also considered that these people go through life in a constant state of self induced misery and want to drag down rest of humanity to join them in that pit of unhappiness. Or possibly, they have imagined themselves marginalized and must extract revenge on their perceived oppressors. Maybe both.

I'm doing my AA quarterly online training and one lesson describes what to look for to report human trafficking. Who do you report human trafficking to if the government is facilitating the trafficking?

Mid-90s and Iraq does some pump fake maneuver to the border. I'm at Shaw working in Stan/Eval and we get tagged to generate and deploy 2 F-16 and 1 A-10 squadron. The Wing had an upcoming mobility ORI event so we call Langley and ask them to come observe to get the ORI counter complete. They say "No" because it wouldn't meet their grading criteria. WTF? A real world event doesn't match the grading criteria? How inflexibly stupid is that and WTF are you grading?

No but I did learn how to heat MREs on the exhaust louvers.

The M-1 in the photo shows the blow out panel above the ammo storage blown out which is what they are supposed to do. There is a sliding armored door separating the ammo storage from the crew compartment. The picture might be flipped because I recall the ammo storage on the left side. They never let me drive or shoot it but I did learn to load the gun. (Years ago ALO with armor battalion w/M-1 A1 later A2 tanks)

Sounds like a CPDLC hack. The re-route was sent but not accepted, certainly not executed. Pilots asked for further info via VHF or HF. For those not familiar: CPDLC is a data link with the regional controlling agency. You can swap messages, requests altitude or route changes, and more. Onthe 787, The controlling agency can send route changes and the pilots can ACCEPT, IGNORE, or CANCEL the incoming message. If the pilots push ACCEPT, the route is loaded into the FMS but you still have to press EXECUTE on the FMS to enter and activate the change.

Here's another couple numbers for conversation, CBO says payment on debt will exceed DoD budget this year. What could possibly go wrong with more spending?

Taking my youngest to the range can be more expensive than taking the wife out for dinner but both are worth it.

FFDO weapon has the Ameriglo sights. I added those to my personal Glocks since they worked so well.

I started investing my flight pay as a 1Lt using dollar cost averaging. Just put money in every month because the market will increase over the long term. I quit adding money to that account years ago when I was hired at an airline. That account has had some serious ups and downs over 40 years but is now approaching 7 digits because time in the market usually beats timing the market.

Back in the day when the joke was "How you get your own F-16?"... Buy an acre of land near _______ (fill in with nearest F-16 base) and wait.

And the media does not care about the death and destruction in families. 270-ish people died every day for the last couple years...Every freaking day...From opioid overdose. But, nope, can't control the border, can't stop it, just can't do anything.

Capitol One Venture card works like a champ worldwide. $69-ish per year with the military discount but you can cover any travel expenses with points earned and the card easily pays for itself. I do have a USAA card but it sits in a dresser drawer as a tertiary backup.

I don't think all the electrolytes in the world can fix the upcoming clown show.

We need someone to pull a Braveheart staff adjustment similar to the king that left his effeminate incompetent son in charge and the sons friends described himself as fully versed in warfare because he studied it. Then gets thrown out a window. That will never happen but it makes me smile just thinking about it.

At least he passed his duties to his deputy.... Who was on vacation.

You can do anything once. (See articles regarding crazy mechanic at Horizon.)

I would say calculation as percentage of GDP isn't as important as percentage of fleet power projection. Losing one jet out of thousands isn't as critical as losing one jet out of hundreds.

Doing wide body FO, I usually work 9 days or 12 if I pick up an extra trip. Had a CA ask me why I didn't bid CA then tell me the senior FOs should bid domestic CA to share their knowledge. My response was "Hell no!".... Along with some other colorful descriptive commentary on domestic flying.

Makes you wonder about the competence of a person that can be missing without informing his boss and nobody seems to care.

Admittedly, I retired in 2011 but WTF is up with the Q3 thing? A Q3 was unheard of in the fighter community. Did your CCs just hate themselves and their fellow aviators?

How could someone disapprove of an Eleanor Roosevelt quote!