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On 8/4/2022 at 12:35 PM, VMFA187 said:
Dude deserves to get that flute shoved so far down his throat that it kills him.
I like the way you think but I was envisioning the flute being shoved from the opposite direction, feed the douchebag beans, and have him blow Mozarts Magic Flute out of his ass. Punishment with classical music appreciation and education all rolled into one.
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Wish I had my coloring book from RTU which showed the most effective areas to shoot a tank. In the face wasn't it. Also, a crowd pleasing fireball explosion isn't required. For example, a Marine M60-A3 main battle tank is slightly lost and in the wrong place at the wrong time during an exercise. A Hawg is called in on a target and shoots the M-60 with TP ammo and not HEI or API which will do far more damage. With the Target Practice ammo, the tank takes 5 hits. With just 5 hits from TP ammo, the tank is no longer capable of moving and it's no longer capable of using the main gun with the added bonus of the crew being incapacitated. The cannon is far more effective than the author admits.
Back when we might have to go toe-to-toe with the Rooskies in the Fulda gap, we trained for enroute at 200-300 feet and IP to target at 100 feet using forward firing weapons only. If someone was dumb enough to load freefall weapons on your jet, that was going to be jettisoned before departing the IP. We did expect to take substantial losses but so did everybody else. Nobody is going to fly the same way as was done shwacking jihadis but will adjust tactics accordingly.
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I've heard there was an AA CA based at SFO that had so many DO NOT PAIR First Officers that the CA was asked to leave the base and fly elsewhere.
In my 23 years at AA, the only thing I've come close to was a call out on reserve for a MD-80 trip. The CA was a former TWA guy and the FO was a former Reno CA and not happy about playing second fiddle. Verbal hostility erupted and the second leg of the trip and the CA booted the FO.
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15 hours ago, nsplayr said:
In a utopian genderless future, everyone is treated equally 😁
Funny you should post that. Years ago, I'm at Carlos Murphys West in Tucson for a 4th of July soiree. I'm with another A-10 dude and somehow we end up taking to this liberal couple. When they find out we are Hawg drivers, the liberal chick says, "How can you gun down women and children." Well, if ever a softball question was tossed my way, that was it. Just like the movie quote, I replied "It's easy, you just don't lead them as much." The shocked looks on their faces was absolutely priceless. We also ended up drinking with a midget wrestler who was the regional distributor for Coors but that's another story.
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1 hour ago, Seriously said:
Meanwhile, the enlisted force have blitzkrieged with shaving/religion/IDGAF waivers and are all wearing beards these days.
And that's the just the " women" but I'm not a biologist so I might be wrong.
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I don't think the 30mm API can be sold/given due to nuclear non-proliferation agreements and you aren't punching many holes in a T-80 with TP ammo.
I'm not sure of the threat environment but flying the Hawg without SEAD assets would definitely not be something I would want to do. Knock the radar threats back and you might be able to put a workable plan together.
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8 hours ago, HuggyU2 said:
Sitting reserve, I get called out for exactly that same thing but it was the FO that walked.
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Not sure if you need to identify as a biologist or not.
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2 hours ago, pawnman said:
At least President Camacho realized he needed outside help and got the best expert he could find to advise him.
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2 hours ago, Swizzle said:
The Ornithologist would in-turn say...I'm not an Oologist! Who they may in-turn say they're not a Chef!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oology
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oology
I have always said that a good day is learning something new and I have never heard of an oologist. Interesting.
So, does this mean that the question "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" can have a corollary question, "Which came first, the omelet or the chef?"
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4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Bullshit. Unless you are a ornithologist, how would you know???
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An F-15 from Langley was flown to Maine to pick up a load of "lahbstahs." Lobsters are flown back to VA, cooked, and there was much rejoicing.
Moving forward in time, the jet goes in for the big colonoscopy maintenance check, and, lo and behold, there is significant corrosion along the keel of the fuselage and the damage is fatal. After some sleuthing, the trail leads back to the lobster run. Turns out the lobsters were packed in frozen SEA water which melted and ran down through the jet.
Scratch one Eagle off the books.
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For podcast listening:
The Cold War: What We Saw
https://billwhittle.com/tag/the-cold-war-what-we-saw/
He also did a podcast on the space program which is also great listening.
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6 hours ago, eindecker said:
On the topic of pax/cargo —
As someone who’s separating w/in <2hr drive of SFO & staying local United’s been #1 on the list, but with FedEx’s move into OAK, I feel like this conversation is now more pertinent. Anyone have any insight or helpful anecdotes?
Go with whoever calls — but given the chance at both, any gouge on these two particular domiciles?
With either job, you would get a pay raise just by moving out of CA.
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ClearedHot, you are obviously ignorant! You forgot Hunter Biden s business partners, the Chinese! Come on, man! Nothing like trying to get through the Great Internet Firewall of China while visiting that country to drive that point home.
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The further we get from 1984, the closer we get.
With the recent history of government agencies involved in sketchy behavior with a noticable political bent, what could possibly go wrong?
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14 hours ago, HeloDude said:
It’s bad. What’s also bad is that he said he’s not concerned about a recession following the news of negative economic growth.
He has never had an original thought in his political life and parrots what he is told to say. Combine this with the obvious signs of senility and I'm guessing his awareness of the economic condition of the country is close to zero.
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Interesting numbers regarding conservative Twitter accounts. Can the minions at Twitter see what is coming?
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On 4/27/2022 at 7:01 AM, BFM this said:
In the fighter squadrons it wasn't written in any regs, but woe be to the SOB that showed up the next day without rest and there was scheduling fallout. The attached guys were typically jonesing to get out of the late debriefs as they weren't available anyway the following day and had meetings they couldn't get out of, so at 0230 they were looking at their watches and bolting for the door, knowing they had to be at their desk at 0700 regardless.
But that Lt FNG better not walk in the door before 12 hours later.
Top3 during 2nd go: "FNG Slapnuts to the ops desk"
FNG SN: "oh yeah I wasn't on the schedule so I was here at 0730"
DO: "MF'er you did WHAT?!?!?!"
There just wasn't extra bodies around so it was an understood standard (sometimes actually in the standards, but not always).
Yep, always the FNG that thought he would show motivation and seriousness by showing up early only to take a verbal beat down while being informed his job is to learn to be a fighter pilot and be ready to fly whether on the schedule or not. Had to explain that to several new guys. RTUs should teach that.
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9 hours ago, Standby said:
Is this one of the mishaps you were thinking of?
That was attributed to pilot error doing a full rudder deflection swap which caused the rudder to fail. Not that I agree with the findings but that's what they said.
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6 hours ago, Danger41 said:
For the 767/other heavy drivers out there…is it possible to do it basically single pilot? You’ve got a copilot out to lunch…can you just tell him to sit on his hands and handle everything from the left seat?
Yes, you can fly it single pilot if the other pilot isn't horrendously incompetent and keeps touching switches. Self induced problems were apparently a trend item with this guy.
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The conversation is also happening at AA where he was hired.
Lighten Up Francis!
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We did all that deconfliction stuff in regard to artillery doing CAS in the Hawg. Then I ended up sentenced to be an ALO with an armor battalion. Watching a night live fire exercise and seeing the high altitude ricochets from 120mm main gun rounds, 30mm chain guns, TOW missiles, and God knows what else high speed metal, I came to the conclusion deconfliction was a nice idea but wishful thinking for those of us that operated in the weeds.