Danger41

Political Science is where it’s at #aviationdegreesmatter

Standing by for Hamas “baby and war widow tunnel enclaves” to show immediately after the combination of shit, fire, seawater, hot dog water, sponge bombs, and bees to be released.

I mentioned it above, but don’t sleep on the triple option. It completely screws you up on defense and if you don’t defend it perfectly, it can kill you. About 10 years ago Georgia Southern (FCS power at the time) went into Alabama and hung 300 yards rushing on an extremely dominant Alabama team. They were a good team but obviously Alabama had much more individual and team talent but they just did what they did to perfection. Check out Saban’s thoughts on it.

I love watching any triple option offense and they are hitting on all cylinders.

Isn’t Spirit having some serious issues with engines on their A320’s?

Amen. That is definitely the takeaway from that video. It ain't over until it's over. Huge kudos to this pilot.

My prediction is another couple of months of trying then find her calling in staying at home, championing causes of “oppressed” people and landing a straight white male to fund her noble calling.

I know it isn’t practical, but I wish we could have UPT bases spread out all over the country so kids could learn to operate in the NAS instead of just learning all the base specific crap. That would also allow more comfort with VFR, interaction with various airspaces, etc. This would probably have an effect on later on events at NTTR or otherwise where you’re not used to working in that type of environment but who knows. I’m kind of a guy that had feet in both worlds where we used to build pubs kits and all that and now have EFB with foreflight. I think GK has actually decreased because CTRL+F stuff is so easy now where we used to have to learn it.

So stunning and brave.

Time to see how good ALPA really is.

He was up for Admiral and it got blocked after the F-4 pilot (maybe WSO but one of them) complained to their congressman about it. Craziest detail of that whole story was that the Tomcat pilots dad also shot down a friendly jet in Vietnam. Quite the family tradition.

Pretty sure he’s referring to the techniques of a deliberate offset for a known amount of time to build in final turn spacing. And I get the overall vibe about joking about instrument flying and just make it happen but I’ve lost a couple of friends to mistakes in instrument flying (which I’m sure a lot of you have as well) so I am a hammer when it comes to instrument procedures.

I definitely think it's valuable training, regardless of the training aircraft. Being able to control your altitude in a dirty configuration and think ahead enough to set yourself up to land is a challenging skill. In my 20 years of flying, I've had to do exactly 2 circling approaches for real. Both of them were straight out of the sim where if I went 10 feet above the MDA, I was in the weather. I've probably practiced it 690 times so I was well prepared, but it's definitely a valuable skill to have.

I’m not a ROTC grad or Academy guy, but I’ve never heard of prior E’s that go to those institutions getting to count that toward retirement. Am I wrong?

I did a quick experiment and if I were to attend T-38 PIT for 6 months and leave my 4 kids at my original base to not move again in six months, in BAH alone it would cost me almost $5000.

How does one even start the process to become a DPE?

Discussion of all the media darling stuff, his advice on Afghanistan, etc. Maybe that was out there already and I hadn’t heard it. I also think there may be a case of trying to rewrite history in the debrief. Also, not sure how or why the senior officer in the US military had to learn some of those lessons without knowing ahead of time.

Speaking of media darling, he recently interviewed on 60 minutes about a lot of this stuff. Interesting interview.

All valid points but my thought is if you’re dealt a shit hand, do something about it. Same thing applied to Afghanistan. All these young men that are poor helpless victims that do nothing to improve their situation don’t get much sympathy from me. My depression era grandfather fought in WW2 with no high school education and died after building a million dollar business and raising a family. He also was part Lakota Sioux who looked like Sitting Bull. Definitely didn’t help much in South Dakota. Having said that, I won’t pretend that a dude with brown skin in post WW2 America had it harder than kids in Gaza. Hell, look at what Israel did from the literal first day of existing as a country (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab–Israeli_War). They’ve fought for it against the surrounding Arab countries. In my mind, if Hamas views what they’re doing in the same light as fighting a war against Israel, then they can get wrecked again. If their chosen tactics are what have been displayed, they don’t deserve anything but to be exterminated. If they want to improve their lives, then join the 21st century, stop letting Iran treat you as a sacrificial lamb and puppet, and adopt some of this love and peace I keep hearing all these people tell me Islam is all about.

Seeing videos of babies getting murdered and kids getting burned alive can have an affect on people. Myself included. I don't think showing humanity in the face of that is the worst thing in the world.

This whole situation is terrible obviously, but I personally am having a very difficult time finding a lot of sympathy for Gaza at this point. They elected Hamas a decade and a half ago to be their representative government. Their goals and methods have been consistent for way longer than that. Look at the Hamas charter if you're curious about what they're really pursuing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter) Something something reap what you sow.

How does that work? PCS with family and everything to Randolph and then PCS to Vance/Laughlin/etc?

“By Water Beneath the Walls” by Ben Milligan is really an interesting read. It’s a very in depth story on the history of the Navy SEALs from their WW2 beginnings to modern day. Much more academic than dramatic.

There’s quite a few out there on the fighter pilot topic. Mike Manazir’s book is good. Anything by Ed Rasimus is really good. Dan Pedersen’s book about the creation of Top Gun is good. Dan Hampton has several good books. Give those a look.

I want to post it on Facebook and watch all those idiots on the various websites trying to decipher some crazy hidden message behind “we’ll look 6 months from retirement”.