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Dude…that was hard to believe.

Update on the United Military Pilot Hiring. Email I received this morning.

Israel would probably welcome that gladly. Much easier to kill these fucks when they’re out in the open.

His operation was called “Geehad Kennels”. Omfg that’s amazing. Even better than the other world famous dog fighter Ron Mexico.

It also reminds me of WW1 with tactics that hadn’t kept up with the lethality of modern weapons.

Some people have really turned on Mattis, but I really respected his decision to resign when he didn’t agree with Trump’s policy decision.

Back in the day when I was going on football recruiting trips in high school I went to Nebraska. After my visit, they fired Frank Solich (for bad recruiting among other things)and the program has been down bad ever since. So yes,I personally destroyed the Nebraska football program.

Was he the USAFWS Commandant when you were there?

I saw the one year thing when the option came out and it looks like it was changed or I simply had a fever dream and imagined that. WRT Delta, from their website…

One thing that kind of made me laugh about this program is that they state you’re eligible a year out from retirement. Delta says you’re eligible 2 years from retirement and 1 from separation. Good program but Delta will have a full year to pick through military applicants if that’s the way the all important algorithm is written.

I know of two guys that were in the same class so their bonus would arrive the same day (in theory). One got it the Friday prior (USAA) and the other guys arrived the following Wednesday. FWIW.

My favorite was my "local" FSDO was in Birmingham, AL when I lived in Destin. 4 hour one way drive. Went up there, she was good and signed everything off, sent it to the FAA HQ and they rejected it. That's when I got the congressman involved, changed nothing, and they approved it. What a country!

He didn’t check the door for heat. Classic rookie move.

Dating yourself with that one! I freaking loved that movie back in the day. Also, nice crossover for Iron Eagle and Backdraft with Jason Gedrick being in both.

Possibly unpopular take here but if the CC literally said “yeah, go have fun” after some guy said “let me go rip it around for a bit, it’ll be fine”, he’s an idiot. Those maneuvers are well within the capability of any Eagle Driver and the airplane but a demo is a very specific skill and a lot more too it than plugging the AB and going for it.

If the U-28 really does retire in a few years, take those, rip out all the fancy stuff, and spread them around as a companion instrument trainer. Or a weekend XC machine that can fit several Yeti’s full of lobster…

That is quite the eclectic drop

Really? I've heard from dozens of sources (including the airlines) that they just need the FHR summary.

I'm a huge fan of the old ACE (Accelerated Copilot Enrichment) concept and really believe we should put some companion trainers at every base to let folks fly and get air sense in a cheaper trainer. If the argument is "more is better" (I disagree with this but I'm in the minority) in terms of flight hours, get some airplanes that you can fly a bunch and get experience on the cheap. @Pooter nailed it with his T-6 example.

Anyone done this as a WIC grad? I see you can do the Operational Warfare Concentration and get 12 out of 30 credits for it. Would it be possible to finish the remaining 6 classes in a year?

I saw somewhere that the F-35 pilot put the jet on autopilot before he punched. I wonder if he was in the controlled bailout area before doing that because I think they've got a good spot away from population if they can't find the wreckage lol.

Joe Milton and the Vols really underperformed in that game. They have a more talented team but fell flat on their face. Colorado vs Colorado State...man. CSU had so many opportunities to win that game. Colorado is soooo overrated, holy crap. They've got some good individual talent, but they don't have the depth at the DL or talent at the LB positions to beat really good teams without having to score 40 points. Additionally, they don't have the beef to hold up all year. Look at the difference between their players and Alabama. In a couple years of training and growth, look out. Also, the media is doing the classic thing where they are simping like crazy to the whole Sanders family to watch them fall apart and then ask if their whole schtick is a distraction. The perfect example was talking about Shedeur Sanders having all this poise and catching him on camera poking a CSU DL in the eyes while they're saying it. Or his insistence on being in the middle of everything and starting all kinds of shit with the other team. They're going to lose eventually and I think that loss will be pretty ugly. Everyone will dogpile on when it happens which really sucks.

I’ll take a Royale with cheese, thank you very much.

No shit there I was at Nellis (WIC IP) about to graduate a WIC class when I start getting calls from folks up the chain of one of our students wanting to interview a student to be a wing exec. I told them no and that his focus was WIC until he was done and highlighted the 11-415 requirements for new WO’s. Kept getting leaned on until the O-6 had me on the phone telling me that he was going to interview the guy and that I was going to set up a VTC to do it. Refused, ran it up my chain, food fight ensued and then didn’t hear anything else until the day before graduation I find out the Wing CC went around everyone and got a VTC set up to interview the guy. A week after WIC grad he started as a wing exec. I personally know of 4 different guys that did this. So damn disheartening and frustrating but some people just don’t view anything beyond what it can do for their resume.