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No skin off my nose if they call themselves warfighters. If some new Lt or E-2 is proud of their training completion and wants to be called an operator, great. I don't think anyone is going to confuse them for Recon Marines because they use the term "warfighter." Reminds me of the silly Airman's Creed, but if it makes somebody proud to serve, awesome.

I expect Navy and Eagle dudes to be measuring rods, but I expected better from you!

Holy cow: So even if they do get it, their first time landing on the boat will be in a F-35/F-18/C-2/E-2? Their vaunted PLM better work.

Not really novel. 7th SFG trained a bunch of future Zetas years ago. Gangs have long used the US military as training ground. They even have an acronym: Military-trained gang members (MTGMs).

So you are or are not moving up a number? Important things first. 😉

175 acres, norcal... nice. Paying that mortgage should be easy with 175 acres of.... crops. 😉

Eh, unlikely, at least in large caps. I tried the "active" route the first half of the year. The steep V recovery kicked my ass. I'll stay in my indexing lane from now on.

I'm watching now. I look forward to that. 😆

14 year old must have game.

News says they're headed to Guam, but Guam staging doesn't make a lot of sense to me unless it's just for theatrics. Andersen-Tehran is only 800 miles less than Whiteman-Tehran and that's AFTER flying 6000nm to Guam. Maybe they avoid overflight dip issues in SEA vs Europe?

Probably wouldn't be hard for one of the 17Xs to build an entire ADS-B strike package and send it east. Or build two and send one east and one west. Watch the twitterverse explode.

That's ok. They can mouth off to locals back in Knoxville. Arkansas smoked them today by a lot more than 1 run.

Tile drill bit, little silicone, it'll work.

To do so would be blasphemous heresy. I 100% used an M8 bolt leftover from a ceiling fan to remove a truck brake rotor last week.

I'd even strike "once boarding is complete." Lots of problems happen during boarding and we have people for that, too. Some CAs feel the need to make a PA directly to the passengers in pursuit of some nebulous passenger satisfaction metric. Nah. Best case you get some attaboys on X. Worst case you say "Ladies and Gentlemen" and you lose your job for a while.

Being in NCR I really wouldn't worry about it. As you said, I think you'll be able to find something if you have to. With 4 years to play with (2 to pin on + 2 overgrade waiver), I'd go for it. Once you have completed your requisite mouth shut period, I'd start lobbying for them to change a billet or three to O-5.

Overgrade waivers are generally (always?) only good for 2 years, so I wouldn't count on that as your long term answer. In my experience, we always wrote positions for O-5s to avoid that exact problem. I thought writing for O-5 was standard... What do you know about the UMD vacancies of the unit you're looking to join? Is it all O-4 billets? Are all the O-5 billets already doubled?

I've seen multiple manufacturers, including Ranger Point and Magpul, list their buttstocks as 1894/1895/336.

Boyds does. No, it's the Trapper. SBL is 3" longer. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1006029530?pid=999284

Buddy's 45-70 Ruger-Lin Trapper. Wears a can and IER scope now.

To help with VID:

So an average of $121k/year. You seem pleased with how it turned out for you so I'm thrilled for you and your family. I'm hope you enjoyed the adventure. Good work, Col. You're proof that you can live a perfectly comfortable life without going to the private sector. However, the other side of the coin is that your numbers don't come close to private sector compensation. DoD got your skills and time for an incredible bargain. Enjoy retirement - you've earned it!

Helo dudes, NTSB dude said the helo crew would have used their baro altimeter as their primary reference instead of radalt. Is that true? Radio was always my primary on Herk low levels. But I guess the charted ceiling of 200' was baro, not radio, so maybe baro was primary?

Kirby publicly voiced that concern. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-airline-pilots-fight-their-unions-increase-retirement-age-2023-08-22/

There's no indication they loaded the RNAV 33 to have SA on IDTEK so its constraint is immaterial. They were switched from the Mt Vernon 1 to visual 33 from the Wilson Bridge. Wilson Bridge is 3.4NM from 33. I expect - and hope - they didn't go heads down to load a new approach in the box that late.