Everything posted by nunya
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Former and Current Military Pilots: Complete this Statement
I was definitely a travel agent way before I was a USAF pilot. Hotels for the crew, check. Cars for the crew, check. Oh wait, Andrews rental car place closed at noon. Ok, we'll call three taxis. Taxi driver got arrested trying to come through the gate. Can I hitchhike to the off base rental car center? DTS approver wants to know why I didn't get a u-drive. Ok, hand it all in 14 hours later. What's that Eng? We're broke? Ok, I'll get our cars back. Let's see if the hotel has rooms - wait - it's Friday night. Now I put on my lawyer hat because the load just called from jail.
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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Group of Navy Pilots Drops “Beat Army” Ping Pong Balls On Army’s West Point Campus
Sounds like they took reasonable precautions to avoid injury or damage to persons or property.
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B-17 down @ Wings Over Dallas Airshow
Certainly plausible. His belly-up-ness struck me first, too.
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B-17 down @ Wings Over Dallas Airshow
Not a fighter guy but incredible experience. Seems like he lived and breathed this stuff from childhood. https://www.toratoratora.com/pilots-bio/craig-hutain
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B-17 down @ Wings Over Dallas Airshow
A rejoin is a skill taught to UPT students 4 months into training with 6-9 hours of formation flying experience. That's the wrong question. The question is what went wrong that a guy that has done thousands of rejoins in dozens of aircraft suddenly screws it up? And my experience tells me the answer has a lot more to do with human factors (rushing, distraction, medical, etc) than experience or skill.
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Airline to ANG and USERRA
It’s gotta be a serious passion project. There’s no financial or family reason I can think of to do it. You do get to do some cool shit in mil flying, but most of that you can do civilian, too, and turn it off and on as you feel like it.
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B-17 down @ Wings Over Dallas Airshow
I don't think it's as nefarious as it might seem. Air Race/Show is simply an established category of "Purpose of Flight" under General Aviation Operations. It's likely as innocuous as the investigator checking boxes on his iPad and this is the one that best fit.
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Timeframe for T-1 retirement
If you’re a T-1 Reservist living near CBM looking for a PIRR gig and you want to stay near CBM, DM me.
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Gun Talk
My opinion is those are too personalized to gift. Holsters are like bras. Both gotta fit the way you want or they’re coming off. So I only buy uncomfortable ones for my wife.
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The Next President is...
She is trying to convince us just that - she's changed her position. She's an inverse Charlie Crist and I think her real staying power will be about the same.
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Gun Talk
A training class. 101 if they’re new to guns. Something fun and tacticool if they’re experienced.
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Regret leaving
Stayed ARC for the benefits and I’m happy I did that, but regret leaving AD? Not even a little bit.
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College Football
If only they’d change that. https://collegefootballplayoff.com/news/2022/9/2/bom-votes-12-team-playoff.aspx
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The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)
Oh, that's racist, too. You have to raise cows to eat hamburgers. Cow farts cause global warming. Global warming disproportionately affects people of color. Ergo, hamburgers are racist.
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The Congressman is back yo
Pompeo wasn't in the seat during that part. Blinken had taken over by then. Pompeo's certainly going to distance himself from events after January 2021.
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The new airline thread
Plenty of civilian flow hires got seniority numbers weeks or months ahead of actually starting class.
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The WOKE Thread (Merged from WTF?)
They’re gonna make some beautiful kids!
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ANG/AFR Chances
So a 5 on DD785? Just call it that. A 5 is no joke and I sense caginess in you, bro. I wouldn't hire you. Hopefully you'll be more forthcoming with an interview board. With a 5 on DD785 you'll need a waiver at the very least.
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Lighten Up Francis!
Damage to the main shaft at 6969 Collins Ave, Miami Beach. Engineers aren't sure how long it will stay erect and residents are ordered to pull out. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article267933272.html
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ANG/AFR Chances
Why disenrolled?
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Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Q&A
https://www.military.com/money/personal-finance/thrift-savings-plan-tsp/you-may-have-contributed-too-much-your-tsp-2021.html
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Yep. Vote with your wallet. Weird thing is, he still seems to care a whole lot about the voting habits of a state he's boycotting. I'd love to see him fully boycott GA. He can boycott it so thoroughly that he can pretend it doesn't exist.
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Boycotting Georgia over a voting bill that had nothing to do with him for one. (BTW, Georgia broke voting turnout records last week.) I know, I know...you'll say that's not interference. I'm glad to hear you're ok with the Koch brothers' influence. Reading is hard, eh?
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Russian Ukraine shenanigans
Funny, that’s the same Mark Hamill that felt it necessary to interfere with democracy here at home 2 years ago. Weird.