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    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    3 minutes ago, M2 said:

    Authorizes Friday morale shirts with logo on the front and back:  This expands the current morale shirt regulation by allowing logos to be worn at a larger diameter on the back of the shirt in addition to having a logo on the left side of the chest not to exceed five inches in diameter. Regardless of the logo, the shirt must be Coyote Brown.

    https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3336524/air-force-releases-102nd-uniform-board-results-for-airmen-guardians/

    I don’t read that as I can’t have a colored morale shirt in my flight suit. I read that as the Mx or LRS troop can have a Friday shirt in their OCPs with a big logo on the back. 

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    The Congressman is back yo

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    4 hours ago, Homestar said:

    There are times where I think that there's no way that our country would find itself back in a place where brothers are killing brothers on a battle field.  But then I read threads here and am reminded that there are absolutely people here who wouldn't hesitate to shoot me dead if we ever get into a shooting war against ourselves.

     

    Then you get idiots like MTG who are actively advocating for shit like that and it really makes you wonder, doesn't it?

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    I do seriously think Putin invading Ukraine, porking it away massively, and doing more for NATO unity than any western leader in the last 20 years…

    …staved off China invading Taiwan.  If I was a Chinese general, circa right after our Afghan debacle, I would’ve been screaming that there was no better time than right freakin’ now to cross the Straight in force. The US just took a massive black eye, had very little national unity, and was sapped militarily. Conditions were ripe for national “reunion”.  

    Then Putin goes full retard, invades and galvanizes world opinion against him, gets a tremendous economic bitch slap, and makes himself a pariah on the world stage. I don’t think anyone expected the unified response we saw, and I think that made China sit up and recalculate whether invasion was worth it or not. 

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    Finally done in Afghanistan?

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    I would subjectively say life in the bomber force is busier than when GWOT was a thing.  Everybody wants a BTF, and the old "I'm going to Guam for six months every eighteen months" is long a thing of the past.  I always said Buff life was great for stability because in the course of a normal ops tour, you could pretty much pin down exactly you were gonna be gone over your three-four year tour.  Now we're on the road a whole lot more than we used to be, much more often and with much less predictability.  Like Brabus said, holding the line against the next war. 

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    C-17 Lands at Wrong Airport

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    I’m not saying we all haven’t seen aircrews do some dumb shit with airplanes, but PCN, PPR, etc is basic Day one stuff, and especially old hat for you AMC types who land all over the place. The more I think about it, something seems rotten in Denmark, and by Denmark I mean Stillwater. 

    B-17 down @ Wings Over Dallas Airshow

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    I've been trying to avoid digging into this too much because of the vitriol, but I've seen a couple of things posted from what I consider to be fairly reliable sources that the P-63 may have hit a drone (footage supporting this exists), which could have been a contributing factor to the mishap.  Thoughts, anyone?

    The Next President is...

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    All it takes to know this administration isn’t at all about “Unity” is look at their social media. Every third post from both the POTUS and White House IG touts how great Joe is and how much Republicans suck, and the world would be such a better place if the GOP would just get in line with Joe’s policies. 

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    KC-46A Info

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    2 minutes ago, BashiChuni said:

    where did ALPA come from in all this?

    A certain meme producer on a certain platform has been calling loudly, screaming even, for anyone flying the -46 single pilot to be blackballed by the airlines. That may be where the ALPA talk is coming from

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    New BUFF Engines (Finally)

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    10 minutes ago, hindsight2020 said:

     

    I'd have rather had an RWR upfront, and take the extra gas with the weight savings of not one, but 2 less Nosa fvckos  onboard. No dog in the fight any longer thankfully, so I digress.

    Tell me where the bad EW touched you…

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    New BUFF Engines (Finally)

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    On 10/24/2022 at 12:44 PM, SurelySerious said:


    It might, actually. If I recall from some SPO guys the EVS pods caused a certain amount of uncertainty within the mach indicator so max mach was set to lower bound. Could be a tall tale they tell, though. Still cool points for sleekness.

    Not a tall tale at all. The EVS generated a certain amount of disturbance around the pitot tubes so the post-EVS Buff has a .84 indicated Mach limit. I believe it was .91 prior. Maybe we’ll get a little speed back, though as a downward firing ejector, I appreciated having the FLIR for orientation. 

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    New BUFF Engines (Finally)

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    This fleet management is gonna be a nightmare. 
     

    Ops Sup giving a step brief at KBAD circa 2029-

    “OK, DOOM91, you are an old engine new radar jet. DOOM92, you are new engines new radar jet. Your spare is a legacy old engines old radar jet. I know this is your new radar checkout ride, but if you have to go to the spare, you still need to fly duration. Questions?”

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