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Offutt only went down about $25....not that military families are getting into bidding wars here during PCS season and having to offer tens of thousands over asking price though...

I tried phone patching my then-fiance, now wife, coming home from Guam. The MARS guy was super helpful, but when he got her on the phone, he didn't use, ya know, plain English and say "Hi ma'am, I'm Bob with the USAF MARS radio network. I have a phone call to connect you with"...he said "This is (whatever his MARS radio callsign)"...the Mrs was thoroughly confused, told him he had the wrong number and hung up on him. It was only later when she was on the bus with the other ladies waiting to pick us up from the flight line that she realized it was me trying to call her. We had a good laugh about it, at least!

In my mind, this issue really boils down to where the country is right now. I don't think we've ever been as divided and bitter as we are right now, and it's for multiple reasons. Party politics is one reason...twenty years of war is another. Even if the president decided to commit to military action, going force on force with Russia or China is a far different animal than counter insurgency ops along the Euphrates. I just do not think the American people have any appetite for seeing young Americans coming home in body bags, likely by the tens of thousands, fighting for a country that most people probably can't find a map and that I would argue, does not come across as beneficial to us.

Typical…it was too good to be true, so they had to fuck with it…

So what do y’all think the odds are that A) those 90K Russians on the Ukrainian border are there to invade and if they do, that B) we’ll do anything about it? I’m not sure we will. Putin has picked his timing perfectly to coincide with the fallout of our Afghan withdrawal IMHO.

Four years almost to the day since Paul Barbour’s crash…what the hell is with November… 🥃

Remember when you weren’t a dickhead? Oh wait…. Cheers 🇺🇸

I think the answer to most of your questions is a resounding no. I don’t think the timing of the Chinese really ramping up their actions is a coincidence, juxtaposed with our very botched last days in Afghanistan. Similarly, they can read CNN and Fox News and see our current president is not really leading with any consensus. The American public IMO has exactly zero tolerance for any conflict right, especially a force on force conflict the size and scale of which we have not experienced since, I would argue, WWII. If I were a Chinese general, I’d be screaming at the top of my lungs that if force is the chosen COA to reunify Taiwan, there is no better time than now.

There is one mission set where yes, TOLD in the Buff is vitally important. Read into that what you will.

What I’ve read says same thrust class, better fuel efficiency and less maintenance intensive. I think they wanted to keep it to the same thrust to not have to completely redo the TOLD, as well as not having to do too much work to strengthen the engine pylons.

Don’t tempt me with a good time

As someone who was similarly disqualified from an AF FC1 but who has held an FAA Class 1 since 2016, no, nobody in the AF cares. It makes no sense, it is frustrating as hell, but IMO the AF is looking for every reason to tell you no, whereas the FAA seems to only care if you meet the standard or not. My buddy was also permanently DQ’d by Wright Patt for a condition that they contradicted themselves on in the paperwork (no joke, they said it is not a rapid onset condition but we’re worried about sudden loss of eyesight), while a civilian ophthalmologist said he would absolutely not suffer a sudden loss of sight and should be qualified. Welcome to dealing with AF medical… I’m honestly a bit jaded, if that’s not obvious, but it’s the Air Force’s loss. They created this mess and keep turning away otherwise highly qualified people who would gladly give them another decade of service on the cockpit. I’m going to take my talents (and my FAA Class 1) and fly for somebody else. If I were in your shoes, I’d look at doing the same. The regionals are throwing six figure bonuses at people…the regionals! It’s a pilot’s market out there right now. Go find your opportunity!

Don’t mind me, just checking in to see if this three way circle jerk of an argument is still going on….oh, it is? Ok, continue 🍿🍿🍿

“Mentor”….is that what they call it…

On Instagram (often surprisingly good RUMINT) the word is it was a newly CMR LT

You know why you’re not even worth arguing with? It’s because you cannot argue logically without resorting to an ad hominem toddler fit. Somehow you made one hell of a leap from vaccines to geopolitics when I didn’t even mention Afghanistan or the US government. Ok, boldface applies… TROLL-FEED CUTOFF

Notice how you’re the only one responding to your own thread?

I think it’s just certain categories but I could be wrong.

A-fuckin-men.

Hey PA, you misspelled “Delta Airlines”.

That's what SrA Slapnut suggested, but I've been unpacked and in a house for a month. Took three weeks of leave between outprocess and inprocess. Not a viable solution.

So I just did a PPM and I loaded my own stuff into a Penske truck. Like a dumby, I did not get weight tickets. Somehow blew past that part in that "do it yourself" counseling stuff, also thinking what the hell does it matter since they charge you a flat rate for the truck. Shack on me for not following the checklist... Now, the bitchy civilian in my TMO office is being about as helpful as a pile of dog turds. I cannot be the first person to have forgotten these....what's the workaround? I have done the constructed cost thing, but she's making it sound like there's zero way to get paid, and since I got the advance, I might be paying some of it back. How do I get out of this mess?

So in Danger’s situation...weather is above mins. Low, but above mins...go fly the damn airplane. If the dude isn’t comfortable shooting an approach to mins, there’s something amiss with him, IMHO.

I dunno about y’all…but I am so damn sick of hearing “Delta variant”, “second wave” etc…get the goddamn shot so we can stop living in this damn bizzaro world