herkbier

Two questions, just a dumb herk guy. 1. Why haven’t the services just standardized to prove/drogue? Wouldn’t that simplify our logistics problem? It can’t be that hard to find a way to retrofit USAF aircraft with some kind of donkey dick unicorn adapter. 2. What about a turbofan flying boat tanker? Can operate from all over the pacific and could reload from dispersed bulk refueling stations. I’m sure it would be ugly as hell.

I saw a thing a while back that said flights pay for TRs/DSGs won’t be prorated anymore; work one day, get the whole month of pay. I think it was supposed to take effect FY23, am I remembering correctly? Is that real?

Not entirely sure where the airlines fit into this.. but, you do bring up a good point. Wonder how mishap rates compare between single pilot and crewed aircraft. I’m going to guess crewed aircraft have lower mishap rates.. maybe they extra set of hands and eyes contributes to that?

Sound like you weren’t being very sensitive to the feelings of your crew chiefs. Shame on you.

Exactly. This is the feature, not a bug. Negatory, and others, when you signed up to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, did you not understand the system of government we have? It’s working as intended.. for the most part.

If it’s a short drive, bring the family, I’m glad I did. Montgomery isn’t that bad and they don’t have to just sit in their hotel room. My wife found plenty to do with our 4 month old.

Murdered?

Let’s not forget all the Dems pushing for additional gun control laws while failing to enforce those already on the books.

“Tower, 3 o’clock low, no factor”

I bought a Christoper Ward a few years back, wore it every day for 6.9 years til my squadron bought us Garmin Fenix 6X https://www.christopherward.com/int/dive-watches/C60-Trident-GMT-600/C60-42AGM3-S0KK2-HK.html

Thanks, I’ll have to do a double check on our policies.

AAFMAA was the best when I shopped around for my wife and I. Good rates, no flying or war clauses.

I would set it, and then move it if you have to

Apologies for the dumb question.. Is this Ukrainian insurgency the first time a more developed country has engaged in guerrilla warfare? At least since WWII? I looked for a list of insurgencies and couldn’t easily find a comprehensive list. I ask because this seems to be the most unified defensive action I can recall and it’s obviously progressing much differently than even most of us would have predicted.

All I’ve got to go on is open source intel; from that information I sorta agree. It makes me wonder if our intel on Russian (and probably Chinese) capes are a bit over optimistic. They might have some neat toys, but if the motivation and training isn’t there.. who knows. I really hope our intel community is able to capture all the trons from this war and do some good analysis.

Biden isn’t playing checkers, he’s playing Sorry!

It is exactly like that.

That sucks, rough math is that each class was worth $25/yr in retirement, I guess it’s $17 now. One less six pack of beer..

Shouldn’t it be one point per 3 (not 4) hours?

Oh, good question. Following.

I guess, I see an article about a pumpkin contest that a squadron held; there they “learned” (what a ing stupid term for the PA reporter to use) they have people from a variety of backgrounds. The title says “diversity makes AF stronger” without a single sentence to support the statement. A photo of a non-white Airman from the Sq is used. In another article, Amn from above photo is accused of killing someone. I honestly see it as just another set of shitty PA articles.. but reading you reply again, I see what you’re saying about this particular piece. Don’t get me wrong, I’m with you; diversity based solely on skin color alone is dumb.

Am I missing something? What does the story with diversity (which happens to use this dudes photo) have to do with the murder? Have there been an increase in violent crimes by military members since we started this diversity push, years ago? Was there something in this dudes past that would have normally disqualified him for service but was overlooked in the name of promoting diversity?

Agreed. A strong moral compass is required of any politician (to do a good job).

Are you AD, Guard or Reserve? Just curious which perspective you’re coming from. I disagree, but this isn’t the most outlandish thing I’ve heard. I worked with an well educated Army Major in my last AD job who argued that Officers shouldn’t vote in Presidential elections.. i don’t get this whole “shut up and take orders from your masters thing, both in this thread and the COVID one. The military preaches it doesn’t want a bunch of conformists, that’s why it has got a hard on for innovation and diversity. Some of you would be throwing the book at Billy Mitchell given the chance..

We should’ve trained their women, they have/had more to lose following a Taliban takeover and would have fought.. plus, we would have scored points with the work crowd.