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    Any y'all seen an F-35?

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    1 hour ago, Danger41 said:

    I saw somewhere that the F-35 pilot put the jet on autopilot before he punched. I wonder if he was in the controlled bailout area before doing that because I think they've got a good spot away from population if they can't find the wreckage lol.

    They'll find it in a remote desert parked next to Flight 19

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    Tinker AFB Witch Hunt

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    On 8/13/2023 at 7:43 AM, SocialD said:

    Oh man, you guys are bringing up some memories.  PACOM TSP20ican'tremember.  AF couldn't decide where to put us for our TSP and a last minute change meant we were headed to Guam.  No availability on-base for an entire Expeditionary Fighter Squadron so we ended up at the Hyatt Regency, directly across the road Porky's/The Viking.  $3.50/day bs is for chumps!  Every single Friday was 8-ship quick climbs (became a base event with nice crowds by the end) to either fly BFM, ACM or DCA.  Beer light on at 1100 for a quick academic session and off to the base golf course at noon.  Drunken golf till sun down...lots of damaged golf carts, sand traps and trees, I'm really not sure how we never got kicked off that golf course.  Push downtown for standard buffonery to shut down the after hours bars. Tiptoeing out of hotel rooms I shouldn't have been in, pass out with the balcony door open listening to the waves crash into shore.  Wake up to scuba/snorkel/hike, beach bar, rinse and repeat the previous night...for 4 fucking months!  Checked out as best friends with the hotel manager/staff, 200k points, Hyatt Platinum status and a severely damaged liver.  It was certainly one for the ages!

     

    Standard AF act, our AOS tankers kept getting taken for "HHQ tasking," so we kept getting delayed.  As much fun as we were having, it was time to go.  So Guard standard, we reached out to the bro network and made it happen internally.  The tanker unit from our state was in town and had a two tankers headed home at the same time.  Since a lot of us are college buddies, a plan was hashed out, likely while having drinks at the beach bar on Gunn beach.  They worked their network for us and found a Fairchild Guard tanker to get the last 4-ship home a few days later.  First 8 jets made it home without a hitch.  My 4-ship left a few days later and ended up stuck in Hawaii for days waiting for that tanker to get fixed.  They took as as far as they could (around Durango) before they had to head home, which meant a night in Denver for the night (more Hyatt points)...but thanks to that crew, great dudes!  Apparently we ruffled quite a few feathers up at ACC or AOS for making it happen, but fuck'em, tankers were headed East anyway and we likely save the AF tons of cash/headache.  Some people just get pissed when you do their job better than them.  I know, I know, "we don't see the big picture..."   Good times.

     

    On 8/13/2023 at 11:36 AM, Biff_T said:

    Flexibility is the key to Air Power!  - day one OTS lol

    Fuck yeah man.  Guam!!!!

    Problem is more than a few tails end up there (and other salty environments) for extended periods under questionable write-ups (shocking I know) and the salt air is eating airframes and engines to the bone. I've seen it. 

    Tinker AFB Witch Hunt

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    3 hours ago, SocialD said:

     

     

    Try having Alcohol banned on all state property, which includes every Guard base in the state.  Each group gets one sanctioned Alcohol event per year.  I'm not saying there isn't fight club, but it's kinda a ridiculous rule.  I'm told, it came about because of a particular TAG (our "Joint Chief of Staff") that was Army National Guard.  I know of 2 other states who have the same policy.  

    I get the frustration, but the Army vs Air Force perspective can get skewed when you have a lot more E-4s who can get tagged for a DUI or abusing a GTC etc. but I digress.  As I've mentioned elsewhere, I've never had a problem with a jet getting a DUI. (i.e. a career managing equipment vs people)

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    19 hours ago, VMFA187 said:

    Valid consideration. 

     

    21 hours ago, uhhello said:

    Does Russia have a leg to stand on(LOAC)  if they can somehow prove that the reapers are providing intelligence to UKR and therefore is a lawful threat to be taken out?  

     

    19 hours ago, VMFA187 said:

    Valid consideration. 

    As long as they don't decide the same thing with our crewed assets like say a P-8. Talk about something with tech they would certainly like to look at.  I really hope Putin isn't that crazy.

    The Next President is...

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    On 11/18/2022 at 11:25 AM, dream big said:

    I would love them to first and foremost investigate our abject failure that was the withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

     

    On 11/19/2022 at 9:47 PM, Lawman said:


    No no… the fact that literally nobody in a position of responsibility resigned or was fired after people fell off our gawd damned airplanes trying to escape and you had Apaches literally herding people off the runway with their wheels (and took fire in a few occasions)….

    Totally normal.


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    Holding the right person accountable will require enough votes in November 2024. That said in all fairness I blame his predecessor for setting the wheels in motion. 

    The real tragedy is the espousal of women's rights by certain political entities here when so many women were left hanging quite possibly literally by their leadership.

    The Next President is...

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    1 hour ago, brabus said:

    I think another big reason for the wave in FL is all the people who have moved there in the past couple years fleeing dumpster fire states ran by Dems. They know how bad it is to live in a state with shit policies, so they voted accordingly. 

    I really hope Desantis runs and Trump exits stage right (forced if required). The biggest problem besides his ego preventing a clean exit is the 60+ crowd in the GOP who keep feeding his ego. They are equally responsible for continuing to push the “Trump 2024” mantra. 

    I have a mix of relatives across the spectrum (age and ideology) in Florida with warm weather and no state income tax as the biggest motivator. I honestly can't argue their point.

    Nordstream pipeline sabotage?

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    23 hours ago, Prosuper said:

    My wife's Great Grandpa rode in both Oklahoma land runs, he was good on a horse, which means they never sold the mineral rights. Still get royalty checks for wells that pump natural gas. I'm wondering if those royalty checks will be going up now.  

    What's really funny is that when the current administration pushes hard for green energy and limits exploration it means people with currently producing wells get more. Generally speaking.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    9 hours ago, Majestik Møøse said:

    The FSB just needs to shoot him already and get it over with.

    And they better not miss. When the Stauffenberg plot missed Hitler he could have arguably been diagnosed with a whole range of psychological issues with over the top paranoia at the top of the list. Imagining that mindset with nukes is scary to say the least.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    On 9/19/2022 at 4:50 AM, FourFans130 said:

    ...which I doubt.  Considering the lack of consistent funding and support they've had over the past decade, they'd be lucky to have HUMINT resources in place to give appropriate reporting.  CIA has been getting crapped on since Clinton, and it can take decades to develop reliable and well placed sources.

    That said, with the rapid deterioration of Russia in...well...everything, it's entirely plausible they've had walk-ins with good intel.

    Flights out of Russia sell out after Putin orders partial call-up | Reuters

    Getting while the getting is good

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    51 minutes ago, Prozac said:

    If Ukraine can emerge from this thing intact or relatively so, and maintain their western friendly government, a heavily armed, non NATO ally on Russia’s border could be rather useful. For instance, Russia knows it can execute a cyber attack on a country like Latvia effectively with impunity. Latvia is not going to start lobbing retaliatory missiles and shells into Russia for fear of dragging NATO into WWIII. The Ukrainians on the other hand? Well they just might do something crazy with all their new toys. Sometimes it’s a good tactic to have that one guy with the crazy eyes and the brass knuckles in your group that makes a potential adversary pause and think: do I really want to fuck with these guys? Of course, the “what-ifs” I posited at the beginning of this paragraph are far from givens and if the Ukrainian state fails, all that weaponry will create some issues. Is there a remote self destruct function on those HIMARS systems? /s

    That's kind of how I viewed Trump. No one really knew what to expect.

    AF Light Air Support Aircraft

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    14 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

    Shack. There will be ground loops and other TW specific problems. Knowing the mentality of AFSOC and who is in command/taking over command it will be interesting to see how those incidents are handled. I have a guess which way it’ll go…

    but yes nothing some top off TW training can’t fix. The below average pilots will have more of a problem hiding in a TW 

     

    11 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    💯💯

    Giving a brand new pilot & young CSO a 16,000 lb trail dragger armed to the freaking teeth with 6-9 different weapons, all to fly lower than snake-shit to land blacked out on a dirt road on NVGs sounds great, unless you have a risk averse senior leader who punished predictable mistakes and mishaps with diapers for all. Hope it works out!

    If you want a good read on the risk and how to mitigate it talk to any AG Flying company out there. Out in East Arkansas a company many years ago used to give a "check ride" that consisted of watching someone do high speed ground runs up and down the strip (to see how they handled the aircraft on the runway) with some take offs and landings thrown in. Most of the AG strips were asphalt parallel to grass. Take off heavily loaded from the asphalt and land on the grass. Grass was more forgiving on landings and WAY better mitigating tire wear given the number of take offs and landing inherent in that business.

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    AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI Dead

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    3 hours ago, torqued said:

    Glad he can’t have an open casket, but does this mean the Taliban government has been openly hosting and supporting Al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan again?

    Here's my shocked face. 😲 

    AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI Dead

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    RX9

    I hope this raises the collective paranoia of all those animals. Always wondering if the guy standing next to them is gonna drop the proverbial dime. Plenty of people were and continue to be brutalized after the Taliban took over and carry a trusty Roshan phone. 

    Some media reports say it was the RX9 "Flying Ginsu". 

    Finally done in Afghanistan?

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    22 minutes ago, SocialD said:

     

    Strange, I can't seem to find that part that says we should have done it a decade prior. 

    I always wonder what would have happened if we bagged Bin Laden in Tora Bora early in the game and if we would have gotten so far down the rabbit hole. 

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    On 5/12/2022 at 4:35 PM, nunya said:

    Looks like RPGs under toy store drones. 

    https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-cheap-grenades-expensive-tanks/31835434.html

    RKG-3 Grenade Near Miss on Stryker | Military.com

    These were used at times by the insurgents in Iraq. 2-3 could pop out of an alleyway and lob them at a Humvee. Small parachute in the tail. Fortunately it didn't seem to be a common occurrence. Unfortunately this looks like something a few saavy terrorists could do over a large open air stadium on a random Saturday in October.

    E-7A Wedgetail

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    56 minutes ago, TheNewGazmo said:

    The military took backseat when the commercial airline industry boomed in the 1970's and it hasn't been the same since.  Now we get whatever obsolete, cookie-cutter platform Boeing can put on the table.  They know where the money is.

    Commercial will always win out on sheer volume. On the engine side the Air Force has gotten a little smarter when they push commercial derivative engines like for the B-52/TF-33 replacement. Especially smaller sub-vendors have little desire to make 10-20 widgets for the Air Force given how PITA the source approval process is. I actually know a couple of really smart types who were in the government but are making good money now helping the commercial world put together source approval packages to submit for government contracts. Back to the TF-33. Any platform that gets away from that train wreck of an engine can't get here soon enough. One upside to the Wedgie is it uses the very reliable CFM-56 which has a good availability of parts worldwide and will for a long time. Best airframe in the world isn't very effective sitting on the ramp.

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