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It took a while to find it because the book was buried in my HHG but maybe they're looking to bring back the glory days of the O-Club. The Minot AFB Officer's Club from Jack Broughton's Rupert Red Two:

Or Grand Forks AFB. That base should have been shuttered when the tankers left. Especially now that the Global Hawk is gone.

When I was at BAF they we were in the "hardened" shelters with the T-walls that were 2-3 stories tall. I was on the ground floor and thought that if any IDF came in vertical enough to hit the ground floor or collapse the whole thing, getting on the floor wouldn't help.

Agree. The MC's rehearsed and test fit the MOAB drop for months before they did the thing. There already aren't enough hoses to go around in the AOR, I don't know how dynamic targeting and load planning will fit into the the MC-Js planning cycle.

I'm pretty sure South Park did an episode about this 20 years ago.

CF: The load master had to be woken up from his nap.

"Hyper-realistic" is probably going on their OPR. In all seriousness though, unless you're using secures, preventing people from poaching your comms during training and then writing a story about it is almost impossible. The same stuff could be heard over every RF or WSINT vul, they just use the 9X callsign and "unlucky jet" rather than "midair"...and it's not over Wisconsin.

Other than getting a G430/530W for LPV that else would they "modernize"? The instruments were pretty good from what I could remember, especially for a primary trainer aircraft.

SIB is out.

I've got the same problem.

SIB is out.

It's not always aircrew doing engine runs.

1-2 per a million is a small enough sample size to be statistically insignificant. Given the sample sizes for the testing it is unlikely they would have caught it even if it wasn't EUA.

But the UH-1, mostly stationed in the northern tier and without any anti-icing equipment is LPV capable. For those three months out of the year when they can go in the clouds.

So...the plot to The Rock?

The vertical stabilizer was shortened in the G/H BUFFs to decrease structural loads during low-level flight. The tactics change was to increase survivability and drove other modifications like the EVS.

Correct, that's why all of the proposals from GE, P&W, and Rolls-Royce are all low bypass turbofans from business/regional jets. It also keeps the ground clearance issues relatively simple.

That's fair. How would you then go about prioritizing those with the socioeconomic risk factors for COVID? Prioritize those on Medicaid or SNAP benefited?

I think the difference is that studies have shown that people of color have worse health outcomes due to COVID than whites. As of 7 March, blacks have COVID death rate of 178 per 100k, compared to 124 for whites. Indigenous, hispanic, and pacific islander all have higher rates than whites as well. While this policy is raced-based, I don't see it as being racist. They have also prioritized groups that are at higher risk like the elderly, immuno-compromised, and health care workers. Is everybody who is black going to be worse off? No, but you make public health policy off of the masses, not the individuals.

In the specific case you mentioned parents of high-risk children are also prioritized on the same schedule as people of color. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.burlingtonfreepress.com/amp/4818171001

As far as I know most states already prioritized the elderly and many added the obese or otherwise health impaired are already eligible or further up on vaccine schedule than healthy individuals. A quick search indicates that Vermont has done this as well.

It couldn't possibly be that people of color have a higher incidence of COVID in the state and that this is a way to reduce the numbers much like other populations... COVID-19 among BIPOC (healthvermont.gov)

Left and right on the political compass relate to economic policy rather than what we consider traditional "left and right". Left is 100% government driven and right is 100% free market. More info is found here.

Plus they may not need a RQ because they're not 6 months out of the aircraft. Doing a couple recurrency flights is a whole lot easier than a CC directed RQ.

They did nail those hourly CSAR SAT radio checks with JPRC. They sounded like N64 Mario. "JPRC, it's-a me, Mario!"