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Tore a vein and gave him blood cots? Damn, I didn't know covid could do that...

Average effectiveness of the flu shot is about 40% with fluctuations year-to-year. Over the summer I had chills and night sweats, a slight fever and sore throat for about 2-3 days after meeting a few friends for lunch and drinks at a restaurant that, the following day claimed a number of their staff tested positive on their social media page. I never got tested but stayed home Tues - Sun (got word on Monday evening regarding the restaurant, had a sore throat Wed, completely resolved Fri morning) but still went for runs outside and although my avg time dropped about 60 seconds per mile for a four or five mile run, it certainly didn't prevent me from exercise during, let alone after likely having had the virus.

No, the Governor of California have forbid people from gathering for Thanksgiving - Doesn't mean he has the legal power to do so. As such, it won't prevent me and my family from going to Big Bear this week with three of my closest friends and their families to eat, drink, and be merry. We're also relatively young, fit, and healthy. People have to make their own choices based on the lives they've lived. We're not close to any elderly family members so it's a calculated risk, just like each time you go fly a mission, drive to work, or any other activity where potential harm can occur.

You can do that without the vaccine.

That's true. Certainly nothing like the ANG C-130 that picked me up from Wake that had wifi and two jet skis in the back.

Interestingly enough, whenever I see stories that have pictures of "healthy" people dying from Covid, they are all massively obese. Maybe that goes along with the whole "large is beautiful" movement, but I digress. Sure, the probability of death from a vaccine are low, but what of other potential effects that we have absolutely zero knowledge of?

Concur. We should have bought a mix of As and Cs. I can only think of a few limited scenarios where having Bs might provide an advantage.

I like that XF-108 concept. Large enough to carry extended range A/A missiles and plenty of gas to launch them high and fast to keep the decidedly non-stealthy platform out of range of potential threats. I think the move is valid on the part of the Marine Corps. Getting rid of weapon platforms like tanks, for us, is smart in the age of drones and such - Leave those weapon systems to the Army who is the large, occupying force that might be required to fight lesser equipped enemies. Keep us small, agile, and specialized. That being said, I don't pretend to know much about the Marine Corps outside of the aviation element.

As a fighter pilot I find it hard to say this, but more funding for the Navy's subsurface fleet would probably be the best spent money for our taxpayers. Regarding fighters, I truly think something along the idea of the modern Century series would be worthwhile. Make an aircraft that is good at one or two things and give it connectivity. A large platform with great loiter ability and large internal payload capacity could enable greater standoff and thus less requirement for stealth and tanker capability with an Advanced LRAAM. TPT through other means. Perhaps even the missiles could have loiter capability? Who knows, let Skunk Works figure out the details. I'm just a Marine with a social science degree from Florida State.

Quoted for your effective research. Or maybe you choose to only see things that benefit your argument? I seem to remember a time when socialists took lists of names in history, didn't end up going very well... Wait, maybe that was the "old" history before it was re-written by the Left.

Look 2" above your post.

Didn’t the Democratic Party fight the 2016 election until now?

He's from the School of Kids Who Don't Read Good. LMAO. Date 06 Nov 2020.

AOC is calling for a list of names of those who supported the current President according to her recent Tweets. I seem to recall something like that from history class...

They were too low (I just reviewed the video). I remember talking about it with fellow aviators. Unfortunately you can't be a fighter pilot anymore. We were told we couldn't come in for the break when we were flying missions out of Isa Air Base because they were 8 hours long and leadership thought we would be too tired to handle the 3Gs and it wouldn't be safe. I was the only PMCF qual'd pilot on AM crew so I took a jet from maintenance, flew overhead doing the required check profiles for 30 minutes, came in for the break and was subsequently grounded.

Biden wins. Trump has/will win GA, NC, and PA. He must then win either MI or WI and will win neither. The plus side is I think this buys more for Conservatives in the long term like the article someone posted here (I think.) Fortunately Conservatives maintain control of the Senate which means Biden/Kamala can't really accomplish much of their leftist agenda. But in two and four years there will be a big swing back right from what is arguably already center, which shows how biased the MSM is.

I can't watch the video because I'm on NIPR but being given a TOT and nailing it is different than trying to guess when a performer is going to take the stage, how long she'll protract portions of the song, etc... There are variables that the pilots have no control over.

That's exactly what BFM is. Putting yourself in the precise piece of sky at a specific time in relation to another aircraft in order to employ weapon(s). TOT's are easy.

Have them both run together.

The average young fighter dude in a Marine Hornet squadron from '13-'16 got about 100hrs a year. Some fewer. We had multiple fatalities in that period due to poor maintenance and resulting lack of training in the community. Yes, sequestration cost the lives of aviators. Nice personal attack that has come to be the standard from someone who apparently espouses beliefs like yourself.

That's not due to healthcare costs, its due to personal choice. I'll be for universal healthcare when everyone has to take a fitness test and do a body comp test.

Still capped at $1m?

Fair enough, I didn't even join the military until they were considered a threat aircraft so it was just a thought.

Go on SIPR and watch a piss-poor engagement from our pre-eminent A/A fighter against a Russian 4th gen fighter. It's embarrassing. So perhaps you're expecting too much from an IFF level training student.

Refinancing from a VA loan to a conventional allows you to open up your VA loan for another purchase with zero down. Refinancing into another VA makes sense if you get a good rate reduction.