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  1. 4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

    That was pre-pandemic.  Knowing the hiring wave was coming numerous schools and training facilities opened up and ordered simulators.  Asia in particular was surging to meet the demand.  Unfortunately policies in several countries, most notably Australia caused many of those school to shutdown.  As hiring ramps back up I think the training backbone will be extremely strained.  Hopefully the U.S. airlines are factoring this into their calculus.

    United has been hiring and training between 40 and 70 a week since May 2021. They've also been renting out sim time concurrently. 

    While they postured well for the rebound; you are correct in that they are one of the few who did so.

  2. 2 hours ago, Lawman said:


    You said your “friend the Hornet Airboss guy” heard it with his own ears and relayed that to you. That’s your original posts, reading like it’s your statement and your 2nd hand info. Only later are you suddenly “not in the Navy.”

    You don’t get to now try and represent it as something else, you started a thread for the explicitly toxic purpose of reporting BS tied to a political third rail that is vaccines, and you did it using an event that injured 7 and damn lucky didn’t kill anybody.

    This is an aviation forum full of professional military aviators who serve a function of vetting the noise out of those misrepresenting themselves or the facts under a color of professional coverage. That kind of nonsense doesn’t stand here. This is not F’ing Reddit.


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    Let's also not forget that you had retired USAF middle management (O-6, wing-management type), piling on concurrence, and also linking a "news" article about it from a site that makes OANN and Newsmax look downright credible. Embarrassing.

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  3. 16 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:


    Probably took us a while to figure out ~500 reps is a ton. Doubt the founders quite imagined the scale of 300M people to represent, to be quite honest. Quite the derail, but you keep on that Apportionment Crusade, bud. The PYB Thread for Constitutional Scholars is a few clicks over, though.

    Please don't say his name two more times, he might stop cyberstalking pawnman long enough to make an appearance here. 😂

     

    My point, pal, is simply that anyone clinging to the sacred constitutionality of the process, needs to acknowledge that low-density states wield far more voting power than they did prior to 1929, and the founding fathers certainly didn't account for that.

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  4. 1 hour ago, SurelySerious said:


    They definitely meant for the more populous areas to not run roughshod over the less populous. That was literally the idea.

    Sure, every state gets two senators. But this is about representatives. Can I take this to mean you support California having as many representatives per capita that Montana has then? 

    If the founding fathers wanted a cap on representatives, why did it take until 1929 for the Apportionment Act to get signed into law?

  5. 30 minutes ago, HeloDude said:

    Are you referring to the fact that each state gets two senators regardless of its state’s population and/or that each state gets the number of electoral votes equating to their number of senators and representatives?

    Neither - that the number of representatives in each state, and thus electors, was historically a function of population. The apportionment act capped that number at 435, and a state has to have at least 1. If California or New York still had representatives, and thus electors, at the same proportion as Wyoming, there wouldn't be many close presidential elections. And we'd need a much bigger Capitol building!

  6. 1 hour ago, SurelySerious said:


    So you would like to go directly against the constitution and the deliberate balance of a not-proportional chamber. Noted.

    If only the founding fathers had created a mechanism in which we could continually redefine what was considered constitutional...

    Also, if you think there's some sacred etched-in-stone tradition regarding balance and proportionality, I recommend you read up on the Apportionment Act(s). Here's a good place to start. I doubt the founder fathers mean for a Wyoming vote to have more weight than a California vote. Or for wild gerrymandering from anyone. But here we are. 

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  7. 12 hours ago, Guardian said:

    Then why do civilian pilots get so mad when people drop long term mil leave?

     

    11 hours ago, HuggyU2 said:

     Because they can't. And they perceive it as a good deal. 

    People who finish indoc, then drop five years of mil leave for AGR orders they'd long been engineering, before starting fleet training. Then they come back on 6th year pay, 11 months left of probation, having never turned a wheel for the company, but with a good 401k balance. They give it a bad reputation. 

    Or the guys who use mil leave just to enhance their schedule, then brag about it at work. They also give it a bad reputation. 

    So it's not surprising that some civilian pilots take a dim view of the mil leave process. 

  8. 45 minutes ago, Smokin said:

    It is pretty senior for United, but pretty senior is relative these days.  If you got hired today, I would think you could hold IAH as reserve 737 within a year.  I would also imagine considerable movement in IAH in 10 years as all the CAL guys start hitting 65.  For example, 50% of the current IAH 737 CAs hit 65 within 8 years.

    Also, while it is advisable to live in domicile if possible, not a bad idea to move to the domicile you want to live in even if you can't hold it yet.  Lots of flights between the hubs, so commuting shouldn't be too difficult.  Most of the flights I've flown to/from IAH had the jumpseat open.

    IAH had double-digit unfilled vacancies during the last bid for narrowbody FO. So while they aren't being offered in indoc yet, 737, A320, and 756 are available to United new-hires, through the vacancy bidding process. 

    Everything is fluid but looks like the junior CA award in IAH is presently a 2015 hire. 

  9. 24 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:

    Indeed this discussion has come to a screeching halt, although I now understand why so many are contemptible of those seeking a religious accommodation: turns out you’re contemptible of religion itself. Makes perfect sense.

    Freedom of religion is one of the basic tenants our country was founded upon. Enshrined in the US Constitution. As military officers, we take an oath to defend the constitution.  

     

    More specifically, freedom from religion is a tenet (yeah it's tenet, not tenant) of our constitution.

    If you feel like Sky Wizard is calling the shots in your life, cool. But that stops with you - fortunately it's an all-volunteer force and we're all welcome to either play by the rules, or take your ball and go home. 

    You're spot on - I'll happily uphold my oath regarding establishment of religion. Keep that shìt at home. 

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Spaceballs said:

    Oh I did. The advice was basically - this guy has it out for you. Give him nothing.

    Have you already accepted the NJP? If not, and you feel this strongly about it, call the commander's bluff and refuse it. Then he's on the hook to take you to court martial, and to convince your peers that he's correct about your actions. Or he may back down and give you an LOR and referral OPR instead, and there's very little you can do about that. 

     

    5 minutes ago, Spaceballs said:

    Oh I did. The advice was basically - this guy has it out for you. Give him nothing.

    Even as an O-4 you think it's doubtful to make 20?

    Are you a pilot? It's possible it has happened in the past but I'm unaware of any year in which they didn't continue the entire 11X cohort. They didn't continue 12Xs one year that I recall, and it caused quite the uproar. I'd be surprised if you didn't get continued in either case, the USAF is in a pretty deep hole in terms of manning.

  11. 49 minutes ago, GoodSplash9 said:

    No doubt. The pilot crisis and retention issues also bode really well for passed over navs and other terrible officers who had no shot at O-5 or leadership positions in the old AF.

    They definitely have more career options than a senior major with zero TPIC who is barely a year removed from initial aircraft qualification. That decade of RPA experience doesn't buy you much in the private sector, and no ARC unit is going to touch someone who has been separated for vaccine refusal. Sucks that you're being separated with nothing to show for your time. Be careful where you throw those spears, a passed over nav is in a vastly better position with respect to career progression, both in the service and out, than you are about to be.

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  12. 31 minutes ago, bennynova said:

    Sure.   How about something that 99% effective (natural immunity or a vaccine).   Against a threat that only effects the military demographic at less than 1%??

     

    why do we need two 99% effective solutions,?

     

    we are trying to solve a 1% risk by throwing an unknown, but likely greater risk (long term and short term side effects) on top of it. 

    1% of a large population is still a huge number.

    1 in every 100 people older than 65, who were alive on day 1 of the pandemic, have now died from COVID-19. 

     

  13. 4 hours ago, VMFA187 said:

    Hey Pawnman and everyone else, look! You can get "super immunity" if you are fully vaccinated AND get covid after!

    COVID vaccination and previous infection may deliver 'super immunity' (usatoday.com)

    Wonder if uber leftists are going to throw covid parties after they are fully vaccinated so they can catch covid and then claim their moral superiority through their super immunity. 😆

    Yes, NPR had an article about this three months ago. The funniest part is that the cited study makes a strong case for getting an mRNA vaccine, especially if you've been previously infected, rather than in spite of it.

    Since you decided that getting the vaccine was in your best interest after all, the findings of this study might be good news.

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  14. 26 minutes ago, bennynova said:

    Straight from Wikipedia.   
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    there are similar products     I’m not sure why you are mad.   I said I wouldn’t use them.   Even if they only once used that method, I can do without.   

     

    @pawnmanThis is what "I did muh resurch!" looks like in the wild. Amazing. 

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  15. 12 minutes ago, BR_MIST said:

    It does apply actually do bunch of shots I already got. I just didn't have the wherewithal to look into them at the time (BMT will do that to you). 

    That said for my case at least, the problem I have some with some of the shots don't apply to all of them. For instance, some flu shots could be a problem but I've been able to find ones that aren't. The real kicker for me is that there's covid shots that are in development that would be ok for me and they could arrive sometime next year.

    Unfortunately, the pentagon seems to want to score political points as fast as possible and here I am stuck in UPT on hold. 

    Thanks for the answer. Hopefully the environment changes, although I'm skeptical it will happen quickly, or you'll be able to find another way to continue serving. 

    Are they letting you continue with the syllabus while the RA is pending?

  16. 48 minutes ago, BR_MIST said:

    I've got an odd shot question. I'm in UPT AD almost finished and I have a religious accommodation request in for the shot. If it gets denied and the AF moves to separate me over it, is it even possible to go to a guard unit in a state that has said they will NOT be separating people because of the shot? 

    Out of genuine curiosity: what is the framework for the religious exemption request, that doesn't apply to any of the other required vaccines?

    I legitimately want to learn more, I don't feel like I have a good understanding of how important this is to some people. 

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  17. 6 minutes ago, FLEA said:

    FFS.... I guess we know the point was cleared low approach over your head mate. 

    Was it though? Your whole point was that words mean things, and you'd fight and refuse to accept them if they weren't exact - and then the example you gave wasn't exact. And now "it was just a joke brah!" Classic. 😂

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  18. On 12/7/2021 at 2:10 PM, FLEA said:

    Rights, it's like how I'll fight back a tower controller that says ANYTHING but "cleared to land" or "cleared to lineup and wait", etc.... I don't care if their intent is essentially the same. It has to be perfect. 

    I'd love to hear you go toe-to-toe with O'Hare or Newark tower, if they told you just "runway 22R, line up and wait." 

    If you're going to use ATC phraseology as an example (and it has to be perfect, in your words), make sure you are up to speed on your .65 items. (Hint: cleared to line up and wait isn't in the .65).

  19. 10 hours ago, tac airlifter said:

    https://www.foxnews.com/health/fauci-changing-definition-fully-vaccinated
     

    hey buddy, you ok?  Or still a sheep bitch?

    So you cited something that says scientists use emerging data to refine hypotheses? As in, scientists follow the scientific method? Cool, we're in agreement.

     

    Calling someone a sheep - tell me you're a Southwest first officer, without telling me you're a Southwest first officer. Question: do you wait for the CA to go on break before you "Let's go Brandon" on guard, or just do it at the gate? 😂

     

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