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Delta CEO announced they will be hiring 1,000 by this time next year. First class started June 22.

Roundabout, are you the ex AF fighter guy that recently wrote a book and retired in England? Curious (more like jealous) about your decision to retire there. I know there is a retired Navy F-4 Mig killer that retired to St. Andrews and owns a B&B.

I heard the same from a 330 instructor friend. Ret NERD

I commuted 1200 miles for 24 years but early on realized it was not worth racing home on the last flight to save a buck just to be wiped out the entire next day. Having said that, I was single and had an airport car the entire time. The locals were very friendly at the home base.

Military Watchdog 4 days ago MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Important article, important book, pay attention. Amazon Reviews: ( initially 66% 5-star, 33% 1-star, nothing in between). Book now 5/17 rated # 1 by Amazon for all book categories, not just military, and 75% 5-stars, 22% 1-star. There is so much more: Concerned Veterans should article search for "SOCOM's Richard Torres-Estrad" and also DOD's "Meet Bishop Garrison: The Pentagon’s Hatchet Man in Charge of Purging MAGA Patriots and Installing Race Theory in the Military." "Pentagon's operation against Trump supporters, conservatives, opponents of globalism is worse than imagined." DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, now a propaganda agency, recommended a brand new suspicious-soldier category called “Patriot Extremism” which occurs when a citizen believes the US government has become corrupt or “has overstepped its constitutional boundaries.” Garrison, a Veteran and West Point graduate, is defended here: "Human Rights First by Bishop Garrison." My point is this: make sure you understand what is really going on inside the military. You read, you decide. Oriana Pawlyk and Milcom did a good job with this article. Pentagon may have started fire it cannot put out.

When Reckless Military Training Creates Preventable Deaths, Accountability Must Go to the Top | Military.com Military Watchdog a day ago MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Seemingly every day we read stories like this. Today we pay the price for the principally Obama administration changing the long established and at least more successful, if not perfect, promotion criteria selecting senior officers and NCO from peer-superior ranked evaluation and performance rather than political fidelity and ideological servility. The result is philosopher and compliant generals more like Senior Executive Service (SES) than Lee and Grant, Eisenhower and Patton .......... Here we go again, lots of luck fighting the Chinese and Russians with the Austin-Garrison purge.

Thanks for the link Blue. Great stuff by Military Watchdog. Don't know who he is but here is another great one by him: Military Watchdog 3 days ago MILITARY WATCHDOG -- Memo to Bishop Garrison chief of inclusion, diversity, political purification, and other nitwittery for the Department of Defense and defender of the 1619 Project critical race theory propaganda and nuzzler of Black Lives Matter leadership. The United States military has suffered fools before and endured. So far you show no aptitude for understanding the problem. It is not the Armed Forces that stand, fly, and sail in formation, fight the battles, and defend the nation. We mostly get along just fine. No, the problem is you and others like you who find mutiny and conspiracy around every corner. You are paralyzed by Trump. The real problem is the ineptitude of Washington government, political sewage, particularly the Pentagon, and by extension the national intelligence community. You cannot solve that because you are part of it. The problem is a woke Congress who fails to believe in its military. You are insulting to all of us who wear or ever wore the uniform of this nation, the able bodied and irreparably wounded. You stand in front of mirrors in your WW II uniforms thinking you match their sacrifice and valor, you talk the talk, but cannot walk a straight line. You are ruining the military like a cancer. Kindly get out of our way and let the military be the military. Our military was called to protect against 23 different insurrections (act of 1807) since 1808 and never failed. The United States military is consistently polled the most respected (70 percent) government institution by the public; Not you or your minders. The Congress only 10 percent. Get out of our way, take your sycophants with you.

Kaputt it was in Miltary.com this morning in the comment section of the below article. The comment was written under the name of MILTARY WATCHDOG. You would have to dig through all the comments to find it. I just now found it, so it has not been removed. If you find his post click his name it will lead to other posting by him. I could not include the link. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/20/space-force-co-fired-over-comments-about-marxism-military-now-subject-of-ig-probe.html?ESRC=eb_210521.nl

From Military.com: MILITARY WATCHDOG -- I apologize in advance for this tome – the subject too critical for abbreviation. I leave to the Air Force to determine the procedural compliance of LTC Lohmeier’s record setting (first printing sold out hard copy and paperback) book “Irresistible Revolution “ sales which as of May 21 an 85 percent 5-star Amazon ratings and reviews and similar elsewhere; a pittance of 1-3 stars. Pay attention. Most important is the crux of his book – exposing the purging of the military of all who stand up against critical race theory, 1619 nonsense, compulsive pseudo diversity, equality, inclusion and Marxist style indoctrination by a cadre of mostly BLM advocates in the Pentagon led by Bishop Garrison. He the architect of the purge as head of the Countering Extremism and Patriotism Task Force. Yes, there is such a thing. A position which he created. Garrison is a military academy graduate (2002) with a short and less than distinguishable military career (which he elects to purge in any articles about his service). Leaving the Army, Bishop found a way to milk lucrative Pentagon study contract funding as a Washington Beltway bandit. A shill who convinced his way into a senior executive service (SES) position absent requisite experience. That's called a political appointment. He is entwined with a tangled web of mutually supporting racial-enraged groups (Human Rights First) with self-supporting government contracts. What really happened is that this group was successful, instrumental,inserting into the Defense Human Resources Activity Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide Fiscal Year (FYS) 2019-2020 President’s Budget, a Center of Excellence; $ millions. “The Center of Excellence for training, education, research,and consultation in matters related to diversity and inclusion; military and civilian equal opportunity; and the prevention and response to sexual harassment, harassment, hazing and bullying across the total force.” Yet Bishop regularly bullies. They created their own program and their own positions and no one in the Pentagon smart enough to intervene. Biden and Austin subscribed at once – Susan Rice told them too. From his own bio: Garrison served in the Obama 2012 re-election Campaign. He served on the presidential campaign of Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton. These are his principal credentials for a key leadership position purging the military. (I have no affiliation with Lohmeier)

As an example of an extreme $$$ hog, my bro-inlaw at DAL flew almost nothing but "Greenslips." As a senior narrow body A320CA he made $500K, $500K, $602K in the last three years. He went on LTS last May and was making $44K/mth due to the look back clause until he retired (65) in Jan '21. I early retired 11 yrs ago and bet I outlive him and his mansion on the lake in DAL's ATL base housing.

My roommate washed out in the formation phase as I recall. Became a F-4 WSO. Later the AF sent him to law school. There was no offer of a non-fighter aircraft. Everyone that washed out was offered a nav slot. As a side note, the AF sent my roommate to law school who later investigated/ruled on some very well known cases. He became a Federal Judge after retiring from the AF.

"Skip class or slack off?" I majored in that @ U of Hawaii.

Huggy are you a CA on the 777? Do you fly 2 CA/1 FO or 1 CA/2 FO or 2/2? Is everyone in the cockpit for TO/LD? Ex UAL "570"

Easy to go into the "salvage mode" when you're alone. First leg of my first flight as a newly minted Bus CA landing at the shortest field (SNA) in our system I fu*k'd the approach and somehow had the fortitude to go around. 20+ years later I still have nightmares of trying to salvage the approach and going off the end of the runway. Heck, even this morning I went around in my trusty RV.....I was high but at least I was fast.

Huggy, let me guess....you flew all 4 of those years?

+1 for the Halo. Would not fly with anything else. No interference wearing a hat or sunglasses. Light and comfortable.

My FE and ATP ratings (paid via GI Bill) gave me two classes worth at Riddle.

While going to the U of Hawaii I majored in sailing ( no shit 3 yrs sailing scholarship) and struggled thru business school after dropping out of engineering. Took five years to graduate (who graduates from U of H in 4?) and was a DG out of UPT. Go figure. Studying hard for an exam:

I am in AZ and need a Flight Review. Can pay with toilet paper, masks, and/or Purell.

Glad to see another Ron Fogleman fan and totally agree as being one of the best. He brought back "Crud" to the Polly bar when he became the Division CC at DM in '85.

Re the vid: Friends don't let friends buy 150hp Cardinals.

I had an '88 RV-4 for 20 years and was always tinkering. Purchased a 2010 RV-8 5 years ago and it has been pretty much gas and go. Newer RV's seem to be set up better. Define your mission. RV's are not as solid as a spam can. Flew mine MN---> AZ in one day and I was still vibrating when I went to bed but would never trade it. My -8 is the last plane I will ever fly.

That says it all. Careful who you run with on layovers.

Lyle was on my no-fly list prior to the incident. Having said that we were glad he was able to overcome all obstacles and return. Great credit to the CEO Dasburg.

47 years with USAA and NO claims auto or home with the exception of windshield replaced last year. Getting the runaround on a house claim now. It ain't the same USAA of old.