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On 9/29/2019 at 10:35 PM, uhhello said:
Can anyone shed some light on what would lead to this configuration?
Had to tap burner occasionally with the RF-4C behind a ANG KC-97. We were at high AOA because the AAR speed was so slow.
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The Military Has a Watchdog for Stopping Extremism. Now, It Wants Teeth -- and Independence
In this Jan. 6, 2021 photo, protesters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
22 Jun 2021The Defense Department's Office of Inspector General is asking Congress to take steps to empower its new deputy IG in charge of rooting out extremism in the ranks, and secure its independence.
The Pentagon's deputy inspector general for diversity and inclusion and extremism in the military was established by the National Defense Authorization Act that took effect Jan. 1. It is in charge of conducting audits and investigations into supremacist and criminal gang activity in the armed forces.
AdvertisementIn a report to Congress released last week, the IG's office said that it is already working on projects that directly cover those areas, such as evaluating the Pentagon's efforts to address extremism, diversity and inclusion programs, and sexual assault at the Naval Academy.
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And the IG has its eyes set on more projects it could work on beginning next year, such as auditing how well military entrance processing stations identify supremacist, extremist or gang member recruits. But if the office doesn't get more resources, it said, it won't be able to get all of those projects done.
The IG said it needs more funding starting in fiscal 2022 to hire 80 more employees over a two-year period, as well as additional facilities, equipment and operational expenses, to work on diversity, inclusion and extremism. The Office of Personnel Management also gave the IG permission to hire three more Senior Executive Service members, including the new deputy IG.
The hiring will start this year with a dozen new staff members, paid for with money already in the budget, to stand up the office and lay the groundwork for its mission. If the IG gets the rest of its funding in 2022, it will hire the rest of the core staff then.
The Pentagon's IG also needs money to speed up the deployment of an investigations case management system to other IGs throughout the military, the report said. The Pentagon and the IG must develop new ways to track and report extremist, supremacist and criminal gang activity by service members, it added.
But the IG cautioned that Section 554 of the NDAA, as it is currently written, has provisions that "significantly challenge" the office's independence and should be changed.
The IG's office said the section of the law giving Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin the power to appoint and assign duties to the deputy IG, and having the deputy IG report to him, is particularly problematic.
As written, the deputy IG would be "required to simultaneously serve two leaders with distinct and often divergent interests," the IG's report said. "In practical effect, the deputy inspector general is a DoD employee detailed to duties in the DoD OIG, which undermines the independence of the DoD OIG from the DoD and the secretary of Defense in fact and appearance."
This could undermine the new deputy IG before it even gets started, according to the report. If complainants don't believe their concerns will go to an independent, objective organization, they might not come forward with reports of extremist, supremacist or criminal gang activity in the military, it explained.
The IG also said the NDAA has redundant reporting requirements that compromise the office's independence. Section 554 of the NDAA requires the new deputy IG -- not the Defense Department's IG -- to submit semiannual reports to the secretary of defense and the IG.
But the deputy IG also is required to submit annual reports to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, as well as other additional reports when directed by the SecDef or the IG.
The defense secretary's authority to direct the deputy IG to write reports puts the office's independence at risk, the IG wrote.
For now, a temporary fix appears to have been found. Austin agreed to delegate power to appoint the new deputy to the Pentagon IG, and clarified that the deputy will be a member of the defense IG's leadership team.
But the IG said it is still possible -- albeit unlikely -- that a future SecDef could rescind that delegation and reclaim power to appoint the deputy.
The IG said it has worked with lawmakers' staff and the DoD Office of Legislative Affairs to propose an amendment to the law that fixes the independence issues, clarifies roles and responsibilities, and clears up the redundant reporting requirements.
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13 hours ago, LJ Driver said:
If you’re on the fence about ditching active duty and moving to an airline gig to at least get a seniority number, now is quickly shaping up to be a dam good time to do it.
Delta CEO announced they will be hiring 1,000 by this time next year. First class started June 22.
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On 4/27/2021 at 4:00 AM, LFA7Roundabout said:
Hi all,
In the past few years I have honoured to witness some excellent lowfly from the guys and gals of the USAF, and in turn they have recommend that I share some of the snaps with you here.
Keep up the great work, and if you are ever in the position of planning a lowfly sortie in the UK and would like some high quality photos then drop me a DM and hopefully we can sort something out.
Discretion assured, many thanks for looking, enjoy the photos.
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.
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6 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:
It's true, but it was an issue with the A350 training capacity that allowed a few (I think 3?) Captains to make a killing. Once they finally fixed the glitch, their incomes returned to "normal."
I heard the same from a 330 instructor friend.
Ret NERD
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On 5/10/2021 at 3:06 PM, Gazmo said:
I've flown with Captains that run off the airplane and asked me to shut her down because they're trying to make it to the next terminal so they can get home that night. Some have to stay in a hotel that night because they had no way to get back home and they're flying home on their off days. I couldn't imagine living that way.
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.
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30 minutes ago, Blue said:
Alright, it's not obvious to me. What's going on within the DoD (serious question).
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.
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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.
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30 minutes ago, Blue said:
Link to the Disqus page of "Military Watchdog." where you can see his comment (about three comments down), under article headline "Space Force CO Fired Over Comments About Marxism in the Military Now Subject of IG Probe."
@Springer, thanks for posting that. Any kind of "comments section" of an article usually seems to be an exercise in sifting through the nonsense to find the occasional gem. That particular comment is very insightful.
Edit to add: Is it really possible that this one guy, Bishop Garrison, is the cause of all the Woke nonsense endemic in the DoD?
His Linkedin bio certainly support the assertation he's some kind of beltway bandit bullshit artist, who's spent the better part of the last 10 years running around DC as part of various Institutes, Policy Centers, etc, to include stints on Hillary's campaign and the Biden transition team.
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 -- 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.
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29 minutes ago, kaputt said:
Did this article get taken down? I can’t find it anywhere.
I think it’s point is dead on. For that reason it wouldn’t shock me if it got purged.
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.
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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)
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6 hours ago, SocialD said:
I had multiple 30k (plus 401k) months as a Widebody FO while only actually working 12 days (due to vacation, overtime "Greenslip" flying and getting paid on days I didn't actually work due to deviating dh).
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.
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On 3/22/2021 at 4:42 PM, brabus said:
And CRM occurs every day in fighters, we’re just doing it over the radio vs. physically sitting next to someone in the same airplane. CRM isn’t a heavy-only thing, and it’s dumb to think a T-1 is necessary to teach it.
Any old guys here who went through UPT back in the 38 only days, can you confirm the following: I have heard there were dudes who washed out in 38s because they couldn’t do “fighter things,” like close formation (including takeoff/landings). They otherwise would have been fine in a non-fighter aircraft. Is there truth to that, or is this just an excuse for guys who didn’t deserve to graduate regardless?
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.
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On 3/3/2021 at 8:23 PM, Lord Ratner said:
It was free (actually you get paid) and you could be a *very* unpopular cadet with leadership and still get a pilot slot. And for people like me with problems self-motivating for academics, you don't have the freedom to skip class or slack off. That's about it.
Otherwise,
USAFA --> Active Duty : ROTC --> Guard/Reserve.
"Skip class or slack off?" I majored in that @ U of Hawaii.
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4 hours ago, HuggyU2 said:
I'm brand new to the 777, and the F/O on this flight out of Denver was on both of my international IOE trips a while back. Absolutely stellar airline pilot and a good shit. I hope he gets the accolades he deserves.
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"
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On 10/7/2020 at 12:44 PM, brabus said:
I can’t count hows many times I’ve seen “do some pilot shit” to salvage a poor approach. I think culturally in the fighter world there is a lot of lip serviced paid, but reality is going around on a full stop attempt is an “emotional event” for most. It shouldn’t be, but it sure seems that way. Guys are so against diverting (fear of unknown/going somewhere new), don’t want to be “the one guy” who couldn’t land on first attempt out of the entire go (ego), etc. It’s a bad cultural precedent and it’s been around my entire fighter career. I don’t know how to fix it, because saying “just go around if it doesn’t look right” or “no worries if you guys have to divert” isn’t cutting it.
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.
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On 9/10/2020 at 9:34 AM, HuggyU2 said:
In 2013, after 3 years, the VRRAD was coming to an end... but I asked the Wing CC to write me a letter requesting a 1-year extension. He did, and I got it.
Finally... I retired 1 Nov 2014. It was my third set of retirement orders, and the second time I actually retired.
Huggy, let me guess....you flew all 4 of those years?
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On 9/14/2020 at 8:00 AM, EvilEagle said:
If you can handle the feeling of earplugs, check out Clarity Aloft or Halo QT. I've been using Halo's for GA (non-warbird) flying for the last 8 years or so. They are great, no batteries to change and super light.
+1 for the Halo. Would not fly with anything else. No interference wearing a hat or sunglasses. Light and comfortable.
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On 6/11/2020 at 1:45 PM, jazzdude said:
Plus I wonder how many people getting the aero matters from Riddle used SOS to get credits toward their degree?My FE and ATP ratings (paid via GI Bill) gave me two classes worth at Riddle.
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On 4/7/2020 at 1:50 PM, Swizzle said:
. He DG'd 3 flying formal schools, so the system wasn't so abrasive to/of him. Seems an engineering degree isn't required to do well in flying courses. Perhaps pedigree is more important in later career, only time will tell ...or not.
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:
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9 hours ago, di1630 said:
Damn, if you were in AZ I’d trade flying lessons for an annual.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appI am in AZ and need a Flight Review. Can pay with toilet paper, masks, and/or Purell.
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22 hours ago, M2 said:
Fogleman remains one of the two best CSAFs during my 25 year career (JJ Jumper being the other), and I still have great respect for the man; but such nobility is almost wasted on many of the civilian leadership of this nation.
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.
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3 hours ago, Prosuper said:
I'm over fifty and still have the dream of getting a PPL to add on with my A&P. Came across this video which he breaks it down.
Re the vid: Friends don't let friends buy 150hp Cardinals.
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9 hours ago, Bobsan said:
Everything about RVs from what I've read is appealing to me but I wonder if you need a buddy mechanic that's good with them. Dream is to build one eventually but won't have the time in the foreseeable future.
Market fall or not, sounds like better to wait till after the summer to buy.
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.
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Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)
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Posted · Edited by Springer
After retiring from airline flying @59, I consider flying my RV-8 3 times a week the pinnacle of my flying career.