McJay Pilot

https://apnews.com/article/japan-us-military-osprey-helicopter-crash-7d704ec5925826593aebcf0e7d1312ca Japanese Coasties posted photos of debris field and have recovered 1 KIA so far. 🍺 Hoping for the best.

https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/training-simulation/cae-wins-us-air-force-helicopter-introductory-training-contract/ Looks like a definite maybe on the Bell 505? Haven’t heard the RW folks here in ABQ talk about it much though.

Not sure if this was the Ukes or not, but it’s good news for them either way!

Baby come back, any kind of fool could see There was something in everything about you Baby come back, yeah, you can blame it all on me 'Cause I was wrong, and I just can't live without you

Tracking the Navy also has MH-60’s that do SOF support, but they don’t do HAAR and all the links said it was during an air refueling event. You hit the nail on the head with the last line though brother. I was selfishly hoping there’d be minimal chance I knew those involved. Not great odds now.

160th SOAR crew, damnit. 🥃 Alert delivered on Sun Nov 12 2023 13:26:17 GMT-0700 (Mountain Standard Time): Caption: Five US Army Special Operations members conducting contingency planning for Israel-Hamas war killed in MH-60 helicopter crash while refueling off coast of Cyprus: News Outlet via New York Times. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/us/politics/us-service-members-killed-crash.html?smid=tw-share Link to alert in First Alert: https://firstalert.dataminr.com/#alertDetail/6/9706056948404626584-1699820616955-1

It would appear the Ukes smoked another Ruskie ship!

I take it this isn’t the outcome the interviewer looks for with the “You call a go-around and the Captain continues the approach” scenario…

I do believe I’d just grab a beer and see how that last one played out though!

I do believe Biff was speaking in hyperbole. @Biff_T I realize that’s a lotta syllables I just banged together there, but I got ya! 🍻

Harrumph.

Looks like an IDF outpost got completely overrun and wiped out. It’s definitely eerie watching it as it looks a lot like a US FOB… Video 1 Video 2

Wars are not won by the most competent force. Wars are won by the least incompetent force.

Sorry Huggy, words mean things! United Airlines is sponsoring a Fly-in/Car Show Sunday up at Rocky Mountain Metro. We’re sending some aircraft up to talk to CO area cadets, but we’ve also been told there will be opportunities to speak with United folks about future employment opportunities. Because… accelerate networking or lose, or something like that!

Came here to post this, hell yeah! We’re bringing some birds from the schoolhaüs up to Denver for United’s “Sun and Funds” airshow this weekend. Timings just about perfect! If any of you degen’s are around, first beer’s on me! 🍻

Based on your connections, that’s ing terrifying.

I doubt Article 5 would’ve been invoked, but thankfully we won’t know thanks to Ivan’s incompetence. Historically speaking, the Soviet’s shot down 15 of our aircraft during the Cold War outside of combat zones and we never invoked Article 5.

Thanks Biff, now I can’t get the image of MLG saying “Who run Barter Town?” out of my head!

If you want a fun look at how willing people are to believe that shit, pop into the r/Albuquerque subreddit and look at any of the posts dealing with this. Not only have most forgotten all about the impacts of State and Federal government overreach during COVID, they forgot how frighteningly close the major cities were to a major societal meltdown. I can’t retire and GTFO of here soon enough.

Brother, if you’ve got the info I’m more than happy to keep it updated!

Not sure if anyone will find this useful or not, but I made a map of the CONUS domiciles.

Saw this one floating around…

Fair point. Also fair that “idiots” covers a wide variety of people! 🍺