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    Attack Helo vs. Fighter in 1v1 Air-to-Air

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    When I flew the 60 I was able to fly 1v1 against an -18. I could out turn him all day and if I flew low and directly at him, he couldn’t get a gun kill without going uncomfortably nose low. In the debrief he said he’d just drop a bomb on me and if I climbed to avoid frag he’d shoot me with his gun. 

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    COVID-19 Travel Ban

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    Doesn’t affect me personally but I’m hearing dudes that were enroute to OCONUS are getting rerouted to CONUS bases. If so, talk about getting a kick in the nuts, thinking you get 3 years in Europe but instead you get three years in McConnel! 

    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    Control yourself before you try to control others. If you have a disease or have an immunodeficiency, it’s on you to avoid situations that puts you at risk.

    Case in point, saying it’s irresponsible for 200 boaters to be on the water while ignoring the hundreds of people at Wal-Mart sorta defeats the argument. I’m more at risk being near the fat fvck hacking in the cereal aisle than I would be if I was on my Bassmaster 3000. Hell, if you’ve never been fishing on a lake before, boaters typically get pissed if you’re closer than a 100 yards from their fishing hole. 
     

    My bigger point, I can get behind barring gatherings in a place like a movie theatre, or sporting events. When you start telling people they can’t go hiking, by themselves, or can only exercise within a few hundred yards of their house, we’ve officially reached Ludicrous Speed. 

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    29 minutes ago, HuggyU2 said:

    I don't know much about Navy ops... but a carrier strike group is a pretty big deal, and represents a metric shit-ton of American power and might.  Everyone knows the Pacific Theater carries a lot of risk to American presence.  I have no doubt the admiral in charge of that group is up to the task, and that he understands the mission comes first.  It was the admiral's call on how to handle this, and Crozier tried to bypass him.  

    The Navy gives a ship CO an incredible amount of latitude on how they deal with their boat. The Admiral has a say, but it’s mainly on having boat A in location B to do the fighting. 99.9% of the actual boat day-to-day is left up to the CO.

    In my opinion, what makes this whole situation completely f-ed up is that SECNAV relieved him. If the relief was going to happen it should’ve been (or I would’ve expected) from the strike group admiral or 7th Fleet, or at highest Pac Fleet. 
     

    The fact that it went all the way to SECNAV makes me think that the chain of command was actually OK with the letter. 

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    1 hour ago, M2 said:

     

    Not the point.  First, just because it isn't classified doesn't mean it doesn't have to be protected.   Secondly, he had easy access to SIPRNET, so reporting sensitive information via it would have made a lot more sense. 

    If something is classified, it gets sent via SIPR or higher. If something is sensitive but not classified, it gets sent encrypted on NIPR. Saying sensitive but not classified info now needs to go on SIPR is frankly BS. 

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    40 minutes ago, raimius said:

     

    Send out a 30+ recipient email with opsec/national security concerns that makes it to the press?  Yeah, you are going to get fired.

     

    Two points that have irked me.

    First, nothing in the letter he sent was classified information. Having spent 18 years in the Navy, I’m pretty familiar with what reporting requirements are classified on ship readiness. The Captain was brilliant in the way he phrased his letter because none of it hit the classified mark.

    Second, he is being denigrated for the letter leaking. From some friends of mine on the 7th Fleet staff, he didn’t leak it, someone else did. Holding Capt Crozier responsible for it leaking would be the same as me sending a SIPR email, it gets leaked by someone on the to or cc line, and it’s my fault it leaked. 
     

    Capt Crozier did what he needed to to help his sailors. I’m not surprised he got fired because it made his chain of command look bad, and people don’t like being told by their subordinates that they are all ed up.

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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    2 hours ago, Prosuper said:

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/health/coronavirus-blood-donation-guidelines/index.html?fbclid=IwAR21NssVgK_W_KJa3sUIUvAsGbJ4eoyyi8MQ2Tv0v1oaHEW11NK4HDWfvhE.

    So all the retired guys on here who were in USAFE in the 80's , if I read this correctly we are no longer disqualified to give blood because of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or mad cow. I still would call ahead if heading to a blood bank to donate.

    Damn, if I wasn’t on the flight schedule, that was always my go to reason why I couldn’t donate when the mobile blood bank came around (I was born in Europe in early 80s)

     

    ‘I got the mad cow, yo’

    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    8 hours ago, wazzuPIC said:

    If we're active duty can we write letters to an editor?  I'm feeling unusually compelled to highlight that f*ckstick's fascist ideas as such.

    As long as you refrain from using your rank, affiliation with the military, or anything that would imply an endorsement or opinion of the military, go for it. 

    What's wrong with the Air Force?

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    An ‘almost’ what’s wrong with the Air Force. 
     

    Mother Blue doesn’t recognize the Navy SERE C course to the extent that an AFI actually says Navy SERE C attendees have to do the full on AF SERE C course. I fell into that category, yay me. 
     

    Well, turns out there’s a DoD instruction that says only one level C course in a person’s lifetime, so I dodged that bullet. 
     

    Only posting because the SERE Chief at the MAJCOM knew the DoDI existed but didn’t pull his insistence that I attend the full SERE C course until I pointed out the DoDI. Mf’er.

    Promotion and PRF Information

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    Got mine today, 3/9 I/APZ with ‘if I had one more DP, he’d get it’. We got two DP  outright at our wing. According to the OG I fared well at the MLR but didn’t squeak out a DP from there. 

    Better than I expected. The rest of the two lines make me look like a rockstar so hopefully it’ll pay off in May. 

    Questions on the GI Bill (Tuition Aid)

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    16 minutes ago, Rohhiram said:

    If you could turn 12 months of your Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits (100%) into a $14,000 check, would you do it?

    I got hired by a company where I need to get a type rating, and the employer would pay for the type rating. However, I can use my GI Bill benefits for the course and my employer would reimburse me because it reduces the total cost of the type rating because I'm using the GI Bill for it. Is it a waste of benefits? I'd still have about 9 months left over for an MBA someday. The VA website says it's worth about $33k for tuition, and then another $13,500-30k (depending where I'd go to school) of housing allowance for 12 months.

    My oldest is 4 years old and I have some serious doubts about the availability and transferability 14 years from now. My wife won't be going back to school, and fairly certain I won't ever go to school full time again. Not the most bang for your buck, but cash today is worth more than cash tomorrow, right?? 

    What's the value of $14,000 put into a 529 fund (or similar) when your kid turns 18? 14 years is a long time to let that build.

    Air Force allows beards & turbans and such

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    I don’t like beards in uniform, and that’s my personal opinion. If we are changing the policy to allow beards for religious purposes, then we should allow everyone to have beards.
     

    Reason being; equality across the board while in uniform is key. While it’s for ‘religious purposes’, it gives someone an extra benefit not available to everyone else, and it’s not a function of their job or duty position.

    At the end of the day, I’m still against the idea of beards not because of the dudes that can grow a full beard but because of those dudes that can’t. I don’t wanna see guys walking around in uniform that haven’t shaved in three weeks and have the white-trash trailer park style beard going on. 

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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    Supposedly the flyover was briefed to the 2-star at 600’ and 350 knots but they went 200’ and 500 knots. 
     

    Big deal? To me, not really.

    Taken in the context with the F-18/C-130 mishap (failures on all levels, pilot to leadership), I hate to say I can understand why the 2-star did a knee jerk firing. If a CO can either blow off flying the profile he briefed to the general, or is such a poor aviator to be off parameters that much, what does that show to the junior folks in his squadron?

    I don’t necessarily agree with the firing but I can understand it. 

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