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    The Next President is...

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    33 minutes ago, Danger41 said:

    I live in Denver and loved the petitions for the booze in grocery stores thing. A bunch of old retired white dudes that looked absolutely hammered in the middle of the afternoon on a Tuesday. Naturally I signed and voted for it.

    I’m in Parker. I voted for it too since, to me, it made sense since they already sold beer in grocery stores.

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    The Next President is...

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    3 hours ago, NKAWTG said:

    Stacey Abrams was never a serious candidate.  More akin to the Maxine Waters type who takes the campaign money and funnels it to friends and family.  She herself has gotten very wealthy for accomplishing little in life. 

    Pennsylvania is what astounds me.  They elected a brain damaged candidate to the US Senate, and in their statehouse, elected a candidate who died a month ago.  Is it shadiness or stupidity?  I'm not sure I'm comfortable with either answer.       

    It is in the GOP’s best interest that the DNC keeps funneling money to Abrams to run. She’s far too dangerous as a non-candidate to them getting people who don’t normally vote to vote. Watch was she does with the upcoming runoff on 12/6.

    Iowa re-elected a dinosaur in Grassley. There is no reason why anyone in their 70s+ should be in in the Executive or Legislative Branch.

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    The Next President is...

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    7 hours ago, HeloDude said:

    My final prediction:

    GOP: 52 Senate seats, 241 seats in the House (that might be a little high).  For competitive Gov races, GOP wins KS, WI, NV, and AZ.  They “might” win OR, but I’d say no.  I think NY will be close, but GOP won’t win.

    Assuming my predictions are correct, when will Biden/left say that democracy is over?  Since that’s what they told us if the Dems lose.

    This didn't age well.

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    E-8 through E-9 in the CAF...what do they do?

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    10 hours ago, Prosuper said:

    The current batch of E-8's and E-9's, saw it when I retired in 2003 E-7, is the fault of the Flag officers who wanted Senior E's who got there like they did. Didn't want crusty Chiefs anymore behind closed doors telling them that their policy is crap. When I started in 1981, we only had only had a CMSAF and a bunch of senior enlisted advisors, all were Viet Nam vets or actually helped Lemay at the auto hobby shop on Offutt. Saw the change after Desert Storm, the Senior E's who didn't go started to make life hard on the guys who did. The Espirit De Corp after the storm in ops and mx was through the roof and was destroyed by peace dividend. So, the guys who sat on the boards discounted wartime deployed experience and chose special duty, how many duty titles they had, etc. I read Chief Bass's bio, can't figure out what her AFSC was.  

    She’s a 1C0, SARM.

    Changing/Switching airframes

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    3 hours ago, dream big said:

    TOAD = Take off and die. When Tankers belonged to SAC in the Cold War, if called upon they would keep flying till they gave every bit of gas to the Buffs headed towards Russia..likely not having enough gas for a safe RTB. 

    Guess you don’t know what “/s” means?

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    KC-46A Info

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    Posted · Edited by Sua Sponte

    13 minutes ago, Chuck17 said:

    Referencing who - specifically - here?

    Wing leadership? GOs? Staff Colonels?  Just curious. 

    It’s fair to say the messaging on this one has been low-key to borderline insufficient. PA was held back after the initial knee jerk “wtf” on the interwebs. But the fantastic (as in “bizarre”) suspecting on the commands motivations for this being made in the bozo-verse of retired grey-beards and airline bros is really wild.

    Ten years ago they told us - then demo’d - C-17s flying (essentially) fingertip across the ocean to save on gas… Ten years before that there were barely any crews outside of AFSOC qualled on NVGs… Some advances materialize, some are just demos…

    Eat some fiber and enjoy the show. 

    To your other point - the USAF has its head so far in the sand re: pilot shortages it’s staggering. I’ve sat on both sides of this debate, but the shortages aren’t going away and no, it isn’t getting any better. Time to act on - not study (again…) - the problem. 

    But that has nothing - zero - to do with this demo in the 46.

    Chuck

    Referencing who? Plenty of names. Vogel is a careerist retard who I've had the displeasure of being stationed with, however I don't think this good idea fairy came from him, but of course he had no problem executing it since he wants to pad that PRF. To do this back in the day when it was common to see most people with stars and toilet bowls on their wings, I don't think most people would have issues due to the large experience the USAF had at the time. However, as everyone here knows, that time has come and gone. You now have first assignment instructors and slick winged evaluators since all the experience is making a mass exodus from the USAF. This greatly increases the risk of conducting such non-standard "experiments."

    To do this with the aircraft is still in OT, and months after another Class A, is questionable at best. As the for the suspecting, if it smells and looks like shit...

    KC-46A Info

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    2 hours ago, pawnman said:

    Starts that way. But then you have to practice it before you do it in wartime. Then the practice becomes a currency. Then it just becomes standard operating procedure to make the pilot shortage seem less severe. 

    This. As long as expectations are set that's it's a contingency only thing to train for, sure. However, the retards that infest AMC as "leadership" will make sure it becomes a normal currency due to a pilot shortage.

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