SurelySerious

U.S. is assessing whether Taliban is serious about peace - Blinken https:// https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/talibans-actions-inconsistent-with-pursuit-peace-afghanistan-says-blinken-2021-06-25/ Spoiler alert there buddy: they’re not

The UK and Russia as Aggressor and Defender: Two Narratives, Similar Obligations https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/uk-and-russia-aggressor-and-defender-two-narratives-similar-obligations Pretty decent analysis.

Equity: all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

The Russians always say they “warned coalition aircraft, and subsequently they left” even if the flight path was a straight line. Sounds like pretty normal trumped up language.

It’s easy, you just decrease the crew ratio until it equals the pilots you have.

That’s about as in sync with reality as I expect the AF to be.

Are we sure that was indeed the French GP? I remember it being a dull affair year after year.

It’s the true Army arms use hierarchy: missiles and bombs from CAS assets first, army helos second, himars, 155, mortars, and rifles last. It’s how you ensure the most aid money gets to [insert SWA country here]

JASSM is already the weapon of the last war because of how long the TOF is versus how quickly threats move…on a warm launched platform that can retarget in flight. Cold launched from a cargo a/c? Might as well throw $100M on a burn pit fire.

True for the Relative (to not getting a vaccine) Risk Reduction, but looking at Absolute Risk Reduction, they’re all about the same. Not taking into account the things mentioned previously that all of them are really effective at preventing a serious infection. First heard these stats on a podcast between doctors: From a https:// https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(21)00069-0/fulltext

I think both the AF and FAA like to talk a good game about access to mental health for pilots, but I don’t trust them to not take flying status away.

“You expire in four months, you’re not green enough.”

Isolating all other factors, if the goal is to be available to a major as soon as possible, then a two year ADSC for PCS to UPT isn’t the way to go. At a regional you can give two weeks notice.

Sounds like you’re still in an AD Bone squadron.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media Social media is a broad term that by this Wikipedia definition, does encompass baseops. Interactive? Check. User generated content? Check. Profile? Check. Connecting one user’s profile to other users? Check. It doesn’t have to be a viral app of teens posting selfies to be social media…your early days of posting on studentpilot were social media before the term was coined.

Senior AF leaders imagining a “modern” cockpit Every GA plane owner with $3k to burn

Worse, because it’s a vindictive sting operation; if you’re a commander and you’ve got enough time to do THAT much note taking on things that don’t make your squadron run… your focus may be off.

Nice work creating an account just to troll the entire forum with broad baseless attacks at everyone with “links to science” as your background while getting into your defensive egg anytime someone has a valid critique.

And your point is? That doesn’t change that our electric grid and most other infrastructure are just as vulnerable. In 2003 a software bug at one control room took out electricity for most of the northeast US and Canada.

You can’t compare the US federal gov’t to US states, but you can compare the US gov’t to two nearly homogeneous countries with pretty different governmental structures/limitations than the US. Right.

Until they hack the grid. All of our infrastructure is shockingly vulnerable.

There are contract civilians teaching in the IFF squadron, but not the contracted out UPT referenced above. The IFF guys are previous fighter IPs and function in the IFF squadron like a normal IP, just with beards and/or long hair.

AD is enough pain in the ass in my neck of the woods to not even make dodging qweep just to fly worth my time, which is why I’m taking my talents to the part-time force.

And that’s exactly why I’m going to stomach a third of the pay for a while: the ability for my duty to be just flying. It’s not the most exciting flying in the world, but there aren’t any ADO qweepdoms. But that’s what will work for me. YMMV.

Similar boat, and I essentially decided I disliked AD so much I built myself a bubble that I’m going to work with while at the regionals. Probably going to be some lean times, but I’m going to make it work.