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1 hour ago, dream big said:
I’m sure you were well loved so don’t take this personally but what is it with toxic AFSOC senior leaders?? You guys must want to compete badly with AMC to see who can run their pilots out of the Air Force faster.
More and more, what decides who moves up in the AF is about who is willing to stick around, kiss the ring, put up with the abuse, and accept life/family thrash. So it's really a self-selecting pool. Majcoms that subject their people to high amounts of life thrash and abuse will naturally elevate the people willing to put up with it. And those people once in power will, in turn, inflict it on others.
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3 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:
The USAF pulled a boomer move and said “Well, that sucks, I got mine. Needs of the service” and completely left out the fact these kids had a dream they’d be working hard towards for years. Then they wonder why people vote with their feet and leave.
FAIPing, while not nearly as bad a dick punch as drones, causes very similar resentment and near-universal 10 yr ADSC punch outs.
Join the AF to fly jets and see the world! Or alternatively..
Spend the first 5 years of your career flying around the flagpole in one of the 4 sh!ttiest towns in the country, probably single too! Experience the best squadron, group, and wing leaders their respective MWS communities didn't want to keep for themselves! Get strung along in a 4 year rat race with your friends who were all also better than average in UPT only to get a drop list measurably worse than average!
Then finally show up to your MWS as a senior captain to get immediately relegated to queep centric jobs because your tactical knowledge/experience is far behind pipeline dudes in your age group.
But one time a FAIP became a general so it's probably an honor and an amazing opportunity-
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On 5/20/2023 at 4:48 AM, StrikeOut312 said:
Probably waiting till after the Major SCODs closeout on 31 May so the new Maj (s) don’t have to scramble.
It's a hilarious Air Force non-solution to a problem they created.. you could just release the list and still have the Maj selects close out on the Capt SCOD date. The Capt SCOD is before the fiscal year ends so no one will have pinned on yet anyway 🤷🏻♂️ literally the end result is the same without keeping everyone in limbo.
I don't know what I expected to happen, big AF has a knack for choosing the dumbest possible COAs
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4 minutes ago, brabus said:
Even that was completely wrong for me when I was in UPT. They were still saying, “fighters fly around the flag pole, you’ll be home a lot.” Yeah that turned out to be 100% wrong.
There’s no predicting deployments/TDY rates even in a couple years, let alone generally over a career. Mission, that’s the only thing people should pick an airframe based on.
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On 5/11/2023 at 5:11 AM, slc said:
Yeah, no. Tell that to my buddy who was sent to Africa. Nice try
Cool.. east bum-phuck Africa didn't have a vax mandate. Curious, what round of anthrax shot is your buddy on?
Deployments are to other places than Africa and in my community I directly witnessed people go non deployable
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4 hours ago, wampum66 said:
Well considering the fact that you can't just say "I identify as female" and play in NCAA female events, good luck with that. NCAA requires at least 1 year of documented testoterone suppression treatment as well as proof they are below the required level for female events. I think you'll be hard pressed to find people to do that just for a "gotcha".
Probably because most people don't give a shit about how other people want to live their lives. But go ahead and keep on pretending like you care about women's sports 👌
Yeah you can do what you want until it starts to negatively impact others. That's where my libertarian limit ends. People want their daughters to get a fair shake in sports not dominated by records set by biological dudes. It's pretty telling when a male swimmer barely in the top 1,000 "transitions" and becomes a record setting destroyer of worlds, obliterating the competition by entire pool lengths and immediately claiming national titles.
Ffs democrats created title IX to carve out an equal space for girls sports in the first place.
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21 minutes ago, bfargin said:
Classic, someone needs to nominate for the appropriate medal (“valor”maybe?)
The right honestly needs to do more of this. Republicans identifying as silly nonsense is not only fun, but a good way to expose leftist intersectional lunacy.
I think we've been trying to reasonably debate this stuff for a long time with people who can't be reasoned with. Maybe turning their own rules against them is the way to go.
Imagine the dem conniption that would ensue if trump retroactively identified as a trans, lesbian/demisexual, black woman, with xe/xzer pronouns for the duration of his 2016-2020 presidency. Then claim every intersectional "first" for the presidency imaginable. And then when they accuse him of faking to make a point he can just shout them down for denying his truth.
I so so badly want this to be a thing
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@Josephohhumble these days deployment timelines are unpredictable in most communities. Gone are the days of a stable, predictable dull roar in the Middle East. The best gouge is going to come from your IP corps at your UPT base.
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10 hours ago, SocialD said:
Updated your list of concerns for service member health risks.
Probably valid, but it made you non-effing -deployable because no other country on earth would let you in
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Just my 2 cents but there is very good tactical flying to be found in many heavy and afsoc communities with the added benefit of not destroying your neck and back with g's. My advice, go embrace whatever community you end up in and do your best. If you spend your career with one foot out the door trying to scheme your way into a fighter slot, you will be embarking on an exercise in futility, and it will torpedo your performance and focus for your actual current flying job.
Nothing short of being an astronaut will beat the allure of flying the fastest, shiniest new toys, or the cultural cool factor of being able to call yourself a fighter pilot. But it's also clear that allure wears off over time because fighter pilots separate at rates equal to or higher than everyone else.
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17 minutes ago, Polar Bear said:
Can you please provide your source on this?
I was going to ask the same thing but it's kinda not worth engaging. Claiming it provides "zero protection" while being "very harmful" based on a number "he heard" is the kind of quality, evidence-based reasoning that lets me know it's probably time to put the phone down for the night.
Funny part is my point has never been about the jab itself. It's always been about having the awareness to know what you signed up for and go in eyes wide open.
I'm a big believer in worrying about the biggest and closest alligators to the boat, which, in terms of service member health risks, are:
1) long term ailments from on-the-job hazards we've completed normalized
2) dying in some interventionist boondoggle halfway round the world
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67) drowning in Tumon bay
68) actual alligators
69) covid vaccine side effects
Which is why this whole outrage seems a little manufactured, out of proportion, and strangely coincident with a red-to-blue presidential admin turnover.-
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On 5/6/2023 at 4:06 PM, FLEA said:
Food stamps qualification is based on income and family size
Yes.. which is why having a bunch of dependents you can't afford is a quick way to get on food stamps.. and why family planning is important.
Life planning decisions impact both qualification, and your eventual spending. It seems like you're being willfully obtuse here and it's really strange. Your family size is an entirely controllable thing.
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Or.. and hear me out for a second.. two things can be true at once..
Thing 1: go look at the enlisted pay scales and they are scarily low
Thing 2: lots of enlisted people make poor financial decisions that only exacerbate thing #1
maybe even a third thing!
Thing 3: enlisted pay/benefits are better than the average job you can get as a non college educated 18 year old
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On 5/6/2023 at 6:42 PM, Smokin said:
On the Bud Light note, now that Bud seems to be slightly walking back on the woke stuff, they're getting boycotted from the other side as well (and most of the original boycotters haven't stopped). Let this be a lesson to businesses out there; stay out of politics.
Early in this controversy people liked to think it was only rednecks in rural small towns drinking bud light but the truth is it's on tap in bars in big liberal cities everywhere too. Now they've angered both consumer bases.. a rather impressive feat. They've painted themselves into a corner where any move is the wrong one.
Let this be a lesson to every other company that provides a service out there. Avoid politics and stick to your core competencies.. in this case: making piss beer, horse commercials, and otherwise shutting the fuck up
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12 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
there is still A LOT of crow to be eaten from the vax enthusiasts on this site...
I don't think most of us who you would call "vax enthusiasts" were going "rah rah mandates are amazing, get your 69th booster or we're all gonna die."
Can only speak personally but it was more of the sentiment that when you join the military you sign some of your autonomy away. They can literally order you to go die for your country. Last I checked that's bad for your health. So it's pretty silly to act surprised and upset when they make you get a shot.
Not to mention, the "my body is a temple" argument doesn't hold much water when no one says shit about:
-the even sketchier anthrax shot
-the statistically unlikely to work yearly flu shots
-the malaria pills that cause lasting risk of birth defects
-the go and no go pills proven to cause dependency that are prescribed like candy to bump up mission durations stopgap the regular obliteration of your circadian rhythm
-the culture of concealing actual problems from doctors to preserve flying status
So forgive me if it came across a bit like a political crusade.
But the fun part is now we all have the benefit of hindsight 20/20. We now know covid isn't particularly dangerous for unvaxxed healthy young people and we also know the vaxxed aren't dying in droves from some hypothetical late-onset side effect. Turns out neither were that dangerous.
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19 hours ago, wikz said:
wow, thank you!! I appreciate the advice and examples.
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3 hours ago, wikz said:
I totally agree. To be honest, I know that the sim wouldn't put forth too much assistance as far as doing maneuvers etc. ahead of time; but would having your own sim be more useful than chair flying in UPT?
With the new technology at UPT, do studs even chair fly anymore, or do they rely more on sims?
If you can get a your hands on an accurate t-6a model in the sim, yes it would help.
"Chairflying" is a nebulous term that means a lot of things to a lot of different people. Maybe it means setting up cockpit posters on a lawn chair and rehearsing the interior inspection, maybe it means shutting your eyes reciting entry parameters and practicing your cross check for aerobatics, and maybe it means sitting at a desk with a map rehearsing your radio calls at different points on a departure.
But anything that can help you chairfly with more fidelity is good. A VR cockpit is better than posters. A thrust master stick is better than a plunger. A screen is better than your imagination.. so to speak. Please do yourself a favor and find real UPT training materials and do your best to use the sim in a methodical way to practice those. Don't worry about negative training, it's far less of a threat than zero training. Any half-decent exposure you can get to a composite cross check at this point is money in the bank.
obviously we're all human and will use a dope sim to do loops to music and mess around. But if you're actually serious, here's step 1:
Find a t-6 checklist formatted like this and use it to identify every switch in the cockpit:
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On 4/26/2023 at 8:15 PM, wikz said:
exactly what I was looking for, totally agree. but who knows, maybe ill make a bad decision, and still buy it just for the fun of it..
appreciate the opinions.
Having taught pilot training, and taught specifically in VR/computer sims with exactly the equipment you listed, I can tell you with 100% certainty you can get training value out of it.. but only if you approach it seriously and methodically.
If you play fuck fuck games and yank and bank through downtown Dallas or the Grand Canyon it will give you zero training value. But if you get your hands on a UPT base inflight guide, a t-6 or t-38 sim model and start trying to actually fly military style overhead patterns you will get something out of it. Both from a pacing and cross check perspective.
Don't try to practice aerobatics, it's garbage and negative training. Look up what a vertical S maneuver is and try to do that. Also try turns at different bank angles 30, 45, and 60 while trying maintaining your altitude +/-150 feet.
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2 hours ago, pawnman said:
My mother is the same way. She doesn't seem to care that the Dems WANT Trump as the nominee.
Nothing against anyone's parents (mine are the same way) but I think this shows how emotionally driven the average voter is. The idea of thinking strategically about candidate viability isn't really a thing people do unless they're really into politics or listen to non-mainstream political commentary.
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8 hours ago, Mark1 said:
7:44 AM 😂😂😂😂
Working in that office must have been bonkers..
Driving to work.. phone starts blowing up
"oh shit what did he do now"
1hr later
press secretary at an all hands meeting: "he was taking his morning dump and went nuclear on the constitution, how do we spin this"-
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Wild to see the GOP so utterly captured like this. You have the most beatable opponent in a generation in Joe Biden between the cognitive decline, objectively bad economy, foreign policy disasters, and insane wokeness..
And the presumptive GOP nominee is perhaps the only person on earth more polarizing and less likely to win the general. And the hilarious part people are trying to distance from trump now but that opportunity passed by long ago. The early election denial Rudy/Sidney Powell clown show phase was probably the best opportunity to boot trump out of the mainstream right. But now he has too much momentum and will steamroll people and feed off the smaller fish like he did last time.
Fox even had a chance to bail on trump, and their own internal comms show everyone there thought he was batshit, but they caved to the hardline trump base eventually. It makes me wonder.. fun conspiracy theory here: do media companies actively conspire to get their political opposition elected? Trump was tv ratings crack for the MSM and I'm sure fox gets a boost when Dems are in charge and they can just rail on whatever the left is pushing at the time.
It would be a smart move by fox. Appease the base by backing trump.. but knowing full well he'll lose the general so you'll get to keep your rail-on-the-current-dem-administration ratings boost.
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I'm not sure if any CSAF is going to solve the pacific range/gas/logistics problem regardless of background. The "do more with less" trend the entire Air Force has succumbed to in the last 20 years has eroded the sheer numbers of crews and jets in both the MAF and CAF available to project power at scale on the literal other side of the world. Those numbers were baked into the cake long ago and we are not producing pilots or airframes fast enough to dig out of that hole.
I think beating the war drum over China is pretty silly because:
a) war with China sounds like a really really bad time. It won't be a Middle East mud hut turkey shoot
b) China has proven they're shrewd strategists who work the long game.
We have this funny obsession with the next five years but China has demonstrated they have a far longer strategic attention span. Are any of our leaders talking about a 2049 plan? Because China is.
Delaying a hypothetical conflict only benefits them and if their manufacturing continues at present pace, they just have to wait until intervention becomes completely unpalatable to the west. And that gives their public influence campaigns more time to work. They may very well be able to "re-unify" without ever firing a shot.
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On 4/23/2023 at 6:57 AM, HeloDude said:
The left can’t even define what a woman is, so how can they be expected to vote in favor of protecting women’s sports. What the House should really do is put a bill ending Title IX and see how the left votes…they won’t know what to do at that point.
Guys I figured it out, if every dude on earth identifies as a woman maybe we can get the left to quit bitching about the gender pay gap
but seriously the lefts gender philosophy is so full of contradictions and I feel like the right does a very poor job pointing them out.
If women are a victim class that need protecting, it must have some definition.. except the left balks when you ask for one.
If gender is a social construct and completely fluid, why do people need to get surgeries to align with something (apparently) totally made up.
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2 hours ago, FLEA said:
I generally agree with you. But I pivoted into the tech space after the Air Force when it became clear an airline career wasn't going to work well for me, my family situation, host of other factors. I work in a big data and AI space now for a major firm in the US--and I work with some REALLY REALLY BIG BRAINS. One of my new Bobs is a former quant and has a PhD in Data Science and a MSCS in AI/ML. He was the one that told me one day that AI by its nature learns exponentially. Two years ago he was at a University lecture everyone thought the capability of ChatGPT 4 was 10 years away. They were all stunned this year when the latest language model dropped. Its going to come faster than we are ready for because we cant actually grasp in our human minds how fast the exponential learning curve is. This is why you have technophiles like Elon Musk warning that we need to slow down until we can actually understand what that curve looks like. Crazy insights.
Do any of your big brain coworkers talk at all about how we would measure something like consciousness? That's the part I'm most curious about.
The exponential nature of language learning algorithms makes sense, but at some point there's a difference between a procedural learning machine and a living, feeling, conscious entity. If we created real AI would we even know we did? Or could it maybe be created by a more primitive AI iterating on itself? 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
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Carry the memory Stuck and Trojan with me as well. The 38 is well past it's shelf life and I would do anything in my power to avoid flying that death trap. Up to and including answering a few choice PHAQ questions honestly for the first time ever.