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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    It’s sniffles and coughs now. It’s all a clownshow now - all this mask business. Everyone just making shit up like an elementary school game when for most people, covid is not a factor, never was a factor, and is sufficiently protected against - also - it’s their choice to do as they see fit for their OWN protection.

    Clownshow Example: Amex lounge DFW…. Get a whole warning from front desk about the rise in cases (not deaths) from the all powerful OMICRON, and how I need to wear a mask bla bla bla. If you’re eating (have a plate of food on your table)…. No hassle from the employee being the gestapo looking for violators when you don’t wear a mask. BUT! If you don’t have a plate of food, but are instead holding a cup of coffee and taking sips while talking to your group of people surrounding your table….. you get hassled for not wearing a mask and told to wear it and replace it between sips of said liquid.

    Zero sense. Zero critical thought. 100% clownshow, sheep, fear.


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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    On 1/7/2022 at 8:13 PM, FT11 said:
    Honestly just starting to get blown away the number of pussies we have on this planet and nation (sts).
    People upset someone is coughing near them? Concerned about what someone else has on their face or doesn’t? 
     
    GMAFB, we could use a good shooting war. 
    flame away 


    Agree. Reference my earlier posts. If you don’t see that masks are a charade and political theater, and you’re worried about others being vaccinated while you’re vaccinated and gonna get the Rona no matter what someday….  Worry about yourselves and stop continuing to think unvaccinated are the problem or masks are the solution.


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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    Yes I am. I’ve always been in favor of a measured response that takes a wholistic look at how society will be affected by any mitigation measures. I have never been in favor of hard lockdowns or other draconian measures. However, if there are easy things we can do while keeping society running (Note: I realize my definition of “easy” may be different from yours), then I’m generally for them.
     
    Wearing a mask on an airplane for instance. While I may find it slightly annoying, the real and yes, perceived, effects of wearing one are a small inconvenience if it means the airline industry can remain whole. Even if you believe it’s mostly theater, potting a piece of cloth over your face for a couple hours is a pretty “easy” measure. I’m almost positive you’ll disagree with my next statement, but I basically feel the same way about vaccination. Even at a “low” effectiveness rate (let’s say 40% effective at preventing disease), in a large group setting, that is orders of magnitude less spread. And while the prophylactic effect of the vaccines may be considered disappointing by some, they still do an excellent job at preventing severe illness and keeping people out of the hospital. Personally, I consider the trade off (sore arm, a day of fatigue) to be well worth the payoff for me personally and society as a whole. 
    I do not support such severe measures as hard lockdowns, school closures, severely limiting seating in restaurants, forced small business closures, or shuttering public transportation to name a few. Fortunately we haven’t seen those kinds of measures in the United States for some time now. Some parts of the world, namely many Asian countries, appear to have lost their collective minds indefinitely. Overall, I believe the current mitigation measures in the United States are reasonable and effective given the need to balance public health and allow society to continue to run. 

    Pretty easy? Dude it’s theater. That’s it and that’s all. If you disagree you’re a cuck.


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    The new airline thread

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    Print out what ya can on AAMS. Add those. Get SARM to sign an MFR about any missing line by lines.

    I had nearly all of my 2014 hours missing, with an MFR and I stuck in my mission history from a deployment in there (all I had for 2014). I had one AAMS page for hours SARM didn’t have (the 18 month look back limfac), then just printed out new line by lines every year after that.

    At my AA interview, I got zero questions on my logbook and that’s how I presented it, with the Flight Summary Report on top. Don’t overthink it, get what ya can for documentation, have an MFR for anything missing.


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    Apologies. To more directly answer your question: the AAMS format added after the other line by line format is fine. What matters is the data is there. If you have anything missing (zero proof of that sortie), get SARM to sign an MFR explaining it was lost.


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    The new airline thread

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    So I have my big green folder of hours from previous bases. I ask my current SARM for my line by line and they say they can only go back 18 months. This leaves me with a gap at the start of my current assignment. Yes I can see it all on AAMS and those 34something forms so I know the values of each sortie. It’s just not in the same format as the rest of my hours. Anyone had/overcome this issue?

    Print out what ya can on AAMS. Add those. Get SARM to sign an MFR about any missing line by lines.

    I had nearly all of my 2014 hours missing, with an MFR and I stuck in my mission history from a deployment in there (all I had for 2014). I had one AAMS page for hours SARM didn’t have (the 18 month look back limfac), then just printed out new line by lines every year after that.

    At my AA interview, I got zero questions on my logbook and that’s how I presented it, with the Flight Summary Report on top. Don’t overthink it, get what ya can for documentation, have an MFR for anything missing.


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    Simone Biles

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    None of us are Olympic level, multi-gold medal winning gymnasts with the pressure to win it all again hanging over our head, and flipping ourselves over 10, 20, 30 ft in the air, and thus can't compare this to #23 in game 6.  So we don't get to judge her decisions because there's no way we can fully comprehend what the she's going through.  None of us are in this situation, so we don't get to say she cowarded out or had courage to withdraw.  You think she did this so that medias would make her a god?  Or a villain?  Does anyone seriously think those were the motives??  JFC, this planet is full of a bunch of dumbasses.
    Out
     

    Except, when you’re a celebrity/athlete competing at the highest levels, on television…. You have rhinestones in the shape of a GOAT to self-ID as the greatest…. we do.

    Same as people with no kids judging parenting techniques of those with kids, or women judging the merits of circumcision when they have no penis, or men having thoughts on abortion even though they don’t carry the baby. I can go on and on.

    People do get to judge, criticize, and critique athletes. Or anyone, for that matter.

    Bottom line: is she a villain or should her mental health be minimized? No. But is she a hero, brave, and all these other things the media is praising her for - without a hint of criticism for quitting when she couldn’t perform at her peak - no. Two things can be true at once.
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    COVID-19 (Aka China Virus)

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    Alright I keep seeing statements like this claiming that the left is all vax’d up and good to go while the right is just refusing.
     
    A 30 second look at vaccine demographics shows that the young and minorities have much lower vax take rates across the country, and quite frankly it doesn’t take a political scientist to know which political leaning those demographics have. So unless I’m missing something based on demographics alone the argument that support of Biden or liberal policies correlates to getting a vaccine is flawed at best based on data alone.
     
    Standing by for remediation 

    Obviously the lower minority vax take rate is due to systemic racism. Obviously.


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    Mobility Guardian 2021

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    Love all this near peer talk from the C-17 guys. Spoiler alert: even if ya had the link, the radar warning, and all the other tactical gear the patches and airdroppers think they need to push into a dense threat area, it aint gonna happen. These “high speed” individuals in the community truly do have an identity complex that pushes them to somehow think they’ll be a night one train just behind a strike train and need all that gear to survive - any knowledge of current “near peer” threat would tell ya you won’t be. It hurts to hear it, but the money is absolutely better invested in equipment and upgrades that allow the jet to be more safe in hauling the mail worldwide in a permissive area where you’re not a liability to other assets trying to protect a miles long train flying 130 knots to drop jumpers.

    That said - I do agree, pretty bullshit all the steps you have to take to plot a ring on the display or trouble needed to find your bullseye.


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    Mobility Guardian 2021

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    Anyone here have the pleasure of participating?  IMHO it was more of a waste of time than the last one.  I know AMC has an identity crisis - I'm sure we all know that.  One can only hit the "I believe" button so many times...

    I’ll never forget on the one I participated in, hearing the patch mission lead repeatedly calling for the “picture” and getting a response: “clean”…. This happened probably 5 times with the ridiculous, long ass train of lumbering moose in tow. Well, what he meant to ask for, was “lowdown” (mind you, major fowl for asking for the lowdown that many times and clogging up the damn radios). Well, as you would guess, the entire formation of tactical magical moose gets dragged through the, not surprising, standard threat they train to lean against during their IR low level local training, the SA-6. Won’t even go into the make believe and wand waving that would go on, and high fives from the guys who argue tactics in that community, had they “survived”.

    I bet the DFP was “why didn’t the loadmaster plot, on his paper bullseye chart,the picture fast enough to ‘defeat’ the 6?”


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    Commanders are dropping like flies this year

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    Oof. So they relieved a commander because some crew chief left their iPad in the inlet and the aircrew didn't spot it on the walk around? 

    I mean... a maintenance cc per the article. Trickle down effect and root cause - MX leadership sets the tone for the culture for the young guys. Hopefully the individual(s) who actually left the iPad there get action too... but far too often we blame only the young maintainers when it is the leadership that is toxic and causing the problems and allowing mishaps like that to happen. Sucks either way.

    B-2 Spirit info

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    Best of luck. My gripe is that the AF want experience in different programs but then penalizes 2nd MWS or 2nd/3rd tour dudes as being too old.


    To be fair, I reckon most 2nd/3rd tour dudes are very close to the proverbial punch out and they’ve already made up their minds. Don’t know if that goes into the calculus or not when the powers above decide who to exclude from certain programs... not much to gain from those year groups close to their commitment, regardless of experience, when most are probably getting out in a couple years anyways.

    That being said, the Air Force is kind of ed anyways so why the hell not. Maybe they can sway one or two minds to drink more blue instead of going to greener pastures.
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