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Might be mixing cause and effect. Seems to me like you have to have brain damage to do this job to begin with.
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Q2 for wearing a wedding ring? You've gotta be shitting me.
I wonder if Robin Olds wore his flight-approved gloves when he took off out of Udorn and dropped his mask for a quick cigarette before getting shot at for the next 2 hours. Probably could have found a few Q3 offenses over there.
Not surprised though. Being from HHQ or the NAF is pretty much shorthand for being out of touch with reality and obsessed with all the wrong things. I'm sure this incident just reminded the entire Wing of that.
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It might just be me but this thread reeks of Monday-morning quarterbacking. It makes me wonder if any of my close calls over the years had resulted in a Class A what people would have said about my own culture, mindset, scoffing of this or that. God forbid you found out I wasn't wearing gloves and AFE-approved boots along with my 100% wool standard-issue long john's at the time.
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58 minutes ago, hindsight2020 said:
Scoff is one of their core competencies from where I sit. CAF (11F core ID in particular) communities are notorious for the attitude encapsulated by that snarky "your entire existence is just my motherhood". Yet, accident track records continue to show carnivores pooching the motherhood as the regular causal to hull/life loss.
This is why I snark back when they start the gum flapping about how superfluous the nature of our job is down here in "scutwork" land (undergrad/intermediate), how much fat could be trimmed from what we do, and by implication how FTU can handle the bulk of the "real molding". Yeah, how that's working out....
Not sure who you've been talking to. I can tell you in my neck of the woods instrument procedures are not scoffed, considering we shoot the ILS or PAR to mins in a snowstorm every week in the winter.
The point of saying that everything they learned in UPT is motherhood and will be covered in the first 5-10 minutes of the brief is not to say that those things aren't important. Any 11F who's been around more than a year or two knows enough dead pilots to disabuse themselves of that notion. The point of that statement is to say that you are expected to maintain proficiency in those areas yourself so that when we're in an LFE adversary coord, followed by blue mass brief, followed by package coord, followed by 20 minutes of flight fill-ins, we don't spend what little time we have left briefing up the approaches.
Last I checked it's not "11Fs" trying to trim the fat at UPT, but some enterprising General Officers. Those of us who actually instruct at the FTU or MQT in the CAF would tell you that those decisions are making our job harder and more dangerous.
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If the AF were in the business of buying low-risk, newer, cheaper aircraft it would have bought the T-50 or KC-30 instead of the T-7 and KC-46. Sadly, the only acquisition we know how to do is the over-engineered boondoggle that is supposed to be "digital engineered" in half the time but actually takes twice as long for half the results.
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15 hours ago, Lawman said:
So now it’s blood AND/OR treasure now. But nobody ever wants to talk about time. I think in our lack of a LSCO in recent times we’ve forgiven that those wars are thought of in spans of years. Iraq was an anomaly. What were general staffs doing in April-July of 1945… figuring out what they wanted to do in 1946, because there was never an assumption the end of a conflict was just around the bend.
For less than 10% of the annual DOD budget because 811 billion per year is 80 billion annually in a 2.5 year of which ~60% of it went directly into building out our own stateside infrastructure and purchasing new stocks in exchange for old DRMO ones necessary to conduct LSCO in the evidence of expansionist policies from both our major opponents…
we managed to:
-Contribute to Russia losing something along the lines of 20% of its tactical Air power…
-Destroy 60-70% of its Gen III+ MBTs and later armored vehicles (4th guards was training with T62s last summer)…
-Neutralize every warship that would able to contest us or influence NATO territory with Calibr from the Black Sea or Baltic since that’s who they largely augmented with…
-field test a butt load of emergent tech and methods rather than learn them the hard way…
At the rate we are going between attrition in this war and NATO members moving to develop a real military across the continent we won’t need a 2 theatre military, because Russia won’t have one left to field offensively. This is the lowest return on investment in the history of our military spending.
And in the meantime we demonstrate to the Chinese who are watching “no you can’t just invade and hold while we lose our attention span on your annexation of a neighbor.” Yeah that’s a win worth far more than maybe a dozen more B21s 6 years from now provided somebody doesn’t reappropriate that money for other things because we forget great powers type war is still a real thing out there like we did through the 90s and early 00s.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkFair points, but most of those effects have already been achieved and I don't believe that our deterrence posture would be significantly hurt by reaching a negotiated peace that maintains the current line of actual control without conceding territorial claims. $80 bn annually is a lot of money and at some point it would be more useful modernizing our own forces instead of just dunking on Russia while our actual pacing threat grows stronger.
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6 hours ago, Lawman said:
South Korea had been a country for a grand total of 2 years at the beginning of that Conflict. And it had been ruled by Japan from 1910 to 1945.
Comparing that negotiated outcome to a conflict where the Ukrainians are solely the force on the ground conducting combat operations is at best a bad comparison for how things should be seen as necessary to negotiate ceasing of the conflict.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkThere are important differences, as is always the case in historical comparisons. It is by no means a "bad comparison" though. Significantly: both Ukraine and Korea are countries that have been conquered by their neighbors for a couple thousand years. Both are or were threatened by their larger, more powerful neighbor. Neither would stand without U.S. support (which has a cost). Both would prefer to fight long after "victory" is a forgone conclusion.
At some point we have a right to decide that its not worth our blood and/or treasure to continue fighting a stalemate. While no Americans are dying, we have spent ~$160 billion in the last 2 years, or the equivalent of 20% of the annual DOD budget. That's enough money to buy 1,700 F-35s or 200 B-21s. Are we gaining something worth that cost? In 2022 I said yes. Now I'm not so sure. I'm open to being convinced though.
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I think a little history from another corner of the world is useful here. Look up the Korean Armistice which ended the war on the Korean Peninsula in 1953. The signatories were the U.N. (really just a proxy for the U.S.), China and North Korea. South Korea never agreed to the Armistice because they considered it a failure to reunify the peninsula. The parallels between this and the current war in Ukraine are numerous, and a similar ending may be necessary for Ukrainian officials to save face.
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1 hour ago, disgruntledemployee said:
So apparently a billionaire that got rich off high interest payday loans put up the bond for Trump, calling it a business deal. Isn't that a red flag for holding a security clearance, ie, beholden to an individual for a large sum of money and thus corruptible?
Can't be worse than the Big Guy being beholden to Chinese billionaires
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59 minutes ago, HeloDude said:
Are you saying that family members never charge others for staying in their home? I’ve known of adult children living with their parents who are charged rent.
No I'm saying you can't forge a rental agreement to pocket the allowance
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It never ceases to amaze me the lengths people will go to in order to justify defrauding the federal or state government. Other great schemes I've heard about:
Loading your car up with cinder blocks before you move
Claiming legal residence in a state you've never set foot in for tax advantage
Having family members charge you rent so that you can pocket the hotel payment on TDY
I'm sure the list goes on. At best you lie to your employer to make a quick buck and get away with it. At worst, you open yourself to serious civil & criminal liability.
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Refugees have a responsibility to seek asylum in the first safe country they reach, not the one with the best career opportunities or welfare programs. If we enforced this principle with the remain in Mexico policy we would be able to distinguish the myriad of illegal crossings from legitimate asylum claims.
As it stands you just state that you're seeking asylum, you get a court date, and you get released into the country with no risk of deportation when you skip your court appearance. How is this fundamentally different from letting 5000 people in directly? It just takes 1 extra step where you have to say the magic words.
Semantics
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58 minutes ago, Lawman said:
Oh wow a congressman said it on twitter. In like a whole sentence? Omg it must be true… except no it isn’t.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/no-the-senate-immigration-bill-does-not-allow-5000-people-to-illegally-enter-the-us-daily/
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/no-senate-border-bill-would-not-have-allowed-5000-migrants-per-day-verify/65-ad109cd1-6671-4d0c-8239-b5e4b4d4d951
Sent from my iPad using TapatalkSemantics.
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4 hours ago, Swizzle said:
Austin is worth 3 days
Might as well make it a week
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I'd recommend that men avoid sexual relations with women that will abort their children.
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59 minutes ago, stickshakergoaround said:
To be fair, I'd rather transfer that potential experience over to a mission ride where I can get aero, form, low level, instruments, etc. all in one 'free' sortie in the mission phase rather than slog through a final nav sortie where all I can do is approaches.
If students are actually flying additional flights to work on other weak areas that's great. From what I remember of pilot training if you PAed through a ride you just flew one less flight than everyone else.
As far as I'm concerned, a dozen instrument flights is such little training already that even if you have a hot streak or just feel like you're nailing it, it's still worth it to see it one more time to solidify effective habit patterns and to potentially expose you to a situation you haven't seen yet.
When you're RTB low on gas, at night and in the weather from an LFE sortie that utterly blew your mind, you'll be glad you have good habit patterns to fall back on.
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I'm sure Proficiency Advancing a few high-performing students through their last instrument ride will solve the training pipeline 🙄 Let them get the experience. How many UPT DGs have morted themselves in the traffic pattern or on ILS?
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Not to mention the attrition that will occur in UPT / PIT
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The best part is that these civilians will be the ones flying daily while the line officers bear the burden of all the paperwork required to run a squadron. If contracting schedulers didn't fix the problem I guess we'll just contract all of ops.
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18 minutes ago, Prozac said:
I don’t have an answer for that other than it strikes a balance that reflects where we are as a country. [...] This kind of debate happens all the time & somewhat arbitrary limits are set when we make laws for the benefit of society.
But that kind of debate hasn't been allowed to happen because a 7-2 majority made abortion the law of the land 50 years ago. Think about that -- this issue that countless people have anguished over and debated since time immemorial (there are records of arguments on abortion at least as far back as the Roman empire) was "settled" in 1973 by 7 people on behalf of a nation of over 300,000,000.
If it's truly about striking a balance and making the best law for the benefit of society, the issue should be left up either to the state legislatures and/or Congress so that they can enact the will of their representatives via the legislative process.
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If abortion is protected by the 14th amendment why did it take 100 years to realize it? When Roe was decided, every state in the union had laws restricting abortion.
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Need to keep Boeing in the fighter business
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4 minutes ago, Clark Griswold said:
Can't argue with you on those points, this is a pickle
Not a treaty ally but we made assurances 25+ years ago to get them to de-nuclearize to get to what we thought would be a better post Soviet arrangement, don't really have direct interests in their nation but at a very high level strategically / globally allowing them to be overrun undermines the semi-fair and basically decent rules based order that America has led for decades with every alternative to this order worse.
This should light a fire under the asses of the planning and strategy 20-lb brains in the Puzzle Palace to develop capes, systems, training and relationships with nations at the periphery of our influence and inside the threat rings of our enemies
I know there are some systems and support we can share now and are but as we are going into the turbulent 20's, we need to rapidly field systems that are affordable, attrittable with a level of technology that we are not overly concerned with being compromised. Likely unmanned in some cases, designed to be mainly operated by allies and partners to deter aggression and/or suppress constant needling aggression against them.
Vaporware UCAV from Deal of the Century would be an example:
No LO, weapons truck, unmanned, zero length launch capable, etc... launch it, they direct.it or we surreptitiously direct it and have a cape that raises the cost of aggression without the footprint that our current forces/systems bring
I agree there's plenty more we can do. I also think our standing in the world and the future of free nations that cannot defend themselves are hurt by our inaction. I suppose I'm just expressing my frustration that time after time we shoulder that burden more or less alone.
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2 minutes ago, Clark Griswold said:
But they would have to be willing to use it, methinks they don't want Ukraine to be assimilated by the Russian Borg but are not going to do anything kinetic or material if they are attacked
Not throwing spears but I double the NATO members of Western Europe would put blood and treasure on the line for Ukraine, a non-treaty ally. Now Central and Eastern Europe might as they know where this train ends if they let it get out of the station.
Fair enough, but as far as I can tell the average American shouldn't want to spend blood and treasure on Ukraine any more than the average German. With that in mind, it seems like the disposition of eastern Europe would mean a lot more to the Germans and Italians than it does to someone who won't leave America once in their life.
Yet we accept this sort of apathy from the largest countries in Europe because we don't want to make waves in the classic Cold War alliances.
What's wrong with the Air Force?
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Funny this is a "waste of millions of dollars," but the last time we renamed it was not a waste in your eyes.