DirkDiggler

My guess is it has something to do with the 4 murders and suicides the SFG there has had this year.

Glad he got out.

Based on the current and future plans for aviation pipelines across all the services, I honestly believe that the Bobs have made a conscious decision to accept higher mishaps rates and lower quality of product, at least in the near to mid term in order to up production numbers. They’re just not outright saying that. As an FTU CI, it’s frustrating. The FTU syllabus for the airframes I teach are based on the legacy UPT/UCT product. A lot of the T-6 direct to the FTU students are struggling. It’s not their fault; most of them are hungry, have a good attitude, and study. They’re just behind in multiple areas because they haven’t gotten enough reps before they show up here.

Right now they have the advantage since CSOs/WSOs seem to be the bulk of the people that are staying in.

How War in Taiwan Ends: If Deterrence Fails, Could America Thwart China?

Hope I’m wrong but that looks bad

I know very little about him besides the recent uniform focus shenanigans. What are his negatives?

I'd have to look at the slides again but I'm pretty sure eventually when UPT goes to a single aircraft model (T-7) there's different syllabi after track select depending on which type you track ie Heavy guys wouldn't be flying events like 4 ship form. IIRC after track select Heavy students basically go direct to the FTU. Edit to add: if you have a .mil email PM me and I can send you the placemat slide explaining the current plan.

Anyone have any experience with owning or flying a Socota TB-20 or 21?

AF is currently progged to buy Bombardier bizjets to replace C-146 NSav.

Would like to give another shout out to Jon at Trident, just finished a refi with them and it was super easy/seamless, especially compared to the first one I did years ago that wasn’t with Trident. Would absolutely recommend for any mortgage needs.

Beyond FPVs: Learning the Lessons of the Ukraine War—All of Them - Modern War Institute Pretty good read.

Honest question; he was retired, how did he get strong armed into it?

The Soviets initially built the place; maybe he meant give it back to them. I’d be all for letting the Jawas mort some more Russkies.

What is the US Military Preparing For? Force Design and the Pathology of Lessons Learned - Modern War Institute Long but good read.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5512254-taliban-trump-afghanistan-bagram-air-base-return/amp/ Doesn’t look like the Jawas are on board with this.

It's very difficult for me to imagine a world/scenario where going back to that filthy shithole and dumping more of our blood and treasure into the dirt there would be a good idea.

It was/is pretty embarrassing. Mine is chambered in .357. Was shooting it out at the range with a buddy of mine, he says “.38 is cheaper, I’ve got some, let’s put that through it.” First round doesn’t make it out of the barrel/just not enough oomph. I take it home and instead of just tapping the bullet out and calling it a day I decide I’m gonna field strip and clean after I’ve put a grand total of maybe 50 rounds through the thing. Random pieces just kept falling out the more I took it apart. YouTube videos weren’t overly helpful. After about the 300th “fuck” or “cocksucker” my wife told me to take a break. I’m probably gonna take it to a gunsmith, I just don’t think I have the patience.

I may or may not have a Henry lever action sitting in pieces in a bag after this exact same experience.

I had posted about this a couple pages back. These are trial groups. AF wants data on how students will do going from light singles/twins straight to a fast jet aka the eventual IFT model (light twins straight to T-7).

Since a good chunk of Hegseth’s time as SecDef seems to be spent doing/posting workout videos with users one can assume that Hegseth was working out with the SEALs, a fierce argument about the merits of Ranger panties ensued, which rapidly devolved into “oh yeah, take those pants off, you’re fired.”

On 1st glance I’d agree, the whole thing seems a bit silly. I’m more curious who he pissed off. Said individual is very political and would do almost anything to get ahead. He used to keep 2 extra covers in his car as a Lt., one with an eagle on it and one with a star on it as a reminder/motivator for where he wanted to go.

Not fired yet, but it’s probably coming.

What a cross to bear…..

Good buddy of mine was a T-6 FAIP at Laughlin; he got tagged to do incentive flights for some ROTC cadets going through Field Training. A friend of his was doing the some thing during the same Vul and taxis out first. As my buddy taxis into the hammerhead and catches up to the other airplane, he realizes something doesn't look right; low and behold the other airplane is now a convertible. The IP in question told the cadet in the backseat to put the ejection selector in command forward; cadet pulls the wrong handle and blows the canopy instead. Needless to say incentive flights were put on ice for a while after that.