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Bit of useless trivia, the door gunner was originally casted as the drill Sgt , but the Gunny became a legend for his performance.

Don't you find this is not funny anymore since this first time in NORADs history that they have shot something down.

Why is it that every movie or show you watch about the CIA there are always agents, directors or political heads are always dirty except for Tom Clancy fiction. Guess the Hollywood writers just have to read the papers.

Guys who know me really think I'm a nice guy who is too brutally honest.

But from non rated officers in all the support functions they get leadership roles with enlisted troops when they are 2Lt's to until they get passed over for Major and leave as Capt.'s. This flying stuff really screws up more than it helps.

I'm still trying to figure out why I had mx officers. Here have some rope, let me know if you need some more. Dang! what happened to that guy, he was only here two weeks, Darn! I didn't even know his name. Only thing he said to me I'm a Cal Berkley Graduate and I'm smarter than you. Boy Howdy did he impress the shit out of me. The only ones I ever needed were O-5's and above. If I was King of the USAF, my plan was how Chuck Yeager started his career as a commissioned officer. He started as rated mx officer who flew all the FCF's and OCF's. Maybe it should go to the way the Naval Ops sq does it, pilots have to do leadership on the ground by leading mx troops. If your name was on the side of the jet, it was your responsibility to write the Crew Chiefs EPR and make sure he gets an end of tour medal. Rated Majors would run mx and hopefully by the time they get their own CC job they understand health of the fleet and just not sortie count. MX and Cop Sq's are huge and have very busy First Sgt's, if you know you know, historically those guys are treated like shit and are pounded with constant extended 12 hour shifts with no days off. Which to leads to why they are always undermanned because no one reenlists, the enlistee raises his hand the first time, but his family reenlists. Also bring back Warrant Officer, that way a technically shit hot E-5 or E-6 doesn't have to eat shit from the Top 3 so they get a decent board score. I retired an E-7 but I knew I would never be a Chief due to that I could never get off the flight line. Most of my fellow senior E's were nothing but backstabbing apple polishers, they were given jobs off the flight line just to get them out of the workflow because they suck. Unfortunately, they were the ones who made Chief due to showing they had diverse career broadening assignments, in reality they were getting moved every 6 months due to effing up that section they had to move them. Plus, their EPR was written in way that he was a water walker and not the Charlie foxtrot he was. The good ones were kept on the line and were manipulated by the Chiefs to make sure they stayed on the line making the Wing King money. My only shot of getting off the line was interviewing for a Wing Safety job. My incentive was a slot for the NTSB crash investigation course if I got that job. The Vice Wing CC interviewed me and told me then to report back Monday. This was a Thursday and started doing PCA paperwork. Friday morning get called into the Chiefs office, got told you're not going anywhere. He told me point blank you will be on that flight line with a brick and schedule to make sure we make that schedule. I'm sure if I was milk toast maintainer, I would have gotten that job because the guy who got it sure was.

Beware of the JFK file dump, it could make the US population distrust their govt even more.

RC-135's have extremely long missions, flying a KC-135 for long missions is hampered by the majority of the force is not receiver capable, the KC-135RT's are being retired, two are on the tarmac at Shepard as ground trainers plus the RT's center wing tanks are smaller and can't hold as much as a standard R model. The CFM's do use oil but if the proper servicing is done and maintained well, i.e., all oil leaks fixed 20 hr. missions should be no problem. 135's are on a calendar type inspection, every 5 years they go through a PDM, 72-hour preflight interval, 50-hour home station ck which includes landing gear strut reservicing, lowering the boom checking surge boots and shock absorber. After a couple B-1, B-52 or C-5 offloads the 135 is RTB. But RT's can push fuel through its receptacle through the boom into a standard R model but can't remember that capability was ever used. Maybe in my old SAC days when we practiced for the end of the world, we did practice lowering a boom and hooking up a hose to it, firing up an engine to refuel Buffs. Q now T models had to do that for the SR-71 when they IFE'd and diverted. JP-7 was hard to find.

I guess the next AZ gov won just like Biden won, just stay in basement and run from your opponent. I'm done. I no hope for my country when the young people vote the least common denominator. Cut your nuts off, sew your vagina up, kill the next generation in the womb, my body my choice except when it comes to covid vacs. Call for farming to end while you're wearing clothes made out of cotton.

Reminds me of the Pope midair when a F-16 collides with a C-130 in the pattern, the F-16 crashes into a parked C-141 loading paratroopers, many dead and horribly burned. Historical note, during WW2 this was a common occurrence over England when huge number of bombers were forming up on their way to Germany. Been up close and personal with that B-17 and the crew having many conversations with them plus helping them wrench. My thoughts with their families and the foundation that kept it flying.

Having a buddy who was a B-2 Pro Super and having him explain their processes , since the coatings were a gillion dollars a gallon which they have to scrape off to get access to components which required hazmat protocols. They did not paint until they knew they it was a good jet. Plus boomers better have their A game for AR's, scratching the paint could cause a mission canx.

They probably fly the jet without the low observable paint to save money, when they do it most likely goes into the paint hanger for a week to correct that. We do the same with ours. Come out of major inspections then fly it to get the cobwebs out of it, then to paint hangar for the special coatings then green it up for real world taskings.

Refueling Danish F-16's and over azimuth the boom and snaps the cable, it bull whips the elevators and ruddervators. Down for two weeks.

Never seen behind the blast fence and if it did happen it was usually a TSgt or MSgt, I found sending a young troop who wasn't performing well to the AOR usually shaped him to finally understand what we really did was important. I've seen them transform into reliable assets. Back then a well-respected/feared Chief all he had to say I'm disappointed in you and it would destroy you. If the Chief called, you into the office you know you effd up.

The current batch of E-8's and E-9's, saw it when I retired in 2003 E-7, is the fault of the Flag officers who wanted Senior E's who got there like they did. Didn't want crusty Chiefs anymore behind closed doors telling them that their policy is crap. When I started in 1981, we only had only had a CMSAF and a bunch of senior enlisted advisors, all were Viet Nam vets or actually helped Lemay at the auto hobby shop on Offutt. Saw the change after Desert Storm, the Senior E's who didn't go started to make life hard on the guys who did. The Espirit De Corp after the storm in ops and mx was through the roof and was destroyed by peace dividend. So, the guys who sat on the boards discounted wartime deployed experience and chose special duty, how many duty titles they had, etc. I read Chief Bass's bio, can't figure out what her AFSC was.

During that time period lots of E-8's and 7's who made sure to go class C for dental or carpal tunnel when it was their turn to deploy. Then they got directed they will deploy or get out and marked down on their board scores for never been deployed in their 20 year career. That is when we saw the rash of guys who brought nothing to the fight but making themselves a pain in ass. Spent their time being uniform haircut police and writing each other bronze stars so they can make E-9.

After 3 marriages it just becomes an expensive hobby.

In Clancy's book The Cardinal of the Kremlin, he promoted me from SSgt to SMSgt, then I was crewing C-137's. He came out to the jet for research on how the 89th carried out routine trips to Moscow and why we always stopped in Helsinki in the late 80's.

Since the attack on the pipeline was a successful operation it tells me it was not performed by the Russians. Has the Russian military done anything successfully in modern history unless they are using brute strength and overwhelming numbers against their enemies. I question their abilities to maintain their nuclear arsenal as witnessed by the shape of their ground forces. Also, I wonder if this is Russia's last stand, their demographics are in the toilet, WW2 has them still hurting from losing 80% of the men born in the 1920's.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRmXgJfn/, oil man from Oklahoma, straight shooter explains what actually happens in the energy sector.

Last check was $117.00, we bought groceries.

My wife's Great Grandpa rode in both Oklahoma land runs, he was good on a horse, which means they never sold the mineral rights. Still get royalty checks for wells that pump natural gas. I'm wondering if those royalty checks will be going up now.

The 300000 call up is actually a million who want no part of this voluntary war. How do you equip and train a million troops when the original 190000 who went into Ukraine didn't have the required logistics to fight. Will the next wave have WW1 bolt action rifles with WW2 tanks and artillery. I'm guessing it will look like the opening scene from "Enemy at the Gates" moving troops into Stalingrad. Plus with St Petersburg city council accusing Putin of treason, where he got his start in politics, is it wise to give a million men arms who hate your guts.

I wonder if we still had a presence at Manas the Tajiks would be doing this, the Canadians are heavily invested in mining in Kyrgyzstan also.

Hell Ron could have sent them to Vale, Aspen, or any other place where limousine liberals own ritzy properties. How about a ranch in Montana owned by a Hollywood liberal with go away signs everywhere. All these places have already chased away middle-class trade guys who make modern life possible due to exuberant rent and real estate prices.