raimius
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On 7/14/2021 at 6:05 AM, RedEye1911 said:
Do not stay in a PIT pad. You get $109 per day (more than $3k per month). A PIT pad is throwing your money away, especially if you are bringing your family.
Rent a furnished house.
Yeah, I am looking for whole house versions, not just a room.
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Any tips for family/pet friendly PIT pads?
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Do a good job and remember that you were selected to teach the basics (because that's all you probably know at this point). Be humble, approachable, and don't try to give any "in the real AF" lectures.
As far as in the office, look for projects that interest you, and when given a task, go do it well. The young officers who can be tasked "fire and forget" style with consistently good results usually are looked kindly upon.
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If you go early enough that the issue is still minor, maybe.
For significant issues, I don't think there is a ton of trust from the aircrew side.
...there are plenty of alternative options, fortunately.
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4 hours ago, jazzdude said:
Generally agree with you, at least fair the general public. The difference here is that as a member of the military, we are in a position of trust (some positions now than others). It's why we have a security clearances with recurring investigations, and why we can handle classified materials and information not released to the general public.
So there becomes a balancing point between your individual right to free speech, and whether the opinions you express indicate you shouldn't be in a position of trust within the government.
However, trust works both ways. If the monitoring is overly aggressive or overly broad, it'll hurt morale (or degrade performance) in the military, and become a deterrent for people to join or stay in the military.Generally agreed. For things like security clearance investigations, I don't think reviewing public associations and posts for indicators of compromised personnel is going too far. Those are valid, imo. They should be on a schedule, known to the personnel being investigated, and strictly limited in use.
Nebulous "monitoring" of all social media for administrative and punitive purposes is almost guaranteed to generate abuses.
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6 hours ago, Waingro said:
The first amendment doesn't protect one from consequences. You're welcome to put anything you'd like on your Facebook page, but there's nothing saying you won't face consequences from doing so.
Let's extend that argument to it's logical (and historically practiced) conclusion:. You are free to say whatever you want, but if the government doesn't approve, it may fine, imprison, or kill you.
...does that sound like "freedom of speech" to you?
I'd say your argument is dead nuts wrong. The 1st Amendment is PRECISELY there so that you can voice opinion without government punishment.
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CDC says vaccinated people don't need masks.
..and the talking heads explode.
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On 4/22/2021 at 11:09 PM, arg said:
So I remember Trey Gowdy talking about this. The right of the press to exercise their freedom has privileges but comes with responsibilities. When they become irresponsible they should lose those privileges. The latest example of that would be the reporting on the shooting in Columbus. We could go back to the reporting of Trevon Martin, or even further, and many stories in between as other examples. Is this not akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater? This is a tricky situation because I don't really want the .gov to be able to shut down a news outlet because the party in charge will just shut down the ones that disagree with them.
I really don't want the government telling reporters what they can say...
That said, perhaps changing the libel standards would help. I think you should be able to sue against companies that intentionally report false information. (I don't think there is a good legal solution for slanted reporting, as it is so subjective.)
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4 hours ago, HeloDude said:
Did you use the Silencer Shop kiosk?
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That's a good turn around. My form 4 for a can has been sitting since Aug...
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The market will go down at some point. The question is more how deep and how long? (Sts)
For retirement savings a 10-20% dip for a year or two should be recoverable. If you get a decade of negative returns, that will hurt people's plans a lot.
If you are about to retire, it may be a good idea to have a couple years worth of money in super low risk savings/funds. That way, you don't have to sell at a loss during a temporary crash.
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10 hours ago, CaptainMorgan said:
I think he means they’ll 7 day opt...
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkDing!
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3 hours ago, CaptainMorgan said:
They don’t have to let them x train to send them to UPT, which is still undermanned.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkAssign everyone to Laughlin. That should fix your "over manning" problem right quick.
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The formula of basic, primary, and advanced trainers has worked since before WWII. I don't see any serious arguments as to why it should be scrapped.
As to whether you should have a T38/T7 split with T1s, I can't speak to that very well, although introducing a CRM habits to those going to crew aircraft earlier makes sense. Having all fixed wing students go through a universal set of training also makes sense.
Helo only track is a bad idea. The AF already doesn't understand helos, and further divorcing them from fixed wing aircrew won't help. Also, siloing helo students from the start will limit the student pools on both sides.
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55 minutes ago, pbar said:
Imagine you're the INDOPAC commander and the day the invasion of Taiwan starts you get a text stating all your bank accounts have been drained, your IRAs drained, etc. and if you lead the response it's all gone permanently. Sure enough, you check and all your accounts have been erased. Imagine how that would mess with your head...
Hopefully they'd send a link to Ceelo Green's "Forget you" right back.
...but that would suck (sts).
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8 hours ago, VMFA187 said:
Quantity has a quality all its own...
Partly to blame I think is the inability with the US populace to accept significant losses, hence our reliance upon such technologically advanced capabilities.
I mean, I appreciate dying less.
That said, losing a war because your 100 high-tech things got destroyed by 1000 middle-tier weapons isn't acceptable.
We are failing to maintain the "high/low" mix we occasionally talk about.
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One can argue we won WWII because we had a vast quantity of decent quality. The Panther and Tiger tanks were better than the Sherman or T34 in many respects...but not when facing 10 or 20:1 odds...
We seem to have forgotten that lesson.
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On 3/11/2021 at 10:29 AM, kaputt said:
Oh I definitely agree a Cirrus SR-20 is not actually a toy for the rich.
If you have an extra $300-400k for a new GA aircraft, you probably sit in the upper brackets of income levels. That's more than the average US house price. Let's not kid ourselves about how rich one likely is to be able to afford a new production GA aircraft.
I wish GA was a middle-class hobby, but it isn't if you shop new.
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7 hours ago, Pooter said:
I think we're conflating two things here. Whether or not you should get the vaccine, and the Air Force's dumpster fire policies relating to covid are two completely separate issues.
Anyone who has been in the Air Force for more than a day should have been able to predict that they'd enact idiotic policies, and commanders would revert to extreme risk aversion. But none of that should play into your decision of whether or not to get the vaccine. Getting the vaccine should be based on your personal health and that is it. Big Air Force nonsense shouldn't play into that decision and neither should politics.
But what I'm seeing in the 1/3rd of service members turning down the vaccine are a bunch of political blowhards refusing it out of spite. It's a selfish act of political defiance, a middle finger at big blue and the libtard lockdown people, with not a second thought given to their actual health.
And that is a problem.The long term side effects of the vaccine (if any) are still unknown. The COVID risk to a 18-42yr old person in good health is fairly low. Given that the .gov will probably deny coverage for any longer term issues ("hey, you volunteered for a non-FDA approved treatment, that's on you"), is the hesitation that unfounded?
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6 hours ago, Breckey said:
From what I've heard the H-1 is running into problems right now because the SPO never "certified" the GNS-530 for any RNAV criteria so they're in a kind of limbo where they can do RNAV approaches but don't have an RNAV/RNP cerfication.The H-1 doesn't have RNAV-x or RNP certification. It can do RNAV and LNAV/LNAV+V/LPV approaches.
...or at least that's my current understanding. Without much range, wx radar, or anti-ice, IMC isn't something we do very much, just go SVFR to class G, when able.
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Having some air sense and basic skills will help. If you get stuck in old habits, it will hurt.
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Suppressed .22 bolt actions always make me smile.
I like them for rifles too, as it is basically an extra set of ear pro. (Actually, even better)
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22 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:
So, once this guy is arrested, what do they charge him with? Insurrection and revolution are terms people like to throw around...but when some idiot actually tries it???
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If the Dems win by a narrow margin, the conspiracy theorist will go nuts, and have a lot of Republicans following them. We already have some polls showing a majority of Republicans saying the Nov election is untrustworthy...what happens when the race goes to the Dems after many people on both sides said it favored the Repubs?
It might get ugly.
Degradation of SUPT
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Sorry to hear that, but good on you for not going 100% into despair mode.
Success at UPT should probably be factored in graduation numbers meeting goals and producing acceptably skilled new pilots. The AF is fairly good at tracking the first metric, but the second is much more questionably measured
I know I took the full syllabus plus a few rides, back when it was like 90hrs in T-6s. New iterations don't give students that much time to figure it out. Is that necessarily bad? Not if you can meet production and quality goals... although I question the quality side. We are either cutting the slower learners or graduating pilots with lesser knowledge/skills, imo.