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Because if you took Stat 101, you would learn that as long as the demographics of those 1,429 people are a close match to the demographics of 330 million Americans, then you will get +- 3.4% of what you would have gotten by polling all 330 million . . . and it's much cheaper to do. The hard...

It seems like half of VAQ of a certain era knows me by my TRACOM callsign and half by my fleet callsign. ?‍♂️

Once in my younger days. That is a TRACOM callsign I haven't gone by in almost 15 years. :)

I didn't mean it in a negative way, either; just remembering that no matter how important you get, someone remembers your JO days.

Just remember for every senior officer, there are multiple former JOs going, “oh, THAT doofus.” :)

I would follow proper doctrine and tactics as currently published and then not post about it on the internet.

Two posts deleted and this one close to it. All of you fucking stop with the personal attacks.

And both of your lives were probably equally in danger.

This is up there with Bill O'Brien calling our squad a "bunch of fuckers" in 2012 after we upset Wisconsin . . .

The satellites are there for a reason (high-speed internet to folks who otherwise wouldn't have it), and the car is in an orbit that's like 99.999 percent likely not to do anything in the next few centuries. He still would have had to throw a mass simulator of some kind on Falcon Heavy for it...

For better or worse, Franklin is a CEO coach who will live and die by his coordinators. The portion of our fanbase expecting 12-0 every regular season is insane. Even Joe in his 1960s-80s prime couldn't do that, even with his one last run in 1994. Nick Saban has broken people's brains...

It's reported to be an AFSOC asset.

Thread titles on this site have a tendency to mainly be markers for where the discussion started, regardless of where it actually ends up going.

Probably depends on whether or not intent is part of the things you have to prove in order to prove a crime was committed. Some things are crimes regardless of whether you intended to commit them, but others require you intentionally or knowingly do a thing. Like you can't unintentionally...

Either that's Penn State sports media melting down, or else I wouldn't advise going anywhere near Three Mile Island.

Apparently Mike Yurcich has a religious belief that passes over 10 yards are heresy and abomination. ?

It appears a Serna-class is basically a glorified LCU. So good on 'em, but not as big of a hit as Slava, the Kilo, or the two or three big amphibs they've whacked.

I'm not saying it needs to be FAA policy that we allow people into the cockpit while tripping balls, or even allow aircrew to do shrooms in the first place. But while this guy is responsible for his poor choices on that front, there's also arguably a chain of events that led to him holding...

Shoulda gotten one in our JO days, the price has gone off the charts since. I almost snagged one with my severance as a leaving-active-duty memento, but thought “naa, get hired first.” Then they started jacking the price.

‘Is This Hell?’ The Pilot Accused of Trying to Crash a Plane Tells His Story. Just goes to show that you can make up whatever standards you want, but if people feel compelled to hide shit, they aren’t the actual standards you’re going to get.

See, when someone said “SIPR porn,” I thought he’d found some obscure way to step down SIPR-to-NIPR real time, and I was like “woah, probably not cool.”

Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more, say no more . . .

Now show it covered in white tape.

Wait . . . is that a typo? I suppose if not, there’s an answer that’s probably not discussable here anyway.

I was a nerd back when they could kill me. If either of us is having to do SA-11/SA-17 ambiguity analysis in 2023, something has gone horribly wrong.

This isn’t surprising. At any moment there are tons of men on the Earth not in an actual sexual relationship who nevertheless manage to, you know, deal with it without becoming raging conspiracy-driven misogynists. If a girl doesn’t want to sleep with you, that’s a “you” problem, not a “her”...

“See, I’m smart! I won’t just engage in a criminal enterprise. I’ll use smart ORM by engaging in a thoroughly documented criminal enterprise using my official identification! Brilliant!”

People who have a crappy love life and act all creepy about it like they’re the only guy in the world who’s not getting tail at the moment. Or people using the term to accuse other people of acting like those people. Think “guy who’s concocted some world-spanning conspiracy theory about his...

As the Dude would say, I guess you’re not into the whole brevity thing . . .

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It amused me how the NAWDC staffers were so keen on always referring to certain bandits in a tape debrief as "an F-16 Fighting Falcon."

SA-8 and SA-11 systems, for the love of God. I don't care if the Russians designated it the 42Zh69WTFBBQ, NATO's system doesn't make my brain hurt.

Well, you’ve got a 50/50 shot at being right, minimum.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/08/politics/high-end-brothel-network-arrests/index.html Those still in stand by for SAPR Training Variant #465. Hookers Я bad, mmkay?

So is “Captain, It Won’t Shoot” now a joint doctrinal term?

It’s a good thing that if you can lock it up on radar to launch a $2M missile at it, I bet you can also shoot $5,000 worth of bullets at it.

Future posts in this vein and with this lack of civility will be deleted.

<SARCASM> . . . what you do mean the mere holding of a security clearance won't guarantee you a comfortable six-figure job in project management with a company that's never been and never will be a cleared defense contractor? They told me my military career let me absorb such mad project...

Proportionality is evaluated as it relates to military advantage obtained, not body count ratios. That was the whole justification behind Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at least from those who argue that the bombs were necessary. They killed scores of civilians . . . but it ended the war. Yes, I...

The problem is not just what is explicity classified, but what unclassified info can be pieced together into a larger classified picture. Literally no one who can credibly answer the question is going to talk about CV force protection in restricted waters other than to say that it exists.

I used products which were developed by other people using calc. :)

My point is that khaki should be all on the same page about what's appropriate and what's petty, and if that's not flowing from the front office, something's wrong. I mean, technically, shit-hot flight suits, patched-up Nomexes (if they even still do that now that Massif is a thing), Red Wings...

LOL . . . I can count on zero hands the number of times I had to use calc in my 20-year active and reserve career. TPS and the Developmental Test community are the only time I can think any of those mad engineering skillz would be relevant, though I'll defer to those who actually did that job.

If we're in a spot where the goat locker is pushing the ready room around, you have more serious problems, because your XO is a coward. No, "aviation culture" isn't an excuse for looking like a bag of ass, but if Master Chief is being unreasonably petty about gigging folks on their uniforms...

And three years ago, the idea that we would be having a major land war in Europe that risked bogging down into a WWI-style stalemate would have gotten you laughed out of the room. Obviously, everything would be "hybrid warfare" in the future, because war is expensive and Gerasimov and Putin...

Step 1: Figure out just why we as a military and a society are failing so horribly at convincing Gen Z that the military is an honorable career choice, and that the Constitution is worth preserving, protecting, and defending. It's like everything else where people bitch about "kids these...

As someone with a tech degree who had to get back into the industry post-Navy, I will say that while I have some priceless experiences, being able to afford a Tesla Model X or Rivian in my early 40s would also be nice. You pays your money and you takes your chances.

One of these people, while I disagree strongly with some of his policy positions, is a retired O-6 Intruder pilot with combat time over Iraq in Desert Storm and a NASA astronaut with multiple spaceflights. The other is a pathetic washed-up ball coach whose main accomplishment is having his nose...

strokes majestic retired guy beard For me, I had the weird experience of getting myself back on the golden path in SELRES land, but then looking at the ROI for bucking for O-6+ and just going "nope." First go be a CO for no additional pay and a hell of a lot more work for a "part-time" job...