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I found this a good resource to nerd out about why there’s a door-shaped hole there.

Divorced dads whose kids hate them and whose mom has to step in when they insist on cage fighting their rival?

Yea, but they’re handing over Fat Leonard too

Detailed write up: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7

Reading “Dream Machine” on Kodak’s recommendation and it opens with early inventors who pursued rotorcraft believing they would be safer than conventional aircraft. ….. Well done guys.

When the first reply is ”you can’t prevent 100% of sexual assault“ and the second is about “barracks bunnies” waving the flag of false reporting, maybe the OP is justified in having a chip What’s the safety culture in that community? Well, you can’t prevent 100% of crashes. I mean, those jokers...

Was opted in. PNA disappeared. Opted out. nope. Opted in. Nope.

It's not necessary now, and who knows what the industry will be like in 10 years. Focus on the next step and let the rest take care of itself. There are some gatekeepers you have to plan ahead for. E.g. a STEM degree for NPS or Astronaut Program. Your post-commitment plans will likely depend...

Math. I'd done some app dev (watched the Stanford online CS193P iPhone development classes that are top-notch) which helped with the application but only one or two CS classes. But once I got there I decided I wanted to start from advanced undergrad classes. So in reality it was a stealth CS...

Experience counts. Boot camp is a helpful introduction to the basic tools that you can leverage to figure out next steps, whether that's building something more complex as a developer, or slotting into an enabler role like Scrum Master. But it's still just 4/6/however many months. A CS 4-year...

"Marine Corps spokesman says everything is A-ok. Also, there are no morale problems in 2nd Mardiv."

Culturally, practically no one did it even years ago when I last flew. Enough trouble keeping them flying without a gear stuck gripe. Didn't do much for fuel consumption or max airspeed so the risk/reward wasn't really there. In four years I remember doing so exactly twice.

I mean, there is https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/navy-hopes-landing-tweaks-will-increase-osprey-cargo-capacity-1.390493

Content farm repost of a blog article by what seems to be a native Italian.

When I looked into it I think it was an engineering solution for runways that can't simply be extended to provide additional runoff space - whether due to encroachment or geography.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-us-arms-deals-yemen-war-crimes-a7355771.html Maybe not boots, but definitely bombs. The Houthis probably feel the same way about the US-made bombs landing on them (that the Saudi's of course, are so discriminate in their use of)...

Apparently, yes. http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/11/09/petraeus_resigns_over_affair_with_biographer.html

When I was there, Marines were responsible for base security. I can't imagine it's changed. As far as I could tell, the Jordanians were learning from our MP's the finer points of speed traps and how to be an asshole cop.

Since when has the DoD publicly aired concern about setbacks? I guarantee you the guys responsible for getting and giving CAS are giving it plenty of attention, but there's no need for it in the press. ISAF insisted that there would be no impact to air or ground operations at Bastion......shades...

Somebody's getting court-martialed.

Didn't a Southwest 737 land at an OLF that was 3 miles short of final to the regional airport? At least, that's how I remember the story going.

Another account: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/how-us-software-ended-up-in-chinese-assault-helicopters/ According to that, P&W exported it as dual-use for a helicopter with military and civil variants, though the civil variant seemed to be little more than a flimsy cover that was...

I don't think he meant in-flight, but if you want in-flight weather, there's ADS-B http://www.foreflight.com/stratus

The MARDMIN came out on Friday, but you have to submit a paper form as mypay doesn't yet support it (shocking). http://www.marines.mil/news/messages/Pages/MARADMIN295-12.aspx/ but the rest of you will have to wait until later this year. I guess park the money in a savings account until then...

We use those too; I thought they were owned by Raytheon now. The hardware updates have gone a long way to making it faster and more responsive, but the interface is still from the 1990's (stylus on top of Windows) and needs to be brought up to modern touch interface conventions.

Having tried to use them in theater, it's a hack. A useful hack that fills a niche for a few players but it's not a long-term solution for many reasons. That said, Foreflight + BadElf dongle is the tits for CONUS flying (for us poor bastards without our own moving map)

And pilot_man, I must have slept in on political indoctrination day in the HT's, where they weeded out different viewpoints and handed out the kool-aid; that must have been a VT thing. These wings mean I'm qualified to fly a naval aircraft in some of the same shitty skies you've been in. And...

So what's your point, that grief is a carte blanche to play fast and loose with how we treat people? That it doesn't make a difference whether or not they were involved in the death of Americans? That sounds awfully and dangerously close to the justification Faisal Shazad (and other Pakistanis)...

Because they were not. Terrorism is a form of violence distinct from warfare, usually defined as against civilians, noncombatants, or some other measure of distinction from combat forces. The rank and file Taliban are not terrorists by definition, though some associated groups like the Haqqani...

And yet a not insignificant portion of the country wants to make flag-burning illegal. Even though the proper method of disposal....is to burn it. We're not as different as you'd think or protest to be. Everyone has their sacred cows.

As a JO, your taxable income is already quite low, especially if you're pulling tax-free deployment pay. You want to pay taxes now while you're still "poor" on paper, vice later, so the Roth is more applicable. Also, consider that earnings in a Roth non-taxable, so the relatively little amount...

Max normal contribution is 5,000. Max TSP contribution on top is 17,000 this year. Quite a deal if you have the cash to do it.

The 40% limit from idle to 100% Nr is in the CH-53D NATOPS too, and the gouge reason is so it doesn't turn on deck. Don't remember it in the E NATOPS, though.

Glock trigger in the sense that functionally, it's a 6-8 lb trigger consistently from shot to shot with no external safety. My understanding is that both the DAK and the LEM were intended to emulate the trigger and control characteristics of a striker-fired system with a hammer-based system. I...

I think we stood up at least skid and a shitter squadron. Can't speak for the fixed wing side, but aren't we getting less F-35's than the airframes they're replacing? Similarly for the ospreys?

Well there's 2 CH-53D squadrons that will cadre in the next year for a few years before (presumptively) standing back up as a CH-53K and MV-22 squadron.

I have a P30 that I specifically ordered with the LEM, can't remember if it was V2 or V4. It's a glock trigger, basically, that doesn't suck. It's a double-action only trigger where the action of the slide half-cocks the hammer so the trigger pull is only 7.3lb (V2) or 6.2lb(V4). Consistent...

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/16570338/6-kaneohe-marines-killed-in-afghanistan-helicopter-crash-identified Names released. It's not been a good year for the Red Lions.

I passed your thanks along on the marineocs thread.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877 Popular Mechanics account of the last minutes of the flight.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/business/civilian-planes-pressed-into-military-spy-service.html?WT.mc_id=BU-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M218-ROS-0911-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click Also in yesterday's e-bird, I believe.

We have new shorts? Are these the quasi-swim trunks with the black liner?

The article was a bit confusing, because the Navy runs the contract (or pays the bill), but the planes in the renewed contract are destined for the Marines and Air Force. The buy for Navy use.....is still up in the air. I thought it was more a COD vehicle for the Navy.

The gheyness has spread greenside. Formation run...LOI specifies no five fingers.

As an example of gucci gear, I'm rather amused by the idea of putting O2 in the CH-53K - a prime example of designing for a very limited problem of today. How often are we as a sea service going to be fighting in strategically relevant terrain above 10,000k feet? I guarantee you that gear's...

Yay for platform parochialism, the creation of fiefdoms, and the silly idea that future wars will look like the last two. Aerodynamic technology has long hit the point of diminishing returns; hypersonic bombers haven't quite materialized like they were expected to in the 1980's; the next...

The Army has banned them because they "detract from a professional military image" in the pt uniform. http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/06/29/looks_vs_results_get_your_army_hands_off_my_snazzy_five_finger_running_shoes Supremely retarded.

And if you're willing to put in the time, you can get that kind of leverage (and the same risk/rewards) with options and other derivatives.

Ok, I'll bite. So when buying stocks you're paying market value unless you have the time and knowledge......but houses are different? You assume a steady rental income, and you make a pretty bold assumption in your document that you'll get $1250 rent for a $134k house. By comparison, the half...

There are (or rather, will shortly will be) two, actually.