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  1. robav8r

    NEWS Key Bridge - Baltimore

    Don't know. Reading various reports and articles about the automotive industry impacts (car/trucks and parts and accessories). When I was at NDU, we did a Transportation Industry study of the Port of Baltimore and I was amazed at the sheer number and type of "things" that get shipped from...
  2. robav8r

    NEWS Key Bridge - Baltimore

    Which it will, and will cost infinitely more, and take infinitely longer than necessary . . .
  3. robav8r

    NEWS Key Bridge - Baltimore

    F = M x A
  4. robav8r

    Primary Experience - Gouge 2024

    You’re killing me 🤣. Just wanting to understand process and technology.
  5. robav8r

    Primary Experience - Gouge 2024

    I know many E-2 bubbas. My AB on TR was the PIC who successfully bail-out after an engine fire in the Med (I think). V. Bowers. My line of questioning was about how the current qualification process is adapting to the technology that the Hornets have and others don't. Have always heard the...
  6. robav8r

    Primary Experience - Gouge 2024

    My question was more along the lines of the E-2 not having the automatic landing system the Hornets do (Magic Carpet, correct).
  7. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    So, in other words, CIA, right?
  8. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    Individual Augmentee. The brain child of ADM Mullen to make sure Navy folks were part of the “fight” during OIF/OEF.
  9. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    Yeah, I know. I didn't want to get too much in the weeds . . .
  10. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    I'll let a VUP-19 bubba answer your question specifically. I may have a few ppt slides during my time at N98. One of the interesting things that arose was/is the complexity of the network from the control stations in Jax to the A/C while flying. The N2/N6 folks struggled with a host of...
  11. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    So, your assertion that fixing the human capital problem should be our #1 focus as a nation right now and will make substantive contributions to labor force numbers, taxes, debt & deficits? Are you satisfied that the manner in which we are conducting immigration policy in this country is...
  12. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    That's what the Trition program is doing - controlling out of NAS Jax, deployed (currently) in Guam and very soon Sigonella.
  13. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    I deployed on FF-1065 and DDG-52, familiar with the capability differences. You still haven’t addressed the deficit and defense industrial base issue which was the genesis of my comments. Are we good to go? Will current and projected revenues take care of the deficit and all the...
  14. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    Of course. And D.C. has always had a spending problem. But we started talking about the defense industrial base, and how we got that way. I wonder what it will take for the power brokers to realize, “Holy Shit, things are really broken.” A war, depression, collapse of the dollar, insert your...
  15. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    Brett - you’re comparing a $34T national debt with a GOP talking point from the 80’s? When I joined in 81, I got a 12% pay raise, a SECNAV marching towards a 600 ship Navy, and a defense industrial base that was in a different universe than today.
  16. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    In the current administration, you’re probably right !!
  17. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    In FY-23, yes. I stand corrected. CBO's February 2024 Budget and Economic Outlook Interest costs will explode. After nearly doubling from $345 billion in 2020 to $659 billion in 2023, interest costs will double to $1.3 trillion by 2031 and reach $1.6 trillion – a record 3.9 percent of GDP –...
  18. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    This is true for the entire military industrial complex. I wonder when servicing the interest on the national debt, a number that now exceeds our ENTIRE defense budget will be addressed . . . .
  19. robav8r

    Naval Aviations "One" Problem...

    This is when Naval Aviation began to auger in . . . . :D . . . . I keed (to the OP) of course.
  20. robav8r

    Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Decompression

    I guess we’ll see . . . .
  21. robav8r

    Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Decompression

    Boy, the hits just keep on comin' for Boeing . . . .
  22. robav8r

    Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Decompression

    You would be amazed (or not) at the number of folks I work with and/or I know that have SWORN to not fly Boeing products anymore. I always ask: "how are you gonna do that?" They say they're going to "strenuously object" to the airline during the reservation or flight check-in process. I...
  23. robav8r

    Nose Wheel Popping Off Airplane

    Can you imagine the employee conversation with the insurance company and trying to hold United liable for a total loss on their vehicle?
  24. robav8r

    Primary Experience - Gouge 2024

    Slight thread jack and honest question: have always heard the E-2 is by far the most difficult to fly off the boat, requiring the best grades in flight school. True?
  25. robav8r

    Nose Wheel Popping Off Airplane

    Not a nose wheel, but exciting nonetheless :eek:
  26. robav8r

    FNAEB outcomes

    Served with a female VP pilot who started off as a Tomcat pilot. Operating around the boat, specifically at night was a bridge too far. She went on to Major Command - one of the finest officers I served with. Not being a part of the CVW is not the end of the world . . .
  27. robav8r

    FNAEB outcomes

    I wouldn't worry about that at all. However, you may end up with a FOG name tag when you check in vice a FNG one, but that's a story for another time . . . .
  28. robav8r

    Officer Program Recommendations

    You may want to consider removing the "Medical History" bullet from your post. That info is between you, your doctor and your recruiter. Just my .02c
  29. robav8r

    Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Decompression

    There is an entire section on this topic in "Skunk Works." Kelly Johnson and Ben Rich acknowledge that the passion, dedication and skill of the engineers and technicians were uniquely responsible for the success of the SR-71, F-117, and F-22. You get what you pay for I guess . . .
  30. robav8r

    Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 Decompression

    "They don’t value the engineers, they think the engineers are replaceable. You can’t take a 20- or 30-year employee and just dump them off to the side and think that you’re going to find somebody off the street that’s going to be able to do what that person does." I have heard this routinely...
  31. robav8r

    Do they still do this?

    Good observation - can’t say I disagree with you 😁
  32. robav8r

    Do they still do this?

    Saw this today . . .
  33. robav8r

    U-2 Retirement

    Gary was in my P-3 squadron many moons ago. I actually sat next to him at a Teds Bulletin in Denver while on a job and while he was on a layover. It took a cocktail or two for both of us to finally realize, "hey, aren't you . . . . . " It was a fun night . . .
  34. robav8r

    Do they still do this?

    We all did it on the TR in 2008 . . . .
  35. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    Then I would expect a hearty, thorough, integrated discussion with ALL of our NATO allies outlining the short and long term strategy to counter this “threat.” Not simply used as the latest tactic to pass more funding.
  36. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    You and Brett are missing my larger point. This is a messaging problem for the administration. Thanks for the google tips 👍🏻
  37. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    Understand - but how about a little better explanation from of the likes of John Kirby (I won't touch Karine Jean-Pierre) ??? I mean FFS, my political leanings are not a secret, but the administration could do a LOT more to help their cause in this regard, you know?
  38. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    Exactly. And certain peoples love affair with MMT aside, payments to satisfy interest on the national debt exceeding our defense budget seems a bit absurd, doesn't it?
  39. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    Understand the info on SNET/TNET, was asking more along the lines of the strategic messaging by the administration about the 5Ws of the funding requests. I understand the stop Putin in his tracks messaging, but find the way in which it’s being messaged and used for justification for increased...
  40. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    Good response, thank you.
  41. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    Because as someone who is a taxpayer and has worn the cloth of our nation for most of my adult life, I’d like a few more details about where the money is going, and has gone, and will go and how all of that folds into ours and NATOs strategy.
  42. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    Opinions of whether funding should continue aside, I find it interesting that there is very little talk (publicly) about short and long term, results-based decision making, and battlefield analysis, both short & long term on both sides. The narrative just seems to be “keep writing the checks...
  43. robav8r

    Europe under extreme duress

    Interesting article that raises more questions about the need for continued financial aid to Ukraine. The current administration (and their supportive talking heads in the media) certainly give unwavering support for seemingly never ending aid for Zelensky. Interested in your thoughts, and no...
  44. robav8r

    NEWS Seahawks Sink Houthi Boats

    Can't love this enough 😍 But Holy Moly, don't let the libtards see this, they'll go apoplectic !!!
  45. robav8r

    NEWS Seahawks Sink Houthi Boats

    Uh oh, I can hear the Viking warriors getting fired up !!!
  46. robav8r

    Anyone Shoot Competitively?

    Went there for "IA" training as well, enroute CENTCOM HQ in Tampa. I could have used more "Mons Venus" engagement familiarization training than how to shoot an M4 and wear body armor. It was a glorious, oops, arduous three months . . .
  47. robav8r

    Your retirement plans . . .

    Got Shingles right after I retired in 2018. It sucked . . . . . Got both of the new Shingles vaccines, no issues since . . . .
  48. robav8r

    USN (Current) SNA switching to SNFO possible?

    You are being short-sighted, immature, and not completely honest with yourself. Being a Naval Officer, let alone a Naval Aviator / Naval Flight Officer will require a level of commitment and sacrifice that you obviously don't appreciate yet. And that's OK, for now. If you ask many on this...
  49. robav8r

    Your retirement plans . . .

    Black Rock and Vanguard are gobbling these up like free pizza at a frat party . . . .
  50. robav8r

    Your retirement plans . . .

    There used to be a Playboy Club there to, but I digress . . . .
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