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  1. Jim123

    Space Force Officer Relieved After Denouncing CRT/Marxism

    One thing I secretly hope is that if liberal arts and humanities programs required "math and science for dummies" electives, I mean across the board the way undergrad engineering programs require several credit hours of arts courses to make you a more "well-rounded person," then that would have...
  2. Jim123

    Space Force Officer Relieved After Denouncing CRT/Marxism

    Teachers' unions influence policy. I say that apolitically When a group influences something the way you like then it's a good thing. If they do it in a way with which you disagree then it's a bad thing. Regardless, they do influence it, and strongly. (I do wish they'd flex their political...
  3. Jim123

    Little known / experimental aircraft

    Sounds like what the Jawas do whenever they acquire new hardware.
  4. Jim123

    COVID-19

    People with health conditions that make them more vulnerable to covid should have been wearing tight-fitting N95 masks months and months ago- instead of relying almost solely so much on everyone else wearing spit catchers. I agree that we all need to get on with our lives.
  5. Jim123

    COVID-19

    More facts and figures from the horse's uhhhh mouth. On average four additional conditions causing death. It doesn't say if they were pre-existing or if people caught a bug after coming down with the 'rona (which seems to me is a critical piece of information). (Gotta scroll about halfway...
  6. Jim123

    MH-60S hard landing

    My old man is a television repairman.
  7. Jim123

    COVID-19

    ^^^ Dang it, the blue states and counties are winning more than the red ones are!!
  8. Jim123

    COVID-19

    aaaaaand now the CDC director is in hot water on the Twittersphere for making "insensitive" comments in revealing that 75% of covid deaths were people with four or more comorbidities. Knock me over with a feather.
  9. Jim123

    Ship Photo of the Day

    The VB-10000 looks like it should combine with four other, similar machines, each one run by an individual with varying and endearing traits (age, gender, body type, personalities), each one a bright but different color that may or may not ascribe to their personality quirks, and together they...
  10. Jim123

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    It's true, and along the same logic the best advice I've ever heard about this two-fold: Starting on day one, prepare for your future furlough, [so that] When it comes, [you can] enjoy it Me, I've hedged my bet with a mil pension and the baseline of healthcare that comes with it. Others...
  11. Jim123

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    Health care figures into that a bit these days too. Mil guy or gal getting out at ~10 years? Going to the reserves? Tricare reserve takes a lot of the edge off. Going cold turkey into civilian land and having to pay in to the regional's healthcare plan, that's a very big hit on the active...
  12. Jim123

    Ship Photo of the Day

    With the guns they would have been battlecruisers- the firepower and speed of a battleship but without the armor of a battleship. Without the guns, well... I'm skeptical of the hull design and radar cross section. That's tainted from seeing what the Burkes looked like on a plain old nav...
  13. Jim123

    What did you get from Santa for Christmas 2020?

    The T-34 isn't bank-limited like the U-2, who's to say which side up is the correct one? :D:D
  14. Jim123

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    if the industry doesn't see an influx of pilots, the airlines will be forced to cut flights to smaller cities. In effect, they would miss out on sales and profits. Maybe that means the U.S. regionals will try to leverage that to drum up higher subsidies for Essential Air Service routes. These...
  15. Jim123

    COVID-19

    November 9th, if I had to guess. Ask me again in another week or two once this omicron thing fizzles out the way I expect. Either that or come two weeks I might be eating my words as all those surplus ventilators are getting pressed into emergency service.
  16. Jim123

    Energy Discussion

    I'd love to know how they solve affordable storage and logistics (both getting it to the airport and putting it on the airplane). It makes a pretty great rocket fuel, but the economics for those is a little different. In general I don't like to poo-poo new technology, not outright anyway...
  17. Jim123

    Netflix recommendations?

    Home Alone is a tragic character study of the injustices suffered by Harry and Marv.
  18. Jim123

    test post new update

    He must have been pining for the fjords.
  19. Jim123

    NATO Declares Russia an Enemy - Your take.

    Nahhh, just send a hundred Highlanders down there to take care of business. Thin red line, tipped with steel...
  20. Jim123

    Navy Reserve COVID Vaccinations by October

    UFOs exist, but birds aren't real. :D:p
  21. Jim123

    Crossing the finish line... running, walking or crawling... (Reserve Retirement Process)

    County clerk might be a better term than courthouse. It's a bit old fashioned and FWIW I haven't done it myself. Funny thing about my DD-214, I don't have an "original." I have a high res color scan PDF from PSD. If anybody asks for the original (has happened once) I just print it and say...
  22. Jim123

    Crossing the finish line... running, walking or crawling... (Reserve Retirement Process)

    The funeral flags come from the post office. You bring them the deceased's DD-214 and the post office looks up the identity (to make sure the person is only getting one flag, you only get one), logs it in some master database, and hands over the flag for the coffin. Well, the coffin and...
  23. Jim123

    NOTAM Definition Change

    Dentalman Oh, wait.
  24. Jim123

    Crushing Contacts: The Contact Profile Method

    The slow putting on your flight gear thing can be aggravating but I'd show my own onwings—and just as easily any student—the weird wiggle thing that helped get you into that airsave vest faster and how to not have the straps, that are crossed behind your back in an X, twisted. Having them...
  25. Jim123

    Ready Room Chair

    Won't somebody from the HOA happen by and fine you for parking that in the grass?
  26. Jim123

    Ready Room Chair

    Caine was apparently into more than just walking the earth. Just don't do anything in excess.
  27. Jim123

    ADHD, Meds, & Military Service

    Lots of ways to help your kids too; tough decisions for parents choosing which way though.
  28. Jim123

    Correspondence Course Review

    If you could set your spell check to brogue I wonder if it will correct that to metric shyte tonne.
  29. Jim123

    Correspondence Course Review

    * metric tonne But seriously, that's great that you scored a slot as an IRR reservist.
  30. Jim123

    Havana syndrome

    They haven't before... It's shocking yet it shouldn't be surprising or shocking at all that this kind of thing is still going on. (It also makes me wonder what stuff we do to them.)
  31. Jim123

    Ship Photo of the Day

    The ship sank after sailing roughly 1,400 yd into her maiden voyage on 10 August 1628... The use of different measuring systems on either side of the vessel caused its mass to be distributed asymmetrically, heavier to port. During construction both Swedish feet and Amsterdam feet were in use by...
  32. Jim123

    COVID-19

    Saw that yesterday, the news is scant on details but this plot twist strikes me as the very highly contagious but watered down variants that viruses sometimes evolve in their story arc. Some do, some don't- there's no "mild" version of polio but there are a lot of different flus.
  33. Jim123

    The SHOW: Airlines still a "good gig"??

    In the Navy, yes. :p
  34. Jim123

    Havana syndrome

    Disappearing posts...
  35. Jim123

    Energy Discussion

    ? https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/b98724d5-f764-4121-b1cb-eba571937b64
  36. Jim123

    Energy Discussion

    I'm picturing more of a seven dwarves mashup with a business casual-dockers-polo shirt, high tech, industrial park office building bungalow/cubicle culture, cultish workplace, 70 hour work week with a strong work from home component, young millionaire vibe.
  37. Jim123

    Energy Discussion

  38. Jim123

    Energy Discussion

    I'm curious what the cycle efficiency is on those units. Power plants come in all different sizes. They all basically work by creating heat and convert about 30-40% of that into electricity. The rest of the energy warms up the environment around the power plant. All power generation makes...
  39. Jim123

    Flight Surgeons Flying?

    The lesson echoes elsewhere in aviation. In the airline world, it's, "I'm on reserve. I thought this was going to be a local turn!" My very first working flight in that job was a deadhead to a Canadian airport to repo an empty plane. But something else was broken on that plane. In hindsight...
  40. Jim123

    Flight Surgeons Flying?

    One of the little things that's not written down anywhere but every naval aviator knows it.... any time you're gonna go near a boat, pack a toothbrush and spare skivvies just in case. And I guess your flight surgeon learned that one too!
  41. Jim123

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    Ohhhhh I am most definitely not a hat-wearer.
  42. Jim123

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    My best commuter hotel story doesn't involve a LaQuinta or a Denny's, although it was a Quality right across the street from a Denny's. Really nice family business, like you can tell they're pitching in with who mans the front desk during the night, very accommodating to flight crew, super...
  43. Jim123

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    BW is usually pretty decent quality if the building itself isn't too old. Comparable to a middle of the road chain hotel, such as TownePlace, Wingate, Doubletree, though probably bringing down the average for the group. The kind of place where the complementary breakfast is probably gonna...
  44. Jim123

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    "In 2020 we took a little trip, down the mighty Santa Cruz River"
  45. Jim123

    Random Griz Aviation Musings

    "Waterbury logged in over 5,000 hours without an accident and 4,000 sirtues known as attacks made by troops coming out from a position of defense." Umm...? :D We had an Army Reserve MSGT when I was in Iraq, civil affairs guy who had white hair, and DFAS stopped paying him after his 62nd...
  46. Jim123

    Little known / experimental aircraft

    A carrier based tanker is a compromise by its nature, I think. Unless they figure out how to fold up a KC-10 then whatever the platform is going to have limited give, maybe not fast enough to keep up with the strike package, they have a special logistics tail, or- The five-wet configured KF-18...
  47. Jim123

    Little known / experimental aircraft

    How about the Viking II Valhalla Edition, with rich Corinthian leather?
  48. Jim123

    All things Baseball

    Oh, I fully agree. It is the prima donna batters who drag the MLB games out, much more than the back-and-forth of the battery or pitcher's mound conferences (even though sometimes those get bad).
  49. Jim123

    Ship Photo of the Day

    The SQS-56 was a force to be reckoned with.
  50. Jim123

    Is MS Flight Sim worth it for T-6B?

    I remember you had to be pointing in one direction if you were going to shoot the tank but a different one if you wanted to shoot the jet. I don't remember if the arcade game was the same way.
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