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I tried going the iPad pro route and anything bigger than an iPad Mini is just too big. I already tried the Android options and nothing even comes close to foreflight. It's worth paying for foreflight out of pocket of you have to because it will save your ass from flying through a TFR, SIGMET...

People tend to lack perspective. The numbers, when put in context, tend to add that perspective. It's kind of the same story with aviation mishaps. We kill ourselves doing the "easy shit/basics" more often we do with tactics and vastly more often than from enemy fire yet we'll nuke the shit out...

Having been a safety officer, yes. It is. Sailors soldiers, marines, guardians, whatever... kill themselves and kill other people/civilians way more than they die in military shit. If anything, dependent upon your background, joining the military is more likely to save your life than end it...

99% of the military has a better chance of dying on the drive into work/base in places like San Diego and Norfolk than they do from anything military related. Unless you're referring to all of those YNs dying from papercuts (this is sarcasm) then I think there's plenty of opportunities in the...

FWIW, having Naval Officer on your resume, even if it's for a relatively short stint/not a full career, can open a lot of doors for you. Having done a disassociated tour with SWOs, I'm glad it's not my primary job but I spent 2 years there as Aviator and you'll only have to do 4 so you'll...

Fwiw, O1s and O2s have little to no real responsibility. If you're a SWO your responsibility as an O1 or O2 will peak at standing OOD and as long as you look outside, don't hit anything, and call the CO/XO a lot to pester them about drunk fisherman getting too close then you'll be the best OOD...

Agree with the above. The best thing you can do is get some time in a high performance aircraft and do spins/get upside down in it. You'll be doing spins and stuff within your first 10 hours in the T6 if I remember correctly.

Or, you know, just go with standing policy that race and gender be sanitized from records and then not be butthurt when there's "too many of X." Like he said, Equality is now no longer good enough. We need Equity now which is a fun little play on words that sounds like equality but actually...

True. I would agree with you 100% on this. I think the reasons behind it, however, are cultural and genetic much more than sexism or some underlying deviance. It's extremely difficult, and in some ways unfair to men in the same profession, to accommodate pregnancy in a way that doesn't...

A) don't be driving around with illegal drugs in your car. B) Joe Biden wrote the 1994 crime bill that is the closest thing to "systemic racism" in modern America and established a lot of the unfair sentencing for such arrests so it's not like the left is any friend of Black America.

It's equally amusing to watch you and Flash recite the same ignorant, anti-white Democrat talking points. It may come as news to you guys but not everything is about race/Racism. You're more likely to struck by lightning than be the victim of a hate crime at the hands of a white supremacist. The...

To my knowledge, the members of the republican party that spoke out were mostly just advocating for recounts. Ted Cruz caught a LOT of heat in the media but his speech on the floor amounted to "let's recount everything and re-establish people's faith in the system." He wasn't casting any doubt...

Yeah I'm still confused as to how it won over the 407. As an outsider, I thought Bell had that in the bag

Republicans tried that. They presented the idea of school vouchers / school choice which was rejected but Democrats because that would mean government run schools would have to actually compete with private and charter schools. Furthermore, African Americans had the lowest unemployment rate in...

I never said it was or wasn't. The end result was a breakdown in faith in the system of electing our representation that resulted in a riot at the Capitol that was entirely preventable and that's really all that matters. Instead we're writing it off as some bullshit white supremacy/white rage...

Do you have some substantive issue with the article's content or are you just being dismissive of it because it's an opinion piece? Critical Race theory in and of itself is little more than a massive racist, Marxist opinion piece so why not counter with opinion?

There are so many strawman arguments in this post that it's literally impossible to reply to. Congratulations, you managed to pervert and manipulate just about everything I said. Congress is LEADERSHIP (a term you must have heard at least once by now) and when 10s of millions of people think...

Well yes, they do control most seats in Congress and they were the ones suing to prevent recounts and transparency. So within the context of my post, yes, there it is. That said, many Republicans acted dismissively which pissed people off too. Like I said, it's about having faith in the process...

You're conflating equality of opportunity with equality of outcome. Trying to make the two things the same is how you get government induced discrimination. Everyone agrees that govt fucks people over. Conservatives kinda tend to live by that principal.

Bill Barr is neither Congress nor is he the Democrat Party. He, and the DOJ, also had admittedly done no real investigation at the time yet drew conclusions that were passive in nature. And like I said, when people (aka the Democrat Party) are suing in order to stop recounts and stop anything...

Gaetz's rhetorical intent doesn't really matter. My comment was more in reference to misleading nature of how that "clip" went down. Anecdotal examples of stupid or racist people being involved in the riot has no effect on the overarching cause of the riot which was based upon the fact that...

Should we have opened fire upon the leftist protestors that were trying to break down the doors to stop Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings? Should the BLM and ATF guys have gotten into a shootout with the Bundy ranchers who were later proven correct in court following an armed stand-down with the...

Nobody is endorsing what happened or saying the claims of fraud were or were not legitimate. Simply that what happened had nothing to do with skin color. Dont get it twisted. It was also a direct result of leftist media normalizing rioting for over a year. But "white rage" it was not. That's an...

I hate to break it to you, BUT unqualified, unworthy people DO get promoted in today's Navy because of their genitals, and perhaps, skin color. I've sat in the room and watched it happen while I objected to said person (who I knew and had flown with numerous times) being chosen for a...

Gaetz wasn't "shaking his head" because he had nothing to say (as is the assertion of the 'short clip' you posted). He shook his head because: A) It wasn't his turn to speak; another member yielded her time to the CJCS and Gaetz is not allowed to speak out of turn. B) CJCS miscategorized and...

Because malicious prosecution is almost impossible to prove and, financially speaking, very difficult and taxing to fight. It's a perfect crime executed under the guise of fighting crime.

Isn't that the way it's supposed to work anyways?

I peaked early and it's been all downhill from there.

When I was in flight school I flew up to see my GF. It was about a 1 hour flight for the second leg and this flight attendant was pushing free liquor on me like it was her job. I've yet to be able to recreate that experience.:(

Impossible. God's chariot is most certainly a helicopter! The rest of us prefer to call you inbred. ;)

Does "Flying only career path" = UAVs out of Nellis?

Are they "expensive" compared to sailors doing the maintenance or are they legitimately more expensive to have civilians doing the work than the sailors in an hour to hour comparison? After all, I thought the reason we had contact maintenance was because it was cheaper than hiring, training...

I'm getting on the boat soon to head down there. There are quite a few squadrons and ships standing by to move in after Irma goes through. ...and here I am thinking I was on shore duty...

This. HTs are the worst of both worlds unless you want to be a life-flight guy or something. Either go FRS/SWTI or go VTs and head off to the show.

It is community specific but he's absolutely right. HSC community is F'd up from the floor up on how we treat our people and then they wonder why even the FRS and SWTI guys want out. East Coast commodore recently had a meeting with all of us to essentially ask why there were so many people...

Disclaimer: NOT a SWO. As an aviator in my JO tour, I was gone about 20 months out of a 36 month JO tour. Boat dets, workups, 9 month deployment to to the suck, etc... I'm obviously not sure where your head is at on this whole "Navy Thing" but the following is the best advice I ever got in the...

Who, ironically, she probably then ended up only seeing once that year, cheating on, and marrying another guy from work. It's a vicious cycle!!

That was pretty much what we were doing until CAG said no more.

FWIW, our CAG wouldn't sign NCMs for JOs. Pretty much all got NAMs as EOT awards.

That may be true but going through OCS allows you to select 1310 prior to being committed to anything. If you go through ROTC then youre going to sign a commitment to Big Navy prior to being selected for aviation.

Hopefully that got squashed quickly.

I'm going to have to check that out. Thanks for the link.

Call the Escambia county folks. They're quite excellent to work with on this stuff. Just sent in my 4th registration with them.

This was the problem on the boat Det we did when they were testing them. The boat wanted it to be "a COD that hovers" so bad they couldn't see straight. In reality, and As it relates to writing an airplan, is more of an 'H53 that goes faster in S&L flight'. You ain't landing that thing, folding...

"Dump your GF. She ain't the "one"...If she's still wants to get back together when you pin on your wings then she MIGHT be the 'one'" -Best advice I ever got in flight school.

If it's in the waiver guide then you are NPQ until you receive a waiver. So it is disqualifying just like LASIK or PRK is if your surgery doesn't come out within standards. Just because a waiver exists, doesn't mean you're gonna get it.

The British destroyer that was on deployment with us pretty much showed us how it ought to be done. Those guys looked like they were having a blast.

Don't do ittttt!!!!!! Haha

That's biggest argument that the left wanted to make for this. When you remind them that military service isn't a right there only argument left for it is "fairness" which doesn't really hold up either.

Not going to lie. I'll do just about anything for a chocolate doughnut.