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Trying to diminish me with simplifications or assumptions of my emotional state without actually considering viewpoints which run counter to your world view is pretty disappointing. Telling others in the forum that you've "given them a lot of credit here over the years for being a smart...

You are really off the mark with this. Native Americans prefer to be called by their nationality, for example Sioux, Navajo, Apache, Seminole, or what have you. Calling them Native American or Indian is like calling someone Asian until you discover they're Japanese. Furthermore, the law refers...

White males also don't get to impose Latinx on a culture they have very little understanding of. I'd insert a video of Biden and other white American males using the term but I have more important shit to do.

It seems some here have forgotten how Navy leadership tried to change its rates just a few years ago. Remember the backlash from the Sailors? It was fierce and widespread and Navy leadership finally backpedaled, to their credit. This is no different. Go talk to my Mexican SO about the term...

Let's all have a little understanding for the FAA bureaucrats. They, like us, take care of the alligator closest to the boat. And I suspect pilot mental health is less of a threat to FAA job security than wokeism. ?

They shutdown F-22 production after 180ish jets. The original order was 700-800, I don't remember the exact figure. Because we were entrenched in the sandbox and not focused on more capable adversaries, we didn't see the value in continuing their production. The purchase of additional F-15s is...

This ☝☝☝ We have several people who left AD, got established with our Reserve squadron, got hired by their major airline of choice, then came back on AGR to finish out their 20. They will leave with an AD retirement and roll right back to their airline.

The real answer is FTN and go AGR #micdrop ?? I kid, I kid ????

§4312. Reemployment rights of persons who serve in the uniformed services https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2017-title38/html/USCODE-2017-title38-partIII-chap43.htm (a) Subject to subsections (b), (c), and (d) and to section 4304, any person whose absence from a position of employment...

The Air Force has shorted its syllabus for people who have their ratings already. I don't have the reference or exact details because I haven't been looking to go to flight school recently, but I'm sure you can find it at baseops.net. Keep in mind that you may end up as a bus driver in either...

Talked to my JB buddies about this, apparently the order of operations isn't entirely correct. This is what they relayed to me: Crazy dude has phone issue but is calmed and everything returns to normal. Later, one of the pilots needs to take a piss. Everything is calm, normal-normal. Pilot...

Fuck, am I really reading this post? I can't believe my eyes. @chipotlehater69, you're not listening to a lot of wise, older aviators who are giving you the right advice. Every time you've posted and your resolve to join the Navy seemingly increased, my heart sank just a little bit more. These...

Had a Captain do a walk-around the other day because he "wanted to stretch his legs." But really he just felt guilty because he ran inside on the previous turn to get breakfast and asked me to stay with the jet and the APU running. The plan was to swap babysitting the jet, but he got caught in a...

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I was all about real ties until I discovered the Cut Above zip ties. I was really hesitant to buy a fake tie, but since we're wearing this crap all the time I gave it a shot. Looks great and it's super easy to deal with. Now can we talk about shoes? I've got real leather sole dress shoes (don't...

So, this isn't entirely accurate. All Guard/Reserve squadrons have two different types of pilots they hire... Option A are guys like me who are already rated and don't need flight school. Lots of sub-categories here will determine what type of training, if any, a rated guy will need in order to...

You'd have to rush a Guard/Reserve squadron as if you were rushing a fraternity. There's a lot of hoops you'll need to jump through to show the unit you're worthy of a slot. It's not a short nor easy process. There is also no guarantee to go full-time after you cross over. Right now the entire...

I get the feeling some of us have wandered away from the original intent of this thread.....

As long as you ain't scared of Mexico!! Deal ?

I did a month in AF ROTC, decided at the young age of 18 that the vibe was super gay and simultaneously discovered that I'd have to sign my life away before knowing if I'd have a pilot slot. fUcK tHaT. Discovered the Marines had this thing called PLC and guaranteed flight slots. Took the test...

Pretty sure there were some flying gigs like that in the 2000s where you had to pay to get typed in their plane before they would actually start paying you ?

We are currently seeing 140 degree cabin temps during extended ground ops for ☢ exercises with our tacticool gray. I wonder how much lower it would be with white.

I think there is some type of historical situation, because old AF AMC paint jobs are pretty similar. It'd be interesting to find out why the AF switched and the COD kept it.

Yeah, as soon as he said that it started to ring a bell. I've only got so many penguins! ?

As far as I can tell from my interactions with them, these guys do SERE as their full time gig. Each base has its own SERE Instructors who provide recurrent training to aircrews in addition to the initial AF SERE up in Fairchild. I forget how often it is we have to go, but I believe it's every...

You guys ever get that SIPR email or do I need to bug my buddy? He is a reservist, after all...can't expect much ??‍♂️

I can't remember all the exact details, but I remember having to wait for NAMI to rubber stamp it once I got to Pensacola. I definitely had to go see them with all my PRK paperwork when I got to Pcola. It's possible there was some type of preliminary approval from the NRD or OCS, but I still...

Did a whole deployment with two Sierras on an FFG, no issues. RAST was not necessary.....

I swept in from on high, sun at my back to obscure my attack on the enemy dirigible blimp airship who had a bead on my wingman. My navigator, spotting through his telescope, could see the scumbag put his sandwich down as he turned to spot us! Unfortunately, the size of our craft obscured the sun...

I prefer the term Non-Rigid Airship, haha. I've always thought those wings were basically the Navy's way of saying dirigible/blimp/airship/balloon pilots were only half a pilot. No offence to any of you old blimp pilots floating around ?

Pretty uneventful in the AF. They have special syllabi at the FTU (Formal Training Unit, i.e. FRS) specifically to convert Aircraft Commanders from one platform into another. My C-130 buddy is doing that course right now to swap over to tankers. We have converted a lot of guys from other...

https://apnews.com/article/donald-rumsfeld-dead-ebd358021f476eef9f032b06f157edeb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld Love him or hate him, he was one of us. He flew the S-2 Tracker -- I had to look it up: And he gave us this gem of a quote: Fair winds and following seas into...

The unclas portion of it confirmed to the public that range fowlers are real and need to be taken seriously, if for no other reason than the safety of our aircrews. Not sure why anyone would anticipate more than that.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

Oh, oh, I know! Former HsC Person: How many aircraft do you have on the carrier? HSc Person: Too soon?? ???

Dang...am I one of them now? ? I'm still rolling my sleeves the right way and wearing Navy morale patches on the right shoulder...I even put up some Sierra pictures in the squadron to annoy them....that's gotta count for something! ?

Maybe I'm being dense...maybe they shouldn't have signed me in for some sort of training I may or may not have been present for #Reservist, but I'm not seeing this on DoD reading lists? I just looked up a couple and didn't see it. It's the normal stuff: 1776, The Art of War, etc.

What book(s) is being suggested for us that you're alluding to?

I was supposed to take the jet to Pease for a week long TDY last month. I was so sad when the TDY changed to Miramar and Hickam ?, but during the planning for Pease someone told me the squadron no longer has any jets because they're in the middle of switching to the KC-46. I never got out there...

Reading something you don't agree with doesn't mean it has to be set in the context of friend or foe. I read the Quran just to understand a different philosophical and spiritual perspective.

Yeah, all he's saying is that you might have to accept a commute to your unit if you can't get into the unit closest to you. You have to also remember as a helo guy there's already a mark against you when you walk into the door (that's why you show up with extra beer). Lots of guys commute, it's...

Don't let an airplane ride and a little bit of leave prevent you from following your dreams. About to walk into a sim but I'll hit you up on PM later.

I requested to extend a few months past MSR while at my shore command (they couldn't force me to go to the boat because of flight school mx and wx delays back in the day) and spent the last six months AD on Skillbridge. +1 would recommend.

I flew Sierras, was competitive with EPs, Level IIIi quals across the board, and Letters of Rec from all my COs/CDREs. Despite all that, I didn't get picked up until the 3rd application. The FTS detailer told me that's because they only have so many slots and have to try to catch guys who apply...

Poor choice of words in conjunction with China I suppose, I simply meant multiple angles from seemingly unrelated individuals. Yeah, of a fucking Star Destroyer!!! ? Seriously though, wouldn't the shadow ripple with the movement of the clouds?

Um. I just saw this on Reddit's front page: Triangle [UAP] in the sky of Shanghai, China These were recorded yesterday. There are multiple angles from multiple different cameras. You can scroll through the thread to find all the independent videos. Someone posted a link to a single video which...

Hate to break up this riveting conversation...but @Flash pimped me for an update since the email hasn't come through. Just wanted to let you guys know I texted my buddy and he is on leave and said he'll send it Wednesday. Sorry for the delay. Keep your eyes peeled ??

Thanks for all the emails addresses guys. Sorry for the delay, I was waiting on my -85 buddy to shoot me one last email. I sent the list over to our tactics guy, not sure when he'll send it out but hopefully today if he has time.

Quien? Mi prometida Mexicana caliente. Ella dirige una bodega en Valle de Guadalupe. Ella me rescatara de los puercos en cualquier momento!

Alright, I talked to one of our tactics guys this morning. He offered to just email it out. PM me your SIPR emails and I'll send him a list of whoever wants it and he'll shoot it out. If you can send them by cob tomorrow (15th) I'll pass along whatever email addresses I get by then.