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Don't read into it. Just do as well as you can, don't get in trouble, enjoy college, and apply to be a pilot in every service (Active Duty and Guard/Reserve) that has airplanes.

Meh. I'm sure we can just paratroop a portion of the E-3 DoD barracks population into their home towns- but instead of weapons and ammo, we give them Viagra and vodka.

I mean, if we're talking proper "fuck you" money, I'd totally pull an Arnold in "Junior". Because, ya know, 20 bucks is 20 bucks.

It's almost as if the ASO course has taught this since they stood the schoolhouse up.

They also want units with more people and more potential for federal funding and money flowing to your state. A C-130 unit has a lot more people than an F-16 unit. Otis lost their F-15s and gained a full-time DSG/intel analyst wing. That one hurt. Maryland losing their flying mission also...

No. We treat off the street candidates completely differently than already qualified military pilots. We need both. They don't compete against each other, they complete against their peers.

You're not going to have an old guy stare into your butthole as part of your flight physical. So you have that going for you, which is nice. Doing the duck walk in nothing but your tighty whities in front of everyone waiting for the hearing booth is the ultimate power move, and will ensure you...

Perhaps POTUS selected Hegseth for SECDEF thinking he'd be a "man of the people" type of leader. "I know what you need because I am you" type of stuff. Then, 87 days after taking office, the only thing the DOD has accomplished was to kick some people out and waste time and money on all-hands...

Well, it worked for Bill Murray! 😁

You'd need a state with sufficient funding to develop and implement it. I don't know if anyone would really trust any privatization or contract company to make it happen. Money is already way too deep in politics, there is no way we will trust google or bezos or elon or gates or... to keep our...

249?!! Jeeze. That makes me feel old.

Mail-in voting in FL is similar. Any time I've had an issue with anything mail-in (car registrations, driver's license renewals, voting), the folks in the office in Milton for Santa Rosa County have always been really helpful. I'm sure they deal with this stuff constantly, but it's nice to...

Its an easy way to counter some of the bullshit rhetoric that is going around. "We're going to attack Greenland." "Not without pulling from NATO, which requires..." And I'm not sure why anyone thinks the NATO treaty is constitutionally suspect. Article II section 2 is pretty damn clear.

Any military action against a NATO ally is not a lawful order unless 2/3s of the senate votes to remove us from NATO. I pointed this out is a different post. Military officers should take note.

There is a HUGE contingent from the National Historical Society at Yorktown and Williamsburg as far as planning goes for the 250th Celebration. Until recently, the French government was also playing a significant roll, seeing as how we won the Revolutionary War with a lot of help from them. The...

Kind of like DOGE laying off government employees yet not saying anything about the taxpayer burden of POTUS golf trips to Fl.

I think we're a lot closer to a common GCS for UAVs and that is still a pipe dream.

Interesting anecdote: I am/was a member of IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees). When automated spotlights started to become a thing, rather than help to retrain spotlight operators to program and code moving lights, the union made productions that use automated...

It's been well discussed here already- SNAs will stop going to the boat soon.

I think this already exists in those communities. Did he not ask his Flag Officers about this? We have a whole TSRA process that does this for every MOS in the DoD. He can't just rewrite that which he knows nothing about. This is more administrivia that takes us away from actually doing the...

Is it a lawful order to attack a nation with whom we have a congressionally ratified mutual defense pact? It's US law now, written into the CFR. What happens when it's NATO against the USA? Why are we in a position where thought experiments like this even come up or could be even remotely...

Good idea. My brother bought one when it was on sale, and it's sitting in his garage (in the box) until he's ready to install it. That's probably the most economical way to do it.

My parents installed a condensing tankless water heater in their house 8ish years ago. Their experience is really making me consider getting rid of my tank and going tankless. They spend less $ on natural gas and never run out of hot water. They also don't worry about things like a water heater...

IMHO- no. Airpower maintains the status quo.

This is an ignorant post. This topic is also tricky to discuss outside of a SCIF. However, it is safe to say that the "America First," "no dollars spent abroad," and "USAID is a waste" ideologies are counter to stability in the region for ourselves and our allies.

It's not accidental when you're transmitting classified information on an unclass device, or your putting a classified device on an unsecured network and communicating with unclass devices, and users who don't have a security clearance and aren't read in. This is highlights why we're not...

This. But at the same time I trust our A1C SCIF rat to handle classified information better than our elected leadership. We, rightfully, prosecuted the kid from the Mass ANG for disclosing classified info. I doubt we'll do the same of our high level leadership. We don't seem to want to hold...

I mean, I know of at least 2 married couples that met while one was a student and the other an IP- one AF and one Navy. The Navy of said couples would go on CCXs together all the time. They're still married and have a kid, and are flying all a lot of different airplanes all the time. Pretty sure...

I spent some considerable time with the nerds of the Fighter Factory at the Military Aviation Museum. There is a section of my brain dedicated to the weird nuances of WW1 and WW2 airplanes.

Needs a trim. Looks a bit shaggy.

Pretty sure that's an FG-1D. Three bladed prop and vertical tail shape, and how the fuselage and the aft part of the canopy are shaped. But there isn't much left of it for sure!

Have you thought about the Air National Guard?

The Kennedy Center debacle is an example. Trump can't read music, describe what a major vs minor key is, couldn't describe a beat in a play, couldn't describe the McCandless system for lighting design. Yet he knows better than all of the professionals who filled roles in that organization...

There was the "Bailout unsuccessful" stud at Whiting so many years ago. The kid is on his aerobatics solo, departs the airplane, freaks out and calls, "xzy Bailing out". Apparently the T-34 recovered itself just by having the stud take his hands off the the controls. Eitherway, the story is...

It's fairly common to see someone passed over twice on AD and then get promoted in the IRR.

Uuntil recently, mission control element (MCE) and launch/recovery element (LRE) squadrons were two completely separate entities. It was considered a waste of time and money to train someone to do something they were never going to in the fleet. MCE squadrons employed the airplane in combat...

Not often times, for group 5, it's all the time. My squadron has been "deployed" with a single combat line since 2014. If we want a day off we have to coordinate another unit to surge a second line. So we generally only get a few of those a year.

There are only a handful of MQ-9s in CONUS, and it's next to impossible to pull one away from training sorties to put it on the ramp as a static display. It's always kind of cool to see one in person. There are many jokes that go along with it, but the first reaction the general masses have to...

An absent leader is a type of a bad leader.

You mean to say that words have meaning? And perhaps that someone who's only credentials are being promoted to O-4 in the IRR and being a Fox News Host doesn't have the understanding and knowledge of how regulations are written and implemented when concerning an organization of 2 million people...

Most ANG wings are well outside the acceptable distance to a military treatment facility, and our Med Group/flight docs can't do diagnostic medicine, so everyone is Tricare Prime Remote (or Reserve Select) and has their own civilian doctor. This is generally a win- as you get to pick your doctor...

This just in- the same problem the T-45 has had for almost 20 years happened again. It's not news if it isn't new.

A Clydesdale will fail height and weight 10 times out of 10 if you're using racehorse metrics.

It's sad that the Western Michigan University hockey team has a better gym than any military facility I've been to. I'm trying to get a 10 year old elliptical replaced at our gym. It's been rode hard and put back wet for a decade. It's broken. But we don't have it in the budget. Yet fitness is...

I agree that this should be the goal. But I don't think we support people in meeting that goal. Instead, we make it 100% up to the individual to accomplish, and when they struggle, or fail, we boot them. We test people in ways that don't provide real feedback. If fitness was truly more than...

I say this every time you bring it up, but my old man says that his favorite airplane to fly was the A-37 (he also flew the A-10 and F-16). You could get it to exceed Vne in straight and level flight on a cold day in Syracuse. Tons of power, tiny airplane, a real sports car- and you could take a...

DEI gets him into the classroom, into the clubs. It ensures he's not "separate but equal". He, and the rest of his class/club/whatever, benefit from Inclusion. It ensures he's included. It ensures his classmates see people who are different than they are, and interact with them. Come on...

DEI for education means my austistic nephew is afforded a fair education and that he is both given the services that he needs and he is also in a classroom with neurotypical children. Those children he is in a classroom with are exposed to other types of people (like my nephew) and therefore...

That's because the DoED is largely administrative. They ensure schools comply with federal regulations and ensure that those marginalized students are afforded an opportunity to learn. Schools are mostly funded by property taxes and loans. Grants, the lottery, etc... are minor players.