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While watching T-38 reservists, COD dudes, and -106 Super Hornets cruise by? Yes. 😜 See, it's hard to even get an AGR to come to work! 🤣

That seems like a local Commander's problem and not a 4 star problem.

You're looking at this from an AD perspective. I have a hard enough time getting our DSGs to come in and fly and stay current. The airline pilots lose money to come on orders. Telling them they're going to have a uniform inspection on day 1 when they get here is the way I get a guaranteed...

At this point I'd take a well trained dog over what we're getting from a couple of the DGS's out there. There are some good PED folks out there but they're quickly scooped by the OGA and SOC missions.

We are all thinking two things- 1: what problem is ACC leadership expecting to solve with this when we're already having a retention problem? And 2: if the ANG units play ball, what are they going to do with the 50% of us that only have flight suits as a uniform? This smells like an AF GO...

So you're willing to give up being a pilot over this?

Honestly, a Pilot or NFO could do the job well enough. But the Intel community's rice bowl is not only strong, but littered with legalese that makes it so they are the only one's who can do it. It's not that they're good at it.

These days every airplane should have some type of EO/IR ball on it.

The current CNATRA paddles is a great friend of mine. He's a great pilot, an even better IP, and awesome friend. @zippy will attest to this as well. His mark on Naval aviation is in flying around, and on to, the boat. He absolutely loves it, and he loves teaching young and old pilots how to do...

Security clearances really don't care too much, as long as you're medicated and can't be bribed about it you'll be okay.

Yet the Air Force had no problem with their T-1 guys getting Beechjet/Hawker 400A type ratings.

It's a step in the right direction.

The touchscreen and multifunction display and buttons don't bother me too much. It's the constantly online computer that talks back to the manufacturer, and which is required for the car to run, that bothers me. Critical function computers are air gapped and not online as to make them less...

Bro, I mean, everyday I remind myself that I asked to join this service and at the same time they didn't ask me to change it.

Why I use it for OPRs (the AF version of FITREPs) is because we have to have blocks filled to a character limit +-3. So I feed AI my narrative and tell it to say the same thing but in the max characters for the box including spaces. In the AF if you don't fill the box exactly, you're wrong.

Gemini is a great tool to "organize your thoughts" and "further your understanding" of the topics you have to write papers on in command and staff college. It also writes OPRs/FITREPS really well. And helps me write game reports for my hockey games.

One of the parts of the exhibit shows how they built the exhibit and how they moved the U-505 into it's new home. It was a pretty impressive feat.

I will have to check that out!

Here are a couple of photos from one of the most impressive museum exhibits I've ever seen. The U-505 exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry is truly epic. If you go, spend the extra money to get the walk through tour. Admission is free for military and vets, and the add on tour...

I just saw it. Yeah. Wow. Interesting that he was doing aerobatics at 90. But he was one of the most accomplished pilots in the world.

I hope it was quick and painless.

Bill Anders died in a light civil plane crash today. https://www.wkyt.com/2024/06/08/apollo-8-astronaut-william-anders-who-took-iconic-earthrise-photo-killed-plane-crash

I remember being told that the T-34s had ashtrays at one point. Never saw one though. The stories of from my dad's era he told me of old guys flying Thuds in Vietnam and smoking while on 100% O2 seemed crazy to me. But they were serious enough that I believe them. I mean, everyone smoked back then.

The A-10 really needs to go to the boneyard though. The A-10 lore is becoming worse than the F-14 lore. It's an airplane I'd love to fly and take to the range, but not to combat.

In the Air Force everything is a "jet", even the prop airplanes. Yes, we have people who will say they are "stepping to the jet" when they're walking to a T-6, or a C-130. It's super cringy to me.

Well... Damn.

Well. I'm glad the seat worked!

Reminds me of a couple of old reseverist IPs in Kingsville who had both a mask and a boom. FAM/BI/RI/Form flight? Boom mic it was. Aero or any advanced strike flight? Mask up. Then the first blade gate happened and people found out that the mask protects you from getting burned by the molten...

99% of them haven't even been to a residency program. They wouldn't be trusted to treat patients by themselves in the real medical world.

For sure. Truly impressive.

Tell us you've never been a pilot in a flying squadron without telling us you've never been a pilot in a flying squadron....

She's a PsyOp. There is no question about that.

Very cool!

The stories I hear from a couple of old A-6 guys at my soaring club. Stuff like, "JTACs would have lead come in with one MK82 to make the mark, then -2 (and maybe even -3 and -4) would come in with a ripple 6." And they'd get four passes each before going home. Such a cool airplane.

The new Blue Angels documentary is good. It's free on Amazon right now. The cinematography is excellent. There are a lot of really cool look angles and air to air shots. It's weird seeing a couple of old flight school friends being portrayed as "heroes". But you can also see their...

Demo guys poking fun at each other. Love it. And it gives a ton of material (good stories are only 10% true) to tell the gawkers while manning the static display.

.... 😔 No.

Uh. In English please? For the drunk fixed wing types in the back who were only half paying attention about helicopters in API and primary.

That's one hell of a shit stain on that mountain. My community is a bit jealous. We request to rename that location, "Hellfire peak".

This is more true than anyone ever wants it to be.

The best part is that you don't care about the airplanes. But the guys in those photos, and the photographers, probably mean the world to you.

Get every patch your squadron sells. They tell your story unto themselves. Take a photo every time you get to fly with a friend. Every time. (This photo is right after my favorite flight in a military airplane, and it was in an orange and white clown jet. I got to fly with one of my best...

The last A model student in Texas was winging as I got to Kville in 2010. They didn't have many on the line left. IPs might fly them, but students were all C's by then.

Guard unit? Title 32 vs Title 10...

Both are excellent!!! Shogun must be watched with subtitles and not dubbing. It's very powerful that way. Fallout is everything that I (a fallout game fanatic) wanted it to be. It was a new story that is absolutely true to the source material. It's fun, it's quirky, it's honest to the world...

Flight school is going to be very stressful for you, and for your spouse. Adding a baby into the mix is not advisable.

A question for all of the ladies who have gone through MEPS- Is there any semblance of privacy? Do they require the ladies to do the naked duck walk, and the cheek spread eye of Sauron inspection like the guys do? IE- are you showing your butthole (or vagina) to a random doctor right next to...

An extra 800 bucks a month, pretax, to live in Lemoore. "But we get an extra 10k per year to live there" just isn't enough. 50k? How much does your spouse make now? It has to be at least that much to make the money even part of the conversation.

Wear it to the winging party!