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According to the article at least, she got her PPL on a Cessna 40 years ago but hadn't flown in the past 20.

There are nice communities at the north end of Western Boulevard in Jacksonville which are pretty popular among the pilots. The Jacksonville commons is a pretty nice neighborhood too, and at least living in Jacksonville you're five minutes from restaurants and shops. The main benefit to living...

Florida accepts military ID as proof of "acceptable training", though technically, what is required is "evidence of equivalent experience with a firearm". I've seen folks that couldn't hit paper at 3 yards (granted, with a snubbie they just bought) get signed off for the CCW class, so I don't...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/world/asia/13medevac.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Yowza. Truly impressive.

There's a major refresh on the way. At the very least wait until Monday to see if they've announced it at WWDC.

It's not; they're both sketchy. OJT is good training, but it's not an academic experience. It's a disservice to the students to get that check in the box and take the shortcut to the degree. I'm an AMU master's student. It works for my schedule, but most of the good faculty (most of their...

Online degrees in the news: credits for working at Wal-Mart http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060302488.html There are solid online programs that are offshoots of brick and mortar schools, but they are the exception, rather than the rule.

It was reported by CNN's Indian affiliate. Likely to come about, no. But Turkey has been laying the political muscle pretty hard and this threat fits the rest of their rhetoric so far; they got Israel to drop plans to prosecute the crew of the flotilla. Whatever set them off, the Turks are...

Unless we are talking about fishing or drilling for oil, whether or not it was in the EEZ has no bearing on it. It's a canard; this didn't happen in Israeli territorial waters. From what I understand, E-MIO is on a grey area as far as non-consentual boarding. We are on pretty strong ground in...

Well since you decided to drag me into this. You feel you are owed something from the President because he didn't serve, and/or because you, for whatever variety of reasons, disapprove of him? And you feel the venue of a memorial service is an appropriate "tip of the cap"? That's obnoxious. I am...

That's not what an EEZ is for (despite what the Chinese may think). UNCLOS provides for enforcement of domestic laws in EEZ only with regard to the exploration, exploitation, and conservation of living resources. The legality of the blockade is not really in dispute, but you don't have to make...

No doubt Israel has a security interest in enforcing the blockade; but that is distinct from the claim making the rounds that Israel is merely enforcing it's borders. The blockade would also be less objectionable if it were solely about weapons and not so capricious: Turkey, formerly an ally...

Israel is not claiming sovereignty over Gaza. It's as if we stopped boats headed to Tiajuana and demanded they dock in San Diego so we could inspect them.

Google turns up 9-10 for admin and fundraising.

It's not quite comparable; the Red Cross has more than just charitable activities that require overhead - education, blood donation, and emergency notification for service members.

So is his Memorial Day address about paying respects to those that have died in service, or pandering for support among service-members that dislike him? That's the other part that set me off about this "controversy" - using a memorial service as a political talking point, or blithely assuming...

It's a cheap shot. You want to criticize his handling of the WTB's, the war, the budget, DADT or whether Ms. Obama is following up on her promises to help military families, fair points. To set a double standard for the venue of a speech? Seriously?

It's a point of reference, dosed with some snark. Nobody would dispute that Bush Sr. respects the military, but he chose one year to go home to Maine and send Quayle in his stead. By arguing that he's "skipping out on it" as if it were an unwritten rule, then yes, you are comparing him to past...

So because Bush Sr missed one to go home to Kennebunkport, he respects the military less than Clinton? Is that really a benchmark for "respect for the military", where he chooses to commemorate Memorial Day?

Yea, ok, so Bush Sr. must have been a scumbag for sending Quayle in 1992 while he went to Maine. Or Reagan for sending a Deputy Secretary of Defense in 1983. The President will be speaking from a national cemetery.....just a different one. Or do the the vets buried at the Abraham Lincoln...

At this point I think it's gone from the old brothers in Communism alliance to humoring the old coot with nukes so he goes gently into the night instead of leaving a dump on your doorstep. Any way that the regime falls, China's going to be left with a mess of refugees on its hands. You know the...

It's not that China isn't a problem, it's that it's not the next Evil Empire about to sweep the Pacific. Japan shifting away from the US doesn't mean they're shifting towards China. The main players in the region are well strong enough to assert their own interests as opposed to being treated as...

I fly the shitter, so that's a given.

Some ridiculous pics here: http://gizmodo.com/5541045/two-f+35s-thundering-together-for-the-first-time She is gorgeous.

It's in today's Ebird for the AD folks. Alongside a piece by Richard Halloran summarizing doubt about Chinese naval capabilities. Helprin is imaginative, but perhaps too much so. It reads like a novelized game of risk. He claims that England ceded Hong Kong out of a lack of military might and...

Meh. Considering how often I interacted with my flight leaders in flight school I don't think their impression would have counted for much. Then again, we didn't have to be at "work" regular hours, either. You can't really judge a guy's work ethic unless you give him more responsibility than...

Put aside your personal indignation for a second. So Nidal Hasan and Hasan Akbar should have gotten a free pass at the airport if they were in uniform? Or does being Muslim cancel out being in the military? I'm mildly amused that I have to go through security like every other peon, but I'd be...

At least on our side if it comes out of squadron funds (most TAD for schools falls under that) reimbursement is fast as it gets approved at the squadron level. PCS/TECOM/higher......lemme get back to you on that.

2nd to who?

Nope. Wish there were a way to easily look them up from anything other than an iPad.

The behavioral profiling is already in place. But are you suggesting Richard Reid and Jose Padilla get waved through security while Fareed Zakaria and Zalmay Kalilzad take their shoes off? The security investigation process is to determine eligibility to hold classified material. It doesn't...

Dammit, now you've got me playing where's waldo with the calibration stand.

He's been after it for 10 years now.

Why not "Department of the Navy, Marine Corps, and sometimes Coast Guard"? I think it's silly inflated self-importance. I think the notion that Rep. Walter Jones put forward that the current name of DoN is a slight to fallen Marines is a sick joke. Of course, the chief sponsor represents...

Difference being that it is an infraction if you drive without your license (not just any form of ID), since we've established it's privilege, not a right to drive. Forget the convenience argument; it's convenient to register your guns too. Are folks really suggesting that we should compel...

Fixed for you. Or do you mean they just let me go if they catch me breaking the law but I produce an ID? I'm kind of a big deal, you know.

So now that they know.......what are they going to do about it?

I didn't join the Marines to pick up 50-year old brass out of ice, hand out food to Haitians, or pluck people out of attics in Katrina, but, well, when there's a job to be done (and a noble and legal one), you go f**king do it. You can either sit here and bitch about who's responsible or clean...

You go running with an ID on you? You've never forgotten your wallet? You really want this to be a country where it's compulsory to carry ID everywhere?

NAM for the ball committee! I still can't bring myself to put in for the recruiting MUC for my 45 days of PTAD.

Sweet

Army UAS roadmap: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/the-future-of-us-army-helicopters-pilots-optional/ 50% OPV by 2025? Phew

Oooh, I get it now. We're not at war for our security. We're waging war to impose our ideology of religious tolerance at the point of a sword, so he can go to Mecca with his Bible and his cross. Excellent "strategic-level thinking"

You're right; I was under the impression that the Army relied much more heavily on in-service for OCS than the other branches, is that correct? In any case the OCS pool for that particular study was in-service only.

Actually, an Army study based on OER's (their version of the fitrep) and selection rates for Battalion and Brigade command skewed in favor of the Academy and 4-year ROTC grads. And FYI, OCS grads skew high initially for the Army because their OCS is recruited from the enlisted ranks, not Joe...

I vote flight data recorder/IMDS, whatever they call it in the Osprey.

Not if you're trying to hit a silo in a first-strike.

I don't think it was the speaking out per se, but the starting of a ""Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots" group that crossed the line from personal opinion into improper political activities per DoD 1344.10. You can speak your mind; forming a political group (real or online) with an apparent...

Congrats man!