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Because your job in the armed forces doesn't require you to be armed. You're a POG. So am I. So stop thinking that you aren't. You need to be brilliant in the basics of your job. Those basics don't include shooting and maneuvering.

Unless you're going to do it as primary part of your job it's a waste of time, money, and resources. How many days in your Navy career do you expect to be carrying a side arm? If you wanted to shoot every year you should have joined the Marines.

Damn. Glad everyone is okay. Thats going to be one hell of a salvage operation.

True. But that was the 1950s. We don't design and develop rockets, or airplanes, or any other type of vehicle that way anymore. Twice now they've failed to reach their mark. This is like saying, "Congrats on the success of the first F-35 off the carrier flight. You didn't make it feet dry, in...

Blowing up rockets is not revolutionary. It's failure, it always has been. They're 0-2 with starship. You don't launch without a plan to land, and you don't launch with the intent to blow up just to see what happens. That's not revolutionary, that's dumb. No one else is saying this is a win...

Right. And the Saturn V didn't have two catastrophic failures either. Starship is O for 2 so far. Not a good look for a rocket that is supposed to be certified to carry people.

No. The discussion ends at, "We don't fuck around when it comes to making sure the CSG is safe in a vulnerable situation." That was the goal of the post.

I'll bite just for a thought experiment. If you were in charge, what would you require to keep a CSG safe during a canal or straights transit? Would you make any compromises?

Frank Borman died today. He was a real hero. First rendezvous in space as Gemini 7 commander, with Gemini 6. And with Apollo 8 the first to leave low Earth orbit and go to the Moon. Apollo 8 proved that we understood orbital mechanics. The brass balls it took to do that, the absolute trust...

Well, maybe if they'd let guys get AD retirements and made it the good deal that the reserves can be they wouldn't have that problem.

The F-15 and F-16 guys have been getting some love lately according to the press releases.

I can see a scenario where a couple of OGA's would open their wallets to fund the U-2 if the DoD wants to stop paying the bill. I also don't really see the DoD cutting the Dragon Lady. She's a busy bitch, and that 1950s capacity payload holds a lot of really cool modern stuff that no one else...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/gop-sen-tommy-tuberville-shrugs-off-blame-for-top-marines-heart-attack-comparing-the-generals-heavy-workload-to-his-time-coaching-football/amp_articleshow/104926300.cms I hope someone can beat him. The fact that he thinks...

Some of those old salt reserve T-34 IPs were magicians at getting the lightbulb to come on for us studs. I flew all of my aero flights with a coast guard helo dude, and I just wasn't understanding the barrel roll, I kept turning it into a clover leaf. He incompleted me on the event, and had my...

We've had guys on flying status in the Guard since the 80s.they're all retiring now. But they've been maintaining CMR for decades.

That's not the reason. USMC just doesn't fly as much. Don't have the money, the hours, up airplanes...

It was 13 years ago, but my brother's class got through the T-6 and the T-1/T-38 courses in 53 weeks. But, this is what they're doing as they phase out the T-1, but the Fighter/Bomber/Attack guys still go to T-38s and wing after T-38s but before IFF. My brother, and E-3 pilot and FTU IP, says...

Army Warrants probably fly the most.

They go to the schools that give those wings out. Marines don't wear rank in the field.

Texting with a rocket scientist friend about their thoughts on SpaceX. They're of Orbital/ATK/Northrop Grumman pedigree- was on the Antares rocket from development until just a couple of years ago (to include being on the console for the one that exploded at Wallops and caused a lot of damage)...

I thought it was a long time as well. I fat fingered 5, should have been 4. The first Siege of Jerusalem seems to have some evidence that it occurred sometime between 1400 and 1000 BC. Whether those biblical scholars, archeologists, and historians are right or wrong I don't know. Taking...

I do believe that shit is about to go down. What do you think Israel sees as the end goal? What does Palestine, Hamas, EVERYONE ELSE see as the end goal? This is a conflict that goes back thousands of years (historians generally agree on 5000 years as a stake in the sand in). You really...

While I liked this, I don't actually like it. I agree with it, but I don't like it. And Ramajamadingdong is an absolute moron who is trying to get a ton of stupid people to vote for him. We might as well call him "Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho".

It was a Republican president who insisted that his name was on the checks that were sent out to everyone man, woman, and child in this country during COVID that created this inflation problem. Republicans printed 2.3 trillion dollars out of thin air. Spending our way out of a problem is not...

I'm playing well behind everyone else in time here. But I suppose this post is my microphone so everyone has to hear what I have to say! ;) The best NCO I had the opportunity to work with, both in the military and later civilian world, is a black man from western Virginia who was really smart...

It's a good airplane for what it does and in the current fight when you need more than what an MQ-9 can bring, it's pretty freaking great- we love working with those guys- but only so much as we can defend it from the SA threat (kinda like the MQ-9), and can afford to keep it flying.

I'm sure you believe that.

It is what is it.

*You're. It's not for everyone. How much ordnance did your community drop last month, year, decade? Mine dropped more, with a much bigger body count. Then I handed off to the next shift, had a couple of top shelf bourbons (from the tier 1 SOF units we sit over top of because you don't have...

Not a PPL, a multiengine commerical rating. Even better for a married dude with a family. Active Duty, only work 180 days a year (we work a 50% schedule, though it's 24/7/365 shift work) and never have to leave your local ops group if you don't want to. All the while building your time, and...

Some MQ-9 units still send guys to traditional flight school. It's a good bet for ANG units that think they may fly a manned airplane again the in future. But you don't use your MQ-9 hours to get hired. You fly the MQ-9 in the ANG because it's the best quality of life, and allows for the...

It was a jab as I saw a lot of photos and videos on Instagram reels from people on the beach in Gaza with the Ford in view with it's anchor chains in the water, and with a couple of tenders and a couple of tugs. It was really surprising to see... "Hey, I'm here on the beach and look what just...

A CVN at anchor doesn't do that. I'm not. Those assets are already there. They just don't show up on Google News. Guys, you act like the middle east isn't a regular shit storm and that we haven't had people and stuff all over the AOR since the early 90s. The Clinton era "where are the...

Reference my post earlier about their showing their faces in full HD on social media while capturing Jews in Israel. They're going to die.

Editing because I was a bit of a douche and I realize I don't need to be that way. Yeah, rockets and IDF are definitely a thing. But they're not going to do that to the Ford. That would be very dumb, even for Hamas.

Things that aren't a photo op in a highly publicized warzone. "Don't fuck with us" is already taken care of (and my community is only a small part in that). If they're going to fuck with us the CVN at anchor isn't going to do anything about it. The Ford does look cool on the horizon though...

I rock the Michigan flag when in a Title 32 status. But I'm also a nerd.

There are more capable assets that are already established in the AOR than what a CVN at anchor brings to the table. Except that the CVN looks better on camera.

I think you might want to check your open tabs. This is airwarriors, not command and staff online.

We provide ISR and kinetic strike options to a lot of folks for a lot of different reasons. Many of those reasons are more convoluted than what is happening right now.

Fact. However, indirect or non-kinetic or not in Israel... My community is frothing at the mouth right now; as are a few others. We'll see what they let us do in the coming days/weeks/months.

One thing I think is interesting is how many Hamas fighters who killed civilians and took hostages did so on social media- in HD, showing their faces. Those assholes signed their own death warrants. There is no way Israel is going to let anyone around the world think that they can capture Jews...

We need non cringy tiktok and Instagram folks.

There is a dude from my era that was putting videos out, but wasn't making money. Chances are if you saw a cockpit video of a Hornet landing on a boat it was No Pro. Good dude. Huge into general aviation, The RV (the airplane... not cousin Eddy), and the warbird community. Flies for Delta now...

If you're trying for competitive Air at TBS, everything matters.

Extended med down will get a stud rolled back to a different class. Emergency Leave may do the same. Weather isn't as big of an issue as UPT bases aren't generally in bad weather/coastal areas. Everyone in a class is required to be in their student ready room all day, every day and has to be...

The Navy training pipeline doesn't work that way. You won't know you're in a break in training until you're in it. Some folks may only get a weekend between phases, others may get a month or more. The Air Force has published, hard scheduled, dates that must be met, thusly they have a rigid...

Don't forget to tell him that in the workingman's Hornet the tapes didn't record the actual display, but instead there were cameras pointed at the displays that the tapes recorded.

Fuck it. Come to the Guard, fly MQ-9s. Get hired by an airline ASAP. Have an address more than 50.0 miles from your unit, get multiple years of Active Duty MPA orders in a row and collect per diem and live in a Marriot hotel all while you're on mil leave at your airline. Get your 15 year pin...

The transition from instrument to visual scan is one of the hardest things to do in an airplane- we're having our own challenges teaching it to RPA folks in satellite launch and recovery ops. "But sir, the airplane flies itself." "Yes young Padawan, but you must ensure it's doing everything...