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Patly that, but at this point more along the lines of screening traffic coming across from Mexico. At this point that isn't being done at all, not even at the cursory level. (At least according to the local news.)

I was referring to nothing additional being done at the border crossings, at least those in the San Diego/Tijuana area.

And why is (apparently) nothing being done to limit the spread?

This was a WH staff mistake, not Pentagon: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/president-ob-28.html

REAL hokey!! But there are some great pictures.

I disagree with that - when you are going through 40 applications, for one position, you have to filter out the great majority of them, because you don't have time to interview everybody. And for recent graduates, GPA (taking the school into account) is one of the few ways to do that. Once...

Figure out some baseline income, don't tax that at all for anyone, and then have a flat tax for everything above that. The poor pay no tax, or virtually no tax; the rich pay a lot, but at a fair rate, and there is still incentive to increase your income, unless you want to stay at the poverty...

Did the MOB have floatation gear on?

Thanks!

SOme background on the negotiations with North Korea over the past years: http://newledger.com/2009/04/christopher-hill-deep-kimchee-for-iraq/

No, but they don't mind calling you crazed and dangerous.

My son gets commissioned in June; he just found out he will be staying at the ROTC unit until "late August/September." Looks like they are running out of money in that pot, and most people will have to wait until the new fiscal year.

Well, had you actually read the article, you would have noticed that Gutfeld's comment was not part of the meat.

We had "Scorpions on a Helo" a couple of times at Fallon.

Good points on problems with the media, with some specifically as it pertains to coverage of these events: http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2009/04/15/legacy-media-seppuku-complete/

Well, here is a fairly standard response from a liberal spokesperson. Note the use of "crazy"; just part of the campaign to marginalize those on the right. In related news, the DHS document obviously doesn't distort anything. Here's the proof...

From the thread on the missile shoot: ANother good column on the subject. (Note that the author is the same man who wrote the WSJ column I previously referenced; this one goes into more detail discussing why China, Russia, and S. Korea don't seem to feel that keeping North Korea from...

And you would think that hypothetical presidential and VP candidates would be aware of that during the campaign, and would not make promises contrary to that logic.

I knew of three taken off of flight status, all were able to keep their wings; one who had a hit a tree doing an unauthorized low-level (relatively minor damage to a couple of the rotor blades, no injuries), and another who was using unauthorized procedures on an FCF (heard that story...

Sorry, that was a reference to what we typically did, which was to come in on the downwind leg for a relatively short final leg.

Oh, yeah. Sort of.

I think this change is a good idea; once the Soviet Union fell apart, I think the quickest way to address the Cuba situation would have been to let capitalism "do it's thing." But neither party wanted to buck the Cuban-American bloc. Better late than never.

Any S/E would be a "Land As Soon As Practicable", wouldn't it? Which would be North Island, in this case.

The big difference is that the approach to North Island can be completely over water; the same is not true of Miramar.

Ill-defined, I suppose some combination of intelligence and ability to get things done. Clearly there are exceptions in both communities. But from what I have seen, for people who are physically qualified, aviation tends to be a preferred choice over the surface community. That means that...

Ill-defined, I suppose some combination of intelligence and ability to get things done. Clearly there are exceptions in both communities. But from what I have seen, for people who are physically qualified, aviation tends to be a preferred choice over the surface community. That means that...

Two observations: Somewhat ironic, with all the negative comments about the SWO community (which seem to be fairly accurate, from my experience) in this thread, that several months ago when a midshipman who had wanted aviation didn't get it, he was basically told to stop whining. (Don't know if...

Two observations: Somewhat ironic, with all the negative comments about the SWO community (which seem to be fairly accurate, from my experience) in this thread, that several months ago when a midshipman who had wanted aviation didn't get it, he was basically told to stop whining. (Don't know if...

We called that "whisper mode" in the HS community.

Hey, I got about 30 hours in an A-4 simulator one year when I was having a hard time getting enough flight hours to make my mins. Does that count? I got pretty good at instrument approaches in it. Never could get the darn thing to hover, though.

Xnvyflyer, Do you do any work with fire buckets? Where do you fly out of?

Do you have access to old Approach magazines? There would be an article in there from sometime in the late 80-early 82 time frame on a bird strike on a VT-6 T-34 by a turkey buzzard. Broke the windscreen, knocked the student out and broke his collarbone, continued through to the back seat, hits...

"you essentially just have the Air Force" A better looking Air Force without scarves.

ANother good column on the subject. (Note that the author is the same man who wrote the WSJ column I previously referenced; this one goes into more detail discussing why China, Russia, and S. Korea don't seem to feel that keeping North Korea from developing nukes is that high of a priority...

A piece of history; that's for sure!! They were in the process of transitioning HT-18 to the 57C when I went through Whiting, and I was lucky to be one of the last students to get to fly the H-1 before the transition was complete. They probably had close to 90 of them there (mostly Ds, there may...

Yeah, I was thinking about that. (I did a report in high school for JROTC on the attempted recovery of the K-129). Flew over it in the mothball fleet frequently when I was at NAS Alameda.

I was thinking more about the "payload" (which apparently did not deploy, if there was one) than about the missle itself. But it probably would not be worth the effort.

I disagree with the "Top 10" list in the article, but the comments have some really good suggestions. http://www.omnivoracious.com/2009/04/tom-ricks-best-defense-books-on-the-best-military-history.html

LA Times article with some more info: http://tinyurl.com/c992fq I wonder if there will be any attempt to try and recover the wreckage.

They are looking to reassert themselves.

Good luck on getting anything out of the U.N. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53058220090405?sp=true

Good column on this subject http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123892552140890247.html#mod=rss_opinion_main

It's a mistake to take two days off in a row every week. Work in some kind of aerobic cross-training on one of those days, and maybe one other day each week. Figure out your goal (make it a realistic one!) Here is a suggested 5K training schedule to use as a guideline - you can see that the...

So they always fire a round before they go on a mission, to get the loud one out of the way?

What is the purpose of the "interviews"? If you are looking for sources to get more information about the Navy, I would suggest checking with the nearest Navy League chapter. They may have members who are just recently off of active duty, or some who are currently in the reserves; I'm sure...

^^I don't think that the best approach is to try and make OCS harder for him - the Navy thinks enough of him to accept him for a commissioning program. If he learned his lesson, great. If not, he will very soon.

They aren't going to do it today; too much risk, and because they are very patient, they can wait. 5 years from now, if the current trends continue? It wouldn't surprise me. There is also the possibility that if this missile presents a significant threat to surface ships, that effectively...

I don't think it's at all presumptive. Example - China is threatening military action against Taiwan. We respond by sending a couple of carrier battle groups into the region. One of the carriers is sunk, whether by a sub or one of these missiles. No way we would have the political will to go...

They don't need to be "on our level" for their weapons to be a significant threat; particularly relatively close in like that. (Just ask the Israeli Navy about that!) At a minimum the existence of such a threat is going to require a reaction that will make our forces less effective. Use of a...