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The biggest problem with this is the time lag between determining a need for greater numbers and/or improvements and getting the aircraft to the fleet/the Air Force. Our system doesn't react fast enough anymore to be able to wait until 6 months before we really need them.

Yeah, the helo pilot side of me had a great response, but the Academy grad side forced me to keep my mouth shut.

"Having the national spotlight on the school, through our sports teams is what contributes the the national notoriety we have as alumnus." It is certainly a lot of free/cheap publicity; any studies that show how that has affected general recruiting for the Navy/USMC and applications for the...

Thank God they didn't catch it here!! We would have had to read it its rights before questioning! And that's profiling!! In a related story, PETA now protesting outside the Pakistani embassy.

IMO, having an advance, unauthorized copy of the actual test is clearly over the line. Having access to question banks, previous tests (if not specifically prohibited by the "governing authority"), talking to people who took it recently (again, unless specifically prohibited) is acceptable. I...

That's like saying that going 2 miles over the speed limit, then 5 miles over the speed limit, then 8 miles over the speed limit, then 42 miles over the speed limit is just continuing the status quo.

Typically, you don't answer the question. Probably because you don't read it. I never said appearances should outweigh substance; I said that when what has been a typical appearance is changed it's reasonable to ask why. And I even followed that by noting that one shouldn't jump to conclusions...

You know what they say "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool A4s, the shame is less."

You need to switch to decaf!! You still haven't explained why is it unreasonable to ask "Why?"

When there is a break with tradition, I think it's reasonable to ask why. I also think one should wait to hear why before jumping to conclusions. I am not aware of a long-standing lapel flag pin tradition.

It's a reasonable question to ask, but you shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions why.

There are a considerable amount of family connections between the North and the South, which would put a huge amount of political pressure on the South to provide significant aid to the North, and would also drastically limit the South's military options as far as limiting the refugees. China...

I read an article a couple of weeks ago that there was a 1 in 4 success rate in a "secular dictatorship" of successfully passing the power on from the parent to the next generation the first time, but that it had never been done successfully the second time (grandchildren of the original...

Most larger cities have a local blood bank that is unaffiliated with the Red Cross, and at least some Navy hospitals also have donation centers, so there are other options for giving blood.

Obviously this thread is getting attention in high places, and government employees are no longer involving themselves in politics. The head of the EPA just canceled her scheduled appearance at a Democratic fund raiser.

They probably gave everyone a trophy and had orange slices and juice boxes afterwards.

They'll end up being better officers because of the lard-lack; the Academy wouldn't do something like that unless they had a valid reason.

He makes a lot of good points.

That's a habit of ours. But you're in good company. Chiang Kai-shek, MacArthur, Truman, to name just a few.

We had a problem in the H-3s for awhile that vibrations (i.e. of the level that you get taking off/hovering/on short final) would cause the sonobuoys to jettison themselves. They eventually fixed the problem, but for awhile the aircrewmen had to wait with loading them until after takeoff, and...

I think South Korea would be the one dealing with the majority of the refugees, not China - that would be a major drain on South Korea's economy for a long time, which would not be a bad thing for China.

They will probably give them a seat on the Human RIghts Council.

"Did you happen to read SECDEF's remarks? You know, the one about how we have a bigger navy than the next 13 countries combined? 11 of which are our allies?" Yes I did. Look at the relative trends of the size of the Chinese military vs the sizes of the U.S. and allied militaries. This isn't...

They will go slow and steady, and if they can get what they want without military action, they will. But they won't be afraid to use military action/viably threaten military action, if they think it would be successful, and if they need it to achieve what they want.

That is a definite possibility; I think it depends primarily on China's economy.

Our year, they cut the cap into four pieces and super-glued it to the top. WE actually would have had it down in 15 minutes; ended up taking 2 + hours. (I say "we" as if I actually helped.)

I thought 2 hours was bad!!

You named yours?

Not enough pink.

Be careful, next they'll be banning SUVs.

What an insult!! It needs to be "Department of the Navy, Marine Corps, and sometimes Coast Guard and Merchant Marines"

Or for positive rep points. Which could also be a bullet on your fitrep "brag sheet."

I assume that they have a good disaster recovery plan for going to an alternate site and loading a backup of the data?

As someone noted above, it is related to the "X number of NAMs per personnel in the unit", and the fact that COs (most?) feel like they need to give all of those out, plus the standard "end-of-tour/end-of-career" awards. I suspect that COs feel, at least on a sub-conscious level, that the more...

Are their USMC billets at Pax River?

Make sure that you time your arrival with someone else's departure, or the island will capsize.

Realistically, probably no direct retaliation.

Sounds like the South Korean military thinks it was a torpedo that sank the Cheonan, but they are still looking for absolute proof. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7104498.ece

I agree totally. Those vegetables have every intention of harming me, so I get them first. The tomatoes in the garden are assembling even as I speak; I figure I'll need to launch a preemptive strike against them in about a month; first I'll probably knock off a couple of the scouts in three...

Are there vegetarian sliders?

What is "NKO" - online self-paced training?

That speaks for itself.

Wouldn't the terminal flight profile make it more effective for certain targets?

The problem is not the fact that decisions will be made on how money is spent for medical care. The problem is that the government will be making those decisions, after forcing people to buy insurance. After getting excessively involved with the pricing, which will drive out suppliers and thus...

The difference, and it's a huge difference, is that the insurarance companies make the decision, not the government. And the people with the insurance policies choose in advance, based on the policies they purchase.

Clearly there will be "death panels", or rationing boards, or whatever doublespeak name you want to give them. The administrators will have to do that; it is the only possible way that the available resources (which will very likely be fewer than currently) can be spread out to "cover" everybody.

Yes, but if the media really cared about what was best for Haiti, and not what was best for their ratings, they would have just sent in a couple of crews (total) in the early days, and shared the coverage among themselves. The media took up valuable resources (security, ramp space, air traffic)...

But wasn't that hind teat?

It takes potential use of nuclear weapons "off the table" in certain areas. And any thought that this makes a us MORE "morally superior" to Iran, NorK, and Russia is silly. If, in someone's sight, we aren't already morally superior, this sure won't do it.