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Your brain is pickled on FoxNews and probably darker corners. I don't know where to start on the shit you posited in this post. Didn't DOGE do a deep dive on this...haha no...that drug-addled dude did jack-shit. And no, we didn't send pallets of cash to UKR...instead weapons to a people that...

I didn't either. I was guessing maybe John Paul Jones VII?

Looking back, I wish I got deathly ill and vomited the first time I ever dipped...but I didn't. I rarely flew without a dip in, bc it was a bad habit that was hard to break at that point. With regards to smoking, the CH-53E was designed with 2 ashtrays in the cockpit for each pilot...they had...

It was like the Gettysburg Address almost. https://x.com/Acyn/status/1926317469141995951

That reminds me of transiting back to homeport from the ME with little flight ops going on, and the nightly devotion over the 1MC by the ship's Chap (started with 'Good evening Saywahs and Mawines...')...it interrupted our tenth viewing of 'Old School' on ship's TV. A collective 'FUCK' could be...

I guess there'll be a few adverse FITREPs handed out over this one...bwahahaha

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/politics/hegseth-pentagon-christian-prayer-service? "The Boss gladly invites you to a prayer service during work hours where his personal pastor might speak in tongues, possibly handle some snakes, and praise POTUS as "sovereignly appointed". Strictly voluntary...

Not allowed himself to be in that situation, not saluted back, maybe nod or just shake hands? Just like this scenario, it's not appropriate...in fact it's disgusting.

I'm guessing they'll start with a new paint job, new upholstery, and add some gold fixtures in the cabin. Then velcro on a bunch of antennas and shit, so it'll be ready for the transition to the "presidential library" in 2029.

So, no more fear of that HAL dude's warnings of Art 88 referrals?... :rolleyes:

Looks like he trimmed up recently to get into a semblance of ht/wt standards, I guess. Not sure about his iron and starch game though.

As part of this discussion of retired officers and malfeasance, it got me thinking about some hypotheticals that I don't know the answer to. AFAIK, if you are retired and under the age of 60 you are theoretically subject to recall to AD (WW3 type scenario), and then at age 60 you roll over to...

I couldn't imagine getting blindsided with that on a Thanksgiving morale/PR call being recorded live. He did a great job though, best he could. Should be a primer for next Thanksgiving for the poor deployed AF sap chosen to get asked questions about next generation aircraft live on air.

I love his forays into long-term defense projects.

My hobby now is to park in the Veterans Only parking spot at Lowe's and just rip cigs all day while soaking up TYFYSs. Sometimes I make sure they notice my license plate that has an Air Medal on it (but that's just overkill really). It's better than free appetizers at Applebee's on Veterans Day...

C'mon, it's all worth it @CommodoreMid when you walk outside the Dept of Ag to stretch your legs to view the majestic scenery.

I do get all that history of Obama bowing to the Queen and gaffes like him continually calling corpsmen "corpse men", and thought does he have anyone that can pull him aside and say "hey, sir, it's actually..."? The fact that this staff allowed 47 to stand in front of a conga line of Saudi...

Fair enough...now I need @sevenhelmet to weigh in though, bc you put my post under his header. 😄

Has any of his staff or advisors ever told him that this shit is inappropriate? 1st term: 2nd term: I guess like the 747-8 gift from Qatar, does anyone care? It's gross, and whoever let all these spectacles happen should be fired. Thoughts?

That old school police cruiser you drive...the duality of man. Mechanical road vehicle driver/fly-by wire air Captain/AI watch researcher. 😁

The car you drive doesn't have lane assist technology...which is a good thing tbh

Isn't that called throwing out a Yardstick, I can't remember? 😁

I mentioned that too...I'm unaware of the current airframes not being anything but 100% FMC. Maybe I'm off base but it seems weird that this 'plan' would be put into motion for all the reasons mentioned above. I mean, fuck, HMX still flies the VH-3, and it's never failed, right? It's been over a...

Guess not, with your laugh emoji. That's cool, I suppose.

@Yardstick Do you care to comment on this article from the notorious left-wing rag (WSJ) owned by Rupert Murdoch with your own words, and not JustMindy's? https://archive.ph/P5Swq

I love how you shit on the msm, and then punch out a post from JustMindy as backup/proof. Obviously, she's a straight shooter :rolleyes: https://archive.ph/TR4ke Just quit the trolling. It's unbecoming of a current/former naval aviator.

I'm totally ignorant of this shit, but it's prob hard to take a basic 747-8 and rewire it and have it bristling with all the comm/defensive shit, right? My uninformed opinion would be it would not occur in his term, but like you said, best case scenario is a few months-to a year? Totally...

I guess that you'd have to believe that Qatar is just some altruistic benefactor of the US govt, while ignoring any Trump Org real estate deals being worked right now with Qatar. And, his AG who was making pretty good bank as a registered agent of Qatar as her last job, saying sure all looks...

Plus, maybe I'm not aware of any limitations of the current fleet of Boeing jets serving in the executive transport/AF1 mission <someone correct me if I'm wrong>, (you can also acknowledge that there are cost overruns/delays with the replacements coming from Boeing), and also believe that it is...

I actually get my news from trusted sources like...Laura Loomer 😄 https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1921612004055187933 https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1921734060923142301

yeah, I'd like to see the cost and timeframe to get this thing configured for AF1 purposes, and then deconfigured. Dude's only got 44 months on his term left

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121680511 I have a lot of questions, but how is this remotely legal/constitutional?

I actually had a CO who prior to taking command was known as one of the biggest liberty risks around. After his CoC, he holds an AOM, and says that he might have a change of command without a band and that he doesn't care. I left the squadron on a MEU det, and lo and behold he later got...

That's actually an interesting study of how that the whole thing was cobbled together and led to a lot of changes.

It was good training for us, but not really that relevant tbh. IIRC the F-5 dudes had a hard time spotting us, even while sitting on the deck. To do the range estimation demo while on the desert floor, you'd need to pull a little collective to create a little dust cloud. The training was mainly...

We fragged VMFT-401 about once a year to do FW DM when I was in SD...it was fucking stupid in retrospect. Those dudes didn't care though, they were professional and took whatever briefing card a young WTI sent to them with enthusiasm, bc it was flight time.

After excessive soju in Pohang as a young captain (ain't no hang like the Pohang), I successively outran and hid from the shore patrol in an out of bounds area, to finally make it back to the boat post liberty hours. Not my finest moment (nothing happened), but I digress... 😃

Even while drunk, you should be able to outrun the cops. I think it's the 6th general order, Griz. It's why the obstacle course was designed the way it is, I think.

Holy shit, I know zero people that were arrested 5 times for public intoxication.

Go Cats! I was a dipshit who lived on Euclid Ave in the 90's and made it in...

Can you refer Linda to the officer recruiters on this site to how her credentials/resume stack up for a cabinet secretary role?

It is hilarious to watch self-important people that get beyond their skis and embarrass themselves. We all have blind spots of knowledge, but it's the inherent wisdom to know this about yourself that should be the key to being a leader...Like others in the cabinet though, she was not brought on...

What I can't wrap my head around is that she obviously knows nothing about the subject and was provided a script, is the fact that she didn't feel the need to ask, 'what is this A1 shit?' to her staffers. But no, just YOLO yourself in front of the world. Shame is no longer a thing, I guess.

I'd say your arrest record is girthy.

I posted a caveat that it was AI generated though. Maybe our rasslin' Secretary of Education will figure it out :( I'm actually embarrassed by her arrogant billionaire Boomer ignorance. <will she ration the pencils>

It's all being managed by a cool Signal chat here in the states, so I wouldn't worry too much. *AI images do not reflect the likeness of any living persons

But people always!...I guess this is why kids have to wear helmets riding their bikes now (when I didn't), and I had to worry about the goddam Fall Prevention program as a DOSS. 😄

I believe UKR took down a few RUS helos from their USVs in the Black Sea a few months ago. They're saying this was the first jet they've downed via a USV. Interesting. https://x.com/Tendar/status/1918605847048921097

I'm sorry that @ea6bflyr taught me how to do this...

Sorry 😄