If the AF had all the money in the world we could probably keep it around, although a limited run 40 year old aircraft is going to be harder to maintain and upgrade (Looking at you B-52). But the AF doesn't have the money to do half the things we want so it's making hard choices Iine with the NDS.
You know 19 was not the first number he typed
Service reactions to returning to Bagram: USAF: “We just got you out of there!?” Army: “Three COAs: tons of dudes, less dudes, and a huge amount of dudes.” USMC: “What if we airlift three amphibious ships and drop them right on Bagram?” Navy: “Whatever.” USSF: “What planet is that on?”
With or without tanks?
All the religious groups who thought they were part of the group and not just tolerated because they were useful (i.e. Catholics and Mormons) are probably going to have a rude awakening here soon that they were a means to an end.
The more I see other homeschoolers, the more I realize how lucky the homeschool groups my parents chose to associate with were non-crazy type who focused on academics and the vast majority of us turned into functional members of society.
Sustainment doesn't sound very lethal, we only do lethality these days.
Yes, out the north of the country through Uzbekistan or Kazakhstan and through Azerbaijan & Georgia to the Black Sea where we'd pick up a tanker if needed and then to Germany. About 8ish hours en route depending on routing and winds.
You don't say Pakistan Catch-22: The Trouble With Wars in Landlocked Countries share.google/xLId7WDjYWJJ...
You don't say Pakistan Catch-22: The Trouble With Wars in Landlocked Countries share.google/xLId7WDjYWJJ...
I took the last C-RAM system to leave Afghanistan during the Kabul evac. Can't wait to see it go back in.
I think theres wants and a needs, do they want it? Sure it opens a lot of doors. Do they need it for their continued existence? At this point likely not.
I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.
Ah yeah fair
And?
The patch and engineer arguing semantics as the guy runs out of gas is also gold
Almost every pilot has lived some version of Conference Hotel
Discovering these two bands has made my day
The OF to "I've found religion", super hot, trad wife (but still accepting money from fans) character arc remains undefeated
I don't sit with him when he plays so he has to pause the game to come find me everytime he needs help so it incentivizes him to figure it out on his own. And all in all he's only come for help a few times.
Yeah we had a big breakthrough over the summer with reading so we are trying to capitalize on his interests to weave in reading where we can to normalize it and build his confidence.
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
I'm not saying it's the end all but for my son who's struggles with reading, we got him the Pokeman nintendo game which requires him to read all the prompts and cues on the screen. I only help him with words that are above his grade level.
TBF there's a lot of them
IIRC he was always dancing around it and then he made one overt video and Donahue dropped the hammer pretty hard on him.
Ever useful rule: "never trust a Lt who is trying to be popular, an influencer and/or have big thoughts"
(mostly so I can just block the list and be lazy)
Miltwitter rejects list
As leader I heard recently say "never underestimate someone's ability to self-destruct". It's amazing how following a few simple rules of being a good human being can make a lot of difference in life outcomes.
I vaguely remember this right at the tail end of Twitter and before the jump to here.
Yes wouldn't necessarily have to be AF Honor Guard team though, likely to be whoever was closest. Was mostly pointing out they aren't AF2 crew members.
Those are not AF2 crew, they have USAF honor guard uniforms (silver stripe on the pants) likely from a nearby base.
This completely ignores that shifting manpower includes costs, retraining, and Congressional interests.
Congrats and thank you for your service to the nation, I'm sure it will continue in another form.
Needs an editor or a subtle warning? We'll never know
I mean if our uniforms were quality material like my suits or other dress clothes then sure have at it. But as long as they wear like malleable cardboard then no thanks.
This via @alarcos.bsky.social is fascinating It looks like @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu 's flight to Plovdiv was *not* victim of GPS jamming, but a non GPS landing was requested for unknown reasons. BUT the plane's earlier flight over Estonia was jammed. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...
Yeah wife's family is there and SIL was talking about not having an available appointment for months to get her daughters their DLs.
Oklahoma outsourced it to contractors which was actually very efficient in my experience. Registered two cars and got new DLs for my wife and I and about 20 minutes from walking in the door with no appointment. I never waited more than 30 minutes any time I needed to go there.
The Gettysburg already resolved this question
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
How do spouse access pre check line if not enrolled in pre check separately? I'm not tracking any type of free precheck for spouses.
Yeah...well you see there's this idea that our movements are being tracked by plane spotters like it's 1955 or something and so we need to scrub markings. Because I'm sure foreign Intel services aren't just using a dozen different open source technical means like I see people on here do everyday.
American flags on the tail*
I'm not saying nothing happened but that's not how GPS works.
They massacred my boy in the name of "OPSEC". While also forgetting that the C-17 is a diplomatic tool when it's delivering aid, evacuating refugees etc. We should want a big American flag on the goal and "United States Air Force" on the fuselage.
That or Palmetto State Armory if he's a South Carolina boy
Amazing
And currently single (twice divorced)
30% is way too low
New term "vengeance weasel" has been added to my library of insults.
Aegis Ashore Afloat!
We will literally strap anything to a LCS in an attempt to make it useful. 😂
Oh good this doesn't just happen in my house
**No I don't believed this will happen.
You can't affect much in the 1st FYDP, it's more or less baked. You make your money in the 2nd FYDP by giving yourself enough time to phase and sequence divestment and investment*. *Unless we are going to get back to 1960s skunk works churning out production ready programs in <2 years**
Necessity drives risk, in peacetime the tolerance is and should be low because the most dangerous thing to a pilot is himself or other blue players. When Red gets in the game that risk calculus changes.
For medical records between doctors offices? Sure got it. A boiler plate doctor's note for school? Yeah can't get on board with that.
Me: hello large hospital in our area, I forgot to grab a doctor's note for my son on the way out can you email one to me? Hospital: we can't email, we a can only fax
That's a nice AFCM you got there
Thanks, we had a good run, better than we could have ever imagined.
13.5 years, from a rescue in a small town in OK to 3 more states, swam in both oceans, never passed up the opportunity to seize an open gate for a little adventure. Today he got to sleep on the couch and go one one last walk with his best friend. Trooper lived up to his name to the very end.
82nd Div CG has request that IRB1 move to be airborne 24/7 effective immediately.
One last evening walk with my friend of 13+ years. We always hope for more time but it's never enough.
Love those morning teams messages
I missed the memo that the gravitational pull of the 5 sided building had pulled you in.
Nothing cracks me up more than a couple NatSec Think Tank Podcasters discussing the supposed obsolescence of entire job sectors & need to retrain all these white collar knowledge workers to blue collar jobs, without acknowledging that one of the first sectors to go could be NatSec Think Tankers.
There's a Döner place right across from the Tree Bar now which is dangerous and also delicious.
There's nothing like a late night visit to New York Doner in Landstuhl after 24 hours of flying.
Critical support
I'll drop you a note next time we fire it up
I found two fax machines in my office that are plugged in, TBD if they are functional, one is next to the popcorn machine.
To paraphrase Elizabeth Warren, oh my goodness, oh dear, are you worried that all the lawyers in a lawsuit are going to be held to the same standard?
*Stares in preparatory fires and setting conditions* Yes the first act of the invasion will be the invasion fleet setting sail and not days of withering barages of BMs, cruise missiles/ PLA OWA-UAS etc
Infantry wins wars
I play paintball as a hobby. Checking in today for practice before our tournament next weekend, the guy at the register says the price for paintballs has gone up a couple dollars but it's probably going to go up a lot more since almost all of the competition grade brands we use are made in Canada.
I was assured by a CSC classmate that companies were going to eat the tarrif cost and not raise prices for the good of the country.
help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help
Probe and drogue is much different than a boom though
Buy your Christmas presents now
Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.
Every airlift pilot when someone starts talking about airdrop as a way to deliver mass supplies.
Sitting in the Pentagon Flight Med Clinic waiting on my hearing test and this Marine walks and starts talking with the front desks tech. I can only see his back out of the corner of my eye but his voice sounds familiar. It was one my pilot training classmates, who I haven't seen in over 13 years.
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
Also how fast that coalition from around the world came together
I am desperately waiting for regular media to figure out that 99% of the predictions coming out of tech CEO's mouths are complete bullshit. It's *perpetual futurity*; these "imminent" things are always 1 year, or 5 years, or "within a decade" away, and the goalposts keep moving as necessary.
