Category: Work

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Easiest Target Practice Ever

I’d like to know why they wasted a Sidewinder on it? Would’ve been alot more fun making a couple gun runs and probably preserve the payload better, as well. Can’t get over how quickly the imaginative right-wingers jumped on the opportunity to criticize another expertly planned and executed “Special Military Operation.”

The Real Story. I’ll go ahead and take a WAG the Chinese had a little unexpected weather mess with their transceivers.

That twerp Rubio from Florida among others, was on the airwaves lamenting how it wasn’t shot down sooner over Alaska. Goes to show the forethought these morons are willing to put into just about anything. It’s either a political hit calculation, or a money-making scheme. That’s all the farther they go.

Can’t wait to see what we find in that thing now that it’s been clear across the country, with all it’s incriminating data stored safely off the South Carolina coast.

Late Update: China says will ‘safeguard interests.’ Translation: They are already re-examining and re-coding everything those systems touch on their soil before we start doing it for them.

Combined arms lesson for the Russians: Canuks tracked, USAF did the shooting and the Navy’s on cleanup. Probably didn’t need Army support on this one, but I’m sure they were standing ready, hoping to get something.
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Will Boeing Ever be Punished?

It’s like Boeing is ≈ Trump in terms of accountability. They fly 737s full of people into the ground, egregiously ripping off the government time and again, and the Air Force just begs for more. Everybody concerned with the topic understands the criticality of in-flight re-fueling. I guess they just overlooked the part about R&D testing.

Ten years later, ten people stand around shakin’ their head agreeing this shyt doesn’t work right.

Members of the 60th Aerial Port Squadron load cargo into a KC-46A Pegasus Oct. 8, 2021, at Travis Air Force Base, California. Members from Boeing, Air Mobility Command, and Air Force Materiel Command visited the 60th APS Oct. 7-9 to evaluate their planning, configuration process and cargo loading operations for the KC-46A Pegasus. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Alexander Merchak)

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Putin’s Gamble

New category combo – Crime and Work. I always tried to avoid it when the rules and laws didn’t quite cover things, but at the end of the day you still have to deal with these people. Vladimir Putin made any number of gross miscalculations in his formula to take Ukraine. Gambling with other people’s lives and money at the mundane, street crime and bank fraud levels is easy. Take it to war, and you’ll have another type of gambler to deal with.

Probably gonna need to shift north here a bit pretty soon. Big bets on the table now. Our guys, shooters or not, go with air cover.

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot flies within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, Jan. 4, 2023. The F-16’s mission is to deliver airpower, fortify U.S. commitment to partner nations, and provide regional stability within the AOR. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kirby Turbak)
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Mom’s a Road Warrior Now

Michelle’s halfway through a business trip to head office in Springfield. Me and the menagerie have to do without her for another week, while she gets per-Diem restaurant fare and we fend for ourselves. Waaaaaaah!

Weekend Tourist
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Sounds Like a Good Deal

Two Scandinavians for One Türkiye? Turkey might control the Black Sea, but it’s a pretty weak bargaining chip. We control the air over everything. Fuck Ergodan. He is using NATO expansion for nothing but an excuse to get concessions for himself. Turkey is no less a terrorist towards their neighbors than Russia.

“The two countries ended decades of neutrality last May and applied to join NATO in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but Turkey objected and accused the countries of harboring militants, including from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and demanded steps be taken.”

Ergodan can kiss my rosie red rectium.
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Aerospace Pics are Back!

I stopped following Air Force Magazine online a few years ago after they underwent some back-end reorg that appeared to neuter their graphics publishing. Basically, they had stopped sharing the high-res photography our camera shooters collect every day, ostensibly due to IT constraints.

I guess they got it sorted at some point.

Stuff just got better – promoting U.S. Aerospace Power!
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Hamlin’s So-Called “Injury”

Naturally all NFL league and fandom is terribly concerned with and sympathetic to Damar’s condition. Another more subtle aspect of the scenario I’m worried about is the media continuing to push the false injury narrative. It’s more sensational that way – you know, like when they immediately started re-hashing the recent Tagovailoa case having absolutely nothing to do with or related to Hamlin’s event in any way whatsoever, except that it happened during a football game.

Damar was not injured. The play was not even an especially impactful one, by NFL standards. These type issues, far more common at the college and high school levels, are almost always worked out of the system by the time players get to the NFL. That’s why it was so shocking and rare – nothing to do with player safety or NFL medical issues. It’s just an unfortunate fact of life, overly sensationalized by the fake news media.

Here’s what an actual NFL-induced injury looks like.

Good luck and get better, Damar!
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Steelers Still Alive

It’s just cruel how they stay in contention year after year. These guys are all amazing at this level. But I remember thinking Pickett looked a little extra special first time seeing him earlier in the season.

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No Doubt “Twitter Will Feel Faster”

…to those remaining after another big passel of users goes away for various reasons. Hell, why not jut cut them off altogether? Those Asian carriers can’t possibly be vectoring that much advertising traffic after all, can they? Dumping them should help with the accelerating revenue loss, right?

Damn, Elon. WTF?

Like Napoleon Bonespurs listening to Navarro telling him about transportation, the Chief Twit probably listens to so-called current “architects” at Twitter™ who weren’t smart enough to get out when the gettin’ was good.
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Royce Williams

Another bo-na-fide badass.

“Four decades later, following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, records began to come out from Moscow confirming the aerial battle.”

Missed me! Sumbitch kicked the shyt outta the Russians with an inferior aircraft.
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IRS Penalties and Interest

Most wage earners are girding for another tax season as 2022 comes to a close. Some are already sucking wind on the finance front, with white collar crime amounting to huge tax liabilities among other things, now pending exposure.

“I think the former president has made it perfectly clear that lying is not a crime in any way.” — GOP Rep.-elect George Santos of New York
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Artemis-1 Highlights

The new space program is exciting and spectacular on many levels. Astronauts, rockets and space travel are just oh so fascinating. But like it takes 4-5 support personnel to field every infantryman in the Army, it takes thousands of support personnel for every astronaut on the mission.

These guys work where the rubber meets the launch road.
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C-130 Hercules

Lockheed’s quintessential prop-driven airlifter goes down in history – ongoing history. There is no question it is one of the most well-regarded, widely-utilized military workhorses ever. The current crop of AC-130 Gunships demonstrates just how amazing this platform really is.

I had my share of rides in them, but the Sarajevo trip was memorable. Loadmaster strolls down the cargo floor announcing “We’ll be in Sarajevo any minute – hang on, we’re goin’ down!” Wish somebody would have explained the “tactical approach” method earlier.

70 years hauling our military people all around the planet.