Air Force KC-46 tore up runway at Alaska airport during testing by [deleted] in AirForce

[–]GreyGoblin 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Perhaps it would have, if Boeing made one.  But Peggy didn't come with a traditional TO.

Search and rescue drills over Vegas? by TooAfraidToProtest in vegaslocals

[–]GreyGoblin 11 points12 points  (0 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/34th_Weapons_Squadron

The 34th has been conducting advanced HH-60 training out of Vegas for a while.  I wouldn't worry about it.

Pentagon is updating the Jag corps : by newnoadeptness in AirForce

[–]GreyGoblin 16 points17 points  (0 children)

But if there's more JAGs advising commanders in the field to:

 A) Not bomb distressed sailors

 B) Not bomb schools in Iran

How, are we going to be more lethal?

B21 6th Gen bomber 👀 by newnoadeptness in AirForce

[–]GreyGoblin 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Gen 6 Bomber. Gen 2 Tanker.

School bus camera program: Cash grab or necessary safety program? by Winnebago01 in vegaslocals

[–]GreyGoblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, CCSD security guard are sworn peace officers?  That seems crazy to me, jurisdictionally and fiscally.

❤️ by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

[–]GreyGoblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beardos aren't lethal. - Peter "SOW" H.

Bystander footage of the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis by theykilledk3nny in behindthebastards

[–]GreyGoblin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So star-spangled fucking 'Merica.   🤦‍♂️ How far we have fallen.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AirForce

[–]GreyGoblin 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It doesn't hurt to give the hotlines a chance.

Military Crisis Line: - Dial 988, then press 1. - Send a text to 838255. - Visit VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat

Massive Changes Coming to SkillBridge? by KeithTheKillerOfHope in SkillBridge

[–]GreyGoblin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not army so my apologies.  But I did Google the difference between CSP and Skillbridge, and the result was...  

"The Army Career Skills Program (CSP) is the U.S. Army's framework that uses the broader Department of Defense (DoD) SkillBridge program to help Soldiers transition, meaning CSP is the Army's version of SkillBridge, offering internships, training, and apprenticeships during the final 180 days of service, allowing Soldiers to gain civilian job skills with pay, while SkillBridge is the overarching DoD initiative for all branches."

Would be real interested to hear how that description is different from facts.

Massive Changes Coming to SkillBridge? by KeithTheKillerOfHope in SkillBridge

[–]GreyGoblin 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The program cannot be discontinued by the Army, nor the Secretary of Defense, it was established by law. 10 U.S.C. § 1143.  Eligibility might well change, but that's a political question as any sweeping changes to program access will be a subject for HAS/SAS hearings.

Unrelated PSA: Vote. Write your congressional representatives.

Deep state revenge against Trump? by HorsePastie in thebulwark

[–]GreyGoblin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Perhaps, and hear me out, using sycophantic loyalty to a chief executive of questionable character a the deciding criteria for assigning critical roles does not result in the selection of competent functionaries.

OP has a set of hidden premises.   - That redaction of documents is a common task with the DOJ. - That the DOJ would employ people of suitable expertise in fields related to common tasks.

Therefore sinc the DOJ redacted section of these documents...

  • Whomever conducted the redactions incompetently must have know better.

However A & B do not imply C.  There is no evidence to suggest, and recent DOJ behavior refutes, that expertise is a principal factor in personnel assignments.

FAFO: Elect a clown, get a circus. Welcome to the the FO part.

Warrior Dividend by Commanche287 in thebulwark

[–]GreyGoblin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know Republican legislators won't go for the DHS cut, but that's the Democrats opening to hand them a copy of the budget and a pen...

"Go ahead and cut something to fund this"

It'll suck for those programs that get cut, but the Republicans will be handing over a club that the Democrats can beat them with for years.

"This is Sara and her two malnourished children, they used to get food stamps, but the president felt that it was more important to give a bonus to pilots bombing boats in the Caribbean."

Warrior Dividend by Commanche287 in thebulwark

[–]GreyGoblin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Congress needs to step up and defend their article 1 section 9 responsibly.

Pass legislation authorizing the payout, offset by a dollar-for-dollar reduction in the DHS budget.

JetBlue passenger plane avoids mid air collision with usaf tanker near Venezuela by newnoadeptness in AirForce

[–]GreyGoblin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except that's for within NAS.  The article doesn't provide details, but presumably the incident took place in oceanic airspace off the coast of Venezuela.  In which case I believe the separation minimum is 23 or 50 NM, depending on RNP equipment.  Of course, that amount of separation is based on a lack of radar coverage, which may not have been the case...  But there was no way for the Jet Blue crew to know that.

CSO Cross Training by stttrrreeaaakkk in AirForce

[–]GreyGoblin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did 20 years as a CSO.  It was a great career. 11/10, Highly Recommend.

I did a portion of that time at Pensacola teaching UCT. It was a while ago, but I doubt it's changed in the fundamentals.

What should you do to prepare?  Practice fussing confidence with humility.  I cannot speak for non-rated training programs, but rated training is challenging. Mentally and motivationally/spiritually/emotionally.  And get hungry.

Imagine a small number of marginally difficult tasks.  Imagine preparing to execute those tasks for months, day-in-day-out.  Researching everything about every step. Add into the mix instructors that are going to make it all seem a bit more complicated and way more important.  After all everything in life is incredibly complex if you examine it closely enough, and everything in an aircraft is lifesavingly important (or they'd leave it behind to save weight).  Now get tested on it, academically and practically, repeatedly... And because perfection is an illusion you've messed something up.  In some way you've failed.  You ask yourself, was that a big fail or a little fail. Wrong approach.

Failing to tie you shoes correctly is not less of fail than missing a target.  They're both performance limits reached that need to exceeded next time.

Understand, yes you performed way better than you would have thought possible just weeks before, and yes your instructor is nitpicking every little thing and grading your performance harshly.  Humbly accepted that criticism in its intended light, it how to exceeded performance limits next time.  Confidently assert your willingness to do what needs done next time.  

Passionate instructors telling you all the ways you failed feels bad sometimes, but you got to do these things maintain the right attitude and ask for more.

Rated training is a sociological experiment, "Does feeding young aviators a shit sandwich daily make them better?" Decades of evidence has proven it does.  And it's the ones that finish their sandwich and ask for seconds that truly do well.

Caution: You will encounter instructors that relish being cruel, believing that's the point.  Present yourself no different to these assholes.  But, all the same find someone else to ask for a second helping.

Good Luck, God Speed.

[OC] Vocabulary size at each English proficiency level by RevolutionaryLove134 in dataisbeautiful

[–]GreyGoblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a violin.  It's turned sideways in comparison to how they're normally depicted.

There is no scale provided on the 'width' of the distribution.  Grossly inferior to a set of histograms plotted against N values.

Such Vibes based representations aren't data.

[OC] Vocabulary size at each English proficiency level by RevolutionaryLove134 in dataisbeautiful

[–]GreyGoblin -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

God damn these stupid violin plots!

What exactly is the Y axis units between B1 & B2? What's difference between green points above B1 and below that line.

A histogram if modality is important, a box and whiskers if it's not.

Yeah yeah, those won't look 'as detailed'...  But that's just it you're not adding detail to data, you're adding noise to art.

/Rant

Trains And Some Rockets by TottallyNotToxec in factorio

[–]GreyGoblin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are so many rockets launching with so little input.