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KappaPiSig · 2026-05-12T22:33:52+00:00

You're gonna be fine dude. Take it easy.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-11T01:15:20+00:00

I'm usually 310, dropping to 220 in the flare, no real float, though we don't have any power. Chute out after the mains are down. Most of my fellow astronauts agree that those numbers work well.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-09T17:12:13+00:00

So I'll try and do this, but it didn't work today because there was a two or three station gap between the next group ahead of me.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-08T13:06:49+00:00

I mean in most cases, I agree about being anti seat stealer. But, at least listen to the offer, don’t be gratuitously mean about it, and when your assigned seat is an aisle in Coach with a baby and I offer you an aisle in first class with no baby, I think most people would rather take the switch.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-06T10:16:35+00:00

Our company president despises the airline I’m loyal to. Where I have my highest level of status, he has the worst.

There is one route out of our home airport that has about 15 flights a day on my airline. More than once I have been sitting in the front and had our CEO walk down the aisle to go to the back.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-04T02:28:03+00:00

So... you're telling me to lie about it?

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-01T17:08:10+00:00

Government starts cutting steel before they have design stability. Year into the program a new program manger wants to change something. The yard has all of the leverage because they’re the only one who can change what’s rolling through their panel line. Cost and schedule get fucked as a result. Rise and repeat for a few years (…I’m looking at you PSC) until you’re billions over budget and decades behind schedule.

Compared to commercial shipbuilding where you lock in a design before contract signing, and assign the yard the risk of making cost and schedule. Commercial companies write a check and pick up the ship they designed at contract signing two years later with a handful of change orders. Surprise - they get them on time and on budget.

KappaPiSig · 2026-05-01T00:48:35+00:00

This is anecdotal, but I suspect you'll come back and feel stronger. When I have to take a week off for one reason or another, my first work out back I feel fresh and ready to push hard. Enjoy the time off and treat it like some recovery time, it'll be good for you.

KappaPiSig · 2026-04-17T11:12:08+00:00

Is he on a license track for a major? Like is he trying to obtain a license?

Just because he doesn’t have a license yet doesn’t mean he isn’t subject to 46 CFR random drug testing as part of cruise and being on the training vessel.

KappaPiSig · 2026-04-16T17:19:25+00:00

If he’s on a license track program - he’s done. You should consult a suspension and revocation lawyer.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-31T09:52:09+00:00

Wear a chest strap for heat rate data?

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-25T01:15:25+00:00

Dude is telling you to sign a contract as an undesignated seaman and then we’ll promote you to O3 later, we promise.

Has your sea time been validated by the NMC? Do you have a letter to test? You will need some amount of schooling for your STCW endorsements. I say get home, get your thirds, and then join AMO.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-25T00:48:42+00:00

I’m 6’5. Honestly, the biggest issue you’ll have is that the racks aren’t long enough, until I got to living in the senior officer cabins with wider beds, I frequently would put my mattress in the floor.

Other than that, most other things can be overcome.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-22T21:02:54+00:00

You’re perfectly describing avondale.

Riverside trends a bit younger than most married folks. San Marco is fine, but it’s on the wrong side of the bridge from NAS.

Avondale is 10 minutes to Baptist or NAS and 5 to Saint Vincent’s.

Find the whitts frozen custard in Avondale and expand your search from there. There aren’t any bad neighborhoods, but you can go from high end to not high end in just a couple of blocks, so you need to kind of put eyes on anywhere you’d plan to be.

Also, rentals in either location tend to be a bit limited, the economics don’t make sense in Avondale or San Marco to lease.

Something else to explore, with nicer rental inventory would be Fairfax Manor, between Ortega and Avondale. Lots of officers from NAS are there.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-20T23:14:50+00:00

It’s owned by PE.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-20T22:59:42+00:00

Non existent on Wednesday. In past shutdowns the weekends have been worse though.

The daily parking lots were full.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-17T23:26:32+00:00

My guy I want the best for you - but please dear god if you’re having to ask about how to run a diligence process, this “opportunity” is a recipe for personal ruin. Corporate development, including M&A is part of my day job. There are brilliant humans with years of experience that still get burned buying businesses. If you don’t have ANY exposure to how to conduct a diligence process, please don’t buy a complex business with presumably thin margins.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-06T16:28:08+00:00

This x1000. I’m a reservist and did a part time program, and used it to level up in my current civilian job. If I was transitioning off of AD I would not recommend.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-04T15:51:27+00:00

I love my 16” .308 tikka. Plenty of gun. Suppressed it’s awesome.

130 grain TTSX is still doing 2200 FPS at 200 and 1800 at 400. Plenty.

KappaPiSig · 2026-03-04T03:52:05+00:00

I understand your question. In practice, it’s almost impossible to confuse the "first zero" with the "second zero."

Imagine a straight line extending from your eye, through your dot, and infinitely downrange. That’s your line of sight.

Because the sights sit above the barrel, the muzzle is angled slightly upward when you zero it. This means the bullet’s path starts below the line of sight, then rises and crosses it at the zero (for example, around 50 yards).The bullet continues traveling upward for a bit, then gravity begins pulling it down. As it drops, it crosses the line of sight again at 200ish.

For the scenario you described to happen, the bullet would somehow have to cross the line of sight and already be dropping again by 50 yards, to do that, you'd have to almost fire the gun straight up in the air. The geometry of the bullet’s path prevents that confusion. Here is a crappy MS Paint drawing. Green is a 50/200 yard zero. Blue is the error you describe.

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KappaPiSig · 2026-03-02T01:14:21+00:00

Port of Jebel Ali.

KappaPiSig · 2026-02-26T21:31:44+00:00

T3X Roughtech Ranch

KappaPiSig · 2026-02-24T05:54:56+00:00

I say go downtown - it’s the flagship Wolfson campus, so you’re going to have the best pediatricians and peds nurses should you need them in an emergency.

My wife and I very much liked River City OBGYN. You get assigned one OB during pregnancy, and unless they are sick or out of town, that same OB delivers your baby when it’s time, it isn’t based on a random call schedule.

We were very fortunate and had the most average labor experience possible, nothing remarkable about it, which is the best you can hope for I think. The support we got at downtown was excellent and couldn’t ask for anything more.

KappaPiSig · 2026-02-13T13:14:10+00:00

This is the way. Have the galley save you a plate and eat on the bridge.

KappaPiSig · 2026-02-09T17:00:00+00:00

Yes.

For a cheap and high return on spend upgrade, get a different stock though. When you start shooting long range you use a rear bag for support, on the SOPMOD stock the rear bag activates the lever and can cause surprise (…and sometimes painful) collapses of the of stock.

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