I’ve been to a few of these countries, throughout Europe and Asia. Two things Americans need to learn, situational awareness, and not making yourself a target. You can play it as safe as you want by staying out of “dangerous” areas, but you can make yourself a target for thieves by being clueless and not paying…

It has mattered ever since we’ve realized we can’t run wars on multiple fronts for 10+ years and expect our economy to handle it. Hence the downsizing of the military and the budget cuts we’ve seen in the past 5 years. Our current military leaders are having trouble justifying the unlimited budgets they’ve seen since…

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I’m waiting for the inevitable comparison between the German Autobahn and their unrestricted speed limits versus American speed limits. As others have mentioned already, there are numerous contributions to the increase in traffic fatalities in the past 30 years. Speed is only part of the pie.

I think we’ve established that simply hopping the fence doesn’t equate to a bullet in the chest. Entering the house on the other hand, I think that’s a reason to put a bullet in someone, especially since you can shoot a bad guy entering your own home, not just the WH.

Ya, that’s perfect for the next fence hopper. It’s not like the door was locked anyway.

I can’t wait to see the circus that ensues when the Saudis deliver those MANPADS. We’ll get to see how the Soviet media spins the inevitable shoot down of another aircraft.

Everyone is issued a weapon due to random attacks on base. It’s called Green on Blue and it’s because we don’t trust those assholes there to “protect” us.

Saying there was a 0% causality rate for the SR-71 is comforting in hindsight. Like The Devil Drives a Rotary said, there were numerous attempts to shoot it down. The risks taken by those pilots went beyond attempts to shoot them down. Flying at the edge of space in an aircraft that was on the brink of tearing itself…

I keep hearing rumors they’re going to put that thing in the museum around the corner, but I feel like it’s just more rumors. I don’t know where they’ll find space for it in there, but I think that’d be a great piece to remind the Army of a time when we had an “F35" on the books.

I think they should start citing gravity as more of an issue in those NTSB investigation reports, maybe then we’ll figure out a way around it.

Think it could have been a powertrain failure based on the sound of it. You can hear the engine spool up and the rotors don’t keep up with it. Np and Nr, are no longer working in conjunction with each other. And because he was in the “dead man’s curve” for helicopter pilots (which is that shaded area in the…

It’s not just the AF that does this, it’s all branches. With the downsizing of the military these LoRs are easy ways of thinning the bunch without having to actually come up with a pattern of misbehavior. It puts good service members in a bad place because they end up constantly looking over their shoulder and look…

I never understood why people got so pissed about this. You don’t saulte anyone while you’re wearing civilian clothing as a member of the military.

So who’s job is it to repack the chute for the next landing?

That’s where I stand with it. They are trying to sell it to other countries as a replacment for their F16s and F15s. So you expect it to play the roll of either. Knowing the roll of the B2 is to penetrate airspace and hit a target, they design their mission around its capabilities and weaknesses. It would be wise to…

I don’t necessarily agree with your comparisons to the SR71 or F117. But I see the point you are trying to make with the P51. It’s almost like how the Army doesn’t teach you how to fix bayonets and fight with them in Basic. They teach you to shoot your weapon at a distant targets with body armor, like you would in…

I’d say the most difficult part of landing at this airport is probably making the go/no-go call on the weather. The skill on the part of the pilots really is making a short field approach, same goes for the short field takeoff and having a plan when an engine fails (keep it over the river and hope for the best).

I’ve always wanted to fly around the Caribbean. It seems amazing, the weather is awesome, and those airports look pretty fun to land at.

So everyone seems to think the German Autobahn is this amazing place with unlimited speeds, but no one really takes into account how ridiculous the speed limits are everywhere else.