I’ll admit, my interest in it has mostly been about the Hearing Act and SHORT Act. Also not paying for tranny surgeries. The other stuff, I’ve just been hoping have been sensible.
They will probably do it anyway.
"State Department" is usually a catch-all euphemism for CIA.
By that logic, I’m a gynecologist.
I guess the point is, I never flew with that particular lady, but I flew with one LIKE her. And her attitude is not uncommon among female pilots.
Even with pilots I knew and liked that had accidents, the knee jerk reaction among everyone at first seemed to be that there must have been some sort of equipment failure because they he guy knew his stuff. The investigation would always, without a doubt turn out to be pilot error.
I’m not saying the aircraft or equipment didn’t ever break: they were broken ALL the time. It just didn’t happen like that.
I don't think she was suicidal. I think she had her head in her ass.
Story time.
Round about a million years ago I was a crewchief in an Army Blackhawk unit. We had this pilot. Stephanie was her first name. Another one of these strong, independent, don’t-need-no-man types. Wouldn’t ever listen to shit the IPs told her. I wound up getting assigned to fly with her EVERY time, and every time she would find some new way to try to kill me before the other pilot snatched the controls from her and saved us.
She wouldn’t listen to anything they told her without getting a stank ass attitude, and claiming they were giving her shit because she’s a woman. I saw these same IPs that were handling her with kid gloves absolutely run down male pilots that made any mistakes. Good that they did, because we were potentially dealing with not just the lives of the crewmembers, but also anybody we happened to run into on the ground or in the air.
Everybody knew that if they tried to get Big Army involved, she’d screech about harassment and there would be a big investigation, and anybody BUT her would lose their wings.
After one particular almost-fucking-killed-me flight, I went to see my buddy who made the flight schedule and ask if I could just not be assigned to fly with her anymore.
He told me no, he couldn’t do that, and I said I get it, he can’t show favoritism.
He says: “No, you don’t understand. You’re the one that flies with her because everyone else already requested to never fly with her again. You’re the only one left.”
Shortly after an Afghanistan tour where my platoon was assigned to a different part of the country than her (so I didn’t fly with her overseas) we came back and I was diagnosed with MS, and got out, so in that sense, I was saved by my body shitting the bed.
I don’t really keep up with that unit anymore, but unless she decided to stop on her own accord, I cant imagine the odds didn’t finally catch up to some poor bastards that had to fly with her.
I’m sorry. You should have led with the fact that you were president of her fan club and will blame everything else under the sun for her killing a shit ton of people other than her.
I spent almost 20 years of my life in those helicopters. As a maintainer and aircrew member. The aircraft didn’t fuck up. She did. And a lot of people paid the pics for it, including children.
But even after her death, she’s still got help having responsibility roll off her like water off a duck’s back.
Because you're in a high traffic area and hearing nothing on radios or ICS? You can't go more than 10 seconds without having SOMETHING come over them. Unless you're suggesting it suddenly happened right at the moment she needed to hear something.
Which you would signal and hand over controls of the aircraft.
ICS and radios are two different things. You may not have your radio on the correct frequency, but you will ALWAYS hear things over ICS.
Hopefully nothing goes wrong, cuz…
Baby you’re a firework!
Pam, is that you?
Who?
Never heard of this guy. Looks like one of the bums at an intersection near my house.
Get away Cracky! No fix today.
“Au revoir, Shoshana!”
Oh shit! Better go on Fox News to brag about an accomplishment that had nothing to do with you while ignoring all the other shit you should be doing.
I thought she stepped down after the presidential win.
But first she has to make a few more appearances on Fox News.
Thanks, I’ll check him out
Where do I get it that it’s not already seen by the gubmint as a threat and is turned into being just a pasty placebo? And in significant enough amounts to make a difference without breaking the bank?
Proving once again that the only justices worth a damn are Thomas and Alito.
If Trump gets anymore SCOTUS picks, hopefully they won’t be selected by AIPAC first.
He’s trying desperately to hang onto the war because he knows what happens to him when it’s over.
Is this a COVID thing? Because I had MS since prior to the plandemic.
Are they saying that maybe with ivermectin or something I can fix my MS? Cause that would be fuckin sweet.
We need out of NATO like yesterday. Then let them dash themselves on the rocks of a Russia that isn’t holding back.
Who cares, not our problem. But if they let Ukraine into NATO while we’re still there, we will be obligated to assist.
Yeah, no thanks. Maybe carve out some land from the more conservative provinces, but I don’t think we want the whole of Canuckistan.
Honestly, I think Russia is the winner, here. Getting non-combatants out of prison and into safety, in exchange for some guys you’ll either be capturing again or killing within the week sounds like a good deal to me.