Rachel Prebe

UMHB Alum’22💜💛||| Somewhere in the sky||| ✈️. Jeremiah 29:11 ✝️

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

GOT THE GROUP! ✅

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph.

Both pilots are dead.

Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years.

A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when.

The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day.

The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country.

Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years.

Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday.

The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement.

The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision.

The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.”

One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.

[USA Hockey @usahockey]

RED, WHITE, BLUE AND GOLD. TEAM USA IS BRINGING HOME THE #WINTEROLYMPICS GOLD. 🇺🇸🦅

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JACK HUGHES DELIVERS AMERICA'S GOLDEN MOMENT IN OVERTIME.

[NBC Sports @NBCSports]

THE GOLDEN MOMENT.

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1980, THE UNITED STATES MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM ARE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS. #WinterOlympics

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

Thank you, Marcus, for your leadership within our organization, your contributions to our community over the past four years, and your help in bringing us our first World Series title.

Best of luck in New York.

[Rangers Nation ⚾️ @Rangers__Nation]

Thank you, Marcus.

[lynz @lynziekate]

Rangers LEGEND

We don’t get near that World Series without Adolis, he will forever be the goat

[Texas A&M Football @AggieFootball]

Ready for battle

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

The man who led us to our first World Series Championship.

Thank you, Boch for your leadership in the dugout over the past three seasons!

[Rachel Prebe @Rachel_Prebe]

Helman as the first grand slam of the season was not on my bingo card

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

WHAT THE HELMAN!? #AllForTX

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

WHAT THE HELMAN!? #AllForTX

[Rachel Prebe @Rachel_Prebe]

😭😭😭

[RJ Ochoa @rjochoa]

It is legitimately pathetic for the Cowboys to try and push any narrative that this is similar to Herschel Walker.

This is among the darkest days in franchise history.

[America’s Team @RoadToSix]

Worst GM in the league

[Rachel Prebe @Rachel_Prebe]

I’m gonna be sick

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Dallas sports has lost two stars in the same year 😮

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

ON THREE CONSECUTIVE PITCHES! #AllForTX

[Texas Rangers @Rangers]

SMITTY WITH THE SMOOTH SLIDE

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#UPDATE: Please don’t be like this father focus on your child instead of your luggage. You can’t safely manage both, and it only leads to accidents, like the one that just happened putting others at risk too