ShadeRanger

Former Naval Flight Officer...Aerospace Exec...Entrepreneur…Gamer

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@ScottGottliebMD @guypbenson I am so tired of people calling it the ‘economy’ - some faceless stock on the trading floor. That’s not what we are talking about. It’s people. Family businesses that are being destroyed in the process. Have no doubt, this will cost lives too. It will be measured in suicides.

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@elonmusk 😂

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@Amwysoc Do NOT… feed them after midnight…

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@redheadranting @HellRaz0r1776 Um… yes.

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@AlixG_2 Or both…

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@Tim_Walz Imagine being so dumb… you think you actually ran Minnesota well…

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@GlowSurfing It’s exactly because there are three candidates vs one. The tendency is for large donors to stay away until it’s down to one candidate after the primary, and then will decide if that candidate is competitive.

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I was a Naval flight officer (back seater), and a flight instructor in a joint AF / Navy command. I instructed both AF and Navy and taught alongside both Navy and AF instructors. Here’s my 2 cents:
I was accepted to and had an appointment to the Naval Academy, but I would have had to wait a year because my senator had two in the academy at that time, I would have had to wait for one to graduate for my slot to open up. I didn’t want to wait so I took the Navy ROTC scholarship. Glad I did. When I got to flight school, there was a difference between the ROTC guys and and academy guys. The academy guys never had to learn how to pay rent, put a deposit down, get the utilities turned on.. etc. There was a definite difference in maturity. Eventually everything evened out, but I was always glad I went the ROTC route. So for commissioning route, I would say either academy or ROTC, but I liked ROTC.
For flying jobs, there are some big differences. First off, like in my case, my eyes went just below 20/20 my senior year. So I couldn’t be an Aviator at that point, I would go the NFO track. Command opportunities, leadership, etc is much more evenly spread between Aviators and NFOs in the Navy. Conversely, in the AF leadership opportunities are much more tied to Pilot slots than navigators or weapon system operators. So from that perspective I was lucky. I had many more opportunities in the Navy than I would have had in the AF. But of course I had no idea my eyes would go bad that late in the game.
Finally, the opportunity to lead people. In the Navy you both fly and have a “ground job” as a maintenance officer, NATOPS officer, Tactics, etc… you’ll have a department or division you are responsible for and start learning how to lead from day 1. In the AF, your job is almost exclusively flying. I liked having the leadership responsibility. It taught me a lot, and I learned a lot from my LPOs and Chiefs. It was something that served me my entire life. But, when I was an instructor, I had a lot of AF friends that loved the fact they just really focused on flying. So this one is a personal preference. It all depends on what you want out of the overall experience.
So all that said I was happy with ROTC and Navy, but there are pluses and minuses to both.
Regardless- good luck.

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@BuzzPatterson Zero Dark Thirty and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Still use them today.

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@ChrisMurphyCT Lying must come really naturally to you at this point.

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@grok @charliebayer8 Grok is not currently available and https://t.co/puYg00aG3B is not correct. Thousands of users have been logged of with an authentication error. It states the email of the account is invalid

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@VikingRobVWO @HLC_actual 100%. Grandpa buff has entered the chat. But I also think Pirate P-8 needs to be introduced…

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@HLC_actual Ok… but as a former p-3 guy… when are you going to add P-8’s to the ensemble … maybe with a pirate voice… it is the Navy.

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@HLC_actual However… Grandpa Buff has entered the chat…

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@EndWokeness @AlixG_2 Fuck. Yes.

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@CorbinD90 @ick_real Yes… yes it does.

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@redheadranting @AmericaReal3 I hit it in 2020

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@johnrich US Navy…

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@simphiweyinkoc_ Per my previous email…

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@FayeMginger Maybe…