Chris Stiles

ex-U.S. Army Drone Pilot (2x combat vet), Entrepreneur, Author, Instructor, Consultant, & Public Speaker. 20+yrs in Unmanned Systems (drones) & Robotics.

[Chris Stiles @StilesChris]

Me teaching @usdot @SecElaineChao
How to fly a #drone at #UAS1stCon #FirstResponders conference last weekend. She picked it up very quickly and did a great job. She tops the list of my thousands of students I've taught over the years!
https://t.co/ROWxDwqUHf

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I agree with the authors of the article in that a new 11 series MOS would be the best solve here. This will allow them to specialize and quickly train on new systems as the tech advances as a normal 11B won't have the throughput to keep up with advances and training demands to competently employ the systems beyond having basic familiarization of how they work and are employed by the new 11's. Also, I'd recommend labeling them 11W or 11U MOS instead of the proposed 11R in the article as a callback to other UAS MOS operator codes used.

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@signulll Seems to line up well with the decline in birthrates during the same time period. Probably also a similar curve to what average women would rate themselves steadily from 5's up to they are all now 10's in their own eyes.

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@muadh899 @EricLDaugh Shall we discuss how your systems have worked throughout history? You do know what they say about stones and glass houses, yes?

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@BudLightSadness @elonmusk History books would also corroborate the notion that problems that require violence to solve can be solved quicker or more efficiently when extreme violence of action is brought to bear on said problems.

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The only changes I say are due is that to qualify for federally elected congressional, senate, POTUS, and VP positions, you must serve at least 4 years on active duty with honorable discharge, and woman are also added to be draft eligible if/when it becomes necessary to enact a draft, same as the men. This creates more equality, and gives our elected officials who will be voting for war clear experience and perspective of what military service means. Less of our nation's blood and treasure would be wasted if we did these two things.

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@elonmusk Grok understood the assignment here for sure!

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@StatisticUrban Um, no. I'd wager that most people in that region haven't heard of or have any Piedmont association. Also, it doesn't even touch any Atlantic water. It's all a stretch to me to try to claim this as a coherent regional group.

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True, I'd say the next closest thing you could point to is abortion rights. But where I was going with it is at their core, they are always going to act in what they think is in their best political interests and say whatever they have to say, no matter what the social cause or issue is. I'm just not sure why anybody should be surprised by that behavior by this point unless they've had those heads buried in the sand for the last 20 years.

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As a professor of economics, you'd think you would have looked into the economics behind military flyovers at sporting events before inserting your foot into your mouth. Kind of makes me wonder what else that is misleading or incorrect that comes out of your mouth when educating people while being paid a taxpayer-funded salary? Also, why do the flyovers give you the ick? Do you not have a sense of patriotism? Do you hate America? Or does seeing military forces who are there to protect your freedoms make you feel a certain way beyond pride or comfort in knowing they are there when needed to be called upon? Maybe you should do some soul searching and self-reflection rather than dropping these ill begotten gems on X as if you were saving democracy itself by doing so.

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No, the sporting event flyovers are only a fraction of their annual flight training iterations they are required to maintain proficiency. This at least also gives them community engagement and helps with recruitment. You do want a fully staffed and trained military ready incase we need to rely on it, correct?

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You keep saying fly the border, but that'd probably end up costing more money and time to accomplish than the flight crew flying over a nearby sporting event to absorb a small fraction of their flight training/currency time. You said you were infantry, what would you think if told to go to the border to get your shooting range time in?

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Why would anybody be surprised by this chart? Our population is about a quarter of their's, plus their manufacturing output is about double our's. If anything, their energy use is still not on par with us and they have some catching up to do. If someone didn't know any better and just took a cursory glance at or had it presented in a manner much like it was here by the OP, they'd think China has an excess of energy to rely on, which simply isn't the case. Not that we do either at the moment, and will fall behind if we don't keep pushing to build new power plants and further modernize our energy infrastructure.

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This is space & moon stuff. We want the best people for the job, no matter their gender or skin color. This isn't to be meeting a check box to make a certain group feel good that "one of their own" is on a certain mission and ends up not competent enough to do the mission, does something to get them all killed, which then leads to further moon missions getting canceled because of public distaste. I swear, some people are too small minded to think past their own tribal group's self interests.

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Current EMP's consume a significant amount of power to have any kind of effective range against drones. Not to mention the high-cost electronics shielding that has to be employed on anything that will be turned on within range when the emp is set off; makes for other counter-drone methods that are far easier & cheaper to integrate.

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@bznotes The answer is both stationary and moving. Anything within an object in motion that isn't moving within said object is stationary, but everything is in motion relative to the larger object they are within that is in motion within space.

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@xjet And it's probably got something in it that will give their soldiers cancer years down the road too.

[Hubert Thieblot @hthieblot]

Difficulty Levels of Startups:

Insane: Robotics
Hard: Hardware
Medium: Consumer Software
Easy: B2B SaaS

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@bznotes Careful, you could be describing a lot of liberals, and some women with that decription.

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@elonmusk @BigPopz72 Black on white crime, nothing to see here...