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re: Pete Hegseth lifts the suspension of the Apache crew
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:24 am to alabamabuckeye
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:24 am to alabamabuckeye
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So glad my tax dollars are spent on only the most essential things.
So you want to cancel football stadium flyovers? What about the flyovers for NASCAR events? The blue Angles and other air shows our military fly in? what a fricking loser you are.
This post was edited on 4/1/26 at 9:26 am
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Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:24 am to Patato Salad
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MAGA only pretends to care about waste, (fraud), and abuse until it comes to triggering their perceieved opponent.
Which direction on the compass in a chopper saves the most taxpayer money?
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:29 am to DeBoar
Its hard to believe people would get their panties in a bunch over this. Im sure it made kid rocks day and the crews day just flying to or from Fort Cambell. Which isn't far at all.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:29 am to dgnx6
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So you think these guys decided to just randomly steal a helicopter to go to Kid Rocks place?
The answer is yes. These programmed drones actually believe these pilots just fueled up the ole Apache and just went on a joyride to ole kid rock's house.
THAT is how easy they are spoonfed absolute idiocy and they do not use a single brain cell to pause a second and check the info.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:36 am to Purple Spoon
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I think it was a cool arse moment but I doubt “we going to take the Apache to check out Kid Rocks crib” was an approved training flight path.
Could have been on the way.
Had a DnD player who flew. Had to miss a session for training, circled the host's house for 30ish seconds that night, said we were close enough to the flight route.
Gotta imagine minute detour flexes like that are super common.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 9:38 am to Bobby OG Johnson
It doesn't matter if the suspension was lifted and the investigation tabled, the people who outrank them know who they are and it will follow them so long as they remain in the military.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 10:58 am to GnashRebel
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Former gun pilot here. It’s not really a waste, they are getting their time in. The only real concern would be IF something happened you would have to explain why you were doing it and waving to a musician isn’t the best answer in an accident investigation. Having said that it isn’t worthy of making a fuss over. They will just tell the guys to no do that stuff without talking to the boss.
Training missions for heavy bombers during WW2, pilots and navigators would plan a course that would take them over crew members home towns. They would call their parents with an ETA and the entire family would be in the yard watching a B-17 or B-24 circle the house.
Their was also something a few pilots did called 'flat hatting"-a court martial offense.
They would find a really small town and drop to 200 feet and blow right down main street at 225 mph.
Good Times!
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:02 am to alabamabuckeye
quote:I'll help you move to Minneapolis anytime you'd like.
So glad my tax dollars are spent on only the most essential things.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:05 am to JacieNY
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It doesn't matter if the suspension was lifted and the investigation tabled, the people who outrank them know who they are and it will follow them so long as they remain in the military.
Hopefully it’s the opposite and whatever O6 and above who cried is now being investigated.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:06 am to Bobby OG Johnson
That gif is perfect. Have an up vote.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:10 am to BTROleMisser
Thanks for proving my point, nerd! 
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:13 am to bigjoe1
Years ago there was an A-10 pilot who lived in Mandeville.
He was deployed to the sand box war.
Came back safe and sound.
On a number of occasions, he and another A-10 pilot would fly those things racked up on one wing in a tight circle over his subdivision and ours.
So low, you had no trouble seeing them at the controls……
He was deployed to the sand box war.
Came back safe and sound.
On a number of occasions, he and another A-10 pilot would fly those things racked up on one wing in a tight circle over his subdivision and ours.
So low, you had no trouble seeing them at the controls……
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:18 am to alabamabuckeye
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This isn’t a whataboutism opportunity. It’s all waste. Doesn’t make it right when an R or a D is in the White House.
You’re also talking about apples and oranges and melting about it.
No good pilot ever said, hey, while we are creating legit schools, let’s produce billions in fraud at the quality learing center along the way.
On the other end that you are melting about, these pilots did not start up two apaches just to go to kid rock’s house. It was training or getting hours in and they dropped by along the way. Not a waste of
Posted on 4/1/26 at 11:21 am to Bobby OG Johnson
When I was a student at Washington and Lee in Lexington, VA our campus is immediately adjacent to Virginia Military Institute.
It was a tradition amongs the Keydets who became pilots to buzz the school whenever they got the opportunity. So you would be walking along the colonnade to class and suddenly a chinook would come roaring over the buidlings and loop the VMI parade ground. Or an F-16 would buzz the campus, etc.
You could always here the VMI kids cheering when they did that. Seems like a fun and harmless tradition.
It was a tradition amongs the Keydets who became pilots to buzz the school whenever they got the opportunity. So you would be walking along the colonnade to class and suddenly a chinook would come roaring over the buidlings and loop the VMI parade ground. Or an F-16 would buzz the campus, etc.
You could always here the VMI kids cheering when they did that. Seems like a fun and harmless tradition.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 12:03 pm to DeathByTossDive225
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Why was this being investigated?
I think the Army was considering some kind of discipline and Hegseth put a stop to it.
This post was edited on 4/1/26 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 4/1/26 at 12:11 pm to alabamabuckeye
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his isn’t a whataboutism opportunity. It’s all waste. Doesn’t make it right when an R or a D is in the White House.
Yeah, but did you call out the waste when Biden was in office?
Posted on 4/1/26 at 12:15 pm to alabamabuckeye
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So glad my tax dollars are spent on only the most essential things.
My daughter's soon to be brother-in-law flied copters for the Special Forces...some cool crap.
Anyway, he oftentimes has the ability to lay out his own flight plan when heading to and from training in the US. Recently, he buzzed his sister's house in rural Tennessee and a few year's back he was going from Ft. Rucker to somewhere up the Atlantic Coast and tried to fly over a few college towns but, being a Saturday night with football going on, he couldn't. He then buzzed my soon-to-be son-in-laws camping spot in the middle of nowhere...using his spotlight and everything. Said it was a cool experience.
In summary...who cares.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 12:34 pm to AUauditor
Best money making scheme I have ever heard of:
This guy I knew had the operations license for an FBO that was an old WW2 airfield out in West Texas somewhere. Middle of nowhere. But it had a 10,000 foot strip or something like that.
So he got a contract to be able to sell Jet fuel to millitary aircraft. No bid deal. Easy contract to get. But who would ever come there just to refuel?
So he hire these hot college girls to run the fuel trucks wearing string bikinis. Year round. Regardless of the weather.
And he finds a lady to make Po Boy sandwiches which he sells for $1. Cokes were 25 cents. And he has a big air conditioned ready room with big leather couches and no overhead lights.
So instructor pilots from all over the country -- Virginia to California -- would take off with their student pilots in their jets. Fly around for an hour or two, and then vector to this strip in the middle of nowhere. It was a great place to practice landing approaches because it was a huge runway and no traffic.
So guys came in from all over. And they would get fuel at 1000 to 2000 gallons a shot. At $1.50 per gallon gross profit. And they would flirt with the bikini girls on the flight line. And then go eat a $1 Po Boy and then take a nap on the big leather sofas. And then fly back to San Diego or Norfolk.
Pilot training done for the day.
This guy was making $1 million a year just selling gas in the desert.
This guy I knew had the operations license for an FBO that was an old WW2 airfield out in West Texas somewhere. Middle of nowhere. But it had a 10,000 foot strip or something like that.
So he got a contract to be able to sell Jet fuel to millitary aircraft. No bid deal. Easy contract to get. But who would ever come there just to refuel?
So he hire these hot college girls to run the fuel trucks wearing string bikinis. Year round. Regardless of the weather.
And he finds a lady to make Po Boy sandwiches which he sells for $1. Cokes were 25 cents. And he has a big air conditioned ready room with big leather couches and no overhead lights.
So instructor pilots from all over the country -- Virginia to California -- would take off with their student pilots in their jets. Fly around for an hour or two, and then vector to this strip in the middle of nowhere. It was a great place to practice landing approaches because it was a huge runway and no traffic.
So guys came in from all over. And they would get fuel at 1000 to 2000 gallons a shot. At $1.50 per gallon gross profit. And they would flirt with the bikini girls on the flight line. And then go eat a $1 Po Boy and then take a nap on the big leather sofas. And then fly back to San Diego or Norfolk.
Pilot training done for the day.
This guy was making $1 million a year just selling gas in the desert.
Posted on 4/1/26 at 3:11 pm to Wildcat1996
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That gif is perfect. Have an up vote.
Fred agrees
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