this is just and I will never understand why the American people as a the him get away with such shit. Literally anyone else who said something like this would be a scandal for weeks.

Gotta be a nice luxury to post this BS from a controlled environment, especially when you dodged 5 opportunities to taste dirt. And blood. And grief.

• Private, Isabella Gonzales, 19

• First Lieutenant, Tyler James Feehan, 25

• Sergeant, Angel Rampersad, 28

• Sergeant, Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30

A House bill filed this week would force the Air Force to keep at least 126 A-10 Thunderbolt II Warthogs, far more than were in the service’s plans, and to reverse a year’s work dismantling the aircraft’s maintenance depot, pilot training pipeline and weapons course.

Introduced Monday as H.R. 9780 by Rep. Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., the BRRRRT Act (Bolstering Recognition, Resurgence, Retention, and Remembrance of the Thunderbolt) gets its name from the bone-rattling “BRRRRT!” sound the jet’s 30mm Gatling gun makes when fired.

Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., is co-leading the bill. He and Hamadeh both sit on the Armed Services subcommittee that writes fighter force-structure policy, with Davis as the committee’s vice ranking member. Four Republicans also signed on as original cosponsors, including members from Georgia and Missouri, home to the last two A-10 bases.

The bill comes as the Air Force has ramped up A-10 divestment yet has not identified the aircraft that can, and will, take on the close air support and combat search and rescue missions the Warthog has assumed for decades. The service says those roles will be filled by some combination of platforms like the F-35A, F-15E and F-16.

“The A-10 has repeatedly proven itself on the battlefield, saving American lives and delivering unmatched close air support when our troops need it most,” Hamadeh said in a statement announcing the bill “The BRRRRT Act ensures we do not retire a proven weapons system before a certified replacement exists.”

The bill gives the Air Force 90 days after enactment to explain how it will restore depot work, training, sustainment and flight testing, programs that were all cut in anticipation of retiring the fleet.

The depot line at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, closed in February. The last class of new Warthog pilots graduated in April, and the Weapons School course at Nellis is winding down.

Under the bill, retiring more A-10s would become harder, as well. The defense secretary would first have to certify that a replacement is fielded and fully operational, and get that in writing from the Army secretary, the Marine Corps commandant and the head of U.S. Special Operations Command. A mission does not count as replaced, the bill says, if another aircraft picks it up as a secondary tasking.

Should the bill fail to pass, the terms could find their way into the annual defense authorization act instead, which is how the 103-jet floor came to be. Hamadeh took that route in June, placing two A-10 provisions in the House bill that reappear in the BRRRRT Act.

Great photographer doing some really neat things in the PNW: https://www.facebook.com/cadbytim/

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As the title states, not sure if this is Karl Von Einem walking with his wife? Looks like the baggy cheeks?

I recently went to the pediatrician and explained some compulsions I have or stuff like uncertainty but the pediatrician referred me to a neurologist or something. I kinda regret going but idk if it was a big mistake telling them anything. Btw I haven’t been diagnosed with OCD or any other disqualifying condition. I am curious as to what the best course of action is, or if I should just not go to any more doctors visits and avoid it altogether. Also my symptoms are very manageable.

Without giving away too much details but still enough to get help:

Recently I was on TDY with Army, Marines, Navy in Washington State. *Edit to add this was not a combat operation. In total was approximately 38 members that were part of this operation, but I worked directly with 18 members (6 Air Force, 2 Marines, 10 Navy). Myself and a Navy member were the highest rank (E-6) between the 18 we directly worked with. Nobody knew each other prior to this TDY (3 weeks).

Everyone there was an absolute legend. They needed little to no supervision, and assisted the home unit (mostly civilian) in the operation we were on. Everyone impressed, at least two letters by permanent civilians sent to me praising the team.

I have the numbers for bullets but wont get into those details here.

What can I do, to give them credit for work accomplishments, but more importantly adding something to their file that will help them when it comes time to promote, etc. Is there any award that can be given, a letter I can write to their command, that will have an impact beyond being just a piece of paper with no PIF value? Anything I can petition to have added to their PIF. At my level can I write a letter of appreciation that will have any value?

I would feel terrible if there was nothing I could do for them beyond an email saying thank you. I am NOT well versed in this sort of thing. The POC and NCOIC have not been helpful in this quest.

Sgt. Swinton was assigned to D Battery, 2nd Battalion, 55th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.