Quote:See Min? We're gonna be neighbors!

It's about 3 and a half hours south.  That's better than flying the F-35 out of Luke AFB, which is 6 miles away.  I thought he was in the Navy?  What's he doing in an A-10.  That's an air force dinosaur.

(March 8, 2018 at 10:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:See Min? We're gonna be neighbors!

It's about 3 and a half hours south.  That's better than flying the F-35 out of Luke AFB, which is 6 miles away.  I thought he was in the Navy?  What's he doing in an A-10.  That's an air force dinosaur.

He's air force. As of now, the A-10 is here to stay. It's being used a lot against isis recently.

And I thought Tucson and Phoenix were only 2 hours apart?

I'm somewhat northwest of Phoenix.

Hopefully the wings won't fall off.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/...index.html

Quote:Air Force needs new wings for 110 A-10 Warthogs

(March 8, 2018 at 8:41 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: My mom got to my dad's phone and deleted the pic for me before it was viewed by him. He doesn't even know about.

Super awkward and embarrassing situation, but there are much worse pictures so if it had to happen, I'm glad it was one that doesn't actually show my privates. Still upset it happened, but boy, that could have been so much worse....

Do tell..............

(March 8, 2018 at 4:16 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: You guys. I want to crawl into a hole and die right now.

So my husband has been away at SERE training these past couple of weeks, and a sexy picture of me in panties that I meant to send to him today I accidentally sent to my family group chat. Consisting of my mom, sister, 2 brothers, dad, and my sister's husband.

Someone kill me now. Just kill me...

Know how you feel! My ex-wife wanted some estrogen to help her with hot flashes, but because she practiced holistic/naturopathic life style she did not want to go to real MD to get the meds.

So, I said " You can get that stuff without a script if you got to some online pharmacy overseas. You could try it and if it helps you can go to real MD and get $4.00 Walmart script."

I went on line for her to purchase lowest dose estrogen without a script. Found a site which featured photo of trustworthyish young MD's in lab coats and stethoscopes assuring me of the "finest quality".

I cracked up during the "prescreening interview" :

Age : 49

Gender : Male

Height, weight, etc.

I wondered what they thought a 49 nine year old man was ordering estrogen for?

They sent the meds, no problem.From Bangeladesh! She did not like them and began some other herbal treatment she had never tried before. This one worked! You know why? Because menopause does not last forever!

Then, I began to get these email spam offers from every overseas, fly by night pharmacy.

Every morning I would delete 20-30 spam messages like this:

"You need lotab, xanax?"

"You want suckeee, fuckee all night? World Best Viagra!"

"You want please wifey all night? Super , World Best Viagra!"

"You stay hard like rock, please wife twice!"

"Pain? We got Percocet for you! Also, Suckee, Fuckee all night? Viagra, free with Percocet order!"

I deleted them daily. I thought eventually they might give up.

Then, they launched something I knew nothing about. A "Worm"!

A malicious program that took command of my email contacts and sent these same messages as if they were being sent by me. To everyone on my contact list! Like a personal endorsement from me.

My 20 something daughter responds: "Ummm, I don't need this kind of shit! Especially from you!"

My 20 something son responds: "Way to go Dad! Rock on!"

My 80 year old Mother-in-Law responds: "Thanks for the recommendation, but I am having a hard time verifying which "Canadian" pharmacy to contact"

My wife was like "WTF?"

My Pentecoostal preacher Dad was the only one who had sense to call me directly and ask: "This does not seem right! Is there something I should know?" Thankfully for him, we got this mess cleared up. I was like " What!! I did not send that to You!' "I did not think so!"

Morale of the story? Yahoo email sucks!

(March 8, 2018 at 10:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:

(March 8, 2018 at 10:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's about 3 and a half hours south.  That's better than flying the F-35 out of Luke AFB, which is 6 miles away.  I thought he was in the Navy?  What's he doing in an A-10.  That's an air force dinosaur.

He's air force. As of now, the A-10 is here to stay. It's being used a lot against isis recently.

And I thought Tucson and Phoenix were only 2 hours apart?

Yeah, I think the downtowns are about 118 miles apart (I-10, probably). I used to live just east of PHX. Been to TUS a few times.

A-10s are pretty wacky looking planes. Pretty loud, as I remember, too.

The A10 is a dinosaur in the sense that it's an old design. Thing is, there is no modern equivalent. It will absolutely KILL ground targets and is very resilient to anti-aircraft fire. It definitely isn't sexy (It's called the Warthog for goodness sake) but definitely gets the job done.

(March 8, 2018 at 10:11 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: No, not at all. My mom and sister were laughing about it. The males haven't said a word...

...and will never, if they know what's good for them. :nods:

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(March 8, 2018 at 11:37 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: The A10 is a dinosaur in the sense that it's an old design. Thing is, there is no modern equivalent. It will absolutely KILL ground targets and is very resilient to anti-aircraft fire. It definitely isn't sexy (It's called the Warthog for goodness sake) but definitely gets the job done.

It's a tank killer, and the pilot sits in a titanium bathtub for protection from enemy fire. They come back from missions with 10" holes in the wings and land safely. Warthogs are bad news for any enemy.

You wouldn't dare fly them against any enemy with a competent air defense system.  But then, we don't fight those countries.  And using the A-10 to blast pick up trucks with a machine gun mounted on them is overkill.  

The only reason the pentagon didn't retire the A-10 years ago is because John McCain as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee whined about how essential it is when really all he cared about was not having Davis–Monthan Air Force Base closed on his watch.  "Defense" plays second fiddle to politics.

(March 9, 2018 at 1:17 am)Minimalist Wrote: You wouldn't dare fly them against any enemy with a competent air defense system.  But then, we don't fight those countries.  And using the A-10 to blast pick up trucks with a machine gun mounted on them is overkill.  

The only reason the pentagon didn't retire the A-10 years ago is because John McCain as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee whined about how essential it is when really all he cared about was not having Davis–Monthan Air Force Base closed on his watch.  "Defense" plays second fiddle to politics.

I won't argue about defense vs. politics but:

Davis-Monthan is primarily an aircraft recycling center.

The A10 is not for use against Russia or China. It is a weapon against barbarians like ISIS and as I said earlier, there is no modern equivalent. These planes will absolutely demolish ground targets while shrugging off their anti-aircraft fire as mere annoyance.

We need aircraft to perform in this role. What is the sense of retiring the A10s when we already have them and none of our more modern aircraft are designed for nor as capable of performing this role?