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Only Fat Dumb Criminals Can Make the Air Force ‘Diverse’
Front Page Magazine ^ | 6 Sep, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 09/06/2023 4:56:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: larrytown

When I was in AF BMT, one of the classes that I was in involved testing with various.parameters.... some that we try to deliberately fail, in whatever way we thought would work. They were looking for ways in which draftees might deliberately fail tests. This was early ‘80s. I guess they’ve gone a different route...just take dumber volunteers.


21 posted on 09/06/2023 6:26:07 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog
My impression of the F-16 was that it was like sitting in a recliner on the front of a jet engine.

There is zero extra room anywhere in the F-16. It's like the fighter planes of WW2. You don't sit in it as much as you wear it around you. It's surprising to walk up to it and see just how compact it's all put together.

I sat in an F-16 and have flown the simulator. The seat is high to give the pilot a better view and the seating is tight, not just in height but also shoulder width. We didn't see anyone with any excess body weight in the fighter squadrons despite most of them being Guard and Reserves.

22 posted on 09/06/2023 6:27:51 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: larrytown

The tests for enlisted personnel are all multiple choice, with four possible answers, as I recall. Let that sink in. 10%? Wow. A crow ought to grt 25%. In the classes I mentioned above, you’d have to know the correct answer to deliberately get a lowball score of 10%.


23 posted on 09/06/2023 6:34:21 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: MtnClimber

If Diversity makes you stronger, Austria-Hungary would have won WWI.


24 posted on 09/06/2023 6:35:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: T.B. Yoits
Yeah...the F-4 definitely felt like you were in a jet. The -16, on a jet. Trying to imagine that at speed or on takeoff and landing was mind-boggling.
25 posted on 09/06/2023 6:37:27 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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26 posted on 09/06/2023 6:40:58 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Climbing into a B-52 was that way. There’s room to get to your seat. That’s about it.


27 posted on 09/06/2023 6:46:13 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: OHPatriot

It is the kind of leader that obama wants.


28 posted on 09/06/2023 6:48:45 AM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: MtnClimber

The new standards will benefit stupid fat people of all colors and genders.


29 posted on 09/06/2023 7:34:46 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: OHPatriot

Sr. Officers taking revenge is getting more common now. Fact, not opinion.


30 posted on 09/06/2023 7:45:44 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: MtnClimber

We are being conquered from the inside.

When the hammer falls our military will be too fat to run to their battle stations and too stupid to remember what to do when they get there.


31 posted on 09/06/2023 8:11:05 AM PDT by servo1969
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If diversity makes us stronger, why does it require lower standards?

Hunter Biden’s pet name for his father on his cellphone? It was “Pedo Peter”. -- Jim Hoft

32 posted on 09/06/2023 9:05:56 AM PDT by GOPJ ( If diversity makes us stronger, why does it require lower standards? Daniel Greenfield )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Bureaucrats just waive magic wands and fix everything. They assume an aircraft seat is just like the one in their Prius.


33 posted on 09/06/2023 10:28:55 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: MtnClimber

How did a man who has a grudge after about a parking spot dispute get so far?

By being a rabid American hating racist who knows how to work the racial grievance industry.


34 posted on 09/06/2023 10:32:58 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: OHPatriot

Negroes with such heavy chips on their shoulders aren’t fit for military leadership.


35 posted on 09/06/2023 2:16:18 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Taxman

Ping


36 posted on 09/06/2023 8:10:01 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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