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1. They don't teach you military tactics if you're just a private.

That reminds me, on draft registration tests, there's a written exam, cross between a questionnaire and a personality test. One of the questionnaire entries was "what role do you see yourself at, in the armed forces", where they essentially misformulated 'what branch do you want'. So people would write "staff general", "rear admiral", "ace", "assault leader", "petty officer for toilets", etc.
 
Gotta look out for other things too, you know. Bicyclists. Other joggers, especially good looking female joggers. Elderly people walking. Dogs. Elderly people walking dogs. Moose.
 
I guess many have experienced spending days, weeks or even months of research for zero words as well ...

In other news, I've arrived at the airfield where the national aerobatics championship is being held. Completed two short training flights today, the competition is on tomorrow!
 
Well the movie is porn, typically Hollywood. It's got nothing to do with the planes or Top Gun.

I liked the French movie with some Rafale/Mirage squad? Early 2000s. Way more of those 'planes and stuff', as opposed to using them as props and vehicles to describe how hot the hotshot is. Pretty gay from day 0 if you ask me, the Top Gun thing.
 
I'm attempting to cram a huge amount of information and evidence of experience into 500 words for a job application. Need to demonstrate six essential criteria (which are very long winded) in the context of the job description, also demonstrating four highly-defined key behaviour groups within this. FFS. How do completely clueless and incapable people manage to get these promotions?
 
Some aren't capable of stringing a sentence together, though, let alone writing a complicated but concise application which ticks enough boxes to cross the minimum points threshold for an interview.
 
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