Mike Blagg on LinkedIn: Highly recommend using the Armed Forces Recreation Center network if you… (2024)

Pretty impressive work from the depot-team at ALC!We got 3 of the first "green hull" MH-65C 66xx-series in Miami and they were "challenging," let's say... to work on electrically. Hopefully the Big Iron-product line learned some lessons from that debacle.

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I just finished the book "Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks" by Jeffery J. Matthews... and what a great insight into the pitfalls of professional leadership. It's well-researched and relatively easy to read, especially for a certain military-audience that has had some brushes with the demands and ethical quandaries the come with leadership positions.Given some recent circ*mstances (Coasties, you know what I'm talking about)... it is a crucial-read if you want to know how leadership can go astray.

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While I am somewhat biased (as a graduate of the Spartan/USCG AET program in 2000), I think an education in avionics is one of the best entry-points for engineers and technicians into electromechanical, mechatronics, and radio/RADAR/wireless communication systems.Modern aircraft systems are highly complex and working on them requires a broad understanding of electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, IT, RF, and hydraulic principles, as well as the application of aerodynamic theories that relate to flight. Quality, precision, and safety aren't afterthoughts, but baked into every practice from Day One.if you learn to work on aircraft, you can work on just about anything.

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Who would have guessed that in my Coast Guard career, I would have become a master at hanging TVs and still finding uses for the skill, 10 years later...Thanks Matthew Walker, P.E. 😂

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Really, really cool way to crowdsource research [Disclaimer: I am one of the 4.5 million "contributors" to this paper] AND all of that data is going to be used to automate future research by using all of those micro-gaming instances to train future AI-models.Kudos to the designers of this for coming up with a system that rewarded and incentivized labor instead of just finding ways to exploit labor as just another resource.https://lnkd.in/ej4ss4aa

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Alright, I admit it. The H-60 platform for the Coast Guard is more practical, cost-effective, and has a better safety record than the H-65 Dolphin...

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The person who first figures out how to train sales departments at car dealerships that their customers have access to the internet on the phones in their pockets is going to make a fortune.

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I'll never pass up the opportunity to share something about the greatest aviation platform that the Coast Guard ever purchased and flew. When students of aviation history look back, I think they'll be hard-pressed to find another aircraft that was so good at what it did, for so long, when so much of what it did changed over its lifetime.

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That H160. 🤤 The Coast Guard decides to shelve the Dolphin and SRR and go single-platform with the H-60, though.Monumental missed-opportunity.

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