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Just to confirm with 100% certainty (this is the Aviation Medicine topic sub; NOT the USAFR/AirNG sub-topic) are you in a USAFR/AirNG unit? Just because a lot is being waived on the active duty USAF side, doesn't necessarily, as far as I, a lay-person, could presume, automatically mean that they are currently waiver-happy on the USAFR/AirNG side... I assume you must be Guard/Reserve, because on the active duty side, I assume the verbiage would be different, because on the active duty side, I'm guessing the active-duty USAF squadron doesn't 'Send People to UPT'. If an enlisted airman on the active duty side wants to go to UPT, the squadron doesn't 'send him.' When an enlisted airman does that on the active-side, the Air Force takes him, and he goes somewhere else, and of course he doesn't know where he is going, nor what airframe he is even going to get, and is likely never seen nor heard from again. Only on the AirNG/USAFR does it work like how we are speaking where 'the squadron sends airman X to UPT', I suspect. To further educate me, if you feel so inclined, I assume every person sent to UPT is DSG/TR - I assume no one gets an AGR slot from the get-go? (not that I'm necessarily praying, or even want an AGR slot - that's not even a concern, I'm starting to get very cart-in-front-of-horse now - I just wanted to know whether or not it is a mechanism that even exists to send someone with a guaranteed AGR slot). FYI, I may consider enlisting in the AirNG/USAFR to attempt to be more competitive (and because... I might just want to Aim High in general.. Like Clark Gable!). Still, I wonder if it may be a poor decision for me as of this stage in my life to enlist in the USAF, because once an airman has an enlistment contract, I imagine there is a chance it might be harder to get the unit to waive you from the enlistment contract via a DD368 to go to UPT...? Furthermore, it's entirely possible the unit may not want you to commission and/or may not want you to fly, and/or they may in general not be hiring aviators, and/or have a plethora of former active duty established military aviators applying, so you may have to look elsewhere with a different squadron... Not sure if a squadron is keen on their obligated enlisted airman going to commission and fly with a different squadron... In other words... if they have a great or good enlisted airman doing a coveted job in a hard-to-fill slot, do they want him to fly planes when they already have no shortage of applicants for UPT slots, most or all of whom are not already serving in the squadron?? I assume they certainly don't want to waive your enlistment contract just for you to go fly with another squadron and/or another state's squadron. That's likely even worse? Or maybe they all are so selfless, motivated, and benevolent that they waive anyone to go fly with someone else in the middle of their enlistment contract? No idea, but I will Google it and do some research, because it would not be a bad thing to learn to be an airman with an aircrew job ahead of time. Thanks so much!!!

What is confusing? Government screw-ups are not justification for abandoning government action. This used to be a pretty standard policy of the left, considering how many of their programs were grossly mismanaged and abused. None of our laws were written for the situation we are in now. It was never a consideration that tens of millions of people who have no right to be in this country would nevertheless be here. The protections afforded to American citizens, and others legally present within our borders, cannot be extended to every person on the planet. It is not hard to prove citizenship. Neither for the government nor the accused party. That there are a few dozen cases out of literally millions is evidence that this is not a real problem, any more than a few aircraft mishaps out of millions of yearly flights are indicative of a widespread aviation safety threat. The recharacterization of deportation as some sort of punitive action similar to incarceration is the exact trick being used to slow down the process for the ultimate goal of preventing deportation entirely. Same with the refusal of an asylum claim. If you get on a plane to America without a Visa or passport, you are not allowed to leave the airport until you can be seen in front of a judge. You are put on the next flight back to your country. We have the ability for the vast, vast majority of illegal immigrants to quickly confirm their illegal status and return them to their country of origin. Since the problem has been allowed to grow to the tens of millions, there will unsurprisingly be some mistakes along the way. If those mistakes are measured in a fraction of a fraction of a percent, I don't have any problem with that. Once again, show me the American citizens being deported or denied entry back into the country by an intentional process and we will have some sort of agreement. But you can't show that. If you believe the people here illegally have a right to the resources of our country, we just have a fundamental disagreement. I do not believe they have any claim to medical treatment, education, assistance programs, or voting rights. Along those same lines, I do not believe they have any claim to our judicial system, unless of course we are attempting to incarcerate, fine, or otherwise restrict that human being from anything other than their unlawful presence within our borders. Once again, it is simply intentionally naive or disingenuous to act as though we can't figure out who the vast majority of the illegal aliens are. They didn't come here from Mars. They are overwhelmingly from countries south of our border that have fully functioning governments with records systems that track their citizens just as we track ours. The left is just trying to make this about something it isn't because ultimately what they want is for them to stay.

Milton’s post is spot on. I don’t care how politically incorrect it is to say, the next war in Europe is more likely to be caused by Islam. Putin and Russia is a side show. A cultural civil war in Western Europe would be devastating but is absolutely a risk on the path they’re on. Islam is not compatible with western values. The sooner we realize that as a collective society, the better western society will be.

You are rationalizing an outcome you want while ignoring any counter points. You justify curtailing due process and habeas corpus, hand way away actual examples of government screw ups all around you. Bananas!

Hey y'all! If anyone was debating retaking the AFOQT, I highly-highly recommend. Last time I took the AFOQT, I had only a few hours and was in my Sophomore year of college. Retook it last Friday, and increased my pilot score to an 90 from a 47 originally. Bumped my PCSM with max hours (77) from a 64 to a 95! Definitely worth the couple months of studying (mostly for math, hah!). Excited to keep moving forward, now I just need to get my IFC finalized! Good luck everyone!

Don't conflate me with other people on this forum. I think that cop thread is a bunch of absolute nonsense. A few bad apples in an otherwise incredibly functioning system, but because the algorithm knows what makes you angry, once you go down that rabbit hole all you'll ever see are cops abusing people's rights. It's a waste of time, as are most exercises dystopian fantasy. I don't care about the school bombing either. Shit happens in war. If A single government official got on the news and high-fived each other and talked about how awesome it was to kill a bunch of little girls (you know, like the Palestinians do), then I'd have a problem. But since I'm a grown-up who served in the military, I know that collateral damage, even mistakenly, sometimes happens. Only children assume that you can build a system free from error or tragedy. Even more ironically, all this hand ringing over the girls school in a country that would happily slaughter my daughter as a heretic if they had half the chance. Don't forget if any of those girls had grown up to be raped in Iran, she'd have an honor killing to look forward to, if she was able to escape the Iranian justice system with proof that she wasn't a willing participant. Spare me. And as far as being disingenuous goes, that's pretty rich. Focusing on the negligible number of citizens who have been swept up in a solution (and not deported) that has been a long time coming is just a distraction. Just be honest, you don't want illegal aliens deported. That's fine, you are allowed a political opinion as much as anyone else, but trying to make it a morality play by over hyping the anomalies because you know that the core argument has no foundation in law, history, or morality, is weak tea.

we had FON in the strait before the war started our own DNI threat assessment said they weren’t pursuing a nuke before the war started It’s pretty wild to see some of you guys cheerlead the admin talking points verbatim and then say I’m the one blinded by political bias.. Two thirds of your list of “clear war objectives” are this admin claiming the win based on getting back to the status quo we already had. This is like intentionally starting a war with Cuba and then patting yourself on the back for achieving freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Mexico.. like wtf are we even talking about. If I want to hear the admin party line bullshit I can just go listen to the press secretary, why not try presenting an independent thought that actually makes sense

Alots getting waived on the USAF side, atleast from what I've been told. My unit just sent a guy to UPT with partial color blindness and I met another guy going through IFF at 38. I say start working towards that goal now and in 3-5 years you could be in a prime spot to get picked up. If you can keep your record clean (both medically and judicially) with nothing new, start building hours and show leadership potential it could pan out. Nobody knows how the landscape will look by then but you can still stack the odds in your favor.

According to Google, Missouri's per capita income is $67,587 while GB's purchasing power parity (not exactly apples to apples, but pretty close) is $67,559. But however fast we are to throw rocks at Europe for their massive social welfare states, we need to be just as fast hitting ourselves over the nugget with those same rocks. GB spends an insane 22.1% of their GDP on social programs. By comparison, the United States only spends 22.7%. You read that right, the theoretical bastion of individual freedom and capitalism spends MORE on social spending per GDP than the UK, Norway, Iceland, Australia, Ireland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and New Zealand. Much of Europe spends more, like France at >30% and Germany at almost 27%. The west is taxing and nanny stating itself into irrelevance. https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/social-expenditure-dashboard.html I think you're spot on with the rest of the social stuff, in which the EU leads the US by a good 6-9 years. Maybe beating the war drum might wake up the population to look around and wonder who would actually fight for the country. Walk down the streets of London and I don't see many eligible draftees, let alone ones that I would trust handing a gun and fighting next to me.

RIP Evil Him Him

No, it’s a link to one of the widow’s IG post about her husband.

In one sentence you go from shifting the goalpost to rationalizing eliminating all checks and balances on individual rights. You also keep talking about proving your citizenship, while defending eliminating the very forum where you would do that. On a board where there is an entire thread about cops being malicious screwups, in a world where the most technically advanced intelligence apparatus in history bombed a school, and you're ok with no built in check/balance? Bananas

Nice try. First two links have no deportations. Third link has no names, so the circumstances of the deportation cannot be determined, but every similar named case has been exactly the same. The illegal alien parents of a birthright citizen child(ren) elected to take their citizen children with them back to the country of their deportation. Not the same, and you know it. In fact there's already federal court precedence that removes qualified immunity from law enforcement officials that do not promptly release someone after proving their citizenship. Morales v. Chadbourne But it is a very compelling reason to join the rest of the world and the framers of the 14th amendment in abolishing the nonsense of birthright citizenship.

That's the 1994 Fairchild airshow crash.

The UK is having a special election, which could force out Starmer. https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/most-important-election-since-1938-220311085.html

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025.12.8_ICE-Report-revised-FINAL.pdf https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/ice-deports-3-u-s-citizen-children-held-incommunicado-prior-to-the-deportation Groks answer attached.

Thank you so much. I'm pretty darn far within/underneath age 33, and ever further away from age 35; So I'm a little confused what @Blue and @brabus meant. I'm gonna give it a closer re-read. Really appreciate the help! Certainly, unless I either 1: get an FAA third class and/or 2: become an active duty USAF, USMC, USN, and/or USCG aviator first, they will probably never take me LOL. I never considered it until now and it would certainly be a last resort, but maybe they would take sport pilot? I kind of doubt it, and I'm sure someone here has asked before. I'll look around. Edit: https://www.flyingsquadron.com/forums/topic/23227-does-have-a-sports-pilot-license-help-or-is-it-ppl-or-nothing/

So from what I can read, this isn't a deal. This is a deal to make a deal. During the further deal making all sanctions (oil wise) are to be lifted and Iran is free to sell and receive funds from those sales. Ballistic missile capability isn't to be touched or discussed.

The reasoning behind Trump deciding not to drink is one of his few respectable qualities. The way he orders his steak (and choice of condiment) is added to his many unrespectable qualities.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/air-force-identifies-8-crew-members-killed-b-52-stratofortress-crash-edwards-air-force-base

that thread is helpful. No idea what my depth perception is. Remember when I said juveniel alcohol and marijuana use? The FAA requires months or year(s) of alcohol and drug testing to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars for FAA class III or II or I, purportedly, allegedly. I was told to expect to spend at mininum $20,000 up to a ceiling of $100,000, and I could be denied. Google 'HIMS Program FAA AME' or something to that effect If I was a military pilot, I would have to get still do that if I wanted to convert to FAA ratings - I assume that entails asking your squadron commander if you can miss work to go to AA, pee in a cup, and get breathalyzers a couple times per month from a civilian facility. I thought the age ceiling for USAFR/AirNG was like ~40 or something absurd. I am in my mid 20s so maybe it is already too late! I was 22 when I started trying to do this, and I'm prior enlisted. I did not drag ass or take my time or procrastinate. I have been fighting BUMED (US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery - they handle all of USN and USMC) to fix medical records, for over a year. Allegedly they finished last week but I haven't see the document yet Thank you for the information and your honest opinion! yup, might be a pipe dream but I'm not giving up anytime soon, but I'm happy to transparently get the information that it might be a pipe dream. I'm under zero illusions that I'm 'special'. Well, maybe special in how stubborn and/or how much of a pain in the ass and/or how ridiculous I am, but doubtful that I'm special in any other ways

I thought I got zero responses on my posts because I got no emails or notifications; I thought all I got was a laughing reaction. So happy I investigated further. Thanks for the comment! I'm a little younger than you're thinking but only by a smidgen. All your intuitions are right on the ball or just a hair off. I thought AirNG/USAFR is ~42 age limit? Even with prior service and a PPL, you think I'd have zero chance? I agree, even if I ever get granted a class 3 or class 2 or class 1, it could take year(s)!!! Might be a pipe dream! Won't stop me from at least trying, though! Correct, I haven't taken the AFOQT but I kicked ass at the USMC/USN/USCG test/their-equivalent-of-the-TBAS. I got a 95 ASVAB when I was 18. So maybe I have a shot... not sure. Thanks so much for your candor and not sugarcoating. very generous of you to comment. I may be biased and unrealistic with my advocating right now, but I will admit, it might be a bleak

it seems so bad that it doesn’t make sense. I’ll wait a little bit before screaming and panicking.