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  1. I thought that was a BFM tactic. Like a lizard that can shed its tail to distract a predator.
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  2. We use it & it's awesome. I can't speak to the price, but I do know that it quickly fills the 16GB of memory on an iPad if you have all your pubs on there as well.
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  3. http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/02/trading-the-megaphone-for-the-gavel-in-title-ix-enforcement-2/ The full article is a fantastic investigation of transforming from radical, third-wave feminism to governing and reform.
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  4. All the time - every Sunday night on AMC Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Follow on quibble: I don't predict a horde of flesh eating zombies and the video imbed of Game Over man Game Over was about as appropriate as a fart in church while trying to be serious but I've been surprised by the skepticism expressed for the unlikely but possible crisis of a fast moving pandemic. Look at SARS, H1NI, Swine Flu, etc... fast moving via wildlife and air travel and now look at new diseases like West Nile virus that are endemic in the US, shit really can happen. An open society, reasonable and humane borders and concern for others are important but all of those things only can be if you operate from a place of security and stability, loose travel from areas that are experiencing outbreaks of a deadly, highly contagious, virus with a significant incubation period doesn't fit in the smart move column. Just my two cents.
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  5. Copy. Here is the Harvard Law Review website where the story was pulled from. It's near the bottom of the article. http://harvardlawreview.org/2015/02/trading-the-megaphone-for-the-gavel-in-title-ix-enforcement-2/
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  6. Golden. Unfortunately there was one opponent Boyd didn't build his OODA loop to defeat: the USAF. They've expanded further upon that 8-step defeat of the OODA loop's purpose. There are now 8 steps with 8 sub-steps which each have 3 processes. No wonder we develop leaders that can't make decisions; they never reach the end of the AF risk-averse decision process.
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  7. This is why promotions through O-5 should be done at the DT level vice the whole-of-the AF. I believe strongly that each community can select its next leaders better than a whole-of-the-AF panel.
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  8. Sadly, your statement is true. Regardless of what some well meaning senior officers will say, you are just a number in the endless machine. YOU can change that at an individual level by leading, teaching, and mentoring. After 24 years those interactions at a personal level are the thing I am most proud of. At this point in my life I have one simple litmus test to grade my career, can I look at myself in the mirror, thank god the answer is yes. I was FAR from perfect, but I did my best to lead, teach, and mentor and I hope I made a difference in a few lives. Good luck with the next chapter.
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  9. This statement lays bare the disconnect. It's about "keeping the machine going" - not about quality of life, not about balancing experience, not about retaining quality over quantity (or even good quality over poor quality), it's about "keeping the meat machine going." Hence why a squadron with 10 tails and a 1.5 crew ratio that has 15 newly minted Aircraft Commanders and 15 baby Copilots is "100% manned". "Spreadsheet is green, nothing to worry about here. And your complaints about lack of manning are completely unfounded." No regards for the quality or experience of those numbers. I would love to be a fly on the wall and hear this same rhetoric of "we can buy off enough people to keep the meat machine going - there isn't a manning problem" being pitched to CSAF or some of our MAJCOM/CCs.....I'm not talking about you briefing the polished slides that show everything green and on a trend line that's based on metrics you created - I mean using the exact verbiage you use here. My prediction is A) you wouldn't dare use that language in that scenario, and 2) If you did you would get crushed.
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  10. Such a great website...A B-61 placed directly on the Del Rio WalMart would do nicely.
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  11. Because it's on infowars & infowars is 69% bullshit & 31% fairy dust
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  12. Don't worry, hardly any of them are cleared for staff duty.
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