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A SAC warrior at heart, that's all. NBD.

"Wait until after the election and I'll, ha ha, have more room to maneuver." "The 1980s called, they want their foreign policy back." "Using chemical weapons would be a redline for me." Reset. Administration in office with awareness of Russian shenanigans? Deliberate set up of homemade server complete with multiple examples of classified on it. 50,000 texts degenerating only one candidate by the same investigator responsible for looking at both major candidates. Or Confirmed Supreme Court Justice. About to be two. Most district and circuit court justices confirmed to date. Economy doing well. Out of unratified treaties with Iran and climate change scammers. One clown show of a press conference. Everything is reported as "this will be his end." And yet Hillary is the one in a housecoat extolling the virtues of illegal immigrants. Ask yourself "Why?"

Honestly I’m sick of all of the bullshit so I don’t even watch the news anymore, even though you can’t really call it news (no matter what channel you’re watching). I don’t trust the government, and I can’t wait until I don’t work for them anymore. I’m sick of the ineptitude at all levels and I hate having to fight every support agency just to do my job on a daily basis. It’s no wonder everything is so dysfunctional in the military and elsewhere in the government.

Until they start paying guys who stay in comparable to year 2-3 salary at the airlines not much is going to stick...people can claim “it isn’t about the money,” but when the 9-10 year post UPT dudes with families start hearing their bros talk about how awesome their airline gig is in terms of $ v QOL the decision matrix becomes real simple.

"Hey baby, I could really go for a BJ right now." "Sure thing sweetie. But if I give you a BJ, you have to wash the dishes for the next 10 years." "No thanks." "You're always ranting about wanting a BJ but then you complain when I try to give you a BJ!"

You're old enough to drink, you're on this forum, and you didn't know tankers were AMC. Much to learn have you. I recommend less output and more input.

They live in caves and operate like it’s the Stone Age, I wouldn’t say they are winning. Now why the f are we still in Afghanistan? Excellent question!

Luckily, war is a competitive sport. You only need to be better than your opponent.

So, if you take the devil's money, you must obviously not be skilled enough to make it on the outside. Noted. A lot of valid discussion in here, and then someone makes a blanket statement like this. Seems suspect.

More than a full page out of 412 pages... "Steele's possible bias"... Yeah, no intent to mislead there... But I actually don't know and don't plan on reading it. Carter Page seems like a worm, but it's not illegal to have a strange love obsession with Putin (well Maybe in Russia if you're a dude). That's what separates us from actual fascists... Charge him with a crime or stop violating his right to privacy... I'm gonna go ahead and predict that he comes out as Putin's gay lover. At least then I can watch all my lib friends tear themselves in half trying to decide whether they want to (1) support him for coming out or (2) burn him for being pro-Putin. It'll be like Comey 2.0

I have about 2 hours of C-47 time logged at cruise (in other words, my expertise is zero), but of the 100+ C-47/DC-3 takeoffs I've seen, I've never seen a takeoff from a 3-point stance. It actually goes to a 2-point fairly early

Excellent post. One add. No more equating morale to donating $5 to the booster club to wear civilian clothes on Friday. We're the military, and we need to build morale by getting really good at killing bad people and breaking their stuff.

If your hobbies are airplanes, boats, race cars, or women, you're going to need at least $20k per month.

Well considering you have apparently no interest in coming prepared to a real conflict based on yours and other’s statements on here, I would expect you to continue to be a puppet because the people do come prepared aren’t going to have the time to wait for you to get back in the vault to get smart on stuff you should know as a military aviator. We fight the same mentality in the C-17 world. “I don’t have RWR so why do I care about SAM threats? I can’t do anything about them.” It’s a false assumption and a willful lack of critical thinking.

Interesting, hope you find it. I would sum up my airline impressions before I started as very similar to yours. I just didn't have anything else I really felt like doing. I mean, couldn't think of a single damn thing (I had several options, it's just that none of them excited me in any real way). Couple rounds of TAP didn't change it much. I decided to look for post mil employment through the ratio of most money for least amount of work. And here I am. Good luck man, it's a big world out there. You'll find something. Let us know what it is