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Have you asked him to stop being an ffing homo?

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Gonna keep it real guys, unless you need to get exempted from the VML (which can probably be done through your current AFSC OAT), your career field wants you to PCS/A, or have a family emergency, it's probably not appropriate to email the UFT board. I get being frustrated about the 30-60 day window for RIPs closing but their email is explicit in that they ask if you do not get assignment info by 1 Mar 26 to then contact the org box. Asking for an update because we're at 60+ days is jumping the gun. The shutdown definitely didn't help organizing training dates for us and the other >930 rated accessions. Not saying it's morally right or fair, but honestly, part of the job is giving up some capacity to plan for the future to AFPC. I've never met a retiree who said they had perfect communication and heads-up for every transition in their career.

Do NOT do this. As much fun as it would be, this is textbook reprisal and would get you in actual trouble rather than just having to deal with BS complaints. Treat him no differently than you did before, other than document everything and obviously watch what you say. If there isn't a paper trail, it is your word against his and he is apparently willing to lie and play minority cards. And I mean document absolutely everything. If he shows up two minutes late, log it. Makes a single disparaging remark about someone, log it. If he walks into your office to ask when something is due, log it. However, and this is going to be the really painful part, you should start a similar documentation with everyone else, except the disciplinary part and maybe not needing quite the same level of detail. Otherwise if this ends up going sideways and you bring the documentation, the other side is going to logically ask to see the similar log you kept of your other employees. Otherwise they can claim you're only documenting him because he filed a complaint, which is also reprisal. When I started to have a problem with a guy that worked for me, I just kept a word document open on my computer. Anytime anyone that worked for me stopped in, I'd put it down. As simple as: "0945: Airman Snuffy asked due date for MFR - Friday". Depending on how often people stop buy or you go to their offices, shouldn't take too much of your day. Finally, if your boss doesn't have your back then you're probably SOL. I'd wait a week or so and ask for a sit down to talk about how much this guy is destroying the workplace. Even bring up the EO complaint as an integrity problem, which actually could be legitimately used against him if other people there will back you. If your boss still won't cover your back, then you're screwed.

Unfortunately for the oil industry, cheap oil (energy) is good for literally everything else. If it wasn't for the absolute inability to accomplish anything at all, the best thing the government could do right now would be to build 50 nuclear power plants across the country and drive the marginal cost of energy down to zero for the next 50 years.

Concur, in our backyard I’d like us to start making offers that can’t be refused; offering a better deal than the Chinese or Europeans can offer. Basically plugged into our security, intel, economic / finance, tech system with access to visas and fair trade based on compliance with treaties, agreements, etc… you remain a sovereign country but we are friends with benefits now. Cuba could get a nice off ramp from the rogue nation highway in this instance

Uh... Those were the distraction. Not the goal.

I reached out to the board because I’m in a unit that deploys frequently and exercises even more frequently. Some of our Squadron’s leadership team is deploying in a few months and I’d be next in line to cover for them while they’re gone, but if I’m leaving at the same time as them then they need to start prepping someone else for that role. Sometimes it isn’t about impatience, but at this point my unit is being asked by MAJCOM for info and answers about what personnel we have available for XYZ. I’m not saying they need to tell us our specific assignments, but they did originally say we could get assignments as early as Jan 2026, then didn’t send out RIPs for MFSs until Jan 2026, which means none of us are likely to move in Jan. They said RIPs would come out 30-60 days after selection notification. That hasn’t happened either. They said to reach out if you hadn’t received an assignment by 1 Mar, but didn’t specify when they expected people to actually begin PCSing. Will people get an assignment notification on 28 Feb and be expected to PCS mid-March to start training in April? These are valid questions and I’m happy for the people who have the flexibility to not worry too much about timelines, but that info is extremely valuable for some people and not only for them personally, but also for their existing unit that is critically manned and being tasked left and right.

You can afford it. Enjoy the game!

If he can demonstrate a pattern that singles him out then he has a solid case for reprisal. For example, it is perfectly legal to order cop Airman Snuffy to guard the gate on Friday and Saturday night. But if Snuffy can show that after he submitted a complaint, his schedule went from a normal rotation to every Friday and Saturday night every weekend when other guys still had a normal rotating schedule, that's reprisal even if an individual order outside the larger pattern is legal. The larger pattern of behavior that makes the individuals life worse after (and thus likely because of) a complaint is illegal. Just like if you saw some dude complain about a squadron commander filing a voucher that was fraudulent and suddenly that dude ends up sitting SOF four times a week and is sent to safety school when his wife is due. All of those taskings are legal if you look at them individually, but would obviously constitute a pattern of behavior that anyone could see was a result of his complaint. The government has an interest to not make people afraid to make a complaint, so protects against this type of pattern.

While the news has been covering Venezuela Iran is in the middle of a revolution regime change. Reports indicate Khamenei plans exit to Moscow.

You all don't know shit about the oil industry. You need to watch more Landman and get learned.

Sorry but I had to post it.

I saw a really nice throw of a Molotov Cocktail. Maybe bring him over on a football or baseball scholarship.

Better us than Russia / China. Like it or not, this action opens up the possibility of getting things straight in this part of the world and countering negative influence by multiple malign actors.

The embassy shut down in 2019, with the same recommendation to US citizens at the time. If an American is still living in Venezuela, I question their intelligence and/or motive. This announcement by DoS is not earth shattering. Parallel topic - did we just remove someone who is replaced by someone who does nothing different WRT cartels, energy, etc. I don’t envy the current lady, she’s in between the cartel/regime and getting another massive American ass whooping.

Indiana -7.5. That's pretty wild for a team that was 3-9 two years ago.

That is exactly what my son said last night. He can't go, his college starts classes on the 19th, but he thinks I should go. Sort of, you forget I was on the field for two (87/89), and at the Rose Bowl in Jan 2002 when we crushed Nebraska.

Concur. This is a once in a decade or multiple decade opportunity. If they win and you don't go you'll regret it forever.

Miami started strong but Ole Miss made some great adjustments and it turned into an epic battle. I was really torn because...F@ck Lane Kiffin. Was great to see Beck get some redemption with the run in touchdown. Tonight will be interesting, Indiana is a freaking machine but Oregon played them tough the first game. Planning on going to Miami for the Championship but tickets are outrageous.

Congratulations @ClearedHot You guys look really solid. Sounds like about 25 years is the rate at which non-dynasty programs require to put another NC in the bank (Michigan.) Maybe I'll root for you guys so I can start FSU's clock - 2038 here we come! Or USC in 2028.

Good luck, but with documentation and persistence, it can be done. It took me three years to get rid of a dude, but I did it. Looking back, it's the only thing I accomplished in three years at AFOTEC.

The lone exception is the one I always go to when I’m going back home to Cheyenne. Hence my bad intel.

Get a new boss..

Senior IRGC and Iran leaders families have fled Iran...to France of all places. This might really happen.

Lmao, this is worse than Stranger Things ending for good.

Just to clarify…..yes they have a ton of oil. But…..that oil is dog shit and only a few refineries in the us can process it. It’s worse than Canadian tar sand oil. cheap oil isn’t good for the oil industry. Just last yr chevron canned 7k ppl in Houston. The projections for 2026 aren’t great either.

Nope, but I did talk to my first sergeant and my commander today and I told him that I was going to send the board an email asking if there was any indication as to when we would start seeing anything but my commander told me that he’ll reach out. I was also told by one of my other friends who got picked up that we will potentially start hearing stuff by the end of the week, but I just don’t think it’s cool to have people waiting this long when there are people who have families and need to start planning to make sure their family is going to be set up.

We've already proven that immigration to the United States is not something controlled by the migrant. It looks like the administration is already gearing up to send the TPS Venezuelans back to Venezuela, and if they stick to it then overthrowing a hostile regime will be yet another excuse removed from the asylum-for-everyone crowd. We spent so many decades being lied to about the illegal immigration situation that it now seems almost inconceivable that there was never a legitimate excuse or cause for it in the first place.

Coming from the rated community, it will be extremely competitive. Also, depending on which base you’re at can make it more competitive too. I’m going to be honest, having a 70 PCSM is going to be tough to get a good Strat or even an endorsement to submit. The people I went up against were all in the 90’s with their PCSM. I had a 98 PCSM and was able to get stratted #1 out of sq/gp/wg because of my prior enlisted experience and a good chunk of other things I’ve done. There was someone with a 99 PCSM but not the same experience. I won’t put on Capt until 27. Send me a message on here and I’ll help any way I can. But I would suggest looking at getting those rated scores up.

I admit I knew they had a lot of oil just not the sheer size of their reserves. Way I see it is if they get the output up over the next couple years oil prices should stay down and a lot of our problem children overseas like Russia and Iran will feel the pain and have less resources to make trouble.

That’s nuts. Indeed it is.

That is wonderful news!!

Welp

It’s fascinating to see the left’s media machine spin up into action to tell us none of this is true.

By "fixed" you mean pushed more basic training on the FTUs? We cut an entire phase out of UPT to "fix" it.

Beale back in the saddle for the MNF flyover 2 nights ago. George Kittle saw the pilots and made an effort to thank them for an epic flyover at dusk. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRdz4P-AAMW/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==