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I left for a contractor job, so I see the Air Force every day. I do not miss it in the slightest.

This is it right here. Our sports culture prizes physical toughness. The legendary performances are mostly people pushing through illness and injury to win: Jack Youngblood playing in the Super Bowl with a broken leg, Michael Jordan dominating in the Flu Game, Kirk Gibson clobbering a home run in the World Series on injured legs, Kerri Strug sticking the landing on a busted ankle, Byron Leftwich leading a comeback with a leg injured so bad he had to be carried by his linemen, Ronnie Lott having part of his finger amputated so he could go back in and on and on.

FCS has 24 teams in the playoff and it works great. For the FBS, I'm pulling for TCU. Any team going hard with HypnoToad memes deserves to win the whole damn thing.

The mechanism is getting passed over for promotion twice. Then you're a free agent. It worked for me. I loved telling people that I had two years left on my ADSC while I walked around with a beard and polo shirt and hands in my pockets. That said 20 year contracts are unconscionable.

Somebody's gotta work mids.

I saw a dude on a Unicycle wearing fully functional Christmas tree lights at Kandahar in 2011, is this the same guy?

I think we're looking at a Democratic Senate and a Republican House. The GOP picked some profoundly unready celebrity candidates (Dr. Oz & Herschel Walker) and likely thrown away a couple of very winnable races. We'll see in a couple of weeks.

You're not wrong. IIRC the complaints about USAA correlate with when they started advertising.

This seems like we need a statute of limitations.

My scenario also involved them dragging their feet on my separation.

This was my experience as well. I had a situation where I needed help with a recalcitrant agency and after I called my congressperson's office there was a miraculous change in their demeanor in less than 24 hours.

I expect they'd have to pay back training costs. Paying off UPT would be a whole next level of student debt.

They've got to pick up that delivery for the Midvale School for the Gifted.

I saw it in a theater with 4DX, which is the moving seats. Absolutely worth the money for the upgrade.

Joe Biden has made a half-century career of carefully following the consensus in the Democratic party. There's good analysis in the article I've linked. For the highlights check the section titled "Biden positions himself in the center of the Democratic Party" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-pandemic-has-pushed-biden-to-the-left-how-far-will-he-go/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110216/

This movie is actually fantastic and I recommend it to anyone interested in WW2 history.

I separated a month after declining continuation.

The true nightmare scenario is a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil situation where we get several mistrials (presumably followed by riots each time).

This is the correct answer. I was the investigating officer for a CDI for something MUCH less of a big deal than this and it took me about 3 weeks to get the investigating training, do the investigating, transcribe the interviews, write up the report, submit it to legal for review, wait for that review, then finally turn it in. Whoever gets the report is going to want time to review and make a decision. If this case did a CDI, they'd have about 10 times as many witnesses as I interviewed. Assuming the higher-ups wanted to wait for a report, especially if there are conflicting reports of what was said, this timeline seems within normal bounds.

I've been through this. Here is my experience from 2016. First the Air Force will offer you continuation (usually to 20) or not. If they don't offer, you will receive involuntary separation pay (assuming you did not write a "do not promote me" letter to the promotion board). If they do offer continuation, you can accept or not accept. If you accept continuation, you just continue to serve in the Air Force. All of your relevant ADSCs still apply, but there isn't any new ADSC for accepting continuation. If you do not accept, you have a few months to get out of the Air Force (6 IIRC). Be aware that this counts as an involuntary separation, but you won't get involuntary separation pay. The distinction matters because Big Blue processes involuntary separations for officers MUCH faster than voluntary separations. A voluntary separation has to work its way through all the wickets to the approval authority who is the SECAF. An involuntary separation is approved by literally some SSgt at AFPC. I was able to get out in just over a month.

Anecodotally, I have friends who have difficulty finding rental cars for TDYs. That might be an indicator that cars/parts are in short supply.

I would take any major party candidate from any election that I can remember over any of the three candidates we've had to pick from the last two cycles. For reference, I'm old enough to remember Dukakis in the tank.

Well, that's enough internet for today.

The quality of reddit varies immensely by subreddit. I dislike the site as a whole, but some corners of it are fantastic.