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No offense, but that sounds like an awful plan. There are very few ways to outmaneuver the AF bureaucracy. I don’t think this is one of them.

Deny. Deflect. Make counter accusations. SOP for politicians is point blame for their own choices, especially when caught.

We had a couple of commuters that lived in Lubbock when I was at Cannon. They hated life, but for different reasons than most people.

No more brown names/rank against brown background.

Interesting thread. To the OP, please consider some advice. You have a lot of passion, and decent objective stats. If your posts here had been an interview, I would put you as a maybe. Your core claim of purpose has a few flaws. “I’m hugely passionate about attempting to become a fighter pilot, not for the “cool” factor but because I truly feel an intense passion for the mission, especially CAS.” Specifically, combined with your major concern “I know for a fact I wouldn’t want to fly drones.” These statements together mean you’re either ignorant (have not done your research) or dishonest (it really is for the cool factor). Perhaps neither of these are true, but that’s the way it comes across to this old salt. I’d recommend analyzing what your priorities really are, and go after them without any shame or false humility. Good luck.

As said above, odds are RBG will retire her gavel in the next 4 years, perhaps others too. My views are more aligned with Kavanaugh/Gorsuch than with so many appointments before them. I prefer legislation that originates in the legislature, not the courtroom. I appreciate that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch anger both sides by ruling according to the law instead of predictably aligning with the party that had them appointed. As much as the media likes to point out Trump’s flaws, those two appointments were outstanding.

https://www.dm.af.mil/Media/Article-View/Article/2273690/ecg-airman-receives-purple-heart/

Performance is measured through OCO funding.

Guard is hiring pilots. Do that.

This has quickly become one of the most useful threads in this forum. So much wisdom here. Should be required reading for new studs. Except the AOB/VSI thing.

Look outside. Listen to the engine. Keep the ball in the middle until you can feel yaw in the seat. Trim until you can control with minute inputs. Be deliberate but smooth. Learn all the intellectual stuff the IPs say. Most of all, fly the airplane first. You'll be fine.

The rml490 is a great rack. If you want to mark the holes on the uprights, those little peel and stick numbers from hobby lobby work really well without being permanent. I have the rml flat foot, and I’ve had those on it for a little over a year now. There’s so much you can do with your setup.

I built a ridiculously nice home gym after quitting CrossFit a few years ago. The base gyms just never had the stuff I needed for my programming, and I hate sharing equipment. It really started paying off when my wife joined me and my kids embraced a fitness culture. To answer the above question, I’ll give my 2 cents about rogue. Their stuff is nice and lasts forever. It also carries incredible resale value. I’ve upgraded my power rack twice, and both times I sold them for only $20-30 below my purchase price. When you account for retained value, rogue is much cheaper than the cheap stuff.

“He who controls the language controls the masses.”

Boots on the moon by 2024

Because the A1 and AFPC cohort believe they have to keep the blinders on the middle 80% to retain sufficient numbers of eligibles for senior positions. Everybody knows who #1 is, and most people know who #2 is. We all also know who the bottom 10% are. The trick is making #3 thru #75 all believe they’re #3 and that they have a chance. That way, they’re all willing to do the things that are expected of #3 and if #3 thru #25 all punch, we can pretend #26 was #3 all along, and he’ll believe it. If the middle thinks they’re, out of the running, A1 and AFPC will lose their denominator.

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517671300

And yet Texas has one of the best effective reproduction rates, with some of the highest fidelity data. https://rt.live/#learn-more

Interesting you say that. 30-50% of patients tested at the Chicago Roseland hospital already have the antibody. https://chicagocitywire.com/stories/530092711-roseland-hospital-phlebotomist-30-of-those-tested-have-coronavirus-antibody

And when you start arresting people for peaceable assembly for the redress of grievances to the government, we’ve gone from safety to power. According to the Raleigh NC police department, “Protesting is a non-essential activity.” The protesters were requesting that the their state decriminalize their ability to work and provide for their families https://mobile.twitter.com/raleighpolice/status/1250111779574894594

All the tax rules are written into the legislation for it. They were pretty clear, and it would be politically untenable to directly reverse it.

It’s an additional credit, paid in advance.

They’re so underwhelmed that some are shutting down and laying off employees for lack of business. No ‘nonessential’ medical services combined with no coronavirus patients means the doctors are out of business too.

T birds are doing a valley air show today in Vegas. Something about their plan seems...familiar.

Last Sunday, the US Surgeon General said that this week would be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment. Our children and our children’s children would remember the tragedy of this week, with all the death, etc... Outside of nyc, hospitals are closing because they don’t have enough patients, due to the measures taken to preserve capacity for coronavirus. Health care workers, my niece included, are out of work because they are only allowed to do ‘essential’ health care and coronavirus. And there just not enough to keep them employed. I do agree with the surgeon general that there are historic parallels. But they’re not Pearl Harbor or 9/11.