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I know a couple guys that did Project Season in the 1980s which was UPT grads going into Guard units. Results varied. The lack of structure compared to an AD unit resulted in lack of training/mentoring. Also, brand new idealistic Lt.'s witnessing sketchy documentation of training/checkrides and flying practices then calling them out ruffled some Guard feathers. I'm assuming the expansion of TFI had improved the program since then.

Did Putin win yet?

Absolutely agreed, but Vance will get Trump's full backing for whatever that's worth! It just would nice not to have to consume a full bottle of Pepto Bismol when voting this next time! But if the Dems put up Kamala, Gavin, Buttigieg, AOC or any of the other clowns they're considering; it looks like I'll be voting R again unless they totally screw up their nomination. Rubio/DeSantis would be my favorite ticket but as we all know, Vance is the heir apparent...

So using an outdated scoring key they security forces actually scored HIGHER...dear god that's epic!

Be prepared for some pissed off SSgts at the gates after 13 July... 😮😮😮 Air Force rescinding 135 promotions after test scoring error: 'This is going to be hard' (STS) The Air Force on Monday acknowledged a human error involving an outdated test answer key corrupted this year's technical sergeant selection process, forcing officials to revoke 135 promotions and award those slots to other troops who rightfully earned them. The error affected only the service's security forces career field, where officials rescored all 2,285 eligible airmen after discovering an outdated scoring key had been used on the Specialty Knowledge Test... (Full article at title link)

Going to a first assignment non-AD unit has been occurring much more recently than the 80s, I dropped a TFI Sq in the Guard out of UPT and that was in 2010.

Not evil and not a conspiracy. They just lobby exclusively for the interests of a foreign government in perfect lockstep with that government's policies, which I think easily rises to the definition codified by FARA requiring agencies to register if: they are acting, quote: "at the order, request, or under the direction or control" of a "foreign principal." No, Israel has massive influence for dozens of reasons, some of which I listed and only two of which you've even attempted to address. And exactly what percentage of foreign aid would be problematic? 10%? 20%? 50%? Because they're getting 1/20th when there are 180+ countries in the world so at the very least it already seems disproportionate. But it's not even just 4.7% because we pay off the other countries in the region to leave Israel alone while they go flattening gaza and starting wars with everyone, so the indirect aid they get through our bribery of everyone else is far higher. When we're 37+ trillion in debt, and devaluing our currency to be able to afford all this foreign aid, yes I am against it. All foreign aid should stop immediately and only resume once we have a solvent domestic budget. And yes I know cutting all foreign aid tomorrow would barely make a dent in the debt. But it's more the principle of spending money outside the US when we can't even fund our own stuff. It's like buying your neighbor a car when you're bankrupt. And it's especially annoying that we're robbing our own citizens to fight wars on the other side of the world on behalf of a country whose technical prowess, espionage, and military capabilities you guys can't stop glazing. Sounds like Israel is shit-hot. I believe you. Maybe they're so shit-hot they could even fight the fights they pick on their own.

My Wing put out the call for applications today, 24 August. Good to know they are tracking. Everything is ready to go!

Full rate production decision delayed 2 years https://www.airandspaceforces.com/gao-t-7-delays-push-full-rate-production-decision-back-two-years/ Again, hedge your bet, interim trainer acquisition, continue T-7 program but have an option. PC-21 or M-345. Versatile enough for both intermediate and advanced training, if the T-7 works out, awesome, keep flying them as trainers or special program aircraft (demo, test/chase, training support, conversion, etc…).

Such hypocrisy!! ‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns | California | The Guardian https://share.google/eTQkqLdFhkBYZO4AC

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Let’s recap on what Pooter’s arguing: AIPAC is evil/a conspiracy/aligned with foreign actors/etc. because they oppose candidates who don’t share their values/desires and they support candidates who do…like literally every lobby group and PAC in America. It’s a sign some dark actor is controlling our government. If you want to make a credible argument along these lines, then feel free to say all the same things about every PAC out there. At least you’d show a consistent viewpoint - care to do so? Israel has massive influence and control in our government because we give “the most FA” to them. Except that number is 4.7% cumulatively since 1948; yawn, doesn’t even reach the level of “weak argument.” Giving FA to the only ally we can rely on with shared objectives in a region, so we can advance our agenda in said region is crazy, fraught with dark motives and definitively means this ally is controlling us. So for consistency, you should be against FA entirely. Are you? That’s the highlights anyways.

Who is denying that? It's in the name. You are not called being called out for describing them as pro-israel. You're being called out for giving them a completely unjustified amount of power in your mind. This is exactly like when liberals bring up the NRA Boogeyman, as though the NRA has controlled American politics, ever. The NRA did not create pro-gun politicians. It merely supports them. Now remove the NRA and replace it with AIPAC. Some of us believe that supporting the only pro-america democracy in the Middle East who happens to be a technological powerhouse is a no-brainer. The fact that we can share intelligence with them is another bonus considering they are probably the best espionage outfit on the planet. I also support dumping a shitload of money into Ukraine. So I'm not sure where your narrative holds up there unless of course zielinski is hypnotized by netanyahu and so really it's Israel all the way down 😂 Edit: oh and you can bet your ass if another country that shared our values and priorities was surrounded by barbarian cultures that sought a religious revolution that spanned the globe, constantly trying to exterminate them in the most horrific ways, I would definitely support us spending 5% of our foreign aid on that country.

I don't know any of the tech billionaires who believe the crazy stuff and believe in God. So while Peter Thiel has a couple screws loose, I don't believe Vance has the same pathology. Also I don't want my politicians to be blue collar, I want them to have blue collar backgrounds. Vance fits that perfectly. He's for damn sure not a tourist 😂🤣. I find his foreign policy however to be mostly incoherent/irrational, far too close to Tucker Carlson. And since when is going to Yale bad? If he went because Daddy was an alumni, that would be one thing. I've got my fingers crossed for Rubio. He's been the surprise hero of the administration.

Well this explains it…

Y'all wanna talk blue collar...fucker is in deep with a guy so rich, he isn't sure the human race should continue to exist. He's holding "discussions" on his view of Christianity. This isn't a Gates, Cuban, or even Ramsaway. While I believe there's few/no "good" billionaires, Thiel is extremely concerning to me. I'm in politics, I know the money game. But the true "tech bros" involved in politics have some extreme beliefs. Maybe it's because I deal with people like them everyday for work that I'm too deep in that environment. The tech bros are like finance bros squared. Same with Tucker and his "blue collar" appeal. Dude is deep with a family fortune. Fuckers on both sides of the aisle being poverty/blue collar tourists for some reason pisses me off probably more than it should. Vance went to Yale. No idea on next president. Shit, I might even support Rand Paul, at least he has values I can appreciate and isn't gonna steal from America. Same with Rubio depending on how Trump 2.0 stinks him up. Depends who the Dems put up. Am I likely to vote R? No, but I have in the past and likely will in the future, especially locally.

Did you listen to the podcast? Who would you prefer be our next president?

Right, they’re just a run of the mill domestic lobby of totally normal Americans whose only priority is a foreign country and whose policy prescriptions are indistinguishable from the government of that country. Got it. Just normal America stuff. If we subbed Israel for any other country on earth in this scenario, your alarm bells would be rightfully going wild. Love this. I knew we were gonna play make believe. Didn’t I call it? Yes the off grid gun toting libertarian, former maga loyalist, retired army general freedom caucus chair, and the two lefty loons are all just “anti conservative.” lol that’s what they have in common and why AIPAC hates them 😂 Edit: also hilarious to describe AIPAC as a conservative group when they contribute almost equally to the left and right and in many years more toward the democrats. Anything to avoid admitting the obvious through line here is that it’s all 100% motivated by who will and won’t fully support Israel

Always, someone whines…..

Oh, you mean cumulatively. Got it, well in that case they’ve cumulatively received 4.7% of total US foreign aid since 1948. Greater than 95% of US foreign aid has gone to non-Israel countries since 1948 - wow, super compelling numbers to support your super compelling argument that we’re subservient to the Jew government. And again, providing aid to a region where we want things to go a certain way is normal foreign policy - should be easy for even you to understand. They’re all shit politicians who are anti-conservative and support bullshit things from a conservative perspective. So, a conservative group lobbied against them. Wow, shocking, it’s impossible to make sense of that one. I assume you’re ready to also attack every leftist lobby/PAC for working against conservative candidates, because that too can only be explained by wild conspiracy theories.

They're not a foreign lobby you walnut. Thomas Jefferson was so livid about the US failing to support the French against the British, he resigned. Was Thomas Jefferson secretly a French lobbyist? Americans are allowed to have foreign policy views. And they're allowed to donate and vote based on them. That doesn't make them puppets of a foreign government.

Reading comprehension bud. I said “since its founding” (1948) but yes thank you I’m sure you can cherry pick years where a crisis temporarily spiked our foreign aid to other places more. Go look it up. It’s simply a fact, not some Pepe Silvia conspiracy. This is precisely the problem. It is a lobby thats motivated exclusively by support for a foreign government despite, yes being a “domestic” group on paper. This allows them to contribute to political races—something no other foreign lobby is allowed to do, and that is the root cause of their disproportionate influence. I know I’m slaying the sacred cow here so critical thinking is gonna be hard but let’s put our big boy pants on for a second and ask ourselves what Thomas Massie, Scott Perry, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Cori Bush, and Jamaal Bowman have in common from a policy perspective. And why would a “domestic” political lobby equally go after these people all over the political spectrum with seemingly zero policy overlap. I look forward to us pretending it’s for any reason other than the obvious

Your entire rant is batshit crazy, but I’ll call these couple out: As one example, Ukraine received 3-5x the foreign aid as Israel for multiple years. Your statement is 100% false. Even in 2021 (pre-UKR and Biden as POTUS) Israel received 4.5% of our foreign aid…man, that’s a scary big number, the Israeli government clearly has a controlling stake in our politics! Also, it’s almost like we give foreign aid to countries at specific times to drive outcomes we want. Crazy mind blowing, amirite! AIPAC is not a foreign group based on FARA (1938), which clearly states groups will only register as foreign agents if they are “controlled, directed, or funded by foreign governments or political parties.” None of those apply to AIPAC, except in your progressive conspiracy mind. How are you measuring your “extremely powerful” statement? AIPAC made up about 2% of the lobbying financial efforts in 2024. If we’re measuring by direct donations to candidates, they are so far down the list it’s laughable you’d even bring it up. If we’re going purely by PAC/SPAC, they’re not in the top 5, and I’m being generous by including all of the “sub-PACs/AIPAC-adjacent”in that assessment. In conclusion, a picture is worth a 1000 words, so if you could look in a mirror, here’s what’d you see:

Oh my God, he has donors who share similar beliefs and desires???!!!! Burn him! Welcome to America dude, where politics is an extremely expensive endeavor and donors are the only way you’re getting anywhere beyond the school board. Did you listen to Rowe’s podcast? I haven’t, but I will.

Vance is deep into the pockets of billionaires. https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/07/16/jd-vance-and-peter-thiel-what-to-know-about-the-relationship-between-trumps-vp-pick-and-the-billionaire/