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Okay so now we've gone from this shouldn't be mandatory, to this should be mandatory and so should a whole bunch of other things? I'm just trying to follow along.
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It's very interesting what you take from comments. The gov't shouldn't be forcing testing for just this. I like @brabus comment where this is a holistic approach to improving the health of war fighters. Because this impacts me personally I've read a lot about it. Testing dudes over 30 mandatory smacks of just the stupidity and overreach of this admin. Just like, "no more flu shots" and how'd that work out? We should all have a health "passport" that follows us through service. Would make VA claims a hell of a lot more streamlined. You come in and are tested for a myriad of "shitload of more things" as @brabus puts it. Then it gets updated yearly, biannually, whatever, so you can track that shit. It took 3 different dosing regimens to figure out where my numbers should be. If I had gotten tested in my early 20's, biannually through retirement, we could have figured all of this shit out for a whole lot less ass-pain, and cheaper since I was doing almost quarterly tests the last 2 years to get the docs to do something. Not sure why the snide comment for women. They have hormone issues to, my wife a former bag wearer is in the same boat -- USAF did fuck all. Hormones impact all facets of life, so yes. Women should also have a health passport through service. If you think we should go back to women not serving because "we don't care" that's on you and irrelevant to the point I'm making, or even this topic. Overall, not the worst thing, but stupid in comms and implementation. Clearly tied to his imaginary ideal of what a warrior actually is. Just thought how his interactions with LeMay would have gone.
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Frankly the mil should be testing for a shitload more things. The fact I have to pay hundreds out of pocket every year to get full blood panels to track health is dumb. But then again, the mil hasn’t given a shit about my health in over 20 years. It would be awesome if the mil started doing yearly blood panels for every service member - that would be an immensely good thing…and something some people would still lose their minds about for some illogical reason.- The Iran thread
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For us or them? Their 100% neutralized ballistic missile capability just managed to hit some CLUs. So on the one hand at least it wasn't our invaluable radars or tankers this time and we know for a fact they have 2 less missiles now so you could say things are improving. On the other hand it turns out they still have ballistic missiles and that's sort of awkward. There's also vids of multiple patroit interceptors missing at least 2 ballistic missiles.- The Next President is...
Just so I understand. Low-T is a brutal condition that affects the ability to maintain physical conditioning. And it affects multiple service members on this board alone. and We shouldn't be testing for low-T. Do I have that right? Are we doing to pretend like we care? Women in the military was never about physical performance.- Gun Talk
Big day for the 2A. It still surprises me to see so much progress in support of the 2A- Gun Talk
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Huh, this hits close to home for me. I spent the last 5 years trying to get treated for low-t. Put the balls through a ringer trying (and failing) to have kids with the wife. The "docs" wouldn't do shit. You know how hard it is physically to be low t and work out for the PT test? I could never recover, constantly tired. Testing BELOW 300ng/do and the fucking prick said, "That's what the APA says, but I go to 200." Retired, went to a real doc and asked to get tested and they called me and said the scrip was in and to start ASAP. In 3 years I went from 370 to 174. That said, fuck the govt doing a mandatory test like this. I have zero confidence this stays like he said it will. Are we going to be testing females for their gonad profile? I know many broads who had the same damn issues I did. I know we have to take tb and hiv tests, I would classify those as not the same thing. All from a dude who can't bench, no less.- Blue Angels pier fly by
I meant a culture building that allowed that to happen.- Blue Angels pier fly by
There's no such thing as correcting exactly back to the trend line. Hegseth was the response to things getting way out of whack on the dei/safe space/pussification side of the spectrum. He's going to spin the wheel hard right, get back to the center line, and blow through it a little bit. We're never going to know whether or not this is handled correctly because we're not going to know what the actual debrief for that pilot sounds like. But if he is chastised, given a few shitty additional duties here and there, and otherwise not punished for a singular mistake, then I would say hegseth and company have handled this well. There is absolutely no need to discuss the disciplinary side of this publicly, because ultimately nothing happened.- Blue Angels pier fly by
Nuh uh there, good buddy. NOWHERE did I encourage said maneuver, but rather called the shot that Pete et al will intervene in any inquiry and nothing will happen, which is what happened. I think Pete & Co meddling in unit disciplinary actions is unsat. Maybe SoW and Navy would have a different reaction if 3 kids had to go to the ER for sand-to-eye injuries. I get the mistake part here, but that's not my commentary, its Secretary level meddling in unit ops.mwest007 joined the community- Blue Angels pier fly by
obviously unsafe. previously the pilot would be shot and a commander fired. now it's celebrated. there's a middle ground to find. acknowledge the mistake, correct it, and move on.- Blue Angels pier fly by
At least the Blue Angels Lead is willing to go on the record and call this unsafe/it’s going to be debriefed and corrected. Any professional aviator (military or civilian) knows the road this is going down. I honestly don’t understand why Hegseth sees the need to insert himself into these discussions, especially given all that’s happening in the world and that lately military aviation has had several crashes, to include the Growler airshow crash. - Trends in Air to Air Combat