Leaderboard

Space guy or acquisitions type with a space badge? Most folks in space ops work 12-hour shifts 24/7/365 for at least part of their career. Most folks in LA work 0900-1500 with breaks for lunch and PT and bi-weekly down days. Their hours make FSS look like a North Korean labor camp.

This. Given the high correlation between SOS DG and being a school select out of the O-4 boards, and then the high correlation between being a school select and the subsequent BPZ selection to O-5, our future leaders are literally being picked by majors from the comm squadron when they are junior captains. Ridiculous.

If you're looking at South/Central America, Costa Rica would be my #1 pick for an expat/holiday/bugout location. Beautiful, relatively safe and secure vs all the other options, and it has a good economy that's not completely dependent on the drug trade.

I seriously think about 2.5 weeks of what I consider "real" days would accomplish the entire syllabus. We were told a couple times, "sorry guys, tomorrow's going to be a long day" - it was go to class at 830, 1.5 hr lunch, then done about 1600, including countless 15 min breaks. I actually laughed when some space guy complained about how long the day was (then I realized he was serious).

I'm not serving 22+ years to turn my back on the greatest nation on Earth. The only one born of the love of Liberty, the one whose Constitution I've sworn to protect and defend. My loyalties run deeper than my irritation at our current Congress, Administration, and Court. That said, I may get a Condo in Costa Rica, just for fun and to stretch my retirement $$.

Not only no, but hell no. We've got our problems but from what I've seen of the rest of the planet (albeit a relatively small sampling), we've got it made.

Big surprise: She has multiple cats.

What a retarded answer. First, there is zero point, but if you're going to go, you should not go to get DG, go to have an 8 week vacation and work less than you did at Restaurant X in high school. That whole program is such a colossal waste of taxpayer money and your time; but hell, I'll admit it was kind of nice to work the least I ever have in my life and have tons of free time to do a multitude of things. People who got wrapped up in DG were compete douches and had lost touch with reality as much as the leadership above them who tell them they should go to get DG.

I'd be pissed too if I woke up at 0400 and realized I lived in Clovis NM..... [/stripot]