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Thanks. No. Well, I would start by making those stated objectives. Instead, SECDEF has tasked the services to "improve safety and reduce the risk posed by alcohol" and to prepare an "implementation plan." The focus is on alcohol and on the plan--not on sexual assault. The wording you used would be much more effective guidance. Your words put much more focus on the actual problems and don't micromanage the solution. Regarding how to "create a service culture that abhors sexual assault", I would start by looking patterns. Do we know what sexual assault abhorrence looks like? Would we know it if we saw it? Do we have some communities that already abhor sexual assault? What things are those communities doing differently? Do some leaders appear to have a history of tolerating sexual assault? Can they be eliminated? Can we predict which units will have more sexual assaults? Can we identify other conditions that can predict sexual assault? [side note: I don't think that alcohol consumption by itself is an effective predictor of sexual assault because, by far, the majority of times alcohol is consumed no sexual assault occurs.] Unfortunately, the service won't come up their own, they'll do what SECDEF told them to do. 100% agree that that we have a responsibility to provide a safe working environment, which includes crime prevention. For clarification my comment was directed at the alcohol risk reduction implementation plan, which I don't think will accomplish anything towards reducing sexual assault. I don't think that legitimate efforts to prevent crime is a distraction.

I am in the process of faxing a letter and the JQ article to every member of Armed Forces Cmte in the House and the Senate. I'm doing the same for members of the VA Cmte as well for good measure. It totals to about 70 members of the House, and 40 members of the Senate. I'm also sending the same info to every Senator/Congressman of my home state. Fax is old school and time consuming, but it may get more attention that way.

That's cool. So when the next twitter, facebook or whatever small start up happens, starts getting traffic and then gets a knock on the door from the "not-monopoly" ISPs for more cash what do they do? Just happens the ISP'll happily take a stake in the company to make sure their traffic doesn't get moved to the slow lane. How nice of them. Most ISP's require at least year to multi-year contracts with hefty breakage fees. Sure.. people will just dump their ISP for the other one servicing their area that I'm sure will also be in negotiations for higher fees for content delivery as well. You're right.. I've got 2 providers in my area 1 for cable (which is crap from 3pm-10pm) and 1 for DSL (which is much more expensive). That's real competition. Now why Cox doesn't come down to my area that Time Warner servers.. oh.. that's because they're not allowed to. Every organization on the Internet is against it. The EFF in particular and all they care about is true electronic freedom. Somehow, these giant companies can't seem to build out their infrastructure and not get rated "worst customer service," but they'll have the customers by the balls and the content providers by the ass, and you're cool with that. Are you also cool with the rising costs, lower speeds and overall poor service the major players in ISP are providing? Declining service for more money, the American Dream! Are you excited about the mergers going on? Should the gov't be able to say anything about those either? You know in the Comcast-Time Warner merger they're claiming wireless providers are adequate competition? Besides it's not like the "not-monopolies" would ever collude to keep out competition - Doh, those pesky gov't trying to get into the market and ruining everything! They should just leave it to business. https://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2012-12-27/u-s-internet-users-pay-more-for-slower-service Or not. Nope.. they'll do it from home to their network, and now they're trying to do it from content to their network. Again, what if some other players don't pony up? Skype, Ebay, craigslist, USAA, Foxnews, CNN, assorted video/porn site. Data is data, and the 1-0's should be treated the same period. I pay for access, they pay for access, all based on a set speed. It should not matter where it goes or who it comes from. I don't pay for different water or power from special wells or generators. The internet is, for all purposes, a utility. Yes, they're more nimble, but I wouldn't give you odds on more powerful. Look above at the laws and the difficulty Google's had in rolling out Google Fiber in some places. You really want these guys providing more service - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAo5GgaJmsA

I stopped reading at "I'm a ball", knew there was nowhere this could go but down.

I don't doubt that. @ Al Dhafra our boom went back to the ARO to start his preflight when he caught two SF airmen doing the hibbity dibbity back there in the dark. A slow clap was initiated by all who were there when they exited.

APPROVED! 62E, 2005, 9 mo PCS ADSC Just checked the "Officer Voluntary Separation Application" I'm in shock.....

It's true boys!!! I'm approved, reading the e-mail right now... 2005 11M approved. A little under 3 years ADSC. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

I thought 11/12 May was the big day? No wait, 7 March was the big day, or 16 May was the big day. I'm still waiting on my RIF pre-selection brief that was due to be sent to me on 14 May. Maybe Ops should start working TOTs this way. "You'll get your weapons effects whenever I damn well please!" Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I thought Thurs, 22 May was the big day? I mean did you seriously think AFPC was going to be "earlier" on a broken promise fake deadline. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Yes, because no one else has ever screwed in a 135... Ever. And, when I was a maintainer, my nuts were never put on the boomers chin rest... Ever.

I stopped at "By 1Lt..."

Bad analogy. The EU is not a sovereign nation. The US is. England and Germany are not states of the EU in the same sense a Michigan and Rhode Island are of the US in the least.

Isn't this the... 3rd alcohol reduction program they've attempted in the past 5 years? Wasn't there some culture thing, and a 3-3-1-1... something? Did those work to lower sexual assault?

Wasn't aware that was the only requirement for a CC allowing you to extend.

No. This is what happens when wealth is concentrated in large corporations and extremely large sums of money are controlled by a handful of people. They change the rules of the game to favor themselves through prolific lobbying and campaign donations.

Conversations always go soooooooooooooooooo well when people start off like this. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Doesn't even have to be the border area. I grew up around the suburbs of DC, quiet little town (not mayberry by any means) but your average middle class america town. Then there was the housing boom as the DC sprawl came to county with coporate HQs and everyone trying to get out of the urban areas around DC. This brought a literal tidal wave of illegal immigrants to do the cheap labor for the new construction. They don't assimilate into the society, they set up literal ghettos in apartment complexes or pack 7-8 families into houses. They treat the public schools as a daycare, and yes a lot of citizens do as well, but the proportion of Americans that do it pales in comparison. They are dragging the schools into the ground becuase their kids don't learn or care to learn. They get food stamps, welfare, housing assistance, free breakfast and lunch for their kids at school, all while driving escelades, with iPhones with gold chains etc.; yeah sounds like an exageration but its not I've watched it happen for years in my home town. The other problem prior to this housing boom, we had very little crime, the town overall was pretty safe, now we have the largest concetration of MS-13 gang outside of LA in the Northern VA area. I went home about 4 years ago and noticed the cops were carrying shotguns and AR-15s on racks in their cruisers along with wearingn body armor. I asked my dad why they were now so well armed? Well turns out muggings, home invasions, drive-by shootings, etc. have all become common place. It was on the upswing when I was still there in high school but no where near as bad as it is now. These immigrants aren't really under any threat from local LEOs they literally stand in parking lots waiting for guys in pickup trucks to come by and pick them up to go work for the day, while the LEOs sit. On the other side of the street and watch. Vertigo I'm with you on opening the boards and making it easier for people to come hear above the table, guest worker programs etc. but please knock this bullshit off about how illegal immigrants aren't a danger or a drag on society or those of us who oppose them are selfish racists becuase it's not fucking true.

That's why I use a clipboard. I think that extra touch (sts) of professionalism goes along way towards establishing credibility. FWIW, so far I'm been getting impressive results, 8.27 mean rating w/ a standard deviation of 1.27 among all female-nursing-students. However, among female-nursing-students-who-have-consumed-at-least-3-drinks-in-the-last-hour, my average rating jumps to 9.87 with a standard deviation of .07. I think this could be a major break through, but much more research is needed. Speaking of alcohol, that Hagel article is one of the most ridiculous things I've seen in a long time. But also in 99.997% of alcohol events, no sexual assault occurs. Which will push alcohol off base and to communities further away, where there will less ability for us to police our own. Further taking focus away from the mission Is there any evidence that people who buy 5 bottles of bourbon at 0200 are more likely to assault someone? Restricting the hours the Class Six is open only forces people to plan ahead further or to go off base. Is this belief based on facts? If so, do we understand the linkage? Will a 10.7% reduction in binge drinking result in a 10.7% reduction in sexual assault? Do we know that happy-hour drink specials lead to binge drinking? If so, are the sexual assaults that are inexorably linked to binge drinking linked to the binge drinking that results from going to O-Club at 1600 or the binge drinking that occurs at Lt Col Wilkerson's house parties? More simply, do we know of any cases where an on-base drink special played a significant role in a sexual assault? Ok, so now rapists will have to buy their victims dinner first. Not really addressing the problem.

Soon it will be FT by correspondence, before you go in residence.

And I suppose you have some sort of "final solution" to this problem?

Nice that you label all immigrants like that. Your true white robe colors are showing Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Not SFS, but I caught two maintainers fucking in the boom pod of a -135. Had the APU on for power and the ladder pulled, which was weird to begin with. When I went back to Ops I made sure my crew never flew that tail.

Do you read that as notifications will go this week (specifically mentions today) if approved, and no news is bad news with a disapproval coming next Tuesday?