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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/530498-massie-gabbard-team-up-on-bill-to-repeal-the-patriot-act

During an FAA physical the doc told me something funny/true. "The Air Force only wants you to last 20 years, we want you to last longer than that."

Yeah I mean, honestly, I don’t believe you. If you have pics or proof I’d like to see it.

I don't think any discussion of increasing the initial ADSC is worth merit. At some point its becoming predatory. Do you really want a dude at the 11-13 year point flying planes who is only showing up to work each day because he feels like he is under obligation of the law to not go to jail. At least at 10 years you still feel like you have a few exit options. Honestly, I think the AF needs to rethink pilot ADSC's all together. I bet you raise retention by shortening the ADSC. Shorten it to 6 years, pay the bonus out in 3 year increments based on accepting another PCS and reduce the amount of the bonus so over a full career it pays the same but each year individually pays less. You need to string people a long. Once you lock them in for 10-13 years, if they become jaded and feel like they can't escape, even once, they wont risk being put in that situation again. My career is awesome right now. Having the time of my life. (except for COVID) But I was burned ONE time 5 years ago, and stuck with shitty circumstances. Nothing in the world is going to convince me to risk that happening again.

I was hired in Nov 2019, didn't go to MEPS until April 2020. Its slow, even before COVID was getting in the way lol.

How did you mentally prepare yourself to become such a badass?

Enjoy your disability later ...

Seems an interesting time was had by all... "Regrettably, Clarkson got off to a bad start with Yeager as the host arrived late for the interview due to a last minute changes in his schedule.The host shared: “He was standing there, looking at his watch and, as I climbed out of the car, he said: ‘You’re 15 minutes late.’ 'Naturally, I assumed he was joking, so I replied: ‘That’s nothing. You were three years late for the Second World War.' The Airforce officer clearly showed how annoyed he was at Clarkson. He spun on his foot, stormed out, and slammed the door."

Being around for the start of the anthrax shots and the side effects that cost guys their careers and refusals that were followed up by judicial action. Don't even get me started with the stuff we got before the start of the Desert Storm. I would say be careful what you wish for.

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So Hnida was the first and Power 5 is made up. The is the real convo

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9055391/San-Francisco-rename-Lincoln-High-School-didnt-black-lives-mattered-him.html Lincoln is now not good enough for the woke crowd.

I want that X-Wing just to park in front of the local FBO and see what people do. LOL

words, words, words... (or finding more useful things to buy) You mean like quality cold weather gear for maintainers....

Same, june hire and yet to see MEPS

@yervis is spot on. Got hired with a guard fighter unit in June and have yet to get a MEPS appointment. It is truly at a snails pace right now, unfortunately...

Aircraft fly all the time, every second of the day. Unfortunately, sometimes they crash. Does it happen often? Statistically no, but it does happen. When one crashes are all aircraft grounded forever and redesigned? No. Historically the benefits outweigh the risk of flying. But statistically if aircraft continue to fly, they will also crash. If people still use voting to elect officials, you will have voting fraud. What surprises me is that supposedly educated individuals on this forum are shocked that a system created by humans is not infallible. As someone said previously it’s almost like it’s willful ignorance. Does the election system have voting fraud? Yes, it happens every election. Is it rampant enough to swing an election? Historically and statistically the data tells us no. It’s only being highlighted by a false narrative because of a sore loser of a president. If it was as rampant as the president, and his supporters said it was, then some of those legal challenges probably would’ve not been tossed and rendered moot. If the tables were turned and the Dems were bringing up the same voting fraud narrative, Trump supporters would be laughing all the way to Inauguration Day commenting how strong and fair the voting system is. If you don’t believe that, again willful ignorance. Good luck in 2024.

Seems like a seamless upgrade. Good job!

Thanks. Still doing some work trying to get the old iOS and Android apps updated and working again. No promises.

I suppose I basically agree with you, if the only way forward for NK was welfare... Another perspective, though, is that there are companies that are DYING to invest money into NK because what it actually represents is massive, latent economic output which is currently handicapped because of its government...never mind the hundreds of thousands of SKs that have relatives in NK they'd like to reunite with. While it would take "trillions" to repair it, I think the ROI would be positive. Take a look at SK for two seconds...what makes them so different? Nothing. 0. Currently, we're "investing" much more in Africa, which has two things: far more potential, and far, far more cost to getting up to the modern world...yet no one scoffs. NK is NOT far behind what East Germany was post war - they are a nation that currently has the ability to produce nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, yet most of the population lives off of rotten cabbage and a little tiny rice bowl three times a week. They have every bit of potential to be as productive as SK given the opportunity. A lot of trade and "economics" already happens between the two states. Their problem is 100% political. The problem isn't how much it would "cost" - the problem is letting a festering wound continue to fester. Worrying about a 1.2 trillion dollar "hole" misidentifies the root cause. Here's an article calling Corona a $16 trillion dollar event (https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/video-player/18553761#:~:text=The costs of the coronavirus,costs%3A the %2416 trillion virus.). Do you really think Corona is going to end the world...really?.. REALLY? Get some perspective. 20% of all money has been "created" in the last year (https://moguldom.com/310861/strategist-almost-20-percent-of-all-u-s-dollars-were-created-in-2020-alone/). Worrying about cost is cute, but that position has to ignore the broader context. What is the cost of continued conflict in that region for the next 350 years? Hint: far more than 1.2 trillion.

This is a fantastic point. If he stays on message (which if you check his twitter...he will) the left will have that to point to for distraction for however long it lasts. His lackeys will also cause this to happen. The fracturing of the Conservatives will continue to weaken the voting base. It's not that weak now (re: House seats gained, kept Senate), but at some point there will probably be candidates Donny doesn't like..what happens then? These folks are clamoring for either Trump to run again in 2024, or his kids to. That's an automatic no from me and a lot of my friends. We all need to get involved in local government. Go to you city council meetings, volunteer at polling places, help with the elections. Most of the "fraud" is based on ignorance of the process. Saw the news that the "Dominion server crashed again!?!?!? maor fraud!" Nah, servers crash all the time. Hell all of Google was down a couple days ago. Being an educated citizen isn't just knowing the facts on here, it's getting involved in what impacts you locally.

This exactly. I voted for Trump twice and still think he was the best candidate in both elections. However, I haven’t seen anything that shows me there was actually widespread voter fraud. I do think there are some weak points in our system that need to be shored up, including a consistent system for mail in voting and a good way to track absentee ballots. I know of a case of someone voting absentee in a state they no longer lived in because they were lazy and hadn’t changed their ID or voter registration. Were things like that enough to sway the election? I don’t think so and haven’t seen any real evidence of it that convinces me. But, I do think we should always be striving to clean up even minor election discrepancies to ensure that all citizens can have faith in the process. Beyond that though, it’s not hard for me, even as a Trump voter, to see him losing. I personally know three women who voted for Trump in ‘16 and Biden in ‘20, based almost completely off his personality. It’s not hard to imagine there were millions more just like them. Trump’s greatest weakness was always his inability to STFU. I liked many of the things he did but frequently found myself cringing as he would immediately put his foot in his mouth seconds after a solid achievement. It’s time to turn the page and let the democrats lay in the bed they made themselves. Biden-Harris is still, imo, one of the worst pairings we’ve ever put into the White House. A half assed offering of a moderate who is likely losing his mental capacity and an unpopular leftist that comes from the most poorly run state in our country. If Trump would just exit the stage for a bit we might actually get the chance to see what a terrible offering this next presidency is going to be.

Last time I ran from a burning jet I ran away at a medium pace for 1.5 miles straight off base. Then I did 80 pushups to impress the locals.

False choice. Never said I was in favor of lockdown. Nor is that a viable long term strategy. Vaccinating a population against a pandemic novel virus with no pre existing human immunity is a viable strategy that will work. You don’t have to like it, but the world we live in is one that will continue to place severe restrictions on what we previously considered normal life. Why so resistant to simple and effective mitigation strategies that will get our kids back in school and our economy back on its feet?