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So Trump killed 220,000 people due to China virus last year. But Biden's plan to beat the virus has killed more than double that this year. And, supposedly, we're gonna get told to learn to live with the virus, but those who aren't vaccinated yet will still die tonight. Quite the reuniting of the country. But no mean tweets...that's something. In the looking for the silver lining in all the madness, Hillary still isn't and won't be President.

Believe whatever you want. If you think I'm going to face judgement in front of god because I took a vaccine partially made through stem cell research, that's your prerogative. Just as it is my prerogative to think your beliefs are backward and silly. But at some point we need to acknowledge the reality that not all beliefs are compatible with military service.

Desert Storm time frame. One of our pilots is sitting in Saudi Arabia at King Fahd airport with his HF equipment. He thinks of the future and decides to marry his girlfriend in Germany. He gets a power of attorney to a guy in Frankfurt. He gets his girl friend, a chaplain and the POA guy together at the MARS station. My friend is on the other end in SA. There followed a unique conversation of "do you take this man/woman.......over" At the end the POA guy signed the marriage license and the two newlyweds, despite being 1000's of miles apart were legally married. We asked if the POA covered covered consummation too. lol They are still married 31 years later.

To the OP, I was a prior-e that was hired from within. Even if you don't get hired at your squadron or in the military at all, it's 100% worth enlisting in the ANG. I'd recommending enlisting as early in your senior year as the unit allows...we have people who enlist in the first month of their senior year. It starts the 6 year commitment, which you'll appreciate later. As I get ready to retire I'm so thankful for my enlisted time because I can retire about 5ish years before my peers. Anyway, get 100% of your tuition paid (most states), plus a lot of other benefits that will help pay for any flying you do while in college. You'll get a leg up on hiring within your squadron, as long as you do a good job, and you'll graduate with little to no debt. Hands down, the best thing I've ever done. Here is some unsolicited advice that I'll offer as airline/mil guy who go an aviation degree. I'd seriously consider getting an STEM degree if you can swing it. If I had it to do over again, I'd have gotten a mechanical engineering degree and possible done some business classes. If I were to lose my medical, that would open up a lot more doors than my aviation degree. A few buddies are in various side gigs/post mil careers that love to hire mil pilots, but the price of admission is an engineering degree. Just a thought. I want the strongest candidate period, whether they're in the unit or not. This last year we hired an enlisted guy from a unit a few states away and a civilian. The year before that, it was a unit member and a civilian.

Stop it. You know how many times that's been said in this country? From Loyalists to Hippies to Socialists...someone different has posed a mortal threat to our country...yet here we are. I'm not denying the existence of threats, they are quite real. However melodrama and 'the sky is falling' never once countered one of these threats correctly. Rather, a levelheaded, rational and logically compassionate understanding of facts that then lead to appropriate action (incremental changes) have always helped advance our country. The only people I give no quarter to are those who want immediate action, right now, to destroy the extreme threat to our existence! When you fight fire with fire, all you get is ash. We all need to calm down, yell less, and listen better. Declaring the end times at the top of our lunges does not help. For reference, imagine a SAC warrior's response to seeing golf carts carrying lazy crews to their airplanes, instead of those crew members running at top speed to practice getting off the ground before the Bears get here. Same idea. Just because it's different doesn't mean it's wrong... I'm looking at you M2!

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When in doubt consult your pubs:)

How many gunner tailbones got bruised int he old days...those floor seats...

And just because it's different doesn't make it right, a fact many "openminded" people fail to accept!

He's an FGO, that normally comes from the Wing King (maybe Gp/CC).

I always hated this line from atheists, and I'm atheist. You can't simultaneously argue that religion is just a human construct that doesn't reflect reality, while pinning the overwhelming majority of human evil on religion. If you can't specify which religion is the most evil, then you aren't making a statement at all. The only logically consistent position for an atheist is to explain religion as a normal and (so far) inescapable desire for humans to put faith in something. But if God doesn't exist, then "religion" describes no group with any meaningful borders. It's like saying sadness is the greatest source of evil, or greed, or jealously. No. Humans are the greatest source of evil. And I'm pretty sure the communists have the record for most fatalities in the modern era, so your point is both logically and factually wrong. The overwhelming amount of charity work has come from religious groups. So is religion the greatest source of good in the history of humanity? It's always curious when atheists create a replacement for religion that looks a whole lot like religion, in their pursuit of stamping out religion.

Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials | The White House "We are intent on not letting Omicron disrupt work and school for the vaccinated. You’ve done the right thing, and we will get through this. For the unvaccinated, you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm."

Segue - I think the greatest source of the immense strife we see in our country is colossal assholes like you who vehemently shit on someone for having a different view point or set of beliefs than yourself. Absolutely you can think it’s all gibberish, but when you belittle people for their personal beliefs and attack their core values, you’re just a POS bully. Time for some introspection, or just keep being a total shitbag, you’re call.

Exactly. And the important point here is that not all ideologies are created equal. An ideology based on the scribblings of goat herders from 2000 years ago translated 690 times and then monetized for centuries is far less productive than an ideology based on basic tenets of scientific inquiry and reason.

It’s not hard people, the LEFT leg pocket is the SCIF, not the right…rookies.

Yours truly flying #381 in 1979 (leading a verboten formation landing in today's AF), the aircraft shot down by Dorsey. I flew in the same Med exercise against the same carrier, Saratoga, but was intercepted by a Navy F-4 albeit 10 years earlier. The A&P that annuals my private plane was on the Saratoga the day the recce F-4 was shot down. Small world.

That’s some Gen Z shit right there. Signed, Millennial

Probably some NCO getting evidence of the rules being broken on the flight line! 🤣

Who would believe twenty years ago that this is not going to be a stupid joke? This world is going to raise from the ashes or die with help of the left brave women

https://youtu.be/X1FJqkAtDcc ATC audio of a West Point C182 that violated the NYC TFR. This is why we can't have Aero Clubs...

Why would you seek accommodation to remain part of an organization that is actively sanctioning and promoting use of something that spits in the face of god? Even if they accommodate your individual objections, they are pushing it on the masses that don't share your enlightenment, and that is the work of the devil. Seeking individual religious accommodation does nothing to redeem the organization that you would continue to be a part of. Seems you're pursuing exemption for the sake of money/safety/comfort at the expense of your righteousness. Wouldn't the righteous thing be to resign rather than seek accommodation? I'm sad that I'll never live to see it, but it gives me great comfort to know that religious delusion is gradually losing out to the true enlightenment of reason, and though it will never disappear altogether, my great-great-great grandchildren will live in a world where it is so utterly insignificant as to be meaningless. Praise god.