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Also not the first time he's been hammered. He just wasn't driving this time.

How many times "what if (rules)" come up in a hypothetical contingency scenario. If its actual contingency, you make it happen. Who is the waiver authority to saving life, T-3?.../s Who is my T-3 CC because we've corrupted basic chain-of-command with endless COMREL food fights? Hey boss, looks like we are about to get cooked. Damn, if only we had crew rest to flush the base. Hey, why is your vRED overdue!

Political violence is never acceptable, it makes us look like a banana republic. Clearly both sides have nut jobs that act out. Hardly glossing over it, did we know he was from the right in the first few hours? From what I've read so far he seems like a mental patient (nude activist), that has posted many conspiracy theories. This morning I read he supported Trump and has posted some QAnon BS, so clearly NOW we now there is some kind of fringe association to the right, but most of what I have seen indicates a mentally disturbed person. Just curious did you post the same outrage when a left wing dude showed up at Brett Kavanaugh's house to assassinate him before he could vote to overturn Roe V Wade? How about when a left wing lunatic went to a Congressional charity baseball game and shot a sitting Congressman for political reasons (Steve Scalise)? And to be clear, any politically motivated attack like this, regardless of party affiliation, is just wrong. Can we just agree on that?

He's so far left that he's reached the right.

Tanker pilots who take command of tactical airlift wings and vs versa, and Phoenix crossflow airplane tourists who become squadron commanders in airframes they have 100 hours in without ever being squadron DOs. Specialization and actually being a professional in a single mission set is obviously a bad thing in AMC. That mentality has even crept into the Reserves.

The head honcho at AMC who is suggesting this is probably one of the best and most respected leaders in the Air Force. If he is so hell bent on doing this, he’s one of the few I would just trust as having his reasons. Now, what I don’t trust is middle management from Wing Leadership at McConnell and the staff not screwing up this concept, for example mission creep as you mentioned above.

One thing I don’t think a lot of people realize about your Berkeley type nut jobs is that many of them would be pretty similar to this dude if you started asking them what they believe. Yeah this wacko sprinkled in some extra right wing type garbage, but a lot of these crazies have no love for any people in our government. Nothing short of a totalitarian state that only caters to their narrow world view is acceptable to them, and people like Nancy Pelosi aren’t viewed as on their side either. In fact, the Pelosi house has been targeted several times since 2020 with some pretty nasty stuff, this one of course taking the cake. The real thing that people should be looking at here is that the political system in a place like Berkeley, CA let’s losers like this proliferate. Mental illness is not only ignored, it’s often celebrated; and drug use is essentially decriminalized, further fueling the mental death spiral of people like this to the point they feel like acting out on their deranged conspiracy fantasies.

Well it’s California, so if they follow their standard he should be back on the street tomorrow.

It’s all good as long as he didn’t go ninja’n anyone that didn’t need ninja’n.

I remembered when we were deployed we used to prank local workers and TCNs, grease toilet seat lids so they would slip if they tried to squat crap on them, or some other buffoonery. In light of reading this I sort of feel bad about that now. Imagine being coerced into modern day slavery via indentured servitude only to be humiliated and made fun of by uniformed members of a rich country that you will never hope to enter one day. I'm going to go drink some hard alcohol now. Good night.

How about a crew rest waiver? I’d rather have a tired pilot sit next to me than no pilot. Wars over….people are bored. Bad idea fairy is working overtime…..

Fifty four shades of gray he means... Anyway, the Veep was at it again earlier this week she got all exceited about yellow school buses, and now it's Venn diagrams (not kidding).

If you’ve seen some of the dollar figures per meal for deployed forces, it’s very much the old $600 toilet seat game… I won’t argue there isn’t an absolute necessity for the 3rd country guys and other local contract menial labor force because we physically can’t deploy enough people to do all those tasks. We don’t have the people. But yeah we are just kind of not caring what these companies actually do with the negotiated dollar figures once the contract is written. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

This. As long as expectations are set that's it's a contingency only thing to train for, sure. However, the retards that infest AMC as "leadership" will make sure it becomes a normal currency due to a pilot shortage.

Damage to the main shaft at 6969 Collins Ave, Miami Beach. Engineers aren't sure how long it will stay erect and residents are ordered to pull out. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article267933272.html

Somebody's gotta work mids.

Starts that way. But then you have to practice it before you do it in wartime. Then the practice becomes a currency. Then it just becomes standard operating procedure to make the pilot shortage seem less severe.

I wouldn’t mind seeing a Crenshaw vs AOC duel. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bill Maher just described the political climate in the country as a Cold Civil War and I think that might be really appropriate. Like a Cold War, the violence is minimal, and often by proxy. But the contempt both sides of America have for each other right now would certainly indicate we are not in a period of peace and cooperation.

It can’t be human trafficking if everyone supervising them is trained via CBT to spot human trafficking. Nothing to see here!

The former but I'd still login and verify. The latter is a legit error that occurred last year too and they still haven't fixed.

Yes, you did just drop the other shoe. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, (if different from the usual). Wait, this will play out as usual, with the left saying something must be done with the "Right wing MAGA nuts." Yep, that's the way they roll!

But T-1 CRM!!!!!!!!!!!! save the jayhawk

No. Literally the opposite. You have to talk to the non-extremists. When the "regular" Democrats realize the descriptions of conservatives as evil and hateful (characterizations that cannot survive an intimate dialog) are made up nonsense, they will not feel like their party is "the only option for their views." I am 75% conservative, and while I despise both parties, I overwhelmingly side with the Republicans. I am certainly no Democrat. Never once voted for one. That's my point. Conservatives are spending all their time talking to each other. It's not going to fix anything. The hard work of reaching out falls to us. Is it fair? No. But if we don't fix it, who will? It's just one of the differences between conservative and liberal humans. We conserve. We defend and reinforce necessary systems. Liberals identify failings and bring attention to them. Neither side can succeed without the other, but not neither side will interact. Conservatives abandoned academia and government after the 60s. College got stupid, but conservatives shrugged. "The college kids will grow out of that when reality hits them." How'd that work out? Yup. Not easy to go against a 24 hour news cycle or social media outrage machine. But what is your alternative? It's not getting better, and now the conservatives are starting to do the same shit liberals do. Just look at Jan 6th. Conservatives *never* used to riot. Absolutely. A private conversation where you can ask questions and exchange opinions. Shack. It's amazing how far you can get in a conversation simply by doing nothing but asking questions, especially when you are attacked. When my mother in law said that the anti-abortion crowd is evil, during a conversation where I was definitely against abortion, all I had to do was ask "do you think I'm evil? Is your daughter?" Then wait. Let the wheels turn, which can't happen if you go on the attack. Someone said the left is all emotion. 100% true. But emotion can be overruled by thought and reason, if thought and reason are invoked. My favorite Jordan Peterson quote: "in order to think, you must be able to speak." Liberals (voters, NOT activists) aren't speaking, because we aren't speaking to them anymore. If we don't find a way to talk with them about our reality, do we really think they are going to stumble upon it on their own?

"some dude from the right literally tried to kill the speaker of the house with a goddamn hammer." The media had to use this type of language in their headlines to get mega viewers/ratings. If the headline had been "Paul Pelosi Gets Hammered" nobody would have read the story and think everything is normal...

Ratner is 100% spot on here (except he should not have just singled out conservatives). And he is most-assuredly speaking about private conversations with liberals. Unless you can have a rational conversation with someone of the opposing viewpoint, nothing is going to change. Some people might be too far gone to have a rational conversation with, but from my experience, if you try to put yourself in their shoes, go have a beer together, and not talk solely politics and religion; you should have at least a little success in establishing some rapport and being able to have a productive dialogue. We also need term limits and at least one other viable party to vote for to break out of this funk in my opinion. I think the FairTax (H.R. 25) would help as well because it would abolish the IRS and curb lobbyism/tax loopholes.

Amen The left has no tolerance for discussion...it is take no prisoners, our agenda at all costs. Look no further than the events that happened to Paul Pelosi last night. It is slowly coming out that this guy believes there is a conspiracy behind the COVID vaccine and the Jan 6 investigation. Dude is clearly a nutjob but less than 8 hours after the attack a California Democrat is running an add linking the attack to the GOP. This after Nancy Pelosi's daughter CHEERED the same thing happening to Rand Paul.

Hahaha. That's funny. I've attempted legitimate conversations to discuss issues but end up getting yelled at, by friends even, because many of those on the left are driven by their emotions and feelings on issues, not actual facts. Look at any attempt for a conservative spokesperson to speak at a college campus - Liberals/leftists start yelling, screaming, and completely shut down any ability to have a discussion.

“Conservatives have to talk to liberals”. Have you seen what happens when conservative speakers show up on college campuses? You don’t get to blame conservatives for the lack of productive conversation, insults or straw-manning. Not even close. It is the Democrat party and the left that is the party of division and hate. It is intentional and designed to increase power, both personally and politically. Reference words like bigot, racist, sexist, ableist, homophobe, nazi, white supremacist, extremist, etc. I agree, the average moderate Democrat isn’t some raging member of the squad. However, you can’t ignore the progressive left’s tactics, language or policies. The Democrat party owns it all. The solution is for the Democrat party to police itself. Not continue to blame republicans.

Yet another thing many of us already knew 2 years ago. Millions of people are batting a .969 on things to do with COVID, but nope, they were all the conspiracy theorists and wing nuts. Funny how that has turned out…

You're a clown. I haven't said anything on the mandate. I for sure haven't spread "fake news" on it.

So do your part and argue in good faith with valid statistics. It's pretty simple. You lose any and all credibility (and become who you're trying to fight) by not doing due diligence in what you're sharing.

Working out a messaging strategy to reduce vaccine hesitancy isn't breaking the law. I didn't see anything in these emails that breaks the law. I see senior leaders recognizing the cultural and legal hurdles they have to overcome and trying to find solutions. Like getting the branded vaccine so that service members can't claim its the experimental version. The vaccine has definitely fallen short of what was promised, but painting any discussion of how to move people towards taking it as "breaking the law" isn't helpful to your cause.

And you lose all credibility standing behind any vax mandate a vax that clearly at best doesn’t do what it’s advertised to do and at worst is having tragic consequences for thousands of people

The apologists did not disappoint.

Well you guys usually find it by hanging out in the turbulent cloud layers after being late to the IP with less than required offload, so thought I’d bring it.

Of course Biden and Obama bin Laden (the master of division) calling for unity of sorts. Pot meet kettle. Leadership on both sides realize there are tons of mentally disturbed people (homos/trans/antifa/supremacists/etc) running around without any true support system in place. It's easy to get them spun up and some of them are willing to act out inappropriately/illegally.