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some things don't need data. it's called common sense. since the beginning of time children have been raised with a mother and father. *cue you googling tribes that raised the kids together* look at the plight of black americans and the percentage of black children born single mother household. *BUT RACISM!* cute. God made the institution of marriage to raise children. this country was founded on christian principles and it has since strayed into anything but those. THAT is the root cause. "BUT THATS NOT MY TRUTH!!!" and no i will not entertain any arguments that say the US was NOT founded on christian principles. the other problem is adults have not acted like adults. the safe space generation was never told "no". kids can't just identify as whatever they want. there's reality regardless of how someone IDENTIFIES. we've placated the lowest common denominator for too long instead of telling them NO.

Never ever pay off the GTC out of pocket. The naughty list should be a red flag on someone’s slide for finance … not for you.

I think you mis-understand the argument. It's not about Christianity. It about the moral and ethical foundations of the country. Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian values, principles, and morals. In the same way as a house, if you try and move the structure off that foundation, the whole thing collapses. Imagine Iran as a whole suddenly being forced to shift to Hindu, Buddist, or Christian values. The society would collapse. Same with America. The difference being that in America, so many people have had liberty and freedom that they paid no price for, for so long, that they don't appreciate what they have, so they are ignorant to the facts of our society's structure. There's reason Wokeness hasn't caught on in Russia, Iran, or China. Freedom and liberty, unfortunately, often result in ignorant arrogance after a few generations. So it's not about Christianity for Christ's sake, it's about Christianity because those values are the foundational structure of our country.

Religion aside, I think it’s because those other countries are doing far better at parenting: building the moral base, holding kids accountable, less kids being entitled shits with zero fucks given for authority, etc. The US has the highest rate in the world of children living in single parent homes, and by a large margin. The “nuclear family” is very important to not creating societal nightmares out of children, and our country is epically failing at this, far more than any other peer out there.

Was the US still a Christian nation when the civil war happened ? What is a Christian nation when slavery was ongoing? Was it a Christian nation when not everyone was treated equal? Was it a Christian nation when the Great Depression hit and the world sucked ? The notion that the lack of Christianity and its declining popularity is the driving factor is ludicrous and just a swing a miss to try to get more followers back and get money back to the churches. Overall the world is a much better places than 50-100 years ago but there’s obviously new challenges.

I've been wondering the same thing. It's probably because they have no clue what real racism is. Oddly enough I have yet to see the gay-pride flag version of corporate symbols and logos on anything at all in the middle east commercial market. It's almost as if the big companies only believe in DEI when it's instituted in the USA. Weird, right?

I’ve been on “the list” for > $15k twice. Just laughed at them every time they said pay it off and the gov will get you back, it’s going to hurt your credit, blah blah. Carried $19k 6 months past due. No credit hit, just empty threats from FM douche bags. Don’t ever pay that shit off with your own money.

I actually really enjoy telling my civilian friends about the GTC because the idea of it is so insane to them. "wait so you mean like a company card.. right?" "wrong.. imagine if your company opened a credit card in your name, but if you use it for the wrong thing you get in massive trouble, and if your expense reports get delayed at all it dings your credit" *insert civilian friend what the fuck face here*

The same as every Christians.

If you flip on the news, one could be led to believe that trans issues are the basis of every problem in this country, no matter what "side" you're on 🙂

Short for cuckold. Either the literal (definition 1) or the sexual fetish (definition 2). Not to be confused with general consensual non-monogamy, partner sharing or open marriages, latter 3 which do not include the element of humiliation (as in definition 2) and concealment (as in definition 1) that cuckolding does. Now, in the recent social use-case in question, I believe it's morphed generally into a catch-all epithet for pointing out attitudes or behavior regarded as gratuitously obsequious or ceding. With the further implication that obsequious postures are effeminate by proxy, in the traditional gender role point of view. Opponents of the insulting party would probably regard the implication by the verbal offense as misogynist by definition. Just describing the water and the vantage point biases that may go into it, don't go shoot the epistemological messenger here. 😄

Wait -- can we still say that? Or, is that something we are supposed to celebrate?

Ditto. 210 days days for it to affect your credit and if it gets that long everyone in the AF has failed. We would just put folks on mission critical status if there voucher wasn't for the individuals failure to file. If it was on an outside agency, mission critical you went and it would be briefed at the group meetings on specifically why the outside agencies weren't doing there job.

Let me guess... he also tripped and fell, and his penis fell into one of the strippers, right? "Accidentally"? Your friend needs some mentoring.

Care to cite said nations so we can all compare notes? I’m with Bashi and the rest who see our divergence from Christian principles as a causal factor in the decline of modern US society.

I honestly think this is the main problem we are facing. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

But there is a lot of data to support the common sense.

So...ops normal for an airlift unit commanded by a crossflow turd snorkeling tanker clown?

They don't make as much, but transaction fees charged to merchants every time you swipe add up.

Are there any Democrats in the House or Senate who you would label an “extremist”, and if so, who are they?

Agree, but... The courts aren't actually breaking up families, per se. The courts are incentivizing the breakup of families, via application of shitty statute and case law. It's a low risk payoff for one of the parties that enters family court, statistically speaking. But, even then, the table is set long before the divorce petition gets filed. Social media has only poured gasoline on an already raging dumpster fire of demonizing men and devaluing family in popular culture. Hooray single moms! Pay no attention to the adult outcomes of children raised in single parent homes, much less those without fathers.

The entire GTC program is bullshit. I've had people purchase stuff while activated that if they had just pulled cash off their card (per diem) and bought it with that cash, it wouldn't have been a problem. But since they put it on the card, it's suddenly a "big deal." Insane hypocrisy in their own rules. Another incident the dude realize it, called himself out and paid it off asap...still had to do GTC misuse paperwork because big AF want's the some butts (the misuse form). I generally scoffed the form until one day the OG texts me and says someone way up the chain isn't happy with me and wants the paperwork. So in the comments I put in that the time spent filling out this form amounts to fraud, waste and abuse. Also mentioned that this is simply the cost of doing business when you force people to have/use a GTC. Brabus is right, the SQ/CC mostly holds the hammer here, but it certainly helps to have some good top cover from the OG/CC.

On the USAF side access to mental health care without retribution should be SOP for our service, especially for those in combat operations. I won't go into all the details but I fought an EPIC battle with Big Blue years ago to keep CLEARED Ops Psychs available to our aviators in the AFSOC world. I am obviously not an RPA operator but the RPA community in particular needs this service. I spent a lot of time commanding and working in their world and my battle resulted in me having to brief the Under Secretary of the Air Force when the Manpower people tried to take them away our cleared Ops Psychs. I used the following argument to successfully keep access to this critical care capability: "Sir, a lot of people underestimate and overlook RPA operators believing they are fighting the war from a box and they get to go home every night, someone insinuating that is an easy way to fight a war and it reduces the risk to their mental health. In fact, our RPA operators wage a far more personal form of combat than most and I believe it defiantly impacts mental health, especially in the long-term. I would ask you to consider this small vignette. Many of our RPA operators will observe the same house, watching the same person for a month or more at a time. As they develop a pattern of life they observe the target kiss his kids each day then send them off to school, they watch him interact with his wife, they watch him pray. The interaction while one way becomes very personal. One morning our RPA operator wakes up, has breakfast with his wife and kids, kisses his kids and walks them to the bus stop then heads off to the GCU. He sits down and five minutes later the phone rings telling him or her to kill the target. Our RPA operator professionally runs the approvals and traps and a short time later launches a missile or two that turns the target into pink mist, but it doesn't end there. Our RPA operator stays over the objective and watches the body in high definition for hours to see who responds. He or she can sees the kids face and grief when they discover their father was shredded into a lifeless mass of meat, they see his wife try to put the pieces back together and they watch as the body is eventually carried off by other friends and family. At the end of his or her shift they drive home and sit down at the dinner table where the family asks "how was your day?" How does our RPA operator possibly answer that question to his family. This form of combat is different than our other platforms that deploy. While on deployment manned operators have a separation that provides a buffer to process everything that happens, the live, sleep and eat with the camaraderie of others who are experiencing the same effects of combat, they have the time it takes to get home from a deployment to decompress and adjust, and they have time at home away from combat when their deployment is over. Our RPA operators have none of that, in fact they are so critically manned that they often can't take leave, the only get one day off per week and they do this in an endless cycle that can last for years on end. Make no mistake the person he or she killed was a bad person and they deserved to die, but we never want our warriors to lose their humanity in the process." Ultimately this argument worked and we were able to keep a TS cleared Ops Psych that was with our RPA folks everyday. I will laugh when someone plays Dos Gringos Predator Euology but I will never disparage our folks in this community, they carry a different burden than most and they do it without an end in sight. And, @Danger41 , they may be the SEALs of the Sky, but I hold the Draco's on the same regard. Most don't know the impact a little PC-12 has had on the battlefield or the commitment and cost to your community.

I’m curious as to how you guys tackle the problem. Sq/RA is my third additional duty.. I think I’d advise to create a voucher, zero out all the per diem and entitlements, just pay as if it was a one-day trip. I think this functionality might already be present in DTS.

Gaslighting