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It’s all hindsight - of course it’s easy to sit here and think about all the negative shit as a disgruntled 10+ year vet. You also had a lot of good times and did awesome shit. Tell kids those stories and let them go have the same awesome experiences amidst the bullshit. News flash, there’s bullshit in every avenue of life. I don’t envy the 23 yr old Delta FO a single bit. I couldn’t give two fucks how senior he’ll be at 65, how much $ he’ll make over a career, etc…he will never have the badass experiences I’ve had, he’ll never go to awesome places I’ve been, he won’t know the camaraderie that combat brings. I acknowledge he also won’t ever know the pain, the hardship, and the struggles. No ragrets - do it young guys.

Gearhog you don't understand, Mark1 says no forced vaccination campaign ever happened and we're conspiracy theorists. Delete this post, ignore the content, and send a BLM donation stat to attone for your #wrongthink.

LOL what fence did we keep them within? Looks like all we've done is create more wolves and spread them all over the ME and Africa. We probably created a few more when we abandoned them like a crazy ex in the middle of the night. Sure we haven't had another 9/11 or WTC bombing yet...until we do. At a cost that we have yet to fully understand. I guess we could have kept them going indefinitely, that seemed to be working swimmingly. It's an easy argument to make because "nothing happened," but we'll never know if nothing would have happened anyway. These wars have weakened us big time, both is manpower, money, etc... We have a service that fewer and fewer want to go into and we have an aged/tired force, and we have less money to sustain it. I won't get into specifics on here, but there are some major issues that are on our doorstep that are huge deals, with no good/quick fix. I won't say their sacrifice was for nothing, especially those in the beginning. I will say shame on our leaders for not letting our military do their thing, quickly and violently and getting out. Hindering us when we could have had OBL early on and not closing up shop when we did get him. Both times I was there, we were so fucking hindered by ROE, that I know we got people killed due to our own self imposed handcuffs. All to avoid "creating more terrorist." As if what we were doing wasn't already doing that by being there. When your EA is a star with a team of scared JAGs, that need a feed and get to dictate the weapon used...we're fucked. I know, I know...I "can't see the big picture." Funny enough, if you pushed back and asked what that big picture was, or heck, even asked something as simple as what are our objectives, you could never get a clear answer.

I was wrong about the whole vaccine piece. All a scam. My kid never got it though and never will.

Tell that to everyone that died in Afghanistan for nothing.

Wasn’t ever in heavies. But in the fighter world, Cgo’s are expected to learn the mws and tactics first and foremost. And ensure the bar is up to snuff secondarily. if you didn’t know 3-1 inside outside backwards and forwards in short order during your first ops assignment, you were fucking up.

Seymour will be training EX as part of E. Kingsley will be an F-35 FTU along with Ebbing

Prenup.

Save every document with your name on it. Document every medical visit. Do partial DITY moves. Randomly buy pizza and beer for the Es.

Talk less, listen more. Get in the vault. Time in the market beats timing the market.

You sound unhinged and you are most certainly all over the intellectual honesty map. I as a conservative do not agree, support or condone MTG's actions...at all. That being said her actions do not wipe the slate clean on the Hunter investigation. You are trying to insinuate everyone is laser focused with an obsession on Hunter when the real issue is did Joe through Hunter commit a crime. You have repeatedly referred to the "evidence" so lets baseline a few issues of fact, please tell me what is not true. In my opinion all of these facts tie together and paint a much bigger picture that calls for an investigation. 1. The Trump Dossier was fake. 2. Hillary Clinton paid for the Trump Dossier. 3. The FBI Knew the Dossier was fake and that Hillary paid for it. 4. The FBI used the Dossier as a basis to pursue FISA warrants on folks in the Trump administration. 5. The Hunter laptop was real. 6. The FBI knew the Hunter laptop was real AND had a copy of it. 7. The FBI sat quietly while Secretary Blinken orchestrated a memo signed by 51 "Intel Professionals" who labeled the Hunter laptop as Russian disinformation. 8. Big tech used that memo as rational to suppress the Hunter Laptop story during the election. 9. The Hunter laptop has a lot of circumstantial evidence that says Hunter promised foreign policy favors from his father in exchange for cash. Notice I said "Hunter" promised, not Joe. 10. As of yesterday the House Judiciary Committee has thoroughly tracked approximately $17M in transactions from overseas donors including China, that went to over 20 shell companies and ended up in the bank accounts of many Biden family members...including his grandchildren. 11. At least one of the Chinese donors has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party. 12. 150 of those transactions were flagged by U.S. banks in SARs filed with the U.S. Department of the Treasury. 13. The $17M identified by the House Judiciary Committee is from one bank, they are working through the records and flagged transactions at six more banks. There is at least one report that says the total is $100M. 14. The FBI has been approached by multiple sources that say the pay for play scheme is real. 15. The FBI tried to suppress a 2020 unclassified FD-1023 that outlines the pay for play scheme. 16. Tony Bobulinski came forward and gave multiple interviews saying her personally met with Joe Biden. Biden denies that meeting, someone is lying. 17. In 2021, Hunter Biden repaid more than $2 million in past-due taxes after receiving a loan from one of his private attorneys. 18. One of the reasons Hunter owed unpaid taxes is because tried to deduct sex club membership and prostitutes by classifying them as business expense. 19. The purchase of a weapon by Hunter Biden while using drugs was a felony. 20. IRS Whislteblower Joseph Zielger alleges investigators AND assigned attorneys, which included DOJ tax attorneys, all agreed to felony tax evasion charges and misdemeanor charges related to Hunter Biden's 2017, 2018 and 2019 returns. 21. IRS Whislteblowers testified DOJ attorneys stopped the IRS investigators from seeking a warrant for Hunter Biden's Virginia storage unit then notified Hunter's Defense Lawyers that the government wanted to search the unit. 22. David Weiss wrote a official letter stating that he has “ultimate authority” to bring charges against Hunter Biden in any jurisdiction, and he said Friday that this is still the case. 23. IRS Whistleblower Gary Shapley testified he was in a meeting with David Weiss and Weiss told him that he was not the deciding person in whether or not charges were filed. "He told us that D.C. U.S. Attorney had declined to allow charges, he told us that he had requested special counsel authority from Main DOJ.” Rep. Jordan: “And was denied?” Mr. Shapley: “That's correct.” 24. Gary Shapley captured the meeting in a memo which was endorsed by his supervisor who was also in the meeting. Either Weiss or both Mr Shapley and his supervisor are lying. In most neutral investigations the above facts would at least raise the possibility that something illegal happened. If there is even a 1% chance the President committed a crime shouldn't we look? I think we have a right to know and when you look at the situation in totality and have questions, that doesn't make you a nutjob conspiracy theorist. It is way past time for a special prosecutor.

This stuff is definitely maddening, but it’s easy to make the big things the boogeyman while ignoring the small issues. Plenty of local BS at the squadron level that gets ignored by leaders clamoring about how bad CSAF-level decision are. Control what you can control. For those still in, we aren’t about to fix Pentagon-level crap. Look around your squadron, take a look in the mirror, and go fix some shit. Plenty of people in your charge are depending on it.

There's some good wisdom on here, and I cannot thank you folks enough for steering me on a good path thus far. Curious to know what you wish someone told you years ago. Whether it pertains to flying, Air Force, or life in general.

We cant just point the finger at civilian leaders. The DoD writ large has a "can-do" response to basically anything. We need to stop that. The military hammer can't fix every problem...but we need to be clear on that. How many times did we "turn the corner" in Afghanistan? How many times did we send over-optimistic reports from people who should have known better to people who should have known better?

If you go 11H Co Pilot: Congrats you have huge nuts!!! Now...Dont hit powerlines, or fly directly into a mountain. Use your GD radar altimeter dumbass! Admit if you dont see something. Speak up if a target is moving and its not suppossed to be. Just because you're settling with power, doesn't mean you stop flying the aircraft, same with loss of tail rotor effectiveness. Once again, watch out for powerlines, towers and mountains. Don't continue flying into an updraft taking us into wx, lower the collective. No, we will never have rockets again on USAF helicopters. I don't like it any better than you do lol. Sorry, nothing directed towards you amigo. Lol. Oh yeah, you will be the red headed stepchild in the USAF aviation community until people need you. Lol. Nomatter what type of helo you fly. Not sure about CVs though? I dont trust those dudes /s. They fly faster than 200 knots. They cant be true giant nutted mouth breathers at that speed, too much air to the face. Edit: Most chicks dont consider you cool. You're kinda around the garbage collector scale on both smell and respect amongst your fixed winged peers in the aviation world, but my God a pair of tittes looks spectacular at ten feet.. on the other hand, girls at the beach and lake appreciate your service!!! Especially the drunk ones.

That's how they keep those Russian war machines running. Lol. Chinese advanced composites.

It wasn't for nothing. I'll come off the top ropes on anyone who says differently. For 20 years we kept the wolf on his side of the fence, and he didn't even THINK about making it to our front door. It was expensive in blood and treasure in modern historical terms, but unprecedently cost effective and unbelievably useful in long view historical terms. Not only did we secure our own and our allies safety for 20 years, we put the ever living fear of God in anyone who would challenge our military strength. More importantly, we can back up that fact. Unfortunately it feels like a waste, and I understand that...thoroughly...I was there, but it wasn't wasted. The mental and emotional health of the men and women who did the heavy lifting hinges on embracing the facts, not the feelings, and is far too important to simply throw out: It was all for nothing. That's a lie. Stop propagating it.

Bashi identifies as non-binary you bigot

That’s a normal experience when first using RDS on pistols, happens to everyone. It can help to still pick up the front sight first (helps you find the dot) and then transition 100% to the dot before you would be lining up the rear sight. Sounds like your “defeating the purpose” of the red dot, but you’re not, it’s just an intermediary training crutch. You’ll be subconsciously finding the red dot immediately in no time. It’s so much faster than iron sights on initial and follow up shots, especially on multiple targets.

Enjoy life when you're young and not broke either physically, mentally or financially!

Did it every single TDY and have some very fond memories. Its all predicated on the douchebag career bobs, that also happen to wear wings, never finding out about your shenanigans. I think it matters more if they have something. But prenups don't stop herpes.

Does a prenup do anything if you don’t have anything?

That is why I tell normal young people to seriously think about wearing the uniform I used to wear.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/19/cluster-bombs-biden-liberalism-war/ Some of us just want the self-righteousness to stop. Is it so much to ask?

I always knew the AF/DoD didn’t care about me. I lived with that during the numerous deployments that achieved very little. I at least had fun with the bros. It is somehow worse that we now are deploying people for 6 months to train. It grates on me far worse than any combat deployment ever did. Just when you think it can’t get worse, the military finds a way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hold up, point of order: The upper and upper-middle classes self-isolate from military service all on their own, no compelling needed. So don't go putting that on us W2 serfs/transactional military members, and certainly not our progeny. As I've said before, the temerity of acussing veterans of sabotaging recruitment. Ingrates. The DoD can take their shameless victim blaming, roll it into a fag, and fox2 it up their own six. To wit, New England isn't pulling their fair share of the blood spilling from where I sit, go lecture them about it. And I digress.

COVI-control-grab round-two - ugh

This thread is wild and baffling. Military service is good for the person and it's good for the country. I encourage my kids to join. I have three and I think one will. I told them the same thing my dad told me, do four years and if you're having fun keep going. Otherwise get out. The more we isolate the military from all classes of the population the more we will see the political-mil issues we see today.

It's not over. Yesterday, the Joe Biden Justice Department petitioned the Supreme Court to hear its case and reinstate its authority to mandate COVID vaccines (and future vaccines) for Federal employees.

Ole 500 must have created a new account.

All while impeaching and charging President Trump with little to no evidence, total hypocrisy or based on complete fabrications. The truth will come out just like it did on the Russia hoax, the laptop, the covid shenanigans, the teachers unions, the BLM movement, various police shootings, etc. And when it does, the loudest defenders of the Bidens on this forum will go completely silent just like they have every other time.

Nerd. I weep for the parents of this creature. Thank you for that diversity line. Lol

ah you're right officially he is not in the game. but unofficially he is the primary touch point to funnel money into his family's coffers and is the link to "the big guy". he's fair game. the biden family crime syndicate is totally corrupt and selling out American interests to the highest bidder.

General Chang is a real account, and has stars on his shoulders. He is a personnelist. Bashi Chuni is Chang’s troll account where he pretends to be a pilot. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So let me understand this, I was called a Baby Killer, by even friends, during Vietnam. Now, if I’m a present Alphabet person, I can have everyone else pay for my Abortion, Transition, etc. and I can avoid Deploying, let alone Combat Tours. And not be called Baby Killer.

That dude looks/talks like a carreerist, how'd he end up in the CAP? Lol It's crazy how worked up people get about killing unwanted babies. We should be able to kill our children if we dont want to raise them lol. Killing helpless unborn children is the battle cry for SJWs. How ironic. Fucking idiots.

CFI of the year.

Story time.

In 2010 my son was excited to join the military and do badass stuff I was doing. By 2023 he is not joining, and instead on a pre-Med scholarship. None of his friends are joining. It's a tragic loss for our nation; he's a state champion athlete and top 2% scholar with no qualifying issues, whose dad was pushing him towards joining. But it's a shit deal to join after we wrecked a generation in IZ/AFG for nothing. Our humiliating exit from wars which defined his youth was decisive. He thinks the government will send you to die and never let you win. He's not wrong.

Some of you have undoubtedly seen this 8 year old YouTube masterpiece/catastrophe, but I just discovered it today and feel it is a solemn duty to leave it here:

Lol, I am moderated indefinitely by HeloDude, so this will be my last post. I posted on this thread specifically to show the ridiculousness of this forum. Anybody with common decency who isn't part of the far right should disagree with MTG's shock tactics and disgusting behavior within the US Congress. The fact that none of the regulars on this forum will concede this point is indicative of the Republican Party's rapid ethical degradation. The Republican Party has death spiraled into a party that no longer represents true conservatism. The twisted version of conservatism that MTG, Boebert, Gaetz, Trump, and several others represent has nothing to do with traditional values and institutions. Republicans are electing people who rape, cheat, and perform actions in Congress that continue to erode the dignity of the US Government. Hunter Biden is not an elected official. He does not represent the Democratic Party in any official capacity, yet he has been the target of Republicans for five years. Even after he took a plea deal, Republicans continue to obsess over him. Republicans then celebrate the public display of his nude photos, and MTG even sent them via e-mail to her constituents. None of you see anything wrong with that? If someone is suspected of crimes (not even charged), then it is now OK to show their nude photos to the entire public within the US Congress and via e-mail? That type of worldview is insane. Republicans hate Hunter Biden so much they are gleeful when humiliating him over and over again. This is what "highly educated and highly trained professional pilots and navigators" like to see in their politics? If this forum is representative of U.S. Air Force rated officers, then I weep for the future of any diverse officers who find themselves under the command of a far right lunatic.