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Just increase the flow from Texas A&M, problem solved.

Why does the USAFA even exist anymore? It’s an expensive way to make an officer and I can’t see any notable difference in quality between the rotc/ots/academy grads. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

How else are you going to create socially awkward officers, with an overwhelming sense of superiority, who wear huge rings and tell Academy stories for the first 10 years of their careers [emoji51] Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Can you point me to a pro-Putin stance articulated by a Republican? I am not a Republican, so I won’t defend what they say, just curious what you’re talking about because it does not check with counterpoints I’ve seen to the “cult of agreement without debate” that is our UKR policy. I personally think it unwise to pauper ourselves by enriching the corrupt dictatorship in Ukraine. I appreciate the coldhearted calculation of using Ukrainian people to degrade the Russian military, our historic strategic adversary. And I appreciate the Machiavellian political ruse of pretending this issue presents only the binary choice of supporting Putin or protecting democracy; it has worked on several dumb people and I do like effective TTPs. But ultimately I cannot support what we’re doing in UKR because I don’t believe we can afford it. And I don’t think the geniuses who oversaw 20 years of GWOT are capable of doing this one correctly. I hope you don’t mistake this viewpoint as pro-Russian aggression.

10 Jan was when commanders found out. That message above is referring to when results are released to the public which is 7 days later. "Late Jan" could very well be considered 17 Jan. Either way it seems like a long time if they already have the names

Sorry dude, you communicate like a frustrated toddler. If I had to bet on who's just the random person on the forum, and not an educated officer with leadership experience, you are probably my top guess. And considering we have Biff here now, that's saying something 🤣😂.

You know there is still a South Korea, right? You have the most curiously simplistic view I've seen in a long time. That's not to say the argument against Ukraine aid is necessarily simplistic. It's mostly just you.

Then don’t equate them. You can be for ending financial/military support to Ukraine and not be pro-Putin or pro-Russia invasion of Ukraine. Just like if someone was against the invasion of Iraq didn’t mean that they were pro-Saddam Hussein.

One of my favorite books. I miss Tom Clancy. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Do you really equate being against giving Ukraine tens of billions of dollars (on top of the previous tens of billions) as being pro-Putin?

Thanks for the inspiration to type that into YouTube. Amazing trip down Memory Lane!

This. Break, Break You're gonna be fine. Seriously look at what @Springer said too. You get to see titties in civilian helos also, those 6 fingered bithes don't care what you fly. Neither should you. Helos are fun but. For real.

I have no idea what I was typing a few nights ago. Edit: That was SrA Biff. I was hanging with some family and he came by to say hello. He's upset that you cant buy penthouse on base anymore.

You know how the Russians bill their IADS construct as more the total sum of the whole vs the sum of its parts? Big telephone pole systems in the support zone acting as arsenal sinks to throw arrows at a wide array of data linked sensors in the battle and disruptions zones and from the ground achieve true airspace denial?…. Well ours do that too… it’s just NATO thought it out further in making sure the systems actually did it instead of just print it on a pamphlet to be later handed out by strippers at an arms bazaar. I don’t know what you guys are getting all excited about though, this is clearly all fake news spread by the western political arm of media disinformation. Remember the Ukrainians are wholesale losing this war… Vlad said so. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s a tough development. Sorry to hear that. Whatever you end up doing, know that the Air Force needs studs at every AFSC. You can make a giant difference in mission and morale by your competence and leadership in support roles. Quick story…WW2 kicks off and my grandpa, his cousins, and brother all left their town of Lakeside, SD (population N/A because it was just an incorporated farming community) to sign up. My grandpa only had a 9th grade education and wouldn’t be accepted by any service but the Merchant Marines as a baker. He was very disappointed but did his best. Fast forward to 1944 off the Philippines when Typhoon Cobra hit (3 destroyers sank, over 700 killed). From his rodeo background, he was one of the only guys that wasn’t violently ill and ended up relaying the orders to help control the ship and save the crew. He was also the POC from the ship to Admiral Halsey and was personally cited for heroism and exceptional performance by Halsey after the typhoon. The whole point of this story is that I don’t know if there can be much more disappointment after Pearl Harbor than being told you’re too dumb to do anything in the military and can only bake bread for the Merchant Marines. However, you never know when your number will be called. Even if that had never happened, baking bread and providing good food for men is a worthwhile and important role that you should be proud of. Whatever you end up doing, it is also a worthwhile role and an honorable profession that deserves your best effort.

For the record, TWO evil ones were promoted.

Dude there are complications to EVERY military conflict. South Korea is still independent and flourishing. Libya was stopped from pursuing nukes. Kosovo like you said ultimately got our way. GW1 and the liberation of Kuwait was a clear success. I view GW1 separately from events after 2002. My point stands, “zero success” post-ww2 is hyperbole. If we’re going to have an honest discussion, it starts with being objective.

We’re not batting zero. Every single geopolitical relationship/crisis is not exactly the same and easily summed up with a bumper sticker slogan 🤦‍♂️; unfortunately that’s all some people have the brainpower to process. They are called transactional relationships. These transactions are the very foundation of international politics, especially between countries with little in common. KSA is a counterbalance to Iran; they hate each other. I spent several months in Riyadh and their military guys reminded me daily. Not to mention they essentially are OPEC. Pakistan gave us overflight rights then stabbed us in the back hiding UBL. Egypt has flailed wildly back and forth, but again - overflight. Look at some of the countries we’ve sold Vipers to just to keep a security partnership foothold in the region. Are you really arguing in favor of isolationism? Yeah, that’s worked out well in the past. Let’s just pull back completely annd everything will work out great 🥴.

Im not equating them, but unfortunately I’ve watched a few friends go deep down the path of equating Ukraine support to love for Hunter Biden. If we’d accurately poll people on three things - Ukraine apathy, Biden family hatred and Putin apologism - there would be a lot of overlap on the venn diagram. Maybe “pro-Putin” was a bit strong. R/R with “Putin apologist.”

Unfortunately the front runner for the nomination is on record praising the man repeatedly. Clips are easy to find. The faction I refer to are his loyal supporters who blindly support every radical claim; fortunately mainstream politicians are smart enough not to take that stance. I would rephrase your claim of “using” the Ukrainians to simply state that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, or ally. We spend far more on way less than helping to attrit the strength of our second largest geopolitical foe, one whose recent land-grabbing has scared many European nations into action. There’s plenty of room for discussion on how to support them and how much is too much. Outright dismissal of their cause because of some corruption in the government is laughable. We’ve given aid to countries like KSA, Pakistan, Egypt and a host of others for years. I’ve been TDY to places that deal only in cash and I’m certain as soon as I left some on-base offices they started handing it around. It’s a convenient excuse to drum up now when it’s been largely tolerated for decades.