Homestar
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Some years ago I remember a Secretary of Defense removing the entire top military and civilian leadership of the Air Force in an attempt to revamp the nuclear mission. If that wasn't enough of a wake up call to missile leadership then I don't think anything will work. -
Different pot of hiring money...
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Two years ago on BODN: "Man, I can't believe the spineless leaders that took away our black shirts, friday patches, and morale meters." Two days ago on BODN: "Man, I can't believe that the spineless leaders think that giving us back our morale shirts and patches is leadership."
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Wow, the Air Force managed to fix a lot of the things that are "Wrong with the Air Force" in one swing. Bravo. Bravo indeed.
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They take the specs from the customer and give them to the engineers. I think.
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Who knows. I did, as a matter of fact hear a 3-star use the same words regarding force shaping in a base-wide brief ("breathe, relax, this won't hurt a bit") so it sounds like standard talking points from the top.
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I got no problem with thinking big, just don't go giving this guy the keys to the bus.
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I bet his Leaveweb paperwork got hung up in that new system and his supervisor just never got it.
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Easy for a retired 4-star to say -- he's probably over 62 and pulls in six figures in retirement and is completely untouched by reality.
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Is this real life? Good grief.
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Like I said, he didn't plan his exit very well. Personally, I think he should have required that the Guardian keep him name secret while he worked out his asylum requests. Apparently you have to actually be in Iceland to apply for asylum there. No way. Snowden has to look no further than Bradley "Chelsea" Manning to see what the government will do to someone that disrupts the agenda. Manning's leaks were small potatoes compared to what Snowden had. He was smart and had money. He should have been able to find someone who could make him disappear. I saw it once on Breaking Bad.
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He ended up in Russia by accident; I think his passport was revoked as he was changing planes to go to South America or something like that. He has stated multiple times that he'd rather be in a democratic country. He broke the law, certainly. Doesn't deserve to have a security clearance ever again. But sometimes laws need to be broken to serve a higher purpose. The guy who leaked the Pentagon Papers thought the same thing and never had to serve time for his leak. The scope of the NSA programs completely out of control and the American people deserved to know it.
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True story: my RFF in 2011 was due just after my PRF so I thought "Sweet, I'll just copy/paste." The RFF form looked to be the same, but was actually one or two characters per line shorter than the PRF, causing a near complete re-write.
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What's going on in Athens?
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Snowden's mistake was going public. He should have planned a better exit strategy.
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I prefer the "set it and forget it" method. I'm a buy and hold kind of guy, but I'm only really making deposits into Roth IRAs and TSP funds right now. I think the only real pro tip should be to start early and be consistent with deposits. I'm 34, get pilot pay, married with 4 kids (wife raises the kids, so no income), and have 11 years of service this spring. Here are my balances: Checking and Savings (emergency fund cash): 63K TSP: 127K My Roth IRA: 64K Wife's Roth IRA: 33K Mutual Fund account: 24K Total net worth (assets minus liabilities) = roughly 327K. I include the resale value of my two (paid for) cars in my net worth figure. I don't own a home anymore. I'm putting $1,000/month into Roth TSP right now plus 5% into the regular TSP and max out both Roth IRAs. Haven't bothered much with the mutual fund account lately. I pretty much stick with USAA for everything because it's easy, I pay for everything with a credit card, pay off the balance each month, and use the 1% cash back to pay for Christmas every year. My overall goal has been 20% of pre-tax income to savings/investments and 10% pre-tax income to church/charity. (edit to fix pilot math)
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Trust me on this: in 10 years you won't care about watching your area work. What you want to do is stash that GoPro in the corner of the flight room and record your morning stand ups. I'd love to see myself struggle through electrical fire in the Tweet and get told to "sit down" cause I was an idiot.
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Also just joined.
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Min run the stupid stuff.
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I got it from the execs today in work email. It's not on myPers yet for some strange reason.
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I thought he separated from the Air Force before 20 years anyway.
