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I think so. Upon graduation you’re authorized to mix and match boot colors when rehacking long gun qual.

Just the other day I was telling someone about your student that tried to do a NH recovery by rolling out and attempting to Immelmann at the top of the block.

This guy survived 57mm straight to the rectum…other dude is probably fine. https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2021/12/09/shell-shocked-bomb-squad-called-after-man-lodges-wwii-anti-tank-round-in-rectum/

I don't buy the Starlink argument at all. I should have also included that during the unexplainable light show I witnessed that night/early morning, I saw what can only be described as celestial BFM/ACM. While I never trust publicly available information about sensitive programs, the DoD only claims that three of those were built. I saw way more than 3 lights maneuvering/translating simultaneously. Weird stuff...the explanation exists, I just don't have it.

I had a similar experience just before Thanksgiving. I was flying eastbound out of Japan heading back to the states. For approximately 2 hours I observed a repeating pattern of 4 unidentified lights in an off-axis clockwise wheel. The further east we flew, the more distant and faint the lights became. The lights appeared to be quite dim when they were at the 'top' of their wheel, but were most bright at the 3-7 o'clock portion of the wheel. I was exhausted and initially thought I was seeing things (as did the guy in the right seat), until he saw them too! I'm not a space guy, so it was quite the feeling to see something that I could not explain.

“The Department's COVID-19 vaccination efforts will leave a lasting legacy…” I bet it will, and I’m sure we have not yet seen the ramifications of such efforts.

No way in hell I’m giving the USAF my OnlyFans subscriber content for free.

Totally agree! Nothing says non-combatant evacuation operations like AGR-20s coming off the rails of the AC-17 Globe-Swatter before swooping in to pick up a bunch of TCNs. I kid, but I have to poke fun at our institutional overuse of the word kinetic.

PDF Page 534, Taken from https://armedservices.house.gov/ndaa. Quoted above may have been an amendment prior to agreement.

NDAA 2023 authorizes service secretaries to approve an increase to the flight pay cap from $1000/mo to $1500/mo. Additionally, authorizes bonus yearly cap increase to $50k/yr.

Ya, the US really screwed the pooch on that one. I guess they forgot to consider the B-21 public unveiling event when appointing the 2nd highest ranking military official late last year. Rookie move.

I have about as much SA on the B-21 program as the average Joe. That said, I found the reveal to be quite anticlimactic. I’m sure it was an extremely important day for the folks working on this thing, and those involved are probably quite proud this evening. Here is to hoping that it lives up to all of the chest-thumping narration we heard tonight.

Unpopular opinion…it doesn’t matter. We didn’t stand up an entirely new force just to provide the navigationally impaired with directions from their flat to the local watering hole.

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What was the recourse for this “problem?”

I didn’t fully clarify my statement. There were a ton of humble, willing to teach FAIPs there. They certainly outnumbered the minority I called out earlier. At the same time, though, that place was one of the weirdest installations and most toxic environments I have ever observed. I have never seen a more wrongfully entitled, borderline affluenza-like afflicted group of lieutenants in my life. You’d think these dudes flew night 1 of Desert Storm based on their attitudes and outward disdain to their future flight leads. Then again, I’m preaching to the choir. Thank you for your service.

I’m betting be was never a UPT IP. Or if he was, definitely a Laughlin FAIP. Some of the biggest douchers with chips on their shoulders were to be found there.

I think 18X to 11X makes perfect sense, and it is definitely a program that should exist beyond just a trial run. I disagree regarding ADSC. Maybe not a full 10 year penalty, but there has to be something.

Serious question…are all white people the same? If so, I understand the argument for selectively recruiting non-whites. Last I checked, though, we all have our own DIVERSE life experiences prior to service. If there are illegitimate barriers to entry into military service, we should get rid of them. Arbitrarily discriminating based on race or gender (yes, I went there…there’s only 2 and it was assigned way prior to birth) is bullshit. Saying that all white people are the same is just as much bullshit.

It’s a continent, not a country. I’m tired of the CT mission/narrative because it’s an unwinnable mission. Fuck it…let them have the desert.

Started for the parachute save, stayed for the hilarious noises and gymnastics dismount after crashing.

If the data is true, I don’t find the graphic surprising. It makes sense, to me, that the most vulnerable individuals would do everything possible to mitigate their risk of death. The unfortunate reality is that the vaccines are marginally effective and the chance of infection remains high.

The Koreans, VC, Cubans, Taliban, and al-Qaeda may disagree with you there…

And what the fuck does this diatribe on pro-American democracy have to do with blowing a pipeline?