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Understand that your husband's number 1 priority during UPT must be UPT. He'll be spending 80+ hours per week on that, especially near the beginning. That won't leave much time for staying in touch. If "long distance relationship" means 1 long phone conversation on the weekend, y'all will be fine. If "long distance relationship" means multiple phone calls and texts per day, y'all will probably have a bad time. You being busy with school is probably for the best. Him being a non-drinker is a non-issue as long as he's cool with being the DD. Good luck to the both of you!

Those factors certainly don't help. That said, if I was still flying 135s, I and my millions of dollars of training would still be in the Air Force. I never even considered remaining in to fly MQ-9s. 0 AGL 8.0s with no TDY or deployments, fuck that.

Plenty of dudes nonvolled to RPAs are getting out due to "aircraft type/mission".

AMC would be healthy on pilots if they could have back all the people dragooned into MQ-9 GCS's. I'd have stayed in the Air Force if I was still flying KC-135s. Now, I'm happy as a contractor. I can't imagine the amount of money it would take to get me to come back. Probably about the same as what you'd have to pay me to remarry my exwife.

The trick to summoning the hot ones is to grab the Ship's Wheel at the Viking.

Could someone define "VEO" for me?

I guess things have changed since the 80s and early 90s. I'll take the downgrade for GK.

I was an Army Brat for 16 years, with most of those years spent living on base. I literally never once saw this happen.

The AO would likely insist that you call the hotel and get a copy of your bill because the hotel will be able to provide that.

Are there any significant policy disagreements between her and DeBlasio? NYC would be trading in a generic liberal with low approval ratings and lack of charisma for ... a generic liberal with low approval ratings and a lack of charisma. What would be the point?

For the sake of argument, let's say that Hansen and Manning each caused the same amount of damage. I'd still support a lighter sentence for Manning. Hansen knowingly caused harm for money. Manning thought she was doing the right thing (obviously she wasn't). The law accounts for motive when assigning punishments, and it usually accounts for mental illness as well. I can't imagine there would have been much uproar if Manning had originally been sentenced to 7 years. If Manning had been found guilty of "aiding and abetting the enemy", 35 years would have been fine. But she wasn't. Further, I think Obama did everyone a favor by making this problem go away. The next President doesn't have to deal with hysterical conspiracy theorists making Manning into a martyr if she manages to succeed with another of her suicide attempts. The taxpayers are also off the hook for a sex change operation. The law was upheld and a criminal punished with a reasonable sentence that accounted for mitigating circumstances while also being severe enough to deter future leakers. I'm ok with this result.

Pollard, Hansen, & Ames betrayed the US for money. Manning is a mentally ill dipshit who should have lost her clearance well before she did her damage.

The sailor in question got 1 year in jail, Manning got 35. Some quick googling indicates that the normal sentence for similar crimes to Manning's is 3 years or less. 7 years in Leavenworth and a dishonorable discharge seems like enough to me.

This is a hilariously accurate depiction of civilian life. I'm not in the airlines, but do a flying job for comparable pay. When I look back on Big Blue I think the same thing I do about my ex-wife: why the fuck did I ever put up with that?

MFLAC, call A&FRC for contact info. They're confidential, don't keep records of any kind and most people I know who've used them (including myself) would recommend.

Excellent point on the 26th amendment, I had not considered that. I'm not sure how much a difference it would make. Casualties in Vietnam were a lot worse. Vietnam was on the news every night, and you didn't get 200 other channels to pick from. I'd bet a week's paycheck that 50% of American's don't realize we're still in Afghanistan. I think you could run the Afghan War like we're running it now with a draft. I don't think you could run the Afghan War like we ran it in 09-12 with a draft.

I've never understood this argument. The draft didn't stop us from getting into Vietnam.

I bought a convertible as a Lt waiting to start UPT. After UPT, I sold the convertible to buy a wedding ring for my fiance. 5 years down the road we got divorced and now I have neither a wife nor a convertible. I miss that car.

This is the correct answer.

If amendments are your thing: In 2017 the GOP is exactly one state legislature short of being able to call an Article V convention.

Does it come with a sweet Rebel Alliance flightsuit and helmet like the guy in the back is wearing?

Just Portales being Portales.

I think the popular vote argument would hold more water if the candidates had been trying to win that. Campaigns to win the popular vote would look very different than campaigns to win the Electoral College vote. The GOP just got handed the Presidency, both Houses of Congress, 33 Governorships, unified control of 32 State Legislatures and partial control of 5 more. If that isn't a mandate, the word does not have meaning.

2004 was much closer in the electoral college. It was a while ago, but we didn't know the final result until the morning after the election since Ohio was too close to call on Election day. Had Kerry eked out a win in Ohio, he'd have pulled off the Electoral College win while losing the popular vote. There was a real possibility that we were going to get a 269-269 tie, which would have been decided by a state delegation vote in the House (which the Republicans would have won handily). I imagine if Bush had won that way, after effectively winning at the SCOTUS the election prior, the left in this country would have imploded before drowning in their own tears.