Lord Ratner

Wait... Did they consciously switch to Calibri at some point?

I can't believe it's been almost a decade. Damn I feel old 😂🤣

I could be pissed and resentful that the Air Force came after me for an accusation that every judge or JAG in the process saw as obviously absurd. It cost a lot of money and it put my family through quite a bit. Or I could be thankful that I made my stupid mistake in 2015 instead of 2007, when the Air Force was balls deep in the "women never lie about rape" narrative. I'd probably still be in jail if it had been in that era. I choose the latter. Most people on earth would cut off their right arm to be where I am professionally, financially, and medically. Timing is Everything It's better to be lucky than good There is no justice I wish I remember who the first person to share those rules with me was, because while they aren't a moral framework, they've always been a quick antidote to any potential pity-parties I've thrown for myself. You're never going to have men and women working together without fraternization. I know you know that too. I wasn't mad they went after me, but the mock indignation was pathetic.

No no, it was much more than that, but the charges were contradictory, which was my point. I see how I made it seem that way though, my bad. Short(ish) version: got wasted at a house party full of all ranks and hooked up with an E who was married. I was too. Mild petting. Really fucking dumb, I know, but pretty tame as far as the Sport of Kings™ goes. But she was married, and had been caught cheating a couple times before by her husband, so when he found out, she claimed she was raped. The investigation was... Sloppy. OSI wired my accuser to try to catch a confession, which they didn't remotely get, but for whatever reason they wrote in the summary that I confessed. So that convinced the chain of command to press charges. But then they charged me with sexual assault and fraternization, which are kinda mutually exclusive in this context. That resulted in a really disjointed prosecution that fell apart for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was the absence of rape and the lack of a confession. I'll never know for sure, but I think the judge was so pissed at the prosecution for throwing everything at the wall to see what stuck that he looked at the frat charge in a way that favored my case. Either way, I was found not guilty. Of course I admitted to drunkenly fooling around with the accuser on the stand, yet was found not guilty. So my SqCC who married an E and my WgCC who was a well known recovering alcoholic gave me an LOR for drunken fraternization; conduct unbecoming. I get it, my conduct was rather unbecoming, but it was very clear to everyone (including my next commanders) that it was sour grapes for losing the case in court. So yeah, @illusive it could be a whole lot worse. But I still had a lot of fun in the AF, so you're probably fine. Sorry, if I write any more then Boomers' hemorrhoids are going to flare up 🤣😂.

You'd be surprised, the reality was even dumber. Before my trial my commander didn't want to send me to SOS in-res. But after I was acquitted, my new leadership wanted to "make up" for the ordeal and started dumping opportunities on me. I was dangerously close to getting the notorious "SOS DG" before I told my flight commander that awards were wasted on me. I was airline bound. And by far the easiest 10 months of my career were the months OSI was trying put me in jail. It sounds crazy now, but being stationed in Europe with no job and no flying was pretty great. Edit: I forgot to add, I was prosecuted for fraternization and irresponsible drinking by a squadron commander who married an E from his squadron and a wing commander who gave seminars about his alcoholism from his CGO years. Joseph Heller had it right 🤷🏻‍♂️

Lol, that post wasn't for you. And not just because I didn't include any pictures. You're more of a "color inside the lines" guy. Nothing wrong with that, the military needs guys like you more than it needs guys like me. But our disgruntled poster here is either a "why do things that way when it doesn't make sense" type of guy, or he just expects his rewards to be a direct reflection of his efforts. The military has never and will never be a great place for those type of people.

To this point specifically, don't listen to the people telling you that you're wasting 11 years by not chasing the retirement. The money you make at the airlines can be astronomical. It will more than make up for the retirement, including the medical coverage. That being said, the guard and reserve are a great way to get to retirement after you have a seniority number at the airlines. But if the military made you as unhappy as it sounds, the garden reserve are not going to be enough of a change for you. Especially the way they are these days. To the broader topic, I was fortunate enough to figure out the game very early in my career. So I just didn't do the things that I didn't want to do or didn't enjoy doing. The catch to the whole system is that you have to do a bunch of unpleasant stuff to get ahead, but getting ahead just puts you in a position to have to do more unpleasant stuff. Some people loved the queep. Some people tolerated it. I hated it. So I didn't do it. Now ironically my Air Force career ended rather spectacularly for unrelated reasons, but even if I hadn't been court-martialed, my career was never going to go anywhere. I flew a lot, that's about it. It would have been more upsetting if I had put a lot of effort in to things I hated doing. But still. Suck it up. It's just work

This is the part where Trump's infantile ego pushes him to stupidity that will cost Republicans everything. I had hoped he could at least make it to the midterms. Oh well.

What a bunch of random people on the internet think about you is irrelevant. But I've flown with multiple guys in Kinzinger's squadron, and nobody had anything good to say about him from both before and after his time in Congress. Being perfectly honest, you seem like you would be yet another politician who has no fundamental grasp about how a huge portion of the population thinks or lives. But you've never seemed like the type to seek out power as some sort of extension of narcissism, so that already puts you at an advantage. Good luck, and thanks for participating

Gotcha. Yeah that's fucking bonkers.

So I understand the argument against based on the risk of collateral damage, but from the perspective of the maneuver itself, are there many examples of "unjustified" PIT maneuvers? You're either running from the cops or you're not. That just sounds like the pinnacle of "win stupid prizes." Or are the Arkansas troopers ramming cars 60 seconds after turning on the lights?

I have a friend who is a YouTuber who makes nothing but a bunch of woman-hating incel videos. It's not quite like this, because it's literally him reacting to the videos with a soundboard and shit. Last I checked he was making about $40,000 a month doing it putting out a couple videos a day. The hilarious part is that he is an absolute beta in his marriage and is barely manly enough to put together an Ikea couch. But because everything on the internet is fake he has thousands and thousands of lonely men who watch his videos everyday and hold him up as some sort of alpha hero. 🤣😂 He knows it's going to all come crashing down one day, but he's making an absolute killing doing it right now and I have always appreciated a good hustle.

We have some Navy dork at AA who was going around on his own volition and calling MLOA guys to harass them about their leave. Kept doing it until he was threatened by the union to stop or they'd report it to the company. Some guys just aren't happy unless they're unhappy.

You are *way* behind me in line 🤣😂

Is she dinosaur bait? I think Republicans need to give up on tough-talking women. I'll take the soft spoken Condoleezza Rice and Amy Coney Barrett over Sarah Palin, Marjorie Taylor green, Lauren Bogart, Christy noam, or Kari Lake