Everything posted by Lord Ratner
- VA Loans
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
You missed the joke
- VA Loans
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
In this scenario, the fraternization, not the publicity of the video would be the punishable offense.
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Perfectly.
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
Agreed. Maybe when the most common O-6 story about the good old days isn't about how SF used to let them drive drunk after a night at the O Club, they can start kicking people out for stupid judgement lapses.
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Raptor Gear Up at Fallon?
"Raptor, may I touch you on the throttle?"
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Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.
How much to purchase, if I may ask?
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Syria strikes underway
It just doesn't add up. We announce we are leaving Syria, which is exactly what Assad wants, so he gasses a bunch of women and kids in a town that was already surrounded?
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The Next President is...
They helped chew through the bulkheads. Both parties are broken. What they really want is power and status. That's why Democrats supported an obvious liar and apparent criminal who would keep the status quo over Bernie, and why Republicans would squander away the best legislative opportunity imaginable because of some worthless drama. Remember, these are the people who molest kids, cheat on their wives, don't pay taxes, use campaign funds for bribing pregnant mistresses (while the wife dies of cancer), solicit gay sex in airports while fighting gay marriage, expose classified material to avoid FOIA, use inside knowledge of future legislation to game the stock market, sext 15 year olds AFTER getting caught, lie about terrorist attacks, secretly support racist spiritual leaders, use methamphetamines, interns then cast them aside, think islands could tip over, need I go on? Trump is in NO WAY worse than these people, both sides. The only difference is the way he talks/tweets. And the most amazing part is that it was "dumb America" that recognized it, while the smarter, successful people (like say, military officers) somehow convinced themselves he was an anomalous threat. If you think Trump is bad, great. He is. But if you think he's somehow worse than the alternatives, you're ignoring some pretty egregious evidence.
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The Next President is...
He does, which is ridiculous since he's seen the process corrupted first-hand at the lowest levels.
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The Next President is...
Agreed. But the facts in the article are not in dispute. There FBI recommended one of their own gets fired, Sessions agreed, and obviously so did the president.
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The Next President is...
The FBI https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/andrew-mccabe-firing-recommended-fbi-deputy-director/
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The Next President is...
That was all fine and dandy until Strzok and Page were outed (by a leak, no less) as trying to arrange a secret meeting with a FISA judge, and the FBI felt it was appropriate to hide this fact from Congress through redaction. Oh, and another professional, Andy McCabe, did such a good job that even the FBI felt he should be fired and lose his pension. And Comey, that paragon of blind justice, looks worse by the day with his scheming and leaking and inconsistency. They're making it pretty damn hard to trust the "professional career lawmen."
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The Next President is...
Yes. This is one of the many, many reasons you never talk to the police if they have questions for you.
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
Let's not forget that the pilot crisis (according to the AF) started when fighter guys started quitting after being away from home at rates barely approaching what MAF guys were at a decade ago. And many of them are quitting during the most trigger happy period in the last 15 years. To go to the airlines. If a patriotic group of guys and gals are looking to go be FAIPs or regular UPT IPs to strengthen airline resumes, that's a critique on our foreign policy and military leadership, not on their devotion to service.
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Track Selects and Assignment Nights
I did both. I got far more airmanship from being a FAIP.
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Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.
Probably because people were doing full hook turns by staring at their heading bug
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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The Next President is...
Should we have air shows?
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Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.
Don't be. The numbers are certainly worse. For AD mobility they are showing a surplus. Sure didn't look like a surplus on the tanker side of things... But when you can change the denominator without any real justification, 100% is easy to achieve. Sometime between 06 and 07 being able to separate, stop loss will hit.
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Help with a Divorce
How do you know?
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The Next President is...
Which has zero bearing on what I said
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The Next President is...
What you just said is made up. The Republican memo was absolutely vetted by the DOJ and FBI.
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The Next President is...
Don Jr. (a campaign surrogate) agrees to meet with Natalia Veselnitskaya (a foreign national with ties to her government) with the express purpose of getting damaging information on Hillary Clinton (a political opponent in a national election). The implication according to some: the Trump campaign colluded with Russians in order to unlawfully change the outcome of a presidential election, bringing into question the legitimacy of Trump's presidency. ----------- Marc E. Elias (a campaign surrogate) pays Christopher Steele (a foreign national with ties to his government and the Russian government) with the express purpose of getting damaging information on Donald Trump (a political opponent in a national election). The implication according to those screaming Trump collusion: Just normal campaign work by a motivated candidate and her staff.