17D_guy
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I know I'm one of the few liberals on here, but if you watch what Portland does to the rest of Oregon, it's the same thing. "We want a high speed rail line from the rich part of town to downtown Portland." Rest of OR - "WTF, no." Portland (and the leftists): "Too bad, it's green so here's a state tax on it." I don't have time to read the article, plus I'd need to find something on the other side and/or more balanced, but paying for illegal adults who aren't enrolled in some kind of citizenship program and making progress on it...wtf? Doubly so if they're getting paid in cash so those taxes don't even get to come out. I say all that and I was stationed at Vandenberg and had an apartment right across the street from the strawberry fields in Santa Maria. I'd wake up when those dudes had been out there for hours and watch them run to pick fruit. Hardest working people I've ever seen in my life. I was in little Mexico (west side of town) and never had any issues. Even the roughest looking punks were generally nice. Lots of families in my area. YMMV.
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https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/13/portugal-f-35-plans/ We'll see if they follow through.
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Boomer is a cunt, go figure. 😆🤣
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I'm telling you what was reported as the reason.
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PACT act passed since then which opened requirements for additional services/claims.
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Or probationary, which has zero to do with performance or how long you've worked. But I guess all the civ's are poor performers, or that one guy one time did fraud for a long time, so it's worth it. Also, VA just announced cutting 15% of the work force without any impact to care or services. Guess that's going to be just as successful as these tariffs.
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I keep zooming in to check, but they look real.
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Thanks forgot about that as well. Had a buddy that took it, but he was done and is making a ton doing cyber stuff outside. I guess that's why I have such a visceral reaction to the other stuff going on, this time period sucked so much. Don't forget PRF's for Capt. Was a ton of fun working joint and the Squids getting pissy because I didn't know how the promotion system worked. As always, fuck the Navy.
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1 person committing fraud, for how many man hours of bullshit dealing with now. Seems like a poor investment/ROI.
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In addition to what @Biff_T said, they also got rid of those non-promotable majors...like 200 of them with like 90 days notice? I can't remember the timelines. My boss got the shove, but he was a supreme dirtbag so no love lost there. I asked him what he was going to do, and he said, "Drive big rigs, I don't want to be responsible for anybody." Which explained soooooooooooooo much. You'll get the ole' phrase "do more with less" a lot, a "focus on efficiency" as we "transition to a whole warfighter/airmen concept." Which just means Personnel, Finance, and MSG will help you even less, additional duties will come back with a vengeance. Probably lose Sq. orderly rooms again. That time really fucking sucked. I retired in 2020 and it seemed like the AF was finally getting back to being itself after 18 years. I enlisted in 1999. Oh, I would also say it's probably 2 years away. That was the lag from 2008 recession to the Tea Party bullshit, to the RIF's.
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So on the email summary to everyone's supervisor, Elon. This is all anecdotal, but maybe provides some color. Wife obviously got the email and was told they need to provide responses. She works in a SCIF/SAP spaces. So she asked how her, and her subordinates can respond but not provide too much data so that there isn't a classification issue but putting all the emails together; classification through compilation. So she had to ask her boss, who had to ask group. The whole time her employees are stressed because the guidance is unclear and the timeline is short. People going on leave the next day, all that. End of day group comes back and says everything has to be super generic, "worked on project my supervisor assigned," "attended meeting for platform we support," etc. Much more than 10 minutes was spent on replying to this email. Now the employees are worried the generic responses are going to make them targets for RIFs. Again, anecdotal but highlights the impacts these "pulse checks" are having in important corner of the workforce with people who are good workers, but demonized for no reason.
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So how about that Oval Office meeting?
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Apparently cuz they would lie about transparency
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Tell your story and contact your reps. GOP leadership has told the reps/senators to stop holding townhalls. So ours did a tele-townhall at 2pm on a Tuesday. Heaven forbid they actually face their constituents, which to me would be the first priority of the job.
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Oh shit, Chang's back?!
