Everything posted by 17D_guy
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The Mother of all CGOCs
You must have a shit ton of use/lose to burn through If you're getting denied/called back this often.. You cancel your leave when you get called in right? You make them actually deny it, correct? Do you take it up your chain when it's denied repeatedly? Right vs Privilege and all that. Should you just be getting called in you can just do what someone less AF-motivated would do. Go "camping/fishing/hunting" where there's no reception. You're that indispensable the Sq can't go 3 days w/o you?
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
"The Pentagon is considering awarding a Distinguished Warfare Medal to drone pilots who work on military bases often far removed from the battlefield." https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/drone-pilots-to-get-medals/2012/07/09/gJQAF2PhYW_blog.html Well this should help even things up
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Motorcycle Riders Thread
Been at least one blue on blue, 2 with alcohol in the rider, and another with it in the cage driver. A few just seem like bad luck. That's what I can remember. Can't wait for the safety CBT for SA on a motorcycle. Lot of young guys getting whacked. Pretty sad.
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A Toast in Remembrance of the Fallen...
From wiki: I stand by my hair claim. I mean.. just look at it :
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Motorcycle Riders Thread
I am required to keep this up for my current duty and noticed the same thing. Also noticed that a lot of them were not due to rider fault. There was one that was just.. a doozy. It was marked (U) but don't know if I shoudl replicate here.
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A Toast in Remembrance of the Fallen...
Well, that's 2 down, one to go for the death hat trick. Airwolf was only cool beacuse of the hair. FACT.
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Motorcycle Riders Thread
Here at Offutt they (rent a cops) were telling the contractors coming on they would have to present their safety course cards. That got knocked down by our crusty retirees quickly. I ride with the reflective belt now. Rent a cops said I had to.
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Restoring the Draft: No Panacea
Um... good luck?
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CGO PME undergoes transformation
Usually these A-holes have either built themselves a GS job, or have one at a contractor of sorts. We just had a Col retiree here who became a high school teacher. He was a great leader.
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CGO PME undergoes transformation
I had to do one of those at my last base where the Comm Sq was in the Ops Group. I thought it was strange since I had been asked to brief the OG CC face-to-face many times as part of our ORI/UCI spin up. Not sure what I strat'd because I PCS'd before they dropped final rankings. I wouldn't have been really competitive anyway lacking "operational mission execution", BAC+, and community involvement the Operators had in buckets. In before the hate - it was an AFSPC base.
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Syria Downs Turkish F-4
That'll never work! *cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat cough*
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Syria Downs Turkish F-4
Foxnews channel is reporting they've found the bodies.
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TriCare to be Cut to Encourage Enrollment in Obamacare.
Compare us to just GS and tell me we have "free" healthcare. There's a yearly fee for Tricare now. Are you saying retired folks should after retirement step into the world with a Dec, a atta boy and whatever they stashed in the TSP (which is relatively new)? Are you advocated a graduated system? All I can discern from your Patrick "Do you like Huey Lewis and the News" Bateman responses, is you're for nothing upon retirement. Correct? Still waiting for that HR director/CEO to order me* to execute a deadly mission where kill/capture+torture is a real concern. Or the business that sends me away for a year, with meager stipends to cover the incurred cost during that time. Having known some folks who are civilian employeed and get moved like we do the DoD gets off cheap. Where there is a business literally killing people/things and/or executing a national security/policy mission please let me know. I'll transfer over the TSP to a 401K, stop saluting the flag and throw on the walmart greeter vest as I route cyber bullets in their direction. * By me, I mean you fliers/PJs mostly . Chance of me leading a convoy are slim to none. I can't even volunteer to deploy in current position.
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CGO PME undergoes transformation
Educate this youngish officer - I always thought additional duty shite, taskers, latest/greatest CBTs, and "projects" as queep. But O/EPRs and Decs as "taking care of your troops." Not that they can't get queepy (wordsmiths who wants "awesome" changed to "amazing").
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TriCare to be Cut to Encourage Enrollment in Obamacare.
It's not free, that is all.
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C.S. wildfire: USAFA given pre-evacuation warning
Can we put the MAFFS on an F-35 or F-22? C-130's are by far my favorite airframe for all they do.
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A Toast in Remembrance of the Fallen...
I was surprised during my USAFE tour that the French and Belgians still care as much as they do. Maybe not the Paris-types, but all the little towns were very reverent to their local monuments and cemetaries. Very humbling.
- Syrian fighter pilot defects to Jordan
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Trident university TUI increasing tuition rates
I used my GI Bill to knock out classes for my Undergrad after I tapped out TA. Only reason was I had to have the degree complete before I entered OTS. Using it to cover the top end of classes doesn't pay (like selling back leave) unless there's some crunch time payoff. Not sure how much you're paying. I'm doing a decent brick-and-mortar and it's coming to about $500 after TA for a semester. Shouldn't be too hard for an O type to figure. Save the GI Bill.
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The Jill Metzger thread
Pics or it didn't happen. Also, good thing dec presentations are done at the position of attention.
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Trident university TUI increasing tuition rates
Sweet.. then we can change the name of Undergraduate Cyber Warfare too!