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I know a dude who many years ago MISTAKENLY used his GTC to purchase gas for his personal vehicle, it happened to look very similar to his personal Visa and he pulled the wrong card out of his wallet. He immediately notified his chain of command and sent a payment but they decided to punish him for his egregious mistake. His commander was a complete douche and was looking for a reason to end this guys career, which he did. The dude kept a good sense of humor and actually dressed up as a credit card at a squadron Halloween party.

13 dead Americans at the Abbey Gate... At least you are in line with SECDEF who has 'No Regrets"

You missed a few: 1. Afghanistan and 13 dead Americans, seriously the cowardice of every liberal that glosses over this event and who bares the blame. Yesterday SECDEF said he has "No Regrets" about the chaotic Afghanistan and Biden didn't immediately fire him. F anyone of you who shares that sentiment. Again, 13 dead Americans, their memory brushed away into the wind. 2. Inflation has reached its highest level in 40 years. I love your phrase "probably contributed some to the high inflation"...Ya think? FFS. 3. An increase in the cost of everyday goods and services disproportionately hurts lower-income families. Real average hourly earnings have decreased by 1.7 percent because of inflation. 4. Border chaos - 2.76 million illegal immigrants crossed the border in 2022 including 600,000 getaways. In Feb of 2023 16 people on the Terror Watch List were detained trying to cross meaning 3-4 made it across each month...great policy you got there. 5. Chinese Balloons - Do whatever you want China. 6. Classified documents EVERYWHERE. Anything to retain power...he can't even read a teleprompter without reading the instructions out loud. Buttigieg...for reals...did you not hear about the issue at the ports (maybe you were following his maternity leave posts instead of the news about the supply chain crisis. The airline meltdown over the holiday...where was this boob? Trains derailing and destroying towns. The only person worse than this clown is Mayorkas. Even the Dems are saying this is nonsense, dressing up a misdemeanor (with expired statue of limitations), in yet another witch hunt. They are creating a martyr.

On the USAF side access to mental health care without retribution should be SOP for our service, especially for those in combat operations. I won't go into all the details but I fought an EPIC battle with Big Blue years ago to keep CLEARED Ops Psychs available to our aviators in the AFSOC world. I am obviously not an RPA operator but the RPA community in particular needs this service. I spent a lot of time commanding and working in their world and my battle resulted in me having to brief the Under Secretary of the Air Force when the Manpower people tried to take them away our cleared Ops Psychs. I used the following argument to successfully keep access to this critical care capability: "Sir, a lot of people underestimate and overlook RPA operators believing they are fighting the war from a box and they get to go home every night, someone insinuating that is an easy way to fight a war and it reduces the risk to their mental health. In fact, our RPA operators wage a far more personal form of combat than most and I believe it defiantly impacts mental health, especially in the long-term. I would ask you to consider this small vignette. Many of our RPA operators will observe the same house, watching the same person for a month or more at a time. As they develop a pattern of life they observe the target kiss his kids each day then send them off to school, they watch him interact with his wife, they watch him pray. The interaction while one way becomes very personal. One morning our RPA operator wakes up, has breakfast with his wife and kids, kisses his kids and walks them to the bus stop then heads off to the GCU. He sits down and five minutes later the phone rings telling him or her to kill the target. Our RPA operator professionally runs the approvals and traps and a short time later launches a missile or two that turns the target into pink mist, but it doesn't end there. Our RPA operator stays over the objective and watches the body in high definition for hours to see who responds. He or she can sees the kids face and grief when they discover their father was shredded into a lifeless mass of meat, they see his wife try to put the pieces back together and they watch as the body is eventually carried off by other friends and family. At the end of his or her shift they drive home and sit down at the dinner table where the family asks "how was your day?" How does our RPA operator possibly answer that question to his family. This form of combat is different than our other platforms that deploy. While on deployment manned operators have a separation that provides a buffer to process everything that happens, the live, sleep and eat with the camaraderie of others who are experiencing the same effects of combat, they have the time it takes to get home from a deployment to decompress and adjust, and they have time at home away from combat when their deployment is over. Our RPA operators have none of that, in fact they are so critically manned that they often can't take leave, the only get one day off per week and they do this in an endless cycle that can last for years on end. Make no mistake the person he or she killed was a bad person and they deserved to die, but we never want our warriors to lose their humanity in the process." Ultimately this argument worked and we were able to keep a TS cleared Ops Psych that was with our RPA folks everyday. I will laugh when someone plays Dos Gringos Predator Euology but I will never disparage our folks in this community, they carry a different burden than most and they do it without an end in sight. And, @Danger41 , they may be the SEALs of the Sky, but I hold the Draco's on the same regard. Most don't know the impact a little PC-12 has had on the battlefield or the commitment and cost to your community.

Sadly that side of the aisle as has been repeatedly stated by our liberal friends on this forum, is "mostly happy" with Biden and his performance. In the next two weeks he is going to announce he is running again, can you imagine what he will sound like in four more years?

It has been proven over and over again that having a complete family unit while growing up is one of the single biggest predictors of success in life. By success I don't mean becoming a CEO or a pro athlete, I simply mean a good happy human being.

JCPOA did not work, they continued all of these negative behaviors AND we were giving them cash and helping their economy. tearing up the deal and imposing sanctions IS diplomacy. They were STILL killing Americans...we were NOT better off! Umm in case you hadn't noticed, Trump is gone and the new guy sent a clear message when he let those 13 Americans die at the gate of the Kabul airport. FIFY - Iran doesn't trust anyone and if you read the Persian Puzzle you will understand why and how that is likely to continue for generations. The people of Iran are being held hostage by religious zealots, something we as a nation should take note of... Crazy huh...I heard some of the same conversation years before in OSD when there was an endless stream of American casualties pouring in. You could feel it in the room, a slow simmer of rage as it was clear Iran was directly responsible for killing at least 600 Americans soldiers and maiming thousands more. Luckily cooler heads prevailed, but as an American and a military officer I felt it as well. It should be a lesson for all of us.

“I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military ... of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there,” Milley said.

We "inspected" what they let us inspect while they blocked other sites. The "oversight" was an equal joke with them playing cat and mouse at every turn. Seriously did you read any of the reports? We are 1000% better because this lunatic is gone...you know, the guy responsible for killing and maiming thousands of your brothers and sisters in arms. Maybe putting them in check was part of getting to a new deal. Sorry my friend but JCPOA was a complete joke that served no purpose other than to refill Iran's cash coffers. They continued to chase nukes while exporting terror and KILLING Americans. Trump steadily reimposed sanctions on both Iran and anyone whole did business with them.

Seriously? You think they stopped? You think they were open and honest and let us inspect all of their sites? You seriously can't be that naive. Almost as masterful as flying in a couple of billion dollars on pallets to help fund their terror activities. I know you know this but Iran is directly responsible for the deaths of MANY Americans and the money Obama gave them helped pay for those actions.

You mean a deal where the continue to enrich and stockpile in secret while enabling proxy combat operations against the U.S. and get pallets full of billions of dollars delivered to them...sign me up bro!

I honestly don't know, but I do know they are not celebrated like BLM and ANTIFA. Remember "mostly peaceful" protests that burned U.S. government facilities all over the country. Sadly the extremes on both sides suck up all the oxygen from folks like you and me that reside in the middle. Unfortunately for me the media is dominated by liberals and most of the networks focus on one side and make excuses for the other.

I have a big block of Doge I bought on a whim and dirt cheap...only Crypto I've ever played with. If I lose...oh well, if I win I will sponsor the first annual Baseops hookers and blow convention.

Beyond tone deaf... ANTIFA BLM Liberal Hollywood. And lets not forget who started the first Civil War.

Just confirming I have the facts...Trump will be arrested on Tuesday for giving a check to an adult film star while Biden is celebrated for standing by as millions of dollars were funneled from Chinese firms to all of his relatives.

Some of the reports coming out of the Bakhmut region are staggering. Ukraine claims (and has been loosely validated), that they killed 1090 Russian soldiers in a single day. For certain we know the Russians have turned to meat grinder human wave tactics of old ("Keep going until you are killed"), and U.S. Intel has suggest upwards of 30,000 Russian KIA or wounded or wounded since the attack on Bakhmut began. No problem, Putin is trying to recruit another 400,000 contract soldiers.

I know the liberals don't care because their guys is "mostly doing a great job", but come on...which President is guilty of collusion? Chicoms sending millions to Biden family members.

I don't even have words to respond. Clean pantries are ‘racist’ and ‘sexist’: Loyola marketing scholar

Wasn't bad although we were limited in the number of bases we could go TDY, luckily your mom was working the juicy bar at each location.