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Best place to post it: Jocko Willink's most recent podcast is with Tulsi Gabbard. Great interview. I'd vote for her.

It's all perspective. What's your situation? Do you live in Valdosta GA flying UPT lines every day, have a wife from there who's got family in the area? IF you had that gig and could hold it until retirement, of COURSE you'd regret departing to an unknown airline with unknown basing and future instead of staying until retirement or beyond. Contrast that to another situation where you live in Florida, are working a desk job with burned out GS-13's who are basically just waiting to die, you're not flying, and you've been told you have to move to west texas and deploy for one of your last 3 years in the AF. Yeah, you wouldn't regret leaving that. It's all perspective. You get to choose if you're positive or negative about ANYTHING that happens in your life. If you choose to regret leaving, guess what, you'll regret leaving. If you choose to see the bright side of your new job after leaving, you'll see the bright side of your new job after leaving.

https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/us-womens-national-team-will-get-half-of-money-won-by-usmnt-at-world-cup/?fbclid=IwAR0U4jhymrmTAO-2_yFom4d4X8bM1PENv9zcLvyeVdoX2epNWDJA_REgOLQ Sigh.

Have you ever been a unit that went from oppressive leadership to excellent leadership? Did it perfectly improve overnight, or was there a transition period? Of course there's going to be speedbumps. Go lookup how many spacex rockets blew up or crashed before the first one worked...even a little. Purchasing Twitter wasn't an impulse buy, but a strategic move. Hell it might have been REAL virtue signaling. I'm pretty sure Musk knows what he's doing. What none of us have right now is the "aha" information from the behind the scenes. Just wait.

Question for the masses: Sig 365 macro, Glock 43x, or Glock 48 MOS. This will be a my utility weapon for concealed carry/car carry/home defense for the next couple years. Background: I'm not a 9mm fan, but it's just so handy and available. I can get the glocks at a significant mil-discount ($379) at my local man store, so that's a strong pull. I like how the sig shoots, but I haven't fired the 43x or 48 yet. I plan to rent each before I buy. I eventually plan to have purpose specific weapons for concealed, home defense, an AR, a long rifle...etc. In the immediate term, as this is my christmas present, I'm looking for something that's concealable, reliable, and versatile for immediate defense until my budget can afford those others in several years. I'll be happy to hear from anyone that's got experience or thoughts to share.

Call of Duty forums, obviously.

hello mister ACMI man. I've met you in another forum. Your drunken posts are just as...stated.... Thank you for your service.

When you say "student", what exactly do you mean? What year in school? ROTC? Are you working? Need more data to compute. As for your dream RX7 FD, if you're the standard in-debt college student, here's my advice: DON'T. At least not yet. Don't go into debt for a car you can't afford. If you can't buy it outright, you can't afford it. I fully understand the desire to break the yoke of mom and dad, but dude, wait. You'll get there, but your finances as a college student are very unlikely to be able to afford a 30k loan. Bankers will say you can, but trust me, you can't.

The chinese way of war is to source as you go...old school foraging. So yeah, the Costco strategy would actually be in their playbook...possibly in that exact form.

He said he's in CA. That's like the precursor "with all due respect." Californians do this kinda stuff all the time!

None of the above will ever happen unless we have leadership with the balls to do it, and a national will that what's them to.

Two crowds in here talking past each other: First: We can't beat china right now because of lots of reasons. This is true. Second: The American way of war is to get kicked in the balls and then fight our way to victory through overwhelming superiority of innovation, ingenuity, and inherent individual initiative (oh the alliteration!). Also true.

Even when your patron is an 80 year old bumbling shell of a human?

Wait, dude had a heart attack and still can hold a FC1? It thought heart attacks and strokes were the kiss of death for an FAA physical.

Imma need pics

You're not wrong.

Nailed it. Twice.

I hold fast in this: We would smoke them. IF and only IF we have a national will that wants us to.

Nailed it. Good work. No problems with V1 cuts, thanks anyway. For future reference: Herc dudes do a lot of V1 cut work. It's kind of a thing for us...but I digress. I worked at brand Y first and my RLA indoc was brutal and a steep curve. Our union actually had 5 different unions inside it. It was a warzone. I would have been better served at least knowing what the hell a union is, which I didn't, before I showed up to ride that trainwreck. For reference, I would more appropriately equate it to a stud showing up at the B-course not knowing what BFM stands for. All the 121 trained guys knew what was going on, whereas we mil dudes were clueless. Should guys care about it before getting hired? No. Absolutely not. After they get hired? Definitely worth a shallow dive into what union relations are like at your new company. The deep dive is for the long haul flights with salty captains though. I'd never expect an ex-mil new hire to be an expert on the RLA. That would be useless, and time is much better spent focused elsewhere. However, I'm sure your indoc class instructor were really impressed with your knowledge of V1 cut dynamics as they asked you if you wanted to join the union, or perhaps take that nice management job. In some companies this is a bigger deal than others, but regardless, I would have been blindly ignorant if offered the choice at my first event. Purportedly the guys with the most mechanical and CRM problems transitioning to heavy jets, according the the sim IPs at brand X and Y and my own firsthand experience, are dudes arriving straight from a pointy nose single seat...and they invariably clean that up the mechanics portion in a couple rides. Some never clean up the CRM problems. In contrast, stepping on the union crank during indoc can easily have career long impacts. Just sayin' BL: Mil-airline transition duds should actively seek a basic awareness of the minefield that is union/management at their new company so they don't shoot themselves in the foot on day one. "Flying the Line" is an easy read in that direction. TLDR: Hey Mil guys going to the airlines, there's a landmine called union/management relationships. Don't piss off the union.

Quoted for posterity.

I think you're mis-hearing it. After you get hired, but before you show up, it's a good idea to actually know what the RLA is and generally what it does. Showing up to training completely ignorant is not an excuse.

Standing By for the national will to stand up for ourselves, governance in that direction, and a national leader who believes America is worth fighting for.

Your 2A753 is showing.

Ok. Who let Hunter on the forum?