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Can confirm. That slide is valid.
It should simply clean out the dudes that were going to retire in the next 12 months...which was about 60 mandatory retirements anyways. Add in the dudes that are in range and just done, and I think we'll hit that target no problem.
But it's not a good harbinger of things to come.
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12 hours ago, slc said:
"what do you want to be when you grow up"
"a Youtuber"
I've only met a couple kids like this. In every case the parents are completely disengaged. This is why I laugh when older generations hate on younger generations, as if they had no hand at all in how those kids turned out.
We don't have a lazy kid problem. We have a lazy parent problem.
I'm with the rest of you gents. A kid in high school, and one in middle school. They both have their plans pretty well wired. It's awesome to see.
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In case anyone one the fence didn't hear it: Don't take the bonus.
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On 8/23/2023 at 3:11 PM, Pooter said:
I don't buy that Russia just doesn't have the machining tolerances to do stealth.
They might, but then they actually assemble the jets with superglue and the aerospace equivalent of drywall screws that are left exposed. Lo-vis? Sure. Stealth? No.
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10 hours ago, gearhog said:
I'm not on either side of your debate, but do bear in mind that this is a Russian war. Historically speaking, they're just getting warmed up. Russians are decidedly eastern in their views on the value of human life, so using a body-count in any argument concerning this war completely mis-understands the utterly genocidal and horrific cultural context. Not saying I approve, but facts are facts.
If you want a real tour-de-blood, go look up the Russian revolution or the history of the Cossacks (Ukrainian ancestors). It's absolutely brutal.
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6 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:
This was so accurate for my last AD squadron.
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On 8/5/2023 at 10:04 PM, disgruntledemployee said:
PS. The Maj Osman account is AI.
...and somehow also Chang's IRL actual exec. Crazy times.
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On 8/5/2023 at 12:21 PM, artvandelay43201 said:
It’s the 964 AACS. CC is an ABM. OG/CC is an ABM. WG/CC is an ABM.
That is absolutely and in all imaginable ways depressing for everyone on that base. Individuals who've never been responsible for so much as a flight meal order and letting them lead an entire wing. Wow.
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On 8/8/2023 at 9:39 AM, pawnman said:
Just because California is a shithole doesn't mean all of western civilization is failing.
...until you realize that if it were up to a straight popular vote, LA and NYC would set the federal agenda...yeah, that popular vote that would replace the electoral college that so many keep saying we should abolish.
Crazy to think what would happen to the coasts of this country if they were divorced from the center of this country. Mass starvation, for one. The modern woke liberal agenda is so far removed from reality that it's literally suicidal.
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On 8/5/2023 at 5:38 AM, ClearedHot said:
One of the most important duties POTUS has is being the Commander in Chief, sending American troops into combat has to be a very difficult burden to bear. How you handle the aftermath of those tough decisions says a lot about your character. This video shares a disturbing example of how the current clown in chief handles that responsibility.
So @nsplayr and @Prozac, you both have defended your support of Biden, and you've both been rather quiet recently. What do you guys think about this?
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You guys sure do know your cows. So, which is it...ya'll AWACS backseaters, or do you just hang out at the AJ's by Hurbie?
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...soooooo ops normal for an AWACS unit?
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On 7/8/2023 at 9:00 AM, General Chang said:
Maybe some of the crusty keyboard “warriors” in this community should put their money where their mouths are and run for Congress instead of typing the same drivel every week on this site.
Did I just hear a ClearedHot/Biff_T ticket with M2 nominated as the head of ATF?
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5 hours ago, brabus said:
Have to hand it to the three letters, they do hire some exceptional talent.
Quote that for posterity...and all the new three letters have definitely learned that lesson...
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H3 hearing waiver here. Yes. You can have HORRIBLE hearing and still be on flight status. The booth of pain is nothing more than a screener to see if you need to go to the real booth...which isn't painful at all. The real one is preceded by a device clammed to your head (not BQZip's mom) that plays sonar sounds and maps what your hearing should be. Then you sit in a real sound proof booth and you play the game again with high def speakers and not a headset, which tests the connections between brain and ear. The device maps what your hearing should be. The booth maps what your hearing is. The only reason they need the booth is to make sure your brain is actually receiving the inputs the ear is sending.
Bonus: If you have a competent audiologist, the high def speaker test will have a "repeat this word" test, which is the result of a 30 year speech pathology study examining how hearing degradation impacts speech degradation as we get older. Basically what we hear turns into what we say, and it's very subtle. But once you hear it, you can't unknow it. BTW yes, at 40 years old I became a hearing aid recipient.
Interesting sidebar: After having personally gone through that audiology and speech pathology wringer, it is clear that our current president relies on lip reading, an ear piece, and is stone cold Boomer def. The signs are easy to pick up once you know what to look for. It sadly explains some of his gaffed responses...(that, and the outright lies...fo example his academic record...no hearing problem there)...definitely not an excuse, and frankly a reason he shouldn't be in office...but I digress. God help us.
TLDR: You can have horrible hearing. So long as you can still do your job (i.e. your D.O. signs of that you can still hear the RWR tones), you're good to go. H3 waiver takes about 3-4 months to process. If you lead turn it, you'll never leave flight status.
P.S. Tinnitus gets you 10%. Hearing loss gets you 0% (but they pay for your hearing aids every 3 years...supposedly)
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...so what we really need is an amphibious 10k forklift...
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7 hours ago, confidentallyincorrect said:
Howdy. Not trying to derail any discussion in this thread but I figured this is the best place to go with my question. My understanding is that currently most of the airlines have a "no tattoos visible while in uniform" policy. I'm completely okay with wearing a long sleeve shirt for the rest of my career rather than trying to get these things removed at this point, but my question is: do tattoos (which would be visible in short sleeves) have any sort of impact on the hiring process at all? I don't have any on my hands, above the neckline, etc. I am good to go as far as AF standards.
No. They don't. UPS just eased up on that too when they allowed beards recently. Of course UPS isn't hiring at the moment, but knowing UPS, that can change in a heartbeat.
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Samuel L Jackson would be droppin the MFing Hades Bombs all over that bitch!
How do we make this happen?!
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1 hour ago, RedEye1911 said:
lol. Yes, I'm sure those people with $5 to their names over there that we smoked with hellfires daily were a big threat to our families back home.
Afghanistan is just as bad as before we went in except now there are millions of people there that have had family members killed by Americans. What was accomplished? Nothing. The people that died over there were pawns in a political game and did not die protecting our country. I wasted my time there, you wasted your time there, and every other sucker that went wasted their time there.
I'm not saying the dudes on the ground did anything wrong or deserve any blame. They did what they were told to do, and what they were told to do was to be a sacrificial animal to make the powers that be look better. Just War Theory is suicide and I have zero respect for anyone that believes in it. Too bad it is doctrine.
Looks like someone has never heard of Ed Snowden. I've got bad news for you...
Noted. I'll bet you're great at parties.
Be aware that just because your perspective is jaded doesn't mean the rest of us have to adopt that perspective. Yes, the premise for going there was broken from the beginning. The leadership was, and is trash. Just because the task is misguided doesn't mean the workers have to be automatons with no judgment or power to alter the outcome towards good. Maybe you were. I'm sorry to hear that. I refuse to be and I did my best to make life and the mission better for everyone in my sphere of influence.
You may have wasted your time, but I didn't waste mine. I know many who didn't. We are not defined by the negative view of the those who wasted their time.
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Roth TSP 5-10% of base pay, 10% of bonuses. Split 70%/30%(ish) C/S funds. If not that, 100% C fund. Let it ride. If possible increase 1% a year until hitting 25% and she'll have million in that by the times she's in her late 30s. Should still be able to invest in the Roth IRA without hitting contribution limits (62,000 this year I think?). Definitely gotta get the match as bear minimum though.
I know the 1% increase a year sounds like a lot, and it is, so that depends entirely on lifestyle/marriage/living situation etc. Just remember that you only get to contribute to the TSP while you serve, and the funds there are ones that financial analysts routinely drool over, especially the G fund for it's in-retirement value maintenance.
A little deeper: The C is basically an S&P 500, which covers major US and is, effectively, international in diversification because all major companies on the S&P are international in scope and investment. Therefore no need for the I fund. The G/B funds are great for later in life, but unless in youth.
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4 minutes ago, Lawman said:
We were still directly actioning on targets from the Neptune Spear intel 4 years after the fact.
That wasn’t just national building, it was dismantling active efforts by AQ and its leadership network.
That’s part of the misunderstand we were there to make a democratic country. That was a secondary goal to all the stuff going on in numbered task forces. If we’d said that publicly it would have been honest, but that’s a harder sell to people.
“Why are we still there?!?!?”
“Well Mr and Mrs Wisconsin suburban voter… there are still a lot of S-heads that need killing.”
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI have to agree with the point that if the gloves had come all the way off, killing those s-heads would have happened years faster than it did.
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7 hours ago, SocialD said:
I will say shame on our leaders for not letting our military do their thing, quickly and violently and getting out. Hindering us when we could have had OBL early on and not closing up shop when we did get him.
This. In spades.
The work the military did within the absolutely abhorrent constraints our moronic political leadership imposed was as good as it could have been. It should have ended under GW. If not, it definitely should have ended under Obama. I'll not even address the absolute abortion that generates our current military and political 'guidance', as the word "leadership" in no way applies to them. Backing up even more, the concept of a "war on terror" was doomed from the very beginning, and never should have happened.
Regardless of the idiots in charge, the boots on the ground did an outstanding job to get the job of identifying and suppressing bad actors as best possible within the shitshow that was the ROE. Amazingly, they were able to keep bad actors on their side of the ocean, even if they spread. They spread because they had to in order to come close to surviving. The destruction of ISIS was a fair enough example of having some of the gloves taken off. In any case, they were definitely kept on their back foot, and rarely had the initiative. It was not in vain.
What's concerning to me is that we developed an amazing surveillance capacity to develop POL, and I can easily see those capabilities turned on our own citizens by a government that is quickly turning into a ruling class instead of one that derives it's power from the consent of the governed.
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22 hours ago, RedEye1911 said:
Tell that to everyone that died in Afghanistan for nothing.
It wasn't for nothing. I'll come off the top ropes on anyone who says differently. For 20 years we kept the wolf on his side of the fence, and he didn't even THINK about making it to our front door. It was expensive in blood and treasure in modern historical terms, but unprecedently cost effective and unbelievably useful in long view historical terms. Not only did we secure our own and our allies safety for 20 years, we put the ever living fear of God in anyone who would challenge our military strength. More importantly, we can back up that fact. Unfortunately it feels like a waste, and I understand that...thoroughly...I was there, but it wasn't wasted.
The mental and emotional health of the men and women who did the heavy lifting hinges on embracing the facts, not the feelings, and is far too important to simply throw out: It was all for nothing. That's a lie. Stop propagating it.
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Wear sunscreen every flight, even if you wear a helmet and visor.
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The new airline thread
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Great question. Consensus of dudes I've spoken with seems to be that 67 would be a complete PITA, as those dude couldn't fly outside CONUS because of ICAO rules. That would necessitate making a whole set of unique domestic lines for 65-67 year olds, many of whom are on the international fleets. So maybe they're trying to kick the 67 can down the road until ICAO is sorted, as well as voluntarily shrinking the fleet as package volume declines. Two birds, one stone. Hell, from 2008 to 2014 when we didn't hire, they shrank from 3100-2200 pilots. That could well happen again.
Long story short, no one knows and Brown a telling, but it would make sense...though I won't be surprised when they announce their parking the entire MD fleet in January...but that's 100% RUMINT.
One fact for sure: We won't be hiring until COVID-24 kicks in.