drewpey
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Or an entire year of not constantly putting out fires, being home for dinner and tucking the kids. I know it's hard to imagine, but not everyone puts their "quals" at the top of their priority list.
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We are always going to protect you. And you just saw that because you just got one of the biggest pay raises you’ve ever received — unless you don’t want it. (Applause.) Does anybody here — is anybody here willing to give up the big pay raise you just got? Raise your hands, please. Ah, I don’t see too many hands. Okay, don’t give it up. It’s great. You know what? Nobody deserves it more. You haven’t gotten one in more than 10 years — more than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one. I got you a big one. (Applause.) They had plenty of people that came up. They said, “You know, we could make it smaller. We could make it 3 percent. We could make it 2 percent. We could make it 4 percent.” I said, “No. Make it 10 percent. Make it more than 10 percent.” Because it’s been a long time. It’s been more than 10 years. It’s been more than 10 years. That’s a long time. And, you know, you really put yourselves out there, and you put your lives out there. So congratulations.
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I can't imagine what would be in local guidance that wouldn't be covered in the current 36-2903. In my neck of the woods we had local guidance, but everyone moved on to the AF rules without any official word to do so.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2018/12/27/trump-bragged-service-members-iraq-about-percent-raise-theyve-not-been-given/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.4ef938ca65ef Big news! 10% pay raise!
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Property management for your bros.
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The black boots sucked. Sure it looked good at the time, and mine were totally comfortable, but they were a pain in the ass and everyone has this romanticized memory of them. 1. They required even a minimal amount of maintenance (except for the internet badasses who will claim they never did any boot maintenance--sureok) 2. They didn't stand up to even minor abuse of being on the flightline, and the leather would easily damage and gouge out 3. The wax on the boots got all over your shit when you packed them in your bags 4. The boots got fucking hot if you spent any time outside or standing around on a tarmac. 5. It was just another reason for chiefs and shoes to run around being an assholes to the vulnerable airmen and LTs who get separated from the herd 6. They looked like shit unless they were well maintained, which they almost never were 7. for fucks sake you had to wax them...what century is this? Yeah I had several pairs of comfortable black boots, but I've had comfortable sets of green boots. However none of them hold a flame to a nice pair or Lowa or Salomon boots. Shit keeps getting better, and everyone is pining for the good old days of shining black boots like they don't have anything better to do.
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What the hell is going on with the SEALs?
drewpey replied to Sua Sponte's topic in General Discussion
Culture. Additional reading for those who missed it, but this isn't anything new unfortunately. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/the-secret-history-of-seal-team-6.html https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/the-crimes-of-seal-team-6/ When you put your best on a pedestal and overlook negative behavior then it creates a skewed view of what is acceptable within an organization. We've all seen similar effects within units, but luckily for us it usually manifests itself in other ways than guys collecting ears. -
Pure ad hominem. When you don't like the arguement, attack the messenger. Brennan, McRaven, Petraus, now Azimuth. It's different because it sets a new partisan precedent with a very strong presidential power which can and will be abused. Conservatives love to undermine institutions for immediate benefit without regard to the future, but I don't want to see the security clearance system being used for political purposes. It leads to nowhere good. Imagine being asked if your your political affiliation on your SF86.
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Well one way you can fire yourself is to publicly disparage your boss. No job in the world does that go over well. Anyone in that situation that tries to blame the boss for firing them after trashing them is only kidding themselves. Trump can hire and fire whoever he wants, I have no problem with that. It's his team to build and lead the country. The security clearance isn't about that. It's purely political vengeance because Brennan is being a thorn in his side. As with many things with Trump, I'm concerned that what we may let pass because it's just "trump being trump" will actually be long-term damage to our institutions as future presidents follow his footsteps and simply start revoking clearances or using other presidential powers to intimidate and otherwise undermine our democracy.
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ehhh....McChrystal fired himself with the rolling stone expose. Obama's hand was forced and any leader worth their weight in salt would do the same given the situation.
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Add Bob Gates to the list... http://fortune.com/2018/08/17/bob-gates-signs-letter-criticizing-trump/
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What specifically about punditry do you think is disqualifying for holding a security clearance? You are either trustworthy or you aren't. They don't have a need to know, aren't getting special inside information, and are still beholden to the NDAs they signed back when they were in the know. A few more names to add to the pile: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F7pZ8oP2KpIK8x-yI0RbescPzP3RK2S4/preview
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/revoke-my-security-clearance-too-mr-president/2018/08/16/8b149b02-a178-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html?utm_term=.26f93ba123b1
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Perfect is the enemy of good. While these systems aren't perfect, they are often better than what people have. So how would you fix our broken healthcare system?
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We will see. Healthcare is one of the hot button topics that touches just about everyone. Trump himself campaigned on providing better and cheaper healthcare, but has yet to deliver on that promise. His actions against the mandate has caused the ACA price to rise, and his words suggest he wants it to completely collapse, which doesn't provide a lot of comfort to constituents who rely on it. He has made some progress on drug prices with generics and possibly medicare negotiations, but overall has failed to live up to his own hype. I think this topic will push more voters to the polls this year, but we will see.
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It's interesting how distorted your worldview is. Just because we suddenly get healthcare doesn't mean we will all be living in some dystopian fantasy land you have in your head. Rent won't skyrocket nor will gas prices double. We pay more per capita on healthcare than any other country in the world, be a far margin, and get less for it. This is the United States, the best country in the world so why not solve the challenges that face us. The right wants to throw up their hands and claim american exceptionalism as an excuse to not do anything about healthcare, education, workers rights, gun rights, etc. The right loves to act like the moment we stop bankrupting families who have sick children we will turn into Venezuela.
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It's true. The new democrats designed their party to appeal to the swing moderates, so they couldn't go too far left at the time. He campaigned against gay marriage in 2008 for gods sake. Sure he may have crept left during his tenure...but the right loves to act like he is Bernie Sanders...but that's just not true. Bernie is largely treated as an exile still today with centrist democrats despite being voted the most popular "Democrat". I think the new democrats are dieing off and you will see a new group of Cortez-ish democrats start to rise up. I think lots of Americans see Europe and some of their nations handling some issues so well compared to us, that there has to be a middle ground...particularly with respect to social safety nets and healthcare. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5299337&page=1 The right has swung so far to the extreme that the right regularly lampoons McCain for being a "RINO" despite him voting 83% with the party. It's comical. Here are a couple "RINOs" with centrist views:
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If the right didn't like Obama, wait until you see what happens over the next several years. He has and always will be seen as a very centrist political figure.
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That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is any reputable news source is going to use the base facts, and layer their bias on top of it. Just because you don't like the bias, doesn't mean the facts are wrong. Facts may be absent or misleading, but that's why it's important to diversify your news diet to ensure you see the same problem from multiple angles. When you completely discount all news from half the political spectrum then your diet is lopsided, and you are now living in an echo chamber. Now taking it a step further, not only is the news from half the political spectrum disregarded as "fake news", it's being declared the enemy of the people, and even scarier roughly 30% of the populace believes it.
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A variety of ways. Many of the facts that have come out over the past year or so have been stunning first-hand admissions. See DJT's emails he posted to Twitter. You can try and discredit the news sources all you want, but generally any reputable news source will be reporting the facts. It's the bias you need to sort through that is layered on top of the facts. The right has a hard time separating the two, and think just because a source is biased, they can ignore the facts. Opinion articles are 95% feels, and 5% reals. Your article for example fawns over Nunes yet he completely bungled everything he has touched, and ended his investigation early, in contrast to the SIC who found the opposite. Nunes is an interesting character and I'd be surprised if he comes out of this clean. His actions are not that of an innocent man.
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She can't even get two sentences in without losing credibility. When the facts on the news are too uncomfortable to read, stick to opinion columns to reaffirm your feelings. It's not news, that's just entertainment. When you've got proof of any actual wrongdoing...legally or ethically let me know. Until then every talking point used by the right to try and show wrongdoing in their investigation into the Trump campaign has ended up being lies that quickly unravel once the facts come to light.
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It's hard to make out from the video...but from the angle and the reaction of the dude on the ground it looks like it was veering off the runway and everything else might have been an overcorrection.
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Everyone survives except the plane. https://www.kxan.com/news/local-news/breaking-crash-destroys-antique-plane-at-burnet-municipal-airport/1314564561 http://www.highlandlakessquadron.com/aircraft/c47
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Republicans: Only we care about the integrity of our democratic voting process. Also republicans: Yeah so what if Russia hacked into our voting systems? Lets not do anything even though we control all the levers of power. Voter fraud while it exists, has been shown to be a statistically insignificant amount of votes. Republicans want to continually claim that Soros is trucking in millions of illegal aliens to vote democratic, despite there being no proof of widespread voter fraud. What there is proof of, is foreign meddling in our election and a hodge-podge of poorly protected voting equipment across the US. We've known about this for some time, but nothing has been done. Why the inaction in the face of actual proof if you truly care about the integrity of the voting process? What will be the tipping point where we can expect to see republicans actually being bothered to push for protecting the voter systems? Let me guess--when foreign powers start pushing to elect democrats? As for the anecdotal comments about how easy it is to get your documentation, requirements largely varies by state, and military folks are generally more prepared than your average citizen in terms of keeping personal records. Additionally getting replacements for lost items and new IDs costs money, which poor people don't have a lot of. They are too busy yanking on their bootstraps, so we should not try to make the democratic process work against them any more than it already has.
