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  1. 7 minutes ago, Lord Ratner said:

    <snip> Instead, for whatever unfathomable reason, they wish to perpetuate the millions of illegal aliens coming to this country, while still hoping to neutralize the issue going into the presidential election. <snip>

     

    Unfathomable?  Immigration turned California from red to a one-party blue state where in many races the Republicans don't even bother to run a candidate.  

  2. 7 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

    Keep in mind, this is EXACTLY what our liberal friends want, they continue to fight for it at every turn, every day.

    I struggle to think of what one would differently if one were deliberately trying to destroy the USA from within...

  3. On 8/28/2023 at 11:21 AM, uhhello said:

    There is an entire industry dedicated to getting the highest possible rating 🙂 I would love to know how we get a system that ensures that folks get exactly what they are legally entitled to while not allowing biking of the system.  It's not possible.  Once or twice a year they will publicly arrest/prosecute a sickening high profile fraud case but thats just a drop in the bucket.  

    Medicare fraud is estimated at $20B a year and there's probably a similar amount in Food Stamps, Social Security Disability, etc. and Uncle Sam ain't lifting a figure to stop any of that. 

  4. On 11/5/2023 at 4:04 PM, HuggyU2 said:

    The stories about this guy coming out of Laughlin are... incredible. 

    I look forward to hearing about his upcoming FTU training.  

    Meh, we all did stupid stuff as lieutenants. 'Course the AF doesn't find out about most of it.  I'm still waiting for the hammer to drop on some of shenanigans I pulled as a Lt and I've been retired for 7 years. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, herkbum said:

    This administration is killing this country. I hope people start voting these clowns out before they permanently f us.


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    I think that's their whole point.  It's President Obama's third term after all (given most of President Biden's staff are from President Obama's administration) and if you wanted to run this country into the ground, what would you have done differently?  

  6. 15 hours ago, nsplayr said:

    As a relatively pro open-borders globalist 🌐 I hate Kissinger. The fact that he's still alive when Jimmy Buffett is dead is evidence that there is no just God in the universe. Don't lump him into any group I'm a part of lol.

    Hope this helps! 😅

    If you are pro-open borders, what did you take an oath to defend?  Genuinely curious. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, gearhog said:

    At this point, I don't think that dude actually reads anything, he just downvotes my username. Fuck 'em.

    I honestly try to empathize and imagine myself in the position that the average Israeli and Palestinian finds themselves in. There's plenty to be angry about on both sides and plenty of blame to go around. Conflict and killing is a messy business and there will always be a loss of innocent life. It's a terrible thing but an inextricable part of human existence. For me, the difference is that in addition to inflicting death, Hamas planned to kidnap, target women & children & elderly, rape, torture, publicly glorify it, then publicly parade the desecrated bodies through the streets. Whatever sympathies I may have had for the average Palestinan by imagining their plight are instantly lost on anyone who would endorse or make excuses for that sort of thing.

     

    I believe you can judge someone by who they call their friends. Hamas considers Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, The Squad, etc. their friends (and vice versa). All evil and wicked. That should tell you all you need to know.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Lawman said:


    We had a cyber war guy brief a theory paper on “non kinetic disruptive attrition.”

    Essentially, you don’t even have to kill us to hurt our combat capability. Anybody above the rank of major just have those warehouses full of hackers and bots start running up credit cards in their name, issue police reports or swat people, start emailing their wife the “it’s his baby and I want my money” or nudes from some girl in whatever city your last TDY was… that type stuff… basically everything you see when the hacker wrecks the life of somebody in a movie.

    Do that simultaneously to all the leadership out there, then while that’s going on do something akin to Russia when they went into Crimea. With the amount of information the government already handed them through our own stupidity plus the amount of social media we already put out on ourselves, it wouldn’t be hard to severely hobble the command channels with issues that result in delayed action. For those of us that remember the Ashley Madison hack and the shit show that ensued when peoples wives started googling names… now do it with the benefit of AI.


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    Probably won't be beyond the realm of possible to scrape the internet to find pictures of military kids and use AI to create a fake image of them in front of their school or at little league practice and text those to military parents with a warning.  Or imagine you're a FO/GO and you get a text that if you participate in ops against China all of your bank and retirements have been hacked and it will all disappear.  I'm sure they would do their duty but what a mindf$@ck.  The possibilities for troublemaking are endless and it would work far better against us than against our adversaries...

  9. 20 hours ago, 08Dawg said:

    The thing that has me scratching my head is Trump’s vice grip on the evangelical vote. This is a guy who cheated on his wife with a porn star, then paid a bunch of hush money to cover it up…yet the evangelical right worships and adores the ground he walks on. Completely incongruous. 

    I don't get the Dem's vice grip on the African-American vote either.  The Dems seem to only care about issues important to that community every 4 years- otherwise it's lip service.  Also, an argument can be made that the rampant illegal immigration the Dems are in favor of has hurt blue-collar African-Americans in the trades more than any other group but still 90% vote for the Dems. 

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  10. The people I'm angriest at are the Establishment Republicans (GOPe).  The Dems are driving the country off a cliff but the GOPe is only interested that they do it in 2nd gear instead of 5th.  Trump was a protest vote to wake our Republican congresscritters up and it didn't do any good.  Aside from some tax breaks, name a single major conservative issue that has passed through Congress in our favor.  Repeal of Obamacare?  Repeal of the National Firearms Act?  Reduce the size of government?  Nope, nada, zilch.  The Dems have been captured by the extreme left that wants to remake this country into North Korea or the PRC (you're high if you don't think the social credit score thing will be implemented here).  The fight between the Dems and Repubs used to be mostly about the size of the welfare state; it is now a fundamental transformation of everything and the GOPe's strategy is to lose with dignity.  If our side did what we sent them there to do, that charlatan Trump would have never been elected. 

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  11. 8 hours ago, jonlbs said:

    During my time working with ROTC I was shocked at how little people actually wanted to fly, I figured there would be 100 kids fighting for pilot slots but that just isn’t the case. I’m actually shocked at how many people I fly with at the airlines that have absolutely no interest in military flying or ever had any interest in anything military in general. So targeting the kids with your experiences might not work.

    Air Force JROTC has a full ride PPL scholarship with no obligation incurred and yet in the three years I've been teaching it, I've only had 5 out of 250+ cadets apply.  I would have killed for an opportunity like that when I was in high school...

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  12. On 7/16/2023 at 8:21 AM, GKinnear said:

    I know this is a military forum, dealing with military issues...but the JROTC decline is not an isolated event.  Any youth development organization that's been around for ~100 years or so is also facing a decline in membership.  Scouting, faith-based youth groups, HS arts programs, etc.  From my perspective, Club and HS sports seem to be main remaining avenues to mentor and grow kids into Adults that are contributing members to society...and their focus isn't necessarily on Civics, Service to Others, Mom and Apple pie type issues.

    Change is inevitable, and in this case, I don't think the societal 'need' that JROTC filled has had a suitable replacement designed, let alone delivered.

    Small sample size but the cohort of kids who were in middle school during COVID seem particularly unmotivated to do anything.  All of the coaches/teachers I work with (teach AFJROTC) say enrollment is down in clubs, sports, dance, band, etc. despite the overall population of our high school increasing.  Several other AFJROTC instructors I talked to our summer camp said the same thing about their schools.  

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  13. 19 minutes ago, BashiChuni said:

    the same people who said trump was going to start WW3 are willingly leading us to WW3...

    Well, we absolutely must punish the Russians for having the gall to get Trump elected, consequences be damned.  We had the glorious Socialist revolution almost in hand until Trump came along.  If we get in a war, so much the better, because it will be all of those flyover rubes who get killed off, it's like a two-fer.  <sarcasm>

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  14. 31 minutes ago, Negatory said:

    <snipped> And if you look at society from an average 25 year olds eyes, you’d see that American capitalism as is hasnt made much progress since the 1970s when real wages stopped increasing.

    Wouldn’t recommend you throw totally separate ideals into one set of issues, because it’s harder to find common ground.

    Perhaps, but we don't have a capitalist system, we have a crony capitalism and therein lies the problem.  And socialism/fascism are not the answer.  If they were effective, North Korea would be far better off than South Korea.  I'd like to see us return to a free market capitalist system but the cronies have DC bought and paid for...

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  15. 6 hours ago, brabus said:

     

    I also don’t understand the “need” to cover yourself in pride paraphernalia…I don’t care who you love or bang, why do you need to shove it in everyone’s face? Maybe we should start a blue/pink themed movement that celebrates dudes banging chicks. I’m sure DAL will love to let me wear a blue/pink striped lanyard that represents my love for women and fucking them, especially during heterosexual pride month.
     

     

    The four stages of a social movement; 1) tolerance 2) acceptance 3) celebration 4) participation.  We are in stage 3 now and you already see some stage 4 going on (men-who-identify-women complaining lesbians won't date them).  I think most of us are just fine with stages 1 & 2, but I get canceled because I won't wear a Pride shirt?  GMAFB. 

  16. 8 minutes ago, VMFA187 said:

    The Left has started utilizing the judicial system to attack its opponents. I feel like we have seen this happen in other countries before...

    The scary part is they have no idea what comes next.  I mean;

    1. Wreck Trump

    2. Disenfranchise all the right-wing flyover rubes

    3...

    4. Paradise

    This isn't much of plan as history shows.  And the Revolution always eats its own.

     

     

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  17. On 2/26/2023 at 10:42 AM, ClearedHot said:

    The investment in JRTOC and ROTC waxes and wanes with the times.  I would bet with the current recruiting issues the investment will increase. 

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    I wish.  Currently teaching AFJROTC and we are getting cut.  The HQ is trying to close 300 units (out of 870) to bring up the rest to a decent level of funding.  Incidentally, an AF recruiter comes to visit us maybe once a year.  Army National Guard recruiter I see almost weekly and he helps us out with supplies, gear, etc.   

    But hey, we got billions $ for Afghanistan (still giving them $) and Ukraine but just peanuts for our own kids.  

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  18. 1 hour ago, StoleIt said:

    So, even when the Air Force claims to value advanced degrees...they really don't.

    I've always thought that the entire Air Force personnel system is pretty much designed to fill one job-Chief of Staff Air Force.  The personnel system doesn't seem to place enough importance on building senior leaders (colonels/generals) who are experts at strategy, acquisition, foreign cultures, EW, cyber, etc., expertise (for which AADs are useful) that complements and force multiples Ops.

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  19. 22 minutes ago, Lawman said:


    But but…. That’s not “real” socialism…


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    Love when they use that argument while condemning free market capitalism based on what we currently have in the U.S. (more like crony capitalism on steroids). 

  20. 9 minutes ago, Lord Ratner said:

    And yet, his actions selected him for a position of immense power. It's not a fluke, all the nonsense feel-good speeches from guys like Mosely and Welsh and Goldfein we're just fluff. The military is an organization that lacks/avoids any metric for success (profit, customer satisfaction, productivity, reduced casualties, successful pullout from Afghanistan, etc) and therefore the least valuable on the outside will become the most successful on the inside.

    If you think the Air Force chooses senior leaders poorly, try working for state government.  The USAF is inspired genius in comparison....

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