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It’s possible, but very unlikely. They’re not going to give an ENJJPT slot to a heavy unit before giving them to fighter units, so only real chance is if every ARC fighter units turn down the slot and the ARC doesn’t want to turn it back to AETC, so they offer it to heavies. Again, possible, but not likely to happen.

I know you’re probably right, I just don’t want it to be true! Between Joe and him, absolutely.

The only hope is Trump doesn’t win the primary. If that somehow happens, Biden may very well lose. If it comes down to Trump vs. Biden, we’re fucked.

For the couple dudes I know doing it, they get their full retirement and VA pay per standard, then anytime they work as a TR/DSG, they don’t get paid those things, but do get paid the TR/DSG pay for the period(s) they worked. Not sure about accruing more time towards an increased retirement amount.

Yep, most parents today are shitty ones, lazy and self absorbed. It’s so frustrating to watch my age group +/-6.9 years suck so bad at life.

And if you’re too drunk and fuck that one up, pay that shit off immediately and don’t tell anyone. You’ll probably be fine…totally only heard that from a friend, no chance I personally had that experience…

I think your post is pretty spot on. Nobody is going to get hired because they brought the nicest bottle. But, it’s also a tool to help people remember you/your name when discussions on who to hire come up, FWIW.

When you realize you’re the chick in a college date scenario and the AF is the dude who only cares about fucking you…

That’s exactly what every younger/lower income dude should do. Don’t put a cent on your own card and there’s zero risk to yourself. And remember, you can always use your GTC at an ATM if you need cash (but recommend choosing wisely on which ATM you use). Now once you’re higher income and can take the “temp hit” because you want your own points/rewards - follow your heart.

I have been told (can’t personally corroborate) that all the things were said in the room, multiple times, that all of us would have said. They were summarily ignored and the dumbest COAs were chosen. Civilian control of the military makes sense overall, but this was an example of that system completely backfiring, similar to Vietnam.

“You guys,” dude just knock that shit off. Probably 99% of us all agree assholes who break the law (especially politicians wielding power) should go down. We all need to stop this “you guys” shit, and yeah, I’m just as guilty as the rest of you. However, knocking that off also includes not being obtuse and ignoring blatant facts, whether those facts are “friendly” to your preferred party/candidates or not. As I read various statements made about this trump situation, it’s very clear nobody wants the guy protected, they just want the law universally applied, and correctly; that factually has not occurred. That’s the issue, not guys wanting Trump to get away with things. Though I think we all agree on applying the law universally, the specific problem here is some purposely stick there fingers in the ears and scream “la la la la la” when the lopsided application of law is highlighted.

“That’s not a vibrator, this is a vibrator!” - BqZip’s mom

I think what you describe exists all over, just have to promote them better and entice people to go. A tight knit community is a great way to help this problem - it will make people actually care about others outside of themselves. Every neighborhood needs the 1 or 2 houses who are always down to host a weekend hang out or a party for no reason (or reason, whatever). Everyone else bring what’s needed so the host isn’t paying for it all. It’s really that easy, just need Americans to get back to the time where you knew your neighbors and sought out their company. That exists is parts of the US, but it doesn’t exist in too many places.

What Lloyd said. The church was our society’s meeting place and source of morals and values (specifically the ones that transcend religion). Now social media and the MSM has replaced the church, both packed with anti-family and anti-moral garbage. And there in lies Pandora’s box - were never going back from SM (which is probably the worst thing to have ever happened to us in the modern era). So the only course correct now is parents need to sack up and actually work at maintaining a stable family and raising their kids correctly. They need to also help their local communities do this by being involved/aware about school issues. All the millions of people who hate all the BS going on, but are too big of pussies to stand up and say/do something, need to sack up and stop being weak candy asses. Some of you reading this right now are those pussies, I guarantee it. Do some introspection, then get off your asses and do something about the BS. How can you be willing to get in a gun fight, but you won’t speak at school board meetings? Why aren’t you or your spouse running for school board, city council, etc? Why do you complain to your neighbor over beers about all the trans mental health issues being pushed on kids, but you say nothing about your kids “celebrate trans or you’re a bigot” homework? If these describe you, even indirectly, you’re fucking up. But the good part is you can recognize it, and fix it.

I’ve been on “the list” for > $15k twice. Just laughed at them every time they said pay it off and the gov will get you back, it’s going to hurt your credit, blah blah. Carried $19k 6 months past due. No credit hit, just empty threats from FM douche bags. Don’t ever pay that shit off with your own money.

Religion aside, I think it’s because those other countries are doing far better at parenting: building the moral base, holding kids accountable, less kids being entitled shits with zero fucks given for authority, etc. The US has the highest rate in the world of children living in single parent homes, and by a large margin. The “nuclear family” is very important to not creating societal nightmares out of children, and our country is epically failing at this, far more than any other peer out there.

I think it is from their perspective. They entice people to sign a year or two before the average person realizes AD sucks balls compared to the ARC, airlines, etc. (for many people, not all of course). Now as those people approach their 10 yr point and realize their mistake, it’ll be too late. Many of those people will probably just resign themselves to 20 years. It’s a good idea from the AD perspective. Hopefully those O-3s at 6-9 years of service don’t have low SA and fall for the trap.

OK, I see where you’re going. But things like social media, smart phones with TikTok, who kids associate with, what is done with kid’s education, what values/morals they’re taught from a young age (i.e. their “moral base”that’s built early in life), what movies/shows/video games they’re allowed to consume, and more - 100% completely within purview, control, and responsibility of parents. If parents aren’t around to do their job or they abrogate it to society, they are at fault for the outcome. So yes, parent’s failures (either not being present or not doing their job even when around) are the ultimate RC of the terrible societal products many children become…and the cycle continues. Fix the prevalent lazy/absent/shitty parents in our modern society and you’ll fix a lot of the issues in our country. But that takes selfless work, and by and large a huge portion of America are selfish and lazy today.

“Sir, I went there for the high quality steak dinner, that’s all I paid for, I swear!” ”Why are there 3x ATM withdrawals for $300 each spread across a 4 hr period” ”uhhhh….”

I have a friend who accidentally used his GTC at a strip club. But he didn’t say shit and paid it off like normal. Zero questions asked. Two entities you never confide to: finance about mistaken GTC use and game wardens about mistaken game issues. Both will burn you at the stake for a 100% unintentional mistaken identity problem that’s sometimes easy to make.

Wow, what an astute argument. Are you trolling, or do you actually think a parental leadership vacuum makes no difference in a child’s direction in life?

Plenty. Go look up the correlation between decreasing % of homes without fathers and increasing crime, poverty, etc. Look up “father status” of criminals and juveniles with misdemeanors.

And the discipline is up to your SQ/CC, so unless someone has an absolute douche bag of a SQ/CC, they’ll be fine. I remember some admin person telling me I had to use a GTC for something, I said “don’t care,” and that’s when they threw out your sq/cc could punish you…I think I LOL’d and just walked away. I was pretty confident I could slap that thing down at Palominos (for dinner obviously!) and he wouldn’t give a fuck.

Completely agree. The black community in America has suffered greatly from the reduction of fathers in the house. The breakdown of families has hurt them more than anything else since the 60s.

County sheriff spoke at an event a while ago. Someone asked him why he thought our area crime was much lower than other areas with similar population. His response: “I think it’s because it’s widely known so many people have firearms here that criminals are far less likely to take risks.” And while crime does happen, a few incidents have involved dead criminals and the cops saying, “yeah that checks, have a nice day sir/ma’am.”