pawnman

Maybe even just a set of templates...officer/enlisted, SRA and below versus everyone else. That way the LtCol on his way to staff doesn't have to get "dorm leader" checked off his outprocessing checklist. Flyer/non-flyer, so that ARMS troops can stop being told to get their FEF.

Pay the full price of an invasion...for how long, I wonder? Still, this is an even better idea than letting Mt. Dew and Doritos paint logos on the jets in exchange for cash.

Was he keeping souvenirs?

He meant OTHER presidents. Not himself. Since he's been a member of congress, he can vote himself approval.

Assuming there are any real leaders left by then.

http://sarcasticcharm.com/22-things-miley-cyrus-looked-like-at-the-2013-vmas

As opposed to the greivous morale issues of being stationed at Creech or Cannon?

Kind of like when the Finance or MPF troops would call the MPC and ask how many lines/hours/bombs/EKIA we had in a given period "for their awards". I usually just hung up on them.

Are you serious right now? I've never had an OPR or award where I didn't write the first draft...do you really think my commander is going to sift through a dozen OPRs, 1206s, and training reports for each of the dozen folks going to the board every year?

You might ask yourself, if the Air Force cared so much, why do they have to throw so much money at people to keep them? One may wonder how an organization can possibly suck the fun out of what 99.9% of Americans believe is the coolest job one anyone can have. Maybe these guys know the answer to that question.

Well, DADT was repealed...

I totally won with my last PCS. It becomes a lot less stressful once you realize that most of the things on the virtual out-processing checklist will never actually be looked at.

Oh good, we are now consenting to have every protest broken up at the discretion of the local police department at any time, but a judge will sort it out later. Yay freedom!

I did. You wrote that anyone who diobeys a lawful order from a cop deserves a choke-slam. At least, that's what I took from it. You also maintain that telling people to disperse from public property is a lawful order. So again, where can people gather that the local police department does not have the legal right to choke-slam whoever they want for not moving? Is there anywhere protesters have a legal right to be, or must all crowds disperse as soon as the local cops show up?

Two were recent WIC grads.

So there is not a single area in America where the first ammendment right to freedom of assembly applies once the local police decide the folks are an inconvenience. Interesting take.

Yes, although the area directly over Belle Fourche doesn't include low altitude. It's got a shelf starting at 180.

So in your opinion, is there any public area people can congregate where they shouldn't just leave when the police show up?

This is one of the reasons why someone like the shirt needs to be on-board with the policy. When Amn Joe comes to the shirt because finance isn't paying out dependent BAH/FSA/slow-rolling DEERs enrollment (I know that one isn't finance) for his new husband Bob, the shirt should be supportive in Amn Joe's attempts to un-fuck his pay and benefits. Do you really think a shirt who so strongly believes gay marriage is wrong will put in the same effort for Joe and Bob that he would put in for Joe and Barbara?

Detroit.

I guess someone has to kick in the doors of people the NSA is listening to. With tanks. In a residential neighborhood. Hopefully the get the right house. Surely they'd never kick down the wrong door with one of these things, right? They certainly wouldn't shoot an innocent man's dog after raiding the wrong apartment. And even if they did kill the family dog after busting into the wrong house, they'd never handcuff the kids and sit them next to the dog's corpse. I guess you just have a lot more faith in our government than I do. After watching the IRS used as a weapon against political enemies, and after seeing the NSA turned on every American who uses the internet or a cell phone, I'm a little wary of pairing those agencies up with this kind of firepower and putting it all in Eric Holder's hands. Call me paranoid if you want, but the few isolated terrorist attacks don't warrant the kind of power we've turned over to the government.

So when was the last time DHS successfully stormed a domestic terrorist compound before an attack? Where have I heard this before...?

The bigger point is that it falls into the same bucket as criticizing any civilian leadership decision. You can raise issues, you can argue your point, but at some point, the decision has been made and you are expected to salute and follow orders. Especially for a first sergeant who is responsible for getting the rest of the squadron on-board. Just as we all bitch about losing morale patches, or ROE changes, or the giant witch-hunt for sexual predators...but at the end of the day, you are expected to take off the morale patches, follow the ROE, and clean the Maxims out of your desk. You can hold whatever personal opinions you want, but when you represent the Air Force, especially in a leadership capacity, you must also represent the Air Force's official policy on these things.

So if I don't fly for three months, then I do fly in month 4, those three months do not count towards gate months? Or you get three months free and you have to fly in the fourth month? I'm in exactly this position due to sequestration...August is month 4, but I'm scheduled to fly before the month is out.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/08/overthrow-the-generals/ Is Thom Ricks right, or is he cherry-picking his data to make senior leadership look bad in an effort to generate headlines?