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Worthwhile analysis of the bridge strike; I did not realize it was detonated via suicide truck bomb: Link This and NS2 sabotage are potentially pivotal incidents shaping the next few months. And nobody is taking credit and it’s not obvious who did it. Very strange.

Having the original shots (or single J&J) is considered fully vaccinated. Boosters remain under EUA and are not required per DOD policy. However it gets weird when it comes to deployments, because some countries have boosters or a shot within the past 180 days as entry requirements, which turns into unenforceable job requirements. I have a lot of visibility on this in my current role; suffice to say we are turning ourselves in knots for something that is useless.

I will be very interested to see if this policy is sustainable the next few years. Almost none of the kids starting fall 2023 freshman year of college with my son are vaccinated. As colleges are rapidly dropping their mandates, the incentive for a fit 18-year-old in peak shape to take something which provides zero protection and potentially damages his heart forever just isn’t there. This policy reduces the pool of available candidates, which ultimately is detrimental to national security

Who is “we?” I don’t know any of those things.

100% agree. Now that I’m at the end of my career, I finally see this for what it is: tactics of a failing bureaucracy. Stall, delay decision until survey results, lose survey results, further study the problem, convene a committee and of course it takes time to select committee members, etc. In fact, proficiency at these tactics is a chief indicator of which senior officer is ready for another star; battlefield results are irrelevant and accountability for failure in combat is zero. If I could identify one single characteristic which is the thread tying together multiple failings of our military, small senseless policies to massive strategic failure, it would be this: combat success does not equal career success and career success can be had without combat success. If we promoted people who valued combat success above all else, everything would resolve logically including the aviation bonus.

You could use a relaxing cocktail.🥃 Personally I don’t think we did it. But it’s noteworthy that many NATO officers think we did.

Wow, those police have the patience of Job, my hat is off to them for their composure.

I don’t understand your point, perhaps you could elaborate on what subjects are and are not off-limits to discuss? Critical thinking and questioning the official narrative and listening to enemy propaganda would have helped our nation slow down the rush to war in Iraq circa 2003, and potentially have prevented that entire useless catastrophe. Of note, the “enemy propaganda” that they had no WMD turned out to be true. And our CIA expert analysis was false. Putin is a dictator, war criminal, and prolific propagandist. But when something strange happens in the world, there’s nothing wrong with asking a few questions. I guess I am a free-speech extremist.

Very strange story. All of the German & French military officers I still correspond with think the US did this. Seems extremely unlikely to me, but it also seems dumb for Russia to do this as it degrades their leverage over Western Europe. I have no idea what’s happening.

I sympathize with your plight, and applaud your honest self-analysis. To answer your questions: step one: cancel existing mandates step two: accountability from those in power who lied to us step three: determine origin and respond with wrath Reconciliation is impossible without accountability, and it starts with Fauci.

If the CBT is forgettable, let’s not do it. If it’s genuine, our elected leaders have a duty to debate the content before new ideology is mandated upon the force. Either way, how am I “taking the bait?” Your commentary is logically incoherent. And nice dig at a past generation of war fighters who answered the nations call. Nothing makes your point more convincing than disparaging those who went before us🙄

In the civilian world I am free to not participate in deluded sexual fantasies of the insane. And men pretending to be women are insane. Women who cut off their tits and main line testosterone to live out severe mental health problems should be pitied not celebrated. The military is fundamentally different in that I took an oath to follow orders and we are not free to walk away. Ordering the military to follow radical social philosophies wrecks unit cohesion and degrades lethality. The DEI argument that inclusion increases unity because everyone feels valued might be true if they focused on tolerance. However, they are totalitarian not tolerant. By forcing the language of their own worldview they deny equal dignity to my own which is antithetical to unit cohesion.

Subversion of democracy. Truly shocking and disgusting collusion between our government and political progressives. We need to vote for people who can clean house! Would love to see the FBI confidential informant receipts from January 6th…

100% valid! PM sent.

Huggy, I now care for my elderly widowed mother who would struggle with relocation. I have 20 years of flying left, definitely don’t want to commute that whole time, but will happily do so if required to achieve larger life objectives. Cheers.

Very illuminating posts on commuting, thank you! Archer, I’ve recently met several folks in similar situations you describe. They’ve mostly executed your COA2 successfully and transitioned into larger carriers quickly (6 months). This is a great hiring environment. Good luck! ETA: in your shoes I’d turn down school & bounce— wars over. Lol, I just turned down SDE myself.

Pardon my ignorance on airline commuting, but is travel by jump seat the most common way for you guys to get to/from your domicile? It looks like some companies buy their employees a ticket which seems more convenient. It’s likely I’ll be a commuter for yeas if not forever; ergo it seems factoring ease of commute into my selection criteria would be smart.

That’s exactly right. Go back and read this thread from 18 months ago, people here were claiming there was a scientific consensus when in fact there was a conspiracy to paint a scientific consensus and drown out opposing voices. And those opposing voices turned out to be correct. Now revisionist history is taking place right in front of our eyes: Democrats are claiming they did not want schools closed, Trump pushed the shot, and it was just a wild time and nobody really knew what the right answer was so they defaulted towards safety. All of that completely false. As I look at the many failures compounding within our society, from skyrocketing urban crime to a foolish Covid response, to a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan, runaway inflation, etc. there is a single thread which connects them all: lack of accountability. People in senior leadership positions made deliberate decisions with disastrous results, and they are never held accountable. All of our problems will continue to worsen until people are fired & thrown in jail when they deserve it. And given the severe damage to children he perpetrated, I would like to start with Fauci.

Anybody with half a brain knew that would be the case. Of course a decision this momentous has to come from the president. But the current president looked right in the camera and lied about it, and some people here on this board are actually OK with that.

In this case, somebody hired off of merit would not look like they were reading statements from a book. They would look like somebody professional enough to think on their feet and talk extemporaneously with honesty about the questions that are asked, not somebody who spends 80% of every briefing reading pre-written notes that may or may not answer the actual question. Count the number of “umms” and “ahhhs” and tell me the average undergrad communications major couldn’t do better. Psaki was a liar but at least she looked competent at speaking in public.

Let’s just make sure we have an equivalent officer core of fatties and handicapped, we wouldn’t want to be fat phobic or ablest. Let’s ensure we retain those with severe psychological problems as well because #Fairness or we could focus on attracting people who value victory and know how to fight.

That’s not what he meant to say, just ask Prozac.

Spot on. public service announcement: don’t accept these either, it might be from a minor.