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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.

I think the vast majority of readers on this site agree with you. We have a lot in common here and I wager 99% of us could fly missions together, do well, and like each other afterwards. I like everybody I work with. Which is why I am interested in these threads: I’m not talking to Internet trolls (we do a good job identifying those types), I’m talking to people with a shared background and reasoning abilities. I’m morbidly curious to understand how somebody like nsplayr, who is a warrior I know, could willingly embrace cognitive dissonance. He’s probably wondering the same about me! Despite disagreeing with each other, we have to find a way to live together. The alternative is shitty governments and corruption and tribalism like all of the places we deploy to. Or civil war. This is a hyper polarized time, and there are real consequences to our nation if half of them simply cannot stand to live with the other half. And I don’t want that, I love our country. So despite frustrating comms, which I frequently tap out of early, I do think there’s value in the discussion. And why censorship is anti-American and those who censor must be rejected.

Lotta unnecessary dick talk in there, very odd. Clearly there is a correlation between getting multiple shots and contracting COVID. It is plain as day that public health authorities have misled the public: Lockdowns did not work, masking hurt kids, virus was man-made from a Chinese bio-lab, NIH conducted illegal gain-of-function research, the shots do not stop the spread… all trending towards true despite the best effort of big tech and government to censor it. Unbelievable, never something I thought I would see in my lifetime. Next “conspiracy” that will be proven true is the harmful effects of these disgusting experimental shots that were forced on us all. I want accountability.

Great post; I understand your sentiments exactly and I wish you the best with your decision. The Air Force and nation are better with people like you in it. I fear our service is unable to intelligently manage our most precious resource: you and others similarly motivated to fly fight win. I salute you for remaining, empathize with your addiction to combat, and genuinely hope the aforementioned pay increases are codified into law.

Whether the documents were or were not declassified is the point of contention. You say his standing order to declassify what he brings home is absurd, but as the ultimate declassification authority, no it isn’t, that’s the whole point of this. I understand you disagree with that viewpoint, and apparently so does the FBI and justice department. TBD in court I guess. Regardless the precedent of cops raiding your political enemies over something so minor and murky is extremely dangerous. This will amount to as much of a nothing burger as the Russia gate hoax. But since gambling is more fun than arguing, I’m happy to wager a bottle of booze on my assertions. Be warned, I have a flawless predictive track record on disagreements where booze is gambled.