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    The Next President is...

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     to this specifically.
    Someone else on here who is right-leaning said their red-lines for supporting a candidate were (sic) "transing teens, CRT in the military, and vaccine mandates." Lol, my man, those are incredibly niche issues if you ask me and really small potatoes in terms of your big-ticket items.
    My top policies when looking for Democratic candidates in a primary in particular, and at general election candidates overall, are continued broad & deep economic growth, accelerating the transition to clean American-made energy and related technologies, maintaining the U.S. as a leader in international affairs with both hard & soft power, and making our healthcare system work both better and cheaper for all Americans.
    IMHO comparable topics on the right might be keeping taxes & regulations low and streamlined, reforming/limiting immigration and ensuring tight border security, reducing the national debt, and maintaining a strong and generously-funded military.
    So much of this culture war BS is just so small and inconsequential compared to the issues above and I can't bring myself to give more than half a shit about any of it. And yes people on the left do it too...needless focus on race over any other topic, trying to push non-mainstream gender and sexual norms on society at large, etc. etc. None of us should be wasting so much of our breathe on this small-ball and I'd happily go back to the days of debating about the tax & spending plans of Mitt Romney vs Barack Obama, which trust me I heavily overindulged in 

    When you two are done giving each other a reach-around…


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    Site certifcate expired

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    Thank you for that offer. The advertising covers the cost of the server, domain name, and now the SSL. I was doing certificates myself, but it was time consuming and when life was too busy (like the last few days), I kept dropping it out of my crosscheck. I've added automated certificate management and it shouldn't happen again.

    Thank you!


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    The Congressman is back yo

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    I think people misunderstand that CA natives don't want people moving there, and they use their legal system to intentionally restrict housing, driving up home prices to increase their own wealth, and make the people moving to the state miserable in the hopes they will some day go home. And it's working, inflow to CA was negative for the first time last year. Honestly, CA natives just want to go back to a state of 1900's rural beach property and empty land. 

    And now you know how Colorado natives feel about Californians…


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    WTF? (**NSFW**)

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    The ORI you remember is ancient now days.  They have revolutionized light years beyond ORI's by executing Agile Combat Employment exercises in which bases/units generate personnel and equipment, fly to a forward location and execute operations from said forward location.   

    Oh, you mean they have an ORI…


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    Can anyone give recent FC1/MFS Experience?

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    I'm not that kind of doc, but since you didn't get any other replies I'll give you my thoughts. 
    They will certainly review the history and waiver, but I don't think they'll do any more inspection than what everyone else gets.  In all my years working at WP I don't recall anyone being sent over to the medical center for a colon scope.  
    Each department is a little different, but for eye folks, our attitude was that if the AF already waived a condition then we were wasting their time giving them our opinion.  The only exception was if the waiver was based on incorrect information.  Then we would point that out and let them decide how to proceed.
    Bottom line is that I wouldn't sweat it.

    Moooon….River….


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    Col Gail Halvorsen--the Candy Bomber--Passes

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    Another Air Force legend has gone west!
    Gail_Halvorsen_ca._1983.jpg

    'Candy Bomber' who dropped sweets during Berlin Airlift dies

    Col Gail S. Halvorsen — known as the “Candy Bomber” for his candy airdrops during the Berlin Airlift after World War II ended — has died.
    Halvorsen was 101 when he died Wednesday following a brief illness in his home state of Utah, surrounded by most of his children, James Stewart, the director of the Gail S. Halvorsen Aviation Education Foundation, said Thursday.
    Halvorsen was beloved and venerated in Berlin, which he last visited in 2019 when the city celebrated the 70th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their post-War World II blockade cutting off supplies to West Berlin with a big party at the former Tempelhof airport in the German capital...  (Rest of the story at the title link)
     

    A toast…


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    Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

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    Money may not buy happiness, but financial security is a real thing. Being able to send your kids to any college they get into is a real change in your quality of life. Knowing that your wife won't be impoverished if you don't make 20 years and Lt Col is also a real difference in your life. The air force may not be able to compete dollar for dollar with a lot of jobs, but pretending any money above $100k salary and tricare is unnecessary is asinine and insulting.
     
     

    You do you, bro


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    Everyone should be jealous of this Air Force pilot skateboarding down the flight line...

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    "Gives permission"... has ANYONE ever been coached up on an email signature not being the Tongue & Quill standard? 
    Pretty sure people could have just put pronouns in their signature and no one would have batted an eye. 

    I retired 12 years ago. To answer your question, yes, I was “coached up” on multiple occasions about my signature block not being IAW…



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    Covid Injection Tyranny - Share and Discuss

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    So in 23 years of getting the shot, you only got the flu twice?
    Seems like an argument FOR the flu vaccine.
    But regardless of the motives for the flu shot...did you stand up and scream about bodily autonomy, pharmaceutical company profits, legality...or did you go get the flu shot? And if you think the flu shot isn't a military readiness issue... why were you willing to get that shot but not Covid? 

    Read it again, Pawn. For comprehension this time…


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    Finally done in Afghanistan?

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    Did anybody ever really know what it was about? After several years of flying sorties over that place & seeing very little substantive change I came to the conclusion that the only reason I, or anyone else was there was for another OPR/EPR bullet. The failure of leadership in Afghanistan lays bare what happens when an organization allows itself to fall victim to blatant and unabashed careerism. The only “accomplishments” we can claim are ### lbs offloaded, ### TICs supported, ### Enemy Combatants (we hope) KIA, etc. etc. NOBODY from the four stars down ever REALLY wanted to tackle the questions of what we were doing there or what the end game was. Just do your tour, write your bullets, get your promotions, retire and let somebody else deal with the hard questions. I have no dog in the fight anymore, but as Joe Bagadonuts taxpayer (and as someone with many friends continuing to serve……..Thank You. You have a much higher bullshit threshold than I), I truly hope there is a reckoning in the military over the next decade (a la post-Vietnam) & that our future leaders can internalize our failures and codify solutions that will ensure we think a lot harder about how we expend this nation’s treasure in future endeavors. 

    They will be “lessons observed” vice “lessons learned” and the big wheel will keep on turnin’


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    The Next President is...

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    Yep, we had the same issue when going TDY to Alaska in August.  Not only were cars tough to find, they were also quite expensive!

    Vacationed with the family in NW Montana last month, and paid $1700 for a GMC Yukon for 10 days. I had reserved it 8 months earlier. Dude in line in front of me at National Car Rental walks up and asks what they have available (no reservation) for two weeks. They offer him a minivan at $5600, and he paid it. Nothing else available…


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    The Next President is...

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    Just as an aside...I know why y'all are using UC Berkeley* in examples, but it's really a poor choice for "these graduates have worthless/useless degrees."
    Berkeley is one of the very best universities in the country. It's top-20 in terms of "best universities" by whatever formula Payscale uses, #22 in US News rankings, and produces 42% STEM-related degrees.
    So I mean yea, a BA in Underwater Basket Weaving from the University of Phoenix paid for by unsubsidized federal loans is probably the more apt example of what we need less of 🤷‍♂️
    Another funny aside from that Payscale data...the military academies all score really well because of honestly quite high "early career salary" i.e. O3 pay, high-meaning career fields, and high % of STEM degrees, however anecdotally I have yet to meet a single academy grad that recommends their alma mater to anyone else 🤣
    *I did not go to Berkeley nor do I know anyone who did.

    As an Academy grad who has never recommended his alma mater…it had absolutely NOTHING to do with the quality of the education or the post-graduate pay, and everything to do with the integrity of the organization it was tied to. Just one data point…


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