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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
Sua Sponte replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
First open lesbian GO in the USAF who was one of the first women to fly the B-2 removed? Either failed a PT test or killed someone. -
Commanders are dropping like flies this year
Sua Sponte replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
The reason why GO’s gets caught with IG stuff is because by law they have to be investigated by the Service Secretary IG/DOD IG. It’s no so easily swept under the rug by a Wing/NAF/MAJCOM IG. -
Commanders are dropping like flies this year
Sua Sponte replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
No court martial or kicked out cause of it? Weird. -
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There’s different burden’s of proof. When you file a VA claim, it’s “more likely than not” burden. In criminal law, it’s the highest (for good reason), “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Even if the House could drum up 2/3rds majority to impeach him, it’ll never be approved in a Republican controlled Senate. So the issue would be moot. Even trying is just vying for optics from their base for election season. The Mueller Report literally says that it doesn’t show that criminal conduct either happened, nor does it exonerate him from any criminal conduct. It’s the equivalent of a hung jury. Remember, it’s beyond a reasonable doubt. However, the Mueller Report also says it adheres to a DOJ policy (not a law, a policy) that states they will not charge a sitting President with criminal charges (states will since they’re a different sovereignty). So, even if the Mueller Report would’ve said that Trump committed obstruction of justice beyond a reasonable doubt, he wasn’t going to get charged anyway by the Feds, since it would’ve gone against the DOJ policy. It would’ve just been dumped off on Congress to do something, if anything. There’s been talk about how “there wasn’t any crime, so you can’t have obstruction of justice.” Which, isn’t quite true per the Federal definition of it. There was a proceeding pending before a department or agency of the United States. The defendant knew of or had a reasonably founded belief that the proceeding was pending. The defendant corruptly endeavored to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which the proceeding was pending. Martha Stewart was charged, and convicted of obstruction of justice inter alia , even after the major charge of securities fraud was dismissed. But like I said, even if Mueller had found that he obstructed justice beyond a reasonable doubt, the only option is to turn it over to Congress for possible impeachment. Nixon would’ve most likely never been in the position to resign had he not been stupid enough to record himself talking obstructing justice via the “Smoking Gun Tape” by ordering the FBI to not investigate the Watergate break in. Based on the diluted Democratic nominees, all 400+ running, Trump will most likely win re-election.
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Tactics, Techniques, & Procedures include: - Losing Form 9’s - Changing “color” of money - New Sq TV purchases last week of fiscal year - Official Functions: How to close for training for lunches - How to fire Civil Service employees without taking years - Jobs to obtain after your “four/five and dive” career aspirations
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My favorite was the “Fear the Rat” that was etched on every shitter on Manas, even the one in OG building.
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Depends on your rank. Same rank? Sure. Outrank him? No problem. Don’t outrank him? Expect paperwork. We had a prior Boom that was a newer copilot when I was at Fairchild. Under the radar he was seeing an AFE girl, which became public once they got married after she separated. She was pregnant and Rat did math backwards. He ended up tanking the dude on his OPR and sending him to be an AMLO with the Army in Ft. Riley. I guess on the way out of the door he said something shitty like “enjoy seeing your future kid working with the Army.” He ended up getting out, joining a reserve KC-10 unit, teaching UPT as a reserve unit, now back at KC-10 unit. Great dude, Rat totally boned him, but even I can attest when Mother Blue gives you a bad deal, your an still succeed.
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I’ve known Rat for years. He could honestly give a shit what others thought of him. I know that it probably upsets him that he never climbed into GO status being a HPO throughout his whole career and all. I always laughed at how no community claimed him as “theirs.” The Herk bubbas thought he was a tanker dude, which was impossible since he despised the KC-135 and community. He’s a strat airlift dude (-141/-17) by trade, but they wouldn’t claim him either. Dude was a Captain Sobel who got promoted O-6 status. I will say this, he was a really good pilot flying with him a few times. But the -141 apparently flew like the -135 does, which means a 1979 Lincoln Mark VIII. He was also one of the douches who bounced out of town with his MSM in tow on his way to school when Fairchild failed their ASEV in 2010 while Rat’s old DO, who replaced him as CC, was the scapegoat in that and was relieved of command over it. Thankfully that guy, who’s a great dude, was taken care of by some GO’s later on and made O-6 and was the Vance CV a few years ago.
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He was my Sq/CC at Fairchild and Manas. He made a copilot, who just had testicular cancer, talk about it in front of the squadron. He ordered a copilot in from his two weeks time off after a deployment with his family to have a formal promotion ceremony to Captain. It pissed Rat off that the guy was super pissed at him for coming in to have a promotion ceremony. Later on the guy was supposed to assume alpha alert early in the morning. The night prior he felt sorta ill, but thought he’d feel better in the morning. He woke up and felt worse, went to the flight doc and went DNIF. Rhatigan was so mad at him, he gave him an LOC/LOR for dereliction of duty since he thought the guy was trying to get out of alert duty (which was a god send to do, since you were away from the squadron and Rat). The guy is in the Guard now last I heard. I personally flew with Rat on a deployment sortie when he was my deployed Sq/CC. Since we had three pilots on board, I took my copilot back to the boom pod and let him refuel A-10’s and F-16’s all day. I felt bad for him since the cruise out to the AOR meant Rat was GKing him on all of the various Soviet era airfields between Manas and Bagram. If Rat’s reading this, he was pretty good, but I can’t believe your allowed that to happen being the A-Code! Oh yeah, one more story. Guy that was a copilot/AC at Fairchild was in Rat’s squadron. He ended up going to Kadena and getting into some “TDY Shenanigans” while on a typhoon evac that got him an Art 15. He ended up deploying soon after when Rat was the new OG at the Deid. Rat sends out an email about his “vision” and about himself as the new OG. Guy in question responds with “Hey, maybe we should lunch sometime dude.” Why? Who the knows? He tells me the next day his crew shows up and the ADO tells him that his crew is off the schedule and that he has a personal meeting with Rat. So, he goes and see Rat in his office during meeting time and Rat says “Hey, ###, come on in. Haven’t seen you in a long time.” He walks in, not thinking defensively, and sits down and Rat immediately stands him at attention yelling at him about how he’s a Colonel and how dare he use lack of email professionalism, how he had the audacity to ask Rat to write him a character reference to the Wing King at Kadena when he got his Art 15, etc. The switches tones and says “yeah, we should do lunch with me and your crew sometime, just let me know!” Rat was an English major at USAFA and speech writer for the SECAF. We used to have to select 93 ARS/All distrobox, then manually remove his name from a squadron wide email because he “hated spam.” He used to print out emails that people would sent him on various day-to-day issues, order them to his office, and proceed to pull out a red pen and correct their grammar in front of them in the email. He’s Selva’s boy (was his Wing Exec when he was a Wing King). That is most likely the only reason when as far as he did. The people I personally know who he ruined their careers are doing well in the majors. I’m not really surprised that he isn’t flying for the airlines knowing the amount of black lists he’d appear on.
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Trying to maximize leave close to retirement/terminal
Sua Sponte replied to Mox's topic in General Discussion
You can also do TAPS at your house. You’re just required to get the briefings by CBT’s and show the Family Readiness Center the certificate at the end. -
Trying to maximize leave close to retirement/terminal
Sua Sponte replied to Mox's topic in General Discussion
Once you go terminal leave, you don't come back unless it's for some kind of administrative thing, which usually isn't good. -
Found the problem. https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-rhatigan-1814b622/
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What is next for the UPT-Next graduates?
Sua Sponte replied to JimNtexas's topic in General Discussion
-135’s from KSKA go there as well. -
Knowing who one of the DCMA pilots are in Seattle, I’m not surprised this happened.
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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
Sua Sponte replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
Different spanks for different ranks. -
You’re welcome C-17 USAFA grad who has T-Mobile, dad went Stanford, and enjoys Euro cars.
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Otherwise known as any GS that works in the student admin flight of any TRS.
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A lot of it is grand standing. It’s still gray area if a president can pardon himself while in office. And as most everyone knows the president has wide discretion to issue a pardon to whoever he wants. Which is really the catalyst why the NY AG/DA indicted Manafort and possibly more of Trump’s family knowing he has no pardon jurisdiction in state proceedings. I expect the Mueller Report to blow up in the face of the Dems much like the pitchfork raising Republicans had the Starr Report/Impeachment blow up in theirs, specifically Newt Gingrich in the 90’s. If it does, it’ll be a landslide re-election of Trump for another four years.
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Huh? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/read-muellers-full-indictment-against-12-russian-officers-for-election-interference Pretty sure most of the people on that indictment didn’t talk to Mueller’s Special Counsel or are in the U.S.
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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
Sua Sponte replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/03/12/air-force-colonel-at-norad-found-not-guilty-of-sexual-assault-convicted-of-assault/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=Socialflow+AIR&utm_medium=social -
Before he was jerking off in front of chicks, he had a great skit on divorce.
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1st female Air Force combat vet in run for congress
Sua Sponte replied to F-15E WSO's topic in Squadron Bar
https://ktar.com/story/2244099/martha-mcsally-says-shed-vote-to-confirm-brett-kavanaugh/ “We also need fairness where individuals can’t just have one person without any corroboration impact such an important decision,” she said. -
Some of the original -46 FTU IP/IB’s might actually be able to instruct in the -46 for less than a year, out of a 3/4 year tour, before having to PCS. But probably not.
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So, don’t list your buddy who’s a weed dealer as a reference?