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Not saying our GOs weren’t a contributing factor in the mess that was GWOT (Afghanistan and Levant) but I would say most of the failures belong at the political level.

What do you mean back to!? We still have a large presence there and many of us get to deploy there every couple years

You can thank Maxine Waters. She’s 86 by the way.

I was dead set on getting out as a Captain. WIC was a huge goal for me and I went later in my career despite adding a year to my ADSC. Afterwords, serving as a patch and feeling like I was making an impact on the next generation was a turning point for me. I loved serving, leading, and having a sense of fulfillment. So I stayed…jury is out whether it was the right decision but I’m essentially locked in to retirement. I love flying, and while airlines were tempting, the job wasn’t for me. I’ll likely buy an airplane when I retire to scratch the itch. There is a lot that is wrong and frustrating with the Air Force; but focusing on what is right (the dudes in the squadron doing the mission) and honing in on that pushed me to stay and try to make it a little bit better.

It wouldn’t need SecDef energy if his predecessors hadn’t wasted time on it.

Let’s flip the script, how many man hours were spent building radical ideology such as CRT into curriculums at all levels of the military; and said books into the libraries to begin with? CRT and other communist ideology should have never had a place in the military to begin with. Like I said before, most actions occuring now might seem radical but that will be the case when you aggressively course correct back to normalcy.

And to top off just how dumb democrats are, many Hispanics are staunch conservative Catholics and tend to actually swing right. Yeah most of your dirt bag MS13 types will vote left but “too many” Hispanics lean right on a lot of issues to the point where it should be uncomfortable for democrats. You saw that with DeSantis winning Miami dade, a large sect of Hispanics sticking to Trump and many rising young Hispanic conservatives in congress.

Why would Israel do that? When you have terrorist living football fields away from your citizens you don’t just tuck tail.

Yeah, we took our First Sergeant (medical I believe) to an Ex with a stop in Pattaya. Dinner on the outskirts of walking street - she about had a heart attack. This was after her perplexity that we didn’t use rank on the airplane. Truly different worlds we live in. Flight doc though? Took a shower in the airline club.

Fuck Pakistan and its terrorist sharia state. India all the way. Time for Trump to solidify India as the new Ally in the region, something we should have done decades ago.

This is very much a good thing. The number of issues folks who suffer from gender confusion cause in the military makes absolutely no sense as to why they should be serving. They should have never been given the exception by Obama and then Biden.

Idk, classical philosophy really helped me out as a pilot and officer. 😶

Punk is one of the good ones, till this day still down to earth and takes care of folks.

Checks. Many of them got shuffled through the ranks over the last decade, now that their sex won’t carry them as far some of them are getting upset. Same with African Americans. I would say this is the case with any current Trump policy. When you’ve gone so far off course as a nation (taxes, civilian workforce, DEI, transgenders, foreign aid, etc.), an abrupt bank back to centerline is going to seem extreme to those who benefit from said insane policies when all that’s happening is a course correction back to normalcy.

Good, clean kill. Sitting 0-6 Installation CC should know better. Would have felt the same if it was about Kaaamala.

To be fair there is nothing stopping MAJCOMs and subordinate units from establishing family days. I guess sucks for you if you’re in ACC with Wilsbach.

Yes, this, 100%, why we are still in a much better position today than this alternative.

None of which will happen until the AF and Navy achieve air and maritime dominance first respectively. Otherwise, sitting ducks without the logistics to get some Patriot batteries to their locations.

Honestly that’s a really weird relationship since the EUCOM CC is dual hatted. If it’s a 31 country alliance and the desire is to get other countries to step up, it would be better optics (regardless of views on NATO) for other countries to share leadership of the alliance. EUCOM does and will continue to do most of the work anyways!

Yepp I bet she’s a real peach to work with. Def had her as an “instructor” and she packs quite the punch.

Color me shocked. Another datapoint to put a nail in the coffin to racist and sexist affirmative action processes in our military. Save that for your Ivy leagues, no place for that in our business.

Holding Ukraine accountable for the billions of tax payer dollars we have given them isn’t “Pro Russia,” good lord when did you leftists become so anti peace? I thought that was your mojo back in early 2000s. Also this Trump pro Russia nonsense was tried in 2016, failed then and will fail again. You all will never learn, hence why Trump destroyed Kamala who would have had this country on its knees pissing away money so Zelensky doesn’t have to actually have an election and potentially lose his grasp on power. Let’s see your tone when Zelensky comes crawling back because there are literally no other executable options than to rely on the United States. No longer do we have a kick me sign on our back under the blithering half wit.

Who the hell is this Liquid Guy? Isn’t he some fake retired general or something?

Rather have this dude than DEI Lloyd who fucked away Afghanistan, was in a coma while an active member of the NCA, no strategy on Ukraine, and wore a double Covid mask and face shield while in public.

Having worked in that arena, NATO certainly has its issues. EUCOM forces do 90% of the work, to include NATO’s own staffing. Not even going to cover the can of worms that is the discrepancy between our military and financial contributions despite being 1/31 countries in the alliance. That said, there are strategic advantages to being an active part of the alliance - just wish it wasn’t so slanted.