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Was discussing this topic with a coworker; flabbergasted that Biden is still a viable contender for reelection following this once in a century type of failure/embarrassment. He keenly pointed out that most Americans do not give a shit about what happened in Afghanistan one way or another; much like they couldn’t care less about what happens in Ukraine. We obviously care about it on this board but we are not a representation of the general populace. The election will come down to the economy, border, and social issues.
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On 4/11/2024 at 10:07 PM, nsplayr said:
Agree on Sullivan and I like Blinken as well. Yellen is excellent at Treasury, she never should have been replaced at the Fed, although Powell is also good...their policies & philosophy seem very similar. Haaland and Vilsack are quiet A- players in their jobs. Linda Thomas-Greenfield is great at the UN.
Overall some hits and some misses, as usual. Hoping that a second Trump term brings some fresh faces in some key positions!
Fixed it for you my man!
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8 hours ago, uhhello said:
twitter got me with this today. From 2017. Anyone know the outcome?
She won’t get fired
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12 hours ago, Pooter said:
Of course it's on the amn/nco page within minutes. I hope they find and absolutely crucify the source. Gawking at aircraft mishaps and posting pics for clout should be an immediate discharge
First time browsing that cesspool of nonner dipshits? Every time I view that page I’m not surprised the Air Force is in the state it is in.
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6 hours ago, HeloDude said:
But the administration says it’s all Trump’s fault.
Gaslighting seems to be a winning tactic
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12 hours ago, kaputt said:
Some real geniuses in the junior enlisted ranks these days.
Soon to be former Airman!
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2 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Wonderful job by Biden trying to take Easter away from all the Christians and rebrand it Transgender Awareness Day of Visibility. It is a free country, dress how you want, date who you want, be what you want but to purposely hijack a religious holiday with great meaning to many Christians is a direct assault on people of faith by demented Left Wing extremists. As if to pour a little salt in the wound, the White House has banned Religious-themed designs from the White House Easter egg art contest tomorrow.
Trump selling bibles is stupid, the liberal hate of faith is sickening.
I think someone on his PR team was cleared hot to go forward with this to purposely sabotage him; there is no way they could think this would be beneficial to him.
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32 minutes ago, Prosuper said:
How about the idiots who vote for the idiots that run Denver. It's getting to the point that the Peterson SFB commissary is the most north I want to go in Colorado. Have to go to Boulder for a forest fire fighter class soon, looking forward to all the rainbow hair color spectrum LBGTQ I'll be seeing.
Just enjoy the craft beer, it’s one thing the hippies have on the rest of the country, just one.
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17 hours ago, Skitzo said:
To any of the old heads out there… we’ve done the “no groups” thing before and have arrived at the present structure for reasons.
While this missive addresses organizational change histories it uses relatively bland terms.
Off hand I can reason that it will be difficult for a single wing commander to deal with discipline issues as well as there being difficulty being an operational war fighting wing dealing with a base commander who may or may not be in your chain.
Anybody out there care to comment?
https://usafunithistory.com/usaf-structure-and-lineage-history.html
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkTo the friction with the base commanders point, apparently some old heads said that once upon a time, the base commanders were 0-5s, meaning the 0-6 Wing Commander could get his way; if the base commander is an 0-6 (think current Air Base Wings), then there will definitely be issues. I can see divorcing the current Ops Wing Kings from installation commander duties having its pros and cons.
To the span of control point, the Army often has multiple Battalion commanders (0-5s), under one 0-6 Brigade Commander, anecdotally with more discipline issues than an Air Force Wing. Seems that Army Battalion commanders are trusted much more than Air Force Squadron commanders. Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of issues with the Army but they get some things right.
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19 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:
Not exactly civil traffic but close enough for this thread:
Interesting read with good embedded links
Been going on for over a year, severely affecting our mil platforms as well, and we haven’t done s$&t about it..
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Another waste of precious resources money and most importantly lives.
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14 minutes ago, brabus said:
Yep, that probably applies to 99% of the Army. I can count on one hand the number of Army dudes I’ve worked with who I think actually have a clue about what they can and should do in PACOM. I’m also primarily talking regular Army. Higher functioning SOF dudes are a different story.
Army makes their money in USFK
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On 3/9/2024 at 10:09 AM, BashiChuni said:
No mask before the speech.
masked up when the cameras are on.
Just catering to his brain dead voter base.
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6 hours ago, arg said:
That's how the USAF does it. Wonder how UAE does it.
Allah has the chutes!
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7 hours ago, Swizzle said:
Ooh, she has a DEI workplace certification...from Florida who recently banned DEI public university funding. Interesting, just made it under the wire at U.of South Florida.
Hell DEI is a full time industry/profession now! Random example, you can now select DEI fellowship for IDE/SDE! Wonder why we haven’t won a war in decades.
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56 minutes ago, kaputt said:
Garland announces the DoJ will fight Voter ID laws. Imagine being against proving that you are legal to vote. This should be a no brainer, non-political issue.
Unless you want people who aren’t legal to vote to somehow vote?
Great plan for the Dems until they realize a majority of the legal and undocumented immigrants that come to this country from the southern border come from strong Catholic / socially conservative backgrounds. Not enough to sway the populace by any means but said “Latino Vote” is no longer a given, look at DeSantis’s win in traditionally heavy blue Miami Dade county.
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15 hours ago, yellerfever said:
The Air Force is once again showing disdain for their hardest working, highest performing people…that have the most options on the outside.
Gotta pump those Air Force Ball bake sales and CGOC numbers up! Air Force doesn’t care whether you’re a good pilot or not.
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Everyone knows Biden is a bumbling idiot, but this SecDef has got to be the most incompetent piece of lard ever. His combatant commanders despise him, his staff is full of woke Ivy League chodes that just get in the way of actual war fighting business and have no business sitting in their positions. The fact that he didn’t resign after the historic embarrassment that was the Afghanistan withdrawal is downright shameful. I’m not thrilled about another Trump admin but at least it may lead to some executive cleaning house.
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Good riddance. I feel for his family, but the Air Force is better off without these lunatics. How many more are out there in our ranks like him? Waiting for the SecDef mandated extremism training on this one..I’ll wait!
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On 2/16/2024 at 9:50 AM, DirkDiggler said:
Ha! Maybe so. I get that new things/changes sometimes take a while to implement and function correctly but right now getting the same RFIs 3-4 times a day from the same part of the A-staff cause they're not talking to each other and whatever O-5 happens to have a burr up his ass about said RFI making the most important thing in the world is kinda frustrating. I AFSOC fucked up by not having the A-3 be an O-6; probably wouldn't have been able to find another O-6 to come to CVS anyway.
To be fair, I’ve never been at an organization where the majority of the HHQ staff wasn’t a hinderance to the mission (aka the RFI machine) as opposed to being supportive. It gets worse the higher up you go. Still not sure what the Joint Staff does besides answer RFIs to OSD. Staffs support the upstream commander, not downstream commanders unless they are bros.
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10 hours ago, HeloDude said:
Once again, this is a good thing. Now maybe more people who support this guy and their nonsense will wake up. Maybe.
No, they’ll move to Texas and still vote as they have.
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3 hours ago, Oceaneocket said:
Just got a pilot slot. I’m looking for any updates in the MAF community specifically with TDY frequency and length, and deployments too.
You’ll be gone a lot, but you will love it (family situation dependent). Depending on what airframe you select you’ll start pushing the envelope on the tactical side (aka C-130s). C-130s expect to deploy 3-6 months on 18 months off. C-17s similar with less deployments but you’ll be gone a lot more on global missions. Same with C-5s. Can’t speak to tankers. PM me if you have more questions.
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3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
The scenario quietly playing in the background, and the one that scares me the most...
Dems get to the Convention and Michelle comes sweeping in to save the day. Maybe then she could finally be proud of her country.
It’s a Democratic wet dream, won’t happen, she’s a celebrity millionaire living in places like Martha’s Vinyard. She has nothing to gain personally from running for office. Also she has zero qualifications, Hilary was more qualified than her and that’s not saying much.
If she ran, she would destroy Trump or any White Male because to simple minded liberals, race and gender transcend everything else. Wonder how she would fare against Nikki Haley though.
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14 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:
I am at a loss for words, WTF are these idiots thinking?
Stop retired pay.
Stop VA pay.
No choice of duty station.
No promotion opportunity.
Your time on VRRAD does NOT count towards time in service.
Sooo come work in a crap hole of our choosing, for half pay, no promotion and its doesn't count towards your retirement.
FU!
Can’t wait to see takers in the single digits while the smuck who dreamed up this idea gets promoted. Seems like all we do is reward mediocrity. This will be similar to that stupid aviation only track for majors that only had 2-3 takers.
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Niger: USA out, Russia in.
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Spoiler alert - Biden: “It’s Trump’s fault”