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Couldn’t agree more! Is the moon Blue tonight?

Of course it’s real. While the rest of his 4 star buddies are focused on pronouns and diversity TED talks, he is actually focused on what matters and what will kill us. If you’ve ever met the guy, you know, he’s the real deal. Make whatever ATIS and fat chick jokes you want, INDOPACOM presents a logistics, movement, and maneuver challenge that we have never seen before and it’s nice that AMC is finally focused on the mission instead of 1206s.

Been saying this for years. Want to improve QOL for maintainers? Get rid of the AMXS and PCA everyone to the flying squadron. Marines and Navy have no problem with this model. 0-4 leadership position is MX OIC as a pilot. Not sure if it would make sense to fuse the MXS side as well. In any case, along those lines, I say get rid of all Groups and transition to an A-Staff model where Squadrons report directly to the Wing. I believe Mt Home and some other bases have already done that. My army coworkers look at my sideways when I tell them we have 0-6 Group Commanders and 0-6 Wing Commanders.

Remember approx 15-20 years ago when Democrats hated Bush and were firmly anti-war and it was the Republicans who were pro intervention and considered war hawks? Man how times have changed.

I get your point but a good E-8 or E-9 can be worth their weight in gold if: the unit has a lot of enlisted personnel which most units above the squadron level and above do, the associated officer is not a giant pussy and utilizes them correctly, and the E-8 or E-9 is a good dude/gal that mentors and looks after the young people and doesn’t care about mustache length and ball caps.

Joe Biden was never likeable. He was always a racist, misogynistic, bumbling moron who was just trying to find more young women to sniff. What you said about Trump and what I said about Biden can be true at the same time you know. The difference is the country did very well under one of those two…and it’s not Mr. Sniffs.

C’mon man that’s Trump’s fault!! Gas prices are going down, and they only went up because of Putin. We also solved inflation under Biden! Back to eating Ice Cream and finding a new lady to sniff.

I thought he “grew up in a Black Church”? Or was that just another pandering talking point to win over the African American vote?

I never said I agreed with it, as a Catholic I believe the church should accept you no matter how shitty of a person you are in real life; I just find it comical that’s all!

Biden is so Catholic that the church refuses to offer him communion due to his acquiescent views on Abortion.

And that makes it any better? In fact, that is much worse! I don’t want the FEDs having that much power. I couldn’t care less about wearing a mask, we bought custom fit ones at my old unit with custom cloth that was quite comfy (probably not “CDC legal” but WGAS). If a private business wants to impose a mask, by all means I’ll comply. What I’m not comfortable with is the Federal Government having the ability to make sweeping regulations that will likely be driven by emotion and politics rather than science and reason. Masks might not seem like a big deal, but if masks can be mandated on a federal level then what next? These questions are important, especially since you mentioned judicial precedent. Now before someone mentions seatbelts…those are usually mandated at a state level which I’m much more okay with because the whole point of the 10th amendment was for states to legislate as they see fit what is not in the bill of rights. Also, seatbelts are a lot less invasive so..

Well unfortunately for the media, worldwide coverage of Afghans falling off a U.S. C-17 taking off from Kabul is pretty hard to spin, and a pretty fitting sight for the most incompetent administration and defense department in history.

Your last point isn’t too far off from what our country was designed to be. We are a constitutional republic, not a democracy after all. But never mind all that, you’re a racist if you support IDs to vote or don’t want deadbeat prisoners voting.

Most incompetent administration in history. What do they have to gain by pushing the mask mandate? There has still got to be a large portion of their voting base that is obsessed with masks and terrified of COVID or something.

And keep Tahoe, Yosemite, and Reno areas. We could just give them everything West if I-5 and call it a day. What a great deal to avoid WW3.

This is what worries me. “We have little data but we will swing hard left, decimate the economy, and ruin careers in the name of public safety.” The government has shown what it is capable of when there is a “crisis.” The infringement of individual liberties has placed a dangerous precedent for this country. We cannot just sit back and accept that we will just go full lockdown, liberties and the economy be damned, anytime there is a crisis because “we didn’t have SA.” Now, to be fair, other countries have had even more stringent restrictions (Germany, Japan, etc) but I expect better of the U.S.

As they join the rest of the country

Your last paragraph is most important; like any group of people, most Russians are nice people who desperately want to be like the West and hate their government. You see it all over Europe with Russian expats. Oh and they tend to be strongly pro capitalist as they have seen first hand what the alternative does to a country.

I’ll never understand why they won’t. The older you get the harder it is to run, impact exercises take a toll on the joints. A bike or swim option would make sense in a service where most people will never have to run as part of their operational job. It makes sense so it will never happen.

The same POS that embarrassed the U.S. on the international stage with our humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan and still has a job. Too busy making extremism in the military videos.

Dude, no one is advocating eliminating aid to Ukraine. What we are asking for is to not give them a blank check, maybe an audit/accountability like any other major expenditure. Let’s not forget the corruption problems in Ukraine throughout recent history. Also let’s not forget NATO…Britain and Germany have made several contributions but many nations are just strap hanging.

She left the Democratic Party and most of what she says makes sense. No one knows what Kinzinger believes in besides himself.

I bet he was a real gem to work with in the Flying Squadron. On the other hand, my buddy has some peers who were in Tulsi’s Army unit and say she was always a pleasure to work with.

We absolutely should help Ukraine along with assure NATO and defend the Eastern Flank. Perhaps many are questioning the notion of sending blank checks to Ukraine (with no audit mechanism) indefinitely without a larger overarching strategy?