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Wise strategy in lieu of the Hunter Biden stories; while true and investigation worthy- doesn’t meet the appeal threshold of the public, specifically those on the fence. GOP needs to start playing the dem campaign games.

Speaking of the 19th AF/CC, he’s been in the seat for 3 years, shouldn’t he be getting a replacement soon?

Is the new AFSOC CC the infamous “CAT 5” or something?

My thoughts exactly, your civilian sim IPs are Vietnam vets who have cut their teeth in military aviation; not off the street civilian pilots who have no clue about military aviation. I’m all for innovation but nothing yells giving up more than this.

Callsign nights and shacking with female students is a thing too! …too soon?

I support a ban on morons like him from serving in congress.

Probably more about getting fuel to people who need it *closer* to the fight?

I know a lot of people don’t like Fingers but I think he did his very best to undo the damage Norty and Welsh did (mostly Norty). Under Fingers there was a focus on the squadrons, elimination of BPZ and school selects, reduced rated manning on staffs etc. Cultural changes and frozen middle management take time to overcome unfortunately. Not really sure about the current chief, seems more about talk and optics.

Anyone with half a brain should realize that the leftist establishment pulling Brandon’s puppet strings loves our gas situation. 1- Furthers their argument of acceleration of programs like the Green New Deal, 2- Improves their justification for large scale social programs just in time for the midterms. What is the saying? “Never let a good crisis go to waste”.

Not a huge fan but the one thing I respected about John McCain is that he would publicly roast the Air Force for their incompetence. The famous video of McCain giving it to Welsh over the A-10 retirement debacle is priceless; as a result we still have the A-10. Kinzinger, take notes, find your sack and hold people accountable.

It’s getting close to the midterms and his handlers are probably nervous..probably keeping a tight leash on him before he continues embarrassing himself in public.

Ummm interesting analogy…can’t say I’ve heard that one, 10/10 for creativity ….but no

Cutting costs, and also fixing the pilot manning crisis the Air Force created by pumping through more UPT students since they have all but given up on retaining on the other end. We do this to ourselves. I’ll be standing by the data points on MAF 2.0/2.5 students from my FTU and line bros.

Went to the academy with him, he always seemed “off”, but hindsight is 2020. During IFS he was showing his classmates a sex video he made with some chick over the weekend, kind of weird. Would’ve never imagined he was a predator.

It’s a badge of honor for many people, especially her kind. How did we end up with communists like her at the highest levels of government? It really comes down to the fact that the Biden Admin (his handlers) are not ruling in good faith. They want to fundamentally change the core fabric of this country (limiting speech is one of the first steps, firearms second…no coincidence our founding fathers made speech and self defense the top two amendments). In order to fundamentally change the government that benefits the oligarchs, they flat out need to sabotage the country. It must be by design. The likes of AOC, her stupid squad..their lunacy and idiocy makes sense when you realize this is all by design, accomplished by the useful idiots who voted these people into office.

Standard scarecrow tactics. There are fringe elements on the right that want to ban birth control but they are a minority within a minority - yet the left tries to frame this view as mainstream when it’s far from it. Catholic organizations that employ folk won’t offer birth control but they are a private organization and birth control isn’t that expensive for one to buy on their own. Most conservatives I know want the life of the unborn to be protected but believe birth control is a good thing. The fundamental debate is where life begins. An argument can be made for conception, but even most conservatives do not believe abortion should be banned immediately after conception. I always liked the first trimester rule. After the first trimester, the fetus starts to resemble a baby. I also think it is a decent compromise to a very polarized topic. Unfortunately, both sides love said polarization so they can galvanize their base.

You joke, but let’s not forget that planned parenthood initially started out as a means to keep the birth rate of African American babies low (utterly inhumane). China and India both use abortion to limit female offsprings for various reasons (India culturally due to dowry burdens).

Shhhh, enough with that. It’s only news worthy when it’s the right. Not that you can legitimately associate the larpsters and mr Viking hat with any respectable spectrum of republicans.

No porn in the shitter was an easy kill…I mean now days you could have non binary males that could take offense to said light stall reading. One would know that if they did their annual LBGTQZQZ+ training. Also no sexual innuendo objects in the “heritage room”, may offend the SARM troop and cause an Air Force wide purge of said inappropriate material.

He could’ve just be referring to LORs/UIFs, yeah I can imagine an article 15 is going to be very hard to bury. Does the NDAA dictate all disciplinary action or just NJP or greater?

Your argument was valid until you made the logical fallacy here by assuming that all “pro lifers” think/act the same. Some of the most charitable people I know (multiple foster children, etc) happen to be pro life and do more for impoverished children than many of the vocal “my body my choice” crowd.

Rumint from a wing king who has sat on many boards : promotion boards will eventually see last 5 OPRs only, and any TR/medal/negative records within the time period of only those 5 OPRs. Again that’s just word of mouth and not confirmed…but I too am hoping we can rid ourselves of those golden goose Capts that end up being lazy and/or toxic leaders.

Not anymore! Static OPR close-outs are going to make things interesting, for the better I hope. It was absolutely ridiculous the number of ways commanders could carve up strats (#1 CGO, #1 Capt, #1 in YG etc) and board members saw right through it, doing the individual captains/majors no favors. This will force commanders to find their balls and actually give honest feedback.

Let them cry about it and self implode. We have heard the tired old “republicans are waging a war against women” for over a decade now. Doubt it will sway midterm elections which have little to do with Supreme Court rulings.

The Air Force has a vested interest in making sure non HPOs (it’s still a thing, even without BPZ and school selects) keep thinking they have a chance so that they actually do work and help retention numbers. Can you imagine actually giving a junior FGO feedback to the likes of “you’re bottom 50% in terms of records, you probably won’t go to school, maybe you’ll make 0-5 but probably not command, but hey keep flying for me when you can make 3x or more at the airlines and not deal with my BS in the guard.” It would make the decision to punch that much easy. While I do believe in honest, 360* feedback, a fly only track (without a 20 year ADSC) with a +100k (per year) bonus may stop the bleeding but that’s a pipe dream. Pilot shortage isn’t politically popular to address and our congressmen own the purse. I stayed in because I love what I do and the AF has been good to me personally but I have zero question on why most of my bros decide to punch when the writing is on the wall.