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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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

No, they’ll move to Texas and still vote as they have.

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.

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.

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.

Bandaid for the problem, until said warrant sees their pay discrepancy between their current job and the civilian world.

She still better make the corn and stock the fridge with her peers!!. I wouldn’t treat her differently (lord knows people will.)

With you 100%, but this one isn’t necessarily on the brass, our indecisive and lack luster policies are driven by the Ivy League academic liberals that make up the OSD staff and quite honestly run the entire defense enterprise (civilian control and all which I’m a huge fan of with the right people.) I’ve seen a handful of our GOs try to do the right thing in combatant commands only to get handcuffed by the shirks up at OSD.

Animals, treat them like enemy combatants and deport the rest. Every single one of them. Come to this country legally like my parents.

He’s pretty useless but I have a feeling our responsiveness, or lack thereof, is driven by higher echelons than OSD.

UNRWA spoke at one of our academy political science conventions; I knew back then that they were a bunch of terrorist sympathizing lunatics.

Not sure America can handle another Trump v Biden spit fest (case in point this thread, which I really enjoy but just shows how everyone is just stuck in their echo chambers)..2020 was horrible enough, and here we go again. However, as alluded to, America brought this on itself.

I can’t top this sage advice, but I’ll add try your best to stay in shape and eat right. Mentally enduring pilot training involves your physical health. Even if it’s knocking out some push-ups in the morning or end of the day, you have to stay active. That helped me tremendously. Pick one day a week (recommend Saturday) where you unplug and go do something fun with your classmates. I know there aren’t much options in Enid Del Rio and Columbus but we used to just grill out on someone’s patio and drink. That will reset you for the week. I 100% acknowledge this contradicts my first paragraph but sitting around with some beers and quizzing each other always made it more enjoyable. God I miss those days, life was simple!!!

All while the SecDef is in the hospital with cancer and the CINC is senile and border line brain dead. Who is running the military?

My bet is Kathleen Hicks steps up, she checks the right boxes (female), is equally useless enough, and will probably get them through the election cycle with minimal Tom Cotton and company scrutiny. The OSD-P hacks run the DoD anyways.

They could have been a critical ally; but a lot of bad blood with the US, going back to the 70s where we sent the 7th fleet to India’s Eastern Shores threatening to invade them if they develop nuclear weapons while we didn’t care less that Pakistan, the most radical terrorist infested country in the world, was doing the same. Then after 9/11, we cozied up to the same radical infested country with Pakistan. Lo and behold, the 9/11 mastermind was being harbored by Pakistan. India is the largest democracy in the world with a populace that is generally pro western and well aligned with US views against radical Islamic terrorism. Engagements, exercises = yes, arms sales = no.

Well…go on!?

Pressure from your OG/CC, sometimes even Wing/CC. The BPZ types were the most notorious for dishing out Q3s…got to hold the line and can’t take any risks on your way up. Caveat: AMC only, can’t speak to other communities.

Soon to be Brig Gen…enough said

What problem are they trying to fix? We don’t have enough MAJCOMs IMHO, C2 and big ISR should be in its own MAJCOM. Get rid of NAFs and Groups instead.

Oh right because the support services on base are supportive of Aircrew schedules! Can’t count the number of times I’ve landed in RODN for example late in the evening only for every eating establishment to include the shoppete to be closed; or better yet, deployed ops, land and chow hall is closed. Heck I’ve had to haggle with AMOPS to keep the runways open for our HHQ missions. It’s an Air Force run by nonners for nonners.