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4 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:
The military having to do a lot of work at the behest of the commander in chief…ya really hate to see it.
The same people in EUCOM who are currently running humanitarian relief efforts in Turkey had to deal with a PR distraction so Biden could get his photo op in Ukraine..don’t see a problem with that? Oh and later this week FLOTUS is taking a Safari to Kenya that precious resources get to be wasted on. You probably don’t see a problem with that either.
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9 hours ago, nsplayr said:
Biden on the ground in Kyiv showing continuing strong support for the Ukrainians 🇺🇦🇺🇸
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/20/president-biden-kyiv-ukraine-visit-war/
Theatrics that doesn’t help the Ukrainians in any way possible, and caused a lot of work for military folks in the AOR. All while in the middle of a massive HA/DR effort for Turkey.
Biden probably thought he was in Moscow. We don’t need to parade this dude around anymore than we have to. Our credibility as a nation has suffered enough in the last few years.
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9 hours ago, Boomer6 said:
Dude, if you’re exercise is in PACAF then welcome to the priority AOR. Where they can justify paying you $13/day at Eielson because you’re on CED orders. If you don’t want to share a room on TDY then you can just stay home.
Ah Red Flag Alaska. Every MC / PROJO’s nightmare…at least the flying is beautiful.
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16 hours ago, TreeA10 said:
There are a whole lot of "medical experts" that belong in prison for fraud, starting with Fauci.
FIFY
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4 hours ago, Internationalmesa said:
How is the C-130J lifestyle? I know they’re doing a ton out of ramstein and yakota. Anyone have a taken on it mission wise?
Same as always, work hard play hard. You’ll be busy no matter which base you go to. You’ll go to some really cool places and some not so nice places (fun in of itself). 3000’ dirt LZs and unlike the dirty H model (I jest), you’ll land there as a brand new Co. Airdrop is a lot of fun. There is a lot of GK to maintain and mission planning can result in some long days. Leadership are generally good dudes and gals these days, and there is definitely a push to be more survivable in the first island chain so expect to be challenged when you get to the unit and be in the vault studying quite a bit. PM me with more questions.
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4 hours ago, ViperMan said:
No American troops are engaged. Soooooooo, what's your point? You're worried about things that aren't happening?
Not quite accurate. No American troops in Ukraine is accurate. We have thousands who have deployed to Poland and Romania. All it takes is a light in the powder keg and those people are in a very real threat environment, as are our fighters and AWACS flying around there.
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4 hours ago, arg said:
I agree. But I noticed MTG caused JB to walk back his statement on SS a couple of levels.
It was a complete lie, most of his voters will stupidly believe it though. I really liked how McCarthy tried to be the adult in the room. Makes Pelosi look like a petulant child from two years ago .
The SOTU is nothing more than political theater. Accomplishes absolutely nothing.
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Our current DOD apparatus is way too incompetent to pull off a conspiracy like this. I find it more likely that it was the Russians. In desperation they would shoot their toe and point fingers.
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Hell no! I love this country but we have burned every country we have touched in the last 30 years. Secure our borders first and foremost before nation building in Latin America.
It truly is awful in Haiti, I remember when a certain POTUS called it a Shit Hole in jest and everyone lost their minds. Perhaps an understatement.
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24 minutes ago, FLEA said:
God I really hope noone in the US Public uses this forum to audit the performance of our government....... Or maybe I do hope that, I dont know yet.
No need! Just view it live to see what a clusterfuck our government is and the bafoons that run it.
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4 hours ago, filthy_liar said:
I hope I'm wrong that Trump won't primary his way in to the general by a hair margin, and then get crushed in the general election by whatever candidate the democrats want to throw up there at this point. I don't think I'm wrong. I think the GOP will eff this up again and somehow think Trump "You're Fired" is the correct choice. And Biden will win a second term. Hopefully you didn't bite off on the secret files stuff. If the could survive the laptop stuff, he'll survive this unless the DNC comes out with a deliberate hangman.
The fact that I typed any of that shows how effed the GOP is. It's Biden. We have to strategize to get Trump out of the way so we can defeat Biden? The GOP is ed.
Do you really think it will be Biden? He cannot string two sentences together and clearly has dementia, and his party isn’t necessarily coming to his aid with the classified stuff.
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1 hour ago, Stoker said:
Well I guess that's why we have elections. The "keep helping people kill Russians" party got extremely lucky during the last midterms.
Fixed it for you
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40 minutes ago, nsplayr said:
We absolutely should have preference or ranked-choice voting in every election nationwide. It takes a bit of additional voter education, but it enables more nuanced preferences of the electorate to be expressed.
Couldn’t agree more! Is the moon Blue tonight?
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On 1/27/2023 at 5:33 PM, nsplayr said:
WTF is this memo real??
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.
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20 hours ago, Prosuper said:
I'm still trying to figure out why I had mx officers. Here have some rope, let me know if you need some more. Dang! what happened to that guy, he was only here two weeks, Darn! I didn't even know his name. Only thing he said to me I'm a Cal Berkley Graduate and I'm smarter than you. Boy Howdy did he impress the shit out of me.
The only ones I ever needed were O-5's and above. If I was King of the USAF, my plan was how Chuck Yeager started his career as a commissioned officer. He started as rated mx officer who flew all the FCF's and OCF's. Maybe it should go to the way the Naval Ops sq does it, pilots have to do leadership on the ground by leading mx troops. If your name was on the side of the jet, it was your responsibility to write the Crew Chiefs EPR and make sure he gets an end of tour medal. Rated Majors would run mx and hopefully by the time they get their own CC job they understand health of the fleet and just not sortie count.
MX and Cop Sq's are huge and have very busy First Sgt's, if you know you know, historically those guys are treated like shit and are pounded with constant extended 12 hour shifts with no days off. Which to leads to why they are always undermanned because no one reenlists, the enlistee raises his hand the first time, but his family reenlists. Also bring back Warrant Officer, that way a technically shit hot E-5 or E-6 doesn't have to eat shit from the Top 3 so they get a decent board score.
I retired an E-7 but I knew I would never be a Chief due to that I could never get off the flight line. Most of my fellow senior E's were nothing but backstabbing apple polishers, they were given jobs off the flight line just to get them out of the workflow because they suck. Unfortunately, they were the ones who made Chief due to showing they had diverse career broadening assignments, in reality they were getting moved every 6 months due to effing up that section they had to move them. Plus, their EPR was written in way that he was a water walker and not the Charlie foxtrot he was. The good ones were kept on the line and were manipulated by the Chiefs to make sure they stayed on the line making the Wing King money.
My only shot of getting off the line was interviewing for a Wing Safety job. My incentive was a slot for the NTSB crash investigation course if I got that job. The Vice Wing CC interviewed me and told me then to report back Monday. This was a Thursday and started doing PCA paperwork. Friday morning get called into the Chiefs office, got told you're not going anywhere. He told me point blank you will be on that flight line with a brick and schedule to make sure we make that schedule. I'm sure if I was milk toast maintainer, I would have gotten that job because the guy who got it sure was.
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.
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17 hours ago, BashiChuni said:
we are making a huge strategic mistake escalating this conflict
the biden administration needs to be providing off ramps for both sides and not stoking the flames of war with russia.
my hope is cooler heads are prevailing behind the scenes that we aren't privy to.
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.
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3 hours ago, filthy_liar said:
My opinion, which is going to be surprise surprise highly unpopular - is that we should not have E-9s or E-8s in the Air Force. In the AF officers do the fighting. Sure, there are some exceptions but by and large the officers (aircrew) are what the exord is providing to meet the wartime requirement.
So we need support to meet the demands of the aircrew, just like infantry needs support. But the difference is, in the AF, the infantry is all officers (exceptions noted). So unlike the Army, we don't need high ranking enlisted to support the requirement (aircrew). In the Army and Marines, you have a boatload of enlisted in the fight. Actually fighting. So it makes sense that you have high ranking enlisted guiding those troops. Not so in the AF. I flew in combat and called in a few airstrikes on the ground in the AF while supporting Armies, and I never once, in any of those situations, needed an E-8/9 who had not only not done what I did and the Armies were doing, but didn't even understand it.
I think this is why we have the Leadership in the Deid thread. AF officers just accept that we are just like every other branch and need some senior Es to look like the other services. In my experience that has gone horribly wrong. On the ground side if you ever wanted to ID someone who was not in the fight and therefore more concerned about reflective belts and other nonsense, you just pointed to an E8/9. Same was true in garrison. My anecdotal experience. I've had an awful lot of non aircrew officers disagree with me on this and maintain that MSgt/CMSgts are gold.
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.
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12 hours ago, Prozac said:
Ok. Does being pro-evolution make you not a Christian? I mean, it’s all right there in the Bible. Who are you to pick and choose what you get to believe? BTW, this is one of the biggest problems I have with religion in general: For some people, it’s about a personal relationship with God and morality, and a vehicle for growing as a human being. Cool. For too many others though, it’s a bludgeon to hammer others with for not abiding their own personal beliefs.
I also wonder how many of the fervent naysayers are Catholic. I grew up in the Catholic Church and, in my experience, beliefs of church officials vary widely by geography and demographics. It’s a rather large organization if you weren’t aware and a Catholic parishioner in Guatemala probably has some very different views and beliefs than one in Colorado, who, in turn will seem very strange indeed to one in Papua New Guinea.
Additionally, I find it ironic that many who are currently criticizing Biden’s religious beliefs…also cheerfully voted for Donald Trump, probably the least religious, most unethical president this country has ever had. I chalk it up as yet another attempt to make the argument that “yeah, we elected an absolute slimeball, but look! Joe Biden is just as slimy, if not slimier!” Sorry, but conservatives are only fooling conservatives on that one. Ever wonder why, before he was elected president, Joe Biden was considered one of the most likable, least polarizing politicians in Washington, but now all of a sudden, he’s the devil incarnate? Hmmmmm. 🤔 Back to your echo chambers.
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.
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2 hours ago, FLEA said:
Don't forget leaving over 1000 American citizens in a failed terrorist state at their own peril.
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.
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4 hours ago, Tank said:
I thought he “grew up in a Black Church”? Or was that just another pandering talking point to win over the African American vote?
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7 hours ago, nsplayr said:
Some bishops have said that is their policy in their dioceses. Biden receives communion at least weekly in DC and/or Delaware AFAIK and probably did so from the Pope himself in 2021.
Some bishops truly are the uptight, fussy, clerical little princes of their territories and enact some truly anti-catholic policies IMHO. Not very good pastors if that’s a policy hill you’re willing to die on.
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!
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1 hour ago, FLEA said:
They teach dishonesty in Catholicism? Asking for a friend....
Biden is so Catholic that the church refuses to offer him communion due to his acquiescent views on Abortion.
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48 minutes ago, Prozac said:
To be fair, they aren’t really trying to get the mask mandated re-instated. DOJ is in court because it believes it should have the right to mandate such measures during times of crisis. Their position is that the courts wrongfully stripped them of such right. You’re certainly free to disagree with DOJ’s position. I have mixed feelings, personally. I actually think it’s a good thing this is being litigated because it will set a precedent going forward. Let’s look at this for what it is though (the system, doing what it’s supposed to do) and not get into the histrionics & misdirection of saying the DOJ wants to re-institute masks at this time.
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..
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6 hours ago, FLEA said:
Yeah, and I'm not going to say its all the same players at all the same times. Like, on that call we had Fox and CNN there and it was clear both agreed on some things and disagreed on others. But generally they were looking for the things they were in concurrence about to get emphasis and then each outlet would put their own little damper on things they disagreed about.
It’s strange to think of all the press against Biden in that event but remember target #2 for Taliban after Terps/ANSOF/Pilots was Journalist. Many of those journalist had VERY close relationships with these networks and those networks relied on them to get inside stories and information that would have been culturally inaccessible to them before. US Media was funding HUGE money to get female journalist OUT in anyway possible.
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.
Russian Ukraine shenanigans
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My point is there was a huge time and resource cost for Biden to go into Ukraine, where no US troops are stationed, so he could get a photo op. I’m glad we are supporting Ukraine but this stunt did nothing to advance Ukrainian defense objectives. No one in Ukraine gives a shit that Biden shows up for theatrics. So let’s stop sitting around and acting like this is such a huge strategic deal because it’s not. In no way shape or form does this change Russia’s calculus. They probably would’ve never invaded Ukraine had Biden not been President.