DirkDiggler

I've never heard of anyone getting one, and I haven't had to get one for the Pacific, European, Middle Eastern, or South American theaters. Honestly didn't know there was a vaccine for cholera.

I was immunized against smallpox in 2005 by the military, got the scar to prove it and it's annotated in my immunization record.

M2 wasn't referring to the ethnic slur in the COVID thread.

The PLAN is not currently capable of enforcing a naval blockade of Taiwan (though they're definitely striving for increased capabilities across the board). If we catch wind that the PRC is going to execute your above scenario, maybe we should give the ROCs their own nuclear weapons capability. Reverse order of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm only half joking, nuclear weapons being the ultimate guarantee of a country's security and all that.

Lol I'm getting old but not that old. I had to get mine when I showed at my first ops unit back in 2005. As a funny anecdote, on my deployment last year, NONE of the guys I was deployed with had seen the movie from which your screen quote is from. Literally hurt my insides.

Short answer is yes. There are other vaccines that have/had a mandatory DNIF period after receiving the vaccine. As an example, the Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine (JEV) used to be a 3 shot series when I had to get it back in 2010. I was DNIF for 2/3/2 days after each injection if I remember correctly. As an aside, I think the DoD has finally upgraded to the 2 shot JEV, don't know if that one has any DNIFing actions following the injections.

There’s a book on this topic worth reading if you have some spare time. It’s called War Without Mercy by John W. Dower. I don’t agree with everything he posits in the book and it’s kinda dryly written but Dower does a good job of showing how large a part racism played a factor on both sides in the Pacific theater. I’d apologize for the thread derailment but IMO this thread ran way off the tracks about 24 pages ago.

I’ll be PCSing out your way beginning of next year, if I’m able to coordinate said visit I’ll definitely reach out.

I'll definitely keep this in mind, thanks for the insights.

Would try to avoid this route if you can. Could lead to a General Discharge under Honorable Conditions, not a straight Honorable. If this was posted in jest I'll pre-emptively call myself out for sarcasm detector inop.

Thanks for sharing, did not know that. Wonder how much Lockmart wants for the data? I get having it isn't a "must" but sure would be nice to have. Apologies for the minor thread derail.

I sympathize with the TOLD; about 10 years ago our planes got carbon brakes, best mod the Bobs had put on the airplane in a long time. Trouble was, they didn't want to pay for the testing to redo the TOLD so all our numbers were still based on the old steel brakes. I could kinda understand that since at the time I was in legacy MCs and we had an upcoming (though moved several times) retirement date. I assumed that the newer MC-J would have revised TOLD since the aircraft is gonna be around for 30+ years. Wrong. TOLD is still based on the old brakes even though all the aircraft have been modd'd with the new ones. So our portions of our TOLD is "more better" but you don't know how much better and still have to use the old numbers.

Will the new engines give the BUFF a substantial increase in thrust/payload capability or is it more reliable/ease of MX/sustained supply chain? Understood if you can't get into specifics on this forum. I'm currently going through MC-J transition and the upgrade to newer engine technology feels like going from a rotary to cell phone.

My point is right at the top of this forum’s section it says “keep it civil, don’t abuse this forum”. Are you cool with dudes/dudettes going after people’s spouses/kids on here?

I get that you vehemently disagree with his positions on the vaccine and vaccine mandates but why go questioning his ability to raise his kids? It does nothing to advance the conversation/discourse.

Even if your first statement is true (I guarantee the first thing Scheuller's CC did before issuing that order is consult with a JAG), that won't be what causes him issues under the UCMJ. https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Docs/2021USMCSocialMediaHanbook.pdf Specifically see pages 17-18 and then reference Scheuller's last FB statement. If you strip away the emotion and politics from this he's making it really easy for the prosecutor on his courts martial.

Will be pretty cool to see a ~68 year old BUFF with a modern glass cockpit

You keeping the analog engine stack or is glass part of the upgrade?

It’s called the D.E.N.N.I.S system:

The Wu always has the answer…

Valid debriefing point

Anybody using a flight doc for anything other than: a. Your yearly "I'm still alive/don't take my flight pay" exam b. A referral to an off base, non-military doctor c. Ambien/Restoril Is doing it wrong.

I'd fall back to the question, is the current air defense commitment not/no longer adequate based on threat? And check me on this but isn't the -15EX supposed to be re-capping the Guard/Reserve fighter units that operate the oldest 15/16s? Understand that those are still swapping high end for high(er) end aircraft but MX rates should be much increased.

Honest question: is this enough of a threat/issue that it warrants not funding something that's applicable to the high end fight/peer fight? Not saying that funding issues always need to be an either/or but I'd venture a guess that our defense budgets will be flat to slightly decreasing going forward. For external VEO actors looking to execute the above scenario, is the vast increase in various intelligence collection and fusion (admittedly improvements in the second area is easily debatable) to ID/foil these types of attacks not enough of a defense? Then we still have the current alert commitment for the worst case scenario (not a pointy nosed guy so I can't speak at all to prosecuting an intercept against C-172 with an F-15/16).