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They have and do. Trump fired every single Biden appointed US Attorney. And before anyone gets upset and screams how terrible it is for King Trump to do that, Biden did the same thing four years ago. And Trump fired Obama's on his first term. And Obama did the same thing. Trump's first term showed him, and anyone that was paying attention, that the executive branch needs to clean house when a new President takes office as career bureaucrats and people that disagree with his agenda will actively sabotage the agenda from within. There's a reason the Constitution was amended to make the Vice President part of the Presidential ticket rather than the runner up. Turns out that people put their own agenda ahead of that of the President. Mass replacements typically haven't gotten very far down the food chain, but the principle is there and has been executed by both parties. It sucks for the people that get fired. I totally get that and feel bad for them. But at the same time, the government was not designed to be an employment service and has grown so much that it is unrecognizable from our Federal government 70 years ago. It needs to be cut. Unfortunately, some good guys that are genuinely doing good work for America will get caught in the cross fire. But the alternative is realistically to do nothing. Wikipedia claims that the US has a higher percentage of the work force in the public sector than four Western European countries. That's pretty crazy.

Russia will not turn around and go home because home is at their backs. regardless of how you feel, the Russians perceive nato seducing Ukraine as a dire threat to their country. They have complained about NATO expanding east since the breakup of the USSR; I have cited numerous historical articles, speeches, intelligence assessments, and videos in this thread proving so. it's a different sort of calculus for them than what we were operating under in vietnam, iraq, or afghanistan. i predict you will disagree with their rationale and reasoning, but know thy enemy and such.

The gray-tail deportation theater appears to have run its course. Do you suppose it got DOGE’d for its inefficiency? Will Elon take credit for canceling it? https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-deportation-flights-paused-cost-c37c577a?st=krQpMN&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Was VA care not adequate in 2019?

Given my limited experience with the VA, 50% of the VA workforce could be Thanos-snapped off the books and I would imagine the impact to care or services would not be measurably different.

You quoted me and said "I literally answered this the other day", but the only question I had asked was if you were just going to complain every time reality doesn't align with what you wanted to happen. What is it that are you so intent that I reply to? Quote it or repeat it. So you're listing our military failures as justifications as to why we should give military support to Ukraine? Well, I'll give you credit: that's a completely new and unexpected way to look at this. I don't think anyone has ever made that argument. It might be the least intellectual point attempted in this thread, but at least it's original. I got nothing for you. If Ukraine has plenty of international volunteers, why do they have conscription? Why are we seeing countless vids of them abducting their own citizens from the streets? Again, this is just basic logic. Your points are really, really bad. "I'd totally help if it weren't for my ADSC." "I'd totally help if I were allowed to fly airplanes." Funny how all of the ways you say you want to help conveniently have conditions, while all the ways you can actually help have none. Show me one receipt. Let's reel it back in to reality: Your SQ isn't getting called. You're not going to help or make sacrifices. Russia isn't just going to pack it up and put it in reverse. There will be a negotiation. Both sides will make concessions. The killing will stop. Life will go on. We'll look back just as we do on AFG, IRQ, Vietnam and say, "Well...that was f'n stupid".

Or probationary, which has zero to do with performance or how long you've worked. But I guess all the civ's are poor performers, or that one guy one time did fraud for a long time, so it's worth it. Also, VA just announced cutting 15% of the work force without any impact to care or services. Guess that's going to be just as successful as these tariffs.

This is 100% spot on. It doesn't matter what people write, they're just going to fire you (right after they upload the data you sent them). Any federal employee's performance is irrelevant unless you're an "easy kill" by being on a performance improvement plan.

How convenient. And now that you have, still no reply. Because aggressors can always turn around and go home. Look at Afghanistan, we just quit. Look at Vietnam, same thing. Do I think Russia will? They did in their own Afghanistan. They can again. Strength through allies backing them with arms and Intel. Soldiers they have plenty of international volunteers. My entire squadron would fly in tomorrow if asked. We were ready on night 1 and we're still ready. Unfortunately we have ADSCs and the Ukrainian foreign legion isn't seeking pilots. If you stood up the modern equivalent of the flying Tigers you'd run out of positions before bodies.

Sure. If you’ve Zen-chilled yourself into not giving a f**k, easy day.

So the president can fire anyone who didn't vote for him?

I don't think this will change how you feel, but for the record you were completely wrong. if I were you, I would be asking myself: what other strongly held opinions do I have based on things I assume to be true but are in fact, not true? How else am I the victim of a propaganda machine?

I’m happy to share, I’ll take the one on the left. I’m just proud of myself for beating you to it for once!

Sure could. I honestly averaged about 20 min on my OPRs on writing the actual bullets, which was more difficult than this because there were far more than 5 and you had the standard character BS to deal with. So, yes, absolutely. Everyone in the executive branch works at the behest of the President. At the end of the day, if his team wants to fire you, then a list of 5000 things you did that literally saved the world and was written by Shakespeare won't save you. I know it's unemotional for me to say this, but I do say this as someone that was notified that my unit was shutting down and 90% of the unit would essentially be fired, so I do understand the emotions involved. If they basically randomly downsize, then what you write is irrelevant. If they are really just doing a pulse check, then what you write is irrelevant. If they are going to do layoffs based on performance, then I have little doubt that everyone on here is in the top 10% of government employees and you'll be good.

Checks…unfortunately.

To go with the theme. My doc got me scripts for both 6% and 9% Ethyl Hydroxyethane.

Columbus lets captains with no dependents live off base or they can live on base in the old housing (potentially with a roommate).

Just saw this little gem in the headlines. https://www.the-sun.com/news/13701537/prepared-war-china-trump-defence-tariffs/ US DEFENCE Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that the US is "prepared" for war with China in response Beijing's chilling World War Three threat. ------------------------------------- I remember growing up in US strategy that the messenger was just as important as the message. If it's economics, you send an economist, etc. Trump sends the war chief, you know, the one overseeing combat war.

And if you fear it will be used to justify your job or justify your firing, that e-mail will take all your time until the deadline. Past actions on GS indicate hostile possibilities.

Dude, you write some gaslighting stuff here.

Never saw it. Russia should just quit? How does that even enter into your mind as a realistic solution let alone as being in the realm of remote possibility? What a mind-numbingly ignorant position. That's something you'd expect to hear from your average TikTok account, not an educated military officer. How does Ukraine attain a position of strength? Their population is being drained of warfighters. The world can supply them unlimited weapons and money, but no one is willing to replace Ukraine's soldiers with their own... including you.

Can you bang out a list of the five things you did this week in ten minutes? If it’s for your boss or your chain who already has some context on what you do for the sake of keeping them informed, definitely. No big deal. But if it’s for someone with zero context or knowledge — maybe even Grok AI that knows even less — and if they don’t understand it or like it you lose your job… oh, and they’re coming at it from a place of wanting to axe you? That’s much harder. Not the same things.

As of 2022, yes. At least at Laughlin they had separate larger dorms for unmarried Capts

Anyone know if unmarried captains will be required to stay in the dorms at the UPT bases? I'm not trying to send my four legged beast to live with my folks for a year lol.