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DO NOT click the "Download Hi-Res" button underneath her picture. Self critiquing....

Sure am glad no senior ranking dude has ever had his physical attributes mocked... Just how high is that horse and is the view really that much more pristine? The U.S. Air Force chose to publicize the fact of her gender in her selection to General. It was the lead in the U.S. Air Force's own article, written and distributed by the U.S. Air Force, on announcing the selection of the next AFMC commander. Not her expertise, not her experience in command, but her gender. Save your outrage for something deserving.

Oh she's definitely a bag wearer

Those are full of LOX.

Dude, your reflective belt is wrapped too tight.

OK, NOT A-A, but still cool.

if she was a dude and a bag wearer she wouldn't have been in past 2000 because she didn't have her boxes checked, sts

Damn, I think I've said most of those things this week. Well done. Festivus?

SHACK!! Back on topic...why is this news?? I am sure some bad-ass airmen did some pretty cool shit in the AOR today. Where is the story on that?? Instead we are treated to a full spread on the whereabouts of Ray Nitchske's long lost son. Having said that, the comments on the af.mil story are hilarious..."A couple of observations on reading her bio and seeing her official photo I find it interesting that it's possible to achieve the highest grade in the Air Force without ever being deployed and to have been assigned to the same base albeit different organizations and assignments for more than half of a career." and "Congrats to her...quite the honor if confirmed. But how does an active-duty officer spend 24 consecutive years going back and forth between DC and Ohio Apparently creative had nothing for her." Lastly...

In before the inevitible "all those guys got LORs" story.

I feel like we've been over this before in another thread...

And that's the thing-- I have no problem showing respect to the Qataris (or anyone else for that matter), but when it's idiot shoes forcing idiot shoe rules that's what breeds resentment. I'd be willing to bet a lot of the hostility that is held toward the Qataris has to do with the idiot AMERICAN shoes forcing their idea of "respect" on people who otherwise would have no problem showing the kind of respect that is due to anyone, much less a host. I also think that a lot of the problems that are encountered with the Qataris is that they have to deal with HNCC, who by and large are the biggest bunch of idiot shoes ever collected in one location at one time. If I had to deal with the HNCC shoe idiots all the time, I'd be a dick too.

I can just picture our little Qatari friends sitting around a table thinking of the next scheme to F with the Americans. "Hey Abdul, what should we do this week?" "How about shut off the water supply to the base for 3 days, and make them take showers with the water bottles. Besides, the rainforests we have growing at all our highway interchanges needs some extra water." "No no no no, we already did that. Boy they stank worse than we do after that!" I remember the great booze shortage or early 2010. The waiver didn't get signed and slowly, the bra started running out of booze. First it was the good beer, then the good liquor. Then went the wine and finally we were down to wild turkey and raspberry Smirnoff ice. One of the low points in my life was coming back after a long mission to find out there was a few cases of Smirnoff left. Reluctantly, I ordered one, drank it in silence wondering if my balls were going to detach and make a run for the border. The talk on the boulevard freq was finding out who was at dafra and did they have booze. Which resulted in the dafra guys letting all the deid guys know what beer they were going to have after their sortie. My nav got the shakes and refused to navigate and instead said, "just fly fking east you ahole. Wake me up when you see the tanker." Rumors were rampant. One day, there was a commotion in the hallway of the trailer. A flatbed was spotted with booze shaped boxes. So we bolted outside (but not without our reflective belts) to go check it out. And there in the bra, was 18 wheels of freedom. Loaded to the gills with cases of beer and and booze of all shapes and sizes. The line at the bra that night stretched all the way to the stage. The scene was similar to those WWII victory films from new york. With the ticker tape, cheers, and women everywhere. Except without the women and ticker tape. And shortly after that some Chiefs came around and said we were all smiling too much.

This is my surprised face. Task a group of shoes to work on solutions to a customer service problem, and "reducing service hours" is bound to percolate to the top of the idea list.