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One year in the desert.

As a parent, I believe it is MY RESPONSIBILTY to raise MY children. I do not need community assistance in telling me how to upbring my munchkins. That crap coming out of her mouth is her opinion, to which she is entitled. However, she is not entitled to tell me, or others, on how to raise children. Keep your opinion to yourself, bitch... If I want my kids to be social retards, I'll try to get them into USAFA...

Yes but the singing and dancing you guys do in DC is a little more relevant to the overall mission of air power.

FYI - there's 17D's (young&old) that still think this. This is a very big issue among my peers, at least those of us who would kill for these opportunities. I'm a prior-E Lt and I just missed the initial 6-month school and got dumped into 17DB despite my training and prior experience. I personally know guys that did offensive stuff (comm & intel) that commissioned and didn't met the STRINGENT requirements to cross to A-shred. Initial cross flow to A-shred had very difficult to achieve requirements for schools, currency, and assignments. Additionally in some training I'd meet grads w/ English/Earth Sciences/Other Bullsh#t degrees who got NSA assignments/A-shred who didn't care about Comm Cyber. That was rather infuriating, and still is since people are now cross-flowing into A-shred billets based on PCS requirements and not performance. I personally know a douche-non-select-Capt that's in the Net War school house now. I believe Cyber selection now has a preference for a technical degree, not a requirement. No one fails at the school house for poor performance, at least in the classes that I've had friends through. Try again, try again, try again, pass. Can't at least conceptualize network exploitation and how to mash IP addresses? That's ok. Sounds like UPT right? Which is how it was billed to us in the community. "This is the Cyber UPT". Nerds using pilot terms, please stop. One solution to this problem is: no Lt's through U/NWT. Capt selects and above and all do a stint in a support role as a first assignment. You can herd out the mouth breathers and send those interested/performers to the schools. It's what we're doing with the enlisted operators anyway. Finally.. we're Ops, where's our goddamn flight suits!

As a parent, the difference for me comes down to choice. I absolutely believe in the power of a community assisting parents in the raising of their children. Assistance by the community of a parent's choosing is the natural extension of that parent's authority in raising a child. Having watched the video numerous times, it truly seems that she is suggesting that my parental rights be transferred to the community, regardless of my choice, to ensure my children have a proper, socially sanctioned, upbringing. This transfer of parental rights is already happening in our schools and through certain government agencies. On occasion it is a good thing and can help children who are really disadvantaged by their parents' choices. Sometimes, as in the case of abuse, it can be very necessary. Taken to extremes, however, almost any good thing can become extremely bad. This woman has shown in other speeches and interviews that she is a vocal extremist in areas of abortion, religion, socialism, and feminism. Based on her comments in those other areas, I have no reason to doubt that her comments on education and parenting were planned and literal.

There probably wasn't enough room at the bottom for all the accolades he deserved, such as great friend to so many, a mentor to all met, a shining example of a leader in today's Air Force and obviously founder of BaseOps. I hope whoever took that photo paid proper respects to him.

Agreed, we need these guys, I say recruit and commission nerds for specific tasks/functions. Big Blue could make em’ Limited Duty Officers like the Navy uses for A/C MX and some other specific functions. They’ll never lead anything more than a small group of fellow nerds on a specific task. Therefore there will be no need to set these individuals up for future command slots like SQ, Group or Wing. Just lock em in a basement somewhere and cut em lose to wreak havoc on the interwebs. Just stock their “bar” with a keg of Monster and a gummy bear snack dispenser.

When this all kicked off several years ago that's pretty much what it was. I was at a briefing given by a cyber Lt Col talking about their CENTCOM ops, he said "we've got Mountain Dew and pop-tarts all over the place, but these kids are doing great work." They basically grabbed the nerdiest guys they could find to get this started. Built most of their own stuff, and started exploring capabilities. Like most things, Big Blue stepped in and tried to normalize it, and now you've got PE and theater degrees leading some of these mission areas. The problem has not gone unnoticed. Because it is under AFSPC, I have a feeling you'll be seeing a lot of changes coming. Space now requires a technical degree, the cyber A shreds will soon too IMO. Cyber WIC will be full up in the not too distant future. Undergraduate space training and IQT has been completely overhauled; it will be much more technical, in depth, and actually challenging. Cyber is changing too.

Why can't we make this simple?! Civilianize cyber offensive and defensive ops with dudes fresh out of college with degrees in comp sci or computer systems engineering who pass a bunch of 'computer aptitude tests' (sorta like the TBAS for hacking) and let them go to work? For a job like this, I want a super nerd who lives off of Code Red, Monster, and Hot Pockets, whose probably still a virgin, who wears BCGs but isn't aware of the hipster fad, and will continue to live in his mom's basement no matter how much money he makes. I don't want some random officer with a joke degree whose constantly trying to hide what they don't know, complete PME, pass their fitness test, and play the game for OPR bullets. The guy from Grandmas Boy would be perfect for this job: I mean, as long as you didn't have to talk to him.

The cost of KY and oral dams can really add up, I suppose.

Not just one band, but two! Effects based music is really making progress. I expect this new medium of warfare will drastically shorten whatever we're calling the war on terror today. In fact, we should probably make a separate command, Music Combat Command, to make full use of the potential lethality. And what was with a dude framing his own ABU shirt? When I retire, I'm going to frame my entire flight suit. And my boots. A six foot by three foot single piece shadow box homage to himself in the living room is exactly what every retiree needs. A perfect centerpiece to the 'I love me wall.'

Get used to how it looks. That's us in 20 years. And Detroit now.

Outlaw Platoon by Sean Parnell The story of an 10th Mountain Division infantry platoon and their 2006-07 Afghanistan deployment, written by their platoon leader. Excellent read.

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