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Not sure why I chose this thread as my first post, but here it goes: The problem isn't sexual orientation. It's military bearing. If male SrA Sugarpants feels comfortable rolling into work sporting a finely trimmed goatee and nail polish, we have failed. The fact that this kid wasn't sent home by the first NCO in his chain is a foul. Frankly, I don't give a shit if this kid can simultaneously process a travel claim, un###### DTS, and play Freebird on the piccolo flute through his anus, he needs to uphold basic uniform standards. He's in the military for shit's sake. You represent much more than yourself when you wear the uniform. We all know this. If you want to roller skate through the Castro district armed with a battle Prius and a fannypack full of dicks, that's awesome... Just not in uniform. We need to maintain the image of the US military as a force to be respected and instill the confidence in the general public that we are ready to fight defend at all cost. I can't see where man nail polish fits into that image. I was going tie in the whole argument how really fat people in uniform is basically the same thing, but I've lost the desire to fight. AFA ladies, you can keep your mustaches. That shit is scary and commands respect.

You know what's great about two men boning one another? No one gets pregnant. You know what's great about no one getting pregnant? One less person dependent on our dwindling resources, and another given a chance to be raised by loving parents through adoption. But perhaps this is just a case for adoption. Either way, loving parents willing to raise an unwanted child deserve every federal benefit that any other married parents would receive. https://en.wikipedia...._overpopulation Humans are animals -- humans can become extinct, too.

Well, if their plan was to build a ballistic missile capable of reaching as far away as 3000 feet, I think they nailed it.

Don't get a dog until you are married and have someone who can properly take care of it when you are gone. UPT is the worst time to have to worry about a dog. My buddy had one while going through training...it ran away

It's a horrible idea. Horrible. 12 hour days are standard. Add travel time, etc and your pup won't be able to go out for 13-ish hour stretches every day. Which is a foul. After UPT, you're going to be deployed/TDY all the time. Sometimes with little/no notice. That's just life in the AF. What are you going to do with the dog then? You can't just count on driving the dog over to your parents house while you're gone...you have no idea where you're going to live. And do not--do fucking not--be the asshole who asks his buddy's wife to take care of your dog for you while you're at work/TDY/deployed. Until you figure out your life, not just during UPT but after, forget about the dog.

Anyone want to staple their eyeballs? Anyone want to set their pubes on fire & put em out with a screwdriver? Anyone want to take a 720 to BIAP with no TDY pay?

I heard from a trusted person in the Pentagon today that there will be "drastic" cuts to the officer corps over the course of the next year. Additionally, he said they are looking into significantly lowering the O-4 and O-5 promotion rates to assist in the force management initiatives. Good luck to everyone. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Why? Because it's "icky"?

Tours at the guard bureau and alert are different animals I think. Can't speak to that. I'm talking about being on active duty paid for man days (MPA) which is where the majority of ARC guys build up active duty time. To get put on MPA there is a CMAS approval process done by the active duty and one of the things they look at is sanctuary (being above 18 years of active duty credit). They won't approve for anyone inside sanctuary for the most part unless you sign a sanctuary waiver...and I've seen them not even offer that waiver. They don't want you to get an active duty retirement! I say again, they don't want you to get an active duty retirement. It neutralizes one of the advantages of having an ARC (cost). And it's active duty's money Look at it this way: a retirement is an enormous bill. What is the world going to look like in 8-10 years? Will the MAF be so busy that the ARC is activated all the time? More specifically, will they be so busy that they need to activate the specific ARC dudes who are really close to costing a fortune or can they get by with just the other ARC guys? Can it happen? Yes. In theory. But as the budget slims down I would bet serious money against it. Obviously there are exceptions. I'm saying all this because I hear idiots (I'm talking about you RTB) talking about getting out at 16-18 years all the time acting as though they'll still get an active retirement as a part timer no problem, but it will just take a few extra years. After all, they've heard about is from their cousin's uncle's brother's friend who saw ferris bueller pass out at a 31 flavors last night. What few right now seem to understand is that the calculus has fundamentally and drastically changed in only the last two years on this as OCO money dried up and budget frugality became real. Retirements are expensive.

You liked you own quote?? Timeout son!

It's sad that people are forced to ask these questions on an internet message board rather than just being able to ask their boss. On the other hand, it's awesome that this board exists to answer questions like this. I don't know what I'd do without bops.

The fact that the USAF had a failure as recent as 1999 tells me that this shit isn't routine or easy. Keep up the good work space nerds, seriously.

Do you have a "if I had one more DP to give..." or anything similar in your bottom line or just the definitely promote verbiage? Statistically you probably have a good chance considering your boxes but going from having a strat as a maj to not having a strat might counteract that (check the AFPC stats from last year for P with ACSC correspondence & masters on their site). Hopefully you'll score a few points for the deployed time (that's a lot for a mission support type). I'd say you're right on the border, but with a slight lean towards getting promoted. Take my advice for what it's worth, going strictly off what I saw from a stint working on a senior rater's staff where I saw plenty of PRFs and the resulting promotion selections/non-selections. Good luck! zb

USAF hasn't had a launch failure since 1999; 100+ payloads and counting. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

On second thought looks like we can BRAC the rest of our nuke bases.

So, was Range Safety too busy watching it spin out of control to send the destruct command? Thankfully nobody was hurt.

Sorry for the delayed response. I derive my sense of absolute right and wrong from the idea that I want to leave this planet better than when I showed up. I want everyone to be happy doing their own thing as long as it doesn't harm others. I don't do this because I feel like if I don't I'm not gunna get into heaven, I do it because I learned in kindergarten not to hurt people, lie, steal, or be an asshole, I learned it in baseball, team work, competitiveness with rules, working towards a common goal. I didn't learn it from the bible. I learned it from my parents who didn't push religion on me. I'm a good person because I want this place to not suck. I believe in baseball.

You'd be amazed. When having RPA's thrown around for possible assignments, Altus seems pretty appealing.

As I have grown to disect and question my faith, it dawned on me that outside my formal Catholic upbrining, the fundamental driver to my behavior is and continues to be based on the premise of reciprocity. This commonly gets refered to as the Golden Rule. Expanding that notion to humanity at large, it stands rather clearly then that the combination of: 1)fear-of-harm/pain/untimely-death at the hands of other humans, and 2) the self-initiated desire to self-actualize (unexplainable inherent sense of purpose) ..leads one to opt for and favor co-existing behavior in society. Religion is therefore a man-made social custom to formalize that inherent desire to thrive in an environment where absent those precepts of behavior, one would die in an untimely manner at the hands of a stronger neighbor. We're literally proposing coexistence in order to not die at each other's hands so that we get to achieve our sense of purspose, which drives us to think, question, breathe and feel. I do believe in an invisible entity in the sky from the perspective of the relative uniqueness of our condition in a world where no other peer species exist to interact with us at the self-actualizing level. Condition which I haven't witnessed in animals nor those pesky UFOs that never stick around long enough to make themselves indisputable, is what cements my belief in the metaphysical. Other than that, to each their own. I certainly will not use my Christianity to yoke or otherwise prosletize others. Which makes me a pretty bad Christian I suppose...but at the onset I admitted I was a cafeteria catholic so I'm good in my own skin. I do think the more orthodox/literal interpreters of our religious precepts make us Believers look a bit crazy and non-coexistent in the bigger scheme. I wish they weren't the formative voices of the Faith by imposition. In the end I fall back to (1) and (2) for my own morality. That seems to be agreeable to atheists, and all but the most intolerant Believers, alike. The fucked up thing is, this philosophical approach to religion is more likely to piss off the aforementioned Christians than the Atheists...

This thread makes my eyes bleed.

The Bible doesn't "allow" any of the things you listed. You are referring to information in the Old Testament in which there were societies that practiced some (but not all) of the things you listed. Just because an event in the Bible has those types of behaviors in it, doesn't mean the Bible is condoning such behavior. Often the Old Testament is used as a contrast to what occurred after Christ was born, walked among us and died sacrificially for us. In the Old Testament, when someone sinned, they were required to atone for those sins by sacrificing an animal in the form of a burnt offering to God. The animal symbolically took on the sins of the person. The Bible contrasts such ancient practices with God's ultimate and final decision to deal with our sins by sending his Son to symbolically take on all our sins and die for us. I won't argue that many men and women have misused and misinterpreted the information in the Bible over the centuries and caused great suffering and pain. That's on them and not due to some defect in the Bible or it's real teachings. Try actually reading it.

Shut it down.

These people aren't carrying to protect themselves. They're carrying so they can get attention and poke the bear.

Reductio ad absurdum arguments. The fact that thousands of creatures eat their own species does not give humans the moral ground to engage in cannibalism. Taking moral cues from the animal kingdom is absurd. That goes for both sides of the debate.

LOL

"You get the behavior you reward," that pretty much explains it.

I haven't read all of Liquid's posts, but I know for sure it's not right to lump ClearedHot in that pile of "leaders." CH's posts have always been straight talk, even the ones people found tough to read. I think it's unfortunate he doesn't post much (or at all) anymore.

Don't agree with a lot of her politics, but this is pretty awesome. The guy she is talking to went to a West Point prep school, where he twisted his ankle (He went on to play QB at SanDiego State). He has claimed disability for it, and gotten VA small business preference, as well as the magical 30%. She totally calls him on it.

This I don't get. I had an IP who actually said he wanted to get out and "do the 9-5 job thing"... He said this because he went from ROTC/Academy straight to UPT, straight to AETC. I've worked the civilian "9-5", and it ######ing sucks... I think we as humans are innately prone to the Grass-is-Greener mentality, and, in the case of AF aviators, we may need to remind ourselves that, in the scope of all existing jobs available, we have a good thing going for us.

You might not consider yourself an idiot but you are. If you believe it is a phobia for a man to be uncomfortable around another man who is hyper-effemenite then you are pretty far down the road of idiocy.

Baseops is educational as well as featuring breasts...

They probably don't have running water - do you really think they have any concept of how an aircraft mishap investigation works?

make sure you get enough tampons too!

From horse's.......mouths (yeah, that's the word) who have sat on active and reserve promo boards (unknown re ANG), some universal truths........... Almost a Letterman Top 10 list for advancement 1. Command 2. PME (in residence if at ALL possible, especially ACSC/equivalent and AWC/equivalent. Although it's been done and guys have done well without it, not going to school in residence is the first major roadsign that your career has just stalled. Recoverable, but you have to Avis it and try harder. Getting command is really hard without in-residence PME.) 3. Advanced degree 3a. Weapons School., etc, is way good. 4. High stratification in OPRs/PRF. "My #1 of XX" is your goal. If that, then a DP is a given. 5. Medal commensurate with your grade and one in there within the last 12-18 months. Combat decorations score better than "I was there" medals. 6. Deployment (s) documented in your records. 7. Records are up to date/nothing missing. Make sure all your OPRs/awards are in there. 8. And although I disagree with this one in particular, exec jobs are a fast track way to accomplish #s 2 & 4. Look at the GO bios and see how many of them did it. Like promotes like. 9. Get all the above done ASAP, then you don't have to worry about it at the last minute. WG/CCs and above don't really care that you are "enrolled" in ACSC at the time your board meets. They want to see it done. 10. Enjoy the ride; if being CSAF is not your be all and end all, then relax a little. Many, many before you have made Maj and even Lt Col and can look at themselves in the mirror just fine without pinging about most of the above. For most promotion boards, each panel member takes about 15-30 SECONDS in the first cut to winnow out the dross or determine the top candidates The former go in the big "thanks for playing" pile and the second go in the "no brainer, promote now" pile. The middle ground is where they will take a little more time to look at records.