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I've been mentoring young'ins for years to be afraid of this Bullshit program... Don't take the DLAB unless you have a very specific reason for taking it. No DLAB = No AFPAK Hands. Call me paranoid, but I won't be getting this shit sandwich. I guess I also won't get some sweet foreign IDE either. Since I had about a .001% chance of that anyway, I can live with it.

Do we really want to give Lockheed another pass here.... "I've heard this song before... It was playing the last time I got fucked."

I thought it was a great look into religion and the ability/want of people to believe and accept something higher to believe in. In the end, I think we are just all tuned differently. I grew up Christian, my brother is a pastor and the best example of a Christian I can think of. I simply always had questions and did not accept the final answer from church when I asked too many the answer was.. "you just need faith -or- its all part of Gods plan... I grew out of religion the same way I see kids growing out of believing in Santa Clause. I don't need a lot of proof, I do need something, but so far I've seen nothing. I'll never say there is absolutely 100% no God. I also won't make my life/money/family decisions based off a translated 2000 yr old book with zero proof of it being credible.

I'd tank the language training on purpose rather than eat that shit sandwich.

Big Blue simply does not care about properly developing and maintaining its Pol-Mil capabilities. 1. No FAO track (as opposed to USN/USA) 2. RAS/PAS must return to original AFSC or risk getting passed over 3. No APAC HANDS (as opposed to USN/USA), another CJCS-directed program, because we have RAS/PAS already (bogus reason) 4. Lack of communication/coordination between LEAP/AFCLC and SAF/IA AFPAK HANDS are supposed to be on the O-6 track, but there stories of them being out-stratted by some AF GO's exec/aide.

Hardly representative of "religion at it's finest." May as well use Communist Soviet Union as an example of how atheism can benefit humanity.

lol I would agree that a 2-seater isn't needed. One of the consistent things we've heard from the pilots is that it's a very well-behaved jet and easy to fly. Also, the sensors and avionics seem like they're good enough to keep the workload reasonable for just one pilot (I would imagine anyway). The same can be said for training since much like the F-22 and A-10, as long as the aircraft flies well, you don't need to start in a two seater. I think if we give Lockheed any more money to put toward the cockpit, it should be to find a way to get rid of that damn canopy bow. Or I don't know at least put some mirrors or something on it lol, it's huge!

I'll be emailing that hamster gif to all my friends just in case their morning hadn't been ruined.

No.

That might be the most ignorant drivel I've come across in a while... and I watch Maddow and read Drudge. It should be possible to code you on your SURF as "DN3W", Does Not Work Well With Women, and therefore limited to jobs that have minimal mission impact. Here is the real irony... You complain SARC has undermined women integration (different argument), but are completely blind to you hindering integration on a much larger scale. Honestly, if you had a female wingman or Lt. Col. Mau was lead are you comfortable going to war with them? If not, how does Sq leadership reconcile that? If you're a SQ/CC are you going to send a male to WIC before a female because of their "disadvantage" in combat?

AFPAK Hands - RUN! Run far and run fast. It may have been fun back in the days when they got to roam around Afghanistan with a full beard, sleep in mud huts and do whatever they wanted to...(For some, not me) I work with a bunch of them here and these days they all go to non flying staff gigs. It's a terrible deal. Two deployments required. One 10 months and the other 12 months. A shitty deal all around.

It's a CJCS program because of politics. Throw the ol joint chief stamp on there so that everyone thinks its serious. Are there people that want to do this, probably. Are they in avaition, now we're getting to slim pickins. No one likes to work for futility, which is my opinion of this program and region. Send lots of intel and foreign affairs types to this program. Out

We're hemorrhaging aviators so badly that we're upping bonuses, yet THIS is what's dropping to flying units? I understand that I don't have the big picture perspective, but seriously...what is A1 thinking?

A year dealing with AfPak culture issues and then do it again? I'd be 190% considering 3-day opt.

Holy Fuk you're ill feelings toward religion are causing you to draw the conclusion you were hoping for from your statistics. Your google research could just as easily "prove" that hot weather, or the prevalence of Waffle Houses, or Nascar attendance also leads to a higher crime rate in the south. You should knock out a statistics class or two before your next research project.

It also has a questionable ID matrix and often shoots down friendlies.

Again you are COMPLETELY wrong and I will be sure to pass your moronic regards to the two dudes who work for me that lost their pay. Seriously, choke yourself.

Don't worry, hardly any of them are cleared for staff duty.

I have both a wife and a daughter whom I love. For that reason, I would never encourage either of them to serve in a military role where combat is involved. Women do not possess the same capacity for physical violence as men. How many women have you met that you would fear in battle? I would not be empowering my daughter by giving her the false belief that she can serve equally with men in combat. I would merely be placing her at a disadvantage to our enemies who don't foolishly rank social progress ahead of military effectiveness.

I don't converse in talking points, let alone somebody else's. I'm only vaguely aware of what Reddit is and as far as I remember have never visited it. I never have, and never will, have a Facebook account. Do you? If so, you are a terrible, annoying, progressive, yoga loving vegan hipster who takes selfies while they crossfit...apparently. What was that you were saying about speaking in broad generalities? That's an incredibly tired argument that resonates only with people who have never experienced anything other than what they were brought up on. You should know that since you're not religious, but maybe you're just a very self aware exception to the rule that sees yourself as inherently negative. I know that he's recently found significant popularity so I hesitate to mention him lest I be branded a bandwagoner, but I defy you to watch an interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson and tell me he has an inherently negative perspective on life. You want a narrowly focused counter-argument to faith? Here: The foundational tale behind the Mormon faith suggests that indigenous North American peoples were a transplanted Jewish tribe that traveled here by boat, and therefore their descendants should have DNA in that lineage. Modern DNA testing has shown that not to be the case, and that indigenous American's originated exactly from where every other anthropological indicator says they did - Northern Asia. How does a Mormon rectify that in their head? Well, the church goes to great lengths to ensure they never know that, but if they stumble upon it, it usually ends up with "god changed the evidence to test your faith" or some such nonsense. You can't trust science in this one instance despite the fact that you trust it every time you use your cellphone or toss your child over your head and don't expect them to fly off into the vacuum of space. What can a logical argument possibly accomplish with a person willing to swill that down? Very little. So you change the environment by refusing to allow that stuff to go unabated and wait. Over time, as joe1234 mentioned, it becomes more acceptable to call that kind of thought out for what it is. And let me be clear. Mormonism is no more or less crazy than any other religion out there, this is just an easy example to demonstrate how futile it is to 'convert' individuals with directed logical argument. I'd prefer that the people in this world put in the position to decide when to launch enough nuclear warheads to destroy the Earth multiple times over not base their actions on this kind of thing, but that's just me. And yes, I am aware that sadly I'm in the minority.