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He really sent me his contact info. Proof: Definitely going to rank 1 or 2 at UPT.

There's about 0% chance of either of those things happening, but keep being optimistic.

That's fine. The real "bonus" will come when said heavy drivers hit second year pay at AA/DL/UA/SW/UPS/FEDEX. I don't see the problem (much like the AF).

Dude why stop at WIC?! Just proficiency advance your entire career and you could be a civilian again in just a few short months with almost no effort required! Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk

Yup. Hence my edit above. Missed it the first time through and mounted up my high horse of outrage. Since dismounted. All good.

Don't listen to any of this nonsense, go spend that money on booze/strippers/fast cars. You'll be too old to have any fun with all that money once you retire... Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

I don't think the scenario will go down like this. They will eliminate gun rights via death by a thousand cuts. Massive tax increases on guns and ammo is the first step. Shut down shooting ranges because of "lead contamination". Repeal CCW. Etc. They certainly won't send police and military around to confiscate firearms. There's an easier way; once they have ownership lists (whether via registration, data mining, asking your kids at school, etc.), they simply make any interaction with the government contingent upon surrendering your firearms. Want to renew your license plates? Turn in your guns. Want to get a tax refund? Turn in your guns. Want to vote? Turn in your guns. Etc...

BLUF: Whatever each uniformed individual decides, he/she had better be on the winning side. Now, in the event of a secession as in the original Civil War, the academic case has been made that the states, as sovereign entities that agreed to form the "United" States, they voluntarily agreed to form a union and, as a contract, had the right to break that contract should the terms not be met - i.e., "state's rights." Since the North won - Lincoln did what he had to do to win and the Constitution be damned - suspending habeas corpus, freeing the slaves that were private property, thus denying "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (read by the SCOTUS as property rights)," etc, etc, etc. By winning, he and the federal government achieved the primacy of the federal over the individual state governments. See Smith v. Texas (or some such where the SCOTUS ruled in the late 1800s that a state can't secede). If the South had won, their argument would be the one that prevailed. Ultimately, might does make right and the victor writes the aftermath law. In the scenario listed in the article - pretty isolated and hardly a 'mass' insurrection - it isn't a Civil War. Think New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. Big Green roled in and sorted out a lawless situation. And the Second Amendment rights of Naw'oleans were violated wholesale at the time as just one real-time, real-world example. A better, more realistic scenario would be a very liberal POTUS deciding to stretch (not all that much compared to Executive Actions begun under Lincoln, raped by FDR during WWII, and seduced during GWB and the current Administration) his/her powers to require registration of all privately-owned firearms under penalty of imprisonment for failure to comply. Would sheriff's allow this? Would state governments? Would the SCOTUS? What if the answer to this is "yes?" by any or all of these institutions? Would you comply? If, to force compliance, the National Guard was federalized in order to conduct house to house searches, all in the 'national interest,' or even the standing military was ordered to do so, then the basics for an insurrection are formed. Would the Guard comply? Would the military? My personal opinion is that younger troops/officers would follow these orders. I am not sure about mid-grade NCOs/FGOs. I hope (never a good basis for planning) that the senior NCOs/GOs would stop this by mass resignations and/or passive resistance. If you are wearing a uniform currently, you have to decide what you will do. Is it a "lawful" order? You have a duty to carry out legitimate orders and an equally strong duty to disobey unlawful orders. Better be right and on the winning side.

Sorry to get your blood pressure up man, but the short story fix to that is your Sq CC, group CC, and probably wing CV having some semblance of balls and telling the MSG or LRG CC (whatever your setup is) to unfornicate their processes to make deployments happen. I know... That's asking for a lot these days especially when dealing with BPZers just looking to not rock the boat and move on to the next thing.

This could be epic if the above really happened.

Email Toro. Not only will he fill you in (sts), but you'll also get a backseat ride.

How do you like the RQ4? Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk