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I blame their parents; they raised this lot. You get exactly what you tolerate. Where are the news stories about dads showing up at college campuses to violently apply boot leather to hindquarters?

When a general says they are "accepting risk" for under training B coursers, what that really means is that line flight leads will be forced to "accept risk" as they get unfinished products on their wing here in the new future. The generals are accepting risk to their careers; the flight leads are accepting risk to their lives. Guess which risk the Generals are concerned about?

And there's your fucking problem right there. When this guy stands up to offer a simple solution, he is shot down in front of his mentors and peers. How the fuck do they expect to retain talent when this happens on a regular basis? As a FY14 VSP recipient, traditional Guardsman and airline pilot, I look forward to the upcoming MAF retention crisis. Leadership built this house of cards. I expect to watch it fall while sipping my coffee at FL380 enroute to Fort Lauderdale.

If Trump really wanted to be clever and spiteful, he'd pardon her. That would tag her as a criminal while avoiding the media firestorm that would ensue from prosecuting her.

1. Not really. The plan can't be worse than "Well, we have to do something...let's launch some airstrikes". And getting to watch our NATO allies bomb our Syrian allies instead of ISIS. 2. Not really. If we're going to be accused of going to war for oil at every turn, then let's take some fucking oil. Doesn't even have to be all of it...let's just make Iraq repay us for the reconstruction. 3. That bothers me a little. Mostly Saudi Arabia. But I think the threat is overblown. Much like concealed carrying a handgun, when a nation is packing a nuke, other nations deal with it in a different fashion than when they aren't. Look at how we dealt with Libya after they gave up their WMD program versus how we continue to deal with North Korea. 4. It's probably about time someone stands up to China in a real way. 5. I don't know about rude gestures, but one does wonder where we draw the line for acts of war. Apparently, taking sailors prisoner doesn't meet the threshold.

They do, it's called the ANG

The counter argument was that it's unlikely that pilots would want the rate of flying done as a Capt to continue for 20 years. That is, 120 days deployed and 100 more days TDY per year (or whatever the line guys in your unit are doing these days). It's not a bad argument. But the speaker had the guy who asked the question about a non-command track stand back up for like 5 minutes while giving the counter argument. It was like how I talk to my 5 year old when he's done something stupid. Except this was an O-6 talking to a guy with a college degree in something who had been flying in the AF for 4-8 years.

Money certainly isn't the primary factor, but it is important. For a lot of dudes, the pay cut you take for your first couple years in the airlines is something to consider when you have a family to worry about. If the AF can make staying a financially better long-term option as well, then it makes that decision easier (or harder depending on how you are leaning). The biggest variable is QoL, however. If the AF were to couple an increased bonus with civilian/enlisted queep-specialists (personnel/finance/scheduling/etc) assigned to flight rooms, no more BS 365s, no need to go in-res IDE, and the ability to easily make O-5 without flying less... I might stay put. But yeah, none of that is happening.

This situation would have gone poorly for me...very, very, very poorly. Unfvcking believable...let the Captain talk. So scared, so worried about nothing...such mindless wielding of authority. Quite disgusting. I wasn't there...I'm sure my imagination is way worse than reality...has to be, right? Bendy Sent from my iPad using Baseops Network Forums

BRILLIANT! Is there a way that the pardon can only be applied to the mishandling of classified information and not touch the whole issue of the Clinton Foundation? To me that lets you have your cake and eat it too.

I'll say what kiloalpha is too nice and refined to say... Remove the stick from your ass. Writing another 4 paragraphs of response to a one-liner matmacwc jokingly typed is some Simple Jack shit.

To all the celebs who said they'd leave America if Trump won... and especially Ruth Bader Ginsberg who said she would go to New Zealand... please keep your promise. I'll gladly take hard working Latino immigrants and well-vetted Syrian Christians to take your place.

When MSNBC announced Trump's win in Iowa, there was an audible grunt from Rachel Madow. By the sound of it, she apparently sat on her sack wrong. Happens to the best of us.

Agreed, to be clear I want the best leaders in those position regardless of if they are a patch. I have seen it go both ways with WOs as well. But I do want to see those that are WOs and good leaders not get leveled off in career progression because AMC likes guys that are an inch deep and a mile wide in expertise (Phoenix Horizon).

Guys I found an excellent poem online that might clarify this: Republicans are Red. Democrats are Blue. Neither of them give a fuck about people like You.

"it's pretty easy to figure out which party benefits uses the military for PR purposes more" is more accurate. Republicans lost their way after 9/11 when the party became a platform for businesses to profit through legislation.

Go and see the world. Maybe she's the one. But maybe you've never been more than 4 hours away from your house and you don't know what you're missing.

You can tell how racist all these liberals are... all of them promising to move to Canada. Not one of them promising to move to Mexico. What privilege they have to lie about moving to a country that is 90% white while being closer to another country full of Hispanics. They are dog-whistling racist messages, or something. i think I need to go back to college diversity class or maybe watch some more AFN commercials to regain my grasp on this racism and privilege talk. I'm rusty.

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