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She also mandated that we stop doing a bunch of additional duties, yet we're still tracking every computer and signing people up to vote in the units...

She seems like a ruthless killer

You should be able to jump from the E-8 to UPT or the E-3 next assignment. She should be able to go to any Mx unit.

Holy shit, Hacker. And all this time, the only reading I thought you did were P-51 flight manuals, beer labels, and steamy romance novels. Look at the big brain on his shoulders!

So, you would not consider the incremental addition of firearms laws over the last 100 years... - NFA 1934 - GCA 1968 - Brady Bill 1993 - AWB 1994 - the varied state AWB/magazine/etc bans implemented since then ...as prima facie evidence a "slippery slope" of increasing restrictions over time? BTW, the fundamental difference between a topic like gay marriage and gun control is that one issue is trying to increase liberty, and the other is trying to restrict it. Increasing liberty has no finite end...it is potentially boundless. Restricting liberty has a very specific finite end that it can reach.

I enjoy the irony of putting "Quiet Professional" on there.

That's the beautiful thing about being a free man living in a liberal democracy: it isn't about "need". The whole point is that free citizens are allowed to pursue whatever makes them happy (within the limitations of not violating the rights of others) without having to garner the approval or permission or validation of any other person or organization. "Because I want to" is all the "need" anyone requires.

...because if we just sacrifice "bump stocks" at the altar of gun control, that'll be it and they'll never be back for more, right?

Eh, if the OG sent out the email it would have been more appropriate to go through them for info and not proceed direct to the functional. having said that, I don't think it's worth worrying about. Just tell your boss you were innocently looking for info and didn't intend to cut out the chain of command.. next time you'll do it right. I think the AF culture of not being able to talk to the functionals (typically) is a huge disservice. I have a number of Army buds across the spectrum of MOS's. When I told them I never had a direct line to my functional until very recently, they were blown away.. even the infantry guys say as a Lt you could email/call the assignment guy and discuss available jobs. I believe the current crop of functionals at AFPC are making a HUGE effort to open lines of communication with their crew force. The C17 guy has weekly DCO sessions for anyone who wants to join. I've inquired a few times about assignments and he had no problem giving me his thoughts. Hopefully the trend will continue - AFPC shouldn't operate behind a shroud of secrecy when they're controlling some of the biggest changes in our lives.

There are not two classes of citizens in the United States. We are all equal...and all worthy of the same rights, privileges, and restrictions under the law. Police are not "super-citizens".

Every firearm ever invented is a "weapon meant for the battlefield". "Grandpa's hunting rifle" was a front-line infantry weapon less than 100 years ago used by doughboys to liberate Europe. This is a loosey-goosey emotional argument, not a logical one.

Just my two cents but I felt a dual buy of KC-30s and KC-46s was actually the right option. Former POTUS and SECDEF didn't think so but it had some merit, IMO... https://blog.al.com/live/2009/08/why_two_tankers_may_be_better.html The conventional arguments against it (fleet commonality, economy of scale, etc..) are great but when you have in reality only one supplier for a type of system, things get FUBAR. Giving Boeing actual competition in the heavy military aircraft market for USAF contracts would probably incentive their behavior / performance in the right direction, they have the US heavy military market cornered and they know it, they need a true competitor to keep them on point.

The military should take that suggestion and tell RAND and Obama to shove it up their a$$es. Instead, let's use that time and resources to make more weapons officers. That way when we actually go to war we won't get our a$$es kicked since we have become such a PC society. Good lord, I can't believe we are arguing about the feasibility of accomodating dudes who want to be girls or vice versa in the military at the expense of the tax payer and another Airmen that must deploy in their place.

Because we should be like foreign militaries......never.

Pics would help us decide.