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There’s no confusion on green bag wear...just saying. #makebagsgreatagain

Any chance of a 365 is too much of a chance. As I’ve said before, dudes are tired and asking us to continue the same mindless strategy for another 17 years with no end in sight is why we are leaving. Pointless Air Advisor deployments where you’re only needed at work 3 days per week, the above non-flying SE gigs, then flying deployments with broken airplanes and not much flying. I’d rather be at home watching my kids grow up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Your wife must have seen your previous posts....

There are a lot of 179 non-flying jobs that are bullshit and useless - we've all seen jobs that can take an A1C 15 min per week to accomplish, but the AF deploys two Capts to fill the position for 179. Almost worse is the ineptitude of how they fill certain positions, e.g. deploying an F-35 guy to BAF to do the SE job that could be done by a SE guy who flies any of the 5+ airframes that fly out of there on a regular basis (same example, but OSS/DO...seen both). They're so retarded they made a flying deployed job into a non-flying deployed job. Shit like that is what pisses people off and needs to be stopped. 365s aside, bullshit like this pushes people to make the sensible decision to skip bonuses and/or punch at first opportunity. Deploy us to do our primary job and contribute to the war in a meaningful way, but don't lie to our face and tell us powerpointing or filling out TPS reports once a week is a worthwhile contribution in anyone's book outside of the hardcore koolaid drinkers who have long since lost any ability to rationally think.

Way to go, Ohio! So happy you stuck it to this RINO! https://www.mrpolitic.com/2018/12/27/ohio-legislature-defeats-kasichs-veto-on-gun-owner-rights-bill/ Essentially, the now approved bill makes it the State's burden to prove a self-defense shooting wasn't just that. Previous law, and Kasich's preferred method, is that the individual had to prove innocence. Fcuk him and his horse.

I have several of Bob Stevens' There I Was... books around here, great cartoons from the good ol' days!

Jeez just asking.

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2! I’m not in the Army. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

It’s like watching a bad sitcom except you can’t change the channel for four years.

Dang, it must be a burden to be such a omniscient graybeard savant. I understand now you know better even though people are getting out and citing 365s as one of the reasons. If you dumb down the argument to the millennial idiot level....which I know is hard....I’m sure they will stay in and better yet...return to active duty ASAP. Come to think I’ve never had this 365 discussion with other fellow FGOs. My fault for not doing prior research.

Only issue I have with this is more people volunteering for worthless deployments means less people to full other deployments. All worthless deployments must end. Mine was my deciding factor in dropping separation the second I RTB'd.

Deploying is fun if you have a flying gig i think guys hate the staff deployment gig.

Sun Tzu said there is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. Best part about IDE/SDE is learning from the curriculum that we are in fact, doing this wrong. The great mystery to me is how we teach people the right thing yet so many graduate and immediately do the wrong thing. All of the generals responsible for our failures have read that quote. Yet here we are.

Not the attitude I want in my fighter squadron and its ignorant to all the other possibilities out there. If you think this place is totally anonymous you'd be wrong.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2018/12/27/trump-bragged-service-members-iraq-about-percent-raise-theyve-not-been-given/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.4ef938ca65ef Big news! 10% pay raise!

Well, they've reduced rated 365s for by half in the past 5 years, so there's that.

So is the desire to not do 179s? Or 365s? I'm confused. What do you want? To never deploy again?

My point is some of you sound like a bunch millennial idiots. The number of deployed billets has dropped in unison with the drawdown of forces in the region. People listing 365s as the main reason they’re getting out have a much, much smaller chance of deploying on a 365 than they did 5 years ago. You’re more likely to get your short tour by deploying with your airlift unit, or sitting at the Deid with your tanker than from a non-vol 365. Ops tempo issues? Fair. You wanted fewer 365? Fair. But quit using 365s as an issue. It simply isn’t the issue you make it out to be.