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Fuck PCness! I want to thank everyone for another wonderful year of BaseOps, and hope y'all have a wonderful Christmas or whatever you celebrate this year! Hopefully 2021 will be a better year than the dumpster fire that was 2020! Be safe out there!

Through some luck and timing I was offered and given the Pfizer COVID vaccine yesterday from my civilian job. So far the only side effect I've noticed is my arm being sore. Otherwise I feel fine. It's only 50ish% effective after one dose so I won't change any of my behaviors until a few weeks after my second dose.

When I was in Plattsburgh he always took his Christmas ride on the B-47 at the front gate.

It was blind luck. I was helping administer vaccines for my hospital. We had two extra Pfizer doses and couldn't find any front line staff in the hospital that was able and willing to take it before the dose expired. Had we found two additional people I would have waited. I expected to receive it early (as my state's plan involves vaccinating all hospital staff in the first group) but not this early.

Chattanooga is up and coming. My brother has lived in the area for about 17 years. We moved to Knoxville last spring and we love it. I’m retiring in April and we are staying right here. And we have our first white Christmas in over 10 years, the mountains will be beautiful tomorrow when the sun comes up. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Merry Christmas everyone. It’s been a hell of a year, so let’s hope 2021 offers a better experience.

I didn't really disdain Esper. He honestly made a lot of decent changes; and the dude wasn't unqualified. He was an Army officer for over a decade, and took his skills to the worlds largest defense supplier. Given that the US war machine runs on industry, this isn't a terrible perspective to hold. So many people acted like just because he was a Boeing exec he was going to sell out, but the dude never resigned the rank of Major. Are people on here really so jaded that they believe once an officer separates they can't be professional enough to resume their Hippocratic duties if they ever return to the government fold?

That is not what "equity" means. It has nothing to do with "fair treatment". Equity means "equality of outcome".

I grew up in a ridiculously small town in the midwest. I graduated with 35 kids and said, "the keg is on the bean planter," way too many times, kind of rural. 🤣 My parents and sisters still live there, and while there are many great things about it, I just find it way too boring for my taste. As rural as I'm looking for these days, is a house on a lake that is within 30-45 of the city, and has tons of houses/neighborhoods. I currently live in a townhome on the edge of a medium sized city and I have become accustomed having everything close. I love that I have tons of neighbors who are always outside on the patio, fishing in the lake or jumping on 1 of the 2 running/bike trails that pass through my development. Beers on the back porch with my neighbors has created many a new friendship. A 5 min Uber to the bars/restaurants is great, as is the 5 minute drive to the grocery/hardware store. I also love that when I get home from an airline trip in the winter, my driveway is already plowed...I shoveled enough driveways in my youth to know I can do it. Maybe when I'm that old "get off my lawn" type of guy, I'll change my mind.