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go back to parler bro Edit: that was for a now-deleted racist post, not for @VMFA187

Kinzinger seems like a good dude, and one of the only GOP members with some moral courage, but from some of the stuff I’ve seen on here, he’ll probably just be discredited by the likes of SIM and others anyway.

Which is kind of the core problem, IMHO. "Black lives matter" as a concept is really not controversial in any way. Yes, anyone who believes that all humans are individuals and of equal objective value philosophically can confidently agree with that. We might disagree on the degree to which the statement relies on an unproven implication that society inherently values the lives of individuals with a certain skin pigment less than other individuals with a different skin pigment, but that's leading us down a different path of discussion Unfortunately, "Black Lives Matter", the organization and movement is something that is completely different and stands for something that is completely different than the plain English phrase means (as evidenced by their now-deleted "what we believe" webpage. So, just like with a lot of sophistry used in the name of advocacy, not being in support of "Black Lives Matter" (the organization) gets to be weaponized against whomever states it as "racist" (or whatever other word from the deplorables litany one wishes to arm themselves with) by intentionally co-mingling the concept with the org.

Gillibrand has singlehandedly ruined the military justice system. You consider her "center?"

Hasn’t it always been known that there need to be 2 doses for that vaccine? Another example of the media making a misleading story.

I picked up a Class-A RV and that is the retirement plan for my wife and I when the kids are out of the house. We have had vacations at Virginia Beach, Coronado Island, Pensacola, Corpus Christi, etc all at $30-$35 a night. If you can deal with the smaller space, it may be a good alternative to a dedicated summer home or Air BnB. Cheers!

Sorry all been taking a break w/ family this holiday season. Correct, there's federal guidelines about what passwords should be for government systems. Of course, commercial providers don't have to follow those. Never should it have been that easy. Everyone uses solarwinds, it's a product that does pretty well for what it is and I don't think it was that expensive either. The hackers could probably get wherever they wanted with these hacks. @Negatoryis correct in his estimation as well, though SIPR is generally well protected with the gaps, this was a Russian hack and they're no slouches. Million-dollar-question - what can be done. Domain wise, identifying the TTPs and indicators of compromise and finding and eradicating them. This is an expensive undertaking because of the avenues for persistence in a network with technology (SolarWinds) that's so deeply embedded. While it shows the US getting hacked...this is a problem for the entire world because of how far SolarWinds is used. This is worse than the OPM hack in my humble/not important opinion. Political-wise, a whole lot but it appears that the Pres has decided to do nothing/confuse everyone about it. I'll leave it at that for the politics thread. There needs to be something done about it, but we're waiting until the new Prez comes in I guess. I'd also add there could be stuff happening at higher classifications, but I have no access to that anymore and wouldn't put it here anyway. Sorry, misunderstood the question. A cyber red team is a team of hackers that you invite to hack you to prove your defenses and response capabilities. They're like red/adversary air in Red Flag, but with 1/0's. They generally are bound to certain activities in certain areas to make sure there's no extreme impact to operations. Unfortunately, this is usually mucked up by leaders to "not impact the exercise" so we never really lost email/phones/comms...which is among the first thing I'd degrade/disrupt/corrupt.

The original vision for the association was mixed support to FTU and ops, and we had half the squadron aligned with and actively flying the FTU mission. But RegAF asked us to support the combat squadron exclusively, and at that time most of our FTU augments pulled chocks because they weren't looking to deploy at that stage of their lives. The billets that came from the 9th/28th were vacant UMD billets that hadn't actually been filled by AFPC in some time. It cost the 28th zero actual personnel, the requirement for the 28th to maintain some people CMR to support 9th deployments went away, and seeing as the B-Course classes are 1/3rd smaller now and the FTU is out of the TX and FIC flying business, the demand signal on the FTU is demonstrably down. When we were told to support the combat squadron we naturally adjusted our hiring strategy and brought in more off the street and crossflow guys, so naturally we need our instructors to instruct our non-instructors... Not to mention supporting MQT, upgrade, FIC etc. at the 9th [who we associate with, not are "part of"]. And we are required by our MAJCOM to fly our own Flying Hour Program, so while we did the rainbow crew thing as we were standing up [we're still "standing up," we've only gotten to 2/3rds of our planned footprint so far], now sometimes we just need our instructors butts in seats, flying the line, making RAP, and getting CT. Instructor CT is a good thing... Especially when we rainbow up in the deployed arena as we should. When we've gotten a specific request from the FTU that we could actually support (i.e. not three months ago, when we were deployed) we've sent people... Case in point, two of our IWSOs flew with them this month. And two of our new hires (1x IP/1x IWSO) are going to live/work primarily in the FTU (with the caveat that they have to stay CMR and will have to deploy). But our force structure can't change on a dime just because one year RegAF wants us all-in on ops and two years later new local leadership wants us back in the schoolhouse in a big way... Especially because while RegAF's near rock may be FTU production, AFRC's long game is B-21 involvement and at Dyess that means Ops/Test/WIC, not FTU. There are two parties to this association, and AFRC is not going to let the other party unilaterally dictate our priorities. RegAF needs our Ops/Mx manpower and we need RegAF's iron, so we each hold some of the cards, and we (ARC) know we aren't going to get everything we want, but when y'all don't get everything you want it isn't because we have bad attitudes. It's because we're pursuing our organizational interests (from Sq to NAF to MAJCOM) like any rational group of people.

Highly disagree. Most military qualify (I barely slip in there because of joint filing) but definitely don't "need" it. The Rona has not impacted me financially at all except for what I choose to eat extra from local establishments. A lot of my family, even non-military didn't lose their jobs. Just thinking of way to help.

It’s bad. I’ve heard many say that an “11/10” on the scale of how bad it is would be an understatement. Solarwinds stores network topology, configuration, and credentials for all of those organizations. The Air Force is also a prime user. If the network was a bank, the hackers would have access to floor plans, schedules, vault keys and maybe even have an inside man still depending on the level of compromise. CISA/DHS is saying that if you have Solarwinds installed (or Orion) that was updated since March of this year, you need to assume everything in your network is compromised. It’s actually insane how big of a deal this is. Many affected companies and organizations are literally talking about entire server rebuilds of everything. SIPR is just one example of a potentially entirely compromised network: https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-18-pentagon-orders-shutdown-classified-networks-solarwinds-orion.html#

We have been eating outside, getting to go, and tipping generously because not everyone has the same pay stability that the military provides. I feel like we should help keep our local economies going. Except clovis, let that place burn.

Down for a second straight year in the Nashville area, this year -$141 at my rank for w/ dependent. Despite housing prices up 8-10% YOY and sale-to-list at 99% but WTF do I know. It is slightly up for single guys so YMMV. When I was on active duty I did not realize that for my Guard brethren, a break in orders (or just a change in colors of money) meant the loss of rate protection. Here's to staying on one set of continuous orders 🍺🤞 While I like the attempt at empiricism that goes into the BAH calculation, if they're not transparent with the data that goes in I'm inclined to believe it's all a bunch of made up bullshit. Monkeys with typewriters etc. Money is fungible people...just raise rates 0-3% per year like basic pay and be done with it.