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"Less than 1 in 100" includes less than 5 in 10000 and also includes zero. Zero is roughly the chance that I think I have of dying of COVID in the next decade. I will eventually get the vaccine for the same reason I get the flu vaccine, which I also think that I currently have a roughly zero percent chance of dying from. The flu and COVID both suck, but I'm way more likely to die from a car accident than either virus, so we need to reasonably evaluate the risks. For the military population, the chance of death from COVID is virtually zero, which makes me think that there is something more going on here. Speaking of which... I cannot think of a public health issue in the history of the world that has been more politicized that this, which is why you see a substantial distrust in the system that developed it. Remember the VP debates when now VP Harris said 'if Donald Trump tells me I should get the vaccine, I won't get the vaccine" and now she is actively advocating that exact same vaccine simply because she is now in power? Zoom out just a little and I think you'll find reluctance to get an experimental vaccine that is being pushed by substantial political motivations for a virus is relatively non-threatening to the military population to be relatively reasonable. The vast majority of deaths have been >65 years old. If this is really not politically motivated, why was a healthy guy like me <40 years old offered the vaccine six weeks prior to my >65 year old parents? Politics in the military sucks worse than COVID; it is reasonable to push back against purely political decisions being forced on the military.

I've gone into the control panel and banned him, deleted his posts, and removed any reputation points he has given.

I am offended by your gender specificity! Some of us older guys need those as well!

I got the vaccine. I now want a shirt that proudly tells everyone I have it and they can fuck off. Then I'll parade around in said T-shirt, no mask, and no pants. The last part is a lie. I'm too much of a chickenshit to actually do that. But I did think about it, so that's something right?

Ya, it's a pretty ridiculous way of doing an elephant walk, but elephant walks in general are pretty dumb. I'm sure with a few days notice, our mx force could get every jet on base in a condition to safely taxi, but what does that really do? I'd be much more impressed with all these so called "elephant walks" if they launched all those jet to fly missions then, then turned them to fly 1 or 2 more times that day....and you still had a jets to fly your normal turn pattern the next day. IDK, it's always been a weird flex to me. Word! Hell, even deploying a $40M fighter to do the job of an RPA... Yay having an Army General in charge of the fighters, in a war that should have been shut down over a decade ago.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." --John Rogers

This is pretty good.

There’s 690K people in the AF/working directly for the AF. Yes there’s going to be some of every fill-in-the-blank group that is undesirable, but it’s disingenuous and misleading bullshit to say this stuff is a large enough problem that it requires anything to be done above the wing level. Most cases should be able to be dealt with by SQ/CC or GP/CC level (potentially with interactions with JA, OSI, etc.) The AF is not racist, white supremicist, etc...those things exist in statistically irrelevant amounts, so society/big Gov/DOD should stop acting like they are anything but “one offs” (obviously still address those one offs at the local level).

Since no dead dinosaurs were harmed in the performance of this walk, I believe our sons of Galland refer to these as a: Greta Walk. No, don't get up, I'll show myself out...

You know what... I stand corrected. The Italians know how to deploy and dine. Their chow hall had 16 oz mini bottles of wine you could just grab to go along with the Italian pasta dish of the day. It was like living in a dream until the command sgt major found the wine fridge and decided to post and guard it from American troops during chow times everyday. At least we could raid their coffee bar... Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

One of the things I did not like about Trump was his willingness to run with a conspiracy theory...POTUS should NEVER be apart of such things. With that in mind I always looked at some of the "theories" about the true origin of COVID-19 with a jaundiced eye. This past summer there were several "definitive" stories saying researchers looked at the genetic sequence of COVID-19 and determined it was not a manufactured virus. With high confidence they stated it like came from humans interacting and eating bats and it finally made the big jump "naturally" in the Wuhan market. I don't recall which publication it was but it was peer reviewed and shared by multiple experts...and I believed what they said. Over the past few months more and more information has come out that puts the focus on the Wuhan Institute of Virology which just so happens to be located near the food market. These are not conspiracy nutbags pushing an agenda...shockingly there is some real reporting go on as folks try to get through the wall of Chinese silence and censorship. Politco just published an EXCELLENT article (link below) with some very disturbing and damning facts. The facts came from U.S. State Department personnel that saw things in 2017. In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened. I highly encourage you to read then come to your own conclusion. For those with ADHD I am posting an excerpt with some of the most eye opening information. "In late 2017, top health and science officials at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing attended a conference in the Chinese capital. There, they saw a presentation on a new study put out by a group of Chinese scientists, including several from the Wuhan lab, in conjunction with the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Since the 2002 outbreak of SARS—the deadly disease caused by a coronavirus transmitted by bats in China—scientists around the world had been looking for ways to predict and limit future outbreaks of similar diseases. To aid the effort, the NIH had funded a number of projects that involved the WIV scientists, including much of the Wuhan lab’s work with bat coronaviruses. The new study was entitled “Discovery of a Rich Gene Pool of Bat SARS-Related Coronaviruses Provides New Insights into the Origin of SARS Coronavirus.” These researchers, the American officials learned, had found a population of bats from caves in Yunnan province that gave them insight into how SARS coronaviruses originated and spread. The researchers boasted that they may have found the cave where the original SARS coronavirus originated. But all the U.S. diplomats cared about was that these scientists had discovered three new viruses that had a unique characteristic: they contained a "spike protein” that was particularly good at grabbing on to a specific receptor in human lung cells known as an ACE2 receptor. That means the viruses were potentially very dangerous for humans—and that these viruses were now in a lab with which they, the U.S. diplomats, were largely unfamiliar. Knowing the significance of the Wuhan virologists’ discovery, and knowing that the WIV’s top-level biosafety laboratory (BSL-4) was relatively new, the U.S. Embassy health and science officials in Beijing decided to go to Wuhan and check it out. In total, the embassy sent three teams of experts in late 2017 and early 2018 to meet with the WIV scientists, among them Shi Zhengli, often referred to as the “bat woman” because of her extensive experience studying coronaviruses found in bats. When they sat down with the scientists at the WIV, the American diplomats were shocked by what they heard. The Chinese researchers told them they didn’t have enough properly trained technicians to safely operate their BSL-4 lab. The Wuhan scientists were asking for more support to get the lab up to top standards. The diplomats wrote two cables to Washington reporting on their visits to the Wuhan lab. More should be done to help the lab meet top safety standards, they said, and they urged Washington to get on it. They also warned that the WIV researchers had found new bat coronaviruses could easily infect human cells, and which used the same cellular route that had been used by the original SARS coronavirus."

https://notthebee.com/article/it-was-more-than-just-pepe-le-pew-new-york-times-columnist-went-after-speedy-gonzales-too-and-his-failure-was-epic Before you get offended on someone's behalf... maybe see if they're offended first.

They did nail those hourly CSAR SAT radio checks with JPRC. They sounded like N64 Mario. "JPRC, it's-a me, Mario!"

Don't mind me... Just over on the vMPF trying to will that assignment notification into existence...

Oh, have they gotten through all the prisoners, illegal immigrants, and homeless already?

This should help. 🙄 I personally can’t wait for Contract Undergraduate Navigator Training, which will likely be in the second phase of their plan. AETC Looking into Contract UPT

it's easy to spot the blowhards on the left too.

'We're going to lose fast': U.S. Air Force held a war game that started with a Chinese biological attack Meanwhile, a leading Chinese think tank recently described tensions in U.S.-China relations as the worst since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and it advised Communist Party leaders to prepare for war with the United States.

If anyone is wondering about R&R on 365s—and COVID. I probably just ruined it for everyone. FWIW.

And using the lifespan of the major war fighting assets on said low end fights.

Not a word yet here

The thing I've never understood about "cultural appropriation" is that the same people who will drag a white guy over the coals for wearing a sombrero will complain about the lack of representation in the media. Of course it isn't represented...you want to fence off culture based on race, rather than share it with the rest of the population.

It's a PA photo op. Nothing else...

Cool! In our community at least, women can fly while pregnant up to a certain trimester and sim until even later. I’m massively in favor of anything that helps folks be more comfortable and contribute to the mission! 🇺🇸

They also refused to wear anything but speedo pants to work out in our gym. That may have contributed to the shortage of sterile wipes for COVID. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sadly, I think you’re right about what will end up happening. They SHOULD go aggressive with the bonus...$50-100k/yr. The current bonus is not even one month’s airline paycheck; not all that appealing (if money is what motivates you). I’d advocate for predictable schedules and decent leadership if the AF asked me.

Got it. So it sounds like only the “yes” notifications were sent out, and nobody has received a “no” yet. Good luck to those selected!

What a great day to be in the market! I am guessing Friday/Monday was the new low/base for Tech.

I thought the major he was responding to made much better arguments, personally. For an O-6...this guy was really lacking in his strategic planning for getting out. I don't know what kind of McMansion he bought, but if you can't make the budget work on 75% of O-6 pay...you were always going to have problems with the transition. Dude is making more IN RETIREMENT than most people make on Active Duty. Hell...he's making more in retirement than I do right now. I absolutely buy the idea that you need to plan ahead, build a cash reserve, and be prepared to expect the unexpected...but I don't buy that staying in the military for yourself is a better option than getting out because your family is tired of being dragged from duty station to duty station every 1.5-2 years.

The jets have no munitions on them either 🙄. This shows the opposite of what an elephant walk should show. I now doubt their combat readiness more than before I saw the pictures.

Yet NATO is an invaluable tool for diplomacy in 2021? Right. Honestly it's a miracle China hasn't already taken our place as sole superpower.

Take a vaccine that is 95% effective for a virus that has a 99% survivability rate? Take a chance on a vaccine with possible long-term implications on my already healthy body and lifestyle? Take a chance on a vaccine that, if I had implications, could cause me to not be able to pass my annual flight physical or keep my FAA Class 1 medical? Again, until it is FDA certified with more testing and there are more options for the vaccine, I’ll wait...

Greta rocks!!

Man, that woman had some hella bad side effects. She became a man, an AF Col, ed up every decision she made after retiring, and is now lining for being the queen again. Lame.

He went down voting my old posts again today, all 26 of my down votes are him, lol

I’m surprised we didn’t reach this level of bureaucratic efficiency years ago.

The same guys who ironed fishing line into their BDU sleeves, cut off buttons to sew down their pockets and put weights in their bloused pants are the likely the same people now writing the AFI. Goodluck!

I'm going to direct my hate like I direct my JASSMs: with poor timing and in all directions.

For the typical woke mob of late, nailed it... https://www.facebook.com/awakenwithjp/videos/125512689496019/

MyCS is in time out.

Your transformation to Immorten Joe is complete.

Can anyone who was involved in this process speak to the reason a C-130 is included with a U-28 as not needing multi-engine time? I think it can be argued that a C-130 is probably the top multi-engine aircraft for difficulty flying in engine out operations. Between blown lift/flaps/ailerons and changing p-factor on top of asymmetric operations, a strong foundation in multi-engine operations seems fundamental to flying a C-130 far more than a C-5 or KC-135. It might even be argued that the T-1 formation low level is most analogous to a C-130J and C-17 than any other MAF aircraft in terms of mission management.

I think we're conflating two things here. Whether or not you should get the vaccine, and the Air Force's dumpster fire policies relating to covid are two completely separate issues. Anyone who has been in the Air Force for more than a day should have been able to predict that they'd enact idiotic policies, and commanders would revert to extreme risk aversion. But none of that should play into your decision of whether or not to get the vaccine. Getting the vaccine should be based on your personal health and that is it. Big Air Force nonsense shouldn't play into that decision and neither should politics. But what I'm seeing in the 1/3rd of service members turning down the vaccine are a bunch of political blowhards refusing it out of spite. It's a selfish act of political defiance, a middle finger at big blue and the libtard lockdown people, with not a second thought given to their actual health. And that is a problem.

Because not getting the vaccine could cause you much bigger problems... I'm sorry your friend got brain fog from the vaccine. That's a new one I haven't heard about. But I would urge you to weigh the risks of the two options: Option one: give yourself ~95% protection from the virus and risk hypothetical long term side effects and the occasional case of brain fog. Option two: risk it with a virus that's killed half a million people in a year. Oh and we also don't know what covid's long term effects might be either. And If we're doing brain fog anecdotes, I'll chime in with my anecdotal evidence too: every single person that I know who has gotten the vaccine felt slightly off for one day, had arm soreness for a few days, and then went about their life.