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Not supporting “white supremacist capitalism” and only buying from Black businesses sure sounds like a not so thinly veiled boycott of any business that is owned by anyone not of a certain skin pigment. Which I guess maybe I was raised weird, but that seems to meet all the hallmarks of racism to me. I like to play a little game to judge the racism level of BLM tweets and causes. Simply replace ‘white’ in any of their tweets and articles with ‘Jew’ or ‘Black’, then replace ‘black’ with ‘white’, and see how uncomfortable it makes you and how much it seems to fit the despicable things said in Jim Crow Deep South or 1930s Germany. That Drake meme sure gets uncomfortable real quick if you do that. But go ahead and keep giving free pass to an openly racist (and Marxist) organization simply because it aligns with your political team of choice.

But, they were good friends. He called him a “terrific guy” and talked about his love of “young women” while partying with him and taking rides on his plane. And Clinton was a good friend. And Bill Gates. And Stephen Hawking. And Prince Andrew. And… Instead of trying to turn this into a partisan issue, maybe we should keep focusing in on how a lot of wealthy people, whatever their political affiliation, seemed to spend a lot of time with a guy who preyed on and abused underage girls? All while having a couple decades of allegations, investigations, and convictions, yet seemingly minimal repercussions. The fact people like this existed out there for years and got away with all they did due to money/privilege/connections makes me seethe with anger at the injustice. I hope she burns for her (alleged…for now) role in this mess and I hope even more that she spills the beans on the high profile people that were a part of it and enabled it, regardless of their political party. F-these people.

Pawnman you’re the last person who needs to be lecturing based upon “risk”

The 163rd is now accepting UPT applications to fly the mighty A-10C in the great state of IN! See attached announcement for details. Please read carefully and follow the directions as stated. If you have any questions about the application, the A-10, or the Blacksnakes, don't hesitate to ask. 2022 163FS Application Announcement.pdf

Would you agree that even a short of stint of military service is better than none? For a job that requires zero military experience? That is also a political appointment? The check on some rando being appointed is that the Senate has to confirm the USecAF. And her credentials were good enough for the Senate to confirm. Plus she's had a decent amount of time in DIA, so while not in the AF it's time within DOD. And secretaries, undersecretaries, and assistant secretaries all have staffs that support them in their decision making. All that to say, chucking spears at her decision making are valid. But her experience or lack thereof don't really matter because it's not a requirement for the job so long as the Senate confirms, and civilian control of the military means that many of the civilians in charge of the military won't have significant military service.

The Left makes and plays by their own rules and standards and are hypocrites without peer. Remember, X & Y chromosomes aren't sciences.

Concur. Anyone, regardless of political affiliation, who is linked should be investigated.

How about we ask about this picture?

This article is terrible, to be honest. The deaths are all presented in percentages (yet the numbers are all small, so going from 4 to 10 represents 150%). Neither the article nor the data point to the causes of death having to do with the vaccine or COVID. In fact, they almost explicitly omit any mention as to the causes, other than to correlate the timing of the offering of child vaccines. “Though there is a pattern of increased deaths since the shots began being used in children, the causes of the deaths were not published.” I am willing to wager the increases in deaths are sadly related to the isolations. We fly medevac sorties frequently in Europe, and there is a marked increase in pediatric suicide attempts or ideations. Scary stuff.

You do you. (sts) I'll do me. (err, yesssss) Don't try to do me and I won't try to do you. I don't expect and won't tolerate the gub'mint trying to do me.

Frankly, that doesn't matter. The numbers cited are entirely too large for a 'vaccine' that isn't. I can still get/transmit the virus despite getting the jabs. And add in a not insignificant risk of further life-threatening or life-altering side effects? Heckuva job, Brownie...

Ay we’re all gonna make it! Ya just gotta believe 🛫

Overall, a lot of things have been good. A lot has been tough. Overall, very rewarding. I was a dude locked in a 2A career field doing maintenance shit. Couldn't retrain, BOP denied, coded to stay at my base due to an aircraft transition. Half way through a degree as well, too burned out on midshift to want to continue school. This opportunity comes out of nowhere while I was deployed and here we are five years later. I'm an IP "deployed" to a vacation spot living the dream. If i was staying in the career field (and my model wasn't being divested) I'd probably be up for evaluator at some point. Maybe go to the FTU, maybe go test. Maybe go to ACC or the pentagon to work for HAF. It is perfect? Hell no. Tons of growing pains. Still going through lots of them. It has been frustrating at times to watch the career path and opportunities when we literally do the same jobs (flying and admin). But it's gotten continuously better since I became CMR in 2019. I'm thankful as shit for this program, without it I doubt I would have been offered this slot in the guard im gunning for. The ugly: the amount of unknown due to HAF being so back and forth on the program as a whole has wrecked us. Everyone is exhausted and just wants to know what's going to happen. We have the possibility of other aircraft brought up, only to be shot down. CSAF told us at a Q&A in 2020 that we were done and going back to our old career fields. It was shot down by congress, so we had to stay. Right now we are mandated per the NDAA until that is changed. On top of it all, that memo just came down, which has some awesome stuff that we've been hoping for. The problem? "Should the RQ-4 program sunset". The aircraft isn't sunsetting. The block 30 most likely will, not the whole thing. So everyone is waiting to find out what is going to happen here shortly. Further, promotions have been frustrating. We're incredibly top heavy and have Staff Sergeants that would have made Tech years ago in other career fields. Lots of people are pissed. Tired of it and want out. A lot of us are still happy to be here, we just want to know what's happening. Everyone has their opinion, I'm still happy in general while being frustrated for the last few years.

I know I'm way more cynical than most, but I honestly can't remember a time in my 18+ years in the AF when I even knew who the Air Force Under Secretary was. Political appointees like that, as mentioned above, don't require any prior military experience. Does anyone really care about this?

The point is her credentials were good enough because there was an invisible hand holding her up. As mentioned, she's been darling'd by the DNC. Her work at DIA is relevant but I'm curious how she was so quickly pulled into the WH division, largely during the Obama presidency mind you. The question you need to ask now though is who does she really work for? The DAF? The USG? I would argue she actually works for the Democratic Party. They are the ones that will continue to ensure she is gainfully employed. I predict she finishes out two years than moves to an undersecretary position within SECDEF or a position within the office of the DNI. When Biden is out of office they will rerun her for Congress or find her more work in a prestigious firm that justifies Democratic policy. This isn't a stab at Democrats, it's happening everywhere. There is clearly a vector to power that is available to some but not many.

Did I miss where he resigned as a serving general officer? Or was it as a political appointee? (It was the latter) I'm not hung up on the GO/FO thing, but they are as responsible for our geopolitical weakness as our political class. Same thing in fact...

I would submit that Mattis meets the intent of your question.

CNN and the like seem to make a lot of noise about a Trump connection to Epstein. However, Trump appears a grand total of only once in Epstein's flight logs, on a 1997 flight from Palm Beach to Newark in Epstein's Gulfstream. Compare that to Bill Clinton, who appeared in Epstien's flight logs 26 times between Feb 2002 and Nov 2003.

Best (kidding) alibi yet has been Prince Andrew's deposition some time back when the accuser said she was introduced to him at a party and he was "really sweaty." Randy Andy's reply was that he never sweats ever since his Falkland Island combat tour. Sorry, ol' boy. I'm pretty sure you are fcuked. And not in a good way this time...

https://humanevents.com/2021/12/01/blm-calls-for-boycott-of-white-companies-during-holiday-season/ BLM wants to boycott white businesses. Are we still as a society pretending they aren’t a racist organization?

This is the rub for me...the OVERWHELMING majority of mainstream media outlets not only lean liberal but in recent years have actively sought to protect the liberal machine. I get it, FOXNEWS preaches the same for the Conservative side, but they are a lone lighthouse in that storm. Are there other outlets that defend the conservatives, yes, but none with the audience of CBS/ABC/NBC/CNN/Yahoo News/Twitter/Facebook. I'm old and I am an idealist, I want the press to be the 4th estate. We need that neutral and unbiased eye looking in to keep our system honest. In my opinion the press has completely abandoned that moral responsibility. I am glad COVID has been an eye opener, I hoped better from my government. I consider myself a man of science and when the pandemic started I was glad Fauci was standing next to Trump, maybe a voice of reason to shape the bloviating. I can not even begin express my disappointment in Fauci. At first I thought he had just morphed into a political animal, now I've come to believe he is beyond corrupt. He actively helped cover up the origin of the virus, has denied gain of function research to the point of changing the definition, and denies any relevant research related to natural immunity. He MUST go and should likely be prosecuted for both perjury and potential criminal actions related to work at the Wuhan laboratory. The mainstream press has stood behind Fauci and sung his praises completely overlooking any reasonable responsibility to research this clown and what he did. The second unforgivable failure of the 4th estate is the Hunter Biden laptop. Social media suppressed the story and the mainstream media drown the story in a "Russian misinformation" mantra." Have any of you liberals taken an honest look at what is on that laptop. I could care less about pictures of Hunter smoking crack or nailing hookers, has zip to do with the Presidency. I am talking about the repeated insinuations that Biden while VP sought a cut and was most certainly manipulated as part of an effort to sell influence at the highest level of the U.S. government. I HOPE it is false, but dear god shouldn't we take an honest look? The liberal hate machine spent years impeaching Trump and shaping the release of information, only to see the disinfectant of sunlight show it a nothing burger. Is no one else appalled that there could be even a grain of truth to all of this. I found Tony Bobulinski's testimony to be very compelling and at least justifies a deeper look, not a hand waive by the liberal media that wants to hide the truth. The NY Post won't let the story go and while the WSJ has done some background investigation on the finances, a MUCH deeper look needs to happen. I am hoping (probably idealistic on my part), the the fall of Chris Cuomo starts the dominoes falling so we can just get to the truth on both sides.

cnn wants to rekindle those trump ratings

I'll give this one a "maybe." He and SECAF were 'fired' over the multiple nuke buffoonery events, but, yes, it was a disagreement with USAF and SECDEF over Predator CAPs vs. F-22s. So, the 'maybe' part of this was did he resign over principle or get fired? Huge difference. If it was resigned over principle and we needing more than the relatively few F-22s we did buy, then good on him. And Gates is definitively in the "failed us" category of VMFA187 above. Failed us in Afghanistan and left us light on firepower for any near/peer fight. Thanks, Bob!

We, both our military and our nation, are weaker now than we've been since I've been alive. That is not to degrade our warfighters - We've been betrayed by politicians and the media. As a nation we have never been more divided and as a fighting force we've been out-procured by our biggest threat to a degree not fathomable in the past.

I get it, I'm sick of freeloaders with the money, tech, industry and the military age male population to help secure the free world but don't as they benefit from the system and international political and security conditions that exist now thru the sacrifice of blood and treasure, thru expensive and difficult continued vigilance to deter aggression. I see how this appears tenuous but allowing the weak to be bullied, conquered, assimilated, etc... when that weak state is not geographically close, economically significant or culturally tied to us but it is. It is the principle that we don't leave our friends and allies out to dry. That where it matters, where aggression would threaten the free world, to the rules based order, we and others will fight for it. That we are the powerful nation that is willing to act on the principle that others deserve the right to live as they wish without being dominated unwillingly by others and that we will fight with those being oppressed to prevent that. We approached, encouraged and publicly supported Ukranian democracy, reform and turn to the West, this drew the ire of Russia and now as the storm clouds gather, we abandon them? Seems unbecoming to a nation that prides itself on being the shinning city on the hill and the guarantor of freedom. I don't believe in poking the bear but running from it is not acceptable either. I don't think your son, mine or any American should be sacrificed in a war, conflict or military operation that is not fought to win but that rightfully skeptical sentiment given our recent debacle in withdrawal from Afghanistan should not stop us from fighting or deterring a fight that is not an unsolvable problem like nation building in places where a nation really only exists on a map. I'm not naive, I know our power is not infinite and not every conflict is our responsibility, we have to choose wisely where we have to or should intervene. If Ukraine is invaded or Russia takes other aggression towards them beyond what they are doing now, I believe we should help them. Just my two cents.

RQ-4 Block 30 will most likely be retired with the upcoming NDAA. So only one MOB flying RQ-4s outside of test remaining, Grand Forks. Further, the NDAA still requires the enlisted pilot program to exist and actually requires more to be produced. But to go where you might ask? Nowhere! They are not allowing us to fly other platforms and that's not changing anytime soon. So we're in limbo waiting for congress like we have been since 2019 when we first knew it would be coming to an end. Most of us are trying to figure out things for ourselves. Its why I started rushing Guard units in the first place and put together an OTS package if the Guard didn't work out. Everything presented to us as far as options is a "maybe", since we aren't officially done. Just like the Block 30 isn't officially retired. It's a big mess and I hope they release me from AD so I can be doing my own thing by the time they make a decision. Originally, they just figured everyone would commission. But most of us are past 10 years with many beyond 15, not everyone wants to take on another ADSC and go past 20. I'll keep this updated when we find out more in the next few months if anyone is interested.

New CBT requirement prior to deployment.

And you would have gone to jail. Good thing you're not a cop then, huh?

Honestly one of the coolest programs out there. You can use it to take an unpaid internship with a firm for up to 6 months while still receiving your AF salary. I think the reason in pilot land we don't hear more about it is because so many people go airlines and you probably don't want to disrupt your currency/recency on the way out. Know people who have done some seriously cool programs with Amazon and Mantech though. One dude got a second bachelor's out of his.

This sure sounds like a headline meant to keep the conservative outrage machine going. A quick browse of the BLM website doesn’t net any evidence of a boycott of white companies. There is a “Black Xmas” section that encourages disrupting “white supremacist capitalism” by shopping in black owned businesses. A bit hyperbolic? Maybe. A “boycott” of white people? Meh. Fox trying to keep you tuned in? Definitely. Gonna bankrupt the Gap? Pfffffttttt.