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Here's a thought experiment to help evaluate the justice involved here: Swap the skin colors or genders of the two individuals involved. Do you think the outcome would be different? If so, the results of this case are unjust.

“…top scientists and doctors…” Just like those who in June 2020 told people to stay home when able, avoid large gatherings, etc to stop the spread of covid…unless it’s for a BLM protest, then it’s ok. Please excuse my skepticism that obviously clearly isn’t warranted. I’m sure there will be crickets from those on the left. "Staying at home, social distancing, and public masking are effective at minimizing the spread of COVID-19. To the extent possible, we support the application of these public health best practices during demonstrations that call attention to the pervasive lethal force of white supremacy," the letter says. "However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States. We can show that support by facilitating safest protesting practices without detracting from demonstrators' ability to gather and demand change. This should not be confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings, particularly protests against stay-home orders." Yep…no agenda outside of medicine and science. Over 1,000 health professionals sign a letter saying, Don't shut down protests using coronavirus concerns as an excuse https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-letter-protests-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

Very few countries are morbidly obese like the US as well as those countries that are that obese don’t have any where close to the population we do. It’s an underlying problem that causes so many health issues that doesn’t help with recovering from a sickness. Let alone covid.

nuke conversations lol. Nobody is forcing anyone to participate in the conversation hahah. Daddy stop the bad people from talking bad😢

Warrants are appointed to W-1 by the Service Secretary of their branch (minus the USAF). The President can do this via a commission, however that’s not common. Once they’re promoted to W-2, they are commissioned by the president. They take the same oath of office as commissioned officers.

I think the point is nobody knows. But we do know the touted numbers aren’t accurate. To what degree of inaccuracy is unknown (at least I haven’t seen anything objective/credible). But with so much fuckery going on, it’s logical to be skeptical. I think a few people have made good “middle ground” points (paraphrasing…) that it’s not accurate to say COVID is simply the “common cold,” but it’s far from what the fear mongers have sold (in a desire to compel compliance, build power, and change society to suit their desires).

Nope. Not good enough. We are not going to outrage over a dozen shootings of unarmed individuals resisting arrest and then decide to not outrage over a person who happens to be of the opposite political end also being killed in another likely unjustified shooting. That's not justice. Everyone needs to be treated equally under the law. Not just people from our preferred political demographic.

In no universe is this statement true. Deaths due to COVID or dying with COVID is undifferentiated in our tracking, which to be clear, is a feature for the PTB, not a bug. It has allowed them to propagate a narrative to justify all manner of policy-making that would be otherwise impossible. It's a bad bug that takes advantage of comorbidity. Now that Omicron is on the set, it's only a matter of time before the inevitable happens - that being the left in this country wakes up and admits the game is over. The new variant (and its derivatives) will be endemic, forever. It's breaking through three shots, masking, and everything else. Even they are going to have to wake up and realize that all the restrictions they're trying to implement are futile.

Spoke with my airline mentor today and described it, he said multiple dudes have done what I am asking to do without issue but to make sure no orders extension, orders end before training is over, leave covers the entire period and have the orders marked as Terminal as I will be ending my tour from FTNGD on these T32 orders. My risk mitigation is to have the OG sign the leave request (he's ok with my plan), state in the Remarks section pre-retirement employment training and document coordination & approval in an email if things get weird. If shit gets crazy, I'll let go of my double secret probation double dip legally plan and cash the leave out at retirement date, it's just so far all my direct POCs have not shut the door on this. My orders run out in 3 months with no more requested or expected.

For having 7 paragraphs, that letter didn't have much information. Though I'm sure they meant to say that 11R's were on track for a retro-bonus to make up for being forgotten in 2021. Edit: $35,000 is equivalent to $26,000 in 2007. And the take-home after taxes won't buy you a used car. Is that the best the "Aircrew Task Force" can do? The bonus was $25,000 in 1992 when I took it. That $25k is worth about $49,700 today.

Small point, but I was under the impression that all CWO's are commissioned.

“All” 😂

I know multiple guys who have gone to indoc/started initial training on leave at the end of various types of orders. No issues amongst the mil or airlines. They will likely want you to submit orders and leave approval to prove the situation is legit, but AA didn’t even do that for a couple guys I know. Now trying to knock out indoc on leave while you still have a year left on the current orders - that’s a different story. EDIT: Probably the “cleanest” COA is what SocialD said - curtail orders and sell the leave. But you will lose money on that deal assuming you are working at the airline during the time period you could have been double dipping. Selling back only nets you base pay after taxes.

How "long term" were the orders? If under a year, and if they won't extend the order for you to take it, sell it all back. There is no career limit on how much leave you can sell from orders less than a year and if they're not going to extend the order, you'll make more money selling it. Besides, the money you'll make by double dipping for a month is peanuts to what you could lose in the long run. I'm in the right seat in our lowest paying category and this week I'll make more than I would in a month as a 20 year O-5. Best of luck!

I've been with AA for a little over 3 years. I don't get much into the politics and armchair financial analysis, but I really don't see the company going anywhere. The job is 100x better than the full-time ANG job I had before for various reasons. I live in domicile with a relatively short drive to the airport. 99.99999% of the people I've worked with here absolutely great. Contracts change and we'll be getting a new one soon. Your progression to a wide-body may be a bit slower than other companies, but narrow-body captain is going to get more and more junior. I believe this last bid has a LGA 737 captain with a hire date about 6 months before mine. I've done a lot of mil leave over the past year and a half with COVID (got furloughed for a month), but I've definitely missed the job when I am not there. The past 6 months or so has been busy with a lot of manning issues, but I know that's going to get better. I'm on the 320 and now that hiring has started again, I've moved up about 6% in equip/base just over the past few months. There is definitely some post-merger drama that still exists with a few individuals, but just about all the captains I've flown with have been great.

I don't like agreeing with you, but I do.

Either way, this falls squarely into the play stupid games, win stupid prizes column for me. Don't vandalize/break into a federal building (or any building for that matter) and your chances of getting shot tend to diminish rapidly.

I have some serious concerns that Babbit shooting wasn't investigated seriously due to political partisanship, which is a shame.

Don't remember which thread the argument about Jan6 was in so I'll put this here. Something fishy here. There are multiple sources. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/01/06/capitol_police_officer_who_shot_ashli_babbitt_refused_to_answer_investigators_questions_810720.html

My point is that the colleges and flight schools have priced themselves out of getting kids from non-affluent families from ever getting a degree or PPL due to cost which totally shrinks the future pilot pool. During my time on active duty, I actually met pilots who hated flying. Time for the airlines to shell out some dollars and start their own UPT's.

I will never understand the 98% survival rate statement. 340,000,000 Americans x .02 death rate = 6.8 million dead Americans, you are ok with that? We got lucky, so far it has killed 849,000 Americans and world-wide it has killed 5.5 MILLION People. I am not in favor of masks, shutting down the economy, or mandatory vaccinations but I think we should stop the 98% survival rate BS and acknowledge there is a real impact.

91% less deadly than a variant that had a 98%+ survival rate.

That’s not really the point. He’s asking about leave when you’re mobilized. Im currently deployed, and half the people I work with are “deployed” to Shaw. I think they fall under the same rules we do out here, meaning if you’re less than 6 months you can’t take leave. I’ll ask the guys when I go in.

Here's the thing. If it was total bullshit, it would have warranted and received zero response. Absolutely zero response. The fact that it has received a major response, being addressed by the man himself, and also is now "under investigation" is all you need to know that the allegations are fully credible. And you know what? Someone acting with integrity in the face of other people acting with none is never a foul.

Remember when he said “it is under investigation” when commenting after the news article broke? Neither do I…

Slife is the dumbest GO I have ever met. 40 pounds in his colon, maybe. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't know. You ever see his leadership presentation where he starts off saying he's only got one slide and then proceeds to pack 90 slide transitions into a single slide? How could the Chair Force ignore a talent like that?