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I would trade the M9 for a 1911 all day every day.

Attn Vance Pilots: We will be at Vance late tomorrow and will be doing a meet & greet at the 25 FTS. Should be around 1730... but check your emails. Students interested in learning about the U-2 are welcome too, and we are glad to have you show up.

The problem wasn’t becoming an anti-Trump Republican. The problem was that in becoming an anti-Trump Republican he hilariously took on lots of the traits of Trump himself, including tweeting epically dumb shit. His “you’re only a patriot if you fought in the revolutionary war” tweet probably taking the cake. He had an opportunity to take a level headed approach and provide a straight forward, no nonsense, conservative opinion, and instead decided he liked the instant gratification of likes on his tweets from people with TDS and appearances on left leaning talk shows. Go look at his Twitter now. It’s almost entirely shit talking Tucker Carlson and focusing on Jan 6th and Michael Flynn. Meanwhile there are serious policy issues facing this country, including an out of control border, massive inflation, supply chain crisis, that could really use some no nonsense leadership to solve and he refuses to talk about it. That is why this guy is a clown.

Up to 40,000 Russian soldiers killed, wounded, captured or MIA in Ukraine, NATO estimates (msn.com) Damn. If this is even close to true there's no way Russia can sustain this for long. Eventually word gets back to the families what's happening.

You’re right, nothing lasts forever getting it while you can. We can make coin but that’s normally reserved for overtime, extra duty if you will. Right now the trough is full and piling high during normal duty. When the well dries up, some of the herd will move on to greener pastures. Such is life and I wish everyone the best as you only have OneLife! Despite this industry being cyclic, find your niche/happy place!

Current GS-13 here and still have my USAJOBs account active. If you are applying and haven't separated from active duty yet and its your initial active duty tour, this appears to be a requirement in lieu of the DD-214 since you won't necessarily have one yet. I copied and pasted the full requirement that I found on a similar job posting: ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE MEMBERS: The VOW Act requires federal agencies to treat an eligible active duty service member as a veteran, disabled veteran, and preference eligible (as applicable) when applying for civil service positions before the effective release or discharge date. Appointment of military members before the release or discharge date is permissible if the member is on terminal leave. At the time the active duty member applies for a civil position, he or she must submit a "certification" memo in lieu of a DD-Form 214, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty. Active duty members applying for a civil service position without submitting a valid certification memo or DD-Form 214 with their application will render the member ineligible for the position. The certification memo must originate from the member's military service branch on official letterhead and contain the following: Name/Rank/Grade of Service Member Branch of Armed Forces Dates of Active Service (Start and End Date(s) Expected Date of Discharge/Release from Active Duty Terminal leave start date (if applicable) Expected character of service (honorable or general) and type of separation (i.e. separation or retirement) Must be certified within 120 days of anticipated discharge Signature by, or by direction of the adjutant, personnel office, unit commander, or higher headquarters commander. Note: The VOW Act provides tentative preference. If appointed, a DD Form-214 must be submitted upon receipt. My recommendation: draft up the MFR with all the details as listed above and have your unit commander sign it. Then, upload to your docs and the application.

this has become the atlas air forum! get that money boys $$$

As requested.

Don't you blaspheme in here. Don't you blaspheme in here. I was told by the media there would be $200 a barrel oil!!!!

I wouldn't fault Kinzinger for all his antics - if they were truly based upon his political convictions and/or the convictions of his constituents. But it seems clear that at least a portion of his actions are driven by pure political gamesmanship. A game which he appears to be terrible at. There was talk of him running for Governor of IL, or a Senator once his district got carved-up from underneath him. Both those possibilities were floated for awhile, and then disappeared. Ostensibly so Kinzinger could focus on his "Country First" PAC, but I have to assume the reality is the IL Republican party shut the door on Kinzinger for any statewide offices. Maybe he'll get some traction as a talking head for CNN or elsewhere. I assume a position as a lobbyist is a possibility, as seems the norm for other ex-congress persons. Ultimately though, I get the impression Kinzinger thought he had an opportunity to play his hand and rocket to the top of the political heap. Instead, he proved to be awful card player, and got spit out the other side with nothing to show for it. In retrospect, not surprising for a dude who comes on a message board and immediately doxxes himself as a congressman (hard to be more self-centered than making your username "congressman.")

I'm a Paul Harvey fan.