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This is a valid point. 20 years ago. Nowadays Democrats are the party of prosecuting parents who do not want “doctors” chopping off their 13–year-olds genitals without their knowledge. These are not people who love the country as I do & we can find a way to meet in the middle. These are people who literally want to abolish the white race (among other dangerous positions). Has any population peacefully coexisted with such disparity in morality? “Live and let live” has been usurped by “obey or be punished” for Democrats. The peaceful solution is fully embracing our founding principals of limited and representative government which exists to enable life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness bounded by the constitution.

Are we talking about “traditional” liberal democrats or are we talking about progressive liberals? The latter are POS people who do not care about kids or this country. It’s time for the Democrats to punt these shitbags out of the party and force them to officially establish a 3rd party. Then we can get back to what the Democratic Party used to be and the newly formed Progressive party can run their candidates and policies unimpeded by moderate democrats. Of course that would result in them never winning because the majority of America does not support their lunatic ideas.

Tell me where the bad EW touched you…

This might belong in one of the retirement threads, but after you've exited the AF you will remember all of the shenanigans that you endured at the deid and all of the other Middle Eastern locations with a different slant than when you were actually experiencing the buffoonery. I would not want to go through all of that crap ever again but I sure do have some memories that most humans will never have. Its the little things when you reflect back. The tiniest most insignificant things stay with you forever. One of those happened when I was at Masirah in late 01. I was attached to an Army unit and we were on reverse cycle, so we slept during the day and did whatever we were doing at night. So one early afternoon we get woken up by the brit harriers doing pattern work on the island. It was a pisser, we usually slept much later than that. But when you're up you're up, so we got out of our cots and started a spades game until the dfac opened. This was me and 3 JTACs in an Army tent with about 25 cots. The only other dude in the tent was an Army specialist, I think he was the old man's radio operator. He was asleep, as he should have been for at least five more hours. The rest of our tent's occupants were probably still in a hot wash or whatever meeting the Army made up to make sure everyone was awake for at least 30 hours. We tried to notch that crap as much as we could. About an hour into our spades game we hear the specialist let loose a rip roarer. It was so loud it woke him up. He immediately sits up in his cot, looks over at us with saucer eyes, and apparently the Army specialist neurons in his brain start to fire and he thinks oh shit - I'm late for a meeting. He then proceeds to get dressed as fast as he can, dons all of his kit, mumbles some profanity about not getting to eat dinner, and races out of the tent to who knows where. We laughed about that the rest of that deployment. I still chuckle when I think about it to this day. It wasn't an earth moving humorous event. But in the context of the time, we were tired, worn out, stressed out and it was a pretty damn funny moment. That's the kind of stuff you'll take away I think. I remember the belts, the speed limits, the right starts and all of the other crap that at the time was eating me up whenever I found myself at one of the DoD "cities" in the Middle East. But at the end of the day its the little things. This thread brings me back. It will bring a lot of you back to some fond memories too after you hang it up and go commercial or corporate.

Thank you for your valuable critique Karen...Chaz or whatever your name is. I great appreciate your unsolicited and useless feedback, I am almost a better person for having read it. For the record, I have NO intent of changing minds that can't be changed but I do enjoy pointing out the lunacy of what they propose. As far as your personality assessment, well...I am a pilot so perhaps I'm an asshole afterall. Or maybe I am a straight up asshole...either way, with all due respect, I could care less what you think 🙂 Finally, I would invite you to use that wonderful little ignore button, that way you wont be triggered, offended or develop any sort of social PTSD reading my future posts. Cheers! 🥃

It’s all good as long as he didn’t go ninja’n anyone that didn’t need ninja’n.

Good thing one of our goals is dealing with climate change. Good weapons school topic for Tanker WIC.

The left has been indoctrinated to believe that the US is evil, and that we would be better without it (this country). There are many people who are ashamed about the principles of capitalism and a representative republic. For example, when I watch TV from say the BBC (in England), I get lots of nationalism and pride. When I watch a documentary here (PBS is typical), I get lots of regret, revisionism and accusation. How much punishment do I have to take as a US citizen - from my own people? Our left feels that US nationalism is completely evil, and needs to be eliminated. The minor detail here, is that other countries have really strong nationalism, something out left tries to ignore.

I thought that whole thing was a joke. Holy shit! This is what our President is focusing on when Vladimir is dancing with nuclear war? Really??? The left has gone insane. I have question for Mr. President, how many American children went to bed hungry last night?

I am really surprised our liberal friends on the board have not celebrated this proposal by one of their own. Virginia Democrat to Introduce Bill to Prosecute Parents Who Refuse to Treat Child as Opposite Sex In summary if the bill passes a parent could be charged with felony child abuse if a did not honor their minor child's request to be treated as the opposite sex. So if I don't consent to give my 14 year old puberty blockers that will permanently change their bodies I should go to jail. WTF...seriously WTF is wrong with you.

Many wonderful memories indeed. Informative to watch peers bifurcate into two broad command types: 1. Extreme focus on minutia of irrelevant things, especially uniform regulations, while excluding core topics like mission execution or individual competence in primary job. These are the “mission takes care of itself” types. 2. Extreme focus on team, mission and people but uninterested in “hands in pockets” or “sleeves rolled up” non-lethality impacting nuance. Type 1 is the dominant breed, although type 2 does exist. I am naïvely hoping for a collective moment of clarity by senior leaders acknowledging we suffered a humiliating defeat in Afghanistan and maybe that means we should change something about ourselves. Maybe we should focus on winning instead of fashion since the Taliban won wearing a non-uniform collection of sheets, rugs and shitty white Nikes.

Well admittedly I haven't read the NDS yet but that would be a really tactical level thing to be in the NDS. Usually individual unit deployment falls under GFM and regional plans.

Haven’t read it. I read somewhere that the -15s are being pulled out of Kadena and will be replaced with a rotational schedule. Was this in this NDS? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

It's a product of the last 30 years of being taught to hate yourself if you're white. I'm calling it what it is. I remember being taught that we're all Americans and to not see race when I was young. Now the message is to be proud of were your ancestors came from unless they came from Europe. Until this changes, we are always going to be divided. I'm not really sure why people are so "proud" to be from somewhere. It's not like we got to choose what color to be born.

Yup. Always have to keep in mind that the media is incentivized to keep your eyeballs on their site/station. You occasionally get a window into the sausage being made, like when Ariana Pekary (MSNBC producer) resigned via a scathing public letter.

But who’s gonna cook? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Concur, even to the point of dressing up like a nina during off duty hours. Not joking. Full on ninja outfit walking up and down yellow brick road. I asked my buds in the CAOC if I was seeing things….nope. ATIS

You win this thread, might be the most WTF article I’ve ever read.

E-9 Stories? Manas in January: I deployed with no winter outer gear. I'd load up on thermals with just my flight suit. Best thing I eventually got was a summer weight green nomex jacket that they had to mail out to me. Shockingly, never get E-9'd for that...but I would normally layer up my PTs since it was warmer. I had the recently outdated grey PT sweatshirt that said "Air Force" instead of the new one with the AF logo. I wasn't in the chow hall for more than 60 seconds before I got told I couldn't wear that. Yeap, young LT me wasn't having any of that. Surprised I never got talked to later for basically telling the dude to go ef himself since it was -15*F outside and I wasn't taking off the only warm freaking thing I had on the deployment.

During that time period lots of E-8's and 7's who made sure to go class C for dental or carpal tunnel when it was their turn to deploy. Then they got directed they will deploy or get out and marked down on their board scores for never been deployed in their 20 year career. That is when we saw the rash of guys who brought nothing to the fight but making themselves a pain in ass. Spent their time being uniform haircut police and writing each other bronze stars so they can make E-9.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/transgender-men-call-inclusion-amid-abortion-fight-exist/story?id=92012008 There is so much wrong in this article. Have fun reading it. This is the new America.

That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. They are really going to the next level of ludicrous speed with the child trans movement. I'd like to confidently say there is no way this will pass but we all know what is possible with so many nutjobs making laws. Teenagers don't have the mental capacity to be making these decisions. If they aren't mature enough to watch a rated R movie then maybe they shouldn't be allowed to make decisions to mutilate their bodies on a whim. They can't even get a sweet tribal tattoo until they're 18.

FIFY

UPT 2.5 seems like growing pains in a transition that I think needs to happen. People need to get used to training different than we have. These kids will get to FTU in a few years and find much of the training is sim based and BETTER than flying the mission because we don’t have any 300 mile long airspace to relocate reality. They’ll be the generation that makes it better, as right now the IPs have baggage from thinking flying must be better. I appreciate the updates from you guys firsthand. My UPT 2.5 grads do just fine in the FTU very little difference noted between them and traditional.

Somehow they'll manage to clean it all up for the 2028 Olympics, I have no doubt.