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I sharted putting on my body armor stepping and had to tell my CSO sq/cc the nebulous “I’ll meet you at the crew bus”, crab walk my way back to our dorm, furiously strip my boots, pants, and shit filled underwear off, use a dirty undershirt to wipe, find new pants, and then run to the crew bus. so yes I had to leave that surprise for y’all to find 😂 Good times.

I'm guessing you didn't listen to the podcast. Yes, I'd like those guys as well. I seriously hope Trump doesn't get the RNC's nomination so a rational adult with a concept of humility can run instead. But I digress. Gabbard clearly doesn't fit in any red or blue box. Important to me personally: Listening to her speak her opinions in a long form setting it's obvious, she's not a tyrant. Sure, I'd prefer a more conservative leader. But she actually learns and is willing to change her opinions on topics. If she's willing to grow and evolve, I think she deserves the benefit of the doubt. Where she used to stand is not where she's standing now. What's more, I'm willing to bet that she has a rational reason for each of her positions. Like an ACTUAL rational, thought out reason. Political figures like that today are few and far between. I'll gladly take an 'opponent' like that instead of Fetterman, Biden, or Pelosi any day. We as conservatives are going to have to realize that finding common ground to move forward as a nation first requires us choose NOT to die on EVERY SINGLE HILL in the political landscape. It requires persuasion and compromise. (yes there are hills to die on, such as transing kids, and teaching CRT to the military, vaccine mandates, etc... but I didn't see any of those big ticket items on your list, but then, everyone's list is different) I specifically hope to see the Democrat party lean more like Gabbard, and the Republican party lean more like Crenshaw. Going hard over Left or Right only leads to tyranny. Yes, the Left is going absolutely nuts right now in our country, but people forget that the Right can do that just as bad. The 50's red scare was very much a product of the political Right, and it led to horrific tyranny of a sort in our country. I'm a history nerd, and I see a lot of parallels in the Right's media narrative leaning that way right now. It's not healthy. I'd enjoy listening to Gabbard and Crenshaw debate all those topics you listed. I'll have to see if they've podcasted together.

Note that both of those individuals served. We most definitely need more of that. Amazing what you can do when you realize you have some common goals even if you disagree on how to get there.

PF into LGA yesterday Figure I checked the NOT decidedly boring square for the next year at least.

Well, let’s see…I would prefer someone who: 1. Doesn’t want to ban AR-15s and similar type sporting rifles 2. Doesn’t want to require backgound checks for private sales…and essentially then creating a registry 3. Didn’t support Bernie Sanders 4. Didn’t endorse Joe Biden 5. Doesn’t support ending cash bail 6. Doesn’t support raising the federal min wage to $15/hr (pre-covid btw) 7. Doesn’t support forcing businesses to provide for family paid sick leave, etc 8. Doesn’t support “free” college…ie forcing taxpayers to pay someone else’s tuition 9. Doesn’t want forced closure of existing nuclear power plants 10. Doesn’t support “Medicare for all” …I can go on, if you’d like? As for who I would support…ummm, a lot of people over her. Rand Paul? Ron DeSantis? Chris Sununu? Nikki Haley?

I'll bet they're virtual.

I chuckled

It's all perspective. What's your situation? Do you live in Valdosta GA flying UPT lines every day, have a wife from there who's got family in the area? IF you had that gig and could hold it until retirement, of COURSE you'd regret departing to an unknown airline with unknown basing and future instead of staying until retirement or beyond. Contrast that to another situation where you live in Florida, are working a desk job with burned out GS-13's who are basically just waiting to die, you're not flying, and you've been told you have to move to west texas and deploy for one of your last 3 years in the AF. Yeah, you wouldn't regret leaving that. It's all perspective. You get to choose if you're positive or negative about ANYTHING that happens in your life. If you choose to regret leaving, guess what, you'll regret leaving. If you choose to see the bright side of your new job after leaving, you'll see the bright side of your new job after leaving.

Oh how quickly we've forgotten.....

Turns out towing fat Amy whilst the parking brake is engaged doesn’t workout well, gear pin or not.

I should have clarified the “shipping” part…I ordered mine in person in Epping and they sent them to an FFL in my state. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

LA County is never going to let COVID go. https://abc7.com/covid-19-indoor-masking-la-county-mask-mandate/12516325/ So glad I don’t live in that shit hole anymore.

Me: CS, request current weather at Kuwait International ATC: ***confused Arabic background shouting on frequency*** Me: … ATC: Sir, current weather is cloudy and rainy Me: … Thanks

It appears that Tulsi is just maturing and gaining wisdom as she ages. The left’s ideology is shown hollow and without foundation as you gain wisdom and experience. When you abandon any absolute truth, there is nothing left…it becomes all about feelings. I’m glad she’s continuing to grow. I like her and would guess that we’d agree on things and disagree on things, just like any two people would. I’d take her as a leader over most anybody else in current political leadership in our country.

"But those worries disappear when I jump off a yacht's tuna tower". - JT Parr A candidate we can trust. Public Yachts!!!!!

Crew:"Tower, headed out to Persian Gulf for water work, back in...." Tower" "NEGATIVE, there is no Persian Gulf, you are going to Arabian gulf yes?" Crew: "uh yeah, yup thats the one."

“There is traffic,Turn right, go east for a while and in shalla you will not crash.” My favorite in Kuwait.

My opinion is those are too personalized to gift. Holsters are like bras. Both gotta fit the way you want or they’re coming off. So I only buy uncomfortable ones for my wife.

Is there a way to check Twitter membership and money made before and after Elon? Heard something this morning that it has more members and is making more money now than ever. Didn’t get a reference.

Because I can!

The fact that this administration said they are keeping an eye on twitter should scare the shit out of you.

Slightly different spin on this. Been in 22 years, almost all of that time has been as a part timer (I only take orders for deployments generally), and i've been an airline guy for the last 10+ years. I love going down range and doing the mission, but I absolutely regret going on orders nearly every time I do so. I just started a 5 month activation order and I've worked more in the last two weeks, then I worked in the last 2 months (combined) at Delta. I really don't know how guys do this shit for an entire career...painful! Very few of the "improvements" the AF has made in my career, has made life easier. DTS, AROWS, MyEval, JMPS (long live CFPS/Falcon view lol), AFFORGEN...DUBYA TEE EFF!!! It seems like nearly every time we try to do things, it's one self-imposed (big AF) road block after another. It's like the AF just sits around and dreams up shit to make life harder for the individual. I'm retiring this summer and I can't wait. I'll miss the flying but not much else. I'll maintain most of the camaraderie because nearly my entire squadron lives within a 4 sq mile area...my 2-3x weekly coffee/bourbon stops at bros houses will continue. Now get off my lawn!

To be fair. Twitter hasn't looked good from a financial perspective, ever. It simply isn't a profitable business, and its "valuation" has always been nonsense. Also, characterizing a muzzle loading pistol (alongside a picture of Washington crossing the Delaware) and a sci-fi video game prop (from a game in which totalitarian corporations rule the world) as a picture of "handguns" is well, missing the point I guess.

I had an awesome career that I’m very thankful for: met tons of great people, flew several aircraft, and got to hurt the enemy. Unfortunately it’s a broken organization led predominantly by petty losers and mini-tyrants. Having looked behind the curtain, it is as bad as the line flying captains think. ETA: I’m retiring in a few months after 21 years. Glad I stayed as long as I did, no regrets about leaving now.

A little bit of devils advocate here.. It's very difficult to measure something that never happened i.e. the community spread that never occurred as a result of precautions. So saying "zero point zero" of this had any effect is just nonsense. We all logically know that precautions have an effect and the more strictly you adhere to them, the more effective they are. If you went full bubble boy and had no contact with anyone for the past two years, you likely would not have caught covid. We know respirators are better than n95s which are better than surgical masks which are better than cloth masks etc... So quality and level of adherence to precautions absolutely has an effect. But that isn't the takeaway here. And "precautions didn't do shit" is probably the dumbest takeaway possible. Maybe the takeaway here is precautions come with a cost which should be weighed against the risk. And since everyone weighs risks and costs differently it should *generally* be left up to the individual.

Heard that the board was able to find more slots than originally forecasted but that’s it. No exact numbers.

Best of luck everyone! Here’s hoping we all get what we want!

On a UPT Nav cross country, Jan 1987. We parked our T-38 next to the “Texas Raider” a few older gents came by asking for a tour of the -38, and then reciprocated and let us wander around inside the Texas Raider. They even let me climb up on the wing to take this photo. RIP

UN just said over 100,000K Ukraine soldiers dead. Perhaps I haven't been paying close enough attention, but that number is absolutely staggering. More than all US service member losses since WWII.