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The only uniform item that I derive any morale from whatsoever is the green bag. It serves as a daily reminder that I'm better than the nonners and the paper pushers who convene meetings like the one that produced this worthless uniform reg update. hot take alert: if you wear the two piece flight suit you're a beta cuck flyer who is complicit it the eventual eradication of the green bag. Shame on you and your disrespect for tradition and may god have mercy on your soul

I don’t know, that’s giving them lots of credit. Most non flyers have no idea what plane is flown at their base. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

That is valid, but it’s also less satisfying than showing up at the finance desk in your bag, sleeves rolled, sunglasses on top of your head, looking around like: I keed…mostly 😎

You know what's odd about the "Nordic countries are happier surveys?" Their suicide rate is really high among developed countries. Not Japan high but higher than the rest of Western Europe and the US. Fucking odd they would do that because they're so happy......

I grew up in AFSOC and so we were leading edge of the two-piece multi cam flight suits but… I have done two “career days” at my daughter’s school when she was in elementary. Wore the two-piece to one, and all the kids were like, “Woah you’re an army man!” Ok good try kid…0300, infantry, ya made it 😕 Wore my bag to the next one. Kids that time, “Are you a pilot?” At the time…no, but well done anyways young lads and lasses, you’ll grow up big and strong. BL: They can take the green bag from my cold dead hands now. I’ve had the two-piece multi cam since probably 2010/2011 and yet I only wear it in emergencies. Yea yea taking the top off to poop or when hot, copy. Some traditions are worth a little inconvenience. Also I learned early on that looking cool (and sounding good on the radio) actually matter in aviation, and I teach that same lesson to all the young pups coming up behind me.

Am I the only one who thinks we need to just totally fuck up Iran and be done with their bullshit for a while? I’m not encouraging a protracted and decades long conflict…but I would love to see these anti-American rug makers silenced for a while and rendered incapable of inflicting further harm to us. I know of at least one nation who’d be willing to aid in the delivery of a quick and lethal response.

Seriously? You think they stopped? You think they were open and honest and let us inspect all of their sites? You seriously can't be that naive. Almost as masterful as flying in a couple of billion dollars on pallets to help fund their terror activities. I know you know this but Iran is directly responsible for the deaths of MANY Americans and the money Obama gave them helped pay for those actions.

Yeah, zero chance anyone not a flyer themselves knows the difference in wings. Hell, I'd bet a lot of enlisted fliers couldn't point out the differences. Worked for an enlisted Ops sup at one point in career who decreed no flier would go to a base appt in their bag, we would be in ABUs only. "They don't respect the flight suit, they respect the wings". Laughter ensued.

You mean a deal where the continue to enrich and stockpile in secret while enabling proxy combat operations against the U.S. and get pallets full of billions of dollars delivered to them...sign me up bro!

A man (yes an effin’ MAN) willingly remove his junk, sooner or later that act is gonna hit home. Truly sad that some decide to take this path.

New reg change? Lol. That’s cute. I’m not giving up wearing my colored morale shirt…sorry (but not really). #guardhard #goguard

I say we give him another chance. It's not his fault, he's just misunderstood.

The Onion had it right all the way back in ‘14 https://www.theonion.com/iranian-team-openly-working-on-bomb-in-negotiating-room-1819577235 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We "inspected" what they let us inspect while they blocked other sites. The "oversight" was an equal joke with them playing cat and mouse at every turn. Seriously did you read any of the reports? We are 1000% better because this lunatic is gone...you know, the guy responsible for killing and maiming thousands of your brothers and sisters in arms. Maybe putting them in check was part of getting to a new deal. Sorry my friend but JCPOA was a complete joke that served no purpose other than to refill Iran's cash coffers. They continued to chase nukes while exporting terror and KILLING Americans. Trump steadily reimposed sanctions on both Iran and anyone whole did business with them.

Good points all. I'll increase the gain on my sarcasm detector.

Relax dog I was (mostly) joking. Wear whatever you like/what is most comfortable/fits your mission the best. I have no doubt other garments outperform the green bag in many ways. But not in uniqueness, heritage, or looking dope.. which is probably why the Air Force will get rid of it some day. When I see flying group and wing CCs wearing OCPs or the two piece that tells me the green bags days are numbered. Because anything special or cool going on in the flying ops world must eventually be neutered in the name of inclusivity and preventing hurt feelings.

I’ll never understand that willful ignorance. I know it makes me a total try harder but when I worked at the WIC I made sure I learned what satellite was which or what NKE could do what effect (already mastered a computer visrecce). It’s pretty amazing how far something that simple (that takes a max of 30 minutes) goes to helping build a cohesive team.

They know your wings mean Nav. On the flip side, I have no idea what any of their badges mean. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Some people simply choose to be miserable. These broads have been threatening to leave this country since before Trump was elected and I'm still waiting on them to deliver on that promise. They appear to only contribute to people being more miserable...

Both median and average happiness can still be higher even if there are more data points on the far left of the chart with a pistol stuffed in their mouth. I don’t think it’s a lot more complicated than that.

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No, you’re still not a pilot. RPA operator needs to be the official name. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don't think my commander will sign that particular off-duty employment form.

Or I’m just fat. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

True. And this does nothing to improve or sustain our ability to kill people or break their stuff but that isn't the priory of those in charge.

Lol don’t look at Saudi Arabia’s view on that particular subject.

Maybe bring back Trans Word Airways? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I don't think the implication was that Biden was there to discover the balloons. I don't think the POTUS has anything to do with the whole F2T of any of that. That article wasn't posted to throw shade at Trump. It was posted because the Biden admin accused the US public of not caring when Trump let balloons fly over the US but suddenly it was a problem that he's not shooting them down over Montana. The Trump admin and the DoD later released info that said they weren't even aware the overflights were happening while Trump was in office, it didn't become apparent to the DoD until afterwards, and only upon review did they recognize this had been occurring since Trump's presidency. Now, I'm not "in the know" anymore and frankly don't care to be. But that is the public narrative and that is the narrative China is digesting--is that the US didn't recognize immediately that these overflights were happening, then when they did recognize it they tried to keep it hush from the public, and only after the public started seeing the balloons and asking questions, did the government become transparent with more info.

Thats all this stupid uniform board is. We convene it every year and every year all they do is circle jerk decisions from 5-10 years ago back into style so that someone else can change it back in 5-10 years. If Green bags were still common I guarantee sleeves would have to come back down next year but since that isn't happening my money is that hands wont go in pockets anymore and you can't talk on your cell phone again. This shit is just stupid..... do we really pay people to give us their opinion on what they think looks professional in their completely biased and sheltered opinions?

The whole point of the shirt is to stand out. Being all the same color is back to the same bad decision from ten years ago.

I don’t read that as I can’t have a colored morale shirt in my flight suit. I read that as the Mx or LRS troop can have a Friday shirt in their OCPs with a big logo on the back.

systemic global warming strikes again

i want all my bros to come work for the airlines. but it's exhausting trying to convince friends to join...something that i no longer do... you can lead a horse to water...

Not sure if I feel sad with this one, or where I should file this...

I'm actually looking forward to the ball cap while wearing the flight suit.

Sure but are inspections better than no inspections? Is some international oversight better than none? Concince me that we’re better off today after tearing up the JCPOA than before. There was supposed to be a “new, better deal” under Trump that did not happen. The JCPOA wasn’t a magic wand, but it was better than what we have after Trump tore it up, which is absolutely fuck-all diplomatically. We had carrots and still retained sticks and now it’s only sticks…great work.

I mean…when we backed out of the deal they started enriching again, yea. Wouldn’t you have done that too if you were them? Not that the JCPOA didn’t solve all Iranian problems, it was a big help at solving the nuclear one. Glad we tore it up for absolutely zero gain, masterful diplomacy there!

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