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This is where your ignorance shows. Just because *you* don't know the academic basis for the policies being pushed, you assume they must be reasonable, because you feel like a reasonable person. But reading the works of the people who have been publicly embraced by the mainstream left, such as Biden, give a very different picture. Robin Diangelo. Ibram Kendi. Kimberle Crenshaw. This stuff is bat shit crazy, and will necessitate a civil war if it was actually enacted. Remember when reparations was just a conservative fever dream? You say the conversations have changed, but they haven't that much. What exactly are they against now that they weren't 30 years ago? Chemical castration for children? Illegal immigration? Reparations? Gun rights? The only difference is that 30 years ago no one was in favor of cutting the tits off a confused teenager. If the Republicans were inviting David Duke, or the proud boys, or any other right wing lunatic to the White House and espousing their theories to the masses, you would have a point. But they aren't. The difference has always been that the left embraces their lunatics. Saying that Joe Biden is a moderate is meaningless if the people he empowers to enact and develop his policy are radicals. And they are. I have no love for the Republicans in Washington. Just a bunch of assholes there to enrich their families. But they aren't trying to flip over the underpinnings of American society while they do it, so it's immoral, but not dangerous. The people steering the ideological soul of the left today fundamentally disagree with the American system, and their preferred replacement is a time-tested failure. Klobuchar is great, as is Gabbard. Even Ro Khanna (sp?) has reasonable things to say. But they aren't leading the party.

You missed a few: 1. Afghanistan and 13 dead Americans, seriously the cowardice of every liberal that glosses over this event and who bares the blame. Yesterday SECDEF said he has "No Regrets" about the chaotic Afghanistan and Biden didn't immediately fire him. F anyone of you who shares that sentiment. Again, 13 dead Americans, their memory brushed away into the wind. 2. Inflation has reached its highest level in 40 years. I love your phrase "probably contributed some to the high inflation"...Ya think? FFS. 3. An increase in the cost of everyday goods and services disproportionately hurts lower-income families. Real average hourly earnings have decreased by 1.7 percent because of inflation. 4. Border chaos - 2.76 million illegal immigrants crossed the border in 2022 including 600,000 getaways. In Feb of 2023 16 people on the Terror Watch List were detained trying to cross meaning 3-4 made it across each month...great policy you got there. 5. Chinese Balloons - Do whatever you want China. 6. Classified documents EVERYWHERE. Anything to retain power...he can't even read a teleprompter without reading the instructions out loud. Buttigieg...for reals...did you not hear about the issue at the ports (maybe you were following his maternity leave posts instead of the news about the supply chain crisis. The airline meltdown over the holiday...where was this boob? Trains derailing and destroying towns. The only person worse than this clown is Mayorkas. Even the Dems are saying this is nonsense, dressing up a misdemeanor (with expired statue of limitations), in yet another witch hunt. They are creating a martyr.

Don't forget adding Jan 6 to your list 😎😬

Always. In my experience, the ops world is MUCH better at rationally working GTC/Voucher issues. Ops world approving officials are more likely to have acutally been on same trip or have at least been TDY before. MX world, it's some crusty civilian who follows the letter of the law with no exceptions and the leadership support him/her everytime.

Your mileage may vary but I've never used my gtc for anything other than airline tix and rental cars that were required to be booked through DTS. Probably have 50+ TDYs with hotels on my personal card and never heard a peep except once when someone asked and I told them my GTC got declined. (It was actually true in that instance because the charge was above the GTC credit limit) 👌👌👌

I really thought they couldn't be this stupid, but that's the sad part... The people running this country really are.

Using any means necessary (lie, steal, cheat) as long as your team wins. Because it's (D)ifferent.

How come being a “Trans” isn’t a red flag to gun ownership. Documented history of that being a mental illness and having a much much much higher instance of suicide and attempted suicide which screams red flag.

So your number one accomplishment listed didn’t actually do anything to reduce inflation? Strange accomplishment.

@Pooter Ok, so the root cause is a specific type of inanimate object that is a motionless paperweight until a human with free will decides to be a POS and picks it up? Shitty diets, fast food, etc. kills WAY more people than firearms. Vehicle accidents kill double the people that guns do (I’m not counting suicides, many of those gun-related deaths are legal and justified, and many are criminal-on-criminal related, meaning no “innocent” people were killed). Where’s everyone calling for the ban of these inanimate objects that require human free will to use? The point of the above: it’s an illogical argument that inanimate objects are a RC of anything. Humans with free will are the RC of things based on the decisions they make (decide to kill someone, drive like a jackass, eat the 69th Big Mac even thought they have 3 different heart diseases). - In 2020 we were still at a lower murder w/ gun rate than 1974, and 2020 was a bad year in general. Murder w/ gun rates was fairly stable from 2000-2015, and then made a sharp rise from there, despite increasing gun sales over that entire time period. In fact, gun sales have risen steadily while murders have sharply declined over decades until that significant rise in 2015. There’s literally a negative correlation between the two. Guns didn’t change, so what else did? - # households with a gun has been DECLINING since the 60s, as increasing gun sales go to people with multiple (e.g. hunters and shooting hobbyists). Murderers using guns haven’t typically been the guy who has a large collection at home, it’s the deranged idiot who bought a gun last week/owns a couple or the gang banger/criminal who illegally acquired a gun and used it in nefarious activities (e.g. drug related). - It was common place not that long ago to see school parking lots filled with guns. It was not that long ago when kids brought rifles into school and stuffed them in their locker for use later that day in a school-sanctioned shooting event or hunting after school. No school shootings happened during this time. So, objectively and subjectively firearms do not have the correlation to un-justified murder that some people/gov members and the media want to claim. They are less involved in death than many other things in our country. They are a convenient boogeyman, but the facts do not support that “boogeyman status.” So now we’re back to the start of this discussion - what has changed this century (roughly starting from Columbine) compared to the 20th century? Well, generally positive morals and values were far more important and cohesive family units were more prevalent in the past. People were far more likely to understand the value of human life, even if they didn’t like someone. People were more apt to care about a stranger than they are today. So yeah, society has changed for the worse and is ultimately driving worse behavior. Perhaps we’ve opened Pandora’s box and we can’t put it back in. But, I do believe concrete solutions involve mental health services and campaigns/grass roots to minimize things that lead to mental health issues (#1: be a good parent, #2: community involvement to teach caring about others/reduce selfishness). We need to look hard into tying mental health to firearm access; I’m undecided on the best way to do that, but clearly something needs to be done. I agree with your immediate solution of hardening schools. My kid’s school has many concealed carrying people in it - every school should do this. Every school should have locked doors with controlled access. Combine those two things and you have a significant deterrent/significantly better chance of stopping a shooting/minimizing damage. Bottom line: I’m just as frustrated as others with how things are going in our country regarding murder, especially of children. I don’t want anyone’s kids to be in these situations. But, I want to actually solve the problem, and those who grasp at guns don’t give a fuck about solving the problem, as they are incapable or unwilling to identify the root cause and work towards solving that. It’s a difficult problem and I’m not arguing there’s an easy solution, but it’s disingenuous to say you care when all you do is yell #noguns in the face of the facts, with no effort put towards real solutions.

It's already falling apart. They are going to tear their cities apart throughout this process. The leaders and task forces got everyone whipped up into a frenzy thinking they are getting millions and now they are saying it's going to go to city programs targeting their communities.

If they give out reparations, where will all of those billions of dollars come from? My guess is from nowhere. Imagine the inflation that might occur if you give out billions of dollars to citizens for nothing. Slavery sucks. But so does depleting your country's budget for something that nobody alive experienced. Just like I didn't experience the Irish potato famine in the 1800s. It sucked for my family to leave their homeland because they were starving. Once again, do I get any reparations from England? What about the vikings who invaded Ireland and had their way with those beautiful Irish women. Can I sue them? It was about 1000 years ago but I'm still mad. I hate having 5% Norwegian blood diluting my Irish Ancestry. There will be no logical plan. Just more idiots giving out money that we don't have. This will be the nail in the coffin for race relations in the U.S.

I actually asked if I could decline the funds for my base and eliminate the GTC mandate for my wing (also tried to close the BX...another story). I got a call from my 2-star boss who said "Really?! Are we going to have a conversation like this every week?" Got no traction.

Never said it was a good card or deal for the govt. It is for the govt though so not sure you expect anything but garbage.

This exact thing happened to me. I received an LOC over it. I freaked out at the time. I actually reached out to Toro on this forum to talk about it because we tend to instill this fear of god into officers that any sort of paperwork is a career ender. Toro was great an shared some of his experiences, got me to think with a whole lot more perspective. Long story short it wasn't a career ender, and had very little effect on me. But it was still any annoying experience to go through. Turning in my GTC when I separated was one of the happiest days of my life. Its one of the dumbest programs on the planet and in so many manners I find it completely unethical. The member is the only person who bears any accountability for negative impacts of using a GTC. The government in no was assumes any of the risk. Example: Its a credit card, but its tied to your personal credit. Or, you have to pay it on time, but we don't have to pay you on time.

I know a dude who many years ago MISTAKENLY used his GTC to purchase gas for his personal vehicle, it happened to look very similar to his personal Visa and he pulled the wrong card out of his wallet. He immediately notified his chain of command and sent a payment but they decided to punish him for his egregious mistake. His commander was a complete douche and was looking for a reason to end this guys career, which he did. The dude kept a good sense of humor and actually dressed up as a credit card at a squadron Halloween party.

The entire GTC program is bullshit. I've had people purchase stuff while activated that if they had just pulled cash off their card (per diem) and bought it with that cash, it wouldn't have been a problem. But since they put it on the card, it's suddenly a "big deal." Insane hypocrisy in their own rules. Another incident the dude realize it, called himself out and paid it off asap...still had to do GTC misuse paperwork because big AF want's the some butts (the misuse form). I generally scoffed the form until one day the OG texts me and says someone way up the chain isn't happy with me and wants the paperwork. So in the comments I put in that the time spent filling out this form amounts to fraud, waste and abuse. Also mentioned that this is simply the cost of doing business when you force people to have/use a GTC. Brabus is right, the SQ/CC mostly holds the hammer here, but it certainly helps to have some good top cover from the OG/CC.

Completely agree. The black community in America has suffered greatly from the reduction of fathers in the house. The breakdown of families has hurt them more than anything else since the 60s.

13 dead Americans at the Abbey Gate... At least you are in line with SECDEF who has 'No Regrets"

Wait, you mean calling legislation "The Inflation Reduction Act" when it does nothing at all to reduce inflation because it increases the production of money and spending on A LOT of things (like Solar which is useful in, some, places) but decidedly insists on using more money...which has to come from somewhere... BY DEFINITION, INFLATION: "Monetary inflation is a sustained increase in the money supply of a country" I ask any liberal poster here: would you run your personal budget the way the liberal agenda supporters want to run our countries?

She wouldn’t be a real female president; just a puppet of the patriarchy, clearly.

He’s pretty far ahead in the polls but that could change. It’s hard not to love Nikki Haley. Her intelligence, class, and elegance…yet her ability to throw a punch. Also how cool would it be to rob the woke left of their celebration of the “first female president.”

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@nsplayrA sincere thank you the specifics behind your stance! Also, fully agree about the "biggest shit show" ...sigh...can Trump just go away, please? Curious question: Are you familiar with the research and books of Peter Zeihan?

County sheriff spoke at an event a while ago. Someone asked him why he thought our area crime was much lower than other areas with similar population. His response: “I think it’s because it’s widely known so many people have firearms here that criminals are far less likely to take risks.” And while crime does happen, a few incidents have involved dead criminals and the cops saying, “yeah that checks, have a nice day sir/ma’am.”

He should hire some serious minded, professional lawyers, take their advice, STFU, and try not to steal the limelight from Republican candidates who are actually serious about wanting to govern this country. I’d honestly much rather listen to their ideas than DJT ironically whining about how unfair life’s been to him. Alas, he is who he is and he’ll be making sure he’s stealing the spotlight for the next year and a half. 😐 Yes, the media will play a large role, but part of that is Trump’s own fault through his constant quest for notoriety. At this point, I could honestly not care less whether he is prosecuted….he just needs to go away. There’s got to be some sort of reality show he could host where he could grab all the pussy he ever wanted and not have to worry about the monotony of things like daily intelligence briefings & what’s actually in the constitution. ‘The Bachelor; Ex-Presidents Edition’ maybe?

Nuclear power is great and we should build way, way more! Never should have stopped building. Put a small modular reactor on every mil base and near every major city. Also if/when we figure out fusion it’s game over for everything else and we can usher in a future of incredible energy abundance. In the meantime, and because the HOA prohibits nuclear reactors on neighborhood lots, have solar on my roof and it’s awesome!

I mean…disagree. One former president and his legal troubles shall pass, and we’ll all move on. Actual shit-shows and national tragedies depicted for reference.

"clean" energy lol if the left really was worried about "climate change" (notice global warming labeling has been removed), they would embrace nuclear power. biden has been a totally inept president.

Inflation seemed to have peaked in June 2022 at 9.1%, the IRA was passed in August 2022, now the latest data from February 2023 it’s at 6% and continuing to trend down. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf 😂 This is all said in jest. The IRA had little to do with inflation and was named by San. Joe Manchin. In exchange for his vote, I would have let him name or whatever he wanted! It is a clean energy and healthcare costs law, and a good one at that IMHO.

Quit making sense dude! Here's an Idea. The gun haters can turn all of their guns in and go back to their homelands. This country, as with most countries, was helped tremendously by guns. We took it by killing and relocating the Natives. Show me how woke you are by giving your stolen land back to the Natives. Until then, you are as guilty as the rest of us for all of the atrocities committed to form the boundaries that make up the U.S. Don't buy a gun if you don't like them. Don't sell guns to retards. Make mass shootings illegal lol. Kill the shooter on site. If they surrender. Make the trial fast, torture the piece of shit in public and let the victims' families finish him (it,he,she,me, you, pooh, ....pronouns and words) off.

Well said Sir. Wish everyone in the USA could read and understand these words. To all the take your gun types: Here’s an idea too! How about we pass a law making it illegal to go murder a bunch of kids in a school??!! Oh wait, that law is already in place? Damnit, well I’m guessing the school shooter probably won’t obey gun laws either then if they’re gonna ignore homicide laws.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/health/adhd-stimulant-prescriptions-increasing/index.html Could it be because of drug abuse? No way, because Adderall is legal so it's ok! I have a close friend who hasn't talked to his children in over 7 months. He got addicted to Adderall several years ago and stays inside his home and tweaks out of his mind. He now has discovered that he's a Trans as well. I can't do anything about it except check up on him periodically and make sure he's still breathing. He's a combat vet. Don't be fooled. Adderall is legal meth.

For specifics on why I support the Biden admin in general: Passed the Inflation Reduction Act Massive investments into clean energy, including tax credits and point-of-sale rebates on things like EVs, solar & battery systems, induction stoves, heat pumps, etc. Strongly incentivizes clean energy manufacturing and mining to take place in the US or allied nations Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, capping out-of-pocket prescription prices for seniors on Medicare, driving down insulin prices for everyone, strengthening ACA subsidies which make those plans more affordable, etc. Passed the CHIPS & Science Act - bipartisan accomplishment Onshores critical semiconductor manufacturing & greatly boosts R&D and workforce training, strengthening national security and long-term lessening the impact of a China-Taiwan conflict Passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act - bipartisan accomplishment Big investments into mental health services and some modest gun safety measures like red flag laws and enhancing background checks to keep guns out of the hands of folks who probably shouldn't have them Supporting Ukraine in their effort to repel the Russian invasion - bipartisan accomplishment Hobbling the conventional military forces of one of our biggest geopolitical foes for pennies on the dollar. Zero american military lives lost (RIP to that one MQ-9 haha) Uniting Europe against Putin and his aggressive, expansionist ambitions, adding new valuable allies to NATO, punishing Russia economically for Putin's bad behavior, and replacing Russia as Europe's biggest source of energy Those are my top 4 on policy at least. Additionally: Appointing a younger liberal SCOTUS justice to replace a retiring liberal was good if you are liberally-minded...we have messed this one up before. The American Rescue Plan was expensive and probably contributed some to the high inflation last summer, but I think it also helped us come out the back end better than anywhere else in the world - we're stronger & have better growth and less inflation than Europe or Japan/ROK/Aus/NZ/etc. TBH also just basic stuff like not tweeting insane shit all the time, not pissing off all of our allies constantly, not doing crimes like trying to overturn an election, etc. - I appreciate that in a President! Biden also led his party to a very strong mid-term showing compared to what happens historically during a President's first midterm. Dems gained a seat in the Senate and only lost a handful of House seats when the norm is getting blasted (see Obama 2010 and Trump 2018 as examples). I appreciate winning so we can do more of the above in the future. I don't worship Biden or think he's perfect. As I've said before, he's about 15-30 years older than I would like, picking Harris as VP was a mistake in hindsight because she is not a viable successor, and I don't agree with everything he's ever said or done (90s crime bill, wanting to partition Iraq, opposing the bin Laden raid, etc.). BUT, he's an effective incumbent who has help sheppard through a lot of things I support, so he's got my vote if he is going to run again in 2024. If there's a Dem primary, I'd love to support someone like Buttigieg, Polis, Klobuchar, Shapiro, Warnock, Whitmer, Beshear, Kelley, Pritzker etc. in roughly that order. I'm not a conservative, but if the GOP ran someone like Larry Hogan or Phil Scott I'd be open to hearing their pitch, and I appreciate the need for a reasonable party in opposition to the one I usually support. States with long-standing one-party rule don't tend to be run as well as those with real political competition IMHO.

Another thought on all this is how media portrays all these events i.e. "in your face" all day long. Compare that (as far as MSM coverage) w/ last nights Blackhawk crash x 2 that's killed more individuals than Nashville....

No regrets huh? These two “leaders” are clowns. The arrogance and hubris of our upper military leadership is disgusting.

On the USAF side access to mental health care without retribution should be SOP for our service, especially for those in combat operations. I won't go into all the details but I fought an EPIC battle with Big Blue years ago to keep CLEARED Ops Psychs available to our aviators in the AFSOC world. I am obviously not an RPA operator but the RPA community in particular needs this service. I spent a lot of time commanding and working in their world and my battle resulted in me having to brief the Under Secretary of the Air Force when the Manpower people tried to take them away our cleared Ops Psychs. I used the following argument to successfully keep access to this critical care capability: "Sir, a lot of people underestimate and overlook RPA operators believing they are fighting the war from a box and they get to go home every night, someone insinuating that is an easy way to fight a war and it reduces the risk to their mental health. In fact, our RPA operators wage a far more personal form of combat than most and I believe it defiantly impacts mental health, especially in the long-term. I would ask you to consider this small vignette. Many of our RPA operators will observe the same house, watching the same person for a month or more at a time. As they develop a pattern of life they observe the target kiss his kids each day then send them off to school, they watch him interact with his wife, they watch him pray. The interaction while one way becomes very personal. One morning our RPA operator wakes up, has breakfast with his wife and kids, kisses his kids and walks them to the bus stop then heads off to the GCU. He sits down and five minutes later the phone rings telling him or her to kill the target. Our RPA operator professionally runs the approvals and traps and a short time later launches a missile or two that turns the target into pink mist, but it doesn't end there. Our RPA operator stays over the objective and watches the body in high definition for hours to see who responds. He or she can sees the kids face and grief when they discover their father was shredded into a lifeless mass of meat, they see his wife try to put the pieces back together and they watch as the body is eventually carried off by other friends and family. At the end of his or her shift they drive home and sit down at the dinner table where the family asks "how was your day?" How does our RPA operator possibly answer that question to his family. This form of combat is different than our other platforms that deploy. While on deployment manned operators have a separation that provides a buffer to process everything that happens, the live, sleep and eat with the camaraderie of others who are experiencing the same effects of combat, they have the time it takes to get home from a deployment to decompress and adjust, and they have time at home away from combat when their deployment is over. Our RPA operators have none of that, in fact they are so critically manned that they often can't take leave, the only get one day off per week and they do this in an endless cycle that can last for years on end. Make no mistake the person he or she killed was a bad person and they deserved to die, but we never want our warriors to lose their humanity in the process." Ultimately this argument worked and we were able to keep a TS cleared Ops Psych that was with our RPA folks everyday. I will laugh when someone plays Dos Gringos Predator Euology but I will never disparage our folks in this community, they carry a different burden than most and they do it without an end in sight. And, @Danger41 , they may be the SEALs of the Sky, but I hold the Draco's on the same regard. Most don't know the impact a little PC-12 has had on the battlefield or the commitment and cost to your community.

So here is the actual full video (~28 minutes) of Biden’s remarks at the Women’s Business Summit at the White House. https://www.c-span.org/video/?526980-1/president-biden-calls-congress-pass-assault-weapons-ban-nashville-school-shooting 10:14-12:24 includes his opening comments about the shooting in Nashville. Feel free to judge him by those comments; I think they were very appropriate. Of literally all the things in the entire world Joe Biden can speak about well and compassionately, it would be having a child die cruelty too soon. Before 10:14 he was introduced and warmed up the visiting crowd at the White House, which included kids, and after 12:24, he have his actual remarks about women and their businesses. Even the joking comment about Jenni’s Ice Cream highlighted in bad faith above makes sense given that it’s not only a personal fav of his and an ongoing meme about him, but it’s also an ice cream business started by a woman that’s now wildly successful. So given full context instead of the dickhead edit you see above, I have basically zero critiques.

Wasn't bad although we were limited in the number of bases we could go TDY, luckily your mom was working the juicy bar at each location.

Couldn't find a good thread to put this in, so I'll put it here. Went to my 1st grader's art night...great to see her happy, but you can imagine how "amazing" all the art was with indistinguishable blobs, cats, flowers, etc. But then, I came around the corner and saw this masterpiece...this kid is fucking going somewhere!

chief of staff doesn't pay enough plus i don't have my masters or ACSC in correspondence done...and don't foresee myself ever doing it if you think the russians blew up their own pipeline you're a silly goose

@Auspicious Aviator 1) As @7thokage mentioned, not important. I think its okay to not have signatures, but if you can get them signed for every squadron it would look more professional, a few of mine are not signed. I don't think it is make or break. 2) I have used Bogi Dope and the content in the e-courses are great materials to read through a few days/weeks before an interview. You get great advice from guys who went through the same process you and I are in and it has shown me things I have been doing wrong in my resume/cover letter I would not have known otherwise. 3) Ask to schedule to speak with a pilot. I came to many dead ends until I started asking to speak with a specific pilot. I found success in doing some research on the squadron, finding a pilot mentioned in their website, and requesting to speak with Maj. ### about his journey/experience.

1) How important is the recency of Letters of Recommendation? I am very happy with mine however they were written about a year and a half ago. Should I update them? -Not important. Some boards will specify they need to be within like 6 months or a year. A year and a half seems like a long time. I’d recommend getting them updated. Make sure they’re personalized for each location in the “To” line. Easiest way is to just get permission from the people who wrote them to make small edits as necessary. 2) Has anyone used the bogidope consulting packages and if so, are they worth the money? -I didn’t and I got picked up. The biggest thing you can do for yourself is visit squadrons in person. That will do more for you than anything else. That said - if you feel you need that extra boost and have the funds for it, do it. 3) I have called most of the units I am interested in with very little luck. Should I continue to call or are units trending away from taking cold calls? -Don’t stop calling. Keep going until you get in contact with someone and are able to schedule face to face time with them. Final word of advice is that your cover letter is probably the most important part of the package. Having perfect scores and background doesn’t matter if: 1) Your cover letter sucks and you can’t convey how bad you want to fly specifically for them, their mission, and how you’d make a good fit 2) You don’t visit in person Consider your package just “checking the boxes”. The real test is visiting in person and getting to know everyone. Making sure you “fit” with the culture. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

@HelpWithAFOQTMy original scores were as follows, and like you I thought I was well prepared the first time, turns out I was not: PCSM: 75 P: 87 N: 48 AA: 36 V: 17 Q: 24 With these scores, I have gotten interviews at both Fighter and Heavy units in 2020-2021. So keep applying. AFOQT/TBAS Retake: (Yes, retake the TBAS, you run a risk of scoring lower, but you also have a chance to do better, it shows that you will take a risk to be more competitive) I studied my ass off for 2 months 1-1.5 hours a night before I retook the TBAS and AFOQT. I chose to retake the TBAS first, when I did, my PCSM improved by 6 points. 2 months later I retook AFQOT and pushed both my pilot and PCSM into the 90s. Don't be discouraged, I thought I studied well enough the first time....the second go around I knew what to expect, I studied my weak areas, and got it done.. Weak on the math?....buy this book and know how to answer every single question before you retake the test: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=rrP1DwAAQBAJ&gl=us The table reading is 40 free points, don't retake the AFOQT until you can get all 40 table reading points accomplished in the allotted time and make sure your answers are correct when you practice. Want to do better on the TBAS? All I can say is be 100% on the directional orientation flashcards. Nice job on the Verbal. PM me if you have any questions, good luck.

I practiced the table reading a lot because those feel like 40 free points to me. When practicing, make sure to account for the time it takes to fill in the bubble sheet! That takes almost as long as actually finding the answer. Good luck!

I'll try not to write my life's story, we'll see how that goes.. PCSM 84 with 65 flt hrs, ppl hopefully early February if I can leave DC anytime soon. PCSM is 95 with 201+ hrs 94 Pilot, 99 nav, 62/78/45 for the rest. 3.0 GPA in basketweaving 27 years old, July birthday 3 LORs, from Lt Col maintenance commander; fighter Squadron D.O., Major; and a Lt Col Pilot, all from my unit. - crew chief of the quarter first quarter back from tech school, 2 achievement medals, currently in DC protecting the capitol - executive board of students against drunk driving through high school - hockey team captain for 3 years of travel/semi pro hockey - volunteer at my unit to help clean up the roads picking up trash etc. - volunteered for about 6 tdys, activated on rotation for three 3 month deployments. - 8 years in the guard, F16 crew chief and I get along with all the pilots at the base. I applied to my own unit where I know all the pilots well, many said to be rooting for me, as well as helping me with resume/interview prep, etc. Got passed over by my unit, basically the president of the board who is the Lt Col ops group commander and the pilot of my jet that I was ADCC of before I received my own as DCC, told me I should've been applying 3 or 4 years ago and it shows I lack dedication. He told me to do some soul searching and if I really want fighters I should consider active duty, or expanding to heavies. I have been passed over for an interview at Boise for a10s, Baltimore for a10s, tucson F-16s, interviewed at my unit, atlantic city F-16s and waiting to hear back from Vermont, but I'm not too optimistic given my record of 0 for 3 on interviews, and not getting hired at my own unit who encouraged me so much beforehand. I was told by the pilots I work with that I had competitive scores and the PCSM will come with time(flying when I can afford it) but it wasn't a deal breaker by any means, and that my experience in the maintenance world along with my scores would get me a slot if I applied for a timeline of a year and a half, with active duty as a last ditch resort; however I'm much less optimistic now and looking at cheyenne wyoming/great falls montana per his advice. Is my TBAS bad? is being 27 (28 soon) an issue for fighters? are my other afoqt scores making me less competitive even with a 94/99? Are my degree type and GPA holding me back? my first two years were as a mathematics major, but that's not obvious to those reviewing my transcripts unless they see it on my resume. I do NOT want to give up on my life's dream of being a fighter pilot and simply take whatever I can get, but it's starting to look like I don't have a shot, or am I missing something? Covid has obviously made it near impossible to rush units.. but I feel like I'm not standing out on merit or experience at all either. I was told my ops group commander may be promoted out soon, and the next board may have a new president for my unit and I'd get a better shot, but that's a lot of "ifs". Please advise, thanks for reading!

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You’ve got a tendency to try and take things into the weeds when someone is trying to give you the 35K ft view. I’ll try and articulate my point one more time: There is never going to come a time in this country when half of the population suddenly realizes the error of their ways, has a mass epiphany, and starts voting the way you think they should, no matter how hard you try to convince them. Your voting choices are just as much of a head scratcher to them as theirs are to you. Whatever side you are on (neither your personal views, nor mine are pertinent to the point I’m trying to make), you can choose one of two paths: A. You can lament the path the country is on, blame others for it, and scream bloody murder every time you perceive that a poor choice has been made. This is easy and may lead to a short term release of pleasurable endorphins (we all love to “own” our opponents). But in the end, it accomplishes very little. In fact, it just further divides us and leads to further dysfunction. B. You can take some responsibility for our shared experience and understand that while you are unlikely to change many “others’” minds, there is plenty you can do at local and grassroots levels that, taken in aggregate, can lead to positive change. Things like going to school board meetings, engaging with your city council, participating in local and primary elections, writing letters to your representatives, etc, still have a major role to play in our democracy. They take time and effort, are unlikely to lead to rapid change, and almost certainly won’t get you everything you want. In other words, option B is the hard road. But it’s the only productive way forward for us. Or, you can keep beating your head against a wall trying to convince everyone you disagree with that you’re right. Up to you. I get it man. You’re fired up, confident in your convictions, and want to take on the world. We had a great label for the piss and vinegar crowd at a previous unit: “All thrust, no vector”. I appreciate and admire your vigor….just make sure you point it in a productive direction (STS).

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