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At a certain point you realize that most people don't actually have political views. They have political positions. The difference is that a view requires research, dialogue, analysis, and for many things political, there's not a lot of reason for someone to do that. Why learn about abortion if you're not getting an abortion? Should the average American really have an opinion on Palestine when they don't even know where it is on a map? So whereas the military leadership class used to be conservative, it wasn't because they had conservative views, it was just because they wanted to be a part of the group of people who had conservative positions. Their superiors. Now that we are in a rapidly changing political environment thanks to the spread of populism, the military leadership class is suddenly seeming much more liberal than the lower ranks, because the political establishment of Washington is fiercely anti-populist, including most of the legacy Republicans. They were never conservative, and they're not truly liberals or progressives now. They're just yes-men. Groupies. Sycophants who will morph into whatever they believe will please their bosses most. And since Charlie Kirk runs on a platform of "government is the problem" and makes no exception for big-government Republicans, obviously the power players on Washington are going to despise him. And like good little soldiers hoping for a reward, the generals will follow suit, threatening the careers of anyone who dares question or criticize the political "leaders" the generals hope to please and one day join.

Ya know at this point in my life, I think “what do their moms look like?”

I took several of these tests with no prep and failed about half of them the first time. Probably because given the choices above, I'm always shooting the bus full of nuns.... it's more scalps and moving targets are fun. But they're looking for different priorities. The majors were a 6 month pause before reassessment, so I recommend being as honest as you are on the post deployment health survey when they ask if you have more than one to two drinks a month. Of course you don't.

Six more Mondays until results come out! Hang in there!!

Not disagreeing with you, but in fairness, CHOP/CHAZ and what it represented - i.e. a government in name only / chaos - is third-world-type shit too...

Hinting at employing the military implies some sort of martial law...seriously bro, that is ungood. I agree the optic of allowing the riots go on and federal property to be attacked and burned is very bad. That being said, there were more than enough federal assets to employ without rolling in the military. The federal government certainly has a responsibility to protect the citizens and federal property but even hinting at employing the military is 3rd world banana republic type stuff. If they didn't have enough Marshalls, FBI, ATF and other federal officers perhaps they could use the Guard under Title 32 but even hinting at the active duty military is complete and utter non-sense.

We have the best job in the world and we still bitch about it. I love it. My uncle just retired from a legacy after 40 years of service and he said if you walk into a room full of pilots and no one is bitching then get the f*** out because something is terribly wrong.

I think Jeff Foxworthy said "if you believe that the lottery is a legitimate retirement option, You Might Be a Redneck"😁

Spent the last two days completing my company's DEI and Microaggression training. I am now prepared to employ microinclusion...oddly I still hate Navigators.

You're a whole page behind 🙂

Ward Carrol is a 2 decade out of date Tomcat RIO who has as much understanding of helicopter aviation as would be expected by a Naval strike pilot who only ever saw them operate over blue water. I don’t hate the guy, but he’s waaaaay outside his wheelhouse. If somebody doesn’t think Attack Rotary wing can function in LSCO and their examples are the Russian Hostemel “Leroy Jenkins” or the famous attack to destroy yourself by 11th Regiment in 03, they are cherry picking. Kurt Waldron and the Israeli Apache community would have a very different opinion on the survivability of helicopter aviation in a LSCO/RF arena. Most of the Russian helicopters lost have been from…. Indirect fire. Surprise, helicopters are vulnerable when they are sitting on the ground same as fixed wing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No shit, there I was…downtown San Salvador, May 2023…three-ship of Salvadoran A-37s flying through the sunset. It was righteous.

Because that's not evil enough. I can't understand the constant need to passionately argue for abortions of convenience. Its almost like you're not "cool" unless you get one. There is no justice for the unborn, unless it's an animal. That'd be a big mistake.

Dibs!

It'd take a few pallets of Busch Heavy.

Looked damn tough tonight!

To the idiots who love doing the instant replay lawyer bullshit: A: Second guessing the physical decisions that highly trained athletes make in the matter of nanoseconds makes you nothing more than a completely worthless critic. "That guy made a decision to hit the most valuable player on the other team and then clearly didn't change his decision because he didn't make a split second decision to change his tackle posture when that important player changed his posture at the last microsecond." Get a life you sunken chest spinless incel personification of virginity. Instead, put the beer down, and go compliment the ref who had to make that call with no access to replay before doing so, fully knowing he'd be second guess for the rest of his career. I know that ref, and he's a good man. He's an athlete and a man of intense integrity. In comparison, you are nothing greater than a raging fart snorkeler. If you haven't been in the arena, shut up and go do 20 pushups...if you can. //rant switch off seriously, I'm friends with a professional Ref who has to make these calls. The number of completely un-informed and un-engaged dudes that make idol threats to him is thoroughly UNSAT. If the ref called it a personal foul, I believe it. Those guys have seen some shit and know what they're doing. The guys on either side of a "that was a bad/good call" debate universally don't know a damn thing. Step out of the peanut gallery and onto the field, or STFU.