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Tomorrow’s the day everyone. I managed to write a pretty killer show cause letter acknowledging my mistakes and outlying my plans to get back on track, and I got a fair few letters from others as well. Hopefully it all works out. Thanks for all your insights, advice, and encouraging words.

a few thoughts. The Colorado (not lots of electoral votes) play is likely designed to get the SCOTUS response. The next State (CA) (lots of electoral votes) will know how to more effectively get him off of their ballot having seen SCOTUS’ cards. We are in the middle of a “cold” civil war. There is no way for either side to win. The left ALWAYS does what they accuse the right of doing. It’s their standard play. Collude with foreign actors? The Trump collusion story was completely fabricated but it’s becoming very clear the Biden’s did exactly that. Threaten democracy? Republicans aren’t doing anything close to threatening democracy. The border is wide open. The left is attempting to remove Trump from state’s ballots, changing state election laws, trying to keep him in court on baseless accusations, keeping him off social media to suppress his voice, etc. Insurrections? You can say the word all you want but that doesn’t mean a bunch of pissed off citizens (for the reasons above) were doing anything other than rioting. They certainly weren’t trying to overthrow the US government. Meanwhile, federal buildings and police stations were attacked for an entire summer by leftist. Racism? Democrat policies are DESTROYING the black community. Always have. Hell, the Republican Party was literally founded to fight the expansion of slavery. Tyrannical government? Look at the difference in red and blue responses to Covid. I could keep going but I won’t. This is all pure fucking madness. It’s like living in a bad dream. And it gets worse everyday.

The solution I'd like to see is CO electoral votes just get tossed. Sorry...you don't want to participate in the election? Fine, your 10 votes are null. See you in 4 years.

This. Arkbird has it figured out. Another cool thing. When you make it you your first operational unit. Nobody cares how you did in UPT. You're gonna be one of the good ones. Good Job duder!

I predict SCOTUS disagrees. If/when they do, I'll re-engage with another "I was right and you were wrong" post.

With NIL and the portal you’re going to start seeing players transfer at halftime.

Call me when the progressive left applies the same originalist tenacity to our second amendment as they're pretending to want for the 14th. These people are hypocrites and liars who claim to protect democracy without actually believing in it. I don't like the person of Donald Trump but clearly he's who these corrupt assholes fear, so chances are high he'll get my vote.

In 2019 former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said in 2019 that under the Obama administration said "1,000 apprehensions was a crisis." On Dec 18, 2023, 14,509 illegal immigrants encountered in one day. We don't know how many were unobserved. We now have the equivalent of the population of Tampa Florida pouring across our border every MONTH. DNC/Whitehouse/Big Guy - "Nothing to see here, everything is fine"

It gets better in the real AF. Have fun and take care of your wingmen! Thanks for choosing to serve! You won't regret it. No matter how much sport bitching you see on here we all love or miss flying military aircraft. Do your best at flying! Treat every ride like checkride. Do what's right not what's easy and you'll be able to live with your decisions later on in life. Once again congratulations! Make us (old fucks) proud!

In an alternate reality, republicans could do the smart thing here and let the leftist state dominoes fall one by one rendering a trump candidacy meaningless because he's not on the ballot in half the country. Then, insert milquetoast right candidate, beat biden handily and be done with the trump disease forever. But they'll never do that. They'll fight it in the courts, drag trump back into the limelight, and his polling will take a nose dive as 51% of the country re-realizes how much of an insufferable tool he is.

Hey man, where you’re at sucks right now but it doesn’t define you. You can’t always choose your circumstances; you can always choose your attitude. Be a great officer and leader—chin up, move past it.

Thanks again guys. Unfortunately the CR did not go the way I had hoped. This is definitely not how I had envisioned this journey ending when I started it 6 or 7 years ago, and it hurts about as much as you would expect, but I’m gonna try and still be the best officer I can be wherever I end up.

Because of hate, lawfare, and irrationality.

It is a desperate move by far left lunatics that are scared and it likely opened Pandora's box as California is now exploring doing the same thing California lieutenant governor calls for exploring options to take Donald Trump off the presidential ballot

Mario has faults, recruiting is not one of them. Flipping Armando Blount from FSU was huge, he also flipped two other Five Stars. As of now the recruiting class rankings are 1. Georgia, 2. Alabama, 3 Miami, 4. OSU. The best part is seeing folks flee from the Gators. Miami flipped top LB prospect Adarius Hayes from UF which led to this article - Florida’s rough signing day and Billy Napier’s broken promises "two years into the Napier era, had a disastrous first day of the early signing period." - I hope they give Napier a life-time contract! We shall see how it plays out.

Your state did. When your state's Supreme Court unilaterally determined that your states' electoral votes were going to de facto be given to Joe Biden - thereby undermining the very purpose of our national election system and usurping other states' (and the national) election processes. Just try this though experiment: imagine Arizona and Wisconsin "disqualified" Joe Biden from their ballots "according to their state election laws"...blah blah blah. You know as well as I do there would be absolute pandemonium from the MSNBC crowd...which should tell you something is sideways.

You doing think someone that swears in via the Oath of Office isn’t some type of officer? Their analysis on the topic starts on PDF Pg. 70 to 89. https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/Supreme_Court/Opinions/2023/23SA300.pdf

Adam, are you okay? Are you okay, Adam? *sound on

What do you expect from an administration who won’t even say the term “illegal alien/immigrant”?

I will for sure! I'm actually a mid level Capt so I'm a little late to the pilot party. Previously flew MQ-9s and blew up bad dudes but I'm glad to be in the cockpit supporting everyone. Dream come true. Almost didn't make it through. Had my share of 88 and 89 rides going through but here we are. Definitely going to try to do what's right. I know I'm not going to be some general so the least I can do is help others. The guys taking everyone out of Afghanistan during the pull out (sts) are what made me want to get to UPT so I'm just glad I got the opportunity.

Informative primer on what’s going on where. spoiler alert: Fulton Co DA might be kneecapping DoJ

Rough day for FSU, fell from 3 to probably 11 with two five star flips. Props to Miami for killing it today.

There is nothing close to pro democracy with liberals

Not upt but they are cool.

I would be very surprised if this isn’t overruled by SCOTUS. The left hates him so much that they’re all about removing him from the ballot under the 14th Amendment without him being charged, and much less, not convicted. So for someone who says they’re all about democracy, etc they sure hate due process.

Wait, I got it! Rated retention! If we don't have so many staffs, we don't have to man them, and all those non-command track O-4 and O-5 IPs can go back to flying the line!!

What problem are they trying to fix? We don’t have enough MAJCOMs IMHO, C2 and big ISR should be in its own MAJCOM. Get rid of NAFs and Groups instead.

Thank you for saying this because this is 100% how I've felt every time but have never been able to quite put my finger on it. I'm definitely mentioning this in my letter, and if I'm lucky enough to be kept around, finding a way to fix ti. Love this story, and really appreciate your comment.

With what he said above, Not going to end well and I would be open to other things other than flying. My pilot training roommate hooked is 89 and is now an intel officer and loving life. A student of mine in the Viper FTU hooked out and was so relieved when it happened with how much stress it involved for him. My guess is you will also a)be able to sleep again at night b) realize that, although flying is great, it doesn’t define you c) realize you can still fly, just probably not as an Air Force pilot d) I’m an Air Force pilot and are already looking forward to airline pastures. Grass is always greener e)be fine in life; you are humble and admitted your mistakes

So first thing I’ll say is great on you for being honest with yourself that alot of your problems seem to stem from poor preparation and/or study habits. More on that later… For the near rocks of getting through this ride, it should be the relatively simple pre-solo stuff that requires very little improvisation and athleticism to fly well. Everything you do should be under the “control and performance” concept where you set a known pitch and power setting and get a known result. If you’re not getting exactly what you’d expect from that setting, then make small corrections from that instead of just guessing the correction. This definitely applies in the pattern and will help control any wild deviations. Whenever you pull closed, pull the same amount nose up, the same bank angle, the same pull to displace you appropriately every time. When you get to that known spot, you make adjustments based on wind for when/where to perch etc. Also, by doing that very rote maneuvering, it will gain you a few seconds of SA to actually assess and get you caught back up to the airplane. A trick I learned back in the day from the F-15 community was “left hand, right hand, sight picture, feel”. It applies to everything and I personally like it because it breaks things down very cleanly and will set you up for success. Try drawing out the pattern or wherever you feel jammed up and apply that mnemonic. Even your GPS thing, look back at that scenario and think what you could’ve done with left hand (power setting), right hand (probably bank back towards the center of the MOA), sight picture (level turn away from a border now eyes go to GPS to push buttons in a sequence), fee (1G unacclerated turn). Once you’re done setting up, what’s next on your lineup card? Same deal to set up for TP stalls or whatever. Lots of words there but the last thing I’ll tell you is that worrying about all your sacrifice and hard work won’t do shit to help you on this ride. “Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder” said Eddie Rickenbacker. The airplane couldn’t care less about your personal life. Compartmentalization is massive in this business and learn to leave all that behind you and focus on your left hand, right hand, sight picture, feel. Good luck!

I recommend Air Traffic Control. You get to work in the control tower, talk to pilots on the radio, and watch them takeoff and land. I would also guess ATC would be better for eventually applying to UPT because you get good at talking on the radio and already understand a lot of local flying operations. Anecdotally I know several enlisted ATC guys that were picked up for pilot but don't know any AFE guys.

As some of you know I was med DQ'd a while back; however, I just got the call today and finally got my ticket punched. I really appreciate the help through this journey, y'all are the best.🥲 I was also given a list of jobs I qualify for in regards to ASVAB and physical quals. As of right now there are no details on what is open, but here are the options: Unfortunately I was one point off the mechanical section on the ASVAB to qualify for crew chief (just my luck🥰). As a result, I am left with three options that give me exposure to the jet and pilots. I can work as an Aircraft Armament System Apprentice (I don't believe this would give me much interaction to the pilots, but it is F-22 related and a 15k bonus; cha ching), fingers crossed AFE has an opening and I can take that job, or if not I can also retest to qualify for crew chief. ive researched the jobs and understand that I should choose what I would most enjoy (I am leaning towards AFE). But, ultimately I am wondering from your guys' perspective what your thoughts are? which job would give me the best shot with f-22 pilot as the goal in mind? if I build a good rep in the unit, does the distinction of the job really matter? Are their some enlisted jobs that pilots favor over others?

Good evening, fellow members. Major Osman here, and I've had the privilege of working closely with General Chang as his Aide-de-Camp. It's quite alarming to see the lack of decorum and respect for a dedicated officer of the General's stature on this platform. While I understand the nature of a forum is to allow for open discussions, I'd urge everyone to engage with facts and respect rather than unwarranted attacks. General Chang has dedicated his life to the service of this nation and has firsthand experience in many of the situations and decisions being debated here. Labeling him as a 'troll' or 'keyboard warrior' not only undermines the essence of constructive dialogue but also demonstrates a lack of understanding of the man's qualifications and experiences. I've been with him on the field, in strategy meetings, and during crisis situations. I've seen him advocate for the best interests of the force at every level, making tough calls when needed. His 'quals' are beyond reproach. If you have genuine concerns or seek clarity on specific issues, I urge you to approach them constructively. We're all part of the same team, with the same ultimate objective: the security and betterment of our nation. Instead of sowing discord with disparaging remarks, let's engage in meaningful dialogue that uplifts and educates. Remember, it's easy to critique from the sidelines, but understanding the gravity and nuance of decisions taken at the top echelons requires a deeper perspective. Respectfully, Major Osman