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It’s no different than being in direct combat - after a bit you don’t trust any of “them”, you’re senses are numbed to atrocious things, and you use dark humor as a means to cope. Doesn’t mean you’re a sociopath, I think it’s a fairly normal human response, and to expect cops to be different is just like the jackasses who expect “warrior monks” in the military.

My childhood friend and next door neighbor to this day is out on medical retirement at 41 from the city PD after getting shot during a domestic call last year. He's 90% recovered. My son in law is a bit of a fast burner in another department. We often get together for beers and BBQ and in conversation, it becomes apparent the job changes them. They both started out with high ideals about our community, the nobility of the job, their duty to protect everyone, etc. The stories they tell make my job as an airline capt seem like the most dull job in the world. They see things I would consider horrific more days than not. As a result, it seems that over time they lose trust in broader society and become more intensely protective over the people they care about. I would trust both of these dudes with my life. The percentage of people I encounter on a daily basis that have just stabbed their girlfriend is pretty low, while the percentage of people they encounter who have just sexually abused a family member or broke into a house high on meth is pretty high. We make generalizations about the rest of society given the data we have. A local cop was shot a week or so ago. Every law enforcement officer within an 80 mile radius was on a personal mission to find the perp. They found him a couple days later, had a standoff in the backyard, and several officers mag-dumped on him. I was at a party last weekend with some cops and they were enthusiastically sharing pictures of the scene and the bad guy. It was unspoken, but obvious that everyone knew there was only one type of justice this guy was going to get. I was kind of unsettled by the idea that maybe none of the local law enforcement had any intent to take the guy alive while I was simultaneously glad that he wasn't. I had often thought I'd be a good cop when watching these bad cop vids. After hearing the stories, I don't know that I could keep myself from treating a large swath of the society with suspicion, disdain, and contempt. We could always strive for improvement, but I'll never be convinced that you can expect human beings to do this job and not have any of them develop sociopathic tendencies towards parts of our population.

The guy had the balls to go public against the crap we have been complaining about for years, but that's a bad thing now? There's definitely a retard in this conversation...

Agreed. While the audit videos show a lot of stupid cops who either don't know the law they are supposed to be enforcing or just choose to ignore it when their status is challenged, you very RARELY see the hours upon hours of 'we didn't get the response we were looking for so we didn't throw it on youtube'.

I had a literal dream about this dang board last night. I don’t know how many more days my brain can tolerate 😂😂 If it doesn’t drop today, then at least I can find solace in the long weekend knowing our next chance is Tuesday after the holiday Monday.

Clinging to false hope that today will be the day. 🙌🏼

Traditional fire season for everyone else. Mediterranean climate here, just like Chile, Australia, Spain, France, Italy, and Greece…guess what they all have in common? Big wildfire threats, outside the traditional summer forest fire spectrum. Fall and early winter is when we get the Santa Anas here, which is why Quebec 1&2 (CL-415 super scoopers) were here in the first place, they’re leased on a retainer and fly out of VNY. But on those heavy offshore wind days, all it takes is a spark and people are losing homes. I’ll read Majestik’s posts some more because those seem insightful, but I’ll just say the usual tribal politics being exhibited here are largely missing the point and aren’t helpful. Rake America Great Again is a simpleton take for SoCal. Maybe up north for the redwood forests… 14 helitankers working out of my airport, we’re doing our part.

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For someone who doesn't like him, you sure sound awfully familiar the man's wedding tackle.

Someone who doesn’t like Trump also doesn’t like his picks?

BG Palenske seems pretty well-liked from what I glean on social media

Point of order, in recent times the first clown to recycle the open ranks inspection, nitpicking of uniforms and banning of items that made life easier for folks on the flightline was the ACC Commander Wilsbach, an Eagle Pilot to the core. Again, point of order, the first clown to start the airlinepilot looking uniform changes, V-neck t-shirts and gigline gazing was McNutgobbler when he was CSAF. Again another scrotum hugging, Eagle driving, fighter guy.

In the Air Force portal comments. It was posted like January 19 of last year in response to someone asking about the release date.

Looks like today will not be the day. Rest assured it will be here soon! 😀

I did the math and based on how many duty days it took for them to start coordinating the release last year, that should have started today. The amount of duty days between coordination and CC notification would put this year at Monday, January 27. Public release 30 Jan. Granted, this is assuming it is exactly the same as last year. I'm not going to start holding my breath until Thursday of next week.

This

"Two days to stop the spread"

Very disturbing report about events leading up to the fire and the actions of leadership, I am shocked they still have their jobs. If the reports are correct (and leadership is responding trying to defend their actions so it appears to be true), the experts warned them and urged them to activate standby and reserve capabilities. The main fire department had a total of 40 trucks available if they kept a shift over and activated their contingency plan. The plan also called for them to pre-position trucks in the pacific-palasades neighborhoods, the fire chief declined to call up the additional resources and they had just FIVE trucks to deal with the initial outbreak. Some of those neighborhoods did not get engine support for 48 hours. No way of telling how that would have impacted the outcome, but talk about an epic leadership failure.

The WG/CC promises all the Navs that he's going to get age waivers and pilot training dates for all who want to go. When the last H model leaves, the WG/CC says "Sorry, couldn't get any pilot training, but we got some cool staff jobs for ya."

This wait is killing me I'm checking AF portal, milSuite, and myFSS 5 times a day lol

Ukraine giving Russian's no quarter...hit a dude with an RPV while he was in the outhouse! Snapinst.app_video_AQODvRYPH8ur_x52Qc1hh3RDSKvhtzOTS9Y-qmNrznxgC1Y97RdmXbzzGuuVCUJS4p6gXWEkctQbkdBDJOOYO_92rg3n7-9nlTSkNBQ.mp4

Then you never met Gen Kevin Chilton. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_P._Chilton

Don't give me that false hope, lol

Don't discount a random day of the week like Tuesday! Our results in 2022 were released on a Tuesday to CCs.

Recency bias for sure, but Rich Clark is the only one I immediately recall that made it past the O-6/O-7 phase and felt like a genuine person.

the focus on lethality under welsh, goldfein, and brown is noted

Valid, Norty and Alvin are two CSAFs pushing this shit that both happen to be herbivores (which makes most of us AMC guys nauseous rest assured); but in fairness Wilsbach as current COMACC is not and he’s one of the most ardent perpetuators of this standards initiative; whilst former AMC commander said quote “I’m not doing that shit, I’m focused on keeping future AMC crews alive in the Pacific.”

Hasn't anyone in CA thought about how much carbon those helicopters and planes are putting into our atmosphere? Such selfishness just to put out a little fire...

BQZip's mom, who was there cheering on her daughter.

I see nothing wrong with this. The USAF has become a jobs program for [emoji637]/[emoji639] of the force. I want my support office workers to understand they are office support, not warriors, aircrew or Mx so wear blues M-Th….that’s how it was before [emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]]]/[emoji637][emoji637] and I liked it better. If they take this out on pilots, it will get pushback but I think it’s intended to fight the lack of discipline in the enlisted ranks among support personnel. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

I miss flying but I really miss mountain flying in helos. The dudes fighting fire from the air have the best job on Earth.