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No, it doesn't. Welcome to military aviation, you're new and your opinion doesn't matter. You're probably a previous troll who got butthurt and left the forum and now dropped a new username to continue being a choad.
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You're the reason we have moderators you 30min on the forum choad. Sorry, did I get your name wrong, vertigo, pawnman, negatory etc. The adults are having a discussion.
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Slife the knife on the new adminstration's radar
Boomer6 replied to ClearedHot's topic in General Discussion
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It's cool. We can just EO whatever we want and not worry about trying to work together for legislation. Treating the other half of America as an enemy worked well for Democrats so it'll work for us.
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Copy. We disagree.
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Ah yes, playing mental gymnastics always works out well. That's like using hope as a tactic.. There is no reason to create more political turmoil with something like this. Why give the media more BS to cling to, it's unproductive.
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Copy, we disagree and will probably never agree. I think getting a conservative agenda passed and actually executed will require bipartisanship. If the GOP had a super majority that wouldn't necessarily be the case, but they don't. I don't know if he is a neo-nazi. Yes, I do believe he's created an unneeded distraction for Democrats to rally against. They're going to use this to rally more support to fight against the policies Trump is going to push. Do you really believe more support for Democrats to fight against Trump policies is helpful to the administration? "They're already going to fight it" is true, but democrats that lean to the center don't need pressure from constituents to stand against these policies in Congress or the Senate.
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Half of the country is not made up of progressives. I'd venture to guess a large number of ppl that voted democrat don't see themselves as progressives and don't believe in a far left progressive ideology. There are a lot of ppl in the middle of the political spectrum, some voted dem and some voted GOP. We as a country need to continue the pendulum swing back from the last 4 years, and we need to find common ground to do that. A dude that is apparently going to be a significant part of the administration throwing up two Nazi salutes does not help that. At best he's a social ra-tard and should hire a better speech coach, worse is that he's trying to troll and is too arrogant to realize this isn't going to help the administration, and at worst he's actually a racist and thinks this is a power move because no one can touch him. The administration is already going to have an uphill battle enacting conservative policies, especially policies pushed by a polarizing figure like Trump. This kind of distraction, regardless of the reason behind it, isnt going to help this process.
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A new member for less than an hour with 6 posts, and 3 of them back-to-back. If only there was an edit function where you could add to your last post without creating a new one that says basically the same thing as the last two...
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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
Boomer6 replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
I agree 100% that pressure from on high is a factor. However, I've seen FAIPs of all ppl refuse to fold to this pressure and uphold the standard. If an Lt hoping for a fighter has the intestinal fortitude to do the right thing then I have little sympathy for O3-5s worried about their next assignment. These are officers we're talking about, not jr enlisted, they need to act like it. I agree UPT line IPs are younger/less experienced than ever. Which is why PIT has a large share of blame as well. PIT won't wash out IPs coming to their sq that have no business instructing young IPs, much less hold the line on UIPs they're sending to UPT. I have zero issue blaming leadership/congress/etc. for terrible priorities on retention and procurement. With that being said, how many times have I read dudes on here bitching about all these senior leaders that refuse to fall on their swords to make a point to leadership for the sake of their service, Wg, Sq, etc. Yet here we are making excuses for officers folding to pressure on grading standards. Hard to expect the Bobs to suddenly grow a backbone if it's never been required they have one in the first place. -
Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
Boomer6 replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
Oh yes, because the FTUs haven't been doing more with less, to include less experienced IPs/studs, just like PIT/UPT. I guess whining about the can being kicked from UPT/IFF to the FTUs is somehow unwarranted. UPT/IFF IPs aren't responsible for the retention/iron situation, but they're directly responsible for letting studs pass that shouldn't. Or, at the very least, not holding to the CTS. Those UPT IPs that don't hold the line, where do they get their training again..? The system and it's leaders bear plenty of blame, but that doesn't give the lowly line IPs acting as the quality control experts the right to allow a subpar product and then claim absolution. -
Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
Boomer6 replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
You don't say.. Here I was thinking you just like to crack open a thesaurus when you started typing a post. -
These guys are standard AF generals. I've yet to meet a single general in the AF that the bros actually claim as part of their community. Usually said general takes command and the bros are like, "he flew X back in the day so hopefully he'll be good." Fast-forward to his first speech/memo/CC call...the bros: "were fucked.."
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Item number 69 on the list of reasons I tell the youngins to go guard at all costs.
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How A Fighter Pilot Became the First Active Duty Service Member to Win Miss America They giving out fighter slots before UPT now or foxnews proving how icompetent they are..
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I know it's not impossible, but the amount of documention and work required to get it done needs to change. Our security shouldn't be a jobs program, period. The ppl that need to be shown the door are well past the 3 year point. They're protected by the system, sometimes lazy sups, and sometimes the good ol' boy network. No argument about idiots on both sides. The big three are meat cleavers to the soft underbelly of DoD, but the GS bureaucracy is death by 1,000 cuts. Google claims 1.5 million GS workers, with an average pay of $70K/year. If 10% of them are worthless/actively standing in the way of progress (like at the puzzle palace) then that's $10.5 billion a year were wasting on these leeches..
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As a general gameplan, the idea of cleaning house of worthless GS employees sounds like a great idea. Not a commentary on anything musk is saying. However, the amount of virtually un-fireable parasites sucking the blood of the DoD is disgusting. The stories I've heard from bros working in that world and the crap I've personally witnessed makes me sick. A reform of the GS sector is well overdue. Lockheed and Boeing are famous for bending over the DoD, but the shit bag GSers are the undiagnosed clap.
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Nope. It's a mutually beneficial relationship. I don't see the US walking away from the US-Japan Security Treaty, especially because we don't want them developing nukes to deter china. I think the point others are alluding to is NATO has the appearance of an abusive relationship, and we're the ones getting abused.
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The Philippines and Japan don't really have any options in that regard. We're the only power in the region capable of pushing back on china's claims in the SCS, which violate their sovereignty. Their sovereignty rights are THE incentive to opposing chinese expansion, and they can't do that without us. Korea is in the same boat, but moreso with nK. Their options are to either rely on US, and our nuclear umbrella, or start building nukes themselves to defend against Kim.
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Do you understand that the ppl you're engaging with on here actually have at a minimum a college education, decades of military service, and many with time at the Pentagon seeing behind the curtain? In other words, these aren't the ppl of Walmart with a cart full of mtn dew and ding dongs questioning why the gubment' is spending money on things they don't understand. This isn't a black and white issue. It's evolved since the start of the war and our policy needs to evolve as well. Just because it made sense to throw billions in resources/cash previously doesn't mean we're locked into that gameplan in perpetuity. People questioning the sense of continued support by us, especially when it exceeds those on the continent that are actually being threatened, have a valid concern.
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Yeah, the mudhen dudes deserved the silver star just coming back to land in a Patriot MEZ.
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As a ridiculous example of this I witnessed a 1LT (product of an AETC UPT experiment) do MCUG at an exercise...it went about like you'd expect. No hate for the dude, seemed like a good bro/pilot, but FFS.