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Yeah, that's why I just said more healthy/fit, not winner of the Crossfit Games...

Sounds like some T-37 "thrust attenuators" haha.

I agree the waist measurement for the PT test is stupid, but is it really too much to ask that members of a military force look professional, and maybe, just maybe like they take care of themselves? I'm sure most of the talk on here about fit and fat is facetious, but I'm sure there's one or two on here that truly believe that. You can tie performance in the jet directly to fitness. If a fatty is an amazing pilot, he'd be that much better if he were more healthy. PT test is a yearly nuisance, being fit should be a responsibility you take almost as seriously as being proficient in the jet. Maybe, slightly less important, but you get the point. https://taskandpurpose.com/mandatory-fun/air-force-f35-pilot-life/ More generically, it's not just for the meat eaters https://hartzellprop.com/fit-for-flight-the-benefits-of-exercise-for-pilots/. Just because an ops guy can walk in, kill himself in a PT test to beat other careers in the AF doesn't mean they're taking care of themselves. If you think you should be able to be a fatty in a military uniform, I think you should check yourself. Not a PC view? Oh well, hit the gym. Oh, and for anyone keeping score, the Navy has more fatties than the AF. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/09/03/navy-fattest-obesity-rates-across-services.html ***Slight hijack*** Brabus' comment about having "mental strength and a desire to win"...that about "90% of the non-ops people don't have" is stupid and wrong-headed unless it was sarcasm I didn't pick up on. Based on a ton of other comments on baseops, it didn't seem like a stretch to think that's how he feels about everyone not in ops. It's why pilots have a bad name. I tell my super-smart high school senior frequently, "it's okay to be the smartest kid in the room, just stop acting like it because nobody likes that guy!" What's the old saying, you get more flies with honey, than you do with vinegar. I know this is the "safe space" for a lot of you, but I sure hope that attitude doesn't manifest itself with the non-ops people you interact with on the daily. Having been in leadership positions in a flying ops world and a training world, this is one of the biggest complaints I heard about pilots, so while not super relevant to the discussion I thought I'd throw out a bit of unrequested advice. ***hijack over***

This has as much chance as every other "legitimate" lawsuit that's been filed so far, and is about as absurdly obvious as a desperate attempt to stop the inevitable... I'm sure SCOTUS is dying to let Texas stomp all over other state's rights. It would be a great precedent. I wonder how Texas would respond if someone tried to force them to do something the Lonestar State didn't want to.

I find this sentiment hilarious. I guess Biden has no say in the matter... What proof do you guys have that this is what they have planned? How would you say they're going to enforce this crazy idea? Still working on the whole dementia thing? Let me know how that works out for you. No fan of the guy, but I highly doubt he is intentionally going to be cool with people trying to sideline him, if in fact, these crazy ideas are what the nuts on the left intend. I doubt they do, even if they want to. It's a non-starter because it just falls DOA as an idea with no merit. Dude just won the highest office in the land, could still argue if Trump hasn't done too much damage, the world. That's gotta be more than a little empowering, and my bet is that the man aint gonna stand idly by while people try to cram radical ideas down our throats. He'll do what he has to do, compromise and give some (highly likely that he gives more ground to the left because he's a democrat after all) ground to the left, and little to the right. He's not suicidal, he's not gonna just start giving the right whatever they want. Both sides of the aisle have proven they're cool with accomplishing nothing, so that's probably what will happen here. Hopefully he'll continue on a similar path with China, hopefully he'll do some good for the environment. After that, he won't do much good or bad... Wanted to add I love how the left is attacking their own demi-god, Obama because he hit the nail on the head regarding the whole "defund the police" messaging. He didn't shoot down the idea of re-allocating some funding, or fixing training focus areas, he simply said something along the lines of "snappy slogans like Defund the Police won't win you many supporters." He's 100% correct, they shoot themselves in the foot when they go for the snappy slogan that fires up the extremists, thereby hurting a cause that is actually legitimate, fixing the many problems in the way our country polices its people (from calling cops to deal with mental health issues, to helping someone who locked themselves out of their house to dealing with violent criminals or domestic disputes to racial profiling, etc.). But no, the left, people like Omar and AOC, and some senator from ATL I can't remember started to eat their own... Our country's politicians are so stupid most of the time <---- I had sometimes, but changed it to most of the time.

That’s fair. I completely agree that the Obama admin lied about the things you’re accusing them of. What else? You claim I need self-reflection? Here’s some reflection on promises kept vs not. Not an apples to apples comparison on lies, but the best I could do to attempt to show something that wouldn’t be claimed as liberal media. https://guides.libs.uga.edu/factchecknews - Showing it is a non-partisan fact-checker Obamameter- https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/?ruling=true Trump-o-meter- https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/?ruling=true By sheer volume alone, Obama broke 5x more promises, but he also fulfilled 10x more and had some kind of compromise on 7x more promises than Trump. Using this scale you could say he lied about way more I guess, so I’ll give you that. You’d also have to recognize that he accomplished way more if we’re using this as any kind of metric. This hurts to see for me because I was not a fan of Obama either. James P. Pfiffner, VN vet, military scholar, solid, respectable dude and expert in this field wrote a paper talking about this (https://pfiffner.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Pfiffner-The-Lies-of-Donald-Trump-A-Taxonomy.pdf) In it he says something we all agree on, all presidents lie. He also goes on to show that Trump does it more than any previous president, and not just in quantity, but the level of serious topics about which he lies is more egregious than past presidents. This isn’t me (someone who detests democrats as much as, maybe more than republicans) just trying to hide my bias against Trump, this is me attacking what people on the right continue to excuse, apologize for and rationalize as Trump’s lies. People say the media is “mean” and “unfair” to Trump. I’ll agree that they hold his feet to the fire more, and blow things out of context more than they have for previous presidents, but only after Trump proved he was willing to have a very, very loose relationship with the truth. He started lying, name calling and straight-up making bogus statements before he even announced his candidacy. Only then did the media start to treat him like a hostile witness. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/28/why-do-fact-checkers-find-more-false-statements-from-trump-than-biden/42343935/ (media bias, right of center https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/columbus-dispatch/ ) Occam’s razor says the simplest explanation is often the right explanation. Trump simply lies way more than most other presidents. (edited to remove some hyperbole) Completely agree with you that all politicians lie, it’s like they have a disease or something. Hence why I said our country needs a reset on all politicians from all parties. Set up some new rules, and hold them accountable. TLDR/ People claiming Trump was on the same level as any president before him are hiding under a rock from the mountains of evidence demonstrating otherwise. All politicians lie, Trump just does it on a scale that is simply way more than most other politicians. His lies hurt not only our country on the world stage, but they hurt democracy as well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You gotta let it go man... I guess every word that’s ever come out of your mouth has never contained hyperbole to get your point across. You’re right, he probably wasn’t serious 100% of the time. Got me... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Why is it so hard for Trump fans to admit that the man lied constantly? The man lied non-stop. If that word is too strong for you, he stretched the “facts” or presented “alternate facts” constantly. Obama got that treatment from Fox News. Bush avoided it mostly because it wasn’t really happening yet. Not an individual attack on pcola, but in general, the right needs to stop with the crocodile tears about just how unfairly Trump was treated. He invited it, relished it even. Played to his base like a charm. Apparently there are people on here eating it up still... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Isn’t there a clear difference between quirky, intentionally meant to not be taken seriously vs the things Trump has said while being 100% serious? You guys aren’t being honest with yourselves if you claim this is proof of some kind of bogus double standard. We all know that many news sources have a left leaning bias. Saying that this is an example of that is silly, and hurts what would be credible complaints going forward. It will all turn to noise if you try to hold up everything he says with an actual sense of humor as “oh, see, he’s losing his mental capacity...” or “oh, see, the media is in love with him and was super mean to Trump!” Trump’s craziness was, and there are thousands of tweets out there to back this up, put out there with a straight face. What am I reading wrong here? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Loved that story, and agree wholeheartedly with your points.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/04/politics/trump-nominee-pentagon-martial-law/index.html Scott O'Grady didn't come off as a tinfoil-hat kinda guy when I met him, but this is sad.

Great idea. Thanks!

Yeah, I wouldn't be too worried if I were at Ramstein, which will be closest to be via a plane ride, but I guess I'll figure it out. In about 6 months, when I get there, I'll post up some answers to questions I ask in case anyone else runs into a similar situation. I guess I'm not super worried, I just want to make sure the VA doesn't screw me on disability. The job has done a number on my body, and not being close to one of those VA counselors that takes a look at your medical info to determine what you need to do is what I will miss. I highly doubt someone like that exists where I'm going.

Similar but different question. I searched, but nothing popped up that was immediately identifiable. I'm about to head overseas for my last assignment. I'm within 2, so this will take me over 20 a bit. I figure with my situation it's never too early to start figuring things out. I'm going to be nowhere near an AF base, and recently I saw in some other thread (can't remember which one) that retiring from overseas can present problems. Doing it away from big blue, I'm sure adds to that problem set. I'm sure where I'll be working will have some info, and others filling this position have probably retired from it in the past, but this is a good source of info... Anyone done this, or know someone who has? I'll reach out with .mil if they don't want to talk here.

Are you joking? He doesn't have any credibility, he simply demonstrates how everyone but Trump gets it...

Hidden Brain podcast episode from Oct 26 is a fascinating listen. Super interesting. Says the bigger problem and divide in the US isn't so much between Rs and Ds, but people who love to talk about politics and those that don't. Point taken, I'm backing out of this world for a while. Gotta stop. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You're right it is very stupid, but if only there were some normal way to fund what he's trying to do... Please, enlighten us as to why it's illegal to say that. Maybe not official, certainly not illegal. If you slapped a label on your house saying "Office of the conspiracy pusher in Chief" it wouldn't be official, but it also wouldn't be illegal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Knock it off. He’s got you playing his game... Pointless. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I 100% agree on that last sentence. No honor in those specifically cited examples. They simply didn’t see a way forward, but at least they stopped at the legal ways and didn’t try all of this BS. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You seem to disregard things people say. Irregularities can include anything from fraud to a line of coding that made it read the wrong way. Either way, fraud or not, they exist on a very small scale. No one ever denied that. Stop trying to act like anyone on here ever did. You ignore what other people say that contests your point while sticking to arguments that don't further yours. The age of an article is absolutely relevant when the head of election security, a known and respected expert in the field says, as recently as 2-3 weeks ago that this was the most secure election we've had. Does that negate the possibility of any minor amounts of fraud? No. Does it negate the conspiracies and lies coming from this admin on fraud on a massive scale? You bet. You can make your petty statements and insults on why you "fully understand" your perceived problems of other people, but it doesn't make them true. Just shows you attack the person instead of the point. I'm done, you're becoming the new guardian... ETA: and you're clearly not the only one throwing around personal insults. It's childish and doesn't help anyone's argument. I'll try to leave that out as much as possible. I'll fully admit to allowing the ignorance shown on here (both sides) frustrate the crap out of me.

No, I won't say, "my bad" because what's the difference between you, Sim, Seadogs or anyone else claiming this garbage. Royal You... I already discredited your legitimate links because they were 4 years old. Maybe 1 year old link in there with John Oliver... Don't play lawyer with the words. Standard irregularities that happen with every election, not big enough to change results. Evidence has been posted over and over again of that. Not my fault if you refuse to acknowledge it.

You’re absolutely right. John Oliver is a very humorous entertainer. Thanks for the share. I think we should absolutely listen to him vs a credible expert in the cybersecurity field: https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election I beg to differ on burden of proof. I am on the side of the elections being within the bounds of normal error, acceptable inconsistencies that would not turn the outcome of the election. You are claiming it was fraud and citing (maybe not recently) things like epochtimes, gatewaypundit, Rudy Giuliani, and yes, the most truthful man of them all, the President. Let’s not forget John Oliver, a paid entertainer that I agree is absolutely worth a watch, but doesn’t quite meet the level of professional journalism. Jimmy Fallon and Trevor Noah are also hilarious, but you won’t find me using them to back my point other than tongue in cheek. Let’s just go ahead and cite Tucker Carlson while we’re at it. Oh by the way, he’s on the record in a court of law saying his viewers should not see him as a source of truth and facts... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

So, you’re sayihg they found these issues 4 years ago, but sat by and did nothing in the interim? Sure. Where’s the proof of this statement? Otherwise you’re using 4 year old information that is irrelevant. And, we don’t manufacture our own parachutes... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ok, sure. You were totally right to introduce a completely new player into the discussion on whether or not Trump is a good leader or not. Well done... Conversation goes: Trump's a bad leader. People naturally say Obama sucks more, he was too young to lead. People then say Trump is a reality TV star and ignores his smart people. SurelySerious says JFK was better than Obama in the leadership department because he was military. You win...

Yeah, I get that, but I'm drawing it out to show the comparison is not a good comparison. If you can compare those two, why can't we then compare Obama and Trump? It has a little more relevance to current events don't you think? Who cares about JFK in this discussion?