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I remember my MX supervisor telling me that he'll be waiting for me when I fail out of Boom training. This was a few days before I left for training. It was said when we were alone (no, he didn't touch me) and he was dead serious. 15 years later, I flew through Hill, flying my Huey as a pilot. I didn't see him waiting. As a pilot, leadership at the squadron was upset when I wanted to be a pilot first. Being a prior sweaty, I could easily make it to retirement without doing queep. I flew my best but didn't do extra things. I wrote awards for my airmen, I helped several of my dudes with their OTS packages (a few are USAF pilots now) and took care of them as best I could. However, I didn't take care of myself. I refused to write awards for myself and I really thought I'd get that easy promotion to O-4. The other thing I did was play my cards too early. Don't let leadership know your intentions. I was passed over for the first time, when I was the Chief of Stan/Eval. In my 17th year on AD, I volunteered for a 365 in hopes that I could stay at my last duty station so my son could graduate high school at the same place that he started. I was denied because I had previous deployments and they had a volunteer who needed a deployment for experience. I was at 18 years when they said no to the high school senior deferment program. They realized that I was passed over and would be forced to retire at 20 and they still PCSd me. My family stayed in place for my son, who went to 8 different schools, could graduate with his friends. When I PCSd for the last time, I went as geographically separated bachelor. As a passed over O-3E, I got to fly as much as I wanted (😃). I took as many TDYs as I could. On one such TDY, my commander told me I was on the shortlist for a 365. Later that night,when I was pounding a few brews, I mentioned it to some of of the other pilots and two of them essentially fought to take my non-vol. The same non-vol that I volunteered for a year earlier. Two months after I retired (forced out for failure to promote), I received a letter from my CC informing me that I had finally made Major. He wrote, "Sorry Biff, too little too late". I never failed a checkride as a pilot (hooked my first MSN check as a boom). I never got a dui or into any trouble 😉 that required paperwork. I took care of my people as a NCO and as a CGO. My last supervisor was a Lt in my flight a few years prior. When I got out, I got my ATP and flew for Compass (God rest her soul). After Compass, I decided I had enough of being gone and elected to work very little and enjoy my time with my family. In the end, don't trust leadership to look after you if you don't play along. Also, you'll definitely enjoy life if you decide to get out.

It's not about fathers abandoning children. It's about highlighting the hypocrisy with "my body right". No matter how you feel about abortion, it's legal in most states. A woman kills her unborn child for convenience and is labeled a hero. A man, who goes out for a pack of cigarettes, is a deadbeat. We've all probably done or seen worse things concerning humans than talking about abortion. If we're not evil now, we'll never be.

That sucks!

She finally lowered her mask!

Lol. If this is true. The cycle has come full circle....again. Get your masters, we mean don't get it and by don't get it we actually mean get it. Some things never change.

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Lol. Ok dude. The tax credit didn't cover the costs of my solar panels chap. My money did. I'm not even sure I applied the tax credit as it was several years ago. It's awesome that you built your own system. What state do you live in BTW? Is it CA or somewhere else? As much as people know about CA, I assume you all live here. Lol As for the poor, I don't want them to suffer anymore than they already do. CA/Power companies fucked them when it comes to paying for power. Not me. Why not just give the power to the poor people for free? If that's what this is all about. They can have my excess power. I don't care. I'll buy one less Costco sized bag of Honey Bunches of Oats a month to make up for my financial loss. I agree, the current CA solar program does not benefit the poor. It has always sucked to be poor. If you're in CA, you can fight to get the poor solar panels too. You can even use your intricate knowledge of solar panels to help build them. Edit: Except, this isn't about helping the poor. It's about keeping the money flowing to the power companies. They don't care about the poor either. Looks like Kevin was doing OK. https://wallmine.com/people/32560/kevin-m-payne Also his replacement Steven https://www1.salary.com/Steven-D-Powell-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-for-EDISON-INTERNATIONAL.html#:~:text=Executive Compensation&text=Of this total %24481%2C513 was,for the 2021 fiscal year.

Me. I paid for my solar panels without being subsidized by CA (other than a tax credit) out of pocket. I don't pay power bills anymore and it feels nice. I'm not an environmentalist, I don't drive an electric car. I saw an opportunity to eliminate my power bill and make a little money. CA provided me with this chance to "fuck over" the poor along with the power companies and I took it. Burn fucking coal/oil until its all gone, I don't care. I'll be pushing up daisies when the Arabs run out of their precious black money juice. If the power company is so concerned about the poor, why don't they cut some more overhead? They are allowed to cut costs. They are "forced" to charge the people without solar (not all people without solar are poor) more because they (power companies) like money. They can lay people off just like Facebook. If you don't like solar, cool. If I built an oil rig to generate my own power the oil companies would also come after my money along with Edison. They're losing money and they refuse to adapt. ×

That's awesome to hear!

I live in OC CA. That's pretty much dead center of the grid. If having a family size box of Honey Bunches of Oats that I bought at Costco makes me a prepper, then you've got me. The only thing I'm prepping for is going surfing tomorrow. I'm providing a service. I'd like to be compensated for it.

The GWOT is over. No more national defense service medals. Lol. I'm not saying that all of the bad guys are dead. Maybe I should have clarified, I'm just more curious what it's like in a non AFSOC unit after OIF/OEF being over? I can barely remember what it was like before 9/11 (young and drunk lol) but we didn't have dudes walking around with 69 air medals as the norm.

I agree. The progressives are retards. Edit: I just needed to reiterate that they are RETARDs. I can't think of a single thing I like about them? They destroy everything they touch. Change my mind....lol

I really wanted to go TDY and party when I was younger. Then 9/11 happened. For those who served in GWOT thanks! Enjoy the break and hopefully you'll make it into the golden parachute club before the next war. For the young guys foaming at the mouth to fight, enjoy these times. You'll most likely see a fight before your UPT ADSC (or Enlistment) is up.

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17 years of my USAF experience was during GWOT. What's it like now in the squadrons with no more war to fight? I remember deployments prior to 9-11 and they were mostly for OSW and ONW. Now that we (I guess you guys, I'm retired) don't fly combat sorties everyday the young guys are probably pretty bored. Lol.

Imagine how much we could reduce the carbon footprint if we all just gave up control of our thermostats? Man. That would be nice. I'm not Nostradamus but I can predict that the left will try to push this agenda at some point in the future. I have solar panels. I wanted to stop relying on CA to supply my power. The power companies in CA are starting to try and add frivolous charges to people with solar. They complain that the power companies are forced to charge the poorer families, who can't afford solar, more. This is bullshit. They have lost one element of control over people's lives for profit, and they are doing shady things with the CA government to keep them alive. All the while, CA keeps pushing for residential solar. There is going to be some sort of shady deal to keep solar customers paying for power. As it stands, Edison power has to pay me for using excess power. They're trying hard not too.

I board with the unaccompanied minors. The FAs are so nice to you when they think you're a child.

Fucking gnarly. That's more SAMs than I'd care to see. Those guys had huge nuts.

I think I just learned how to murder my wife and get away with it on baseops? Lol

But they are!!!!! I'm just joking lol. Merry Xmas you dirty American war fighters!!!!

You can never fail with a DQ Blizzard!!! Lol

I've never spent time in Central and South America but aren't most of those dudes Catholic? I don't think any of them will be voting for abortion anytime soon. My wife helps plenty of Afghans that we fucked over. She works for a non profit as an immigration attorney. A lot of translators and others that were on our side. It's kinda shitty. There are families torn apart and there's not a whole lot of help from the US government. They actually help make the process harder for them.

That's one way to do it. Lol