17D_guy

I'd get more R's elected who are in-line with the President, but view any D as an enemy of the state and refuse to compromise with the other (larger half) of the country. Continue with the real fake news, bot spam and other info-war stuff to break the R's into further sub-groups calling each other cucks for maybe not wanting to deport a mexican who's been here for 30 years w/ a family working a job, paying taxes. Forgot add - Continue the destruction of institutions (FBI, DOJ... DoD is next) that have represented not only a check on internal power, but a watchdog against our external foes infiltrating.

lawfare's a good one. Rather enjoy the technical analysis of jurisprudence versus everyone's "I saw an episode of Law & Order last night" breakdowns.

I'm honestly not sure how to respond to this... I'm just one person, with a limited view of FGO-ish down. But...no, we're not happy with them. We're not even red headed step children under them. We literally get no thought about mission critical systems or warfighting needs until it's 1100 on a Saturday and the tasker is due to HAF 1200 on Monday. That's not an exaggeration. Do you like the way the network is now? That's because AFSPC wouldn't fund anything to fix it until basically every 4-star sent a "WTF note" about their email being down for more than a day. Then they pushed this cloud email imitative (which is great) without thinking about the strain on bandwidth at the migrated bases, or supporting infrastructure. Are you basing this off the glad-handing, grandstanding of GO's and Col's at official functions/Legislative interviews? The space folks they put in charge of 24AF were so very not good. There are almost no policies left from them that we follow, and what we're forced to we actively hate. The Holiday Party had open jokes about us getting our own MAJCOM, and when the announcement came down about moving people actually clapped. Hey... does the guy that leads us even wear our badge over a year after taking command? https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/108479/general-john-w-jay-raymond/ Merging w/ the 25th I'm a little more worried about. SAF/CIO's a Intel dude by trade (seems like a good dude), so the winds don't look good for someone that's actually a Cyber dude/chick to get the reins anytime soon. Intel's not Ops no matter how much they wish it was so.

Read it...whole lot of nothing outside the Ohr stuff. Unclassify the FISA warrant and get this over with. No bombshell as promised from the right, no huge threat to national security as promised from the left.

We're rather excited about it actually.

Still rumors of a Global Vigilance command w/ 24AF and 25AF merging. Last RUMINT had 24AF leaving AFSPC this Spring (May/Apr) to join the nirvana of ACC...where we can be further ignored.

I think you guys are underestimating the teachers union in CA.

Seriously doubt that is real, it's just too over the top. Even for my former home, loony California. Plus there's another article showing what he posted after it broke and it was as dumb, but not overt.

Did someone say Cyber?

Wait... what?

We do not. We're terrifyingly under-manned for what we're supposed to be doing. For example, in the exact same section in other orgs there's 4+ people working together on tasks. We've got 1 person, same amount of tasks and coord. It'll be interesting to see this coming week because I'm not doing anything real-world since I'm not staying longer than 12hrs. It's not the fuck-fuck exercise games. It's the fuck-fuck passive-aggressive for 2 weeks so we make family plans while getting vaguely told we're "team players." Exercises aren't surprises, just our level of effort. "So, am I working this coming weekend?" Reply, "We're team players." Got to cut out my dudes early today since they were doing nothing related to it...just being "team players." On a positive note I found out I could put in for retirement this December.

Negative. We were told we're participating in an exercise. Last time we were all in, 12 hour coverage, split amongst the minions. Found out Friday it's 12's for all 10 days straight including weekends.

Shout out to the "leaders" who said, "Staff's all in for this exercise." Then wouldn't clarify what that meant until 1500 on Friday. That clarification - 12's for 10 days straight, sorry-not sorry about your weekend plans.

This is my favorite part when people claim the military "still works" when these things come along. Sure, overseas we're still bombing people. But it's a long logistics arm back to CONUS, and there's a significant amount of that that's no longer AD. Imagine if they actually closed the CDC and Youth Center all the way. Guess CC's will just direct folks to execute those Family Care Plans...

We've got tests going on for new upgrades where we've got to send the AFOTEC testers home (AD, Civ's) and they're going to attempt to get contractors out that are already paid for to cover it.

+2. Saw this discussion taking place in our front office. JAG had to come explain how the 2-star's trip the the Puzzle Palace to brief was still on, but the 1-star's trip to officiate a retirement would have to be out of pocket if the gov't shutdown remained.

damnit... fair play, Sir.

I just need to confirm, Robber - "It's fake." (the gun) Bad Ass - "Oh well, mines is real." Robber - "I'm shot." Bad Ass - "Oh, fuck ya." He then admonishes them not to die. This is also my new fav video of all time.

Nah, he likes paying whores.

Huh, wonder how much that cost the Donald in a "donation" to the Rainbow Push Coalition.

To me, it makes perfect sense why they'd want to come here.

This is good news for us w/ tons of Amn: TL;DR - Enlisted Performance Reports are no longer required for regular Air Force Airmen in the grade of airman first class and below with less than 36 months’ Time-In-Service or Air Reserve Component Airmen below the grade of senior airman. https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1407800/air-force-saves-airmen-time-no-longer-requires-first-year-evaluations/

Preach. Until we get past the "other side is the enemy" and not someone with a differing opinion of to get things done, we're screwed. Compromise is a strength, yet we've stepped away from it in every facet. Talking Heads on TV sure don't help. Hell, we've finally had R's in both Legistlature and Executive...and still can't get stuff done. Not looking forward to the halt that'll be "Blue 2018."

Because they're actually being asked to work towards the defense of the world, versus their own backyard with our help for once. There's no oil in it, or terrorism concern. They've got little to nothing invested in that side of the world nationally. There's NOTHING in them for it economically, and we've seen how dedicated most of our euro "partners" are to freedom abroad when that's the case.

Yea, I don't know if it's location that matters some either. Family is in CA/OR/WA, so they've not taken part in the "Starve the Beast" strategy some of the other states have. Their states have taken all the Fed money, OR even threw some of it away w/ fraudulent dealing setting up the ACA website that didn't work. Don't know if that applies in your two areas of experience. It's strange, but a good balance having that side of the family. We do need some kind of reform. Having the government force me to have a transaction with a company is antithetical to freedom and our Constitution.