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My other thought was they’d make a campaign commercial starring Biden and Alec Baldwin and some handguns.

I already lost too much $ betting on this one. I thought for sure the Dems were going to stage a shooting at their convention, Jussie Smollet style. It’d be some guy wearing a red MAGA hat, or maybe the buffalo horns guy, but he’d actually take old Joe out.

If you got the timing right, it was kinda like nailing a game winning shot at the buzzer during phone sex though.

When your enemy is afraid of you, it is exactly the compliment I think it is. Please tell me more about what the cool, edgy, new professor at the zoo thought about the subject though.

I’d think you got 3 years to get selected for a pilot slot. Age waivers are at a premium these days. Hopefully your college is done, and you’re working on your AFOQT, PPL, etc. try to get to know the boys and work hard at your enlisted job. Good luck to you.

Well the Germans sure thought he was a brilliant leader, so there’s that. And I’m pretty sure smacking a couple dudes was absolutely not his “sole idea for motivating his men” as one of his speeches was literally turned into one of the most famous movie monologues of all time. Go visit Bastogne sometime, all the shops in town with paintings and statues of Patton seem to have been pretty inspired too. As for not understanding the people he led, his final wish was to be buried next to them in Luxembourg…Yeah, what an asshole.

I tried making this same point a few months ago, but Lawman and somebody else told me if we didn’t give all our money to Ukraine, Russia was gonna EMP our asses! I had no clue that the only thing standing between us and certain destruction, was the Ukrainians.

Who would’ve guessed Washington State as #1?? Pullman, WA must be a rougher town than I would’ve imagined.

Look what you made me do, I said I wasn’t going to argue here, but maybe us stupid people just need a leader to show us the way. Put your money where your mouth is. Pay more taxes, who knows maybe some folks will join you. It’s kind of hypocritical for you to be preaching that we all need to be taxed more, but you’re unwilling to do that out of your own benevolence, wouldn’t you say? And as for asinine arguments, you stated the at you’ve grown up enough to know Uncle Sam won’t make any sound financial decisions, so we better just keep giving him more $. I’m looking for a better word, nope…asinine works just fine.

Since we’re in the Russia/Ukraine thread, I’m not going to debate taxes here with you. However, if you feel the answer to helping the crack addict to get off crack is to buy him more crack then we don’t have much to debate anyway. Certainly more need to pay their fair share, certainly more need to quit dodging the law and most certainly people need to quit taking advantage of others and contribute instead of leach off the system. But to increase the burden on law abiding, rule following citizens isn’t the answer. Lastly, I’m glad you feel you paid too little in taxes last year. Once again the fed, will be happy to take whatever you’d like to donate. I personally paid double your rate. That seems like plenty, wouldn’t you agree?

No problem. If you’re open to a suggestion, why not go over to the Reserve Squadron you’re attached to and talk to the pilots there? Get to know them and see when they’re hiring? Assuming you’re at a flying wing.

Or copy what you wrote and drop it right in that search bar and you’ll get all the info you can stand. Check out the threads here on AD UPT boards. The folks that just applied this year have tons of good and current info on there. Happy trails

You have great scores. Reapply and keep applying. You’re only 23, so you got some time. See if any units will let you come visit on a drill weekend, bring a bottle of booze for their bar, face time is key. When a unit tells you to enlist, it’s because a guard unit wants to know who they’re going to be stuck with. If you enlist there, it gives the guys a chance to get to know you. If you don’t want to enlist, then you’re going to have to get to know them some other way. The ANG pilot hiring process is still the very best hiring process in the DOD. We can be picky, and that’s a good thing. If you don’t know any pilots there, better start trying to make some friends.

As far as I know there’s nothing stopping you from applying. Go take your TBAS and get the process rolling.

Good looking guy on the right had some beautiful television preacher hair back then! Well done, Sir!! Thanks for sharing the photos.

No shit!! My taxes are plenty high, thank you. I’m certain the IRS will be willing to take however much more of your $ you feel is appropriate. What we have, here in the US, is a spending problem. Not a tax revenue problem.

Amen Brother Biff. Also, a quick search didn’t come up with any results, but if it’s already been posted I apologize, but the great Bud Anderson flew west a few days ago at the age of 102. A toast to the Old Crow and the last of the Triple Aces… https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/us/bud-anderson-dead.html?smid=url-share

I think I did. Was this it?? Or this one??

Guard members are not assigned staff tours in DC, or anywhere else besides your unit or state. There are plenty of people who volunteer for staff tours elsewhere, if one is interested. O-6 and up becomes quite competitive and might require you to take a non-flying job somewhere to achieve the rank, but if you just want to fly, plan on retiring as an O-5. And the absolute best part of the ANG, is being a DSG pilot you won’t even have any other squadron job other than pilot. Go fly at your airline, and go fly at your unit. Best of both worlds just being a pilot!

Beautifully said

I’ve essentially turned into a single issue voter, and that is, “will anyone please do something about the invasion, of our own country that is currently happening??!!” Millions of people pouring into the US - unchecked, unmonitored, unvetted, and unregulated…I know, I know, pretty far out there political view. I must be a racist.

Well said, except for this part

If someone gets scared away because of anonymous online posts, then he was probably not gonna cut it anyway. This isn’t a USAF recruiting website. Yeah, a bunch of us are old and tired of some of the bullshit. However, I don’t think any pilot hates the flying part. Your posts are super weird. Are you a pilot?