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His words were "take your sunglasses off your head, please." We had just had an incident the day prior where an NCO was quite disrespectful to two O's in bags (I think). He was quite nasty saying something like "See him, he is RIGHT. You are WRONG." Of course, this was all about sunglasses hanging from the flight suit zipper or their shirt. I guess my gameplan is that if they say "please" or "sir" as a precaution, you have no recourse but to comply with the correction and move on. If they themselves, however, viloate the basic rule of custom and courtesies, that is a different story. Hence why I was listening for the sir or please part. If an NCO tells me to do something without a sir or please, my response will be an "Excuse me!?!?" and then wait for a response. Again, I know this comes and go, but this could get kind of ugly if the logic train of stupidity is allowed to run off the tracks like this. The bad thing is that the desert dicks have the support of the spineless upper-management here. If you are going to call out an NCO, you better have good evidence that they too were in the wrong too by disrespecting an O, otherwise the wing-weenie will back them every time. The revised uniform reg also now says that you any O's or E-5's and above can ask for anyone else's ID for reasons of force protection or "good order and disclipline." It is going to be funny when an NCO asks me for my ID and I reply with asking him for his for disrespecting an O. Again, that is where things are going to get very interesting.

Most of us don't have a problem with saluting in PT gear. I have a problem with paying $100,000+++ of my taxdollars a year to have a worthless bag of douche getting paid to be out here and try and enforce saluting standards when guys walking down dark alleys in PT gear don't see the somewhat subdued rank on some officers uniform. And all this shit seems to be very important after getting back from a mission where you got shot at, or while you are heading to the flight line to salute the guys that actually fucking died fighting this freaking war. The point is that these short-sighted shitbags have lost their courage and forget the reason we are here. But I don't actually fault the first shits, desert douchebags, or other shoe-clerk rule enforcers. I personally hold accountable the spineless leaders who condone the mass stupidity and loss of mission focus that ultimately gets people hurt. They will have to answer, and it may not be to anyone in this life, at some point. Ha ha. Another short story. I see this future diamond dickweed in the laundry line and he is talking about how he is new to the base. He then tells me to take my sunglasses off my head (I am in PT gear). I do it, and it is not a big deal. I grumble about it to a fellow coworker at dinner, and that was the end of it. The very next day, I am passing through the grab and go line in my uniform, with patches removed, a holster strapped to my leg, and my sunglasses clearly dangling from my flight suit middle zipper. In walks the same cum stain from yesterday. He clearly recognizes me, sees he is on "my turf" (sort of) and that I am walking out the door on a mission. Do you think he had the sack to say something about the shades that day? Of course not - too much of a fucking coward. I just find it funny how around the bra these roaches find the time to hound everyone, but near the running jet engines, they all the sudden lose their nerve. Interesting how that works.

So it begins. Not 30 minutes after typing the above post, I make my way through the dark alleys here heading toward the post office. I am in my PT gear, which as of this writing still has no rank on it (may change 30 minutes from now after the next incident). I see an ABU girl coming my way. Less than 2 feet away, she salutes me. By the time my pea brain processes it, she is already past me and I notice her LtCol leafs as she is abeam me. Now I may look a little older than my 30 years, but there is no way in hell that I look like a full bird colonel in PT gear. Not to mention that I would not be roaming around in the shanty-town known as CC, when all the brass here live in the Better Peoples Complex or the special trailers. The only thing I can think of is that she was thinking that I would salute her (which I would have, had it not been pitch black), and her brain was preemptively saluting me back. This is going to get real fucking interesting real fucking fast.

Already happened multiple times. A few days after the rumor was put out about the coming changes, the desert douchebags, I mean, desert diamonds left the meeting and started telling people the new rule was already in effect. One of our majors ran into the "why didn't you salute the LT" stupidity before the fucking thing was even a rule. I heard a similar story about a captain from another unit. It is a sad day when the headlines are about the major battle in Nuristan, where hundreds died, and all the choads at the Deid can do is print out another version of the uniform reg, clarifying PT wear and saluting.

My bad - misread it. Still doesn't look or sound right for C-17's to be flying as part of SAC. Kind of like when the AFCYBER provisional command tried to steal the old SAC patch as well.

Does anyone else find it a little sac religious (pardon the pun) that SAC is now “Strategic Airlift Command???” When I see articles about SAC in action overseas, I am expecting shit to be nuked. You think they could have come up with a different acronym for an airlift command.

What the heck does this have to do with the Dumbness at the Died. Back to griping about sunglasses on your head or wearing the gay-belt while walking 100 feet to take a piss.

Read my above linked article from Startfor, and then go to the Stratfor page and read the free articles that mention Russia or Iran in the title. Granted, Stratfor is only once source, but it is a fairly respected source. Bottom line, the Russians and the US look at the post-cold war very differently. The US, Russia, and China still have global strategic interests to take care of, and the Russians view the end of the Cold War as a time when the US took advantage of Russian weakness to expand NATO and encroach on Russian interests. Ukraine and Georgia coming into NATO are also major points of contention. Strategic missile defense, no matter how much the system would be in its infancy, does shift the strategic balance away from Russia and into the US's favor. Put another way - even if the US didn't really care if Ukraine entered NATO or if we built or even needed a missile defense system in Europe, this gives the US two more cards to play in the game of Russian geopolitics. Now the US can say to Russia "We won't pursue Ukraine NATO membership and will cancel the missile defense shield if you do these two things....." Now you can fill in the blank with Russian sanctions against Iran, or having the Russians stop selling military equipment to North Korea or Venezuela, etc.

Yup. I saw a similar situation. I guess the upper management here will never learn that if you treat people like children, they will act like fucking children. Novel concept, I know.

Most important paragraph of the whole thing: "Critics of the shift are bound to view it as a gesture to win Russian cooperation with U.S.-led efforts to seek new economic sanctions on Iran if Tehran doesn't abandon its nuclear program. Russia, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has opposed efforts to impose fresh sanctions on Tehran." Good Stratfor article detailing the Iran problem a little further.

Not every fucker in BPC is there for a year. Some not even close - like 2 months. Others are in the closets for 5 months, home for 4, and then back in the closets again.

Probably the 10th time I watched that, and I still clicked on it and watched it in its entirety. Totally hilarious - plus it took a lot of talent. My favorite part is the end when they call out all of the green-suiters back home.

Ditto on being at CBM during his reign. I put the two together when I saw his name and confirmed it when I saw his ugly mug on his bio. Has anyone heard anything good or bad about him at the Died? In other words, is he the one responsible for the extra stupidity recently being introduced, or do we think he trying to fight it? He seemed like a good guy the last time I pounded a few cold ones down with him at the CBM club.

Anybody have any thoughts or inputs on the RAS/PAS program or any other information on pol-mil jobs? More specifically, what types of assignments are people getting in the career field? What type of work are they doing? Are there a lot of rated guys in the program, and is it likely for a rated guy to get in? I have read all of the memos and descriptions on the portal and have also visited the official RAS/PAS website, but I was just looking for anyone with some first hand experience with real-world stories from the program.

Also, a quick Google search shines some more light on the subject:

Way too complicated for an average Alabamian to understand. But I guess with enough legalese and wordiness, one can "untruth" anything: This depiction from an official website is much easier to understand:

Very true words indeed. If facts, numbers, and logic applied, Auburn would only have 1/12th of the total number of fans as intrastate rival Alabama, considering that Alabama has won 12 indisputable national championships compared to the farm school's meager one championship. But, like you said, records and facts can't sway another's opinion when it comes to college football. The Aubies will still love their team, because that is indeed what dedicated fans do:

WOW!!! An Ohio State fan calling an undefeated team from arguably the toughest conference overrated? What next - is Penn State underrated?

Ha ha ha. Classic

So does anybody know if we can watch the Big 10 or SEC football at deployed locations in SW Asia?

Not sure if I should start a new thread, but along these lines, does anyone know what the availability of watching football is like at the Deid? Last time I was there I never hooked up a TV in my room, so I don't know what channels they have with the basic cable connections in the rooms. Does the game room place there have major sports channels for the big games or anything like that? Thanks.

Does anyone know who runs sinodefence? Their site says it is an independent organization out of the UK, but how do we know it is not really run by "those Chinese sons of bitches?" I say this because - and this is slightly off topic - a lot of news agencies and web sites are owned by a small handful of powerful companies or organizations. I look at every source of information (especially on the Internet) with a very skeptical eye until it is proven trustworthy. If anyone gets a chance to read any of Lou Dobbs' books, he brings up some interesting thoughts (although I disagree with him on many issues). In his War on the Middle Class he talks about how virtually every newspaper, movie studio, and cable TV station is owned by one of eight major media companies - which I did now know. For example, Viacom/CBS (which allegedly separated into two companies again but still have the same chairman who owns 70% of each) owns MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Country Music TV, Spike, TV Land, BET, Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, CBS TV Network, CBS Radio, Kind World, Simon & Schuster, Showtime, Paramount Parks, and many others. General Electric owns NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemunto, USA, Bravo, Sci Fi, A&E, History Channel, Sundance channel, Paxson Communications (63 TV stations), 29 Viventi Universal TV stations. NY Times Corp owns the Times (of course), the Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, sixteen other newspapers, eight TV stations, two radio stations, 40 websites, Discovery Channel, and the Boston Red Sox. Anyway, I digress.

Yup. Back when men were men and planes were planes.

Thread revival and question. Anyone know if there are any issues with being on flying status and getting a new tattoo. Specifically, does it require any DNIF time or will it have any affect on deploying until certain number of weeks after getting one?