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Unfortunately, no other than the failed UEI has several layers. In general if you fail are offered a SAV and decline there is very little wiggle room when the command shows up for a UEI and you have multiple people actively flying airplanes when they are non-current, along with a host of other issues.

Multiple sources have told me otherwise.

Wing CoC is next week and the outgoing Wing/CC is a BG Select...we all know AFSOC won't easily sacrifice a star. That being said, fail a UEI when you have not asked for a SAV is a big fail.

IYKYK

Anyone tried the New Sig P365 X Macro? 18 rounds in the same size and form factor as my Hellcat.

I would not advocate for tearing down the entirety of the FBI but we certainly need to clean house on some corrupt leadership. My guess is the VAST majority of the FBI is comprised of great Americans trying to serve their country with pride and integrity. I've served, deployed and fought with many of them and would do so again today. Unfortunately, like any organization, there are few bad apples that have such severe hatred for one side of the political aisle, they will willingly cross legal and ethical lines in order to protect one party and ultimately influence an election (or two). The corruption seems centered at a few leadership levels and is empowered by similar thinking and corrupt people at the DOJ, that is the part of the system that needs to be purged. This rot goes far beyond the leadership of the FBI - The New York Post is reporting that an IRS Whistleblower has told Congress that at the the IRS has removed the "entire investigative team" from its multi-year tax fraud investigation of Hunter Biden and is claiming the move was "clearly retaliatory," according to a Monday report. "He was informed the change was at the request of the Department of Justice," according to attorneys Mark Lytle and Tristan Leavitt. Break Break... IMHO the most striking information to come out of the Durham report is that fact that Biden AND Obama were briefed on Hillary and that fact that the dossier was indeed fake. In other words, the system knew in 2016 but they pressed forward as if it was real for political gain.

No surprise here but it is now official, the FBI is broken and corrupt as the Special Counsel John Durham has released his report to the Director of the FBI, the Attorney General and Congress. It is a sad day for our country as an arm of the government placed its finger on the scales based on political hate. Special Counsel John Durham found that the Department of Justice and FBI "failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law" when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation. "Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we conclude that the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report," "This information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation," the report states. "In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump's political opponents." "FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – both then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probable cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of a foreign power, or knowingly helping another person in such activities," the report continued. "And certain personnel disregarded significant exculpatory information that should have prompted investigative restraint and re-examination."

Russian Soldier surrenders to Ukrainian drone while Russian forces shoot at him.

I am guessing you have not followed much of this conflict and you are most certainly approaching this from your vantage point as an American with a mostly free and open press. Most of the Russian soldiers were told they were going on an exercise, they didn't know it was combat until they were across the line. Even now Russian Propaganda has shaped their population to believe Ukraine is the aggressor. When it comes to atrocities, there is obviously no excuse but a large majority of Russian soldiers are uneducated and uniformed conscripts. You might watch Enemy at the Gates to see just how horrific the Russian way of war is and how motherland soldiers are treated like fodder. Take your gun and walk that way, hesitate for a second and you get shot in the back of the head.

If you think they had a choice, you don't know much about Russia or Putin.

War is horrific...simply horrific. I remember my first few missions and the metric of success was always the number. We count everything, crap many of us growing up who dreamed of flying wanted to be an Ace because we thought that was the top of the glorified pyramid. In time and as I flew more missions and my "number" became stupidly high...(on one misisons I killed 32 men in 8 minutes)...I had to stop counting. Yes they were evil people who deserved to die but it was still someone's brother, father, son, cousin...and I didn't want to surrender my humanity in the process. I PRAY my son never has to see the horror of war. While I cheer the Ukrainians it is not lost on me that the ones dying are not that ones that caused this horror. Yes the Russian troops are committing atrocities but this is not a simple good vs bad situation and a lot of young men and women (and innocents), are dying because of a diabolical human in Moscow. I hope Ukraine kicks the snot out of the Russians and they flee back to Russia and I hope it all ends right there. At the end of the day we all do our duty, and I did it very well, but we don't have the celebrate the carnage

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced today that the president has made the following nominations: Air Force Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach for appointment to the grade of general, with assignment as commander, Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Wilsbach is currently serving as commander, Pacific Air Forces; and air component commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

I don't know that these numbers rectify with what the staffers were saying. I think they were expressing the number who had contacted their Congressman and Senators expressing interest in the service academies was down 70%. I think these numbers show those that actually applied. They also mentioned that number was geographically oriented with the largest decline in the south which is where the majority of service members come from (40%).

A whistleblower alleges DOJ and the FBI have an unclassified document that describes a criminal scheme between Joe Biden WHEN HE WAS THE SITTING VICE PRESIDENT and a foreign national. FOXNEWS, NY Post and the National Review are the only ones reporting on it so far (shocking I know). "The document, an FBI-generated FD-1023 form, allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions." A question for our liberal friends on the forum, given the anal probe the FBI, the House and the main stream media gave Trump over the dossier, don't you think this should at least be investigated and reported on?

Exactly...and there is still the perception. A lot of damage was done.

To help fix the retention problem we lowered our standards...so we got that going for us. According to three separate professional staffers I recently spoke with, applicants to U.S. service academies are down 70% with the vaccine requirement and DEI being cited as the number 1 and 2 issues.

What a complete Douche...turns his back on his own grandchild.

Better than a jumpsuit, handcuffs and a hood.