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Got my 2nd suppressor today - 6 months. A lot better than the first one that took 13 months!

One of the best days of my life would be if SCOTUS shut down the NFA - one of the single dumbest (and unconstitutional) pieces of legislation ever made.

I prefer Tally Ho

I’ve told 3/4 stars a few times a COA was bad, why it was bad, and what COA should be executed and why. I’m about 50/50 success rate. The one thing I did note across all of those interactions is the GO was genuinely interested in my thoughts and appreciated my effort whether they went my direction or not. The O-6 level was pissed I would dare to speak. It made me realize how much good things are filtered away from GOs at the O-6 level and replaced with yes man bullshit.

And that’s exactly why you should be the new ATF director! You’d be the Ron swanson at the federal level

Completely valid!

What a giant douche and shitty CC. This clown has no idea what he’s doing, probably been that way his entire useless career. I’ll be drinking at work and wearing a colored morale shirt just for him.

Guard has a $30k/1 yr option, which is awesome.

@ClearedHot I wish I could meet your dad over a bottle of scotch…bet he has some badass stories!

I remember wearing blues one Monday when it first started because “they” took a hard stand on not on schedule = blues. Walked into squadron to immediately be told by the DO I was flying because another guy was sick. Too bad my flightsuit was at home. We took off about 45 min late and the policy changed that day - no more pilots wore blues at our base. It was a great “we told you so” moment to upper management (disclaimer: this was in my AD days, but that should probably go without saying).

Last time I wore blues was for the O-5 interview, still had Capt rank on them from SOS, and my shoe soles literally disintegrated as I walked out the door. Electrical taped them together and pressed - I don’t think anyone noticed!

I think I’ve worn service dress twice outside of SOS, and maybe a couple times there…in my entire career post UPT. And now AD is doing open ranks inspections, WTF is going on here!

I bet every single one of them thought they’d be in some European posting out of movie, but instead they all get assigned a complete shithole surrounded by a bunch of dudes. Suckers!

Have to hand it to the three letters, they do hire some exceptional talent.

The old adage of don’t put yourself in a position that requires superior flying skills to get out of applies - I’m confident leadership will fuck it away and put the bros in a square corner, but I'm also confident the bros will excel and make it happen in spite of the asshatery that got them in a shitty starting position.

Totally worth it!

This. For you younger guys unfortunate enough to have dickless leadership, look up scarf wear in the AFI. I’m not joking. At least 10 years ago on AD when we fought the same shit, there was no specific guidance on HOW you had to wear a scarf (other than a portion tucked into the flightsuit) or what it looked like (color, logos, etc). Walk into finance with it tied up like an ascot with your Friday patch prominently displayed across your throat area, go for it. I’ve never seen so many shoe clerks have aneurisms - and the LPA provided little cards with the AFI quote you could hand to a chief and tell him to read in front of you. All in all, it turned out to be one of the best “fuck you” to the man campaigns I’ve seen play out.

The very few who are like that are quickly discovered and forced out or forced down a path of irrelevance where they can’t “do harm” to the agenda. A GO who doesn’t suck and stands up to the bullshit is not survivable in our bullshit system.

No one will be punished. And even worse is millions of Americans will be just as retarded and lacking all critical thought during the next “crisis.” Nobody who should learn from this disaster will actually learn anything.

All of them? That’s the only acceptable answer.

@jonlbs I don’t doubt your experience in ROTC. Pawnman’s ROTC example of a couple pilots talking to cadets and rated desire skyrockets is important - turns out telling a few stories and dispelling WOMs does actually make a noticeable impact in someone’s desire to serve/fly, even in present day. There are thousands of 20 something’s clamoring to be pilots every year. So while I certainly understand your perspective and its validity, it would also be invalid to claim that’s just how all kids are these days and no talking about one’s mil service will change their minds. Also keep in mind this whole runaround seems premised off this idea that guys are lecturing a captive audience. 99% of the time it’s a kid asking questions and you just answering. Very different than what it seems Joe is trying to accuse people of. I’m still confused how being asked about serving in the mil and answering positively, using real examples to support what you’re saying, is a bad thing.

I understand to an extent what you’re saying. It was a garbage long term plan, and honestly whether we left 10 years ago or 5 years from now, what does it change because essentially we’d have to stay forever to continue stopping threats that originate from that region of the world. But that all said, we accomplished a lot, it’s just a lot that you don’t know about. There are 10s of thousands of people alive today in the western world because of actions in that region. Sorry it was never printed in a newspaper, talked about in WH press briefing and everyone involved went home not talking about it. Lots of frustration on all of our parts with how all the admins handled the last 20+ years, but even with the steaming pile of shit we all got shoved into, there were positive things that came out of it, that’s a fact. That is not a statement in support of how the whole thing was managed or how long we were there.

You’re pissing words into the wind, WTF are you rambling about? It’s weird how annoyed you are that someone would speak positively to kids about the military. kid: “what’s it like to be a pilot in the AF” joe: “I can’t tell you kid because I have no idea what it’ll be like in 10 years.“ kid: “uh ok, well can you tell me about your experience. Are jets XYZ, have you ever XYZ, what’s it like to XYZ” Joe: “I told you, I can’t see the future and only you know you. So go fuck off so I can sit here and drink my cranberry juice in peace.” God I hope you’ve never been the guy standing at an air show static.

I don’t know if it’s better, nor did I say that. But I don’t think it’s a bad career option, idea, desire, etc. I can name all kinds of things I think we’ve become dumber with, but again, that does not make the positive things cease to exist. I’ll continue to be mostly positive to young people when they ask, as I’ve seen just about every major corner of operational and below a fighter guy can see and overall it was a great experience that I’ll always be grateful for having. I guess I just didn’t have a shitty experience like some guys on here.

What are you talking about, I can easily name lots of solid, positive things and tell positive stories. I don’t try to convince anyone, I just paint the most honest picture I can for those that ask. I shit on the AF all the time and am ecstatic to be mostly into phase 2 of life. But I’m also honest and not going to just rant negatively while pretending I didn’t have a lot of positive experiences along the way. You’re arguing there is no positive picture to be painted and everything is shit. Must be miserable going through life as such a negative person. Bottom line, I will always speak generally positive about the mil experience because that’s what it was. I will also be happy to talk about all the bullshit and things that piss me off. I’m glad I did it and I’m glad I’m on my way out…two things can be true at the same time, but for some people here I think all they think about is their last 5 years and completely ignore the first 15 (or however long it was fun for them personally before they became jaded and disgruntled).