pawnman

What a fucking troll.

Planning to opt out when the military does make it mandatory?

It's not 100%, so sure, you MAY get it. But you reduce the odds by 90%+. What makes you think the vaccine makes you less able to respond to other diseases?

If your seatbelt and airbag work, why do you care if other drivers disregard traffic laws? Again...not 100% effective, and the bigger the reservoir, the more chance for mutation. Like the Delta varient sweeping through India. Not to mention, there's always some portion of the population that can't get a vaccine. Immune compromised, too young, allergic to an ingredient, etc.

Others are getting the vaccine. 151 million Americans are fully vaccinated, with another 20 million having had at least one dose. But that still leaves ~180 million unvaccinated people for the virus to jump to. Vaccines aren't 100% effective, but if enough people have 90% immunity, the virus dies out. Wild to me that we are relearning the same fucking lesson we learned with polio and measles, but here we are. As for the mask mandate - if you blatantly lie to my face about following a direct order you've been given, and then think I'm the bad guy for enforcing the order...then I don't want you in my Air Force, period. What else will you lie about? Violating a TO? Breaking FAA regulation? Covering up for illegal activity on the side? If you can't do something as fucking simple and painless as wear a mask in accordance with what the highest leaders in the service have mandated, I can't trust you to do anything that takes more effort or sacrifice.

That's your risk. But you also put others at risk if you pass on the infection. Like saying "my odds of dying in a car accident are less than one percent, so I can do 70 in a 35 and I'll probably be fine". You aren't the only person affected by your actions. Hard to imagine we've gone from a nation that stormed Normandy to one that won't get a shot.

You know how your immune system reacts to a virus, but there's a spool up time? Your body also reacts to vaccines, in a more mild fashion, in a way that reduces the spool up time. Think of it this way. In Afghanistan, someone shoots at guys on the ground, and it takes time to PID, get coords, program a weapon, etc. But it you know where Bin Laden is hiding, with a picture of the guy, already know what's in the building...you can react much more quickly. Vaccines are like an Intel shop for your immune system, priming it to react to threats before they enter the body.

You can make that argument. But it shows a complete misunderstanding of how vaccines and the immune system work.

I did get the vaccine. But if you ever want the pandemic to end, you need to shrink the reservoir where the virus can reside.

Interesting take from someone in a profession that literally exists to take risks so the public doesn't have to.

The point of mass vaccinations is reducing potential vectors for the virus. The students may not be at risk, but their professors, administrators, maintenance folks, and janitors are. "Making hearts explode"...pretty sure more students are at risk from alcohol poisoning or high cholesterol than they are from the vaccine. For a bunch of folks preaching about the 99% survival rate for Covid-19, you don't seem capable of grasping the 99.9999% chance of zero side effects from the vaccine. The masks have been shown to reduce spread not because they filter the virus from you breathing in, but because it catches the moisture when you exhale, limiting the amount of virus put into the air and reducing the distance it travels when exhaled. Question to those who won't get the vaccine because it's 'emergency use'...do you plan to get it once it is "fully authorized", which is anticipated later this year? Is that truly your only hang-up...approval from a government agency? Or will you have a new objection once it is fully authorized?

A big part of it is getting told how valuable you are, how necessary to the force, how you are vital to national defense...then getting passed over. The passing over shows you what the Air Force values, and it's not whatever you've been doing for the last 15+ years. So if you've even a little on the fence, it's an added incentive to join an organization that DOES value what you do, and shows it through your pay and seniority numbers (the airlines) instead of staying in an organization that claims to value you but acts as if it does not. The extra pay is nice, though. For me, due to my ADSC for the bonus, it'll translate into an extra ~$800/month in retirement, or just shy of ~$10K a year, vs retiring as a major.

Good Lord...seems like this is going exactly the opposite direction that the Air Force is advertising with "year group agnostic" promotions.

Are they planning to release the stats broken down by the actual categories? LAF - A (Air Ops and Special Warfare) LAF - C (Combat Support) LAF - F (Force Modernization) LAF - I (Information Warfare) LAF - N (Nuclear and Missile Ops) LAF - S (Space Operations...or is this going away with the Space Force?) I continue to be shocked and dismayed by folks who bust their ass, get a DP, and then get passed over. At that point...why bother even giving the senior rater DPs to hand out? Just send all the records. No point in the PRF if the board isn't going to listen.

The CSO score. Nav is the old term.

Jesus, bro...your strats are better than mine when I got picked up 1 APZ. If you're ever in my area, drinks are on me.

I don't see it getting approved, but in the unlikely event it works out, pretty sure you owe back whatever part of that bonus you haven't "earned" through the service commitment. Including taxes.

My point was that there's more to JASSM planning than "just click the button". The argument put forth was that cargo crews wouldn't require any additional training to dump a pallet of JASSM out the back of the aircraft. I don't think that's true. We have a five-page thread on how the AMC folks already aren't getting the training to do their primary jobs in a high-threat environment. And now you want to put another mission set on them. One that, as someone who has spent a lot of time training to JASSM, is very time and energy intensive to train to.

In that case, the current economic recovery is due to Trump, right?

It's a good thing JASSM shooters don't have to worry about LARs, timing, shot containers, spacing between shots, retargeting in flight...just push the pickle button and the weapon does the rest. 🙄

So...things that Trump did, but Biden gets credit for? Aside from the Paris Accords, I suppose.

She hasn't even been to the border. Her defense is "I haven't been to Europe either". Did we put her in charge of something in Europe? As for Biden, I got a kick out of the gift exchange. Biden brought Boris Johnson a $6,000 custom made bicycle. Johnson got Biden a framed picture of Frederick Douglass he printed from Wikipedia. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-gifts-boris-johnson-6k-bike-johnson-gives-photo-printed-wikipedia-1599965

Tested in different environments. And all three were 100% effective at preventing hospitalizations.

Agree with 95% of this. But my issue with military Mental Health providers is that I don't really trust them. Just like I don't really trust the flight doc when I fill out my PHA questionnaire and get to the drinking question. I can look up the disqualifying conditions, but I don't trust some yahoo at Mental Health to tell the difference between stress because of my 15-year-old learning to drive and generalized anxiety disorder.

Sorry for your loss. He sounds like quite a guy. 🍺