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Fuck me dead do not speak this into existence. About to start an attached flyer staff tour and I swear to Jesus if I have to wear blues everyday I don’t fly I will kick a puppy. I will also fly for 30 mins every single day, sim or combat line 😁 Perks of RPA… Seriously though, what about changing people’s daily uniform makes them more lethal, more ready, better leaders, or better stewards of our limited resources? Which ALQ encompasses dumbfuckery uniform Chiefing, sock measuring, shaving waiver inspection and duck walking so I can give some of our leaders who support this high marks?? I wanna defeat & deter aggression from our geopolitical adversaries - any focus away from that toward excessive bellybutton gazing is misguided.

Ringing in 2025 like...

This. My best unpopular opinion is that we should pay our elected leaders significantly more; it would cut down on corruption and also attract better folks to those positions. Right now you either have to be independently wealthy, a real political zealot, or corrupt (or any combination of those!) to run for office. I, a dickhead O4 in the Guard, make more than the two United States Senators from my state, how wild is that? Top it off with the fact that I don't have to talk to reporters, maintain a household in my state + live part-time in DC, get a load of shit on social media (I do that part for free! 😇), etc. These people are making extremely important, impactful decisions for our country and we have not set up this system well for them. It's then no surprise why so few "normal," down to earth folks are in elected office - the pros/cons just do not work out in favor of going down that path unless you fit any or multiple of my three criteria above. Edit to add: same story re: cops & also teachers (to cross-post from another thread). Low comp + tough environment = shitty people and/or "true believer" / martyers. The good ones get burned out and leave, the bad ones stay, some good ones who stay are fighting uphill in the snow both ways. This is America and money talks...you wanna pay $60K for a super full-time gig wrangling feral children or the dregs of society out there tweaking on drugs? Sane people say no and become project managers for construction companies or sell insurance or fly airplanes instead.

Protip of the year: don't join the Army kids!

They're blue, just like our beloved Falcon 💙

It's almost like we should end our extensive, poorly-functioning drug testing regime and actually just focus on the relatively few people who are causing problems with their substance abuse (drugs & also alcohol) rather than regularly collecting gallons of piss from > 35 year old career officers & NCOs... Just don't ask about the 3x Zyns I have shoved up my butthole so I don't fall asleep on another Mids shift 😇

Update: Ho Lee Fuk, the matrix is broken man. So now that the calculator is up my home zip code (where you get BAH for as a DSG guardsman) up $399 from 2024 🥳 BAH now pays literally $600 more where I live (suburb of a bigger city, and not even the nicest one) compared to the city itself where my base is located. Having lived in both places, housing is absolutely cheaper where I am now. My home zip also changed MHA codes from last year to this year 🤷‍♂️ I would love to see the formula here because it is extremely whack…bank error in my favor I guess! I reiterate that champagne and pizza will be available for all the homies.

The calculator isn't updated yet but the PDF is out. Up $114 let's goooooo. Champagne and pizza for all my homies.2025 BAH Rates.pdf

I've owned three different EVs and they've all been great. A VW ID.4 that is my wife's vehicle, I owned a Tesla Model 3 RWD for about 10 months, and now own a 2023 Launch Edition quad-motor Rivian R1S. Very few issues with any of them (most serious was on the VW; covered by warranty). If you want a commuter car it's hard to beat a Model 3 IMHO. The range estimator in the Model 3 and my R1S have, for me, always been nuts-on accurate when you use the in-dash nav to go somewhere both in the winter and the summer. The R1T is a fantastic truck and if you need a truck, and I would recommend either that or the F-150 Lightning. You can get a Lightning Flash or Lariat for under $60K now with the deals many dealers are running - that's an amazing value for what you're getting. The R1T is also great and would have been my choice if I needed a truck rather than a three-row people hauler. I've driven my EVs halfway across the country, in snow & ice and in > 100 degree WX, etc. If you can A) plan ahead more than the average idiot on the street, and B) charge at home, they're fantastic vehicles. An order of magnitude cheaper to operate cost-per-mile than most ICE vehicles and a lot of fun...my R1S does 0-60 in 3.0 seconds with my entire extended family of 6 on board 😁 That same vehicle costs $0.05 per mile in fuel, and that's in a big-ass 835hp brick-shaped SUV. The Model 3 would be about half that price because it's about twice as efficient compared to the big Rivian, so $0.025 per mile in fuel...you're not gonna beat that in any ICE vehicle, let alone something in the same class of performance.

The sooner you understand that the Department of Defense is *the* biggest, fastest, most efficient way to spend taxpayer money, and that that's the purpose, the sooner it all makes a bit of sense 😄 Only sorta kidding... If there's a more expensive, more jobs-intensive way to have an effect on the battlefield, gosh darn it we owe it to the U.S. taxpayer to do it that way. Ask yourself this, how can I expend more of my SCL on this operation? Couldn't this CONOP call for more versions/personnel/fuel/airplanes in the stack? Anytime you try to make a DoD mission more cost-effective you're doing it exactly backwards. "Giving" weapons to Ukraine/Israel/Saudi/whomever-the-fuck = middle-class manufacturing jobs in 50 unique states + territories.

Iran ain’t sending their best here…😄 Personally I think it was too round, needs to be pointy.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-air-force-academy-cadet-avery-koonce-death/story?id=113468548 Terrible news at the AFA, RIP to the cadet. Is it bad that my first thought was, “Please god let this finally end Fat Tony’s miserable career…” ?

RIP to Matt, if y'all can, please donate to help his family out. Luckily I just saw that the Special Operations Warrior Foundation will be taking are of all of his kids' educational expenses from here on out. SOWF is one of my absolute favorite charities to donate to and support, and I encourage you to do that too if you can.

You old retired fucks are just haters, no worries 😎 I landed one plane downrange, took off another one, drove home & now I tucked in my kids and am watching NBA on my couch. If I’m lucky the airplane I took off will be minus a couple of hellfires when I go back in and land it tomorrow 🇺🇸 All title 10 orders, no deployments, no PCSing, part of a great squadron. Life is good. Hit me up if any of you poor bastards on active duty want to rush the unit, we happily accept bottles of whiskey and cases of beer every drill weekend from pilots looking to be a part of one of the best deals out there.