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I love how that guy gets a paid 3 year stint to get a PhD under the CSAF program only to be dropped back into a random ops squadron to be an ADO 😂 Making real good use of all that schooling there bud! Hell, it don’t take a PhD to do that job, ask me how I know… I’m sure it’s to groom him to take command and become a general one day blah blah blah but like, why do we have these intensive education programs only to give the guy literally the exact same assignment as any random center-of-mass FGO can/will get at some point? Seems like kind of a waste of time & money to me. Do we sent guys to TPS with an immediate follow on assignment handing out gym towels at the Deid?

He yadda yadda yadda'd the best part of your career! Well, at least one of the best parts of my career maybe...

I still remember (then) Colonel B, the high-calorie human pictured above, coming to an undisclosed location where I was deployed with a retinue of minions. In our TOC there was a plywood box room intel normally used that had our high-side computers. He commandeered the room for the duration of his stay (sorry intel bubbas!) and one of his lackies put a sign on the door saying, "Do Not Touch Col. B's Giant Computer!" We all were ROTFL because yea, I mean he's a real big guy, maybe he does need a "giant" computer 😆

Other than on...certain websites...I never like to see people getting f*cked. That being said, FOMOing into investments and getting burned is basically Adam Smith's invisible hand pimp-slapping people for being dumb. IMHO boring investments and ones you really, really understand win every time. Index funds. Rental real estate where you know the area. Businesses where you have specific domain expertise or unique value over potential competitors. YOLOing into STRs, crypto, NFTs, laundromats, "creator class" revenue streams (onlyfans, selling courses, whatever) will almost never work out for most people.

To me he was like Emperor Palpatine. It's not that he wasn't smart, capable, committed, etc. It's just the small problem that he was evil 😂

"Stop being a fucking dinosaur and get a job" is both all-time good and also all-time bad life advice. Freaking love that movie. Ok so it's decided, I'll tell my baby girl to keep being Cookie Monster as long as she wants ❤️

Agreed. Between just my two kids one wants to be a clinical psychologist and the other wants to be Cookie Monster, so I think the future is bright. The future shrink is in middle school and is well on the way to achieving her dreams, while the Cookie Monster one is only 14 months old, so she's got time to trim her sails into something a bit less glamorous and wildly successful. 😆

Literally every 5-10 years there's a prediction that when the younger generation takes over, it's all over, the country's going to hell in a handbasket, etc. We're gonna be just fine. Old men will always yell at clouds and the world will continue to turn. As an example...

I mean there is a very drawn out, multi-level reviewed process for how VA disability claims are adjudicated. The fact that a system can be scammed by some small % of people doesn't mean the system is bad, I challenge you to find any large system with zero waste or scamability. I do shake my head at veterans who openly try to maximize their VA disability for BS reasons, but at the same time it's not up to me to judge, even as a taxpayer. If their disability is found to be legit by the process that I consider pretty thorough (I have a disability % myself), then ok, I will not ever have access to all the details on someone else. That's completely beside the point. Straight from the VA website, "VA disability compensation provides monthly benefits to Veterans in recognition of the effects of disabilities, diseases, or injuries incurred or aggravated during active military service." If you are affected by a disability, disease, or injury that happened while active military service, you may be eligible for VA disability compensation. The fact that many of those disabilities, diseases and injuries happen to the civilian population during the course of their working careers is irrelevant - VA disability is setup to pay veterans for these things if/when they happen. Example: one of my best friends laid down his crotch rocket and broke his collarbone while on active duty. Got 10% for that due to arm mobility limitations afterward. Is riding a crotch rocket on a Friday night and hitting a bit of gravel something that's super unique to military service? Absolutely not. But he was injured while serving on active duty; the compensation is appropriate. Sucks for the civilians who suffer similar injuries, the recruiter's chair is always open. Military service confers all kinds of unique benefits while also sometimes asking for very unique sacrifices. Honestly understanding the intent of the system, think of VA disability as a piece of delayed compensation not unlike your pension, which is highly unique compared to the 98.69% of the civilian sector of today. Bottom line on bottom: don't claim shit that's not true, be able to look yourself in the mirror, but understand the intent of the VA disability system and don't leave money on the table that you should be getting.

I can see the confusion haha. Inside AFSOC there were two wolves… The evil one got promoted and the good one retired for everyone keeping score at home.

I can see the points I got for ACSC even though I did it over the course of two years when I had 365 MPA. The points are there under "total points" but not "retire points" so IDK exactly how it shakes out once I retire. I'm hoping to get 20 TAFMS so we'll see, hopefully I'll get a few bonus dollars added to that check-of-the-month.

It’s great man! Fantastic place to live and to visit. I’m staying busy, full-time line IP, not a bad gig. Technically bumming but on several back-to-back 365s which I refer to “the franchise tag” haha. Hope I don’t blow my ACL and the GM has to cut me 😅 Whatcha been up to lately?

Agree with above. If there had been a real playoff for a few years at least, the need to jump to a bigger super conference wouldn't be necessary. Although money was the #1 factor as you said, the long odds of a "lesser" conference standout actually winning the national championship always seemed like BS to me - you should get to play for the trophy. Being undefeated in the schedule you were handed and then going to the Tire Bowl or whatever is just wrong. I'm just happy with the PAC 12 now dead that my University of Utah showed out. Members of the conference for only 11 years, 4x championship game trips, 2x Pac 12 championships, back-to-back, reigning champs and last champs before the lights went out. Good luck in the Big 12! (or 16? we really gotta drop numbers from these conference names...)

I'll reiterate that I'm not gonna respond to political stuff anymore. There is no need to @ me. I've always been a mainstream liberal democrat, a Kerry-Obama-Obama-Clinton-Biden voter, and probably always will be. If in the future you have questions like, "What would nsplayr think about XX?" you can look at what the mainstream Dems are saying and that's probably close enough for government work. If you really want to know my political opinions, feel free to reach out and we can hang out in person if you ever visit Nashville or if I'm TDY to wherever you are. I've wasted enough time & energy debating here for 15+ years. For where I'm at in life now, the juice ain't worth the squeeze. It probably never was. Being a keyboard warrior is a terrible hobby that I don't recommend anyone partake in, and I've officially given it up after a long and illustrious career. I'll probably still comment sometimes on AF-related stuff and my DMs are always open to help out homies who wanna know more about Draco, the Guard, L3 Harris, the MQ-9, Nashville, etc. I've learned a lot about the Air Force, have gotten good advice from older dudes, and have enjoyed all the RUMINT since joining BO.net as a baby 2dLt...I'm still happy to pay it forward to the next guys for whatever my $0.02 are worth.

It’s stuff like this…why would I want to talk to a person like this? Few of you would either if this kind of assumption was directed at you, having made no comment at all. And maybe you feel that way about me based on stuff I’ve said in the past. Ok, cool, the feeling is mutual. Y’all can feel free to stop @ing me and move on with life. ✌️

Very few here ever give anything valuable back in terms of debate. It’s frankly not worth it anymore for me. If fellow military aviators (who happen to be liberal) aren’t sufficiently “humanized” for you, nothing I can say here will help. I have a great mutual understanding with all the conservatives I know in real life - some friends, some family, some squadron homies. I do enjoy debating & talking with those people, have learned some good stuff, and have changed some previously held views over time. Same with friends who are fellow liberals and people everywhere in between. I can’t say the same overall for folks here, and at this point, like I’ve alluded to previously, I’m just gonna stick to AF related stuff for the most part. 15 years of political sparing is a good run. I won’t be be perfect though…everyone is a little bit of a crackhead about something in life 😉

Yea well…that guy sucks, as we all know! I am astounded how he’s continued to fail up so very, very high.

Happy Independence Day! Integration is our superpower here in the US and if we could figure out a way to export it to Europe, we should do it. 🇺🇸

Bros, user @congressman last visit to the site was March 15, 2022. He ain't here and he ain't likely coming back. Recommend close thread & migrate typical political bashing to the main event in "The Next President..."

I feel like you’re maybe jumping to conclusions…moot!

8 months later…”Yea, well I had sex with your wife!”

After some light googling it appears that Jean-Paul Marat was born in Switzerland, so there ya go 😂 I’d also give Napoleon half-credit for being from Corsica rather than the French mainland. But yea, most Frenchman throughout history have been French, solid observation. Not a book recommendation, but the Revolutions podcast by Mike Duncan is fantastic, I highly recommend it. Season 3 is the French Revolution and it’s 55 episodes. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/revolutions/id703889772

The French are gonna French. Shit, they’re on their fifth republic among other forms of government in between. Protesting and occasionally guillotining everyone is basically a quaint national pastime if you can A) enjoy the show from the outside and B) ensure you don’t have an infantry square marching toward your capital. When people in the US talk about how bad civil unrest is or gets here, I always encourage them to read even one (1) book.

Sure, what I’m saying is this wasn’t “a story” like hey we landed on the moon, every local channel is gonna carry that news and they can use this pre-packaged script and shots and etc. for simplicity’s sake. It was a specific, forced message from their corporate bosses. I just wanted to be clear about what those videos were. It’s not a coincidence or a convenience.

Not quite, it was a forced read of a script distributed by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns many local stations. Sinclair has a well known conservative slant in terms of what they prioritize covering, which is not bad per se, but thats not always what folks expect from their super-local news team on the bunny ears stations. Sinclair compelled the local versions news teams to read this exact script, which might sound decently normal if you just hear it on your local station once, but gets creepier when you know dozens and dozens of stations all were forced to broadcast the exact same bit by their corporate bosses. Your views of what they actually said in the piece may vary. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/business/media/sinclair-news-anchors-script.html