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3 minutes ago, BashiChuni said:
a few months? hope doesn't pay the bills.
UPT won't solve all your problems and your quality of life might not be the best. (12 hour days, lots of TDYs post UPT, deployments etc) job is good, but i'm concerned you've built it up so much in your mind that it'll disappoint.
don't get me wrong it's a great career path. unsolicited advice: i'd keep your well paying engineering job until you have something concrete lined up. 2020 isn't the year to be hoping to find a random job to pay bills before UPT.
have you started your PPL? maybe that can keep you fired up until the air force comes calling.
2 solid, actionable suggestions
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8 hours ago, Prozac said:
I believe the feeling is mutual on the other side. So the question becomes: How do we bring politics back to something approximating the center in this country? I’m not sure as many political issues seem nearly insurmountable at present. Term limits and campaign finance reform would be a start, but those issues are a third rail for career politicians with too much to loose. I think the fact that you make the distinction between political actors and normal everyday folk is an important step that many, many keyboard warriors should consider.
For the good of the country we don't want it in the center of where it currently is. For the past 20 years plus Democrats and Republicans have both moved entirely left. We need democrats to be liberals and not leftist and republicans to be conservatives and not liberals. There have always been and will always be those on the extreme fringes (both right and left) but currently those voices seem to have more say in matters than the reasoned thoughtful people on both sides of the aisle.
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Added to the points above, you would be fighting an enemy (communist china) that cares even less about its people/troops than our country does. When you have no concern for your people, it's easy to send them en masse to their deaths.
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I thought one of the current members of the BNA Air Guard unit might post this but my hometown unit lost three of their members last week.Information from a couple of unit members, it sounds like they were well liked and respected. Sad news for Nashville and the 118th. They used to fly 130s but are now a RPA/drone operation.
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"I don't challenge her intelligence. I don't challenge her vision and her direction she wants to take the wing," one person testified. "... Col. Grant has definitely made this wing a better place in terms of its warfighting capability for the joint command downrange. However, [her] leadership style has limited her ability to take the wing to where it could have been."
So is this posted because of the pissing and moaning of subordinates or her leadership style? They became better at their primary mission even if some feelings got hurt. I know I'm old, but that was standard ops back 30 years ago. I acknowledge that people don't have to be dicks to get the job done and there is a middle ground on holding idiots accountable and/or being a total prick vs. helping people achieve and excel through encouragement and mentorship.
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That was an awesome TDY to Homestead though. Parasailing into Biscayne Bay and getting retrieved by the helo was a blast. One of the best training TDYs ever!
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I haven't seen this one posted here (at least couldn't find it). Forgive me if I missed a previous post about it. Claims a ceiling at arou nd 50K feet.
Their claims:
-Up to 3 times more electrical power generating capability
-Unmatched payload
-Fastest cruise speed
-Inflight refueling
-360deg AESA RADAR
-Network Centric
-SWARM Capable
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/9th-circuit-ends-california-ban-172126816.html
I never thought I would see this kind of decision from the 9th Circuit.
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https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-excited-to-find-out-who-he-picked-for-vp
I saw this "article" but a different meme I saw made me laugh.
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Good stuff. I didn't expect to sit and listen to the whole interview when I saw it was over an hour long, but I did and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was starting UPT at Willie about the time Huggy was starting at Del Rio (I was 86-08 and since he started in June I'm assuming Huggy was 86-07). It was interesting to hear his story and to steal a famous line, I'm looking forward to "the rest of the story". Steve, thanks for doing the work to capture and record the stories you preserve and to you Huggy for sharing your experiences.
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No shame in knowing you'd rather not serve in the military if stuck with drones (my feelings exactly if they had been around when I went through), but I wouldn't necessarily say it out loud. Just stress your desire to fly military "fast" jets and stick with Guard/Reserves.
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22 minutes ago, Blue said:
Not so much a defeatist. I'd say it's better described as cynicism, brought on by seeing all of the previous "attempts" to fix acquisition.
Stract, can you give some examples of things Roper has done to make things better (honest question - not trying to be a smartass)? I've googled around, but didn't see anything concrete.
I saw his bio as well. Props to him for rising to that position at just 41 years old, but his resume seems light for the caliber of the position.
Def not "light" on education (GA Tech BS and MS in Physics and PhD in Math) but perhaps a little light on advanced responsibility work experience. But, any ad hoc/think tank type experience gives you great visibility and has varying degrees of responsibility attached to them. He must have excelled where he was planted.
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14 hours ago, Steve Davies said:
None of the guys in that video is Scottish. Do you mean Paddy (the tall one?). He has a Lancashire accent.
Steve yeah, I meant the tall one. My bad (not sure whether to apologize to the Scots or to the gentleman from Lancashire). It's been a while since I lived in Scotland (1994-5) but in my memory, he sounded like the Scots I hung out with (slurred and muddy sounding). I had to listen pretty closely to understand 1/2 of what they said for the first couple of months. I spent a semester in Manchester adjacent to Lancashire but that was back in the Fall of 1992 snd don't remember that type accent (but I was in school at MBS so maybe the master's degree students I interacted with weren't quite as British "redneck" sounding).
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14 hours ago, brawnie said:
Just remember y’all (I know, that’s cultural appropriation), if we’ve learned anything from this thread it’s that “libruls” have bad DNA that predisposes them to rioting (and man buns I guess?), and that when you are figuring out how to deal with someone who has a different opinion than you, you should get your guidance from the rootin tootin time of the civil war.
got it
Leftist not liberals
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10 hours ago, dream big said:
There will be riots regardless of the outcome. Might be a good time to buy stock in pepper spray.
Maybe this thing will come back?
If so, it will be leftist for both occasions. I can't imagine any conservative rioting. Now as Brick said, if they come for us we'll stand firm and kick their teeth in, but we won't riot because it's not in our DNA.
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The sad thing is many of our amendments that "better" or "fix" the constitution were/are terrible (and utter disasters when interpreted wrongly). So even with a difficult bar to get over, we still have some turds that made it.
Think 14th (somehow interpreted that if you illegally or just tourist visit the country (either one) and have a baby on US soil it is somehow a citizen. YGBSM the most ridiculous interpretation ever! Everyone knew the intent and that was solid, but comeon. Nobody can argue reasonably that is what that Amendment meant/means.
The 16th is unethical at best. Tax consumption, but for the government to tax/charge someone to work is completely unethical. Passive income might be game, but not a persons labor!
The 17th basically took away tons of state power and rights and pulled us slightly away from a representation democratic government and more towards the mob rule democracy. Our elected officials are supposed to be there for a short time and then come home to work again. The present system allows them to sit in DC for 8 years plus sucking gov teet and screwing us all. They are also supposed to show some restraint and wisdom with their decisions and not fall prey to the mob mentality (but that ain't happening either).
The 18th - yep it was a thing once
21 - because of 18
22 should have been a part of 20 and should have included all elected officials. I guess FDR did one thing right and made us realize we don't want numbnuts in office more than 2 terms
23 unnecessary. draw the district lines so that DC didn't have any residents but was just the land around the white house and capital buildings and have the white house residents assigned to one of the surrounding states for voting purposes.
Not convinced 24, 25 or 26 was needed but I guess interpretation/clarification might have been needed to prevent idiots from proposing laws that would restrict voting rights/access etc.
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I've read a couple of opinion pieces from fellow NFLers as well as an interview, and they all said basically what B.L wrote. He's good enough to be a third stringer at most teams (maybe even second at some) but the top/big pay he is demanding and the drama he would bring to the team aren't worth it to any team.
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6 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:
You’re waiving a bs flag at my college experience, one you don’t have any frame of reference to? Okay. At my school a few Poli Sci professors were attorneys, so unlike the peanut gallery of people who assume to the know the law, they actually did, unlike the Social Media Law School that most of the society apparently has recently gone to. According to this 2017 Pew Research Center Poll, Democrats are more educated than Republicans, with postgraduate experience being two-to-one ratio of Democrats to Republicans. Might explain why “it is a rare bird that doesn’t learn hard left.” Republicans apparently are not going to college.
https://www.people-press.org/2018/03/20/1-trends-in-party-affiliation-among-demographic-groups/
I have tons of "frame of reference" for college experience. And since you are a self proclaimed left leaning person, of course you didn't see any bias when you were in school because you were probably in total agreement with the sentiments expressed. I stand by my BS flag in it being possible to get through a US university program without being exposed to tons of left wing bias. I'm in a conservative part of the US, and it's still prevalent in all public universities here.
Maybe the pew study showed just how influential college professors, who lean far left, can be on young unsuspecting people. As to the end of your paragraph ... so you're saying there are lots of educated dumb asses running around?
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On 6/20/2020 at 10:18 PM, Sua Sponte said:
I was a Political Science major at a state college in Washington. Never once did I have professor try to impart some bias in class. I was also in my mid-30s when I graduated, so it would’ve been easier to see than compared to an 18-22 year old. I currently go to Georgetown for my masters and haven’t experienced a professor trying put a certain narrative towards a political ideology. In this day in age of the “woke” movement, professors are walking on egg shells trying not to offend anyone and possibly losing their jobs. I guess I could see a bias at an Ivy or Berkeley, but I haven’t observed that in my personal experience.
Waving the BS flag at this one. I am a business professor at a state university and most of my students tell me tales from across campus. Thankfully most business schools are grounded in reality unlike most of the liberal arts departments. I've spoken to many of my colleagues across campus, and it is a rare bird that doesn't lean hard left (further than the few left leaning flyers on here) and most make sure their students know about it. I stay away from topics other than information systems and accounting unless a student comes to me and specifically wants to discuss political or social issues.
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22 hours ago, CharlieHotel47 said:
Dude... I hooked and faired 8 “TO THE BALLERs” rides in T6s. Never put on flying Cap but was close to it. Always managed to get Es on all my check rides. Things would always click by my 2check.
Not everyone learns at the same pace. Some bros learn quickly and crush it from the beginning. Others, like my self... took a little longer. Stay motivated and keep moving forward.
At least your not taking the easy way out which is to DOR like I hear some STUDs in the new class have done already.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile appDoes DOR mean the same as an SIE (self initiated elimination)?
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On 6/20/2020 at 11:57 AM, Sua Sponte said:
Better than peanut butter like the French.
Yeah, definitely better than that. The French just make me think "light in the loafers" when I hear them speak.
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On 5/1/2020 at 10:42 AM, Hopefulflyer389 said:
Scots always sound inebriated, even when stone sober. I'm 1/2 Scot, thanks to my mom, but holy shit they sound like they have marbles in their mouth when they speak.
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I think a way better response than what other senior AF officials have put out there. No solutions offered if you're looking for that, but it does end with a call for dialogue.
Sorry, I didn't see another place to put this yet, so I kept the thread off topic.
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2 hours ago, 17D_guy said:
Read the history on the 17th Amendment. Wiki's got a good summary, and I'm fine with it aftewards.
Its the typical reaction we see with bureaucracies, someone shits the bed, everyone wears diapers. A couple of states allowed shenanigans to happen so we decided to edit sound procedure (intended to give states power in the Senate (to appoint and to immediately recall if they failed in their duty) and the general population the power in the House). I'm surprised it got through the rigorous process to become an amendment but from 1913-1919 they ratified 3 poorly thought through amendments (XVI - income taxes, VXII - senators, and XVIII - booze).
Also: someone needs to break trumps thumbs so he can't tweet
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The Next President is...
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yeah that was pretty much a complete clusterflock