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Funny when the extreme liberal media persecutes the military for failing to live up to conservative values. Hypocrite much?

Welcome to the forums. Although I know it can be fun to start new threads, as you've no doubt discovered by starting two different ABM threads in the last day, the usual convention it to work within the existing construct wherever possible. Often the acronym UTFSF is used to help remind folks to read the ROE and execute accordingly. Here's a link to seven pages of ABM info that you might find useful. By replying to that thread with your questions, you will find that people with similar interests will be more likely to answer. Good luck!

Why do comm guys and S&M guys get wings?

It's been a few years, but I've run the numbers before to help out a retiring friend. I won't go through the entire background, but I'm not a fan of SBP due to the many sunk costs with minimal gains. If you're retiring in your 40's, the following plan works pretty well. I recommend taking the same dollars that would go to that 6.5% and putting part of them into a good 20 year term life policy. Take the remainder and invest it according to your preferred strategy. If you die in the next 20, the SPB income your spouse would have received is replaced by the insurance, with possibly more. If you die after the term expires, you have specific investments to support her living in a similar way. By that time, with conservative figures, there should be enough invested to exceed SBP benefits if paid out through an annuity. When I ran the numbers, it came out to 20-40% above SBP benefits in almost all cases where you die before her. Obviously if she dies before you, it's worth 100% more since you would otherwise get nothing. Caveats: there's more risk in my plan, and I personally have not retired yet. Edit: Subject-verb agreement.

I'm betting Sam's Club. It must be a standard setup, cause that's how it is here.

Simple high-contrast chromatic aberration. You can see the same thing on the top edge of the U2 wing where it meets the bright concrete. Either it was a relatively cheap camera or the photographer used the wrong (or no) filter.

No, many of those photos are unprofessional due to the depiction of implements of violence that could be used to discriminate against terrorists.

Here is the official fact sheet for the President's gun control measures.

https://www.edspublicsafety.com/bushmasterindividual.html and https://www.edspublicsafety.com/glockindividual.html

And here's the new S&W discount. https://www.smith-wesson.com/wcsstore/SmWesson2/upload/other/promos/Nations_Finest_Coupon_Jan2013.pdf

DG from commissioning source goes on your RIP. It only holds as much weight as the person reading your RIP gives it.

From the article. Perhaps if we had ranges with supplied rifles/ammo on military bases where I could practice at will, I wouldn't want to have a "home version" of an M4 to practice with. 90 rounds once every 3-5 years is insufficient preparation should you ever actually need it downrange. Perhaps everyone won't need it someday, but I for one like to be prepared.

I knew there was a reason I blocked out my memories from three years ago. Funny how rapid your recall was of this event though.

This may be the worst WTF this thread has seen. A Canadian Air Force pilot and wing commander has been convicted for the murder of two women, sexual assault, and multiple counts of burglary. What did he steal? Almost 50 pairs of women's panties from their homes to satisfy his lingerie fetish. Once in jail, he also tried to commit suicide by swallowing a roll of toilet paper. Here's a link to the news article, but I cannot in good faith recommend clicking on it as the photos are NSFW in (almost) the worst way. If you do, be ready to spend a few hours washing your eyes.

Good jobs to enlist in if you want to become an Air Force pilot some day: 1. Any aircrew. 2. ATC 3. Crew Chief 4. Maintenance . . . 497. Open General 498. Security Forces 499. Army Infantry A little tongue in cheek humor, but not too far off from the truth. Based on experience and observation, I personally don't think your stated goals match the expected outcome of your choice. My own path to becoming a pilot was not too far off from the one you're about to take, but I worked very hard and got extremely lucky. So, all I can say is good luck.

If you take time to aim, you can use half as many rounds, and then it becomes cost neutral. In all seriousness though, I'm used to around .50-.55 per round for .223. Although it's good to have availability even with a 40% price increase, now might be the time to start reloading.

Prices are up a little, but most of the local gun shops have .223 for around $.70 per round. Not great but not bad. 9mm here is still available and in the $.25 range for target stuff.

https://www.seattlepi...ess-4190379.php

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Nice, the corrupt local law enforcement recognized that they had illegally detained somebody so they used the trumped up charges as blackmail to protect themselves.

Spot on. Bad math on my part, and I'm sure my mistake was pretty obvious. Agreed that it is a 47% increase back up to previous rates. Still not a fan of donating over $300 per month to a sunk cost.

New vision out from the CSAF today. My NSHO: excellent job stating realistic priorities and eliminating fluff. Most of the feel-good stuff was moved to the narrative sections, but when he lists his priorities, they are very mission centric.

Mid-month mypay's are up. My paycheck shrunk thanks to the social security being bigger than the raise and zero change in BAH. It's interesting that the media is just reporting the increase in Social Security as being 2% of total pay, although that is technically true. Calculated another way, I was paying ~$240 and am now paying ~$400, or roughly a 67% increase in Social Security payments. It sounds like a much bigger deal when you put it that way.

President signs NDAA as written with a caveat that it will be selectively enforced. Sec 521 delays the 75 day carryover until 30 Sep 2015.

When I was living in their housing, Balfour Beatty just sprayed grass killer on the base of all the fences. It looked extremely tacky, but saved on trimming the edges.