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United has been hiring and training between 40 and 70 a week since May 2021. They've also been renting out sim time concurrently. While they postured well for the rebound; you are correct in that they are one of the few who did so.

Let's also not forget that you had retired USAF middle management (O-6, wing-management type), piling on concurrence, and also linking a "news" article about it from a site that makes OANN and Newsmax look downright credible. Embarrassing.

Please don't say his name two more times, he might stop cyberstalking pawnman long enough to make an appearance here. 😂 My point, pal, is simply that anyone clinging to the sacred constitutionality of the process, needs to acknowledge that low-density states wield far more voting power than they did prior to 1929, and the founding fathers certainly didn't account for that.

Sure, every state gets two senators. But this is about representatives. Can I take this to mean you support California having as many representatives per capita that Montana has then? If the founding fathers wanted a cap on representatives, why did it take until 1929 for the Apportionment Act to get signed into law?

Neither - that the number of representatives in each state, and thus electors, was historically a function of population. The apportionment act capped that number at 435, and a state has to have at least 1. If California or New York still had representatives, and thus electors, at the same proportion as Wyoming, there wouldn't be many close presidential elections. And we'd need a much bigger Capitol building!

If only the founding fathers had created a mechanism in which we could continually redefine what was considered constitutional... Also, if you think there's some sacred etched-in-stone tradition regarding balance and proportionality, I recommend you read up on the Apportionment Act(s). Here's a good place to start. I doubt the founder fathers mean for a Wyoming vote to have more weight than a California vote. Or for wild gerrymandering from anyone. But here we are.

Hasn't your suspicion been the overwhelming global consensus for at least a year now?

People who finish indoc, then drop five years of mil leave for AGR orders they'd long been engineering, before starting fleet training. Then they come back on 6th year pay, 11 months left of probation, having never turned a wheel for the company, but with a good 401k balance. They give it a bad reputation. Or the guys who use mil leave just to enhance their schedule, then brag about it at work. They also give it a bad reputation. So it's not surprising that some civilian pilots take a dim view of the mil leave process.

All United domiciles were available to new-hires in this morning's indoc class. Wait time to hold IAH, CLE, ORD, or DEN at United is presently zero minutes.

IAH had double-digit unfilled vacancies during the last bid for narrowbody FO. So while they aren't being offered in indoc yet, 737, A320, and 756 are available to United new-hires, through the vacancy bidding process. Everything is fluid but looks like the junior CA award in IAH is presently a 2015 hire.

Middle schools start back to school in a few days, right? Hopefully content like this will decrease once the kids are back in school.

What's it like to read scientific literature, and only understand a small chunk of it? Is it like hearing someone speak Spanish and being able to pick out a few words here and there? Your clown emoji is fitting.

And where did PYB, er, Dogfish78 retreat to? He starts this thread of insanity then goes dark for months. Playing the long troll game! 😂

More specifically, freedom from religion is a tenet (yeah it's tenet, not tenant) of our constitution. If you feel like Sky Wizard is calling the shots in your life, cool. But that stops with you - fortunately it's an all-volunteer force and we're all welcome to either play by the rules, or take your ball and go home. You're spot on - I'll happily uphold my oath regarding establishment of religion. Keep that shìt at home.

Have you already accepted the NJP? If not, and you feel this strongly about it, call the commander's bluff and refuse it. Then he's on the hook to take you to court martial, and to convince your peers that he's correct about your actions. Or he may back down and give you an LOR and referral OPR instead, and there's very little you can do about that. Are you a pilot? It's possible it has happened in the past but I'm unaware of any year in which they didn't continue the entire 11X cohort. They didn't continue 12Xs one year that I recall, and it caused quite the uproar. I'd be surprised if you didn't get continued in either case, the USAF is in a pretty deep hole in terms of manning.

They definitely have more career options than a senior major with zero TPIC who is barely a year removed from initial aircraft qualification. That decade of RPA experience doesn't buy you much in the private sector, and no ARC unit is going to touch someone who has been separated for vaccine refusal. Sucks that you're being separated with nothing to show for your time. Be careful where you throw those spears, a passed over nav is in a vastly better position with respect to career progression, both in the service and out, than you are about to be.

1% of a large population is still a huge number. 1 in every 100 people older than 65, who were alive on day 1 of the pandemic, have now died from COVID-19.

Yes, NPR had an article about this three months ago. The funniest part is that the cited study makes a strong case for getting an mRNA vaccine, especially if you've been previously infected, rather than in spite of it. Since you decided that getting the vaccine was in your best interest after all, the findings of this study might be good news.

@pawnmanThis is what "I did muh resurch!" looks like in the wild. Amazing.

Thanks for the answer. Hopefully the environment changes, although I'm skeptical it will happen quickly, or you'll be able to find another way to continue serving. Are they letting you continue with the syllabus while the RA is pending?

Out of genuine curiosity: what is the framework for the religious exemption request, that doesn't apply to any of the other required vaccines? I legitimately want to learn more, I don't feel like I have a good understanding of how important this is to some people.

One of the most frequent posters to this site, an admin, is a retired intel officer.

Was it though? Your whole point was that words mean things, and you'd fight and refuse to accept them if they weren't exact - and then the example you gave wasn't exact. And now "it was just a joke brah!" Classic. 😂

I'd love to hear you go toe-to-toe with O'Hare or Newark tower, if they told you just "runway 22R, line up and wait." If you're going to use ATC phraseology as an example (and it has to be perfect, in your words), make sure you are up to speed on your .65 items. (Hint: cleared to line up and wait isn't in the .65).

So you cited something that says scientists use emerging data to refine hypotheses? As in, scientists follow the scientific method? Cool, we're in agreement. Calling someone a sheep - tell me you're a Southwest first officer, without telling me you're a Southwest first officer. Question: do you wait for the CA to go on break before you "Let's go Brandon" on guard, or just do it at the gate? 😂