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Woooo Duck. Lets all just relax. Do you need a beer light timeout to gather your thoughts and emotions? Or should I go to my "safe space?"

I sold out fellas. Submitted my 2 year extension for AvB with 3 years to go until retirement in November. Thank you my airline brothers for telling me not to bite last year on a 5 year deal. I'll PCS in 2019 with one year to go until retirement. I feel a dance coming on...

RPAs receive $35K? Did I read that correctly?

When does our lease expire?

That lease money probably goes straight to the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, etc.

Can you elaborate? Sounds like a good story.

Ummm, if the other countries surrounding them are cutting off air, sea, and food supplies. Where do you think the military there is going to acquire food? They are not going to permit food trucks in just for the base. Trucks of food and goods are stacked up at the border.

Are you Javale Mcgee? Are you drunk?

If an elderly person sees you on your phone talking to someone, last time I checked its rude for them or anyone else to interrupt you unless its an emergency. Pretty sure I stated I was on the phone trying to coordinate for my own medical needs. Hell, I could have been talking to your wife and he didn't need to hear the things we talk about. Unless you are going to coordinate for the movement of my records for treatment, I don't see the point in your post at all. Flight medicine issued a referral off base. Why the hell didn't they have me sign a medical release form the same day? After trying to setup my appointment a week later, the off base doctor needed my records and the release form. You try talking to anyone after all that BS on multiple phone conversations. I'm embarrassed by our medical in comparison to my old lady's. My old lady saw me wait 2 hrs for a post operation prescription on base. I guess it never registered to the pharmacy tech I was post op after saying it 5 damn times with a huge bandage on my neck. I had to go off base to have my prescription filled after waiting 2 hours. And you want to take a shot at me trying to coordinate for my medical? If I were you, I would focus more on why your wife is always scrolling through FarmersOnly.com.

No, why would I sell my hound for $100K. Would you sell your kid for $100K?

Minneapolis had a sushi bar in their airport. I didn't join for the money either. Yet, I turned down the bonus hoping for a 1-2 year option. Asking me for 5 years is like offering me $100K for my dog. It ain't happening.

I spelled facets as faucets the other day. It's either my old age or I can just blame technology. But yes, repelling....

I always say thank you. But the other day I had a paparazzi moment. I was in the car wash and on my cell phone trying to discuss a referral for off base with flight medicine. An old guy is trying to ask me what I do as I'm moving to avoid him. It was very rude. Respectf the bubble. When I see famous people, I keep on walking and don't bother them. I feel like it has to be really annoying having people f with you everyday. Not everyone is like Shaq. He will come up and start talking to you out of the blue. Make you have a WTH moment. To earn money for the Navy booster club we got the opportunity to do security at an All Star game in DC because of our security clearance levels and Shaq did that to me. Then his manager asked for 20 Nestle crunch bars for the big guy. This was back in 1999 or 2000.

Californians like to talk about seceding but could never protect themselves. If Texans seceded, we actually have the means and weaponry to repeal adversaries and protect ourselves. Remember the Alamo!

No, across the border from Chicago. Gary, the home of Michael Jackson.

I couldn't find the WTH thread. Can a mod please move this there if there is one please? I'm curious on you guys opinion regarding this matter. As an independent, this scenario pisses me off. The left gets away with far too much. Cillizza: So, we have a Republican representative calling immigration officials to get rid of protesters. And then saying he was assaulted by two Democratic representatives. Can you walk us through what happened? Or what we know? Ramshaw: Amid this protest, we now know that an angry Republican state representative, Matt Rinaldi of Irving, Texas, told some of his Hispanic Democratic colleagues that he had called US Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the protesters -- believing that some of them were undocumented immigrants. This statement led to a tussle on the House floor, and while we couldn't hear what was said, lawmakers on both sides accused the other of threatening violence. Rinaldi says a Democratic lawmaker, Poncho Nevarez of Eagle Pass, Texas, "threatened my life." He said he was "pushed, jostled and someone threatened to kill me." Nevarez told our reporters he did put his hands on Rinaldi, but that he was never going to "shoot the guy." He tweeted that Rinaldi was "a liar and a hateful man." In a press conference after the skirmish, another Democratic lawmaker, state Rep. Justin Rodriguez of San Antonio, said he heard Rinaldi threaten to "put a bullet in one of my colleagues' heads." Rinaldi didn't dispute that but said he was speaking in self-defense. Fox reported this a little differently. Anyway, if you put your hands on someone then threaten to follow them out to their car and they tell you they have something for you. You should cease and desist. Consider that as your warning from a concealed gun owner in the great state of Texas. I don't see independents or Republicans putting their hands on people. Probably 92% of the residents in Texas will agree with what the Republican representative did at the time. I love the laws in Texas. You want to rob an elderly person, you risk getting blown away because everyone is packing heat.

Read an article saying like 85% of millennials support the actions in Syria, but only 15% would actually join the military. I believe like 71% of our youth are ineligible to join the military. For future conflicts, we might be in trouble gentleman. I don't really keep in touch with my father side of the family. I returned home for a funeral on my mother side of the family, but my relatives on my father's side asked me where I've been? I'm like you do know we are fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan right? "Crickets" They were all silenced! I don't sit on my butt at some base. This isn't the 80s. Secondly, why would I want to come "home" so I can be shot? I have a better survival chance being deployed around insurgents than going to my old hometown. People will shoot you over looking at them the wrong way. As someone who worked his ass off to get where I am, why risk it all like some NBA or NFL players do by trying to show they can still hack it in their old neighborhoods? I stick out like a sore thumb because of how I talk, my attire, and my education level. Believe me my relatives have mentioned how I talk. As an educated man, how else do you expect me to talk? I'm proud of what the AF has done for me. My parents and I moved from my hometown in the 90s to an Army base and that probably saved my life. A military base changed my course in life. I am thankful for all those who served before me which paved the way for me to become a pilot. You guys are all highly intelligent, very talented, and the most outstanding role models I have ever served with.

Has this article been posted already? https://www.google.com/amp/foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/04/jack-mccain-is-right-that-the-air-force-has-big-problems-but-hes-wrong-about-why-officers-are-bailing-out-so-much/amp/ The Air Force’s retention problems will only be fully resolved when the service’s senior leadership creates a performance feedback program that recognizes and promotes talented individuals who may not desire to serve as commanders yet have the technical skills to continue serving. The service should stop using a performance feedback model designed to identify the top 20 percent of officers at their board for promotion to major and switch to one that accommodates an adaptable force that allows officers to achieve their professional and personal goals at their own pace, while still fulfilling specific “needs of the Air Force.”

The clinic isn't open 24/7. If you hurt yourself on the weekend or at night, you have to go to the ER. I got a bulge in my arm after a TDY. Flight medicine told me they didn't have any appointments for 2-3 days. I went and saw my dermatologist because I was concerned. He used to be a flight doctor and told me the bulge could have killed me if it was infected. He cut out the bulge and left a minor hole in my arm. Not sure what base you're at but I guess ATC should be there 24/7 too although no planes are in the pattern right? As a SOF, my OG was out by 1630-1700. Call me at the house if you need anything he would say. So you know more than the OG/CC is what you are saying? Somedays he stayed late, but he wasn't there 24/7. You just don't get it. I guess you want airmen just to drink and work in Korea only? Dont better yourselves. Based on your leadership, I would never have made it to AFROTC. I would hate to be under your"work through lunch leadership." By the time I get my meal from the chow hall and return to work, 20 mins have probably elapsed. Then I have to type and eat. Are you really being more productive in that hour? In mx you can't eat and work on fixing a jet at the same time. In Korea, airmen in intel received BAS. Mission too important to leave for lunch. I don't take lunches. But you need time during the day to take a break and get out of the building. I don't expect people to mimic what I do. I don't hold everyone to my standards because they aren't my rank and I don't have a wife or kids.

We were talking about the mx troops Duck.

Choice words...don't you mean they are using their feet to leave in order to get caught up with the 9 to 5ers education wise? If maintenance was so great and treated their people well everyone would be staying in. My pops warned me before I enlisted that maintenance is a job you don't want. In Korea, I worked a 6 on, 3 off schedule and my supervisors allowed us to still go to school. You just had to ask and she would let you leave work for school if the mission allowed. We always had enough people so it was never an issue. I totally understand your perspective regarding maintenance. I had to sit in on a court martial for a maintainer. That kid was not being taken care of in my opinion. I told the other officers he shouldn't be court martialed and gave my reasoning why. Well, I was a man alone. After they sentenced the maintainer, he addressed us with a letter. Everyone from the court martial told me I was right about the kid after the fact. Its too late now because you can't unscrew his life now. Officers are far more lenient on court martials than enlisted. My peers could not relate to the kid which led to their decision. When your AF defense team pulls out power point slides, just plead guilty. If that maintainer had a civilian lawyer, he would have walked free.

I call first.

My point is do you want to break your people or break the mission? Without people you can't hack the mission. Run your E's into the ground and when the mission fails you will be the scapegoat. You can fly that training mission another day if the mission is scraped stateside for manning. We have been doing more with less since 9/11. At some point your people or aircraft will give out.

I did it too, which really prepared me to be a SOF in my opinion. But it wasn't a two person job. The Ops Sups are pretty old school like you shouldn't be here sitting next to me. The Lts were just answering phones, not filing flight plans or printing NOTAMs for a formation..etc.

I'm not hung up on education. But a lot of people enlist for the education benefits. I'm asking you gentlemen to take into account their manning. When an airmen apologizes for not having something done due to their manning, what can I say? You're a douchebag of an airman? It's called having compassion. Lots of AFSCs are short on manning. Not every leader in the AF thinks like a Type A pilot. Lord knows civilian thinking drives me nuts. Off point topic. I asked my property manager for a snow removal plan. I got crickets. While I was deployed during the winter, the property manager sent out an email because people were lighting her on fire because they couldn't get out of their driveways in my townhome complex and the apartment parking lot wasn't plowed. I was like I tried to tell her months in advance, but thats civilian thinking for you man. If you don't let any E's go to school. Watch retention plummet across every AFSC. You are comparing officers to enlisted. Kids fresh out of high school compared to someone who has already completed a 4 year degree. They have different mindsets, especially those who are pilots.