FLEA

Oh man I didn't notice but now that you said it this whole thing is 100X more hilarious!!! 😂

At least a month since your final paycheck is held for a full pay period to conduct an audit.

I don't believe ICC had jurisdiction though so not sure if this will actually go anywhere.

Probably because the military industrial lobbyist we're still feasting on GWOT until a year ago.

Came straight off the US census website fact sheet, which is odd now because now I want to know where the data discrepancy is since this fact sheet was updated for 2020 census. https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221

This isn't a good assessment. Ukraine was the worlds largest source for black marketed ammunition and guns shortly after the Cold War. When the SU collapsed Ukraine was Europe's largest standing Army because Russia left them with the Black Sea Fleet as well as several major Army garrisons and a significant nuclear stockpile that they eventually handed back to Moscow. When their economy collapsed, they black marketed a lot of that equipment to the third world. This was only 20 years ago. Ukraine is far from a first world nation. That behavior persisted until as recently as 2017. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-arms-insight/ukraine-after-war-becomes-a-trove-for-black-market-arms-trade-idUSKCN1050ZE I wouldn't classify Ukraine as a first world nation either. Their HDI is high .7's which is good but still significantly lagging the rest of Europe (they are similar to Mexico and Thailand). Only 10 years ago their HDI was where Iraq is today. (High 60s). They made enormous gains largely due to the infusion of western money. They were certainly on their way but I would not really categorize them in the same bin as the US, Japan, Western Europe, etc....

These numbers..... Are not in line with the US census numbers at all..... I can understand wanting a racial makeup similar to the US population but these specifically have inflated numbers for some minority demographics.... Specifically Asians (6.1 to 10%), Pacific Islander (.3 to 1.0%), and multiracial (2.9 to 7%). Whites under represented by ~10% (75.8 to 67.5%). WTF are they aiming to do with this?

Honestly after the clustastrophuck that was the pullout, anyone who received discipline for leaving their sidearm in the shitter deserves a pardon.

For years 11-202 said do not consume alcohol within 12 hours of takeoff and I REALLY wanted to press to test this and see what happens if you never take the plane off..... Think they eventually fixed that glitch though....

Have you read a single SIGARS report? Lol. I'm completely fine sending these aid packages but not acknowledging that we probably don't have accountability of every dollar that is spent is either academically dishonest or naive, whichever one fits. We have a poor track record of tracking foreign aid money. That isn't going to change just because it's Russia now.

There already is the PLSF but that program was equally a disaster and I paid my loans off a year before I would have qualified to have them forgiven under PLSF. To your point though, the real thing that needs addressed is grad school loans. The vast majority of student load debt is graduate debt. The problem is the graduate degree is not worth the paper it's written on. So why are people getting them? Simply put, proffessional gate keeping. Hyper-scholasticism has seeded it's way into nearly every field. The Air Force is complicit in it. How long did we make people get a useless masters to pin on Major? You still need it for O-6. Education is another. A lot of states require educators to have a masters degree within 10 years of licensure to maintain their license. Social work, requires a masters degree. Want to go to the airlines? Almost all of us have a story about our masters degree in God knows what circled on our airline resume..... to be a first pilot. MBAs are being required for all levels of management in all sorts of industry. So take for instance being a retail store manager.... They like to see MBAs now. Even law degrees, which I thought actually held value, really do not. The average law school graduate salary is extremely low when you remove the top 10% of earners. The vast majority of law school graduates actually make less than 70K/year. It's the exceptional JD/MBAs from top 25 schools making 700K a year doing finance jiujutsu for hedge funds that misconstrue the mean wages to look so top heavy. In all of these cases, simply possessing the degree, does not actually give you access to higher earnings. It only gets you access to the field or the ability to stay in it. I don't know how to fix it, bit I know AADs is where we need to start.

So sort of spin back to hypocrisy here and what to do about it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/media/desantis-press-secretary-roasts-abc-news-double-standard-for-bill-coverage.amp Ignore the fact it's fox and it's one sided, but the content of the tweets themselves. This is honestly a fantastic analysis of political press hypocrisy. It's not that Fox News doesn't use similar techniques, but when they are pointed out it is incredibly pointed at showing how language can alter the take away from an article. I'm wondering if a tool that scans and points out loaded press language would be useful at increasing the size of the first two standard deviations of the electorate.

And.....?

That's all well and good but I think the point being made is as the chief executive for the state, it would have been important for Biden to be informed of an operation of that magnitude. At the end of the day any autonomy given to DOJ is autonomy given to them at his discretion. Given the enormous political consequences of this decision, he didn't neccessarily have to steer it but he should have been informed. If he wasn't, I would have serious questions about my AG. If he did want to steer it, he is absolutely in his right to, so long as he does so within the law. The FBI did not HAVE to raid Trumps home, that was a decision that was made. Perhaps it was the right one, I dunno. But to suggest that Biden doesn't have the right or authority to direct the DOJ or the FBI for that matter is complete fallacy and needs to be called out. Biden IS the chief executive.

You need to brush up on your constitution/DoD doctrine my friend. You do not have those powers. The POTUS does and via delegation you have received authority to execute those powers on his behalf. Your authority is very clearly laid out in DoD doctrine. POTUS is the commander-in-chief. He has delegated national command authority to the SECDEF. From there this is further delegated into COCOM authorities who further delegates OPCON and TACON. Your TACON of a single MQ-9 is but a tiny sliver of what is ultimately the President's power. This is all covered in ACSC as well (though not nearly detailed enough). Fun fact because I just went through this. When you get separation orders as an officer, your orders no shit say in the comments, "the President of the United States has accepted your resignation." The FBI was built in the early 20th century at the direction of President Roosevelt. It was under his authority an autonomous agency of law enforcement was stood up. Not congress, not the Supreme Court, solely the President.

The problem is when people only want to correct the system and get things right when it benefits their party. Then as soon as it lacks benefit they become quiet again. People (including democrats) aren't interested in getting this right. They are interested in power.

BLUFF: RAF General Officer resigns over controversial diversity push, causing responses from PM Candidates. https://www.foxnews.com/world/british-raf-recruiting-head-resigns-protest-pause-hiring-white-men-appease-diversity-goals-report

The relevance, I presume, if anyone was wondering.... Is the CDC has ID'd monkey pox being vectored in dogs. Still could have lived without that terrible nightmare fuel though.

What do you mean? I just reread his last post and it's pretty on topic. It's clear he is thinking from more of an economics perspective but that doesn't discredit it as being unimportant. Economics is an enormously important aspect of war. Just because you don't like his position doesn't mean it lacks relevance.

That's the irony of the Taiwan situation. Both the government of Taiwan and PRC believe the exact same thing. That there is only one China and one legitimate government. Just a different opinion on who that different government is.

They are trying to reward commitment, I get that, but the structure is jacked. It pushes people on the fence off because they don't want to risk getting committed to something they want out of later and simultaneously there is a notion that I don't want to feel like I'm doing the same job but for less pay simply because I took longer to decide.

Something something about the camel's crack.... Are we talking about the same thing.....

So there's quite a bit on amn/nco/snco about this one I just noticed. Apparently this is related to a security incident 1-2 months ago and the wings reaction to it. If I recall, it's related to amn/nco/snco publishing some flight line footage of a damaged aircraft but I can't find the complete post trail.

You know part of me wondered if this was a case of pilot finding copilots line badge in his wife's underwear drawer.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-187-fighter-wing-commander/