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Well, that's one of the differences between the military and civilian sector... Rank don't mean crap after service... Right but experience does and I can't see how someone with less than 4 years of service could REALLY deliver on that.

Perhaps but man... Her whole resume... She went into consulting after 3 years of service. When's the last time anyone asked to consult with a lieutenant on fucking anything? Lol. But you're right. The SJ mentality hurts her more than helps her.

I didn't see the option for the lucrative 6 figure contract job? Did they just forget that one?

I'll never defend nepotism but I have thought a lot about it in the past. Read a prior study that discussed US generals being weaker than their international peers because many were just getting comfortable in their roles when crises happened, where as in a nepotist military their best strategic officers had already had years/decades of experience when their big crises hit them. I also noticed this week the #2 in the AF, is an '03 ROTC grad. In context for a minute, in means a young woman with less than 20 years is now presiding in a position over every AD person over 20 years; which is a critical data point regarding the grooming and selection of career officers and GOs. Certainly someone was taking care of her when as a new hire to the DIA and she went on to work in the Whitehouse. Another common thread with these types though is a foray into politics which often later help them earn a political appointment. At some point you don't really work for the USG anymore you work for your party and then you party finds jobs for you using the USG as a grooming ground. Anyway, I digress. What I've noticed is a lot of people assume when Republicans talk deep state they are talking about coordinated conspiracies where the Washington Deep State club meets every other Thursday in the leader's basement to discuss the plot to take over the world. What they are ACTUALLY referring to is a combination of actual nepotism in the USG, group think, and a pervasive lack of moral courage to upset the status quo when something is clearly wrong. It's the whole "you have to play the game before you can ever change the rules to the game" problem where once you have won the game, the game has had you long enough to corrupt and implicate you beyond your interest to change it.

Or run drugs to Panama for Gordon and Kirby! (See squadron bar thread) 😂😆

For what its worth Negatory, I don't think you're stupid. You're one of the few members on this forum that is capable of examining another side and making an honest admission when you see things differently. I've seen that in the COVID thread. Rather, this is really solid evidence of how strong our echo chambers can be. And while you read an article that convinced you it was a Republican echo chamber propogating a myth, you quickly realized you were actually the one that was unaware of what the narrative was. No big deal, you fessed up to it and we move on. Both sides are guilty of it. You win points because you did 2 things. 1.) You heard something you thoght was wrong so you looked it up. Unfortunately what you looked up was wrong but you still tried due dilligence to get the story straight. 2.) When you recognized its wrong you owned it. In my book that earns you big points and you are the type of dude I would love the share beers with and discuss controversial opinions we don't agree one.

Just keep persistent man. You may need to be patient and wait to leave for the guard but one thing I've found is your repBrotation follows you everywhere and you will be SURPRISED how quickly you get calls if yours is good. Help others! Accept your goals will have to wait and do EVERYTHING you can to help your bros and subordinates reach theirs. It will carry you my friend. They will remember the acts when you are looking for a move.

The biggest consequence isn't creating new terrorist. It is the erosion of trust that if foreign citizens help us in another country they will be protected and taken care of. Any country we go to there is going to be a point where we need local assistance to continue operations and right now the US does not have a very good reputation to sway people to help us.

Report came out last week that said we still had almost 100 US citizens who have not been contacted by DoS and have no way out. Theres also an estimated 1-3000 LPRs, and tens of thousands of SIV qualified individuals. (People who worked for the US government for significant periods) The SIVs will never get out which I think is sad. But the DoS refuses to even consider them. Their answer is that they need to wait for their visa or continue to submit paperwork for it. If you haven't seen how much paperwork the SIV requires it's pretty appalling. But it doesn't matter because there actually is no way to complete the visa since it requires an interview and we no longer have an embassy in Afghanistan. These people are pretty bitter right now because they feel betrayed. If you look at how the evac went down, we largely got out only people that were important to politicians and public figures who spent tons of money to hire fixers.

Fuck. If we could get the people we've still left in Afghanistan first, that would be great....

The AF has denied several thousand religious accomodations but not one has been denied on religious grounds. Every single denial has recognized the Airmen's religious concerns as being genuine, but the MAJCOM commander denies the request anyway due to "operational considerations." A few of the letters are floating on the amn/nco/snco FB. The appeal process goes through the AF/SG, but it must be evaluated in context of the reason of the denial, not in the religious context. So based on the above article and narrative it would sound that the plaintiffs in that case are correct, the DoD never had any intention of allowing religious accomodations which would potentially be in violation of federal laws. Curious if anyone knows, if all the above is true, and you held a letter from your MAJCOM commander that recognized your religious views as genuine, what do you think declaring consciousness objector status would lead to? Seems like a pretty big knot to untangle, especially if you gave 10,000 or so people do it at once.

Anyone heard of this company or know what this entails? This is a DoD skill bridge listed on the DoD Skill Bridge website in the Seattle area and I'm honestly just curious about it.

I think it's the MAJCOM/A3T that purchases the slots though and AMC just buys a lot more. So that's probably a big facet of it.

When I was there seemed like AMC was a lot more proactive about pushing people through than ACC or AFSOC who were just sending the minimum to get their IRC boxes checked. AMC on the other hand was sending any and everyone they could. A bit of a narrow data set but that was my one experience.

This has been responded to a half dozen times in this thread. Go back and read the answers.

By the way, we are some how supposed to believe the FDA had time to review all 326,000 requested pages in 6 months of 2020,but to review the exact same set of material for releasability they need 100X that. How does this make sense? There shouldn't even be a review. A review for what? This is the FDA, not security/defense material!? Just release it!

I agree that government is working the way it should, just that one party is so in love with authoritarianism and the subjugation of free liberty that we are slowly losing any individual autonomy in society. Regarding your other points. Point 1.) Almost every vaccine mandate has had issues. So not sure how you're coming to that conclusion. Let's see, polio trials killed dozens of children, swine flu cause Gulliane Barre syndrome, anthrax led to gulf war syndrome. 2.) This isn't valuable to me, but copy, my elected representation really isn't holding weight right now. To your confusion, it's because the CDC effectively changed the definition of vaccine this year to mean a procedure that merely provides protection rather than immunity.

Let me rephrase what you just said. "I soundly reject anything you have to say because I really just don't care, but I'm sorry if sound like an ass hole!" Mmmmm, are you really sorry? Or do you just not want people thinking you're an asshole? By the way, I never said military service was transactional, rather, the intrinsic benefit provided by the military to greater society is transactional.

So the standard in Europe up until now has been 3Gs, which meant you had to be vaccinated, recently recovered from COVID, or be regularly tested. As of last week, much of Europe is turning from testing meaning leaving your house is effectively impossible unless you're vaccinated. They're essentially making vaccination mandatory. The below article adequately explains it: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thelocal.de/20211116/tell-us-how-have-you-found-the-2g-and-3g-covid-rules-as-a-visitor-to-germany/%3famp

Ill be honest, I've already moved passed the military mandate. That cause is lost and with 2G becoming the norm in Europe, the military will gain it's military neccesity argument. But I am finding it really problematic that society is moving into a civilian mandate to be employed and there are factions out there pushing a mandate for children to attend school. Because 2G is becoming the norm in Europe, I think its only a matter of time before the US goes the same way.

I think I stayed at the Enclave with lots of other guys while there. It's a 2 min walk across the bridge to downtown. Plenty of restaurants. It is a bit of a hood but the property itself is gated and nice. I don't think you'll find a lot of areas downtown that aren't a hood. You may look in the burbs.

Heres those institutions doing a phenomenal job of creating trust again. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/wait-what-fda-wants-55-years-process-foia-request-over-vaccine-data-2021-11-18/

Every example you gave is transactional. US taxpayers agree to an exchange via elected representatives wherein they give money via tax dollars in exchange for security. Sure there are elements of public service in all of those occupations, but service is voluntary and never expected. A vaccine mandate isn't transactional. It's society telling a large subset of people that they will take a vaccine and they will get nothing in exchange of inherent value to them. Your uphill battle here is you are trying to convince a large subset of healthy people who would likely be unaffected by COVID that the vaccine has value to them. So you will sit here and provide mountains of data saying "look how dangerous COVID is!" But the baseline truth is for many people, it is not. And so they will continue to be able to pick through that data and say "hey... You're wrong."

It's not simplistic at all. Society provides those things, but its not obligated to. It happens as a matter of transactional relationships that are mutually beneficial to multiple parties. The COVID vaccine is not transactional. It's great that you're worried about other people including myself, but I never asked you for that and frankly I don't need you to do it.