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From my experience, going to largely depend on the issue that gets flagged, if any. They'll usually start by reviewing your family's records once selected for overseas assignment. If there is something in there that meets EFMP criteria, they will flag it. In my sons case it was speech development which is pretty common in children under 5 since its hard to measure. In that case, tricare paid a speech pathologist to come out to our house and analyze him. He was fine, and cleared, we got our orders a bit later. Total process can take ~4-6 months so you should start it as soon as you get assignment notification for overseas. Whether or not the gaining base can support the individual is dependent on local care options and services. Because of bureaucracy, even modern countries like Germany or Korea can be difficult to approve. This is because even though services might be available locally, they might not be tricare approved or other BS.

I'm not particularly religious but I always find it hilarious that atheist talk about the bible and fairy tails on one hand and then "we probably live in a computer simulation" on the other.

Sorry I wasn't retorting you. Perhaps I wasn't using enough sarcasm, lol.

I'm confused.... so are we allowed to protest in the halls of convening legislative bodies or are we not? Which one is it?

Interesting. I didn't know former President Trump was the one that decided to leave 1000 American citizens, 10,000 lawful permanent residents, and nearly 100,000 SIV qualified immigrants in a war zone.

You should read the actual indictment. It's less than 20 pages and double spaced. He's being charged with fraudulent claiming he paid Cohen 12 installments of $35K in retainer fees when he in fact had no retainer agreement with Cohen and the amount was in fact reimbursement for the NDA agreements. The state hasn't indicated what the underlying crime is yet to make it a felony. Was kind of a silly move actually. Cohen's shell company had legal possession of the NDAs as assets. He should have just sold them as an asset to the Trump Organization for $35K payments. Trump has a lot of opportunity though on election finance. Trump is on record saying his businesses and their brand heavily rely on good will (as in the financial accounting definition) assets which have a volatile connection to his reputation. Gaining the NDAs certainly benefitted him in the election but he just as easy could argue they were to protect his company brands. One of the more interesting insights in the indictment was that Trump did indeed pay at least one person for an NDA who had a knowingly false story. Dude walked away with $50K simply because Trump was concerned people wouldn't scrutinize the story enough of it came out. My theory is the underlying crime will actually be tax related and not campaign finance related. All of the charges are in 2017. All of the accounting entries were made for a service rendered in 2016.

So.... TDIL that in New York law the statute of limitations pauses every time someone leaves the state or their whereabouts are unobtainable. Basically it says the state has to have 5 years of opportunity to bring the person into custody. All of the charges are dated in CY17 after the inauguration. Trump did maintain a residence in NY and so likely could overcome a 2 year statute. But unlikely he could overcome 5. This case, from what I've been told by some lawyer types, hinges heavily on the state being able to prove an underlying crime, which they haven't said what that was yet. (It's not in the indictment)

I rarely agree with you but this is about the smartest thing ever said on this forum and I 100% agree with you. The political party is not there to represent your "morals" or your "values." The political party exist to garner power. They will take a shit on your morals and values in a heart beat once what realize doing so might get them .3% more of the electorate.

Good tip I picked up after my incident was to put scotch take over the magnetic strip (and now the chip) of the card to prevent accidental swiping. I don't know if they are going touchless yet but that might be a bit harder to prevent so hopefully they dont go there.

Well.... credit card companies dont actually make money off the good payers.....

You don't see many of these but this might be worth it. Especially if they provide the ATP.

This exact thing happened to me. I received an LOC over it. I freaked out at the time. I actually reached out to Toro on this forum to talk about it because we tend to instill this fear of god into officers that any sort of paperwork is a career ender. Toro was great an shared some of his experiences, got me to think with a whole lot more perspective. Long story short it wasn't a career ender, and had very little effect on me. But it was still any annoying experience to go through. Turning in my GTC when I separated was one of the happiest days of my life. Its one of the dumbest programs on the planet and in so many manners I find it completely unethical. The member is the only person who bears any accountability for negative impacts of using a GTC. The government in no was assumes any of the risk. Example: Its a credit card, but its tied to your personal credit. Or, you have to pay it on time, but we don't have to pay you on time.

Know one person who was disciplined for it but only because he failed to file a supplemental voucher/pay a GTC balance and the investigation revealed that some required items were on his card. In other words, if he'd have been on top his other stuff they wouldn't have cared. Was only after they had to dig in to the first items it became an issue.

https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-trumps-lead-grows-in-gop-primary-race-now-over-50-support I think the thing I find most ironic and strange about this whole poll is that the one demographic not swooning over Trump is the demographic that liberals hate the most..... well off white men..... lmao....

Id argue its both. People tend to turn to drugs as a cheap release when they are economically struggling. Home prices are soaring right now. Its absolutely bonkers what's going on in the real estate market. Interest rates are so high that sellers are holding on to homes now because they are in fear of downsizing and getting worse terms on a new mortgage. We are at a point where the high interest rates have had the opposite effect intended and are actually reducing supply even more. The struggle with housing is nobody wants to give. High density housing drastically reduces the prices of homes in a given geographic area. But people see homes as investments, and so reducing the price of housing is not something people generally want. This is a system that favors the established and perpetuates suffering for the unestablished. In fact, as a home owner, it is in my best interest to do every thing I can with my vote to keep housing supply low and to encourage housing cost to go higher. nsplayr is 100% right that housing is a NIMBY issue. Democrats talk big on it all of the time but you can pull voting data on zoning in heavily democratic cities like SF or Chicago and clearly see that every time a proposal for high density comes up, your rich silicon valley or wall street banker types immediately down vote it out of consideration. You are right about drug use. But the link between drug use and poverty is pretty defined at this point. And the current state of housing is a major contributor to poverty. I'm willing to bet based on the trend line we are on culture starts changing to be more like what you see in Asia. It will become more common for people to live with their parents into their 30s, even after marriage and kids. This isn't entirely a bad thing. Younger Americans will have less independence, but they will have more tolerance for career risk and familial units will generally be tighter.

FIFY.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/military-pilots-medical-exam/ Study released recently that discusses the above. Military pilots 20% more likely to hide health information from flight surgeons than civilian airline pilots. Follows up a 2019 study that showed 80% of pilots in general likely to hide health information from a flight surgeon to preserve flight status.

Hmmm that acronym is sus......

They actually changed it because the general public picked up on the connotation that "drones" or "unmanned" aerial vehicles were autonomous and making kill/no kill decisions algorithmically without human input. The change in terminology was to emphasize that despite the fact the aircrew member is not on the aircraft, it is still controlled by a human being, a person, who is making decisions and inputs. This predates any General Officer with significant RPA experience and was entirely done to reduce public resistance to the GWOT. The term Pilot comes from Pilotus, which means "Rudder" or more appropriately, one who steers a rudder. Its also used to refer to the person who steers the helm of a ship or boat. Aircraft pilots dont have exclusive use of the word. TAMI-21 imprisoned me for 3 years in that world. However, the professionalism and knowledge I saw about air operations often surpassed the manned aircraft pilots I worked with. I have no issue with RPA pilots adopting the term. Nothing in the etymology of the term "pilot" has anything to do with actual presence on a vessel and more to do with the actual control and steering of the vessel.

Lol

You know what's odd about the "Nordic countries are happier surveys?" Their suicide rate is really high among developed countries. Not Japan high but higher than the rest of Western Europe and the US. Fucking odd they would do that because they're so happy......

The poop things really important. A few times I dragged an olive green sleeve through an unknown puddle on the Cadillac floors in Bagram. Wasn't great when you were trying to reduce gross weight before stepping and you didn't have time to go back and change.

I'm going to bitch about crew neck shirts continuously getting ignored for short sleeve blues. I'm getting tired of the 70's porn stars look. If we can have unruly facial hair why would even try?

I don't think the implication was that Biden was there to discover the balloons. I don't think the POTUS has anything to do with the whole F2T of any of that. That article wasn't posted to throw shade at Trump. It was posted because the Biden admin accused the US public of not caring when Trump let balloons fly over the US but suddenly it was a problem that he's not shooting them down over Montana. The Trump admin and the DoD later released info that said they weren't even aware the overflights were happening while Trump was in office, it didn't become apparent to the DoD until afterwards, and only upon review did they recognize this had been occurring since Trump's presidency. Now, I'm not "in the know" anymore and frankly don't care to be. But that is the public narrative and that is the narrative China is digesting--is that the US didn't recognize immediately that these overflights were happening, then when they did recognize it they tried to keep it hush from the public, and only after the public started seeing the balloons and asking questions, did the government become transparent with more info.

I mean, there is a narrative that is available to the public and to the Chinese. Whether it's true or not is less important.