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Noones talking about the fact that the CEO of SVB sold $200M worth of personal SVB stock from his equity plan the day before Moody's downgraded their credit rating. That's shocking to me.

Almost sounds like they were intentionally trying to bring it down without the public noise created by firing a missile.

AI is going to be life changing for so many people. There are a lot of admin task we do day to day in the AF that AI can solve in a matter of seconds. There are a lot of tactical applications that haven't even been investigated yet.

Use chat GPT. It's pretty good at stuff like that.

Don't worry, youll just have to do a legacy AF707 and a new myEval report just to ensure a report is written on the closeout date. Man, glad I got my DD-214 this year =D

Because your veteran status is a protected status and is reported along with other DEI statistics by your airlines HR to the Department of Labor. This is why veterans often have ERG's and specialized recruiters. Companies don't hire DEI because its socially popular. They do it because there are certain advantages under the Work Opportunity Tax Credit and other programs that provide financial advantages to hiring a diverse work force.

There's an irony here that every single military pilot who goes to fly for the airlines is a DEI hire.

You're new to Baseops arent you?

I watched the movie Chicago 7 the other night, did some homework afterwards, and I realized there were a lot of nuances and similarities in how both of those events played out. The Chicago 7 were ultimately all acquitted where as most of the organizers involved in Jan 6 were convicted. I do not believe the Jan 6 organizers were quite as clean as the Chicago 7 though. The Chicago 7 specifically went to Chicago with an agenda item of not inciting a riot, and not making the police a target of the protest. I do not believe the Jan 6 organizers explicitly listed this as a goal, and because of that absence you could imply negligence. Anyway, the movie is a good portrayal oh how nuances in language can be taken out of context in minor ways to cause large angry mobs to react unpredictably.

So... Speaking from recent experience..... Did you know if you wanted orders earlier than the standard 60 days prior or whatever that you need to go into vMPF and request expedited orders for terminal leave/SkillBridge..... Because I didn't know that and no one told me until almost too late.

I think they also realized the "oh shit" moment they are in with recruiting/retention. Found out from a friend today that the Army is recalling parts of the IRR now as their recruiting plumetted to only 75% of their annual goal.

I couldn't imagine giving a guard unit 8 days a month. That's a literal part time job at that point. But this sounds very much like a negative experience I had talking with a KC-135 unit that wanted all of their DSG's to live within 50nm of the base so they could be called in as DNIF coverage during the week.......

Experts in Mobile Alabama have said the mysterious creature might also be a crackhead and provided an amateur sketch. https://www.foxnews.com/world/mexican-president-viral-claim-photo-proof-mythical-woodland-elf

Yes but unfortunately there is a demonstrable correlation between higher ed and higher earnings, particularly among elite universities. BCG/Kirkland and Ellis/McKinsey, simply aren't hiring people who went to trade school or even state schools. Everyone should perform an ROI estimate before attaining any higher education. And people need educated about the degree they are actually getting. An MBA can be enormously valuable but not if you get it right after undergrad.... You need to wait until you're about 30 before it has any value. Most people don't know that though.

What boggles me is its only K-12. In higher ed your top 25 institutions or so are upheld by a liberal fortress of control. Still great education and I don't regret it but I think it shows how the political interest is only in power and not whats in the best interest of students.

I think this gets better by improving school choice for parents. Democrats would want you to believe that simply funneling more money to public schools fixes it but its not a total solution. Money does help but short of competition the schools have little incentive to improve. Teachers unions are a disaster and have completely become astray of any interest in the students. The bad thing about Chicago is the VAST majority of people there will never be able to afford private schooling. Mean private schooling cost is $25K/student and the average wage is still $60K/year. The JROTC academies have the potential to be something "nice" but the DoD is poorly invested in them and CPS is poorly invested in them. There is also a culture of sending problem children to military academies and not actually painting pathways to college or trade for them. Its creating a culture/perception that you see common in Democratic circles that the military is a pathway "for people who can't make it in life." NOT a place of excellence and achievement. And while JROTC does not advertise itself as a recruiting farm for the military, the city and the public school system push that narrative while trying to get rid of their social responsibility to deal with said problem children. What I'm trying to say is..... you are not getting a crop of top actors in some of these programs. And giving them some sense of artificial authority/power is not the right place to start. The right place to start is humility and a healthy ego smashing. Understanding that power and authority don't make you a better person, "more of a winner", its a role on a team. Like I've said, I'm not against JROTC at large. I think the program has value, but it should be built around the lowest common denominator, which right now, is unfortunately the inner city programs that account for 50% of all JROTC students. I'm sure the program is great for CH's son.... but I'll be frank.... I think CH is probably a pretty stellar parent and his son is going to be alright with or without JROTC, whether it has ranks or not. By the way, City of Chicago is hiring a lot of JROTC instructors right now if anyone is retiring soon and wants to help fix the problem.

Not sure where you are getting your stats but this CPS school here is literally US news ranked as one of the top ranked nationally as a public school. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/illinois/districts/chicago-public-schools/young-magnet-high-school-6551#test_scores_section LOTS of Northwestern and UChicago students grew up in CPS. But again, unless you've lived there it's really difficult to fathom the full spectrum of problems. You can't believe everything the media says about Chicago. Just like everything on the media it's always a bit off.

You literally have not read a thing I said.

You don't see how a quote from a 15yo girl who hid 9 months of sexual assaults out of fear it would endanger her ability to move through JROTC ranks might indicate that she was falsely fixated on the value of that rank over her own physical and mental well being? I guess my position would be 1.) Children are more often probably not psychology equipped to responsibly handle authority. Noone has articulated how a rank structure makes JROTC cadets better equipped to participate as US citizens in society. 2.) The rank structures in JROTC are not where the value in the program resides. I do believe retired AD can be excellent mentors to HS youth. But they don't need a rank structure to do that. The fundamentals of discipline, physical well-being, social charisma, etc... Can all still be there. There still are and should be strict lines of authority between cadre and cadets. But kids on their own often go very Lord of the Flies very quick, is my concern.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/07/09/us/sexual-abuse-jrotc.amp.html

Right but you don't need specifically hierarchies among children. It's a given that children are usually at the bottom of social hierarchies as they lack experience, competence and judgement. Doesn't mean you can't give them opportunities to lead. We still graduated thousands of ROTC cadets every year as officers that were never cadet wing commanders. Are they some how not qualified to be leaders because they never had the opportunity to do..... Squat and dick..... Like really I don't even know what our cadet wing commanders did.

I dunno? What would you think it would be? Chicago Public Schools is a bit of a paradox. They on one hand, have hands down some of the best and most elite public highschools in the country. Then on the other hand, have some of the absolute worse. What gives CPS a bad name is the lack of equity and control in schooling. Your child can be straight As solid student, apply to a top school, but there is a lottery element that can force them into a lower performing school. The lottery is weighted to favor lower income neighborhoods to some extent. It's a complicated beast of a system that's extremely difficult to understand and frankly most middle income families who move to Chicago don't event try and just pivot straight to private schooling. It's hard to pinpoint it strictly on one thing (like democratic governance) because honestly school funding is voted in levies that are neighborhood specific but they get quite complicated because your child might not be able to even attend the school in your neighborhood.

The recent report out of Chicago was about upper classmen using their false rank to exploit lower classmen in a sexual misconduct investigation. The largest publicity around that incident focused on the cadre and CPS staff members who were also complicit (either by participating or allowing) but the actual conduct of what occured, was that upper classmen or ranking cadets were involved in some brutal sexual hazing incidents. I said that earlier but you guys were so "ermagosh someone disagrees with me they must be woke" that you all came off bent and stupid instead. I'm not 100% certain those two things are correlated but there is a connection there. Cadet ranks are stupid. Your rank is cadet. You learn to be a follower because your cadre have actual ranks and authority. You learn to be a leader because you don't need rank to do that, you just need to be a decent human being with good empathy. Noone EVER got hired for a job because they were a cadet wing commander or some BS. Literally noone cares.

While I agree there are some problems with how transgenderism is handled in schools (mainly the schools ambition to keep such issues secret from parents) you clearly lack context on the scale of the problem. I would be hard pressed to believe that transgender issues effected a wider net body than the 100s of uncovered sexual assaults in the last year. Or the tens of thousands of black and Latino students who were not allowed to register for prestigious charter schools because they were auto enrolled into academies. That's a pretty big fucking failure and if as a commander you were told that you had 100 sexual assaults in your wing and tens of thousands of reports of racial discrimination, I would hope you would not think of that as a problem "far down the totem pole."

1.) 50%. It has negatively effected 50%. That is how many programs are under inner city public school programming and are failing. That's not "painting with a broad brush." That's systematically failing at stated goals. CPS is just one of dozens of school districts like it that are problematic right now. They also have the most recent scandal and the one that I believe would have led to a recommendation of removing cadet ranks. 2.) I don't give a shit about a 300 year old military tradition. We are talking about children and whether the militarization of children is a net positive for society. Do we really need a Komsomol or Hitler Youth clone stewarding out young ones? 3.) You guys keep bring up some arbitrary shit like 300 years, 1000 years, whatever.... As if I hadn't already spent a significant portion of my life choking on this bullshit already. Yes we all get it.... The military has rank. You know when it didn't fucking matter? When my group commander was also my navigator. Authority, command, rank... They all mean things, they are all innate to service, none of those values are neccessary to be successful as a highschool student and US citizen though (which is all JROTC purports to do).