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Anyone know where these programs are posted? I heard 18X had the same bonus on the guard side as well. I'm going to need to make some informed decisions soon....

Woah!

There are more implications to the ROE than chaining or unchaining our troops. Going all out sounds great until you find out how you have to go home because the host country that was going to let you stage an airbase didn't approve of your approach and denied you access to one of the only airfields within range of the conflict. There are also moral implications that are well written about in Just War theory and other philisophical approaches used to justify the condoned murder of thousands. Executing a prisoner under custody is indeed a war crime under articles 3 and 4 of the Geneva conventions. Posing for pictures demonstrates a lack of good order and discipline. Firing on a motorcylist who does not meet the criteria for a hostile PID is a disregard for ROE designed to control political and military narratives. One of the reasons we avoid knee crippling power anymore is because as soon as you start slaughtering a civilization by the thousands, you start to turn the narrative of the conflict against you. This brings unwanted repercussions like economic sanctions, or drawing in additional adversaries. You can't fight the whole world. You can hate it all you want, but war, and the military, are by nature, political instruments. If you ignore the political component you are going to lose.

You aren't wrong. I think most of us on here want to see war criminals punished and dont condone the alleged actions of the pardoned. For me, particularly the Army Green Beret that executed a prisoner in his custody. This is unacceptable to me. But what is also unacceptable, is the miscarriage of Justice by the military. I have seen enough times to count on two hands, commanders who just put a Target on someone, and went out of their way in every way possible to crush a person. We can't, in earnest, advocate that mileygate was an abuse of Justice and instances like therse were not. Are the crimes reprehensible? Sure. But just because a crime is reprehensible doesn't mean you bend the rules to see a person convicted. One of the things we have to accept about a fair trial, a jury among peers, a high proof of burden, is that sometime people will get away with shit. It happens. In the mean time though, you protect everyone else from the long arm of the government trying to control a population. In the military, you don't have those protections, and somehow, millions of service members and vets became convinced that when you join the military you give up some constitutional rights. This is patently false. The very basic definition of human rights is they apply to all humans, regardless of circumstances, and cannot be given up. Your anger shouldn't be directed at the pardoned. (Or not entirely) it should be directed at corrupt commanders and prosecutors who cultivated a system that casts doubt on whether Justice is actually being done.

I would like to see more creativity. I think you could keep several people around for at least a tour or two if you combined a shorter bonus with a garunteed offer for TERA but I'm not sure the service secretaries can offer TERA. (I think they can because they can force shape).

I would actually be a big fan of expunging rank and YG on boards. Let the record speak for itself.

The whole topic of these pardons is interesting to me. On one hand, the US tries really hard to hold war criminals responsible because it helps legitimize our foreign actions and keep international courts out of our business. On the other, it is clear the military justice system is beyond the limits of the individual rights it's supposed to protect. One or two bad commanders can simply rail road someone's career because they do not like them. I am not sure in the cases of the 3 recent pardons that they are not guilty to some degree, but the nature of the MJS causes me to doubt the findings either way. The other day I learned if you are arrested by base police, and you will recieve NJP for the crime, you cannot view the police report written about you before you submit your rebuttle. This seems absolutely ridiculous to me. In fact, you will only see the police report after submitting a FOIA request on yourself.

Which thank God we are finally realizing is no longer acceptable in today's environment of permanent expeditionary deployment. No offense, I think this style had a time and place, but most GOs seem totally disconnected from what we ask our troops to do these days. I think they still think we are in the early 90s flying club and only deploy once a decade. It seems to me though she was fire for #7, and numbers #1-6 were just used to reinforce said decision.

So I agree firmly with allegations #1-5 and 7, 7 being the one that surely got her fired. I think #6 is a bit of a reach though, although the gap between BGen and Cadet is large, using a fellow travelers GTC seems like a reasonable solution to a predicament that would be easy to make. She would have also been in violation of the JTR had she used her personal card as several of the witnesses mentioned they would recommend, as the JTR specifically mentions that lodging expenses have to be made to a GTC. I guess what frustrates me is they wrote it as if the cadet gave her a "personal" loan, and this is where I think the grey area on the GTC being a personal card or non-personal card really gets stupid. In reality, this is just me thinking the GTC program is stupid, and I would like to see it go away for something better.

The grand milinial riddle, to find work, one must have 5 years expereince, to get 5 years expereince, one must find work!

Well on the current hiring announcement they want officers that commissioned after 2015. So not sure how competitive a Lieutenant board can be.

Some flight docs go through the actual FAA training and can issue up to a Class 2 I think. They pretty much get the training for post career aspirations but it's not universal. Otherwise, the FAR allows your military class 1 to count as a FAA Class 3 but it's a US FAR, so probably not accepted elsewhere.

ing Catan ruined more friendships for than it built. Definitely send that.

Not an air to air guy but curious if they did shot validation in Vietnam, or if it came later as a way to reduce these training missile expenditures and still provide meaningful debrief material.

The latest victim is Nikki Haley, once idolized by the left for her out spoken "with all do respect sir" comment, she has now been thrown under the bus for her revelation in her book that she would not join Tillerson or Kelly in what, at it's smallest, was insubordination, and at it's largest, potentially a coup. Either way, there is a disturbing lack of outrage over Kelly and Tillerson's attempts to undermine democracy.

I think that remains to be seen when a.) Their commitments are up and b.) If there is an availability of contractor positions for their skill set. I'm not sure about GH pilots but Reaper pilots with an LR background can pull as far north as tree fiddy. Hard for me to immagine someone on the enlisted pay scale bypassing that as a norm.

This dude is a cat. I remember the first time we killed him in an airstrike. Then there was the time Russia killed him in a mortar strike. Then when we killed him in an airstrike again. Then when the Brits did it. And the Russians one more time. I'm waiting on the DNA and dental.

Heard the same. It was on the MAF FB page a while back that assignments to AFPAK hands were being pulled and notified members rolled to next VML.

Ooooh what'd you get !? what'd you get!?

"states don't have friends, states only have interest." Was one of my favorite Queen Elizabeth quotes. It shows how fickle relationships with allies really are.

The argument was particularly pointed on fighters because they have much smaller avionics bays and limited space to install new CB's, head units. It was going to be something that didn't have the easy functionality to turn on and off, if I can remember what was briefed. The FAA wanted everyone on ADSB because they realistically thought they could uninstall all of their surveillance radars across country which are expensive to maintain and operate. However, there were other reasons that became clear that they were still decades out from a level of technology that would enable this. With the legacy traffic management system required to stay, the FAA didn't have as strong of a case for the AF to keep using it.

Last brief I received on staff said ACC has won the ADS-B argument and all fighters and bombers will be exempted. Dude was unsure when I asked about ISR and SOF, but in short there were some security issues with the technology that made it a poor choice for combat aircraft.

Seems like it. My 2 BTZ will cover about 1.3 years of me being a Major.

Most dudes in the younger generation now, honestly have no idea how to stay fit, and I've realized that. They think that being fit requires a commitment to go to the gym 5X / week, run a shit ton and do hundreds of push-ups and sit-ups. They practice what they're tested on because noone has ever taught them how much easier it to stay fit with smart resistance training and VO2 work. And culturally we are all at fault for it because we tend to celebrate things like 45 min CrossFit workouts that are total slog fest when the reality is you don't need anything near that. We aren't trying to make division 1 athletes here. We are just trying to keep a dude at an appropriate waist and cardio capacity for his age. So education is a big point of it I think. Right now, I've never seen a fitness center class that is focused on basics of health. Our highschool's don't do it either. Nothing out there tells you that hitting a bench press for 15 reps a week is 100X better than doing 200 push-ups a day. And that if you run just 5-6 min every 2-3/days at Max pace you will sufficiently challenge your VO2 max (which is 90% a genetic baseline btw) to increase. Its one of my biggest gripes because you see a lot more kids these days who never played sports. And they are taught their perceptions of fitness from basic where it is (arguably) designed to smoke you, and be an uncomfortable expereince. And then we tell them they need to maintain that year round and in their head they're rightfully thinking that repeating that expereince sucks. More so, there is no data or research behind the exercise programs in Ascension programs. At least from my own expereince in ROTC, it was just a random cadet who was picked to design a workout based off of the 10-12 movements that ROTC prescribed and it was not scientific or useful by any means.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fedex-pilot-detained-by-police-in-southern-china-sources-11568906801 This whole situation really smells bad. Best wishes for Col Hohn and his family. I fear he is being used as a political pawn of convenience.