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Eh, Lando is way more fun.

Nah, the flexibility to leave if I want is worth more than $20k a year, even in the current jobs environment. That should tell the AF something about its climate. (Yeah, I know it won’t actually.)

I’d temper that a little on just being technically capable. I’ve also worked with a lot of partner nations, and the general ability of them to organize tactically is low. And our ability there isn’t because of industry, it’s complex training environments and expectations. Edit: that being said, with respect to current AF and career progression, there’s nothing in the AF today I want to do beyond the rank of Captain. So there’s definitely something off.

Politicians use the VA as a third rail with illegitimate causes like the VA version of BRAC to avoid consolidating overlapping centers, and the VA has never faced a real audit and no one knows where the money goes...so I doubt anyone will ever do anything as applicable as assessing “100%,” unfortunately.

That’s the big downfall of not having the conduit of current info and an advocate at staff, definitely. Especially at SAC, the dinosaurs don’t want to fund anything that bombers didn’t have in ‘Nam, because they don’t need that shit to gravity bomb. Some people want staff tours, some don’t. The AF is still very bad at listening to its people to figure out who is who.

#notworthit

Vindman retiring So that means Tammy Duckworth can stop stonewalling those promotion boards?

Weird, because AMC doesn’t think they’re overmanned. Believe they recently said something to the effect of “AFPC pound sand we’re done footing the AETC instructor billets.”

Dude, you already posted this question in the ANG/AFRC forum.

I was 80% sure it was going to be one of those Rick rolls you cant exit out of...just like the war in Afghanistan.

This is why I find Kaepernick to have so much hubris when he says “we” as if speaking for all people of color. With that frame, it’s entertaining to see a direct contradiction and a nice reminder that the world isn’t just what’s hot in the news. Summary: -If white supremacy is such a “problem” he’s done pretty well for himself -Quotes Booker T Washington as saying those who profit from racism are those keeping it alive (very similar to views/words of Thomas Sowell) -He received a metric shit ton of money from Nike for his “cause,” would be reduced to irrelevance if not for activism

Some analysis on mission creep; I’ve long thought this the problem. What was the desired end state? https://www.csis.org/analysis/tell-me-how-ends-military-advice-strategic-goals-and-forever-war-afghanistan

I don’t know, but sounds presumptuous to say “we,” as if he is the official spokesperson for all Black people.

Multiplying by Zero: Our Afghanistan policies may be insurmountably antithetical to Afghan culture And we knew it at least nine years ago. Edit: posted in the Read File in 2011 by Learjetter, I take no credit for discovering it.

Checks, and is about the only thing I can imagine Liz Cheney chalking up.

What has been the measurable performance over the last 19 years?

And Guam DEFINITELY hasn’t had a Covid problem recently. I feel dirty using the commercialized JQP as source material.

Would also belong in WTF thread. Jeez.

Somewhat, but for instance when I listen to what Bernie describes when he figuratively points to “Nordic model” and Sweden, his words are not what they have in Sweden. Maybe that’s my perception.

Allegedly, but it was a not-well-thought-out Frankenstein; also no floor debate happened on a what, several thousand page sweeping bill? Maybe next time we should actually legislate. There’s a decent write up about how Germany and the Netherlands do their public-private healthcare in today’s WSJ. Pretty thought provoking, I think. https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-will-transform-health-insurance-as-we-know-it-11593179876?st=12zkdvi47pbisy7&reflink=article_copyURL_share

*homogenous population, I think what you meant there. Who knows what relationships the Swedes are up to, though.

I’ll probably butcher this, read about it a few months ago, but Sweden went hard socialist economic policy and by the late 90s ish they made a hard course correction to a capitalist economic system because their country was in danger of collapsing. Still recovering if you will. When people point to Sweden, they’re not a socialist economic structure anymore. They’re probably on par or more strictly capitalist than the US in some ways. Ruthless capitalism in article below, but because of their error in trying to implement socialist economic structures. https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-bernie-sanders-is-wrong-about-sweden-11566596536

It is the same Europe where just, what, five years ago Putin walked into someone else’s territory and said, “this is mine now.” There’s still a big threat there.

That's one technique.

Olive Branch MS was pretty smooth a few years ago.