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C-130J: “Deployments” are 6 months on 18 months off…with opportunities to switch out at the 3 month point. Quotations as CENTCOM deployments are significantly more chill with the drawdown. Only stateside units deploy, expect a 3-4 day TDY per month besides that. Not bad at all. Overseas units don’t deploy but are TDY much more often. PM me with questions.

Learning about the racism part rather quickly in Germany. I also find it funny that they have stricter abortion laws across Europe than most places in America (Texas, Alabama). Good lord, anti American hippies can be so damn ignorant.

All fun problems the staff never thinks about. Separately there is an article going around about C-130Js experimenting with single pilot. What problem are we trying to solve? Or is this another potential lucrative deal for a bloated defense contractor at the expense of safety and readiness?

Overwater cruise? Sure, I’ll take the Cyborg over some of the Chatty Cathy or cocky copilots…99% of the other mission sets? Nah, dumb idea. Take this to Fedex.

Good luck

No way it gets approved. This ain’t Nam

Might be a stretch, but I’m wondering if this might be a second hand effect of the George Floyd riots, defund the police etc. Could be..it’s tough to find quality recruits, who would want to be a cop in the current environment? It could be that Uvalde is mostly a minority town and the cops are more afraid of an incident landing them on national news (no excuse not to go defend children). This is what happens when we have built a generation of cowards and sissies. God help us if we ever actually go to war, and not the BS kind we had in Afghanistan.

And it was an “officer”, likely the LRS/CC that condoned this. Shoes get away with this crap because fellow officers don’t have a backbone to put the mission first and not engage in dog and pony shows…much like all the deployed Wing Kings that let their Chiefs and Diamonds run wild.

No it doesn’t, people get upset when you point out the obvious that the handlers behind the scenes are really running the country. As for the train wreck and lack of competence, it seems lately that more on the left are more concerned with optics (intersectionality, social justice and identity politics) than anything…so much so that competence and meritocracy be damned. How do CNN, MSNBC etc portray these two? Do they hide the gaffes and missteps (yes). That’s all that matters.

Careful for what you wish for

Well at least that vermin is dead. New York is the worst.

I’ll wager the other direction, the new variant will be hyped up by the dems to distract us from this current embarrassment. Mandates will be reinstated, providing the dems a means to say “look guys we are protecting you against scary Covid, vote for us.” It also provides a scarecrow with regards to those on the right for the left to attack just prior to the election. Yeah, many on the left actually do love the restrictions. It’s the left’s equiv of the George Bush era patriot act to the then neo cons.

This is what I was alluding to. The short attention span’s interest of the American public is fading away with regards to Ukraine…in need for another distraction prior to the election (not that Ukraine was intentional, just happenstance).

What’s going on this fall?..

They will go very far under the current administration and it’s obsession with affirmative action. Suck at your job? Just pull the race, LGTBQAZ+$, gender etc card and all is well. I’ve seen it all the time unfortunately.

This concept has got me thinking lately, what is the end game? Can they ever be happy or content? Does the woke movement have an end state or is it a cultural phenomenon with no end? For instance, our Chief of Staff is Black, two major combatant commanders are about to be led by African Americans, not to mention our SECDEF; yet I still constantly hear about African Americans being under represented at higher levels of government because..racism. Do these folks literally need some crusade to fight, Trump, Racism, homophobia…and without it they are incomplete?

Affirmative action at its finest: Gina Ortiz.

In other news, Biden embarrassed himself on the international stage, can’t decipher the difference between Switzerland and Sweden, and uses an international forum for defense to talk about his opinion on Roe v Wade, to an audience that generally has stricter abortion bans than America.

As long as AOC doesn’t smile, or talk for that matter..can’t be that unpleasant.

It’s always my fellow “Christians” that go ape shit on TDYs, to include female officers break dancing on dudes in clubs.

Gotten much worse, just look at Chief Bass. Still till this day, I don’t really understand what Chiefs do besides admin queep the commander doesn’t want to do. It’s especially worse on a staff. I know this thread is about shoe clerks but unfortunately many of the Chiefs I’ve met are perpetrators of that mentality.

Pure democracy and popularity is irrelevant here. The Supreme Court is not a representative body - their job is to interpret the law vis a vis the constitution. There is no constitutional mandate for abortion, therefore 10th amendment applies and this goes back to the states. That is ALL that happened here but “the sky isn’t falling” doesn’t bode well for the mainstream media and the left who consumes the narrative…they must always be outraged by something, especially now that the lack of Trump has left a void in their lives, not to mention convenient distraction from the current administration. Now will some states attempt to take more strict measures? Possibly, but like you said the popularity simply isn’t there to go pure fundamental when it comes to abortion.

Belongs in the WTF thread, but hey man at least no more mean tweets right!?

How about this? I would say the points below are pretty mainstream for most of my conservative friends, I don’t speak for the extreme: -People don’t chose to be gay -Homosexuals are human beings and should be treated as such -Homosexuals should receive the same rights in the eyes of the government as heterosexuals, to include the benefits of a Civil Union…to that point I don’t think government should be in the business of marriage, period. -Churches should never be forced to marry homosexuals. To your earlier point on Catholics, gays would be welcome in any Catholic Church, it’s only their lifestyle that wouldn’t be approved or validated - I’ll bet you any money on that. -Homosexuals are welcome in the military, I couldn’t care less who you bang. Bring your same sex spouse to work events, you should not be treated any different because of your sexual preferences. -Have your pride parades off base, don’t care, it does not belong in the military and Nellis AFB should not be having drag shows or drag queen reading hours to kids. In fact, just leave kids out of this discussion until they are old enough. All they need to know is treat everyone with respect. -Not everyone is going to approve of your lifestyle, that does not give you the right to bully, intimidate or cancel. The gays who are still bullying the Christian bakers are the worst of people. -There are two genders, you cannot change genders. That’s basic science. Transgenders are still people and should be treated as such, those with gender dysphoria should seek mental help, and with no negative stigma just like any other disease. -No, the military shouldn’t have to pay for gender hormone treatment or transition surgery. I as a commander have better things to do than teach transgender awareness training. -BL, whether you are gay or straight, don’t be an asshole, and we can get a long just fine.

His teacher won’t call him by his preferred pronoun of “Zee”.