Everyone should be jealous of this Air Force pilot skateboarding down the flight line...

[M2]

"Perhaps the best Air Force recruiting commercial in history was posted to social media on Monday, but the Air Force recruiting service had nothing to do with its creation. 

The 14-second long video shows a pair of pilots making their way down the flight line at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, flight-suited up and carrying their helmet bags. The thing is, one of them is not walking: he’s rolling on a skateboard while holding what looks to be a cell phone to his ear..."

https://taskandpurpose.com/mandatory-fun/air-force-pilot-skateboard-flightline/
 

[SocialD]

Probably some NCO getting evidence of the rules being broken on the flight line!   🤣

[Swizzle]

Wonder if trying to get das boot from Mother Blue!? ...like Corporal Klinger, break-the-rules MASH style.

 

*disclaimer: probably just having fun stirring the pot, because heard pilots are excessively abundant lately (/S)

[kaputt]

That’s some Gen Z shit right there. 
 

Signed,

Millennial 

[Springer]

18 minutes ago, kaputt said:

That’s some Gen Z shit right there.  

Don't be too hard on Gen Z, they may save this country:

 

‘Right’ thinking Gen Z will save America: Devine (nypost.com)

 

Remember when Jane Fonda, the octogenarian actress, triumphantly declared last year that ­COVID-19 is “God’s gift to the left,” because it would help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump and transform America into a socialist paradise? 

Well, be careful what you wish for, lefties.

There are generational consequences for the repressive lockdowns, the vaccine and mask mandates, the disruption of school and college and the savage curtailing of the social lives of young people for a virus that basically doesn’t affect them. 

When old people in power scold children and young people for “selfishness” if they don’t get triple-vaxxed, or if they let their mask slip below their nose occasionally, or try to have some fun in the sun, it’s obvious who actually is being selfish.

It’s not the generation that has pretty uncomplainingly borne the brunt of the pandemic emergency measures in order to keep older and obese people safe.

Generation Z, aged 9 to 25, have a minuscule risk of death or hospitalization from COVID-19 but they have missed out on school and sports, and lost jobs and opportunities. At an age when socializing with their peers is crucial, they have suffered the isolation of curfews and closures that have taken a savage toll on their mental health. 

“We have been locked down for the best years of our life, and high school and college has been ­ruined,” says 16-year-old Tim Korshunov.

Now they are rebelling against the liberal establishment that ­betrayed them. 

In what will be a great shock to the Boomers, Gen Z’ers are becoming conservative — or at least rejecting the woke cultural soup into which they were born. 

You can see the trends on their preferred social-media platform, TikTok. It was TikTokers who helped make the anti-establishment, anti-Biden “Let’s Go Brandon” chant at college games go ­viral. 

“It’s the slogan of our generation,” says Korshunov. “Let’s Go Brandon” has become a rallying cry for young conservatives calling out President Joe Biden’s socialist state. Getty Images

The first generation not to know life before cellphones, last year they became the largest generation on Earth. And by 2024, Gen Z and millennials will be the largest voting bloc.

But unlike millennials, many of whom have gullibly accepted the leftist indoctrination of their elders, Gen Z is skeptical and less trusting of authority. They verify reality with their own research, and they trust their peers on social media more than established sources of information.

The top influencers on TikTok — youngsters who produce 10-to-15 second videos — are refreshingly scathing about the dishonest meta-narratives pumped out by establishment media, whether it is the lionizing of Marxist organization BLM or the false branding of 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse as a white supremacist.

Tapping into the TikTok-influencer market is the future for the right, and so far, so good. 

The largest conservative network for young people on the platform is “Today is America,” which caters to 55 million users under the age of 33, with a network of 260 young “content creators” from all over the US, who make short videos on their phones with pro-America, pro-conservative, pro-capitalist themes, often delivered with wry humor. 

“We don’t care if you’re libertarian or conservative . . . or all forms of the ideological spectrum . . . as long as we are on the right side and we’re all promoting America,” says TIA co-founder Cam Rafizadeh, a 25-year-old entrepreneur.

One of TIA’s TikTok videos, titled “Liberals after watching the mainstream media and blindly believing it,” features a CNBC freeze frame claiming double masking has “Efficiency: 75%” and “Triple Mask. Efficiency: 90%.” A young man stands in front of the screen and silently puts on multiple masks over his face and eyes.

Another video begins with a young woman sipping a cup of coffee when the words “Since when did girls star preferring . . .” flashes onto the screen over images of boys in drag. The words “. . . to this” then appear, over images of Leo DiCaprio, Prince William, Tom Brady and assorted masculine types.

Popular Manhattan influencer “thedebralea” promotes traditional family values. “Motherhood is the biggest blessing in life,” she says in one of her posts.

Cam and younger brother Liam, 21, got into the ideas business by accident.

The North Carolinians found themselves with time on their hands in the pandemic and launched an online store to sell Trump gear and patriotic merchandise. They used social-media influencers to market their T-shirts but, says Cam, “these people were brutally attacked, harassed and threatened.” 

One of their young TikTokers was sent a bloody box of animal guts to his family home. Others were doxxed, their families threatened, and they were bullied at school, including from teachers who didn’t approve of their conservative output.

A lot of their creators decided to quit TikTok.

“My brother and I thought it’s terrifying this is going on in our country,” says Cam.

So they quit their jobs and turned from a merchandising company into a nonprofit pro-America community of Gen Z influencers, protecting them, helping them expand their brands and providing them with cameras to make more professional videos for YouTube or Rumble. 

“I felt a serious calling,” says Cam. “I felt this is it. If we don’t, we will lose our country.” 

The brothers recruited smart Gen Zers into the organization. Korshunov, for instance, has quit school and become TIA’s head of development.

Their director of strategy, 25-year-old Ben Geller, was just elected a legislator in Dutchess County District 4.

He points to the untapped electoral power of Gen Z, of whom the 70 percent who were eligible to vote last year stayed home. Geller says a lot of younger conservatives are “cautious or apprehensive about being judged or losing their jobs. They don’t talk on social media for fear of retribution from their employer or being lashed at by family members so they stayed home or stayed silent because of fear something would happen.”

That’s where TIA comes in, helping make conservatism cool.

Of course, their creators come in for the usual social-media censorship. Every day, someone is deleted or deplatformed. As many as three quarters are on their third or fourth accounts, but TikTok’s algorithms allow them to regain their audience within a week or two, says Cam.

And he says the more suppression they face, the more Gen Z seeks out forbidden ideas. 

“I always tell people Gen Z will save America.” 

It will be up the Gen Z to rebuild the institutions and replenish the moral capital squandered by their forbears.

Eat your heart out, Hanoi Jane!

Edited December 17, 2021 by Springer

[Lawman]

Some of us know a now retired LtCol who was at one time on a no kidding Air Force recruiter skateboarding group in his young enlisted days…


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[Danger41]

Can confirm there’s a Viper pilot at a Reserve unit that rides one of those hoverboards to the jets and around the squadron. Even better because it’s got the light up wheels so you’d see him coming down the dark hallways like a traveling circus.

[nunya]

50 minutes ago, Danger41 said:

Even better because it’s got the light up wheels so you’d see him coming down the dark hallways like a traveling circus.

Beats a reflective belt!

[M2]

18 hours ago, Springer said:

Don't be too hard on Gen Z, they may save this country:

Do you want me to move this to the WTF thread?!? 

[M2]

Of course, if this shit is allowed, why not a skateboard?!?

[Springer]

4 hours ago, M2 said:

Do you want me to move this to the WTF thread?!? 

Do what you want with it.  I don't necessarily agree with the article.  Found it interesting that I had just read it before Kaputt posted something about Gen Z.

Edited December 18, 2021 by Springer

[M2]

5 hours ago, Springer said:

Do what you want with it.  I don't necessarily agree with the article.  Found it interesting that I had just read it before Kaputt posted something about Gen Z.

Bless your heart...

[contraildash]

Honestly I was waiting for him to hit one of the expansion gaps in the concrete....

 

...so tell me again how you went DNIF?

[Smokin]

I hope that article is right.  What worries me is that our education system is so dysfunctional that the majority of Gen Z people are becoming habituated to brainless compliance rather than seeing the absurdity for what it is.  The brainless compliance has somehow melded with what should be an opposite concept of individual relativism to an insane degree (they as an individual pronoun is now ok?) is a remarkably strange combination that could very well end our country as we know it.

[pawnman]

50 minutes ago, Smokin said:

I hope that article is right.  What worries me is that our education system is so dysfunctional that the majority of Gen Z people are becoming habituated to brainless compliance rather than seeing the absurdity for what it is.  The brainless compliance has somehow melded with what should be an opposite concept of individual relativism to an insane degree (they as an individual pronoun is now ok?) is a remarkably strange combination that could very well end our country as we know it.

My kid in Gen Z. I assure you, they are not fans of mindless obedience. 

Also, my daughter is way more conservative than most of her teachers. 

[FourFans]

23 hours ago, Smokin said:

...a remarkably strange combination that could very well end our country as we know it.

Stop it.  You know how many times that's been said in this country?  From Loyalists to Hippies to Socialists...someone different has posed a mortal threat to our country...yet here we are.  I'm not denying the existence of threats, they are quite real.  However melodrama and 'the sky is falling' never once countered one of these threats correctly.  Rather, a levelheaded, rational and logically compassionate understanding of facts that then lead to appropriate action (incremental changes) have always helped advance our country. 

The only people I give no quarter to are those who want immediate action, right now, to destroy the extreme threat to our existence!  When you fight fire with fire, all you get is ash.  

We all need to calm down, yell less, and listen better.  Declaring the end times at the top of our lunges does not help.

For reference, imagine a SAC warrior's response to seeing golf carts carrying lazy crews to their airplanes, instead of those crew members running at top speed to practice getting off the ground before the Bears get here.  Same idea.  Just because it's different doesn't mean it's wrong... I'm looking at you M2!

[M2]

3 hours ago, FourFans130 said:

Just because it's different doesn't mean it's wrong... I'm looking at you M2!

And just because it's different doesn't make it right, a fact many "openminded" people fail to accept!

[Smokin]

Just because our country has survived before doesn't mean that we are destined to survive this time.  Just take a look at how many other developed countries have changed governments multiple times since 1789.  I'm not saying that we are going to lose our country in the next couple years, but if we are not careful, we just might.

[M2]

Yeah, this is progress towards a more effective fighting force! 🙄
 

Quote

 

Air Force Gives Permission for Use of Gender Pronouns in Email Signatures

 

Citing the need for clear and effective communication, the Air Force has authorized the optional use of gender pronouns he/him, she/her and they/them in electronic signature blocks for official email correspondence.

The mandatory update will be included in the Air Force handbook, The Tongue and Quill, the service's leading reference on writing and speaking, said an Air Force memorandum issued earlier this month.

"An inclusive force is a mission-ready force, and I'm thankful to the LGBTQ Initiatives Team for helping us realize this opportunity to be a more inclusive force," Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones said in a statement Monday...

 

 

[pawnman]

12 minutes ago, M2 said:

Yeah, this is progress towards a more effective fighting force! 🙄
 

 

"Gives permission"... has ANYONE ever been coached up on an email signature not being the Tongue & Quill standard? 

Pretty sure people could have just put pronouns in their signature and no one would have batted an eye. 

[M2]

From a year ago...

Electric scooters to be distributed at Edwards Air Force Base on Friday

$1 to unlock, and 15¢ per minute to ride.

I guess suggesting riding a bicycle instead is just being too much of a dinosaur again!  

 

 

 

[RASH]

"Gives permission"... has ANYONE ever been coached up on an email signature not being the Tongue & Quill standard? 
Pretty sure people could have just put pronouns in their signature and no one would have batted an eye. 

I retired 12 years ago. To answer your question, yes, I was “coached up” on multiple occasions about my signature block not being IAW…



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[SocialD]

12 hours ago, pawnman said:

"Gives permission"... has ANYONE ever been coached up on an email signature not being the Tongue & Quill standard? 

Pretty sure people could have just put pronouns in their signature and no one would have batted an eye. 

 

I was once told I should consider using a signature block as opposed to simply putting my callsign at the bottom of emails.   So I considered it for a bit...

Sociald

[ClearedHot]

[slc]

9 hours ago, RASH said:

I retired 12 years ago. To answer your question, yes, I was “coached up” on multiple occasions about my signature block not being IAW…



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Honest question, what is the proper format for a signature block?  Been in for 29 yrs (and counting) and never bothered to "care"!!