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I'm not sure where the hate comes from, but this is patently false.

Kimber put together a pretty good deal on custom 1911s for the squadron. They did a really nice job. I need to pick up a couple decent .45 mags for it now.

I see where you're at with the story arc and the dark scenes. I really like how they capture all of the open, day scenes, but the darkness didn't bother me- it seems to me with this show evil happens in the dark and good in the light- and when evil happen in the light and good in the dark you...

I just finished Outer Range on Amazon Prime. It's pretty good. Has a cool neo-western vibe that goes sci-fi, but not like Westworld. The cast is also pretty legit and does a really good job, and the scenery and cinematography is great.

My take on it- if you get/like Mike Myers comedy you'll enjoy it, if not, then you won't. I think it's a good show.

Just for your planning purposes, 2 years out is a good time to start the rush/meet and greet process of getting to the ANG. Hopefully you'll have a CONUS sunset tour, because it's going to be really tough (and expensive) to join an ANG unit from Japan. Also- don't take the severance money if...

LOS ops are still limited and present a force protection problem. Bandwidth from the boat is also limited and pretty non standard across the fleet of ships- the VMU dets on the LPDs learned that no two boats are the same. MCE from CONUS will still need to happen, and it all depends on whether...

My dad always says that the A-37 was his favorite airplane to fly- "big" little motors that could exceed VNE in straight in level flight- especially on a cold, clear, winter day out of Sibercuse- on a little airplane that could do just about anything you'd think of, and it'd take just about...

You need to come up with a plan to keep that weight off for 20+ years once you meet your goal. The USMC has no problem separating fat bodies. Folks who lost the weight to go to bootcamp/OCS seemed to always gain it back within a couple of years. Don't be that guy.

Do you have the money and desire to go back to school to get another degree? Or are you going to go into debt to do something that you don't really want to do but think it *might* help you get yourself a pilot slot? If you really want to be a military pilot, apply everywhere- Navy, USMC...

Did they keep the Marine bar around on the top floor?

So you're not trying to spread a rumor... but you're spreading a rumor. If only there were some officers in your chain of command that could not only answer this question that you have, but are paid to do so. Unless, of course, that you don't trust them. In that case, I'd totally recommend not...

I'm not sure about the reserves, but there is a waiver for everything in the Guard. Though that waiver requires specific circumstances. For instance, if you are going to take command of a squadron or group and stay a drilling status guardsman, or work in a staff job as an O-6 on an active duty...

My civilian company has a partnership on a couple of projects with the human interaction with automation lab at Duke- they (the folks at Duke, not my company) insist on calling airplanes either Occupied or Unoccupied in order to remove gendered pronouns ?.

Roger. So a Cobra guy knows more about Reapering than a Reaper guy because the Cobra guy did a joint tour in an AOR that had Reapers flying in it. I'll take things that are wrong with Marine Aviation for 2000, Alex.

I know the environment, and I know the USMC doesn't have the money, or the manpower, to get there- not with this airplane. 24/7 maritime surveillance of the littoral environment around all of the little island chains in direct support of, or as tasked by, a MEF Commander is a pipe dream. What...

Also a fact. Everything the USMC says they want to do with Reapers is just a bad idea. The stuff the airplane is really good at doesn't really overlap with the 6 functions of Marine Aviation. The Marine Corps does not need the FBI surveillance van in the sky that is the Reaper.

The USMC bought some Reapers and a couple of GCS's, but they didn't buy the ability to fly anywhere, or expand beyond, the Air Force isn't flying them right now. I seriously doubt they have the money to expand into their own AOR. The Reaper is more than a hellfire truck, and I think the USMC...

Are you trying to Don King a fight here? Because if you keep poking at this you're going to cause a fight. New guy tip - more reading, less typing. You'll find the answers you're looking for in the thousands of past pages of posts. What was true 10 years ago is true today. If you really...

The part that I have issue with is how the USMC decides to fulfill these requirements. Leadership really drills down on some parts, and then throws fairy dust at so many others. Fairy dust ain't a damn COA, and our friends are going to be hung out to dry because a General was too full of green...

A beach in NW Florida is a beach in SE Texas - either way, you just won the lottery. You'll go where you're sent when the time comes- you have no choice in the matter, so don't stress about it. You'll have things you both love and hate at either place the Navy/USMC sends you. But enjoy it...

There are admin things the USMC gets right though. The fact that every O-5 Commander has all six warfighting functions at his level is something I really miss. Yes, we needed more pilots/officers to do the jobs, but the first place to ensure everyone is going same day/same way and reading out of...

It kind of depends on what is wrong, and what you and your command want to do with your career. Had a Prowler buddy get diabetes, he waited 18 months at the MAG before his MEDSEP. Know a couple other guys who waited out their commitment in the MAG and got out (one was the Adj for like.. ever-...

I suppose that's the real question. Right now, it appears that Marine TACAIR community, wants to be doing all of the things, against all of the threats and enemies, across the entire spectrum, on every day of the war, with pretty much the same airplane. But with only a handful of squadrons and...

Interesting, and yeah, I agree with you. The room or need for anything else if they throw 2x VMFAs isn't there- that's just a plus up on the aviation capability of the ESG when they're going someplace that they don't need all of the other stuff. But 1xVMFA with all of the other people...

A full up squadron on top of everyone else on the boat? More dudes, less space, and hot-racking Marines, what could go wrong?! I wonder what the deck cycle is going to look like when all of those airplanes have to land to get gas. We haven't heard much about the Plopter tanker idea in a few...

Counter points- 1. Time away from the fleet means family time. It means normal time. It means real human being time. It means time that your wife gets her husband back. The fleet can wait, do yourself a favor a catch your breath before you jump into a world that will do nothing but grind you for...

And don't the 4 years count as 4 years of AD time, not just 4 good reserve years?

I think that your (awful) experience hasn't shared by every other woman in the service. I do believe that it is recognized, and that it is as endemic in the military as racism is. To think otherwise is foolish- the military is only a subset of our homogenous society. Hell, we even had a couple...

Kuwait survived. Ukraine will too. Stay safe and fight the good fight where/when you can. (I understand how easy this is for us to say and hard it is for you to do).

That's the teacher's fault as much as the squadron's schedule and training plan is the mid level Lt instructor's fault. Teachers execute policy, they don't write it. Your wife should be upset at the administrators, and take that up with the school board, not the teacher at the parent-teacher...

Yep. Just add "loud" to that mix, and that's Spool.

Drop it dude. If you get sent to UAVs you get sent to UAVs. Worry more about what's next in front of you. You've got a more likely chance of failing out of primary and becoming a SWO. UAV > SWO any day and twice on Sunday.

I know Spool well enough- worked with him a fair amount in the VMUs. Personal opinions aside he's a really smart guy, did a stint at MAWTS as an Instuctor back when UAS was still part of C3 and not TACAIR. He was also the VMU-1 CO. He writes a lot, and has an opinion on just about everything...

You must be great at parties....

I'm pretty sure I'm an outlier symptom-wise for breakthrough cases for the Moderna. The second shot wasn't fun, but covid for me was much worse. But there wasn't a point at which I was afraid for my life.

Oh, that wasn't a reaction to the Vax- for that I had body aches for like two days. The post was describing me getting Covid just before Thanksgiving after being vaxed. Can't edit it now, but I can see how I wasn't very specific.

Yeah. It kicked my ass- I got both doses of the Moderna- 2nd one back in March. I was miserable for 4 days- high fever (103.9 was the high mark), night sweats in which I was drenched and had to towel off, chills, body aches, lost of taste and smell, headache and severe congestion so bad it made...

I expected nothing less from this group. Yet another, "wow, I don't fit in with these guys" moment. AWs has become IWAGR. I'm out.

Yet non white voters don't vote republican... so is it the chicken or the egg? And why exclude those voters rather than adopt policies to gain their support? F it, let's go here- Why does the KKK and other white supremacy groups adopt the republican party and not the democrat?

Pay, rank, promotions, medical benefits, dental benefits, housing and BAH, the commissary, the exchange, BAS, the hiring process, the firing process, the retirement benefits, the retirement pension, the disability benefits, Exceptional Family Member Program, Montgomery GI benefits, Post 9/11 GI...

Yet it's still happening, by the right, to purposefully diminish the value of a non-white vote so they can stay in power. But hey, the right supports civil* rights. (*civil meaning the right to oppress other people so they stay in power.) And don't start with the "But the Dems do it too"...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voting-laws-roundup-may-2021

Recent gerrymandering and voting laws don't agree with this statement.

It's not the color of your skin, it's the experiences you've had because of the color of your skin.

Yeah it was of topic. I completely disagree with your statement as a rose colored glasses view of the real world. Similar lines are drawn when it comes to viewing race. But again, we're a bunch of middle class white guys, military officers at that, arguing about whether racism is still an...

I suppose the next question is why? Why do the policies that help the disadvantaged come down as hand-outs? Why do some many people want others to suffer because they had to suffer? How do you promote the general welfare while still having policies that benefits the Haves at the expense of the...

What's your hill to die on here? That people are asking the question of - "why is it that racial inequality endures and persists, even decades after laws have been passed that have made racism and racist policies illegal?'” Seems like a good question to ask. Then we get some smart people who...

The Quran was on the TBS reading list when I was there in 2009. There were a few others of similar subject matter that (then) Col Smith recommended us to read. Also, there is a lot of hate around here for books when the going guidance for PME is "It's only a lot of reading if you do it." We...