New TRACOM/FRS IP training video

[707guy]

Nice to see a little fire in the AW belly...

 

[Gatordev]

Then you're one of us...

<---Gen X...The last generation that didn't really give a crap and had no motivation.

On a semi-serious note, I'd argue that non-prior, senior, first-tour JOs are only just barely Millennials. It is amusing, though, to see certain (and certainly not all) Millennials going through the pipeline.

 

[Flash]

.....It is amusing, though, to see certain (and certainly not all) Millennials going through the pipeline.

Just curious, why? Are all those alarmist news stories about a bunch of narcissistic, entitled and spoiled kids actually true?

Damn kids nowadays......Get the hell OFF MY LAWN!!!

 

[Steve Wilkins]

Rabble, rabble. Hey, your generation raised us, just saying...

Negative, shipmate.

 

[Renegade One]

Who really thinks one generation is better or worse than another? Even the so-called 'Greatest Generation' had a great many flaws and issues.

Truth. We have no argument here.

I didn't realize spelling bees were an indicator of success in life, I thought it was more an indicator of who was going to get stuffed into a locker at school.

Here'e where you and I disagree. Some families/cultures/immigrant streams/ethnic groups [fill in your favorite descriptor] who find themselves in America for whatever reason, so HIGHLY VALUE education that their children truly prepare themselves for successful and productive adult lives. Maybe it's a generational thing…I dunno…

Oops…gotta go…"Top Ten Sweet Sixteen "Biggest Bling" Birthday Parties" is just starting…

 

[Flash]

......Here'e where you and I disagree. Some families /cultures/immigrant streams/ethnic groups [fill in your favorite descriptor] who find themselves in America for whatever reason, so HIGHLY VALUE education that their children truly prepare themselves for successful and productive adult lives. Maybe it's a generational thing…I dunno…

After a generation or two the advantages and disadvantages that immigrants have are often diminished to the point to where they can't be distingushed from non-immigrant families when it comes to income, educational attainment and other 'indicatiors' of success. I like to think it is part of what makes this country great.

 

[ChunksJR]

Bejesus...everyone needs to STFU already and just enjoy the comedy. I thought that was funny as $hit, especially after the "how to talk to the generations you work with" video they made us watch at Department Head school...Yep, now you can enjoy too:

 

[jtdees]

I heard a long time ago a rule of thumb, that this stuff comes in four-generation cycles.

First you get the ones who start from nothing and pull themselves up by their bootstraps to prosperity. Their kids grow up with the rising tide of prosperity, but still get to see some of the hard work that goes into it, albeit without some of the hardship. Their kids grow up with the prosperity in place, never having seen much of the hard work that went into it, and tend to start wasting it. Their kids grow up with wasting prosperity, and unwittingly make the whole house come crashing down until everyone is left with nothing. Then it starts all over again.

I think it's sorta described in the Old Testament, and there are a lot of quotes by guys like Churchill, Disraeli, Whitman, etc., that noticed the trend from the end of the last cycle. We can trace it: Depression/WWII -> Baby Boom -> Gen X -> Gen Y/Millenial/whatdowecallthis?

I guess the good news is that my kids will be part of the new Greatest Generation...?

 

[statesman]

Well they say talent skips a generation.... so your kids should be sharp as tacks.

 

[Spekkio]

Truth. We have no argument here.

Here'e where you and I disagree. Some families/cultures/immigrant streams/ethnic groups [fill in your favorite descriptor] who find themselves in America for whatever reason, so HIGHLY VALUE education that their children truly prepare themselves for successful and productive adult lives. Maybe it's a generational thing…I dunno…

Oops…gotta go…"Top Ten Sweet Sixteen "Biggest Bling" Birthday Parties" is just starting…

You have an interesting stereotype for immigrants. In my small sample size, I saw the same distribution of hard working, intelligent 1st generation Americans as anyone else. Most 1st generation Chinese hung out with gangs in Flushing on the weekends and got the same Cs to skate by as most white kids. You think being beaten with hangars for mundane stuff children do to the point where you have scars is good to a child's psychogical health? Most first gen Indians were also wannabe gangbangers with the few exceptions, and one I knew (who was an honors student due to a natural ability to memorize stuff) ended up getting shot in the head because he and his 20 cousins went looking for trouble in Philly and found it.

Immigrants do work hard to "make it" and have a better calibration on how good we have it in America, but they aren't any better at raising their kids than your American born generation.

 

[squeeze]

You have an interesting stereotype for immigrants. In my small sample size, I saw the same distribution of hard working, intelligent 1st generation Americans as anyone else. Most 1st generation Chinese hung out with gangs in Flushing on the weekends and got the same Cs to skate by as most white kids. You think being beaten with hangars for mundane stuff children do to the point where you have scars is good to a child's psychogical health? Most first gen Indians were also wannabe gangbangers with the few exceptions, and one I knew (who was an honors student due to a natural ability to memorize stuff) ended up getting shot in the head because he and his 20 cousins went looking for trouble in Philly and found it.

Immigrants do work hard to "make it" and have a better calibration on how good we have it in America, but they aren't any better at raising their kids than your American born generation.

I think if we reference the case of Duke v Duke (c. 1983), you'll plainly see nurture trumps nature. Newsflash: all cultures have their upstanding citizens as well as their assholes.

 

[Jim123]

I think ... you'll plainly see nurture trumps nature.

 

[e6bflyer]

Dang, beat me to it!

 

[CommodoreMid]

<---Gen X...The last generation that didn't really give a crap and had no motivation.

On a semi-serious note, I'd argue that non-prior, senior, first-tour JOs are only just barely Millennials. It is amusing, though, to see certain (and certainly not all) Millennials going through the pipeline.

What are we defining as the cutoff for "millenials" then? I'm only 26 and a couple months out from finishing my JO tour and always figured I'm in that group. The COTAC on my crew (an ENS) was born in 1990 which is weird, but overall I'm not that old.

 

[jtdees]

I'm 27 and still at the RAG...I think there's a difference between "remember the 90's" and "wistful/nostalgic for the 90's."