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We are undergoing a Soviet-style ideological purge of the military.
Those left will have no problem shooting you.
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Posted on 05/05/2015 9:52:00 AM PDT by QT3.14
I guess you can’t even say SNAFU anymore?
No doubt...I know, personally, a lot of folks not this way at all...However, many times their hands are tied. I am guessing its why you share the frustration with me? This is not a one person thing I ascribe it to though I did say McPeaks name....I should more appropriately said the McPeak era. From even the words of our regulations today we get this kind of mealy-mouthed sense of what command is and is not anymore. Navy has one thing over us as aviators...The aircraft commander is fully in charge...The USAF, through its changes over the years, has gone far more into a mode of telling you what you can do at the same time what you can’t do. So refined is this at times that it limits the response options for folks in some instances. In other words, we have trended towards a paralysis on many things instead of an effectual force that can adapt to any given situation. Oh, were good as an Air Force, but at ridiculous cost and effort.
It does not have to be this way. This General did not have to lose his career over such an idiotic thing. Yet, I have seen him and others over this and less, lose a career of distinguished service while others seemingly get a pass.
In some of the client offices where I work meetings are like a gathering of the UN. Forget trying to illustrate a point with a colloquialism or idiom or American anecdote... most of the staff don’t get them.
A boy at one of the companies where I work frequently keeps a book of my sayings he finds them so unique. Where I grew up all conversation was peppered with quaint but mostly clever sayings that just summed things up so well.
Or FUBAR
Bummer. Now... if he had said “10,000 crackas!” then he would have gotten a promotion.
Who cares what any of the "offended" groups think (when they think at all).
On the other hand, just because he was a general doesn't mean he was competent or that he wasn't part of the 99% who are political appointees/hacks rather than real leaders. Things in the AF were going downhill before the horror years of Merrill "Manly Man" McPeak.
“what protected class did he piss off?”
Casino Indians. Not call-center Indians.
LMAO!!
From my experience, AI's (American Indians) have a great sense of humor and would not be offended but this s**t; why should anyone else be offended for us?
THAT was a slur? Where I used to live (Farmington NM) they were always drunker than skunks!
Dad used to take us down to a local bar and park across the street just so we could watch the Navajos get arrested.
When I last lived there, they were still drunker than hooter’s cat! One came to work so drunk he could not keep a welding arc going on his work! He got fired a few minutes later.
Last time I was there, nothing had changed. Man, the things I’ve seen!
LOL. I thought of this when I posted this thread. Using that term would incite PETA into lodging a complaint with the Air Force.
More likely, it’s an obamic excuse to assign some other kind of general.
From what I can tell from the article, the complaint wasn’t lodged by a Native American, but probably by some PC mucky-muck who read it in some blog about the disciplinary hearing of another airman. So, this officer wasn’t fired because he insulted an Indian; he was fired because he purportedly said something that was perceived that MIGHT be offensive to Indians.
Agreed re all - and McPeak is a particular “dis-favorite” of mine as well, as he was 12 AF/CC when I was in Panama and made life miserable for everybody around him. That, and the “hey, let’s make everybody look like airline pilots!” bravo sierra he institute (reversed by Fogelman as soon as he sat down in the chair, thank God). I will say that I saw cowardice in decision-making at the Pentagon during my 3 years as a reservist in DC that just turned my stomach.
I kind of like ‘drunker than 10,000 Boehners.’
We are undergoing a Soviet-style ideological purge of the military.
Those left will have no problem shooting you.
.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
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Active Duty ping.
Jade Helm 15. Jade is blue. Helm is German for helmet. Blue Helmet? UN blue helmets?
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