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That is rookie shit…

The 40% pension after 20 years (in my case) was a drawing card when I joined at 17 (YMMV). More important was the ability to do cool and adventurous stuff. An employer can get away with a lot in terms of poor pay and benefits if the job is fun and interesting. Just saying….

Not a Tamara Lich fan, but we cannot find Crown Prosecutors willing to apply to judges to keep violent criminals with literally hundreds of arrests in a year in jail while awaiting trial…

Ummm….

Every fleet has a dog/hangar queen that should be taken out on the ramp and burned…

That is a freaking amazing article.

But safe handling was not you proposed. You proposed a marksmanship test. What obtaining a certain grouping has to do with safe handling (especially for someone new getting into the sport who may have never owned or used a firearm previously is beyond me. People here are being polite to you. It...

Brad is right. You are the one conflating marksmanship and skill with firearms with firearms safety. Hitting a target should not be a governmental concern. A Government’s only concern should be that the right firearms are in the right people’s hands and that they are stored safely when not in...

On the surface, it makes sense to me that we would base our “DEWline refresh” on some form of SPY-7. The economies of scale in spares and training make sense.

Hartlen Point…

I recommend that you bring this to the attention of the CoC. If hetro males are being blanket excluded from these types of events and it is not just a “one off”, this needs to be fixed. If your CoC is unable/unwilling to deal with this, I do know that CPCC has a plus account on the DWAN.

I stopped him before it got biblical… Maybe my one good deed!

No reflection on any of the good PAOs I have worked with in the past, but this guy was oblivious to how bad a situation was and the Padre started to get “Jesus flipping tables in the temple” angry…

I sprained both ankles on my second jump there. Since I was in no mood to re-do J stage, I tied my combat boots as tight as I could and hobbled off the DZ. Luckily, we got stop dropped for a blizzard the next day which gave me time rest up and it considerably softened the DZ after that…

He was the best Padre I have ever seen. Heroic, funny, compassionate, smart as a whip. I did have to stop him one day from offering physical violence to a particularly clueless PAO, but, to be fair, he was severely provoked and somehow his anger just endeared him more to me.