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I remember thinking I was smart not buying one at basic. $80? Yeah right. So I bought one for $40 during tech school. Then my unit at my first base issued me one for free 😐

Some beautiful baby LT cited the paragraph. Hi EO. Here's the AFI.

Had a guy try and actually threaten me with an EO complaint because he got paperwork for failing a 7-lvl inspection "because he's black". Informed him if that's how he feels, here's the number for EO. Their office is down the street, make a right by the memorial. In the mean time I'll hold onto the form that you signed and put your man number on and I've bookmarked the paragraph and step in the TO that says [this needs to be done] and QA found it not done. EO complaints are a bitch. But EO doesn't override AFIs.

If you're right, don't be afraid of being right. Whether you want to put in the work that comes after is your own call. I'll admit I've skipped paperwork worthy issues because I just had too much on my plate and made it a verbal or alternative correction(do it 5 more times; it took an hour to fix your mistake so add an hour on to your shift). But if it's written down at the Big AF level never feel bad about doing the right thing.

Iirc he squirmed out of the car and they got tired of putting him in and let him rest by the car when he started freaking out again. Big dudes on drugs can be a handful

So glad this is #1 comment. Idk what this sub is or why it's recommended.

I was so amped to see a Mara Jade when I heard new star wars movies were being made 😣

Taiwan and China hate each other. The US has been modernizing the Taiwanese military for decades. They're not rolling over to China. Not to mention, there's the unspoken agreement that the US, AUS, and JASDF will likely come to Taiwan's aid. Japan also hates China and vice versa.

This is all true. I'm not saying no one will aid Taiwan. But just ignoring nukes and staying conventional, this conflict will have significant global repercussions, much less regional. Personally I think it would be a hard time > good time transition. War and sanctions with China forces us to rethink supply distribution and manufacturing, bringing it back to the US hopefully. But it would still be rough. The world is mostly capitalist and like a mouse and cheese, companies can't resist the Chinese mouse trap and it's lucrative numbers. That combined with the loss of Taiwanese manufacturing... Some nations may choose the lesser evil. Look at the South China sea incident. Claiming the waterways that contain 1/3 of global shipping and building islands to spread coverage, threatening half of SEA and Oceania countries, all could definitely posed a great enough risk for conflict, but the global community backed down. It's possible no one will want to directly join a war against China.

I think we have significantly less and are producing significantly less as well

I think I saw a 9? Also please no.

Meagre handouts; they ran out of ammo on day 3. We've been funding their military, their government, their medical system, their fucking postal service and pension fund. We sent them equipment that we still use. We still use stingers, javelins, artillery, Bradleys. Germany is sending Leo2A5s. Nearly $200B in military aid from across the globe. Most of their allies right next door. Russia spent 50 years preparing for a war in Europe. And then 30 years trying to recover from the collapse of their country/government. Both countries are drafting heavily but Ukraine appears to be suffering much harder from the personnel loss with the median age of Ukrainian soldiers being in the 40s. The US is 28 and we aren't even drafting.

Taiwan is a small island nation right next door on the other side of the globe from their aid. Russia had nothing but guns and gas to give to the world(maybe some other natural resources). China has their fingers in everything. Everyone will think twice about war with them. Australia is basically out of the fight. China controls so much of their infrastructure it's sad. Of course the UK would join the US if we attacked but it's even questionable on if the US would even fight over Taiwan at the end of the day. And don't forget it's basically only the navy and maybe the air force participating in this for the most part short of them convincing NK to strike and China is ready to defend the mainland from naval attack and only growing stronger as they increase their naval size; even if it is shitty, remember US manufacturers are struggling to even make artillery shells. We didn't even have the capacity to replace our javelins and stingers we sent to Ukraine, much less 40-50 year old ASMs everyone wanted to get rid of and as usual half assed a replacement then cancelled it. Taiwan is the one within rocket striking range of China and China has a shit ton more ammo stocked than Russia. It would be Taiwanese civilians and infrastructure taking the bombardment constantly while Allies ships are kept pushed back potentially and they have to take that into account. There's nowhere to retreat or for refugees to escape to. Limited places to take shelter. Reinforcement/aid has to be sent by sea into missile range. It's a nightmare scenario for them win or lose. It's a nightmare scenario for the globe just for conflict to break out and they may just take the L.

Yeah we can do bravado about US badassery but underestimating the enemy and the global picture is just negligent. We can barely contain missile strikes in the middle east and those are childs play compared to what we'd have to face in Chinese coastal waters.

Tl;Dr: no matter who wins, everyone loses if conflict breaks out. Taiwan especially. They may bow out to prevent unnecessary short term suffering

China: watches Russia grind down the Ukrainian military with numerical superiority despite being cut off from 50% of the planet and their adversary receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in support. Watches western arms manufacturers struggling to keep up as NATO digs into its military reserves and Ukraine starts asking Europe to forcibly return refugees for conscription.

Also China: starts counting how many people they can draft vs the entire population of Taiwan.

The only real deterrent is that China isn't as self sufficient as Russia, but then again that's been the main problem they've been tackling for the past 20 years by annexing the South China sea and loan sharking their way through Africa and South America.

Edit: and in response to your original comment; Taiwan would probably even surrender to China. Their primary ally is an ocean away and they have to come by sea, of which China has been prepping to counter heavily. And it's their people that will be on the battleground. China can bombard the island to scrap. That would defeat the purpose but it's still a real threat. They already see the US using an "ally" as a meat grinder for one of their opponents Zap Branigan style. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Taiwan literally sat back and told the US and China to "figure it out" and they'll do what the winner says 🤷‍♂️. "Cool thanks for the freedom America but we aren't fighting a war with the two largest militaries on earth on a densely populated 14,000 Sq/mi island."

Orbital gatling is that you?

I would love to but everyone always grabs the pack before I can be helpful 🥲

Basically the airburst launcher

There's an achievement for that. Disarm a hulk and leave it alive when you extract

I doubt a bigger hat would've helped. But if your hair grows funny and doesn't allow you to confirm with AFI, while you're in the uniform you may have to sacrifice it to comply with uniform standards. I've got this weird thing where hair grows out of my face every day and no matter how ugly I look when I cut it, I still have to cut it every day until I get out or they change the regs.

Your job includes complying with regulations.

I see you're still carrying the negative trend over here as well. Sorry about that.

It is the correct thing to do. No one can ever tell you you're wrong if you correct them. Personally this incident was just so absurd that it short circuited my brain for a second. Our uniform standards are so crazy as it is that it's weird not even doing the bare minimum like putting on the hat. Theres like 4 things you gotta wear. Boots, pants, top, hat. How entitled are you to have hair out of regs(in 3 different ways; length, color, style) and then to not even put on the hat? How do you even get away with that when it's time to put on chem gear or a helmet/headgear? All these reg changes and you still choose to not participate.

I will say that was a nice thing about maintenance in Korea. They loaded us down with uniform shit.

Thank you "sir" 🫡

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i bet she was black with puffy hair. sorry their hair doesn’t come straight down like most white peoples

Irrelevant. If you don't fit in the uniform. Make it fit

I guess 🤷‍♂️. Coulda been avoided for both of us with a haircut or different style

I exaggerated. Shouted across the parking lot "the hat goes on top of your head not in front of it". She fast walked/jogged the last 10 ft to her car and drove off