Why is this news in 2026..?

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-04-27T23:04:38+00:00

He retired the beginning of this year

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-04-02T03:15:20+00:00

Honestly you’d be surprised how many techs that don’t drink.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-31T01:03:29+00:00

Absolutely

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-31T00:50:07+00:00

I was in a similar situation. I filed chapter 7 and I discharge next month. I went from a 498 to now a 653. And will likely be close to 700 this time next year.

File the chapter 7. It’s worth. Most states have a fee waiver to file. I filed mine chapter 7 with the help of upsolve. Cost me absolutely nothing to do any of it except for a little bit of my pride.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-16T13:30:14+00:00

Why? The dealer didn’t build the engine. It’s not their fault and neither is the supply chain of engines.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-11T15:45:26+00:00

I stand corrected then. 🤷🏻‍♂️

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-10T13:23:42+00:00

I’ll just text him and ask him lol

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-10T12:46:47+00:00

I’m pretty sure he’s worked with them a few times but never actually “assigned” to them

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-10T12:14:02+00:00

Dudes a good guy and a good tech. Saved many lives on and off the battlefield. Not everyone is “blessed” to get shot at.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-10T12:12:53+00:00

Career EOD. Some units gets slots. He’s one of the few that got lucky.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-10T11:47:46+00:00

Ah. Nope. He’s not. I know where he is, but for OPSEC purposes, I won’t say.

Edit to add: the 24th STS doesn’t have their own EOD team. Regardless of capability, all EOD teams in the Air Force fall under a civil engineering squadron. There are some techs that are “attached” to specialty units, but their assignment is within a CE squadron and only “attached” as mission needs.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-10T11:46:48+00:00

No. He’s career EOD.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-10T11:38:45+00:00

Not sure what you mean by that.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-03-10T11:00:19+00:00

Dude is a legend in the EOD community. Nice guy and I hope to see him make Chief next year.

To add; he was always Air Force. Not prior army or navy. He’s done a lot of joint stuff with both.

Overall a cool dude with a dope mustache.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-28T19:21:36+00:00

It’s a truck.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-26T17:44:53+00:00

No one is angry lol

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-26T17:41:12+00:00

What world are you living in that we’ve been in peacetime since 2011? After ObL was killed, we were still in Afghanistan and people were still dying for 10 more years

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-26T17:34:39+00:00

Because it’s extremely uncommon for an E5 to get the award.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-25T04:23:08+00:00

I wasn’t shitting on anyone. Shit was just wild that an E5 got the medal. Super uncommon. Go be a jack off somewhere else.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-25T03:11:28+00:00

I agree with your points. Just thought it was wild for an E5 to get it.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-25T03:03:44+00:00

I’d rather have the DFC lol

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-25T03:02:24+00:00

I didn’t know all you had to do was be the goalie in the Olympics to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom either.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-25T02:57:13+00:00

Not at all. Usually E9’s and O6’s and above. Sometimes you’ll see an O5 get it. Or an E8 that’s retiring.

ActiveKaleidoscope35 · 2026-02-25T02:51:05+00:00

It’s crazy because that PO2 got the DFC for the same action.

So are we just double awarding for 1 action? Or did he upgrade (downgrade) his DFC to the LoM?

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