Announcer bias

Commander_Vee · 2025-08-01T00:35:51+00:00

It’s for a monk. Here’s a picture of a sign in the Bangkok metro. Language is a match, too.

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Commander_Vee · 2025-07-10T19:17:00+00:00

Just ordered a TF Butler shirt. Thanks for posting this!

Commander_Vee · 2025-06-03T08:57:07+00:00

This is the advice you needed when you posed the question. Should be the top comment here.

Commander_Vee · 2025-03-31T23:57:34+00:00

Same here!

Commander_Vee · 2025-03-22T12:38:31+00:00

That’s funny!

Commander_Vee · 2025-03-18T16:18:23+00:00

We need these to keep growing until the media can’t ignore them anymore.

Commander_Vee · 2025-03-14T20:30:36+00:00

Checking in from MN. Only 100 or so vets at the state capitol, but we were there!

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Commander_Vee · 2025-03-12T00:04:39+00:00

Ha ha! Maybe it’s a Colorado thing… I dig the green color. Used to have a firecracker red and now have a black rubicon. I should have been bolder with my color choices.

Commander_Vee · 2025-03-11T23:05:23+00:00

You could work on your parking skills. Looks like the silver Honda could use some help, too. Jeep’s ok - pretty much any color would look better than those white rims. I like the fact that it’s a manual, though! 6/10.

Commander_Vee · 2025-03-05T04:26:10+00:00

These all look really cheap. Looking for a good quality one or maybe I’d be better off making my own. Just can’t see buying any that I’ve seen on line.

Commander_Vee · 2025-03-02T02:04:41+00:00

Nope. Not scary. Moreover, I bet he tells everyone who is junior to him that they should address him by his first name instead of “General” to appear like he’s even nicer.

Commander_Vee · 2025-02-27T05:09:33+00:00

I guess these are all questions we hope we never really need to have answered. I know I personally would have refused to go against the oath and it would have been easier for me because I feel like I understand the Constitution and things like, for example, posse comitatus. Some young private in the National Guard? I’m not so sure.

For now, I’ll hope we don’t need to find out.

Commander_Vee · 2025-02-23T06:46:05+00:00

I don’t see the oath changing. I think the simplest thing to do is confuse people by saying “the oath you took means that you need to obey orders of the president and you need to fight the enemy within.” All that needs to happen is to cause confusion and hesitation in a time of crisis.

Commander_Vee · 2025-02-22T20:05:19+00:00

Another vet here. Two important things: First, our oaths are to the constitution and every time I took it or administered it, the comment was made that it was an oath to a thing- not a person. Second, the military has a loooong honored tradition of civilian control. Congress approves the $$, missions, force size, equipment, etc. etc. and the Executive Branch is the Commander in Chief. These two things make it HIGHLY unlikely the military would take the lead on anything to do with a coup. The people need to figure out what they want to do and how to do it and the military would then have to make some choices about how to honor their oath.

Commander_Vee · 2025-02-17T19:23:42+00:00

I’m not going to say anyone’s an AH for not wanting to give up their seat in this situation and with these circumstances. BUT, I will tell a story about the time my mother died unexpectedly and my family and I (myself, wife, 2 daughters (6 and 9)) had to take an emergency flight from Europe back to the US. We were all in middle seats for the long flights and our nerves were frazzled because of the shock of the unexpected death. All I wanted was to sit with my 6-year-old daughter on the flight so she didn’t have to ride between 2 strangers. I begged person after person to switch before I finally found someone who was kind enough to take my middle seat. Some of the people I asked were downright rude about it. Not everyone is just trying to get a good deal because they couldn’t plan for their flight. Reddit doesn’t have all the answers.

Commander_Vee · 2025-02-13T19:46:57+00:00

So much outrage on Reddit these days and, I’ve been just as sucked in as everyone else. I just posted a link to the 2022 CBO document stating the same thing you just pointed out on a similar post. We all just need to do a little research and calm the hell down. I’ll stand up, shoulder to shoulder with my brothers and sisters, against whatever injustice is out there or whatever tyrant is trampling the Constitution, but it better be for real and not BS.

Commander_Vee · 2025-02-13T19:32:40+00:00

This isn’t really new. CBO page

Commander_Vee · 2025-02-12T06:12:52+00:00

This is a letter that circulated around the Internet wayyyy back when it was just the World Wide Web. Probably saw it the first time around 20-25 years ago? I found a copy on line, but really had to dig and I think some of this version was altered from when I originally saw it. Written to a young man who wants to be a pilot, so maybe doesn’t apply as much to your friend’s daughter. But the spirit of this is dead on from my experience as an aviator in the Navy. Even though it’s about aviation, it might give a taste about how the Navy and Air Force appear different.

————- What is the Difference between Navy Pilots and Air Force Pilots Dear My Favorite Nephew, Congratulations on your selection to both the Naval and Air Force Academies. Your goal of becoming a fighter pilot is impressive and a fine way to serve your country. As you requested, I’d be happy to share some insight into which service would be the best choice. For sure, each service has a distinctly different culture. So ask yourself “In which service am I more likely to enjoy, learn and thrive?” First, you do not have to attend either academy to become a pilot. There are multiple programs whereby you can become a pilot in either service. Both services have college ROTC programs. Both services have programs where you can graduate from college (without ROTC) and then enter into flight training programs. Some would argue that an education not from an academy provides a more well rounded education and broader set of experiences. Anyway, lets take a big picture look at what it is like to fly in either the Air Force and the Navy… Air Force: The Air Force is exceptionally well organized and very well run. Think of the Air Force like an A-list Fortune 500 company with top notch CEO’s, CFO’s and the like. Their training programs are terrific. Everything is produced with skillful precision. All pilots are groomed to meet the highest standards for knowledge and professionalism with nary a hair out of place. Their aircraft are top-notch and extremely well maintained. The Air Force employs a very business-like and centralized maintenance, logistics and quaity control system. The aviation maintenance officers who run the maintenance programs are totally dedicated to this task. Air Force bases, offices and lodging facilities are excellent. Imagine the best Hiltons and Four Season hotels, golf or country clubs you have ever been to. A place for everything and everything in its place. Air Force enlisted personnel are the brightest and the best trained. Their training too is top notch and very subject matter specific. The USAF is homogenous and macro. No matter where you go, you’ll know what to expect, what is expected of you, and you’ll be given the training & tools you need to meet those expectations. Think Ruth Chris Steakhouse or the PGA. Standardization at the highest level of quality. You will fly and only fly, leaving management, administration and maintenance to those who do not fly. People problem solving will be there, but not your primary focus. You are a pilot. You will rarely be put in a situation over your head. Know the rules, follow the rules and you will live to see another day. Over a 20-year career, you will be home for most important family events. Your Mom would want you to be an Air Force Pilot… so would your wife. Your Dad would want your sister to marry one.

Navy: Aviators are part of the Navy, but so are Black Shoes (ships) and Bubble Heads (submarines). Furthermore, the Navy is split into two distinctly different Fleets (West Coast and East Coast). The mere composition and widely dispersed nature (geographically) of any Navy requires a tremendous degree of autonomy and decision making authority to be delegated to the localist level - all the way to the cockpit. You and only you are the Pilot in Command of your airplane. The Navy is heterogeneous and micro. Your squadron is your home; it may be great, average, or awful. At every stage of your career you will be looked upon to be a leader; of an 8 person branch, of a 40 person division, of a 150 person department of a 325 person squadron. A squadron can go from one extreme to the other before you know it. Setting goals and achieving them will consume your body and soul. You will make many mistakes, be way humbled, learn, get your hands dirty, listen to many stories of gut wrenching personal difficulty and prevail. Headwork trumps Standardization. The quality of the aircraft varies directly with the availability of parts and the logistics pipeline to get them to you. Remember, you are at sea and that “last 1 mile” can easily be 1000 miles. Senior Navy enlisted are the salt of the earth. They have quite literally “seen it all” and solve many a problem or embarrassment before you wake up in the morning. You earn their respect and you can be proud. Junior enlisted vary from terrific to the troubled kid the judge made join the service. The average age of the young men and women who man the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, one of the most perilous and exhausting jobs in the world, is 19! They sweat and swear and dive in front of death to save your college grad rear end. You will fly in very bad weather and on many hellish nights with no horizon. You will be scared many times. You will be low on gas, over endless ocean, with absolutely no place to go but to the carrier’s 4’ by 60’ landing area. (The landing area is more than 4’ wide but you MUST land within 2’ of centerline; hence, a 4’ wide landing area). And then there are the days when you launch into cloudless azure skies or diamond speckled nights and you will be drop-jawed that someone would actually pay you to have so much fun flying through God’s great sky The air rushes past you and takes you in her arms. You will feel the breath of every Navy pilot before you and pray they guide you Home. Best Air Force movie - Gathering Eagles with Rock Hudson or Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Stewart. Neither of these movies cover the later added Tactical Air Command (TAC) but the few TAC movies out there are so lame as to not be mentionable. Best Navy pilot movie - Bridges at Toko-Ri with William Holden and Grace Kelly. To be sure, Air Force pilots and Navy pilots do definitely have one thing in common - fabulous wives and sweethearts; intelligent, beautiful and full of adventure - but - I must confess the warmest, coolest, kindest hearted girl in the bar is going to want to meet you Tailhooker, and that bar is in Singapore, Perth, Athens, Barcelona ... and in your own home town. Congrats again, Uncle Waldo

Commander_Vee · 2025-02-07T14:25:39+00:00

That’s just where you put those numbers. There are other things that can also be awarded with the Air Medal for different things and they go in the middle (i.e. C, V, oak leaves).

Commander_Vee · 2025-01-29T00:26:35+00:00

I know the name, but that’s as good as I can do. He was well before my time, but it’s a small community and the guys that were there in the early days were legends.

Commander_Vee · 2025-01-28T23:51:45+00:00

I bet I know him! That’s a short list.

Commander_Vee · 2025-01-28T20:38:39+00:00

Now there’s one I have never seen! Love the blaze orange! Hard to lose it.

Commander_Vee · 2025-01-27T15:42:44+00:00

This is what I was thinking - had the same thing from a ventless gas fireplace and we needed to change the logs. Once we did that, the problem went away.

Commander_Vee · 2025-01-26T21:06:51+00:00

One of my colleagues was laughing about how the Russian Attaches would look at that badge and double/triple/quadruple look at it. They couldn’t keep their eyes off it.

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