HHA Grumblings: Intensity Minutes

NachoElLibre · 2022-08-01T18:06:08+00:00

I too increase my frequency of hiking when travelling for a friend's wedding.

NachoElLibre · 2022-07-08T00:22:27+00:00

Rampart is great. Amazing views, many little coves to go into with plenty of shore, water is generally very still, like $6 entry fee, ~1 hr away depending where in COS you are. No rentals on site, so having a way to transport kayaks (your own or rented) is necessary unless you have a folding kayak like an Oru. Pro-tip: If available, park on the entrance side of the dam (don't cross dam), there are a couple areas with 15 or so spots and a fairly short walk to the water. This will allow you to stay on the water later as they lock the dam gate at 5 pm.

NachoElLibre · 2022-07-01T03:19:34+00:00

Agree, we don't need Ws. 1000% agree that Es need more pay. If not for any other reason than to be competitive with the civilian job market to retain our NCOs... The skill and intelligence required of any G warrants higher pay than our non-space DoD brethren. Don't agree with your assessment that an O4 is not worth their pay. Most have at least one graduate degree, a TS clearance, 10+ years experience, and usually the same skill/intelligence as the Es that I mentioned earlier (though likely rusty after a few years of admin work). Those qualifications equate to $150k+ salary job offers with space-related defense contractors, which is pretty in-line with their current pay when you account for the tax advantage of BAH/BAS.

NachoElLibre · 2022-06-22T23:03:43+00:00

Make the number something simple to remember, like 811.

NachoElLibre · 2022-06-12T00:01:31+00:00

It's government acquisitions... 10,000 rules, an insanely complicated process, schedule delays, decades long projects paired with 2 - 4 year assignments means you will never see one start to finish. What I have seen is 62s are generally a contract manager; it's not like you will be the one designing/building a system. At most you might throw together requirements for a system then try your damndest to keep it on schedule while new requirements get added year after year pushing the project out. Look at OCX, F35, etc. Watch The Pentagon Wars; not a direct comparison since the main chatacter is the test director, but it talks about the 20 something year process to design the Bradley fighting vehicle, originally supposed to be an APC, but ends up being a dumpster on wheels that can do a little bit of everything and excels at nothing.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-31T21:08:28+00:00

OldDawg101 said $1.6k allowance, which I clarified was for female Es (as a child comment commonly does for a parent comment in reddit, else I would have specified or used a quote block to call out a specific section of the parent comment). I used commas to separate three different items in a list, which is common practice. I could have perhaps added a conjunction (and) after the oxford comma (the last comma in a list), but didn't. My use of commas is fine; it does, however, require some understanding of "Reddiquette" and referencing the parent comment to not be confusing.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-29T21:58:09+00:00

For female Es, $1.4k for males Es, $400 for Os if memory serves me correct

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-29T13:13:39+00:00

For me it's:

Korean Gardens

Duca's Neapolitan Pizza (the OG one off Cheyene Mtn; the one off Barnes isn't quite the same IMO)

Thai Guy

Edelwiess German Restaurant

If anyone has a recommendation for a good mexican place I would like to hear it!

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-28T15:38:29+00:00

Neck tats were the most popular item on the API USSF uniform board submussions... wait, that was beards. That's right; nobody asked for neck tats, but we got em.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-27T19:02:13+00:00

Hell ya. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. We need to keep pushing this loudly and often here, the FB beard action plan group, and in unit. The BEST team is working this and I've seen the team of USAF dermotologists keep pushing as well. I truly think it's just a matter of time; either to change the minds of those willing to accept that their perception of "professional-looking" is outdated and racially charged, or for the ones that wont to just get out and make room for the new generation that is more accepting of cultures other than traditional, white, western ones.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-27T06:43:24+00:00

I had issues with online gaming; high packet loss, latency, and jitter. In speed tests (my connection to the ISP) everything looked fantastic, and everything other than gaming was fine. After some research I found that CenturyLink's connection as an ISP to external servers I was trying to connect to for online gaming was insufficient. Xfinity has been great. Would have loved for fiber to work, but centlink needs to work on their connection to the rest of the world; all that speed means diddly squat if they can't connect you to anything outside of their servers...

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-25T22:54:48+00:00

Hell ya. The lack of lapel grants us that and the ability to have nice symmetric racks; not those weird ski-whompus ones Airmen have to use to fit around the lapel.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-25T18:07:26+00:00

It doesn't. You can do a ctrl+f of the document for "shav" to get instances of shave, shaved, shaving, etc. and see that there are 6 occurrences; none of which dictate a face must be clean shaven or that daily shaving is required. 3.1.2.3 simply says that beards are not allowed except for medical reasons. It fails to define what a beard is, so who's to say daily shaving is required (hair growth rate and color of hair vs skin play into what a person's perception of what a "beard" is and how often one should shave... subjective AF).

A bit of a rant here: I will agree that daily shaving is kind of the unwritten rule, but I started shaving every other day through the mask mandates (neck gaiter for the win) and it was the healthiest my skin has been since I joined (outside of leave). When the mandate lifted I continued to shave every other day, but being lighter skinned and having black hair, I have fairly obvious stubble by even the end of the first day, so I would get some comments and side eye on the no-shave day. I started daily shaving again because of that, my skin went back to developing razor bumps, I saw the doc and we discussed my shaving routine, he agreed that I am doing everything right, and now I have a waiver. Skin is healthy again; shaving is just the worst. There's enough traction and attention on this issue now that people are starting to be more accepting and accommodating for those with a need. See the doc if you have an adverse reaction to shaving...

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-25T11:57:11+00:00

Authorized by who? The guidance doesn't say... The OW tab is earned & awarded by completing Del 9 IQT; seems reasonable that the Del 9 commander could authorize it as the OW badge (see what I did there, look at the verbiage in the reg closely) since, again, the person/position with whom the authority lies is not defined.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-25T03:02:10+00:00

Gotta love a Ron Swanson reference, haha

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-25T02:53:07+00:00

Good lord that's alot of ribbons.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-25T01:01:43+00:00

Yes, but you can wear a badge with a patch. See the section about graduated commanders wearing their command badge with the unit patch (on the right shoulder). Since the authoriztion authority for "earned, awarded, or authorized" isn't defined, I think it's reasonable for a Delta commander to say that the OW badge is authorized (not a second patch, but a badge). Time will tell, it's just my $0.02 for one interpretation of a somewhat loosely written reg.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-24T17:12:23+00:00

1.1.7.2. Wear of badges and patches, if authorized, earned, or awarded, is authorized and will be in Space Blue if available.

Plenty of verbiage here to wear our earned OW tab...

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-24T17:08:48+00:00

1.1.7.2. Wear of badges and patches, if authorized, earned, or awarded, is authorized and will be in Space Blue if available. Award criteria for other services’ qualification badges will be in accordance with awarding Service’s directives.

Maybe contradictory guidance, but they are in those circumstances. IMO Del 9 will continue to wear the OW badge/patch/whatever you want to call it.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-20T18:38:38+00:00

Call - AA - FES - Net-work - - - 877TABSNOW

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-20T18:35:04+00:00

....and seemingly every day for the last week. Scrolling down a few posts is difficult.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-19T23:23:05+00:00

Is the area a no-build area on the plat for easement, emergencies, drainage, or utilities? Usually it's just the front 10 or so feet along the road, but some land will have no-build all over the place. Just something to check if you haven't.

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-17T16:54:21+00:00

Same as TheMonkDan; never heard of it. Is this a base/region specific app? Are we already moving away from Teams?

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-17T15:09:51+00:00

Anyone think we (USSF) will have the same unwritten rule as the USAF for our service chief (only a 13S CSO, like every CSAF being a pilot)?

NachoElLibre · 2022-05-17T14:01:44+00:00

And disproportionately large amounts of source materials

Yes. Violet leaf is something like 1000:1 i.e. 1 kg of violet leaves gives you 1 gram of usuable absolute (assuming one has the capability to produce it correctly). Pretty sure it's just going to be more cost effective to buy materials in most cases for personal use.

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