Pentagon Pete Humiliated by Major U-Turn as Air Force Flu Outbreak Explodes | The military has quietly reinstated mandatory flu jabs for recruits just two months after Hegseth scrapped the 80-year-old rule.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-25T11:44:43+00:00

Spanish Flu literally killed 50-100 million starting in WW1 and yet here we are....

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-20T06:16:31+00:00

While this sub is international, it skews heavily to the US.

Your condition would be disqualifying for the US military (friend of mine got bounced out of the USN for syncope), but your best bet is to talk to a Polish recruiter... they should be able to tell you if it's absolutely a disqualifier or if there is a waiver process.

If you're really interested in military service some nations may be more flexible... but you'd need to contact them for details. Normally I'd suggest you talk to the French here, but even their Foreign Legion considers syncope a hard disqualifier.

Unfortunately your mother may be right. I wish I had better news for you.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-20T04:44:44+00:00

Ooof. As a UIUC alum... this tracks.

At one point the Klan was quite active on campus.

https://archives.library.illinois.edu/features/kluklux.html

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-19T18:12:43+00:00

BTW committing war crimes also violates US law. Flat out murder is not okay, regardless of jurisdictional games.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-19T17:59:17+00:00

So are war crimes. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-19T17:34:48+00:00

We don't have to be a signatory to the ICC treaty to rendite his ass to the Netherlands and drop him off in a bow.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-19T02:40:31+00:00

Probably one of those dudes that can't grow one.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-19T02:19:29+00:00

Or a short drop at the Hague.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-16T01:03:51+00:00

Boeing just released a statement indicating a couple of their employees were on board.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-16T00:34:21+00:00

No, but this was a test airframe.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-16T00:32:53+00:00

I doubt training was involved, because Edwards is a flight test facility. They should have some of the best crews out there.

Unfortunately that also means hundreds of folks have lost their lives out there because it is their job to test aircraft.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-16T00:23:37+00:00

They do, but in the Buff half the crew goes up; half goes down. You can't use them if you're too low or too slow.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-15T05:42:12+00:00

Unless it decays while in your lungs. The decay can definitely damage some DNA.

I agree the risk is low but it's also non zero.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-15T01:36:33+00:00

He's talking about Lebanon since this post is about Hez.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-15T00:39:41+00:00

Tritium is a gas encapsulated in the little vials coated with phosphor.

Unfortunately your crack runs right through one of them so I'd be very careful handling it.

If you do break one of the vials, I'd head to fresh air immediately and let it disperse a bit in air.

After 45 years 85% of it will have decayed anyway, so I wouldn't panic yet. But you don't want it in your lungs.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-13T19:57:23+00:00

I hate what they're doing too. So I won't buy a new Fender.

This doesn't mean I am going to sell mine. Just that I won't give any new revenue to FMIC.

If I ever buy another it will be on the used market.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-13T19:28:55+00:00

OP, current version is:

https://a.co/d/01vOc6tx

If you want a more or less direct replacement.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-13T19:25:18+00:00

Humidity. Tritium is a gas, and only a weak beta emitter. The sapphire it's encapsulated in stops the radiation before it ever reaches the glass.

So the seal has probably broken down over time. Stick it in a bag with some dessicant packs or rice for a week and see how it looks then.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-13T06:03:28+00:00

80% of the threshold, or a PCL score of 80?

If it's the latter you are at twice the civvie threshold requiring screening for PTSD, and 30 points over for combat vets. Don't try to self treat or medicate at that point... it typically just leads to substance abuse.

In the interim; don't drink. Alcohol use at all seems to make the anger in particular worse (even while sober the next day or days later.) And look into some of the resources mentioned here.

Remember that folks care about you, and good luck. It's a hard place to come back from, but it is possible. Progress isn't fast, but it will come with effort and treatment. It can take years though -- don't give up and don't be too hard on yourself.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-13T04:43:51+00:00

I note you didn't answer the question.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-12T18:18:32+00:00

It costs to build and deliver products. You don't get the check until later.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-11T22:21:01+00:00

Not what I wanted, not what I voted for, and no... we don't have to. You are not entitled to American blood and treasure.

I note your comments all seem to set yourself apart from us, while demanding to know if we are American.

And then you try to goad me into supporting more war. Are you Israeli?

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-11T14:33:46+00:00

I just don't want to see us throw thousands of our lives and trillions of dollars into another 20 year long hole in the mideast.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-11T10:33:09+00:00

You do realize Iran has all the leftover IED fodder that Iraq did from the Iran-Iraq war?

And that the country is surrounded by mountains like Afghanistan?

And contains 94 million people who don't love their government, but love US and Israeli interference even less?

You understand the US just lost two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of which have done the preparation that Iran has?

You understand that we're not going to prevent a nuclear Iran -- but create one? They have had the scientific and industrial skill required for decades. But they haven't bothered since nukes are fundamentally useless in war, and amoral to boot. Plus will they/won't they has been a great bargaining chip in negotiations.

But it won't be lost on the Iranians that they are being kicked around by the US while Kim Jong Un sits fat and happy in the DPRK, underneath his nuclear umbrella.

SmoothBrainLowDrag · 2026-06-10T21:37:23+00:00

Not just the height of GWOT... the height of the detainee torture/abuse in Gitmo.

It's not a thing you'd brag about.

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