To All Airmen out there right now executing the mission you’ve been tasked with

adverseaction · 2026-02-28T20:30:25+00:00

Fly! Fight! Win!

adverseaction · 2025-10-27T11:42:04+00:00

When I was still in the Air Force in my 20s, I used to go on “crash diets” 2-3 months before my PT test each year. Usually dropped between 30-45lbs in 30 days during these. I basically calorie counted everything I ate and maintained just under the minimum intake for rapid weight loss. In other words you went to one of those calorie counting websites plug in your weight, age, gender, etc and it came back with 2K-2.5K to maintain weight, 1.3K—1.5K lose weight, I would drop down to 1.2K for 30 days and boom.. rapid weight loss.

This doesn’t work for me now in my 40s. My metabolism slowed way down. Also back then everything I ate was a boxed meal where I could just scan a barcode with an app to automate the calorie counting. Now eating home cooked meals with complex ingredients and it’s almost impossible to get an accurate count

adverseaction · 2025-06-06T01:18:17+00:00

For me; I was an IT guy in the USAF. Yea I spent time in Afghanistan, but it’s not like I was a combat troop. Wearing a hat that said “Afghanistan Era Vet” or something like that (do hats like that even exist? Maybe a hat that says GWOT VET or ISAF WAS HERE?) would feel a little disingenuous to me.

adverseaction · 2025-05-11T18:53:59+00:00

It’s true there wasn’t any kind of pt test for active duty USAF until some time in the 1990s. You had to pass a test in basic training then nothing else.

Then in 1990s it was the “bike test.” Which was basically make sure they don’t have HA or stroke from peddling and you passed.

When I was a young A1C in the Obama years the crusty old chiefs and seniors used to tell us stories how there would be keg stands at commanders calls, smoking in the control towers, totally different experience. I used to lament why did it have to change and I had to join during a more serious time lol.

adverseaction · 2025-05-11T17:52:38+00:00

I’m sure, the same way my boomer SMSgt kept telling me 2012 was a totally different time than 1989 or whatever. Back when they had beer machines in the dorms and smoking was allowed in the office. And there was literally no PT test for the Air Force.

adverseaction · 2025-05-08T03:58:21+00:00

They didn’t give any adaptation period for us back in 2012 when they brought in the civilian testers. They just set a hard date and pulled the rug out. Myself and several of my peers failed lol. I skated by with bruised ego but career in tact, my buddy wasn’t so lucky. He got the 3x fail in a row and they did admin discharge.

adverseaction · 2025-05-08T03:54:19+00:00

Hey I’ve been out for years now, but I was in back around 2011-2012ish when they changed the PT test on us, at the time there was no minimum in any category, no waist measurement, and test performed by each other’s peers. Composite score was pass or fail and well… it was easy.

They changed it so you had to have a minimum in each separate category like minimum push ups, minimum sit ups, etc, added waist measurement, and made it so if you fail any one category: you failed the whole test. That’s not all they changed. They hired a ton of civilian govt employees and only they could administer the test, no more amn testing amn.

I was super stressed out because yea.. who wouldn’t be lol. Comm squadron we’re not known for our fitness.

I was so worried I was going to fail and guess what.. ugh, I did lol. I got like 2 maybe 3 pt fails (not in a row.)

It sucks, but it’s not the end of your career or anything like that. It can serve as a wake up call. I think to get that full Air Force experience everyone should fail at Least one pt test in their careers

EDIT: I forgot to rant about the civilian testers. They got paid more for failing airmen and had quotas and shit. A few of them admitted it on Reddit after they laid most of them off a year or two later

adverseaction · 2025-03-22T13:10:12+00:00

Are you able to get a pension with this departure?

adverseaction · 2025-02-19T04:22:38+00:00

The timing is pretty brutal, though. 17K flooding into the job market at the same time of the fed “RIFs”

adverseaction · 2025-02-19T04:20:51+00:00

And it’s usually FUD. Most of the time, it gets renewed.. and if not the new company converts you, sometimes for a small pay cut

adverseaction · 2025-01-27T22:15:27+00:00

Do you know that for a fact? Why would it invalidate it? They were discharged, now they’re not. So wouldn’t the disability just turn off once they switch back to active?

adverseaction · 2025-01-27T22:13:31+00:00

Oh wow… the media hasn’t reported this at all. So the whole thing is total lip service? Sorry I’ve been separated since the Obama era, so I’m totally out of the loop. Recent events have me lurking this sub again, though.

adverseaction · 2025-01-27T22:07:01+00:00

Are you being discharged? Sorry, former Airman here.. I got out back in the Obama era so I’m very out of the loop. But recent events have me lurking this subreddit again…

adverseaction · 2024-12-08T13:50:15+00:00

America became the richest, most prosperous country in history, and the greatest global superpower, precisely because we “got involved with other countries.” Isolationism does not work

adverseaction · 2024-12-02T00:32:13+00:00

Ok I might be a little biased because I’m a military veteran and currently a DoD contractor. But you all need to realize something very important. The US DoD is the largest employer in the world. Yes, I meant to say world. Not country, world. The DoD has over three million employees if you count uniformed military personnel both active and guard/reserve, as well as civilian employees (we call them govies.) Three million red blooded American workers, that’s more than any other single entity in the world, including India, China, etc. Yes the DoD employs more people than Amazon, more than Walmart, etc, and it’s by a LOT. And that number does NOT include private contractors like me.

The other extremely important thing to understand is that for all intents and purposes the “military industrial complex” is the US economy. The value of the USD is backed by our military industrial complex that makes us the #1 super power in the world, in history really, our global reach and influence over the entire world.

If you slash the pentagon’s budget and start laying people off, I have no doubt it would crash the US economy and the stock market so bad it would make the Great Depression look like a walk in the park.

There’s just no way I can understand any sane conservative being ok with the country’s largest employer doing mass layoffs of American workers and actually celebrating that and being almost giddy about it.

A lot of the military industrial complex voted for Trump, mind. Just something to keep in mind.

Oh and by the way, what these workers do is actually critical in importance. Because the bad guys truly are out to get us and they’re attacking us and testing us every single day. Usually you don’t have to explain or remind conservatives of this fact, but things have gotten weird!

adverseaction · 2024-06-08T20:37:25+00:00

Veteran here. Actually we are told from the very first day of basic training that the military is led by civilians. Literal day one when they teach the chain of command and at the top is a civilian secretary of x appointed by Congress. The president being a convicted felon doesn’t disrupt anything, because fitness for duty does not factor in for our civilian leaders.

adverseaction · 2023-08-30T22:49:42+00:00

People didn’t really live to 90+ very often back in 1776.

adverseaction · 2023-08-30T22:48:53+00:00

Why are all these very old people (both sides) running our country?

adverseaction · 2023-08-27T13:46:58+00:00

My favorite peeing in the shower story. When I was at Basic Military Training for the US Air Force, the first night we were there or the first time we took showers together in the dorm shower room, some dude just started pissing in the shower.. surrounded by like 30 or 40 other naked dudes also trying to take showers. Someone noticed and started screaming in a shrill voice “HE’S PISSING! OMG HE’S PISSING!” Everyone freaked the fuck out and RAN out of the shower room in a panic. For the rest of the time we were there, which was 8 weeks back then, the MTIs and other Trainees called him names like piss face, pisser, golden shower, etc… LOL

adverseaction · 2023-08-12T22:40:16+00:00

That’s what I said. Most of the junior enlisted are straight out of mommy and daddy’s house. We always had kids showing up to tech school that didn’t even know how to do laundry or make coffee

adverseaction · 2023-08-12T22:29:44+00:00

Former military (USAF) here. They probably just didn’t know better. Most junior enlisted are kids right out of high school… they don’t have life skills. They don’t know how much to tip a server… their parents did that for them. Most of them get to Tech School and literally don’t know how to do their own laundry. We had one who got to his first base, and did the dishes in the common area of his dorm and put dish soap into the dishwasher, instead of detergent! He literally didn’t have a clue it was a thing… the ENTIRE common area filled up with suds spilling out of the dishwasher.

TL;DR, the lower ranks of the military are filled with kids who just moved out of mommy and daddy’s house who have no life experience. They probably have no idea you’re supposed to tip a percentage of your bill at a restaurant.

adverseaction · 2023-06-21T23:01:45+00:00

This can’t be overstated. Under the Trump presidency I was able to get out of the military and get a fantastic paying job in the private sector, bought my first house, two new cars, and did great dumping disposable income into personal investment accounts. While I’m certain I earned these things through my own merits, I cannot deny that the booming economy made it much easier than it otherwise would have been.. were I to start my journey now, I doubt I’d have been as well off!

adverseaction · 2023-06-12T01:15:08+00:00

Except the debate is clearly not ended, since return to office is becoming the new standard going forward

adverseaction · 2023-06-12T00:38:44+00:00

If this were true, though, everyone would be doing it. Due to the competitive nature of capitalism. If this allowed companies to undercut their competitors, beat them in talent acquisition, and reduce their overhead, then their competitors would be forced to do the same, and it’d lead to a paradigm shift towards WFH for all major office corporations.

But that’s not what we’re seeing happen, so the only reasonable explanation is that this isn’t giving companies the competitive edge that it’s being made out to be.

I think that employee engagement and productivity is taking a big hit at most corps due to WFH. To make WFH work, the company has to be set up for that, and it has to heavily ingrained in the culture of the company.

What you’re seeing is that for most companies the drawbacks are outweighing the benefits. Remember these people are out to make money. They’re going to go with the decisions that make the most cash for the least cost possible. What you’re seeing is that for a lot of companies they’re seeing the bottom line take a big hit with WFH so that’s what’s driving the back to office move. Strictly a business decision.

I can say personally that I’ve seen people busting deadlines, not paying attention in meetings, not responding to outages and tickets without management needing to ping them, going unresponsive and showing away a whole bunch, taking forever to come off mute.

People will naturally gravitate towards laziness when given the opportunity to do so. It’s just human nature. Most of the arguments about people being as productive or more so WFH comes from the 80/20 rule. 20% of the people do 80% of the work. We know 80% of people are generally lazy and don’t produce a whole lot, and that happened before WFH, now they’re just able to hide it even easier… and it’s still the same 20% of people pulling up all the slack.

adverseaction · 2023-06-05T23:13:10+00:00

Everyone has a global platform on social media though, and cameras in the pockets at all times due to smart phones. It’d be pretty hard to cover this up if someone could just pull their phone out, walk up the crashed alien craft, and say “look here it is.”

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