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1 posted on 07/01/2021 9:29:28 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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Well its just Air Force, so no big surprise.


2 posted on 07/01/2021 9:36:25 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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Uhhh...my Air Force ain't the same anymore.

I wonder where they will get the talent to load 108 500 pounders onto each of 60 B-52s next time they need to do it. In 1972, it seems that every two striper in a non-critical AFSC did a TDY to Guam to be a bomb loader.

They were BUFs most of us got a little more buff too.

3 posted on 07/01/2021 9:45:21 PM PDT by pfflier
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What about Practical Factors of changing batteries in electronic devices?


4 posted on 07/01/2021 9:47:12 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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This sounds like millennial/Gen Z stuff.


5 posted on 07/01/2021 9:48:06 PM PDT by Allegra
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Just circling back to the way it was prior to 1990.


6 posted on 07/01/2021 9:56:04 PM PDT by pepsionice
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Well this is quite a departure from the old regimen.

1.5mi every other day in formation.

Screw up anything and get to edge the track for a day.

Also tack on CQ for the weekend.


7 posted on 07/01/2021 10:08:22 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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There’s a reason that we in the Army back in the day used to call it the “Chair Force”.


8 posted on 07/01/2021 10:11:26 PM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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For the girls.


9 posted on 07/01/2021 10:16:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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if i was a woke lib i’d be triggered they still used the sexist term “airmen”


10 posted on 07/01/2021 10:17:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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My husband was required to do wet-ditching drills. I guess that is too hard now, so they will allow dry-ditching drills.


11 posted on 07/01/2021 10:22:33 PM PDT by chronicles
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Seems like the whole military should be at least a little bit tough or is that asking too much. It really is a betrayal of those who sign up.


19 posted on 07/01/2021 11:18:40 PM PDT by Crucial ( )
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As woke as the Air Force is, I’m surprised the fitness test doesn’t include fellatio.


24 posted on 07/02/2021 12:43:26 AM PDT by dinodino ( )
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Nothing new about the test…in fact they brought back the old. When I was in the Air Force in the late 70s and early 80s, we just had to walk or run a mile and a half in 15-20 minutes once a year.


26 posted on 07/02/2021 2:09:16 AM PDT by woofer2425
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I was in 2008-2015, and the fitness test changed in 2009, by 2012 or 2013 they were already talking about changing it again.

Thank God I got out, this is embarrassing to watch.


28 posted on 07/02/2021 2:15:43 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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https://youtu.be/E2ecasPqhgk


31 posted on 07/02/2021 3:25:05 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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The Chair Force?


35 posted on 07/02/2021 5:17:07 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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shouldn’t that be airperson?


36 posted on 07/02/2021 5:38:51 AM PDT by euram
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Isn’t a large portion of maintaining discipline in the military is conformity? Why give options for the test? Either you can do what we need you to do or you cannot.


43 posted on 07/02/2021 6:30:53 AM PDT by gunnut
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Gee wonder why they’re modifying the standards?


45 posted on 07/02/2021 6:44:56 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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