All the posts and statements going on with lines like "this woman is dead b/c if trump" or describing the incident as tragic are wild.

Maybe someone here can talk me off this point.

I get that a family lost a loved one but I just don't care?

Why should I feel sympathy for a QAnon freak who would kill me?

      • fed [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        most people in the Air Force aren’t pilots, there are like a hundred jobs in the Air Force that isn’t being a pilot

          • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Up until about 2005, there was a job in the Air Force where you worked in the base gym and cleaned/maintained the equipment, inflated and handed out basketballs, and... That was really about it. Six weeks of basic training and four weeks of "technical" training to inflate basketballs and sanitize weight machines. I think it was the same specialty code for cafeteria workers.

            Edit: specialty code 3M0x1, "Services," and it's still around. I thought they all got permanently outsourced to independent contractors during Iraqi Freedom, because they kept sending non-essential people to get blown up by IEDs while escorting convoys, and they replaced a lot of them with contractors.

            https://www.thebalancecareers.com/air-force-enlisted-job-descriptions-3344336

            The Airman Services Career Field 3M0X1 covers a wide variety of jobs for enlisted personnel; all centered on service operations. The core areas are broken into six paths: food service, lodging, fitness and sports, readiness, mortuary, and protocol.

            A partial list of the responsibilities and locations of service jobs include:

            • Food facilities operated with appropriated funds
            • Transient and temporary lodging facilities
            • Fitness, recreation, and sports programs and facilities
            • Buying and managing equipment and supplies
            • Ensuring contracted services maintain quality standards
            • Training and overseeing the honor guard
            • Mortuary affairs
            • Training and supervising search and recovery teams
            • Commissary resale
            • Providing support for subsistence and exchange to deployed forces
            • Protocol support
            • Laundry services
            • Force Support readiness programs
            • Operates and supervises automated information management systems

            Literally grocery clerks and morticians for the American empire.

      • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Air Force pigs mostly hang around the base's front gates and check the reference placard to ensure that the vehicles coming in are not, in fact, tanks. If they see a tank, they have to call their supervisor to have them call their supervisor, who then calls the Army.

        Oh, and they give speeding tickets to people for doing 26 in a 25 on base (stateside). Picture an angsty, barely-literate 18 year old with a radar gun, a loaded M-16, and a bone to pick because he's pissed off that he's stuck in fucking North Dakota, and you get the idea. At least it's directed at other troops, but ACAB definitely still applies, and they are usually still frothing dipshits when they get out of the military because they got blueballed out of shooting anyone for four years.