iembalm wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 3:07 pm
ChudFusk wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 1:58 pm
kicker_of_elves wrote: Thu Jan 15, 2026 1:32 pm
One of my high school besties just clocked 25 years in the Air Force. Made full bird Colonel last year, leads a bioenvironmental engineering unit. Was in Sudan when Assad was gassing his own people. I'd never get a word against the administration from him in uniform. At home in his civvies away from phones and bugs and cameras and such? You can guess. Once he retires, he's taking his family to Canada.
Lovely for him
Depending upon how the next couple of years play out, a US Air Force veteran might not find Canada (or any other currently-allied country) very hospitable. But, an Airman can dream.
Maybe. Probably. My original post was sort of an answer to what seemed like a question of how military brass and low brass are viewing the administration. Privately, as one may expect, it's not at all a favorable take by the significant majority. And many are preparing for early retirements and leaving a country they had originally enlisted to serve out of a sense of absolute betrayal not just by the current administration and cronies, but the people who voted them in in the first place. Regardless of how one feels about militarism, there
are some good people there. Different lives and directions; still good.
