You didn’t miss out on anything but the bizarre sense of Stockholm Syndrome-like pride that comes with being a Paratrooper and various injuries you get jumping, haha.

Military plane rides are the worst. My worst experience was about 3 hours in the bird looking like these guys. It was painful, but it didn’t really get bad until someone threw up. We didn’t get to jump, either so guess how many more of us threw up on the way back to the airfield?

Another thing that bothers me is the fact that her dude is an E-7 in the Army, which raises some issues. First, I doubt that active duty service members are allowed to solicit money like that; second, dude probably makes pretty good money especially if he’s claiming residency in Charleston as a recruiter; third, it…

Part of me feels like the AF brass don’t want these because they run the good looks of the jet.

Yeah, but there’s a chance that I might be moving back to her neck of this woods this fall. Is it wrong to be hopeful that she might feel the same way if I do?

That’s part of why I feel conflicted though. We were only together for a couple months, so why do I feel so shitty? It just seems like we were at that point where we were getting really comfortable with calling each other our SO and now there’s nothing. I don’t even know if I should talk with or text her.

Hey guys, I posted on here a few weeks ago about pursuing a potential long-distance relationship and I really appreciate the advice I got. Well, I decided to just be upfront and honest with her and just go with the flow while she figured out where she wanted the relationship to go. Sadly, this past week she called me…

Oh, I agree. All the new barracks I’ve seen are dorm-style with a shared bathroom, so no open bays for regular housing.

That’s surprising. I’m tempted to say that the base might have been former Army. Either that or it was an old barracks building. I know that on some Army posts they contract out housing to a hotel company and turn all the post housing into “hotels” that are basically the barracks buildings with hotel furniture.

I’ve never actually been to the resorts like Dragon Lodge or Hale Koa, I was more referring to the run-of-the-mill base hotels people stay in for TDY or travel. I’ve heard nice things about all of the military resorts though.

It really is staggering to compare Air Force and Army facilities. I remember randomly getting a Temporary Lodging room at Nellis while on a trip to Vegas and it completely wiped the floor with any Army hotel I’ve ever been in.

I doubt this will get any responses since I’m in the greys but I’ve got a relationship problem, or rather a lack thereof. There’s this girl I’ve been seeing for about a month now, and everything has been great so far. We have common interests, we talk for hours, sing along to the radio, and there’s definitely a spark…

Do you get Duck-Rabbit up there? Their milk stout was one of the first beers I drank when I moved to NC and it was a pleasant surprise.

It's probably one of the weakest arguments to keep the C-17s around, but was there any thought given to airborne operations? C-17s can bring more paratroopers and equipment to the fight than the C-130s, not to mention that they're way more comfortable for the troopers to ride in. if they go away for good, won't the…

Darius is Roman? I thought it was derived from the old Persian kings named Darius/Dariush.

She? All she did was walk down a street. It's pretty great of you as a progressive to accept that the price for a woman to walk down a street is to be subjected to advances and appraisals of her looks/sexual potential.

So wait, she's biased because she presents findings of her studies that suggest the prevalence of sexism in the gaming industry? How exactly can she strengthen her rhetorical strategy when her entire article follows a structure of "x is y because it exhibits the following characteristics, which are consistent with a…

I was going to say that it was some Air Yeezys.

Not to mention the fact that the school and stadium don't appear on the map at all.

She really shouldn't. It's one of those stupid peer pressure/BS unspoken standards that some people love to harp on. Oh, I also forgot: running shoes and glasses. I get side eye sometimes for not wearing issued eyeglasses and having obnoxiously colored shoes, but again as long as they fall in with the regulations,…