Space Cadets

[2018commo]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ce-witchcraft/

We are doomed...I like the use of "Space Cadets" though!

[Utah Bob]

What does the AF recruiting commercial say? It's not science fiction? Well....


Coming this summer to your local screen.
The Men Who Stare at Rocks and Harry Potter and the Wild Blue Yonder - 3D

Wiccans flying jets with nukes. What could go wrong?

[jbour13]

The disturbing piece that hit me the most was the highlight of the "Green" M855A1 projo and if it was used in the raid to get UBL. Mind you the carbon footprint was mitigated by removing 3 oxygen thieves from this Earth, but whatever.

WTF??

I read the writer's question as a jab towards the military, not a question:

This opens an interesting question: Did SEAL Team Six use “green bullets” to take down Osama bin Laden, or will the Navy have to offset the carbon footprint of its highly successful mission?

This is your enemy men, how do you close with and destroy this one?

My answer would be wood chipper, it's only fitting you get them and the stump they carry around in one fell swoop.

[Scimitar]

I may not recall this correctly but my understanding is that the USAFA got in trouble a while back for pushing Christianity a little too heavy. Turns out majority of senior staff where Conservative Evangelical or Mainstream and the USAFA got a little off track with policy.

Memories a bit grey on this one, perhaps someone can confirm.

Anyway, I believe this was brought in a few years ago from memory, as a bit of a PC balancing act.

Are we surprised that the PC junkies try it out first at the Academies?

S

[PRB]

I'm sure they had a similar area at Valley Forge for all of the witches n' warlocks WTF!

[Calvengeance]

So from "Aim High" to "Air Power" to..."Earth Power"?

[Utah Bob]

Originally Posted by Scimitar

I may not recall this correctly but my understanding is that the USAFA got in trouble a while back for pushing Christianity a little too heavy. Turns out majority of senior staff where Conservative Evangelical or Mainstream and the USAFA got a little off track with policy.

Memories a bit grey on this one, perhaps someone can confirm.

Anyway, I believe this was brought in a few years ago from memory, as a bit of a PC balancing act.

Are we surprised that the PC junkies try it out first at the Academies?

S

If you google Air Force Academy photos, about 75% of the pics are of the Chapel. The rest seem to be graduation ceremonies.

I'm just sayin'......

[Sten]

It struck me as this is how smart, highly motivated kid protest.

Cadet commander: Son, you need to get to church on Sundays.
Space Cadet: Sir, I am a pagan.
Cadet Commander: Are you mocking me?
Space Cadet: No sir! I am going up to consecrate my rock prayer circle today.

No PC conspiracy, just a kid who is smart enough and motivated enough to follow through on an elaborate plan to do what he wants on Sundays.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Scimitar

I may not recall this correctly but my understanding is that the USAFA got in trouble a while back for pushing Christianity a little too heavy.
S

There was a problem several yrs ago.

Former commandant to review religion at Air Force Academy
By Dan Elliott
The Associated Press
Posted: 03/12/2011 01:00:00 AM MST

A retired Air Force general who once served as commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy will assess the religious climate at the school, where allegations and court battles over religious tolerance have periodically flared for seven years.

Patrick Gamble, who retired as a four-star general in 2001 and is now president of the University of Alaska, was asked to take an "independent, subjective look at the overall climate at USAFA relating to free exercise of religion," the Air Force said in a statement Friday.

The Air Force said the review is not an investigation or inspection, and that no detailed report is expected.

Gamble said Friday he was assembling a team of five or six other members with expertise in law, religion, academics and other areas to conduct the review. He said it was too early to release the other members' names.

Gamble said his goal is to see whether various programs and provisions put in place since 2004, when religious intolerance became an issue, are working.

Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and a vocal critic of the academy, criticized the scope of the review as it was outlined in the Air Force statement.

The problem at the school is not with any restriction on the free exercise of religion, but with unwanted proselytizing by fundamentalist Christians, a violation of the constitutional concept of the separation of church and state, he said.

Gamble said he had not ruled out looking at the separation issue. He said his review team is still getting organized and its scope hasn't been determined.

Gamble said he wasn't sure whether he would report his findings orally, in a written report or both. No date has been set for the team to visit the school, he said.

Academy spokesman Lt. Col. John Bryan said the school welcomes the opportunity to show the "solid progress we've made over the last few years in terms of religious respect, diversity and the overall climate here."

The tolerance issue surfaced when many cadets reported in a 2004 survey that they had heard slurs or jokes about other religions. Some said they felt ostracized because they weren't religious.

An Air Force task force concluded in 2005 there was no overt discrimination by evangelical Christians, but it said the academy failed to accommodate the religious needs of some cadets and staff.

It also cited a perception of intolerance.

Read more: Former commandant to review religion at Air Force Academy - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_17...#ixzz1LgHHjzhk

[Red Flag 1]

Still unaddressed is the plight for Cadets and staff who believe in nudism. Defined as "the practice or cult of going nude for hygienic reasons". They suffer in silence as their plight goes un-noticed. Time for all government funded military institutions to recognize and provide an area for nudism. I know we all look foreword to that day.

RF 1

[mark46th]

OK- I am a cadet at the AF Academy. My parents came to the U.S. from a region of Mexico that still practices Aztec rituals. According to this, I can skin my roommate alive, cut out his/her heart and wear his/her skin to appease the gods of Ixtlan?

[Utah Bob]

Originally Posted by mark46th

OK- I am a cadet at the AF Academy. My parents came to the U.S. from a region of Mexico that still practices Aztec rituals. According to this, I can skin my roommate alive, cut out his/her heart and wear his/her skin to appease the gods of Ixtlan?

Probably not. But you could do a corn dance.

[Pete]

Lets not forget the Church of Body Modification.

One man's cult is another man's religion.

[Utah Bob]

Druids Rock!