It is impossible to declare one Simpsons bit as "the best", it's folly, a fool's errand.
That being said, the best Simpsons bit is "Planet of the Apes: the Musical"
That happy man/sad man meme but it's BlueSky saying "haha I don't care that gas prices are going up, I take public transit" and then BlueSky realizing what rising gas prices will mean for their DoorDash burrito taxi prices
Just call it "prison abolition" and BlueSky leftists will be fine with it.
some bullshit penalty calls
I was, in fact, on parking lot duty multiple times during my Army career but I never got an award specifically for that. I was cheated.
Yeah. There are a ton of campaign medals and overseas service ribbons and NATO medals and Global War on Terror Expeditionary medals, etc., etc., etc.
I think Eagle Scout means you come in as E2 instead of E1. An associates degree will get you E3 upon entry, a bachelor's an E4.
I'm not super familiar with the other promotion systems. I know the Navy and Air Force, you have to take a standardized test to prove proficiency in your job, and the Army doesn't do that. Thus so many grumbling about Army NCOs who lack MOS proficiency.
But yeah. I'm betting that woman's unit didn't like her very much because usually if you have a soldier who's due to go to the promotion board soon, you give them a tasking where they can go above and beyond a little and now you have a reason to give them an award.
Also the way the personnel system is set up, an E4 promotable fills an E5 spot on your personnel worksheet but they aren't able to do most of the things an E5 can do, by regulation. So if you want your soldier to become a NCO, you find a reason to give them an award, to increase their chances.
The Army enlisted promotion system gives you points for the awards you've earned, among other things like how much civilian education you have, what your PT and weapons qualification scores are, etc.
Units are incentivized to give their soldiers awards so that they can get promoted.
She doesn't even have one of those!
To be fair I never added my retirement award to my ribbon stack because why the fuck would I, I'm not wearing that thing again.
6 months to Poland
Girl they're gonna look at that one enlistment where you somehow made E5 without earning a single award aside from the ones you got automatically awarded for graduating your initial entry training at the time and say "um, the Army is full, actually"
I'm sorry but this is the silliest plot point ever. There were plenty of men in the nobility, landed gentry, or professions that second sons went into in Regency England who liked to read and would be happy to have a wife who also liked to read. Go find Eloise an Edmund Bertram from Mansfield Park.
Samwell Tarly from Game of Thrones
He would treat my girl Eloise Bridgerton right
I think the most frustrating part of Eloise Briderton's plotline is you are telling me not one guy in the 'Ton likes books? Come on, Violet. Put out a message to all your society contacts that you only want their nerdy kids who won't stop reading to come over. Where is the Samwell Tarly type.
Vaccines can be scary, and part of me does sympathize with parents who are frightened of them. But at the same time I recognize them as necessary. Idk how we make them less scary for people who are scared of them though.
My 11 year old had three vaccinations yesterday and she started having a bad headache and vomiting a few hours later. 24 hours later, she's now fine. But there was that scary moment of me frantically googling to see if these were symptoms I needed to contact a doctor about.
I mean. I see the logic in it. The primary race was already ongoing and they hoped a known candidate would do better than promoting an unknown one.
"Why is Mills running" probably because the DSCC did some rudimentary background checks on the candidate leading the Democratic primary race in Maine, realized he had a giant Nazi tattoo, panicked, and picked the most prominent Maine Democrat who had won state-wide office to run against him.
Honestly I think that's too flattering a description of the Luka trade
Here is an article from 2006 talking about relaxing the Army's tattoo policy (the Army National Guard would have fallen under those rules as well) which still notes:
"Clearly, if you have a sexist, a racist or a gang tattoo, you are unfit for duty — you have been and you continue to be"
This is plausible. I don't know a lot about the specifics of that process.
I don't know a whole lot of specifics about MEPS operations but I did meet a guy in basic training who had been told at MEPS he needed to remove or cover one of his tattoos, so they clearly were able to recognize some.
The real question is why MEPS didn't notice the glaringly large Nazi tattoo on his chest when he enlisted in the National Guard. The Guard also prohibited extremist tattoos at that time and it should have absolutely been caught when he went to reenlist.
Also, if he was barred from reenlistment (which I haven't seen evidence for, it appears he just finished his term of enlistment and left), the reason would have been noted in his files and the National Guard would have seen that when he reenlisted with them.
