Only POTUS who pulled off long SOTU speeches was Clinton, and even he often went longer than was wise. And he never went THIS long.

As bad as the Navy can be, they are actually quite a bit better than the other services in publicly relieving officers who fuck up hard enough.

Depending on the utility, markings may stop at the curb line. I know for the water department we only marked to the curb stop. Past that was the property owner's responsibility. Cable could be different, but if not, that contractor is going to get a hefty bill.

People need to remember that Schumer is who he is as majority leader is because that is what the caucus wants. every Senator is a special little boy and they chaffed under Reid's more heavy handed leadership. Schumer was the reaction to that.

It was more that the Taliban was able to use Pakistan as a safe haven.

I could maybe see this being done for an organization that had not done retention bonuses before (and therefore had little to no data to base the proper retention amount to meet the retention goal). The military has that data in excess. Overcomplicates and risks unintended consequences.

And since both ranks and specialties would have different bonus pools. There are some rank/specialty combos where actual collusion is more than realistic because there might only be a hand full of people in that specific pool.

I think a line I heard back in the 90's (in reference to Waco). "Your little peashooter is going to do you no good when Janet Reno sends in the Apache's". And Koresh HAD a significant arms cache built up (which is what kicked off the whole mess in the first place)

Also not clear is there are very different categories both in rank (there are five levels of WO, 1-5) and specialty which I would hope have sperate bonus systems. And still this does not do anything but complicate and put a burden onto the officers for no real gain in the actual goal.

It overcomplicates it. And it is a different I guess psychology to the decision process that I can see having negative unintended consequences.

Military has a huge historical data set to work with that should make "retention bonus amount" = "retention number" calculation comparatively simple. It's how they set the bonus's up to now in the first place.

Even within that this way overly complicates things. Military has a pretty robust data history of "retention bonus amount"= "number retained" This seems to make meeting retention goal harder and more complicated.

Yeah, that's the issue.

It is at the very LEAST overly complicated. The military has a set number retention goal in various specialties. It has a huge amount of data to draw on already to set the retention bonus to meet that goal. This seems designed to make the overall goals harder to meet.

I think you need to re-read the whole policy proposal. It's also a very poor way to do it.

No, my read is those who bid higher get no bonus.

But there is usually a hard number you WANT to retain. This is liable to just make things a complicated mess, that hurts retention.

It ignores the purpose of the retention bonus in the first place. These warrant officers are usually highly trained technical specialists. Keeping them from jumping to a better paying job in the civilian market is a challenge at the best of times.

What's funny is it isn't for example, uncommon for a medical specialist in SOF to be Warrant Officers. Pilots are also mostly Warrant Officers.

Maybe, but some may NOT have intended to get out but now making the bonus an uncertain lottery for all intents is going to encourage more than a few to just say "fuck it" instead. And you still have the issue of making retention projections nearly impossibly complicated.

Yeah, bau a standard retention bonus is predictable, and will always keep a certain number in and can be adjusted up or down to meet retention goals. This gameshow shit is liable to cause a lot of Warrant Officers from even bothering and inserts a stupid amount of unpredictability.

My read is this is almost designed to depress retention.

Apparently to gut the Army's technical capacity and cause a shortage of technical and repair capacity, while driving individuals the military poured resources into training into the civilian job market where they will be happily hired in a heartbeat.

And this ignores that the competition is the civilian job market where these technical specialists (who Warrant Officers are) can easily jump to and make more money without this BS stupid shit. The reason FOR the bonuses is to help retain these soldiers. trying to nickel and dime will blowup.

This is almost a parody of a McKinsey consultant idea.

Warrant Officers are usually tech specialists of some sort. (whole reason for the class of ranks), they can easily make more money in the civilian job market. This will quickly gut internal military technical capacity, everything from mechanics to pilots.

And given the basis of the SC ruling, not sure they hold up in the almost certain case they are challenged.

Wouldn't the arguments the majority on the SC made to shoot down these specific tariffs also be valid in shooting down the new ones? The majority opinion seemed to basically say that congress can't delegate this specific issue to the POTUS.

Apparently, they just released a new patch that fixed quite a bit, according to some Skylines streamers I have seen.

Did, did they just recently discover him? He has been an arrogant ass his entire public life. He was like this in the 90's