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  • Re: Tommy's Fantasies

    From Zen Cycle@21:1/5 to John B. on Thu Feb 13 16:09:34 2025
    On 2/12/2025 7:44 PM, John B. wrote:
    On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:27:27 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon Sep 16 14:46:54 2024 Zen Cycle wrote:

    oh, my....You've never heard of time-in-grade?

    https://airforce.fastport.com/AF/advancement/Database?p%5BProfileID%5D=129&p%5Bv

    Airman Basic (E-1) is eligible for promotion to Airman (E-2) with
    six months' time-in-grade.
    E-2 is eligible for promotion to Airman First Class (E-3) with 10
    months' time-in-grade.
    E-3 is eligible for promotion to Senior Airman (E-4) within 18 to
    24 months' time-in-grade (depending on earlier promotions).

    Seems like Johnny may be right, you never _were_ in the airforce.




    When were you in the Air Force? Did you see in that reference you gave about passing a test? Being a
    Flunky has its disadvantages - you tend to be as stupid as a rock. Also, you cannot be promoted UNLESS there are openings for that grade. In four years my shop had ONE. He was given the promotion not by passing a "skills test" but by recommendation
    from the shop NCOIC. But then all of the time you spent in the service you already knew that didn't you?

    You are lying again. To be promoted you FIRST have to be qualified,
    which includes having passed the skill test, and have time in grade.
    The Shop Chief can only recommend. No opening for grades below
    Sergeant (3 stripes) are required. How do I know? Well I was a Shop
    Chief for a number of years :-)

    did that loser kunich actually respond yesterday to a post I made in
    september?

    wow, talk about having no life!


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  • From zen cycle@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 17 06:32:23 2025
    On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:39:32 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
    wrote:

    I'm sure that you could get Flunky who knows zip about it to agree with you because he did 2, 200 mile in-one-day rides

    Let alone that I'd be interested to hear how you managed to link air
    force rank hierarchy to distance of bike rides, I'd also be interested
    to see a link to where I ever posted a 200 mile ride.

    despite having a less than 1,500 mile year. >

    2,847.1 mi in 2024, according to Strava

    And he did that at an average speed that showed that he drove it in a car.

    2,847.1 mi in 165h 18m is 17.2 Mph in 2024, according to Strava. Sorry
    sparky, I don't need a car to maintain a 17 MPH average.

    You two deserve each other. He also told us that he was a racer and he is over 65 years old.

    I never claimed I was over 65, I'm not.

    And despite actual pro racers saying that they ALWAYS glanced down to shift friction shifters to see where the levers were

    no, they didn't. Just because you're so inept that _you_ had to doesn't
    mean everyone else did.

    - Flunky tells us that he never had to.

    Everyone that responded to you in that discussion also said they never
    had to look down to shift. You're the _only_ person that has said it was necessary - It's your problem, no one elses.

    Why he was 100 times brighter than the best pro out there, just ask him.

    Here sparky, I'll help you out: I'm not smarter than a professional
    rider in any aspect of riding/racing bicycles. If I were, I might have
    at some point in my life advanced beyond a cat 3.

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