#chairforce

[rogergreenawalt]

The simple truth is that for most of human history, we didn’t have chairs. In earliest times, when people sat at all, they used objects of convenience. Fallen logs, rocks, stumps or they just sat on the ground. Often, people didn’t even use that. In Asia, even to this day, many people prefer simply squatting or sitting on their heels. The very first chairs that came into existence were incredibly rare, and their use was reserved for people of extreme importance: kings, high priests, and the like. Unless you were one of those, you were virtually guaranteed to go your entire life, never having sat on one. #chair #pilot #chairforce (at Pasadena, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkPEL1xPuZv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[i-need-glitter]

Marines and Chairforce meet in Vegas and do this challenge in pairs

https://youtube.com/shorts/g2goXLlxNnU?si=7-D0GTG06SDPlaIY

Psst there’s no alcohol in here by volume your just paying for 1/4 cup liquor per three scoops dimensions divided by the interior space of the cup minus any air by volume which may not be consistent or distinguishable with through the integration through shipping

[tmwblog]

Every Base ER Has a Story (or 20)

These two things happened at the same night at the Fort Leonard Wood ER when my S.O. was stationed there several years ago.

My husband brought me in due to abdominal pain that spread into my  back.  I checked in and took a seat.  

Some time passed, probably only minutes, but I couldn’t have kept track if I’d wanted to, and two young men in the ARMY were dragging an unconscious 3rd between them.  They were in uniform, the day had been hot, so if i had to guess, it was heat exhaustion and/or/with dehydration.  They manage to prop him up in a chair and one of the two alert men check him in.

Then, staff make him wait.  The men with him start stripping his blouse off. 

Now, for clarification, it’s only them, myself (with my S.O.), and another woman in the ER. Since I had been there, no one else has gone in, or come out.  

I am not a quiet person by nature, but I’m in no shape to yell at some bitches behind the counter to do something about an unconscious young man in the ARMY.  Who leaves someone unconscious like that?  I’m about to say something to my S.O. about telling them to get the young man back to be treated, but before I can, the other person waiting stands up and plays the part of yours truly: Woman Who Takes No Shit.

I was quite proud of her.  Also a bit jealous.  Mostly because she had the patience and ability to command where as I would just bark orders and expect them to do as I say.

No, I am not an officer’s wife.

No, I do not think I am better than anyone else because of my S.O.’s rank.

I simply think it’s an injustice to leave another human being that way and expect other human beings to react the same way to the suffering of others.

Oh, but man, did things move along when she had her say.  Someone wheeled out a wheelchair and the two that brought him in, placed him in it.  Then they all went back.

Now let me just pause for a moment here to explain to you the general attitude of the people working at the Fort Leonard Wood ARMY hospital (officially  General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital).  It was shit.  They treated you like shit.  They didn’t even look at you when you spoke to them when checking in, and, if you were to die while standing there, I’m fairly sure no one would have noticed.  Or cared.  So this event wasn’t a one time thing.  I have many FLW Hospital horror stories.

Moving along, I finally get to go back.  It’s been at least an hour, according to my S.O. meanwhile, the waiting room had been slowly filling up and no one else had gone back since the unconscious ARMY man & company.  When I go back, I pass a bunch of empty rooms, and a nurses station with several nurses and two doctors standing around, chatting with each other.  Nice work, guys.

Taken to a room, I get my temp and BP taken, then I get to WAIT SOME MORE. Not sure how long it was, felt like forever, but it usually does when you’re in pain. 

Eventually the doctor comes in, I explain my pain as he’s looking at my medical history in the computer.  Trust me, there’s nothing in there that screams MED SEEKER.  I didn’t even come looking for pain killers, I came looking to find out what the hell was wrong with me.  

The doctor asks me a few questions.  While I don’t recall them, I do recall them not being quite relevant to the situation, and the feeling of confusion.  Then he asks, “Are you sure this isn’t just your Bi-polar disorder?”

Say what? Are you kidding me?  Yes, my brain has moved to my abdomen and instead of causing severe depression, it’s causing such severe pain I found it necessary to go into the ER so I can be asked ridiculous questions by someone under qualified to care for anyone who is ill.

I don’t recall the outcome, it was many years ago.  I just recall the rage I felt at being asked if my abdominal pain was due to my bi-polar disorder.  

Where did you get your degree? Oh right, military training. You probably don’t know what a degree is.

[mommyvloggers]

Welcome, Welcome!

Hello my darling, sweet readers. My name is Bethany, and it’s wild to think that this is my first post in what could soon could become a community for hundreds of thousands, if not millions. 

So? What makes me qualified to give advice to young moms? Well, I am a full-time homemaker and the caretaker of my darling son, Otto, who is three months old. I was just planning on just being a dog-mom for a few more years until my husband transitioned out of the Coast Guard. (Yes! I’m a Coastie wife! Any other MilSpouses out there?!) However, God had bigger plans, and I couldn’t be happier. 

I’m going to be posting about stuff that has made my life easier, accounts I recommend, and some stuff to help fill your soul when you are running on empty. Until then, let’s (try to) get some sleep!

[winterbites]

Well at 17 I just got my highschool diploma, you guys know what this means? I get to sell my soul to the military (the National Guard in particular)! All I need to do is study up for my ASVAB, work out for my physical, and prepare myself that is the mental and physical torture that will be basic training. In all seriousness tho I'm excited to be going down this path (especially since it pays for school and gives me big money 👀) and I'm happy to be training to become a future airman in the Chairforce

[sprocketscoffee]

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[aiiaiiiyo]

Helen Mirren photographed at her London home in 1975 Check this blog!

[123designsrq]

FLEXIBLE CHAIR IS BASED ON HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY AND SPORTS

Being within the house all the time, many of us are on Pinterest making mood forums of furniture we needed we had! On that board is my all-time favored studio, LAYER Design, who has unveiled a chair referred to as Membrane which I want for two reasons – 1) a alternate of surroundings in my home so I can have something new to sit back on and 2) because it's miles a beautifully crafted product that works for a flexible lifestyle. The modern-day times have taught us a lot, and one of these matters is choosing products which can be incredibly purposeful in numerous situational settings. Brands like Herman Miller, Steelcase, Haworth Zody, and Serta are making some of the best designs into chair.

The Membrane has been defined as a especially engineered, ultra-light-weight chair that resonates with the bendy desires of future houses which actually shows within the information of its build. Its form and function were based totally on qualitative research from the sports enterprise and mixed with minimal visuals which resulted on this sustainable chair. The assembly is simple – there are 8 supporting tubes with 2 ring-like tubes that form the shape of the chair. You then pull the stretchy, cushioned material over the assembling on skeleton and that’s it, that is your chair. If you move houses or want to carry it out for camping, you could just fold the fabric and acquire the fast tubes to set it up anywhere you like. “We supply technically worrying answers that respond meaningfully to human behavioral trends,” says the team. The chair is portable, cutting-edge and based on a design strategy that money owed for emotion as strongly as useful desires. The materials they are using to provide it an ethereal appeal in contrast to the cumbersome fixtures we are used to, it honestly lightens (see what I did there?) up the room. LAYER Design desired to create a chair that was progressive with its cloth use however also based on the ever-converting human needs and that they have brought it with Membrane. Read the full article

[haikuhamo]

#tbt Skinny Air Force Warren should have his own IG. My brother, Farmar. #AimHigh #ChairForce #HOORAH #offwegointothewildblueyonder

[ssg-vargas-blog]

#Repost @sfcmajestic with @get_repost ・・・ Damn bro it’s not that serious.... unless you enlisted for 6 yrs then your kinda screwed, LMAO 😂 • • • • • #goarmy #chairforce #savageparents #visalia #visaliaca #orosi #dinuba #dinubahighschool #tularecounty #tulare (at Visalia, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnaQW0AnpKS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1if7multyyf3m

[texasaggie-seaknight]

A lil’ shout out to my AF brothers. Sometimes known as “ChairForce,” but we still luv em! 😉

[mr-system-of-a-downer]

Yeah it's called wanting to go to Hawaii, Italy, or the UK for my duty stations and getting fucking Ft. Hood. I think the airline service is the Air Force?

lol sucks to suck chairforce

[tmwblog]

No Emergency Exit Found

Congratulations, you married into the military - the NCO side.  Or, in my case, my spouse joined up one day and came home with the big surprise.  That was 12 years ago, and we’re still together despite that little (read as: giant) incident.  

You’re the new spouse. So here’s the question, will you and yours make it to the two year mark?  Never mind two.  What about one?

I’ll just start with the spouses coming into the fold whose partners have already been in the military.  You’re in for a big shock and someone needs to tell you, because no one ever does.  You are never coming first.  Not if your partner wants to be a part of the military.

So, don’t throw a tantrum when they work late, or when they have to go out into the field for a week with no contact, or especially when they have to deploy anywhere from 9-18 months with occasional long durations of communication blackouts.

Don’t repeatedly call and bother them at their work number.  Unless you are completely incapacitated and incapable of caring for yourself, whatever it is can wait for them to come home, or sit in a text message on their phone until they can get around to answering it.

Also, don’t expect there to be a ton of money.  So don’t think about overspending, stop partying like you’re rich, and for the love of everything that you may consider holy, regardless of whether or not you have a religion, don’t start having babies immediately from day one.

With some of the highest divorce rates in the country, do you really even need to ask why?

Oh, but you’re in love?  And they’re about to deploy?  Trust me, marriage isn’t going to help that deployment, and the deployment isn’t going to help that new marriage.  Especially if you’re getting pregnant just as they’re leaving.  Surprise! Good chance no one may be there to help you.

Now that you’ve had some time to think about it, know it’s not my intention to prevent marriages, but to make people think before leaping into one.  I’ve seen the high divorce rates around me in friends, neighbors, and strangers in the neighborhood.  The military is like high school, people gossip constantly, you will always know what’s up even if you just talk to one person.  

I’ve also seen an immense amount of counseling go into young members of the military, who “just want to be with the person I love most.”  Not a lick of sense in the head of someone with little to no life experience outside of life with mom and dad and their short existence without them.  One of the biggest reasons they jump in is because they’re leaving.

If you can’t wait out that deployment to get married, can’t make a long distance relationship work for half a year without being faithful, then I’m afraid things are likely to go south for the marriage.

Think of the kids.

And the pets.

Poor pets. :(

But that’s for another post.  Until then, this is the W.I.F.E. with crap you didn’t want to hear. Ta!

P.S. - I’ll try for “nice” next time.

[infriga]

22, 15, and 4 for the meta writer asks? ~ @authortango

I put this in my drafts because I was planning on pulling up the meta ask post on my phone to help me answer, and then my adhd ass totally forgot to actually answer OTL sorry for the delay lol

(meta asks for writers post)

4: Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why if you like)

“I’m a fraud.” He’d said, on his hands and knees. “I’m a monster.” Something inside him had torn its way out, and he’d tried to hold himself together, but he couldn’t anymore. He was a dying star, a supernova, destroying everything around it in a flash of heat and terror before collapsing in on itself and ceasing to exist.

(From Aid to Navigation)

I like this one because it’s a nice multilayered metaphor for Steven’s conflict in that scene and Future in general (I’m a sucker for metaphors lol) that came out really nice and feels like it puts across the exact sort of feeling I was trying to convey.

15: Which is harder: titles or summaries (or tags)? 

Usually titles, cause I’m kinda picky about my titles. Sometimes they come easier, but in general they’re the hardest. Summaries I don’t have too much trouble with since I usually go for something that I think would entice me to look into a fic with the premise I’m using. I also might use a relevant snippet of my writing so people know what it looks like and to give a small glimpse of what’s going on and what the tone is. The only trouble I have with tags is trying to keep the number of them reasonable while still being informative so they aren’t overshadowing the summary.

22: Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?

All the time lol, though there are some I might not read as much because I don’t feel they aged as well as I’d like and I am only human. I’m obviously more partial to my newer work, but I’m still quite fond of some of my older stuff, and I feel like plenty are still good and/or at least fun to read, even when they’re dated, or have lots of mistakes. I remember a very short story I wrote based on a prompt in a Gaia Online writing contest forum from 16 years ago that I still occasionally look back on fondly for no other reason than because I find it cute and funny. And it won me the contest so bonus! The prompt was just something simple based on a character named Chairman, who was “a member of the elite Chairforce, which fought the evils of the world from the chairs all over the world”. Here’s the snippet for anyone who’s curious :

"Oh no!" cried Chairman "the world is being over run by evil monkeys!"

"Nonscense" chided his wife "why would evil monkeys want to rule the world?" she continued her knitting, oblivious to the howler monkey tapping on their window.

"Haven't you ever seen "planet of the apes?"" Chairman asked her angrily.

"Yes of course dear, but those were apes, not monkeys"

"I see no difference!!"

"Of course not dear"

Chairman wheeled himself over to the closet and pulled out a 50 caliber assault riffle. He loaded it and headed towards the door.

It was time to shoot some monkeys.

I didn’t mention anything about the Chairforce, and I never actually clarified that Chairman is supposed to be in a wheelchair, but I give myself bonus points for at least hinting at it, since it was a creative and inclusive take on the chair theme (for a 2006 Gaia online writing contest at least lol). I also still really like the goofy tone of it. Somehow the mistakes, like misspelling rifle as “riffle”, only add to its charm for me lmao.

I used to be really embarrassed by my old writing, and sometimes I still can be, but the older my old stuff gets the more I appreciate it for what it is, cause sometimes I surprise myself with how much better I did than I remember, even if it’s not as good as I am now. And I like seeing how my work changes and evolves over time, it’s a nice showcase of how I’ve improved over the years. Something that stuck with me was when I deleted a fic once, because it was old and I thought it was cringy, plus it hadn’t gotten much attention anyway. But not long after I deleted it someone actually messaged me asking where it went. It was just a random oneshot, but someone still liked it enough to notice that it was gone, and they even brought it up to me directly and told me that they’d enjoyed it and wanted to read it again. Because of that I’d planned on editing it a bit and then posting it again instead of removing it permanently, but tragically I ended up losing the original document before I could. Now it’s gone forever, and I really regret deleting it in the first place because I’d still rather have the original version than nothing, for that one person who wanted to re-read it if nothing else. I’ve never deleted any of my old works completely off the internet since then, just kept the oldest ones mainly on FFN cause I like having the older stuff just on the older account where they originated, like a digital museum (though I have backups and if needed will probably archive them on a separate AO3 account/pseudonym if FFN ever goes under).

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

One thing that I think would be funny with comic book superheroes that were former military would be to play up the military branch rivalries.

You could have scenes like the Punisher doesn’t like taking orders from War Machine because he’s in the Air Force and conversations that go like this:

Punisher: I don’t take orders from the chairforce.

War Machine: At least I don’t eat crayons for meals.

Punisher: Hey, they’re FDA approved crayons!

You could do this with a bunch of other characters as well like Captain America, Carol Daners, Deadpool, Ben Grimm, and etc. It could be fun.

[sprocketscoffee]

Always have fellow veterans and first responders stopping in on Wednesday nights to caught up, relax, and tell “there I was...” stories. A few popped in early last week carrying pizza! Had quite a few knuckledraggers show up last week and it was a lot of laughs for sure. Coffee was flowing late because it is what we live on. (Faces hidden to protect the innocent....lol) . . . . #veterans #vets #vetshelpingvets #veteranownedbusiness #veteran #firstresponders #hangouts #knuckledraggers #dogface #squid #jarhead #chairforce #coasties #spaceforce #misfits #coffeeholic #redleg #rotorheads #groundpounders #etc https://www.instagram.com/p/B0RfJQbA8c_/?igshid=1flj77fmp80hp