... she leveled out by not improving her knowledge and skills. My aunt retired as Master Sergeant, all the bars on her sleeve, after 23 years. She was always in Community College of the Air Force classes to keep improving herself and her abilities.

Just some info to share.

I'd rather see the Veteran who burned the American flag the other day in defiance of traitor felon's e.o. babbitt should be buried in an unmarked grave on the russian steppes.

Magats always seem to want to honor & identify with traitors & losers.

My grandfather was buried with full military honors--firing salute, playing taps, and my grandmother presented with the folded flag, because he fought in Argonne Forest water-filled trenches in WWI Germany. He fought fascists trying to conquer the world. Bobbitt was a traitor to her country breaking into the U.S. Capitol, trying to stop a free and fair election.

She had no honor.

Mafia Don made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Courtesy of the lowest common dominators in our country selling our for rubles on the dollar.

She was warned not to breach that door where our representatives were hiding in fear for their lives. Babbitt had a backpack on her. What if it contained a bomb or other weapon(s)? There were only seconds for the agent to decide to stop her. She made the fatal choice. What did she expect? She was not thinking clearly by choosing to participate in mob behavior. This is not "blaming the victim" but rather a case of FAFO. Now Trump seeks to use her death as a PR stunt using the Air Force.

Ferfucksake

Regardless of her beliefs she refused a direct order of an armed person in a government facility while engaged in action that any reasonable person would interpret as potentially leading to violence while felonies were occuring.

She also violated her oath she took when she entered the USAF to uphold and defend the US Constitution of the United States against enemies foreign or domestic. On that day in January, Ashley Babbitt CHOSE to be a "domestic enemy".

The mere fact that she is going to be afforded military honors postmortem, is an INSULT to every living and deceased Veteran. Might as well give Benedict Arnold full honors when he switched sides during the American Revolution.

This is dishonor to the highest degree.

By venerating a violent seditious criminal Air Force is discrediting itself in a most odious way.

The usual.

They should not have stopped with her. Bodies should have been stacked ten high.

One of the amazing things of that day remains the discipline of law enforcement. One single round was fired in defense and that was because there was no other choice based on where members of Congress were in relationship to Ashley Babbit. Their job is to protect the institution and it was not well executed but their primary was to ensure the continuity of government through the protection of the members of Congress and there they passed.
I have said this many times before hear and in other places. Democracy was saved by cops on 1/6. US Capitol police, Metropolitan Police, Maryland State Troopers, Virginia State Troopers, Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Montgomery, Prince George’s, Prince William, hell, even State Troopers got to the Capitol
Before the National Guard.

You can motherfuck them all you want here, but mostly local with a smattering of Federal Police saved democracy

N/T

Everything about this traitor and should-have-been-dishonorably-discharged failure is already known.

If I was still in uniform and assigned to this detail - I would refuse!

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Last shots fired.

Facts:

Ashli Babbitt served a total of 12 years in the Air Force, including active duty, Reserves, and the National Guard, from 2004 to 2016.

Any person (Active, National Guard, or Reserve) who has completed at least one enlistment or other obligated military service and received an honorable discharge is eligible for Military Funeral Honors.
https://media.defense.gov/2018/Sep/18/2002041771/-1/-1/1/MFH_ELIGIBILITY.PDF

Ashli Babbitt was not convicted of any crime. She was killed on January 6, 2021, during the Capitol riot by a Capitol Police officer

The following persons are not eligible for military funeral honors:
Individuals separated from the armed forces under dishonorable conditions or those who have been barred from veteran’s benefits.
Those who have been convicted of a federal or state capital crime.
A person who is found to have committed but who has not yet been convicted of a federal or state capital crime by reason of their not being available for trial due to their death or flight to avoid prosecution.

Ashli Babbitt was engaged in criminal activity on January 6, 2021, when she participated in a riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Babbitt was part of a mob that illegally entered the U.S. Capitol building in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is in charge of providing military honors for eligible veterans and service members.

The current Secretary of Defense is Pete Hegseth.

This is on Merrick Garland's DOJ. If Babbitt was charged and/or convicted posthumously, she would not deserve a military funeral.

“bring discredit upon the Air Force” is a tremendous understatement.

Only a republicon draft dodger who thinks Americans veterans and war dead are "suckers and losers."

Un-fugging-forgiveable republicon insult. This latest stunt is just rubbing it in the faces of those who served honorably.

Shame on the US Air Force.

I still cannot understand how any veteran supports Trump. I'm at a loss for words.

Does one need to find the traitor's home town, or have really good aim in Arlington?

U.S. military funerals are traditionally reserved for actual heroes, not insurrectionists who attacked their own country’s capitol.

Why the scheduled military funeral for Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt is indefensible - MSNBC

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You should have done this as a separate OP. I don't think many DUers will see it, since my post is a couple of days old.