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I'll just add, any sane implementation of make should already define $(CC) for you.
I'm currently serving, and I agree. It gets tiring having complete strangers walk up to me, while I'm in uniform, and saying things like "thank you, for all that you do.", as if I should bask in the glory of their appreciation. Perhaps they really are thankful, but the whole encounter is always awkward. At first I wasn't sure how to respond, but I've settled on saying "you're welcome", even though it sounds arrogant to me. Then you have individuals and corporations who profit on this whole notion that we should donate to "support the troops" at every opportunity we get. Many of us don't deserve support. Some of us may make sacrifices at times, but that doesn't mean we deserve everyone's affection or undue favoritism. We have the same issues as any one else. I'd much rather people pressure their congressmen and women to provide the benefits our service members were guaranteed. For those that feel compelled to give, I'd urge them to do so locally by contacting their local VFW post.
Now, I don't want to seem ungrateful. There have been instances where I felt I experienced actual appreciation. Once I was out enjoying sushi with some family and friends and a stranger paid the bill. They left without us ever having known who they were. I'm grateful for what they did.
I originally enlisted in the Navy as an Aviation Structural Mechanic (AM), and my first command was an F-14 squadron where I was assigned to airframes. On average, we scheduled 40 man hours for each flight hour (sometimes as high as 60). The F/A-18's that eventually replaced the Tomcats took about half that, but for most aircraft you're looking at 10 MMH/FH, at least, for mx alone.
That said, not all aircraft are created equal, and not all those Tomcats required all 40 scheduled man hours. Maintenance manning, at least in the Navy, is largely determined by man hours. So it isn't uncommon for commands to log as many hours as they can to keep billets, and possibly get a few additional ones. Billets are taken away if you show you can operate at fewer man hours.
That's in Japanese Yen, which is ~34.5B USD.
For example, Arizona driver's licenses don't expire until the person's 65th birthday (and every five years thereafter).
There simply weren't plenty of linguists before or after those discharges (which obviously didn't make the situation any better). There still isn't for languages like Arabic and Persian Farsi. Attrition rates for DLI are high.
Many countries have national laws prohibiting cooperate espionage, but it's not necessarily prohibited by international law absent a declaration of war.
The U.S. accounts for about 35% of R&D research worldwide for prescription drugs. Nearly half of the pharmaceutical companies revenues and profits come from the U.S. market. They even get something better than tax subsidies (and they do get quite a few tax breaks)... Medicare's prescription drug program. So, yes, U.S. taxpayers are very much footing the bill, even if the industry doesn't need the outrageous profits they claim.
To give an idea just how big freight traffic is in the U.S., freight by rail is something like 1.7 trillion ton-mile (39.9% of freight by ton-mile). The total across all modes in the EU is 1.4 trillion ton-mile, of which rail makes up 17%, so only about an eighth of the U.S. in freight. This has led to fairly different rail systems.
There's been some effort to amend Article 60 of the UCMJ within the Senate; however, it's never gotten past committee.
When I visit the dashboard, there's a notice at the bottom stating as much, as well... "Google Location History is not yet enabled for your Google Account."
I took part in the 2008 humanitarian relief det when Typhoon Fengshen hit land, and our response time was about seven hours from the time we got the phone call and had planes and helos on the ground delivering supplies and providing medical care.
Those response times are largely based on how quickly we can get supplies from USAID, and receive an actual request for assistance.