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Looks like a hell of a rack

Not holding my breath but a $400million fine seems about right.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jonathan-turley-says-documents-are-quite-damning-of-allegations-letitia-james-committed-mortgage-fraud/ar-AA1D3i88?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f7ebeffdb0854238be4b68f76654135d&ei=88

I loved her in The Fifth Element!

Can concur. They emailed me saying the remainder of the RIPs should be loaded this week.

I live in Knoxville and this is the first I’ve heard of the Bugatti. Have heard that they were demanding an increase to $[emoji640]M/yr. He $[emoji638]M his first year for playing about a half of football. His father is making very bad decisions for him and will likely end up costing him millions in future earnings. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

"AFSOC is committed to the welfare of our Airmen and maintaining good order and discipline which is necessary to preserve the trust placed in us to execute our critical global missions." This is the UCMJ Article that covers fraternization. Similar verbiage is in the service-specific regulations §934. Art. 134. General article Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special, or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court. As used in the preceding sentence, the term "crimes and offenses not capital" includes any conduct engaged in outside the United States, as defined in section 5 of title 18, that would constitute a crime or offense not capital if the conduct had been engaged in within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, as defined in section 7 of title 18.

Yeah, there is a few of us on here yet to hear. I emailed the board last Friday and they responded Monday saying this week. If you have not reached out to the board about it, I would do so as they may have a new update.

NIL is destroying college sports.

I'm sure most have seen this already, but it's just too good not to share!! 😁😁😁 QB Nico Iamaleava's time with Tennessee football is over after DEMANDING more money and a 2025 Bugatti Chiron (listed at $4,301,450). Iamaleava, the 5 Star recruiting gem, signed an NIL contract in March 2022 that could’ve paid him more than $8 million by the end of his third year at UT. Iamaleava's ‘Camp’ wanted his NIL pay increased to $4 million per year and a brand new Supercar ‘Bugatti Chiron’ using the possibility of him entering the portal as leverage if his demands were not met. Coach Josh Heupel informed the team that the Vols are moving forward without Iamaleava stating they don’t negotiate with student athletes. #Tennesee #NIL #NicoLamaleava #Vols #SEC

Anyone else yet to receive a training RIP or projected training in their CDB?

Great movie! RIP Michelle!

Lots of guessing focused around our doctrine of airpower, often it is more useful to approach from the adversary's state of mind. In many ways China holds the high ground in the Taiwan fight. With the mainland just over 100 miles it is far easier for them to project airpower over the island. Knowing we face the tyranny of distance problem, they are looking for ways to push us back as far as possible which is why they have developed things like the DF series of missiles. AEW platform like the KJ-500 and the new KJ-700 further feed that doctrine. I would not be surprised if the J-36 falls more into the category of a missile dump truck with VERY long legs.

Slightly off topic, but with just enough venn overlap: I’ve lost count the number of times a CA I’m flying with (.civ guys) says “I think they should just build new A-10s.” As long as we have another hour in cruise, I’ll paint the picture of 50 years of technology advances being the toys in the Eyes Wide Shut party between DoD program requirements and industry, and how that would create an incestuous love baby that will only get ripped apart across as many congressional districts as possible to create some too-big-to-fail abomination that would resemble the original A-10 about as closely as an ice cream truck. And I somehow feel re-victimized every time.

Since Trump took office (not all of them, just a few top ones): TSMC $100B Stargate $500B DAMAC $20B Eli Lilly $27B Apple $500B (after an additional 10% tariff on China) Hyundai $20B J&J $50B CMA GCM $20B GE $1B NVIDIA $500B (yesterday, even amid a potential further tariff increase on chips) Also FWIW, combined $1.1T in planned investments/trade increases with Saudi and India This is not an opinion on the tariffs at all, but saying investments are not being made/not in motion is straight up wrong. Saying tariffs are going to crush investments and businesses will want nothing to do with investing amidst tariffs has so far, been wrong. All the fear- mongering regarding the tariffs has so far panned out to be sky-is-falling bullshit, which is the main point I’m addressing. How will everything look in 4 years (hell even 18 mo), fuck if I know. But I do know right now, even amid Trump’s seemingly volatile economic gameplan, companies and domestic and foreign investors are more so running towards the US economy than away. Ultimately, I’m just glad we’re not continuing to execute the same shit we’ve always done - need to mix it up, stumble/learn/adapt, etc. to get to a more economically independent future. Maybe this will all pan out, maybe it’ll fail and we’ll have to adjust fires, but at least we’re trying to solve the problems instead of just defeatedly accepting the status quo.

all the punks are on reddit and tiktok now

Ok, maybe my reading comprehension is falling short, but all I’m seeing is “loss of trust and confidence” boilerplate. Quick talk on?

It's true...AMF. Dude is a complete douche canoe and a disciple of Cat 5.

If you can’t see the strategic vulnerability of the current supply chain given we are somewhere between weeks to single digit years from a real shooting war with CHINA, nobody here is gonna be able to help you. The Cold War victory did nothing but encourage us to outsource in ways we never would have. There is no point over the last half century where “hey let’s have the Soviet Union make all the _____ so we can buy it on the cheap” would have been an acceptable conversation either in a board room or in government. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We should / should’ve developed the 23 into the Regional Bomber concept to complement the 21

J-36 Cylon, so shall it be

I’m not saying it will be 100% reshoring of the supply chains, that it will be magical, that it will be environmentally perfect… what I am saying that staying with the status quo is strategically awful. Strategically being composed of multiple factors considering not just which country in the insane globalized economy is willing to warp, cheat, subsidize and exploit their workers, the environment, lie and subvert naive nations who for ridiculous reasons think that in a world run by fallen humans there is a truly free market. Reshoring, tariffs and other national policies are not perfect but necessary. Our tech boom / economic boom of the 90s to 00s was a sugar high fueled by cheap labor, delusions that other people just wanted to get along / make money and a devious government exploiting open societies.