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Toast to Moose! I was stationed with him in the Wild Boars at Mountain Home. As a young 1Lt, his hair used to be really long...to which the wing commander called him out during a First Friday at the 390th and told him to cut his "goldi-locks"...without hesitation, Moose said, "Nah Scottie (Brig Gen Robin Scott), I'm good bro," as he ran his hand through his hair. Everybody was roaring... Him, Him

I agree that it's good to have backups, but a lot of this article seemed like a Locata sales pitch. The medium Earth orbit used for PNT satellites is great for being uncrowded, and the direct ascent ASAT threat isn't nearly has high or destructive in MEO. Additionally our new vehicles have safety of life signals on another band just for catastrophic events, because like the article mentioned, the world cannot function without GPS. A lot of people understand the value of the navigation signal, few realize that the timing signal is what basically the entire global economy depends on. Banks, cell towers, SATCOM satellites etc. all run off of the GPS timing signal. Uplink jamming is an option, but that takes a lot of power, and that amount of power can be easily located. Downlink jamming happens all the time. There's not a whole lot the average civilian user can do about that. The space environment threat isn't nearly as bad as the article portrays it to be. It's much more of a concern to LEO satellites. The real threat to all space systems these days is the cyber threat. Even still, it is incredibly unlikely that any organization/nation could affect the constellation to the degree that would cause operational failure. Posted from the NEW Baseops.net App!

Just got word that my Forms 4 for an AAC MPW 9" and AAC SDN-6 arrived at my arms dealer. Giggity!

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Or maybe we just have two enemies...

"While Europe Slept" is another good read about the influence of Muslims moving into Europe. I'm sure honor killings will become much more popular if we just try to understand the culture that commits them.

Who gets to define what "our society" is, exactly? Is "our society" the same as it was in 1865? The same as it was in 1920? 1945? 1965? 1980? No? Hmm... so society changes over time as technology and population changes occur. Correct? Who are you to decide what that future society will be?