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If we shot a few people for their failure we might actually have a working replacement for the 135… Just saying… modern problems, very old working solutions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sickening...further proof the big tech oligarch's have far too much control in this country. I've never bought into the Trump stop the steal movement, but it is very clear the big Facebook and Twitter suppressed a story that turns out to be true and could have shaped the election. Hunter Biden is a private citizen and I have a feeling the Grand Jury will ultimately fry his drug addicted ass but we need to know the truth about 10% for the big guy.

Don't you blaspheme in here. Don't you blaspheme in here. I was told by the media there would be $200 a barrel oil!!!!

That's a bold statement

+1 on him being ass. Not opposed to more Ginger tho.

So if Zelensky is an honest leader, then why didn’t the Dems trust him in 2019? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ukraine-president-says-no-blackmail-in-phone-call-with-trump

Dammit...that's the only way I was surviving with this inflation!

What I've been saying but it only takes one 🙂

You can make the argument why the Russian military can't fight besides the tactics and doctrine, the Russian society in general. The corruption has been around since the Tsar's. Has Russia ever been a society that has ever been one of laws instead of corrupt tyrants? Putin was himself a bag man for his political boss before he became Mayor of St Petersburg. Makes me wonder when he shakes his nuclear saber, does he have to spray WD-40 inside the scabbard to remove it. Missiles take a bunch of upkeep; I wonder if they even keep a warhead on top of the ones in the silos. Back in the day our Atlas birds had to keep fuel in the tube for structural strength so the war head would not come down crushing the tube, right before I joined an Arkansas silo had an explosion when a mx troop dropped a wrench and punctured the skin and the fuel exploded. Just thinking a Russian General knowing that his birds would never fly just kept one looking good in case the boss showed up and padded his budget and bank account.

This article says the Sherman had a 580% loss rate. A Poor Defense: Sherman tanks in WW2 – University of Illinois Archives

Is anyone else heading to Vance for UPT? Let's get a group chat or something going!

I doubt anyone now would claim the KC-46 program is a success story-lots of lessons learned that will hopefully be allowed to the future (though I wouldn't hold my breath). I'm surprised no one got fired for it (though former asst secretary for acquisition Druyun did end up going to jail for a few months for corruption, since she personally benefited significantly from the tanker lease debacle). That being said, the KC-46 is flying operational missions now. Hopefully the program follows the trajectory of the C-17 program: troubled program that overcame significant design problems and threats of program cancellation due to performance deficiencies (some of which still exist to this day and likely will never be fixed) that eventually became the backbone of the mobility fleet. For KC-46, I guess we'll know in a few years when/if the RVS gets fixed.

I dunno. If you try and save a few bucks by buying cheap Chinese knockoff tires for your Army’s trucks (amongst other questionable decisions) while sharing the spoils with your fat, rich, corrupt entourage, maybe it’s time to look in the mirror when said army gets bogged down in the Ukrainian mud and subsequently dismembered by a motivated enemy. But that’s just me. Probably not much of a solace for the guys about to get shot tho. Oh well. Something, something about sleeping in the bed you’ve made.

It works everyday.

When the MSM right away comes out to discredit the Hunter Laptop story as misinformation/Russian propaganda, and big tech tech sensors anything related to the story…only to 1.5 years admit that it was true, then you have to ask yourself “why”? https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/the-times-finally-admits-hunter-bidens-laptop-is-real/

This is why I don’t put a ton of stock into people talking about all the combat experience of our current military forces (myself included). This is a totally different animal in terms of combat from Iraq/Afghanistan. Also, April 15, 1953 is a long time ago and I hope people don’t think air dominance just happens in modern combat.

New York Times is out today with a "bombshell" report about Hunter Biden's laptop and it containing e-mails relating to his Ukraine dealings, among other things. One wonders what's changed now and this is 'legit' news but in October, 2020, it was Russian disinformation. As attested to in a signed letter by 50 former senior intelligence officials: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000 But trust the IC to not take political sides...

Last week oil was $135 a barrel, this week it is back below $100. The reality of supply and demand is overcoming conjecture and panic.

It’s amazing how these shoe clerks act like you’re trying to withdraw money from their personal checking account, but then they have no problem buying another $50k round of TVs for the wing to replace all the perfectly functional TVs bought 2 years ago…because EOY funds (but not to be spent on shit you actually want/need).

Were you at Columbus in 2009? If not, they got the same guy to do a bunch of road shows. I also heard a joke that some ground forces referred themselves to the 319th of the ground.

This should be playing all over the news networks. Best concise breakdown I've seen.