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Anyone know where I can get my favorite communist Cuban or Venezuelan colors to fly on base today? Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Speaking of border crisis. I guess all of a sudden we need a wall.

We had a cyber war guy brief a theory paper on “non kinetic disruptive attrition.” Essentially, you don’t even have to kill us to hurt our combat capability. Anybody above the rank of major just have those warehouses full of hackers and bots start running up credit cards in their name, issue police reports or swat people, start emailing their wife the “it’s his baby and I want my money” or nudes from some girl in whatever city your last TDY was… that type stuff… basically everything you see when the hacker wrecks the life of somebody in a movie. Do that simultaneously to all the leadership out there, then while that’s going on do something akin to Russia when they went into Crimea. With the amount of information the government already handed them through our own stupidity plus the amount of social media we already put out on ourselves, it wouldn’t be hard to severely hobble the command channels with issues that result in delayed action. For those of us that remember the Ashley Madison hack and the shit show that ensued when peoples wives started googling names… now do it with the benefit of AI. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's on the schedule for Monday.

Wars are not won by the most competent force. Wars are won by the least incompetent force.

I just wanna know how Epstein's Island was? I'm sure Bill told her a few stories about that place.

I think Dems will be very disappointed when they find out these illegals are deeply religious and hate the LGBTQ+ agenda.

Not sure where this post should be...border crisis or the hypocrisy thread...When the NYT is calling out a DNC administration, you know you done messed up A-Aron. U.S. Will Build Stretch of Border Wall and Begin Deportations to Venezuela

Or…. And this is just the ground force centric guy on a website full of Air Power people… Taking territory offensively in a conventional war is far more difficult and casualty producing than our two successful one-sided shit kickings in Iraq made it seem… You guys realize we barely made it to Baghdad in 03? Not due to casualties or the Iraqi Army, due to logistical strain and lines of supply vs speed of advance. In some ways the massive sand storm saved us because it allowed some downtime to perform ground maintenance. Most of our tracked vehicles were well beyond the time before overhaul on them when they got there. It’s part of the reason we took a few days doing thunder runs to the airport. If Saddam had pulled himself back to Mosul we physically wouldn’t have had the ass to get up there. Ukraine is the size of Texas, and unlike Texas it’s full of mine fields, water crossings, and a half dozen drones per square mile tied to a massive network of fires assets looking for a vulnerable ground force on the March with engineer support to get through said mine fields. Oh also Russia just pulled the bulk of its modern Naval forces in Sevastopol back into Russian home waters because they can’t defend/preserve that combat power. No big deal right? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I recently met an AF 0-5 who is a party to a class action lawsuit along with Hoppe. Please consider signing this petition. Thanks. https://x.com/jhippityhoppe/status/1710119097952788572?s=46

“We” only censor sitting presidents and scientists/doctors that speak out against the erosion of civil liberties.

If you're still in NWF and he's into robotics, I'd recommend touching base with the good folks at IHMC in P-cola. They have a few internship opportunities for high schoolers that would help smooth his path. Also, they're an amazing group of nerds to work with and have an awesome lab.

I’d strongly encourage MIT/Brown/Dartmouth, he can always find his way back to the Air Force if it’s something he really wants in his life. I know lots of Academy nerds (and I went to UPT with @elvis) and the honest-to-God truth is the majority of the Academy grads I talk to don’t speak particularly favorable about their time there. Maybe it’s bias, but I’ve heard lots of “I didn’t enjoy it but it’s a nice place to be a graduate of”, some “If I could go back I would go somewhere else”, and a few “I needed the discipline but other that that..pass” but I can’t recall if I’ve ever heard anyone be purely positive about it. I’m an off the street guy and I think some of the USAFA story sounds kinda cool, but I look around and realize that even if I could go back in time I wouldn’t even consider going. Thankful others are willing to though, nothing but respect

It seems as though people vote for whichever side says nice things to them, whether or not any positive results occur. Republicans say things conservative Christians agree with, while the DNC tends to call them heartless bigots. Democrats claim to be helping African Americans, while Republicans don't really voice support (and the DNC casts anyone with an R after their name as a racist). Neither party seems to actually do much work for either group, but they say sympathetic things...

don't wanna speak for @ViperMan, but I highly doubt he's equating responsible/ethical hunting to dog fighting

I don't get the Dem's vice grip on the African-American vote either. The Dems seem to only care about issues important to that community every 4 years- otherwise it's lip service. Also, an argument can be made that the rampant illegal immigration the Dems are in favor of has hurt blue-collar African-Americans in the trades more than any other group but still 90% vote for the Dems.

That's the problem with single issue voters, specifically in this case the hardcore religious right: they always miss the forest for the trees. RoevWade was a big win for them.. for now. What they fail to realize is the hardline pro life stance is deeply unpopular at the national level, and republicans paid for it big time in 2022 with the completely neutered "red wave." They'll continue to pay for it in 2024. So congrats you won on one issue.. at the expense of literally every other issue. Similar thing happening with the speaker fight too. Matt Gaetz didn't get 100% of what he wanted.. so let's nuke the whole thing and turn the party into a disjointed laughing stock as we move into 2024. Sounds like an amazing strategy.

It also reminds me of WW1 with tactics that hadn’t kept up with the lethality of modern weapons.

I think about how mismanaged, undermanned, and underfunded we are and then times that by about 5 and it starts to make sense.

A steady drip drip drip... America First Legal sued the National Archives and discovered there are more than 1,000 emails with Joe Biden’s office during his time as vice president and Hunter Biden's Investment firm. Hundreds remain hidden because of executive privilege asserted by the White House. As a reminder, executive privileged is employed when “Release would disclose confidential advice between the President and his advisors, or between such advisors.” But Biden never discussed business with his Hunter?...

Agree. Why is that? It would seem we are either unable to accurately assess the capabilities of our foes, or intentionally misrepresenting them for the sake of funding. Either way, not good.