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I just watched one of my sons graduate USN bootcamp. He shot expert! He's off to Coronado for SWCC training. The navy did a good job with the graduation. All of the people in attendance were super stoked that their loved ones were now sailors. All walks of life were present. Very cool seeing all different types of Americans being happy together and serving this great nation.

Disingenuous? This argument would stand a much better chance of being solved if the pro-abortion side was honest about their intent. The truth is, people who are pro-abortion are scared of ruining their careers, commitment, finances and scared of the changes to their body should they have a child. Can’t have stretch marks in this social media crazed day and age. Instead we get to argue over some arbitrary number of weeks. It’s all the same in the end, you’re ending your own child’s life. Or, we get to talk about things that are statistically irrelevant like rape and incest. Or, we get to talk about the life of the mother which is getting harder and harder to argue with the advances in medicine. The left will never agree to something firm in this argument. As stated by many above, it’s a political football that consistently produces winners and losers. It’s too valuable of a political commodity to put to bed. Meanwhile, millions of children are being murdered in the name of politics, selfishness and irresponsibility. It’s all disgusting.

Tell me you don't do CAS without telling me you don't do CAS. "Hammering away"...I don't even have words other than thanks "SEAL of the Sky" for your input. Removing the 105MM is nothing more than moronic payback from two herbivore AFSOC/CC's that hate the gunship community. There is a story about how this all started and it had NOTHING to do with anything related to combat, rather Slife wanting to harvest manpower for a pet project and being told no because they had to keep X number of gunners on the AC-130J to man the 105MM. As a dude who has shot bad guys 27 meters form the friendlies, advocating for BVR CAS is one of the dumber things I have ever read on this forum. Slinging a Small Cruise Missile (SCM), at GPS coordinates is not CAS, doing it in a dynamic fight is Fing stupid and dangerous. As for "accuracy not being as good as folks think"...the advertised unclassified accuracy of the AC-130 is two mils. Again as a person who flew it once or twice, techniques like two-shot bring that much lower. The hammering away and they keep running scenario mentioned above is a function of poor employment or training, not the damn gun. Come on over some time, I'll pour you a glass of brown liquor and show you a couple hours of video 33 pound projectiles filled with 6 pounds of Comp B pissing-off all the virgins in Jannah because thanks to me "hammering away" with the 105MM, they are about to be overrun with business. Rather than guard core capabilities AFSOC leadership is grasping at straws trying to remain relevant in this pivot to peer/near-peer, the Air Force is feeding that mantra as we slowly walk away from what should be a fierce dedication to those on the ground, reference insert A-10 retirement as further proof. I am not opposed to adding SCM to the gunship arsenal, it would add a great stand-off capability to suppress semi-permissive threats in CORE SOCOM mission sets, but if having 30 gunships with SCM is the key to the fight against China, we've already lost.

Given the choice of saving innocent human life vs losing elections, I'll stand for life every single day. Without life nothing else matters (no rights to protect). I understand losing elections means the democrats get to decide who they allow to be killed, but the principle remains. We just need to do a better job of framing the question/topic and recognize that not every jurisdiction is happy with the exact same restraints (sadly even on the killing of babies). The 2nd amendment in our republic is/was/always has been law, abortion was a made up right to kill innocents. They are not even in the same ballpark. Comparing those two is like comparing the right to own material possessions with the right to kill someone you don't like.

ill tempered sea bass

Great data! Thank you! If you get any leads after the board meets next week, please please dont leave us hanging lol.

I've been thinking the current climate must be what it was like watching the F-105 get fielded as TAC went whole hog into everything nuclear.

They’re all attached to sharks instead.

I hope you're enlisting to crew chief for the Raptor squadron. If so, be the best crew chief on the line (also applies to [insert AFSC]) - follow direction from your NCOs and leadership - be humble - take feedback and use it to improve - deploy with the squadron, even if you have to miss a semester or two. The pilots will notice, and will put on war paint if thats what it takes to get you to UPT (they'll fight for you). Whichever unit you're enlisting with, don't scoff the other units. Your unit might be backlogged for UPT slots, changing airframes, losing their metal, etc. Be up front and honest with your unit that you want to be an officer and fly, and that includes making yourself available to all opportunities on the island.

You’re dreaming man. And not just on the Republican side, but I’d say mostly on the Democrat side—the left could easily pass a bill in the Senate that says federal law protects abortion up until 4 months but then it’s against the law to do it afterwards. But that’s not what the left wants—their entire argument is “it should be left up to a woman and her (abortion) doctor”…which means zero bans. So sure, could the GOP play politics and vote for the 4 month ban as I suggested? Sure…though of course they’ll never do it for obvious reasons. And the left would also not vote for it since they don’t want any restrictions. So politically I don’t know where this goes from here on out. I do know that the majority of the country is not for abortion on demand. But they’re also not for a complete ban. In the end, the state issue makes since, both Constitutionally and politically. But I agree, if the GOP pushes for federal ban, not only will they not get it, but that it doesn’t help them at all politically. In the end, as much as I think abortion is morally unacceptable, we’ve got much bigger problems going on. It’s a distraction compared to massive fiscal shitshow brewing.

Not sure I can trust someone who rolls their flightsuit sleeves above the elbow. WTF?

I wish I had the drawing but one day during a long set of briefings I drew up a sketch for an AC-130S, the S stands for Shark. Holding tanks to keep the sharks alive, smaller breeds that fit in the common launch tubes already installed in the door, plunge the sharks out the ass of the airplane and of course you have frikin' laser beams on their foreheads. If I were king for a day we'd buy at least a dozen.

This is true for washing out, however, ANG/AFRC fighter guys who don’t do well in T-6s have been given the option to track T-1s and find a new unit to sponsor them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well that’s kind of my point. The country is a dumpster fire right now and instead of being the party of solutions, a large amount of conservative political and legal capital was spent on overturning Roe v Wade, all the while losing elections and letting the truly serious challenges facing this country go unaddressed. So instead of being a party of leadership, fiscal responsibility, national security, etc…, the GOPs crowning achievement in recent history is overturning a Supreme Court ruling that in the grand scheme has turned a distraction into a rallying cry for low information and low participation voters; and made them actually come out to the polls. Again, a strategic disaster for the party and honestly it’s less about the abortion issue itself and more about the Republican party’s complete inability to come up with a comprehensive vision for this country that will lead it out of the problems it’s currently facing. Edit: Just watched the Ramaswamy clip above. Not the biggest fan of him, but those comments in many ways are spot on. The current Republican Party is a bunch of losers.

Nah dude. They are able pull those from AMS because they’re AFPC so no point in including in the package

what about sea bass?

...it's about the sharks. When you were frozen, they were put on the endangered species list. We tried to get some, but it would've taken months to clear up the red tape.

Counterpoint, this is exactly how the Roe issue is permanently removed from the conversation. Every state is now deciding what they want, which is going to appease a lot of people who now have choices if this issue is truly that important to them. The only way Republicans can truly fuck this up is if they try to nationalize the issue again with a federal ban. They will lose their asses in that case, but I don't think that's the strategy for most. A terrible legal decision has been undone, and one of the most contentious issues in modern American politics is being dealt with in the manner of the founders originally intended, locally. I know a lot of Republicans had the ultimate goal of fully banning abortion, but from a purely conservative and legal standpoint, this issue is resolving itself remarkably fast after 50 years of turmoil.

What the military used to offer as incentives (college, health care, some money) the left wants to give people for doing little to nothing to earn it. And for what the military does offer that is truly meaningful (discipline, skills, teamwork, etc), these are actually earned through hardwork, dedication, and sacrifice…something fewer and fewer people are willing to do. This is where the US is headed as a culture. None of this is surprising.

SEVEN DAYS UNTIL THE BOARD MEETS!

"We should trust and support the government sending our money to Ukraine because we can't trust the government to spend the money wisely at home." You've read a lot of other posts here as to why we should be spending money on Ukraine. Some of them are actually understandable and intelligently argued. Why would you follow that up with what is perhaps the dumbest, most asinine argument of the entire thread?

I genuinely hope that all of this crap turns out to be like the Foxbat which produced the Mighty Eagle. If all of this stuff turns out to be a helpless baby seal, I very much hope me and my buddies all have the sharpest and most lethal clubs that the American taxpayer can buy and the military industrial complex can produce.

ukraine isn't nato. i don't care. end of debate. i'll wait for the article 5 country.

jesus christ dude this is how we end up in these insane wars. nowhere at the start of the conflict was the military goal to attrit russia until they no longer were capable of conquering NATO. and the russia boogie man that you guys keep worrying about isn't coming thru the fulda gap... give it a rest.

because our objectives are done in ukraine. russia is drained. and we have bigger problems to worry about now in the middle east. oh and we're fucking BROKE

We need internal borders with blue areas apparently hell bent on taking everyone down with them Virginia Sanctuary County Frees From Jail Illegal Alien Accused of Child Rape After Biden’s DHS Freed Him into U.S. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/06/virginia-sanctuary-county-frees-jail-illegal-alien-accused-child-rape-after-bidens-dhs-freed-him-into-u-s/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

ukraine absolutely cannot win and should start negotiating terms.

Very good points but I absolutely support term limits to prevent lifetime politicians.

interesting cat for sure to put it mildly

Well?? Inquiring minds want to know!

The stories about this guy coming out of Laughlin are... incredible. I look forward to hearing about his upcoming FTU training.

Fat Amy gets a kill!