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To find the enemy, you must think like the enemy.

It’s not just they have the will to fight. They are expressing competencies they didn’t start the war with largely because it takes months to build them. People who used our optics of what ah offensive move looks like forget they are a military built around maneuver in order to conduct fires where we are the opposite. If they had tried to conduct the break through that US and NATO forces were advertising and using our tactics to their demographics would look a whole lot worse. They would not have had the core competency’s to conduct regimental actions of that kind. It’ll take years to rebuild them to that model. Same reason night action is so infrequent in this war, it consumes roughly 3 times the ammunition when we do it. They can’t afford to strain sustainment like that. At this point in the war it’s a convergence period, one where they have effectively been pushing back Russian counter attacks. And the weaponeering required to effectively destroy the bridge just aren’t their with the tools they have in their arsenal and never really were at the outset of the war. That said with what they have had/received/and importantly invented themselves they’ve effectively put the Russian Navy out of the fight minus being a Kalibr platform. Even of that they have eroded that from surface task forces to individual ship ops from longer lines of sustainment because they Ukrainians are effectively threatening Sevastopol now. If they have the will to keep fighting let them. And more importantly resource them when a lot of the billions of dollars of weapons we are sending are largely systems we own close to end of lot life like all those non unitary M26s. And you’re right about demographics as an expendable item to track. That’s why it was so critical to get them our sides tanks and IFVs. There is no question about crew survivability in comparison which keeps the most important military resource (the trained guy) in the fight to go again after reconsolidating. Russia isn’t getting the same option. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I purposely bid Xmas eve & day and NYE & NY day (LAS overnight...could be dangerous) for the extra 21 hours in pay. That's what's great about the airlines. With enough seniority, you can do what you actually want.

Happy Thanksgiving future rated selects!

For those that don’t speak airline, that’s an extra $6-9k for working over the holidays.

Nice try, GearHog... but that's the wrong squadron. Do your homework. Details matter.

The 24 team playoff works great for FCS. All games but the National Championship are played on campus and the process is in every way superior to what FBS is doing. Every conference* is represented and there are plenty of at large spots. There's none of this handwringing over what to do with multiple Conference Champions with the same record. Fill out the bracket and let em play. Works great. *With the exception of the MEAC and SWAC whose champions play in the Celebration Bowl instead and the Ivy League which doesn't participate in the post season.

And now we wait! Wishing you all a good Thanksgiving weekend and that it takes your mind off of waiting for results!

I hope everyone is okay.

I'm still confused that anybody in the military would hold a general to some sort of higher expectation. If anything my experience demonstrates that they are less likely to impress. These are the people that taught themselves to love the taste of shit just so they could one day be a general. The ultimate "yes men". They were not promoted in the field due to battle competence.

So it's a numbers game!? There is always a first, and...

I learned how to spell turd on baseops.net.

They aren’t “stuck” It’s the rain and mud season so the entire pace of ops on both sides has gone down significantly in a war that is primarily about Fires in the form of artillery guided by collection from various UAS. They just successfully performed a Wet Gap crossing (something they couldn’t have done at the start of the war). That has pushed out the leading edge of their controlled areas the limits of a range to target the Kerch straight bridge if they wanted to risk it. But they need the unitary ATACM to do that. We haven’t given them that… yet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Definitely works great when your team is the #1 seed and absolutely dominating so far #runrabbits

Same... Yep, my guess is that more than the currently planned number of VORs will be left on if the do-it-yourself EM jamming becomes more common...

McDonald Douglas built my jet to be EMP/JAM proof on accident lol. I was bored on my flight the other day because I had more than 50 minutes at cruise (the worst!), so I checked out the airways based on VORs. Maybe it was because I was on the east coast, but I was surprised at how many VORs are still online. I know they're closing more but I think I could easily go back to flying airways with an RMI. We already fly approaches where we just get cleared a common navaid and told cleared for approach (whatever approach we want) in places like AVL. Might be fun for a bit, but that would get annoying. I like my airline flying like I like my women....easy!

A tour of the old neighborhoods and clearly a message.

Mission approval authority: “Leave it on… I want these bastards to know what and who they are F’ing with!” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You have become the submarine to hunt the submarine.

The fats (fat people) need to quit washing down buckets of fried chicken with two liter bottles of soda and dildos. Because....

The 10 mm socket was never found...

They don't think that it matters, we're victims in a way of our own success. Gulf War 1, the Balkans, GWOT, Libya, Syria, etc... they see examples of our current family of systems coming home with wins and just think that no matter what it will all work out in the end so don't worry about it, keep the jobs, base, logistics and the 70 year old iron flying, we'll always win and buy a few of the now 6.9 billion a tail new platform...

No matter what the next crazy event is.... if the synchronized narrative immediately becomes "no time for deep thought and debate, we must action this now!" you can bet outcomes will favor globalist progressives, cost more than we can afford, restrict freedom, and all initial reporting will turn out to be lies. some of us are debating the things themselves. I encourage us to start looking for patterns & be predictive. We are Psyops targets.

2026 airline interview: “We see you had a mishap in the Navy, can you tell us about that” ”well you see, I have long maintained a personal policy of never go around, because that’s what pussies do!”

6 years today. All gave some, some gave all. 🥃

Not seeing any advertising on the App Store base Ops app. Never have.

He was a top General in the Air Force and was one of the top guys in the intelligence world…let this sink in for a minute about what people in these positions think.

I'm not sure forced conscription counts as "the will to fight."

It was a joke.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/79jUT27WJEkb6wVqkOOeSB?si=OjdWtmT4S5qseBUdkOvP0w Great long form Ukraine discussion

If they can't achieve an objective without us giving them something new or different, then they are stuck. I'm not saying we shouldn't, but if they can't change it on their own.... Also the demographics of their fighting forces is getting rough. Very rough. The spring/summer offensive did not go as advertised. But if they still have the will to fight...