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Meanwhile Elon caught a booster in flight with a tower today on the FIRST try. That was AMAZING!

Not today Vlad!

Here's the video of anyone wants to watch. Also, if you have kids that watch YouTube, this is a channel to add to their whitelist.

I'm literally just copying and pasting from the slides at the end of the night. I'm not going to fact check the FAIPs that put together units and aircraft.

Wonder if the guy who made the slides is also the one who tells students about the “real AF” or when they “get into the CAF/MAF/AFSOC, it’s going to be like _____.” Those were the best FAIPs.

Ha, further proof that FAIPs are idiots!

UAF F-16 allegedly downs SU-34. Follow ups: - Do their Vipers have off boresight capability? - Did we give them -9X's? https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/army-news-2024/breaking-news-ukrainian-f-16-fighter-wins-first-air-to-air-fight-shoots-down-russian-su-34

This presentation is really good. Anyone who's spent enough time in the government/defense industry will see a lot of familiar stuff.

There is a counterpoint to be made for not turning the military into an access tunnel towards greater social standing and upward mobility in power… and she makes it very detailed in that previous podcast. The effectiveness of the military we wield is based largely off the degree to which the people within it choose to call it a profession and act as such. While we would most definitely bolster a lot of our manpower issues by turning on the tap of compulsory service, some of us remember the “I just joined for the college money” attitudes that existed when GWOT started demanding return to active duty or extensions of enlistments. I very much see a military filled with personnel that are there to just meet their social contract being more hollow entity than the one we currently have. You’d need a “Pearl Harbor moment” to actually galvanize that population in uniform when the call goes out into carrying on. And honestly with a unifying moment like that against an existential threat you’ll get the personnel you needed. While I agree we need more veterans in the politics above us, connected politicians masquerading as veterans is not the solution. The harder question is what are we doing right now to prepare and how does that compare to the efforts of Bill Knudsen for the years preceding Pearl Harbor where we started looking to retool our industry for war. I’d say that is the harder technical problem to solve vs the draft. How many JASSMs and GMLRs can we manufacture a week… ok now how do we go about increasing that by a factor of 5, and I’m only gonna have 3 months to do it before it’s not gonna matter anymore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Completely agree Clark. And to add, I’ve believed for years that one of the reasons we are in this current predicament socially is that people have gotten used to constantly taking from this country and never giving back. They’ve got no skin in the game in striving to continue making this country the greatest country in the world. They will take and take and take and worry about only themselves instead of the greater good. I firmly support mandatory service of some sort. That doesn’t have to be military service akin to the Israeli model, but serving in any type of service that benefits the country you belong to should be a requirement. Forestry service, serving in the Red Cross, counting the number of wild pheasants, whatever the need, people should be expected to serve in some capacity. I won’t go full Robert Heinlein, but on a personal note, I do think serving in the military to become a a full fledged “citizen” would do a number for this country. Just imagine if the people who ran our country were forced to serve in some capacity before they took political office. More skin in the game would at least open up conversations that seem to be overlooked. “Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live.“ - Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

You misunderstand me, my last comment absolutely applies to Trump. Watching 80 YOs of any political affiliation act this way is not good, and I’m hopeful this is the last iteration of old people fighting that I see for POTUS. and valid quote, I didn’t know your thoughts on Biden and I humbly retract my snarky comment. You do have TDS though.

Smarter Every Day on YouTube did a presentation (I believe to NASA) on this. It's a complete lack of seriousness within the space bureaucracy. There's no way this goes to plan, and a very good chance the decisions made will end up getting the program cancelled when budget woes rear their ugly head. Better hope Elon can carry the entire mission on his shoulders.

What LR said. I don't think Trump is even close to Biden yet, but it comes for everybody. And after watching the TDS folks (you) ignore Biden's obvious dementia for years, I find it silly to hear this scrutiny now. Also, 99 out of 100 times Trump is more articulate than Kamala so the democrats have no credibility on the subject. I'm voting Trump but I'm excited for a future that does not involve extremely old people clinging to power until they die.

Uh, is two pumps better than four?