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Pete Hegseth named to be SECDEF....WOW! He was labeled a threat/extremist by his Guard unit for vigorously supporting Trump. I hope he turns the building upside down!

What is wrong with you people? How could Hegseth with a Bachelor of Arts in politics at Princeton University, A Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, multiple combat tours possibly know anything about leading the people in the DoD? Instead we should rely on professionally trained people like Donald Rumsfeld, at the time of his nomination had three years on active duty and two terms as a Congressman under his belt. Maybe Obama's model is better, he picked Chuck Hagel who served as a squad leader in Vietnam before becoming a senator, businessman and LOBBYIST. You are all racist.

Haha, yeah, right. Total pipe dream. You're probably one of those guys that thinks a spaceship can fly itself back to the launchpad and land in a pair of "chopsticks". Ridiculous.

Hey guys look! somebody who was in he Minnesota guard that actually did deploy to a combat zone. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I don't know much about him either but this sounds ok.

My brain has two points of view on this: First and foremost, any leadership involved specifically in the Afghanistan withdrawal should be keelhauled, then fired, and exempted from any mil-industrial complex jobs. Second, the concept of subjective and politically based "purging general officer leaders" should induce shivers and revulsion from anyone who has studied history. This will be messy.

It doesn't have leaders like MG William Zana... An Army general’s final ‘walk’ at the Tomb of the Unknowns MG William Zana, the only guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final guard shift on the night he retired. At exactly 10 p.m. on the warm, last night of May, MG William Zana received his orders and began his final guard shift on the smooth marble stone plaza at the center of Arlington National Cemetery. In two hours it would be midnight, a new day and new month. A new guard would relieve him at his post, he would march off the plaza and suddenly, instantly, be a civilian. But for the final two hours of his 37-year career, Zana wanted one last chance to stand a shift he had held as a young sergeant: keeping watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. “I was Pvt. Zana when I showed up to the Old Guard,” Zana told Task & Purpose.“You know, all of us who raise our right hand and serve, there’s things that define you. First combat tour, first loss of personnel. For me, volunteering for and serving at the Tomb was absolutely both defining and shaping.” (Full story at the title link) I don't know the man, nor do I know much about his career other than what I read in his bio; but based on this article, I have the utmost respect for him!

Because Obama was very qualified to be President…oh wait… If the new SecDef (assuming he gets confirmed) F’s things up more than the current retired 4-star SecDef, then most definitely feel free to complain. But the last two to three decades hasn’t exactly been great when it comes to the DoD, and I’m sure many would say most of those SecDefs were “qualified”.

Sorry “HercDude”, you were probably not born, or old enough, to understand what McNamara did to us during his Vietnam time.

Yeah because McNamara's resume was so stellar. I can guarantee Hegseth won't dick things up as much as ole Robert or Lloyd did (I might be missing some other turds in the line too).

Well, he's not a pussy and he hates feckless weak bureaucracy. Good in my book. What do you consider appropriate pedigree for the position?

To be fair, AA has been trying to emulate Spirit for several years, at least, now. Well, while carrying legacy structure and staffing and minus the low cost infrastructure/overhead methodology. Makes sense they were chasing the $69 with Spirit and JB.

Merica!

No, this is PAO's release.

Board process started today and goes until Friday! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!

Also, remember, the Democrat apparatchik’s were fine propping a senile Biden as long as they THOUGHT HE COULD WIN. After the debate, it became obvious he wouldn’t win, so they dumped him ASAP. If he had performed satisfactorily in the debate, we could possibly be looking at another 4 years of Biden as a figurehead President with other non-elected operatives pulling the strings of the Biden Puppet. Add to that, the fact that Kamala was waiting in the wings to assume the Presidency as the first Black, female President. A Liberals wet dream. None of these schemes were for THE GOOD OF THE NATION. This goes to show how conniving and un-democratic the Democrat party apparatus is. The more I look at this election I realize how Un-American and power hungry the Democrat party really is. With a willing accomplice in the main stream media, they didn’t even try to hide it this time! What Hubris.

Matt Gaetz for AG. Tulsi Director of National Intelligence Thisbis going to be the most amazing/entertaining 4 years of our lifetime.

Ask and you shall receive... Free article link: Trump Draft Executive Order Would Create Board to Purge Generals https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-draft-executive-order-would-create-board-to-purge-generals-7ebaa606?st=bLLGKa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

On of my 38 IPs (crusty passed over Major) said that every General needed a crusty, passed over Major by his side to tell him "no, that's fucking stupid" because nearly everyone else around him just says yes sir. His delivery was way better than I can every convey here, but I just laughed at the time. The longer I went in my career, the more I realized he was right.

Our past forays into joint fighter design have went so well, we should definitely spend billions doing it again.

maybe the POS flag officer class needs someone from the FGO ranks to kick them in the ass couldnt do worse than losing two major wars in the last 20 years

Am I missing something? How is this guy remotely qualified to be SECDEF?

I agree that illegals voting can happen. But, I don't believe it did, especially in any significant numbers, occur in this election. I'd be happy to see proof to the contrary, though. I am all for legal/approved ID being required to vote. I think that's just (un)common sense IMO.

It’s serious how the members of Old Guard take that duty. I’ve seen several enter the Army warrant community in aviation and they will all tell you their time as a tomb guard was one of the must solemn moments of their lives performing that job. Bystanders also have no idea who is standing there performing the job because they intentionally don’t wear rank, which permits anybody to include very senior personnel to perform the watch as a Sentinal like the General did. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm baffled in this age of near instantaneous information exchange, Google searches in microseconds, and real time tracking of millions of package locations by freight carriers, why the hell can't votes be counted in a day? A week is just plain stupid.

The whole everyone flying T-7s is a long way out. T-1 IPs will not fly T-7s because it makes absolutely no sense and no one will be in a T-1 billet by the time it’s opened to non-T-38 trained pilots. Not to mention it’s a type 1 high G aircraft so it needs a full up fuge profile and people are going to be going night night. Other than AFOTEC folks: the 19 AF IOT&E initial cadre are all fighter bubbas because that’s what’s needed. Edit 2: And yes there will eventually be some T-1 trained pilots in the 99th and other places. But that will be rarity. It will be for shiny pennies or test cases

I will say this. A seemingly Average Mil Joe* taking over is probably what we need, if confirmed. I expect nice fireworks at the confirmation if he gets that far. Bold move Cotton, let's see if it works out. Biff, you had a solid shot at the job. * I know absolutely nothing about the dude. Sounds like someone that's seen some shit, but not ranked up to the brainwashed/lobotomy tiers.

As of five minutes ago... GOP 216 seats, Democrats 207. Here are the statuses of the remaining races... Alaska At-Large District: Republican Nick Begich is leading incumbent Democrat Mary Peltola by over 10,000 votes. Arizona's 6th District: Incumbent Republican Juan Ciscomani is ahead of Democrat Kirsten Engel by 4,900 votes. California's 9th District: Democrat Josh Harder is leading Republican Kevin Lincoln by more than 7,000 votes. California's 13th District: Freshman GOP Rep. John Duarte is ahead of Democrat Adam Gray by nearly 3,000 votes. California's 21st District: Democrat Jim Costa is leading Republican Michael Maher by just over 1,300 votes. California's 22nd District: Republican David Valadao is ahead of Democrat Rudy Salas by 9,500 votes. California's 41st District: Republican Ken Calvert is leading Democrat Will Rollins by more than 7,500 votes. California's 45th District: GOP incumbent Michelle Steel is ahead of Democrat Derek Tran by 3,900 votes. California's 47th District: Democrat David Min is leading Republican Scott Baugh by more than 3,200 votes. California's 49th District: Democrat Mike Levin is ahead of Republican Matt Gunderson by 14,000 votes. Iowa's 1st District: Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks is leading Democrat Christina Bohannan by 796 votes. Maine's 2nd District: Democrat Jared Golden is ahead of Republican Austin Theriault by more than 2,100 votes. If everything stays on track, the GOP will end up with 223 seats and the Democrats 212. Iowa's 1st District is the closest vote difference with only just under 800 votes...

From your lips to gods ears!

I've got recurrent training next month. I'll get back to group if they have added a low level gun jink maneuver to the syllabus.

Agreed. Having worked in a COCOM staff, IMHO retired 4 stars make terrible SecDefs (aka Lloyd). They are too deep in the Pentagon bureaucracy by the time they make their 4th star and it is impossible for them not to be biased. Considering we wage military operations through Combatant Commanders who report directly to SecDef, always good to have someone with some military experience but not indoctrinated into the cesspool that is OSD and the Joint Staff. Esper was only an FGO and I think he was one of our best SecDefs.

I genuinely don't know if you guys are trolling with a joint interceptor concept.. The massive waste of money attempting to re-imagine the cold war interceptor, now this time as a joint project, is so painfully ignorant of all we've learned, or should have learned, regarding aircraft design/procurement that congress would probably approve it.

Daddy Elon day 1 in DC

Well….. mine hasn’t shaved her head (yet) at least….

Let them know that if you run to Massachusetts that’s where we look last, I bet it’ll take two months for that policy to change Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Interesting follow up to the story. I gotta tell you, Elon Musk taking over Twitter and restoring free speech is one of the greatest things to happen in my lifetime.

Kristi Noem tapped for Homeland Security, arguably one of the most critical cabinet positions. My money is on Tulsi as SecDef. Man what will you tell your daughter!?!

But but but, I was told America is largely misogynist and won’t elect female leaders!

And even more great news... Next year’s Congress will feature the most women vet members ever The next session of Congress will feature the most women veterans ever elected to the House and Senate, with at least eight winning races this year. And that number could grow by one more: Iowa Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks holds a small lead in her re-election bid, with a few thousand votes left to be counted. The total is already double 2018, when only four women with military experience were among the 535 voting members of Congress... (full story at title link)

I want this to be true so badly. The irony of her calling him a racist in the 2020 election cycle and then him, an ornery old man, sinking her future political career with this kiss of death would be absolutely delicious, but I don't think he was that adept. The whole thing went exactly according to their plan...problem is, it didn't work. That was their plan. They didn't want Biden. They didn't want a primary. Dems waited until the time was right so they could jettison Biden, but were also close enough to the general election that they couldn't "afford" to hold a run-off or primary. Don't kid yourself. Pelosi and Obama wanted nothing to do with a damaging free-for-all primary that was going to be anybody's game with all the attendant uncertainty, all the while Trump was dodging bullets and chucking spears in the background. No. The plan was to prop up Kamala and pray. It didn't work.

I commend your optimism, but we can't even design a jet trainer with an ffing boarding ladder...

Passengers or groundfire?

Probably but IDK either As crazy as it sounds not restarting but developing a Raptor 2.0 is probably better / feasible vs developing a new type gen 6.9 while simultaneously acquiring other new platforms, my historical reference would be the Hornet to Super Hornet. Not a perfect evolution of a platform but pretty good and it got done… a Raptor 2 with mo’ gas, range, bigger weapons bays, etc… would be expensive, likely $200 mil a tail, but possible methinks. Gen 6 fighter with our acquisition process seems like a pathway to hell while shoving money into a nuclear furnace https://www.twz.com/11728/study-on-restarting-f-22-production-has-finally-arrived-heres-the-verdict $44 billion quoted in the article but that’s just for 194, go all out get above the original min 380 something, around 600+ but with a plan to use this as a replacement for F-15Cs, Strike Eagles, some percentage of the oldest F-16s, the A-10 (would replace at some ratio not 1:1 with 35s focused on attack mission set, do not try to do A-X) and maybe keep the F-15EX buy modest The strategy of this COA is to get to fewer high end types but ultimately more of them by trying to get economy of scale in a Gen 5 and Gen 5+ An AD CAF composed of F-22As and F-22Cs, F-35s, F-15EXs and CCAs. Other platforms in the AD CAF but that’s the offensive line… The ARC would get hand me downs from this process (Strike Eagles) and would take over the majority of the Viper enterprise, maybe getting into light fighters but with as many Vipers that might come available they might not need too And others… RIP T-1, E-8, E-3, KC-10, RQ-4… soon to be following the B-1 and A-10s

Thinking about transitioning to the Reserves as an IP for the T6. In the application it states that if selected, instead of the traditional “1 weekend a month/ 2 weeks a year” as an AETC IP I would be required to work 6 days a month. Anyone currently an IP at a UPT base got any info on this? Also trying to work as an airline pilot as my full time but worried about the commute. For those of you in the airline industry how do you manage the commute? Thanks!

If I recall correctly from talking to them a few months ago, they want one solid block a month, Sunday-Friday. Sunday and Friday are your travel days, they pay for airfare to the nearest commercial airport not that it helps much if you're attached to Del Rio. Expectations were to complete any CBTs on those travel days. Monday was a CT day, fly student sorties Tues-Thurs.

IDGAF about him spending the rest of his life in jail versus executed. If he offered something up to get that deal, even better. Besides, getting killed is the easy way out. Enduring the rest of your life in prison as you slowly waste away is a better punishment, IMO.

The guy should have been hung by his dick while receiving death by bunga bunga the minute after all useful intel had been extracted. But here we are…ridiculous.

He isn't. Stack his resume up against any former SecDef and it is laughable. But anyone who makes the argument that a boot-licking FoxNews host is qualified because he was a CGO in the Army will tell you all you need to know about their ability to think clearly about the next administration.