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Man, this is getting hard to want to continue paying attention to. Our 5* FR QB (who didn't show a thing this year) just said he intends to enter the portal. This is NFL Lite with zero restrictions. I wish we had a bit more stability and miss how CFB was before this free for all. Also, get off my lawn!

Drone V Drone BFM...Crazy times! Drone.mp4

"The U.S. Navy would be willing to defend the Alawis with air power should Syrian Sunni forces seek to push into the region." absolutely not.

One must respect the pure pragmatism of the Israeli's seizing an opportunity to destroy massive amounts of military hardware. Our failure to act in a similarly decisive way after ousting Gaddafi from Libya had years long ramifications across the Sahel and ME. I do wonder if Israel is over extending itself by expanding its occupation of Syrian territory, time will tell. Separate but related: impossible to watch videos from Sednaya prison and not feel empathy towards HTS freeing them. Assad was clearly evil, HTS also evil, IS evil... I don't think we can contribute anything helpful in that AO and I think we should leave.

Pure failure of leadership at the squadron level, in my experience at least. I've seen the same absolutely idiotic decisions because sq/cc's didn't know their ppl, ignored their desires (even when it made sense), or outright used the vml to punish ppl they disliked. AFPC leadership owns plenty of blame. The bros at the porch have been bailing like crazy after that assignment. Based on what they say about AFPC leadership I don't blame them.

ah indeed turkey our most precious nato ally

So, its looking like around 440,000/700,000 wounded or killed Ukrainian Solders and 700,000/750,000 wounded or killed Russian Solders. Plus a few million Ukrainian refugees and almost 50,000 wounded or dead Ukrainian civilians. Thats ugly for both sides. Yes, the best thing for the world is to end this craziness now. Biden's puppet masters haven't done shit for the whole war to try and end the bloodshed. Shame on Russia for starting this and shame on us for not ending it asap. Ukrainian forces 35,000 killed (24,500 conf. by names), 15,000 missing, 3,400 captured, 90,000–100,000 wounded 24 Feb. 2022 – 14 Nov. 2023 Museum of Military History[125] (Book of Remembrance) 700,000+ killed and wounded (5,962 foreign volunteers killed) 24 Feb. 2022 – 29 July 2024 Russian Ministry of Defense[72][126] 80,000 killed, 400,000 wounded 24 Feb. 2022 – before Sep. 2024 WSJ citing confidential Ukrainian estimate[2] 57,500+ killed, 250,000+ wounded 24 Feb. 2022 – 10 Oct. 2024 US estimate[94] 60,435 killed (incl. non-combat,[100] confirmed by names) 24 Feb. 2022 – 6 Nov. 2024 UALosses project[15] 60,000–100,000 killed, 400,000 wounded 24 Feb. 2022 – 26 Nov. 2024 The Economist estimate[96] Ukrainian forces (ZSU) 43,000 killed, 370,000 wounded <55,000 missing, 8,000 captured 24 Feb. 2022 – 8 Dec. 2024 24 Feb. 2022 – 26 Sep. 2024 24 Feb. 2022 – 30 Oct. 2024 Ukraine[97][127][128] Russian forces 462,000–728,000 killed and wounded 24 Feb. 2022 – 5 July 2024 The Economist estimate[83] 115,000+ killed, 500,000 wounded 24 Feb. 2022 – 10 Oct. 2024 US estimate[94] 700,000 killed and wounded 24 Feb. 2022 – 10 Nov. 2024 UK estimate[129] 141,506–197,564 killed 24 Feb. 2022 – 15 Nov. 2024 BBC News Russian estimate[130] 753,370 killed and wounded (550,000+ wounded) 24 Feb. 2022 – 8 Dec. 2024 Armed Forces of Ukraine[131][97]

So you're saying you got your termination letter? Gunna be a sad day when "General Chang" gets promoted to "Mister Chang". Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

Dibs?

Operation Fumble-Ruskie-doooo!

They supposedly shot his ass down https://x.com/NotWoofers/status/1865590852447302046

Well I don't know what MIC is, and as the US we have business doing whatever the eff we want. We created and maintain the post-war order, and until the victor of the next world war emerges, we get to do as we please, seeing as how the entire Western world owes their existence to us. Anyway, moving on. That is precisely what their objective was but they failed. See: their attempt to move directly on Kiev in the first couple days of the war which stalled. Toppling their government meant they got to achieve all of their other objectives. They went for the throat but missed, now they're in a knock-down, drag-out Royce Gracie-style grappling fight they hoped to avoid. You remember that part of the war, right? Don't you? They attempted to go straight to Kiev to overthrow the government of Ukraine. Like you agree that happened? Or don't you? They failed at that, and re-directed their efforts to the eastern portion of Ukraine, the Donbas. But that's all in the past now. Russia was unable to overthrow their government, which would have enabled them to gain their primary objective: control of east Ukraine's oil and gas resources. They tried, and were unable to seize the capital. Instead, they settled for their secondary objective and re-directed all their combat power where it was actually needed. Partially because that's what matters to them strategically, partially to save face. You see, Russia is basically an oil supplier to Europe. If they don't have that leverage over Europe, they lose a lot of political power (and money). If they have to compete with Ukraine for who gets to supply Europe with oil and gas, that's bad for Russia. They don't want to do that, but admitting that you're going to war over oil is politically fraught, as we have learned over the last decades, so it's never the spoken reason. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/b2201E#:~:text=However%2C additional source rocks possibly,unit were not estimated quantitatively. "The Dnieper-Donets basin is almost entirely in Ukraine, and it is the principal producer of hydrocarbons in that country." It's all right there for you if you care to look at it. This war is about economic power - i.e. it's like most other wars. This one is about oil and gas. And it is definitely in our strategic interest for multiple reasons: We don't need the majority of NATO beholden to Russian energy We don't need Russia at their full strength for whenever China decides to do whatever they're going to do - look at it as intelligence preparation of the battlefield. Grind them down now, so we can save the majority of our combat power for the Pacific I could go on, but if these obvious ones didn't occur to you, you can do some homework on those for a while. He is floating peace talks because he's hedging. Or he's doing it because he thinks it's feasible. Or he thinks our support for him will run out. Who the hell knows, he was the one who was attacked! He has every interest in stopping the violence against his country. I'm sure he would have sued for peace earlier if it was possible. For the record, I just want you to put it in writing: you think Russia's efforts thus far constitute success? Like for serious?

Exactly what you're doing. To baseline be competitive for fighters you need a college degree, a PPL, and good test scores (>90, can vary a bit if you are strong elsewhere). So, my focus areas if I were you would be: 1) do a good job in AFE (if you suck, you'll never get hired) 2) get a college degree with a > 3.0, get your PPL, and take the tests 3) talk to pilots when they're not busy trying to step to the jet ("hey sir/ma'am, how was the flight? - at least until they stop telling you to say sir/ma'am which they should do immediately), go up after drill and after you've done your work to talk to folks, etc.