Boomer6

Are you asking if a military member should be expected to report to work if they're not being paid?

Are you familiar with the American civil war? What about pre-WII when FDR was president? Have you heard of McCarthyism? What about the 60s? Post Dec 7th 1941 through the duration of the war and from 9/11 until we invaded Iraq are the only times I can think of in the modern era where there was agreement by both parties on where the country needed to go.

When did this happen would you say?

But only ones that didn't used to be dudes.

Based on how shitty the -46 system is I have zero desire to ever get gas from a "robo-boom"...

Clearly you used no critical thinking skills in evaluating my comment. Posting clearly biased links to support your case makes my point better than I could have.

Disagree. We've had plenty of defense secretaries with zero military experience/only bureaucratic experience, and they weren't all idiots. The military is the primary form of defense, yet they'd never been in the military and some did fine. Bondi was actually an AG in Florida, so her not being a US attorney seems irrelevant. You know, kinda like Obama was a community organizer before he was a senator. What I'm saying is, disagree with her politics all you want, just come up with a less stupid analogy.

I'm not arguing what a dead guy would do. George Marshall, on several occasions went out of his way to have face to face discussions with his GOs abroad on important matters. If you want to get nit-noid and say he never got them all together, I'd say you're correct, hard to do in the middle of WWII. You can't prove he'd be worse than Marshall unless we enter another war similar to the Korean War (when Marshall was SECDEF). I guess it's a good thing for the SECDEF your opinion doesn't matter, just like mine doesn't.

As I said, Marshall would have had an in-person meeting, just as Hegseth did. By all means though, continue to argue about points I didn't make...as is tradition.

Biff I've gotta ask, were you that squadron member?

Finally, a post under 690 words.

You said who your barometer was and I said who mine was. Simple as that. Until we're in WWIII we'll never know if any Sec Def would have matched up to CoS Marshall. Nice try though. Having political arguments with ppl butt hurt over who's in office so they come to the internet for "wins" isn't my idea of healthy living.

George Marshall would have, that's the barometer I use.

Regardless of the outcome of the Miami v FSU game it was poignant that their pre-game hype men were a murderer and a sexual predator 🙃

I don't think this is a conspiracy thing at all. Our comm has been compromised time and again, if not directly via actors in foreign countries then via ppl like Snowden. This seems like a great cover for passing high level info, while also publicly providing expectations face to face. Seems fairly logical to me. Even if it was just to give direction, then an in-person brief is definitely justified. The liberals/fat retired nonners are butt hurt, sucks to suck. If Panetta had done this to provide direction on Dont Ask Don't Tell repeal it would have been justified and ppl like Rainman woulda lost their shit whilst NSAPlayer threw a rainbow party...RIP

Thanks for making my point on AF comm...

Lol what comm SQ did you run where we could get 800 ppl on a VTC at once and it actually worked?

Let's not waste money on some tinker toy tanker that doesn't carry enough gas for a 4-ship and is built by a country that's rapidly cozying up to China. That last part alone is enough reason to not even consider it. How about we spend that money on protecting our tankers from a Pearl Harbor-esque attack from a semi truck full of drones.

You guys are not looking at the positives of the twice a year PT test. There is no reason to try for a 90/95% since you have to take it twice a year anyways. Min run that shit. The Kool aid drinkers will still try for high scores, so maybe once they're generals they at least won't be fat.

Live footage of a bob-quarters near you..

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-seeks-trump-approval-first-us-military-execution-60-years-fort-hood-mass-shooting Took them long enough.

I'm assuming based on you're comment you have at least a slight peak behind the curtain. Do the bobs there have the intestinal fortitude to admit amongst themselves that quality is rapidly dropping, or are they so delusional they actual believe what they're briefing to ops units?

He makes a lot of good points. Who knows, maybe the bobs are using an expected air war of attrition as the reason for mass producing subpar pilots. Or maybe those pilots will be so far from harms way that there's no need for them to be proficient at what we see as core capabilities, hence our tactical bias. Idk if these poignant quotes from a hundred years ago regarding culture make me feel better about whats going on in America or not. “the nation that has trained itself to a career of unwarlike and isolated ease is bound, in the end, to go down before other nations which have not lost the manly and adventurous qualities.” - Teddy Roosevelt "blamed education and upbringing for turning Frenchmen into “timid and poltroons,” - French General Oscar de Négrier “described the British nation as being in a ‘wild debauch of so-called freedom’” in need of “a new discipline.” - some British Captain

Seeing staunch liberals lament doxing by conservatives on social media is truly ironic. Whether I agree with doxing or not it's hilarious to see a group of people that collectively champion cancel culture getting canceled themselves. Fortunately, those currently on the receiving end of the movement they created will no doubt see the error in their ways and we can all move away from this retardation /s.