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Did you watch the testimony this morning? Signal was installed on their computers/phones one day one of the job by the GOVERNMENT. I am certain that came with usage restrictions but still! From an intel perspective the material was not classified, but they drew two very fine distinctions: 1. They CIA/FBI/DNI were not the arbitrator of DoD classified and referred questions to DoD - valid. 2. SECDEF is the declassification source for DoD material (I did not know that). In my mind a crap argument to assert SECDEF can declassify simply by sending...I hope that is not what they are going to argue. Bottomline - if the material was not classified as asserted, publish it for all to see...sunshine is the best disinfectant. If it was classified, do not publish and hold those responsible accountable. Not hard to say unless you are democrat talking about Hillary's private server and 33,000 emails.

The GS' always say that and they are usually the source of all evil and stone age thinking.

I am guessing Hegseth used Signal as part of his former gig at Foxnews which would explain the links to journalists. Also, Signal very popular in the SOF community...there is a whole Signal subculture. Sending it to the wrong person is not the issue, sending classified plans on a non-approved network is the issue. And if he did it he should be punished. Legally Comey help set the precedent that it not a big deal when we all know it is. It took intent from both Hegseth and Clinton to put that material on an unclassified network. 33,000 Hillary Emails had to be transferred off a classified network and copied onto an unclassified server, I never understood how Comey didn't see that as deliberate and with intent. I am very curious how Hegseth's deal plays out...again if the details are correct (to include weapons loads), then it was a deliberate effort to take material off and unclass network (pictures or digitally copied), and put it on Signal...or did he type a note with the details...either way UNSAT, no excuses, time to be held accountable.

A state rep in Maine says Somalia comes first.

I hear you brother and there is blame to share but LM does NOT deserve all the blame. As noted, requirements creep and an unrelenting desire to purchase a single airframe for all services that forced multiple comprises, usually without coordination within the service let alone with other services. As an example I was in the five sided funny palace when they discovered the F-35 datalink was incompatible with the F-22 datalink...YGBSM...built by the same company! And for the record, that company tried repeatedly to tell the government it was an issue but got the hand waive from DoD until suddenly it was a crisis. Fat Amy will always get a bad name but behind the green door she is a bad bitch in her mission area. Post merge she is the chick you don't want your friends to see you with, especially when the bar closes and the lights come on. Behind closed doors and pre-merge she will rock your world (sts) like a MILF nymphomaniac who spent time in Thailand. I truly hope everyone continues to underestimate her. For all her incredible capabilities on the classified side, they made huge sacrifices to make a VTOL version. They made even more sacrifices to get the naval variant on the boat while meeting the range requirements...as a result it doesn't even have a gun...didn't we learn that less 50 years ago in Vietnam? Many of the issues are software related and driven by DoD that does not understand AGILE software development. The history of the sausage making behind the scenes is boring yet maddening, the government made it SOOO much harder (sts). Similarly look at the V-22...the Marines ran the program and controlled all the key design and performance requirements which led to many of today's issues. As an example, the rotor disc is not aerodynamically optimized, the diameter should be about 20% larger but it would not fit on the boat so out of the gate a huge sacrifice in performance that impacted every service that flies it. I am certainly not a test pilot but have been told the performance issues like Vortex Ring State are made worse by the reduced optimization of the rotor diameter. All is not doom and gloom, especially with Fat Amy. In reality in most circumstances if a peer or near peer gets to the merge with an F-35....even if the F-35 is flown by a mediocre pilot, something went very wrong. Not saying things don't go wrong, but she is not incapable.

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Not taking anything away from UF, great season and they look like the team to beat. While I am not a Hurley fan, he was right about the no call late in the game, it changed the flow and momentum, UConn was up, 61-59, with just over three minutes to play. Had some friends over and we watched the game not routing for either team and all had the same perception that the refs were favoring UF. After the game we checked the stats and Florida was called for fewer fouls than UConn (17 to 24). UConn screwed themselves at the line making just 22 of 34 shots. It will be interesting to see how UF does against Maryland...the Terps won on a buzzer beater that was crazy to watch. My darkhorse for the tournament is Ole Miss...something about the way they have played at the end of the season. Fun time of year.

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Boeing wins Air Force contract for NGAD next-gen fighter, dubbed F-47

Prelim report out and does not look good for the pilots. First officer was flying the approach and landing. 3 G landing on the right main only...hard landing is classified as 2.6 G on both mains. Also looking at the outboard side-stay to see if it had prior damage contributing to failure or was the landing enough to cause it. Captain of 18 years had only 3600 hours...worked primarily as a sim instructor.

If you are basing your assessment on two months of the stock market, have not made hedges and actually made money off these events...then you are most certainly a sheeple.

Ok - start with Waivers given to GO's

Yup, He tapped out.

We will see...epic battle already as the swamp makes one last effort to hide the truth...the FBI "suddenly" found thousands of pages of documents.

Epstein list supposed to be released in full today, will be interesting to see how much oxygen that consumes and who is caught up in the web. One of the flight trackers on X was monitoring to see how many business jets left the country last night.

And we flew uphill, both ways!

The LED lighting issue on nogs was news to this dinosaur.

NetJet...yikes! Nice save SWA!

Heard some intel out of the five sided wind tunnel that OSD is shopping a plan to consolidate from 11 to 5 Combatant Commands...SOCOM survives as one of the five. That would be a LOT of GOs left looking for a chair.

Understood. I have seen malfeasance by some of the bigs and I am happy when they get caught...reference Raytheon getting fined to the tune of $950M. I will always be in favor of stopping corruption, my concern is the universal belief that Industry is printing money off government contracts when in fact the norm is about 8% profit. I am very concerned when these sweeping changes don't account for the 2nd and 3rd order effects that actually REDUCE competition and lower the bar on what capabilities are delivered to the warfighter.

In recent years some have seen the impact and argued to fund some companies in order to maintain the industrial base. Kind of scary that there is only one U.S. company than can build submarines. Even more concerning when Virginia Class subs were on the list of 17 cut exclusions because they are so integral to INDOPACOM, especially in the Defense of Taiwan scenario. One way they government has tried to encourage innovations and growth is through (Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA), architectures where the government is not vendor locked to a single OEM software/hardware solution. Meaning, most new systems have MOSA from the start so if someone invents a new widget that increases capability, the government does not have to go back to the OEM and pay them to integrate it. It is supposed to be plug and play as long as they comply with ICDs.

I COMPLETELY disagree with that statement. Having worked in that world for a number of years now I am guessing you don't know what is really happening. The government has been pushing a LOT of risk to industry for years then pulling the rug out from under them at the last minute, which is one of the reasons we only have three companies than can produce a new fighter. At one point a few years ago OSD actually tried to tell industry that THEY would decide how individual companies spent their IRAD $...pure lunacy. I am not saying these companies are perfect, they are not, but at the end of the day they are publicly owned, failure and waste is passed on to your 401K. For the last 10 years the government has been trying OTA contracts that push all the risk to industry. Great in concept but when you move the goals posts these companies will stop playing the game and you will end up with one or two bidders...not the best for innovation or price. Look at the Lite-Attack program...run under and OTA where multiple companies got a small amount of IRAD $ to develop a solution. They ran an experiment and numerous companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars only to have the government say....never mind. AND, they did it TWICE. The same thing is happening with NGAD, three flying prototypes which costs HUNDREDS of millions to develop and now USAF is taking a pause to re-evaluate...those loses have a horrible impact on operations, IRAD investment and stock price. It is not a perfect system and we need changes but the government has to have some skin in the game as well if the want to push the innovation boundary and get the best product for the warfighter.

I think the goal was to restore free speech, and yeah, it worked.