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Nope....simply outlining Pete's latest policy decisions and the opportunity for this to run off the rails.

Not being forced to take anything....YET. No Black Generals or Admirals. No women Generals or Admirals No Air discipline for anyone, have at it boys. Give me an Fing break ladies...

And like clock work the acting clown gives them a blessing.

The locals are cheering it, they want more. Carry on Patriots, until someone gets killed. 500 knots, 90 degrees of bank at 70' AGL. I hope to god the Boss is professional enough to know this was a major F'up!

AP NewsHegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testo...Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's rolling out a new screening program for “testosterone deficiency” among troops.Some of you are in big trouble...Unlike me. Seriously Pete has to go.

I did two exchange tour with the Marines and have close friends around what happened...this has NOTHING to do with his visit to VMX-1 and EVERYTHING to do with optics and questions the Commandant had to answer. Complete toolbag...he was previously rebuked by a military appeals court for his “personal interest” and bias in overseeing a hazing court-martial. How he got promoted to this role is another unanswered mystery.

If you actually watch the video or read the story you'll know the Commandant would not even give him the courtesy of a meeting...he asked. By all counts an excellent dude and if you watch the video and listen to all his saw and sensed as he made his decision to eject, hard to imagine anyone one of us not doing the exact same thing...F the REMF Commandant.

You knew Fat Tony wasn't going to leave without going scorched earth one last time, truly a sorry excuse for a human. And, a FULL payout of his contract so it is not for cause....it is simply for pushing back on Blubber Bauernfeind. Air Force removes athletic director Nathan Pine over clash with superintendent

The rest of the story... He was cleared and went on to assume senior command as an O-6 only to have the Commandant (a non-pilot), change his mind and remove him from command months later. Sickening but our F'd up system.

40 hours?

Have we? Have you seen what we "depleted" giving things to Taiwan or are you just parroting the talking points? 31 Abrams Tanks 300 Bradleys 180 155MM Artillery pieces 72 105MM artillery pieces 18 155MM Paladins 10,000 Javalins 10,000 TOWs ATACMS 2 Harpoons...TWO! Not a lot of need for any of this in a fight with China over Taiwan. The fight with China is about BIG stand-off, maybe if we degrade enough you can argue the AGM-88s HARM, but they have all been older versions. We did give some ALD-160 MALD missiles, again all older and the new jammer version is being delivered to USAF in quantity. On the Air-to Air Front we gave them: AIM-7s - oh the humanity...whatever will we do without the great white whale? AIM-9M - Old! AIM-130A/B/C8 - Again older variants and if you know anything about air to air procurement you would know a LOT of new stuff was already in production and being delivered when the war started. Only two weapons system concern me: Patriot - The Ukrainians are now making them indigenously. Artillery rounds - production has quadrupled and they are still wanting to produce more, but that is not for a fight with China. Have you bothered to look at the NDAA and what the services are trying to buy on the weapons front? ALL Standoff, goolge FAMM, SCM, JDAM-LR...

Has nothing to do with Iran...going back to your previous statements that Ukraine was gonna lose. For less the $200B (one fifth of one year's defense budget), Russia has suffered 450,000 KILLED, including 1600 in one day this past weekend and they are farther from victory than ever before. Those numbers are STAGGERING, equating to fully one third of all births in a single year. Russia is changed for a generation if not longer.

Beyond this there are reports the Ukrainians tapped two felons on the ground. Russia only has about 20, losing 10% of your fleet to a drone attack should be a sobering warning to all.

Clearly and I don't think the nuance is grasped by most. Protesting on the steps is prohibited...(odd given the 1st amendment, redressing your grievances with the government and a traditional public forum, but lawmakers pass whatever bullcrap they want to save themselves). There are two different issues here. First, the issue of breaking the law and protesting on the steps. That SHOULD be dealt with by the DC folks (but likely they will surrender jurisdiction to the military like most local governments do to save costs). Second, is a VERY clear violation of article 88. He is going to get bent over...I think he would justifiably by any administration but Pete rules with an iron fist and I would not be surprised if this dude gets some prison time, followed by reduction in rank, forfeiture of all pay and a dishonorable discharge.

You do realize that being in uniform is not the issue...right? Under Article 88 commissioned officers are legally prohibited from using "contemptuous words" against the President, Vice President, Congress, and other key government officials, in uniform or out. Sometimes I wonder if people realize what they signed up for and the rights they no longer have. This site will never out anyone and extreme to say, but those on active duty who are posting against the above on this forum are technically breaking the UCMJ.

Did Putin win yet?

So using an outdated scoring key they security forces actually scored HIGHER...dear god that's epic!

They don't need an image recognition system... Story time - My first tour in the five-sided wind tunnel was 2005-2006. I was at Quantico for school before that so had three years in the Northern Va area. I was always into RC airplanes and flew at a nice grass strip on the west side of town off Route 50. I was out there was weekday afternoon and there was only one other person out there with me. When I pulled up I noticed he was sitting in a chair and wearing some kind of goggles. Next to him was an antenna system mounted on a tripod. I watch him fly for a bit and noticed he was not looking at his airplane. When he landed I walked over and we had a chat, he was testing a home built system that pushed video from a camera in the plane to his goggles. We talked for a while and told me he posted a few videos of his set up and some of the flying on Youtube. He then gave me his channel on a card. A few days later I looked at his channel and while watching a video noticed an airliner go through his frame...a cold chill ran down my spine when I saw the airliner. The field was a few miles from Dulles and almost all of his videos caught an airliner in the frame making an approach to the airport. I immediately put that together with another project I was working in a small strategy cell I was assigned to in the Pentagon. In short, just the previous two years prior a group of hobbyists flew an RC airplane autonomously across the Atlantic Ocean. I pitched the project to my boss and got some seed money. Long story short I proved an amateur could build an autonomous airplane that could lift a 20 warehead/payload, fly with a GPS auto pilot and hit a target at range or via FPV for under $1000.00. This was 2005...I wrote it up and tried to run it through the system only to be laughed at and ignored.

All of the encounters mentioned above are "mostly" accidents. Imagine when someone TRIES to hit an airliner...

Big increase in drone encounters with commercial aviation. On Monday a Jet Blue flight hit a drone on approach to JFK, a helicopter reported one in the area on the same day, and a United Flight reported a near miss (100'). I personally have had two encounters in the last year: 1. About six months ago I was flying from the PCola area down to Boca in my airplane. Passing just north of Tyndall I encountered a medium-sized drone mostly stationary north of the base at about 5000'. A friend was with me and she saw it first. No ADSB and not talking to anyone. I called approach and they did not have it on radar, a plane in trail of me reported it as well. 2. About 8 months ago departed Charleston Exec Runway 9. Approach turned turned me north then west and climbed me through the Class C. Passing 5000' My passenger and I both saw very large drone 1000' below us and clearly inside the Charleston Class C. It clearly had a gimbal payload. I called and they were not tracking it...they clearly got very worked up. Whether it is hobbyist or something more nefarious, there does seem to be an increase and it seems like a easy asymmetric attack vector towards the airline industry. What are you airline folks seeing out there?

I pilot I have mentored since he was 14 is a TPS grad and stationed there as an IP. As late as Thursday the wreckage was still on the runway. He mentioned they got back to flying and he decided to go to Palmdale rather than do patterns and see the wreckage on every pattern. It's been tough on the entire test and bomber community, I think there legacy will live on because they touched so many lives.