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Russian Soldier surrenders to Ukrainian drone while Russian forces shoot at him.

I am guessing you have not followed much of this conflict and you are most certainly approaching this from your vantage point as an American with a mostly free and open press. Most of the Russian soldiers were told they were going on an exercise, they didn't know it was combat until they were across the line. Even now Russian Propaganda has shaped their population to believe Ukraine is the aggressor. When it comes to atrocities, there is obviously no excuse but a large majority of Russian soldiers are uneducated and uniformed conscripts. You might watch Enemy at the Gates to see just how horrific the Russian way of war is and how motherland soldiers are treated like fodder. Take your gun and walk that way, hesitate for a second and you get shot in the back of the head.

If you think they had a choice, you don't know much about Russia or Putin.

War is horrific...simply horrific. I remember my first few missions and the metric of success was always the number. We count everything, crap many of us growing up who dreamed of flying wanted to be an Ace because we thought that was the top of the glorified pyramid. In time and as I flew more missions and my "number" became stupidly high...(on one misisons I killed 32 men in 8 minutes)...I had to stop counting. Yes they were evil people who deserved to die but it was still someone's brother, father, son, cousin...and I didn't want to surrender my humanity in the process. I PRAY my son never has to see the horror of war. While I cheer the Ukrainians it is not lost on me that the ones dying are not that ones that caused this horror. Yes the Russian troops are committing atrocities but this is not a simple good vs bad situation and a lot of young men and women (and innocents), are dying because of a diabolical human in Moscow. I hope Ukraine kicks the snot out of the Russians and they flee back to Russia and I hope it all ends right there. At the end of the day we all do our duty, and I did it very well, but we don't have the celebrate the carnage

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced today that the president has made the following nominations: Air Force Gen. Kenneth S. Wilsbach for appointment to the grade of general, with assignment as commander, Air Combat Command, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. Wilsbach is currently serving as commander, Pacific Air Forces; and air component commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

I don't know that these numbers rectify with what the staffers were saying. I think they were expressing the number who had contacted their Congressman and Senators expressing interest in the service academies was down 70%. I think these numbers show those that actually applied. They also mentioned that number was geographically oriented with the largest decline in the south which is where the majority of service members come from (40%).

A whistleblower alleges DOJ and the FBI have an unclassified document that describes a criminal scheme between Joe Biden WHEN HE WAS THE SITTING VICE PRESIDENT and a foreign national. FOXNEWS, NY Post and the National Review are the only ones reporting on it so far (shocking I know). "The document, an FBI-generated FD-1023 form, allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions." A question for our liberal friends on the forum, given the anal probe the FBI, the House and the main stream media gave Trump over the dossier, don't you think this should at least be investigated and reported on?

Exactly...and there is still the perception. A lot of damage was done.

To help fix the retention problem we lowered our standards...so we got that going for us. According to three separate professional staffers I recently spoke with, applicants to U.S. service academies are down 70% with the vaccine requirement and DEI being cited as the number 1 and 2 issues.

What a complete Douche...turns his back on his own grandchild.

Better than a jumpsuit, handcuffs and a hood.

Danish military just declassified 26 photos of Russian ships with submarine rescue vessel SS-750 over Nordstream 1’s explosion site days prior. Forsvaret bekræfter: Rusland havde specialfartøj nær Nord Streams sprængningspunkt

Imagery obtained by CNN shows a large blimp developed by the Chinese military, spotted for the first time at a remote base in the desert of northwestern China. The images, taken in November 2022 by US satellite imaging company BlackSky, indicating DoD likely knew and was tracking the entire time but decided to allow them to fly over out territory.

Years ago I was a guest of the FSB (former KGB), on a formal senior military exchange and had several official meetings (and an epic lunch meeting which included shots of vodka and cognac), at their headquarters in Moscow. They have what was at the time a classified museum in the headquarters and I was given a private tour. I asked and was allowed to take this picture. In the case is wreckage from Francis Gary Powers U-2, his pressure suit, items he was carrying and a portion of his parachute.

I have several but surprisingly one of the cheapest is my favorite. The Sticky Holster is lightweight and has a no-slip material the allows easy carry against your skin even when gym wearing shorts.

Two! Highly suggest you fit test your hand and carry options before buying. My local indoor range allows you try test shoot a range of options as long as you buy the ammo from them. I have the Shield, the Glock 43 and the Hellcat. I carry the Hellcat mainly because I have large hands and find it fits me better.

Army aviators, ready to leave the military, are told they owe 3 more years instead