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One of the most important duties POTUS has is being the Commander in Chief, sending American troops into combat has to be a very difficult burden to bear. How you handle the aftermath of those tough decisions says a lot about your character. This video shares a disturbing example of how the current clown in chief handles that responsibility.

Now I regret not taking the job with Delta, who says you can't have fun at the airlines! Frustrated Lufthansa pilot flies plane in 15-mile long penis pattern after being diverted to different airport "In a statement to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for Lufthansa blamed "wind shear" for the diverted flight and unusual flight pattern."

Story time... Pops once told me about the old days when all the F-4 units in Europe would rotate down to Wheelus AFB Libya for desert bombing and gunnery training. The first base to arrive would typically load up beer, ice and bbq items and roll down to the beach to watch jets from the different bases arrive and prep for a 1st night beach party. On one deployment my dad had a new guy in the back seat and having had a nice tailwind on the way down he arrived with a lot of extra gas. He decided to give the new a quick "area fam" which was just an excuse to do an airshow over the beach while the bros set up the grill and "graded" his performance. When he landed the deployed commander was waiting for him as he shutdown and said "you are directed to report to the Wing/CC's office tomorrow at 0700 in your Class A uniform. Back then you were always supposed to have your Class As with you but for some reason his was back in the office at Bitburg....oops. My dad was a large dude and there was only one other bigger dude that bothered to bring his uniform and this guy was 6'6". My dad said he had to fold the jacket up on the inside and pin the sleeves, same with the bottom of the pants. He was the Squadron Patch at this point and helped start the Fast Fac program when he was in Vietnam with the Triple Nickel so most of the leadership at other bases knew who he was, including the Wheelus Wing King. My dad had five DFCs at this point but the owner of the uniform was newer and had not completed a Vietnam tour so his ribbons were a bit "sparse" which the Wing King immediately noticed and make a snide remark about. Over the next few minutes the Wing King very loudly chewed his ass. The base had some sort of conference center and senior officers often would rotate down for conferences. As luck would have it some senior Navy Admirals were there for a conference and had their wives in tow... Unknowingly pops flew right over their outdoor social at 50' pushing 600 knots. Pops said he took the ass chewing and was dismissed so he turned to leave...as he got to the door the Wing King said "Stop!", then with his back turned said "DAMN FINE Flying!!!...now get out of here." He never heard another word about the event except from all the bros that were at the beach that day.

Great post until you got to Ole Tom, I sadly have lots of scar tissue with this turd. Had the unfortunate occurrence of dealing with him when I was in the ASG program and again at War College. While he has written some good books and won two Pulitzer prizes, he is EXTREMELY myopic and rabidly averse to any feedback or push back on his thoughts...oh and is single-minded in thinking warfare is only about those on the ground. Some of the other gems he has proposed since writing Fiasco, Bring back the draft, get rid of American Aircraft Carriers, Politics is an irrelevant art not a science, He launched a personal attack and wrote an op-ed attacking a War College classmate of mine when his paper was about pushing back against illegal orders was published. In short, the paper was about pushing back against immoral and illegal orders and accepting the consequences for doing so. Ricks accused the offer of pushing back against civilian control of the military and wanted him out of the service. Luckily others stepped in to debunk Ricks who in my opinion didn't even read the article. Add to these my personal favorite that he said to my face "Airpower and what Airmen did in Iraq and Afghanistan was of no consequence or interest to me."

Good thing the FBI is on the case. FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself

What is so suspicious about 170 transactions of funds from foreign countries pouring int he bank accounts of the then Vice President's grandkids? You sir are a nutjob conspiracy theorist MAGA Republican racist!

Biden finally speaks out on granddaughter he refused to acknowledge for years It only took four years for this abhorrent man to acknowledge his own flesh and blood. ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING.

It is all starting to unravel... Hunter Biden admitted to a federal judge Wednesday that he received over $600,000 from a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-backed company, contradicting President Biden’s insistence that nobody from his family "made money from China." Transcript from the plea deal hearing... "I started a company [in 2017] called Hudson West, your Honor, and my partner was associated with a Chinese energy company called CEFC," Hunter said. "Who was your partner?" the court asked. "I don't know how to spell his name, Yi Jianming is the chairman of that company," Hunter responded. In 2020 about an email showing Hunter reaching out to Zhao Runlong at CEFC, asking that they please "translate my letter to Chairman Ye, please extend my warmest best wishes and that I hope to see the Chairman soon." "I hope my letter finds you well. I regret missing you on your last visit to the United States," Hunter wrote in the attached letter, dated June 17, 2017. "Please accept the best wishes from the entire Biden family as well as my partners." "We are all hoping to see you here again soon, or in Shanghai," he added. Hunter’s apparent confirmation in the courtroom that he made more than a half million dollars from a Chinese company directly contradicts President Biden’s previous denials. "My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China," Biden told then-President Donald Trump during the October 2020 debate." "The only guy who made money from China is this guy," Biden said at the time, referring to Trump. "He’s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China."

Not a single one of our liberal friends on this forum has explained, defended or even acknowledged that millions from foreign companies (including one run by the CCP), ended up in accounts of multiple Biden Family members...including his grandchildren (at least the grand kids he acknowledges). Just nut jobs conspiracy theories...except for all the transactions that were flagged and are now part of the public record. Let me guess, it's Trump's fault.

Anyone else notice the White House make a subtle change to their Joe and Hunter Narrative... Rather than saying the father and son never discussed Hunter's array of international business deals – language Biden himself has used – Jean-Pierre said the two were never "in business" together. Subtle, but very important distinction as more evidence drip drip drips out.

Likely not a spy and I don't think anyone who has been banging the drum thinks he is actually a spy...HOWEVER, it is a crime and a further drip drip drip of evidence linking his him and his father peddling political influence and power for money. A LOT of powerful democrats are very nervous right now as they continue the "attack the witnesses and deny the evidence" narrative.

‘Unpreventable’: Deadly 2022 Osprey caused by malfunction, not crew "The service has also unequivocally absolved the aircraft’s crew and maintainers of any errors." “The investigation revealed no error on the part of the pilots and aircrew, and confirmed no maintenance errors led to the mishap." “The degraded drivetrain caused by the dual [hard clutch engagement] event and subsequent single engine/[interconnect drive system] failure created an unrecoverable departure from controlled flight, resulting in the tragic crash that occurred on June 8, 2022,” according to today’s statements.

If you follow GA and racing you may know Mike Patey who has helped develop a lot of new tech the past few years building experimental airplanes. He recently built the fastest single engine turbine when he put a PT-6 on a Lancair Legacy creating a new plane he calls the Turbulence. He was flying the Turbulence to Oshkosh and was about 200 miles west his PT-6 blew apart at 441 Knots in his at FL 220. Video below covers the deadstick and post flight walk around of his plane (frag damage to wing and tail).

Close call at Oshkosh today as a Bonanza ended up landing on runway 36L instead of 18R. ATC handled it well but it put lots of folks into a holding pattern around the Green and Puckaway Lakes while the ensuing disruption to traffic got cleared up. ATC audio is here and starts at about 1m 30s.