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Does anyone have intel on getting a tour of the C-130 plant at Marietta? I know it's closed to the public, but as a career C-130 driver, do they offer exceptions?

I feel confident saying Rubio has done his homework on Iran. By all accounts he's a squared away professional and understanding them and many others sits squarely in his wheelhouse as Sec State. Whether anyone actually listens to him, that's another story. I second Persian Puzzle. Excellent context about how they think. "Bad negotiating" (regardless of disgrunted's semantic argument...) is probably the best phrase to explain precisely how they think. To them, Politics and international relations are war by other means, not the other way around. But in the end, they are similar to China, though on a small scale. They may have big words and big rhetoric, but almost everything they do is centered around remaining in power and controlling their own population. The IRGC and current regime need to go. Persia is for Perisans, not Arabs and Islamists.

Dudes with giant balls make biff sport wood. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Is that the American version of a Crazy Ivan?

Stand by for another expendable to be replaced by a (hopefully) dependable. Got the rudder turned in the right direction (in some cases)...but yeah, Pete is not a long term keeper.

I routinely RON in California, and have seen the degradation in multiple cities first hand over the past 5 years, but is this kind of election process that takes a MONTH to complete normal anywhere else? A month to count ballots seems like a ripe breeding ground for fraud to go undetected. https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/

Given how close the race appears to be, I'm not surprised. It's a detailed thing to make sure the democrat wins by a small enough margin to make it look like there wasn't too much meddling. At least in the Gov race.

I'm guessing it the fact that those "my bad" events don't make it onto the internet. I've witnessed more than one myself. Most cops are good people who will admit when they are wrong. I have to imagine that working with the worst 5% of the population on a near constant basis wears the crap out of you though. I imagine it'd be like having to interact with @Bender every single day.

Stealth is indeed just like Moose...on the spectrum.

No, it wasn't the point...ever. Getting shot at was by-product of the intended role: Suppress and/or destroy enemy air defense. If you can do that without the IADS getting shot off, even better. Perhaps you misunderstand what "stealth" actually means. It doesn't mean invisible.

...and not a single pilot died. Worth it.

Very true. The substance of your argument is purely theoretical and virtually useless in a real world sense. Sounds like you were a C-17 dude who touched down a couple times in Bagram. Or maybe an AWACS back seater. In any case, the substance of your argument reaches its useful limit at the door of the classroom where you heard it. Speaking of classroom, sounds like you didn't study that war or it's implementation very well. Sober up, go read "Dereliction of Duty" by H.R. McMaster, then reassess. Not even close to absolute or total war. While you're on that war, go read Flying Through Midnight...because every airman of our generation should read that.

In a just world, lawyers wouldn't exist, and they certainly wouldn't be involved in combat. Combat is supposed to be brutal beyond the pale to the point that anywhere a combatant hides is a valid target until there are no more targets or until the enemy gives up. America seemed to have forgotten that fact somewhere right around 1946. Somewhere along the line we decided to be "nice" when we use military force, which is how you end up with a military doing 'nation building'...the complete opposite of it's function.

Nope. Do it. What's the magic number? 4? Because I've been to 4 different CA cities and witnessed the horror show with my own eyes. None were SF.

Congrats, it's still rage bait. Good work with the ad hominin though, it really proves your point and definitely makes me want to believe that your opinions are the correct ones.