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You know you’re going to have a great time when you have to hand prop!

My guess is Israel will not follow the historical US path, which is leave/stop conducting kinetic ops in place X, allowing the vacuum of “peace” to fill right back in with whatever terrorist orgs were there previously. If they do follow suit, then give it a couple years and Hamas will be right back to a meaningful force strength. The peace deal is historic, but it’s naive to think any peace deal made with Islamic terrorists is going to last. My bet is Israel realizes that and will act accordingly.

Boeing brought in @HuggyU2 to test out the new cockpit entry system…

Which is a 100% guarantee not going to happen. I’m honestly surprised Israel didn’t go to 100% destruction/expulsion and take every square inch of Gaza land.

Amongst us non-politicians, it’s not partisan. Polls show the vast majority of Americans, independent of party affiliation, want all of it released. Now what some of the politicians do may be different. So it’s more accurate in this specific case to say political/elite class rot, not simply societal rot.

She’s a big disappointment. Not having federal experience may or may not be the primary CF, but regardless, Trump would be smart to fire her and put someone else in. I have no SA on what the bench looks like, I just know she’s been very underwhelming.

Dallas is better than Chicago by a solid amount (though still a large city with crime). But I think you are bringing up a valid point: there are other contributing factors to crime rate than the political leaning of the local gov. However, it’s still worth noting something like 2A rights and associated laws in cities is very much linked to who’s running the place.

@Day Man Memphis is a blue city with a Democrat mayor (and has the NG on the way). Try again.

For sure, I’ve been there with nit picking my own tapes and seeing others get nitpicked. Also have seen people get sent home. In zero of those cases did someone go to jail, have any lasting career effects, or not end up coming back (whether to rejoin same deployment or on a subsequent deployment). My point is do what’s right/what needs to be done, have zero thoughts about what “the man” may nitpick later. Failure to execute when called for because of CYA thoughts is unacceptable.

I have no problem with any bad city seeing intervention, regardless of local/state gov’s predominant party affiliation. That said, are there GOP led cities that should be prioritized over places like DC, Chicago, Portland, pick a city in CA, NYC, etc? I’m not implying there aren’t GOP-led cities with crime issues, but so far, has the priority been invalid?

This is a great example of why you just do what’s right. There were always rumors of JAG witch hunts, etc…and while I’ve dealt with some of those guys, to this day I’ve never met an aircrew member, SOF dude, etc. who did the right thing and ended up in jail. It’s all hyped up BS, minus maybe some total outlier that happened at some point.

No problem with it. US citizens in these cities have been abandoned by their city and in some cases, state, government. Their local govs have been heavily siding with/supporting criminals and their actions while willfully putting innocent citizen’s livelihood, and lives, at unacceptable risk. At some point (such as right now) the fed gov has a duty to step in to defend them. It’s incredibly sad portions of our country have come to this point, but the answer is not to just ignore it and say WGAF because you (the royal you) don’t live there.

My problem with Massie and Paul is they love to pontificate on libertarian utopia while completely ignoring the real world. Their minds live in a fantasy (like all “full” libertarians), and therefore they are roadblocks much of the time to REALISTIC results because they only will accept UNREALISTIC results. So, instead of accomplishing anything, they just run their mouths and generally get in the way. Ergo, hot air.

I’m not a big Mike Johnson fan, so maybe there is some truth to it. But also Massie is like MTG - blows lots of hot air, so I’ll take anything people like them say with a large grain of salt.

@Lord Ratner So basically, let it rip! What mags do you use/where’d you get them?

Anyone have a Universal M1 carbine? I picked one up, took it apart and it seems fine (e.g. safe to shoot). I wanted to see if anyone has experience with one (things to look for, gotchas, etc.)

- It’s one TDY added to a list of many. Bottom line, why are you against a TDY added amongst a sea of executed/scheduled TDYs? It’s not whataboutism to state a fact that a large portion of the military adds TDYs throughout the year. If you want to argue about justification or perceived importance/utility of any TDY, then you are very inexperienced in the military/have no idea how the gov operates with regards to in-person vs. virtual application. Example: I’ve spent many TDYs watching GOs (also TDY) sit there and stare at their eyelids/the wall for days, while adding nothing to the situation and based on their reactions, taking nothing home with them. Welcome to the real world. (Experience I’m coming from: over 100 TDYs at tac/op/strat levels). - The boss is pushing a massive cultural shift, that has seen some resistance, and he’s sick of the resistance. Do you believe something of that high of priority to him does not warrant in-person interaction? Some comments above can be boiled down to, “this isn’t a big deal and therefore could have been an email/TEAMs call.” Do you believe from the boss’s perspective this “isn’t that big of a deal” and an email/TEAMs call is all he needs to do to get this train on the right track? People are bringing up “justification” of TDY, citing the topic as “not justifiable” for a TDY. They brought that up, it is not a red herring to discuss what they previously stated. - Some literally said it could have been a virtual discussion (email, TEAMs, YouTube, etc.) Is there a third option besides one of those or in-person? Because if there’s not (I can’t think of one), it can’t be a false dilemma because it is literally a dilemma (boss had to ask himself, “do I do this in person or virtual? Which one will be most effective for my directives/message?”) Ad hominem - I’ll take that one, my bad.

@Smokin As it should be. We were living in a super blue state at the time, so lots of coddling, zero accountability, “everyone’s a winner,” etc. going around.

Many years ago, when one of my kids was young, he did not display the attitude/effort we expected of him during T-ball. End of season participation trophy’s get handed out, my wife makes him give it to her and she throws it into the nearest trash can, telling him he didn’t earn it (and why). All the other pussy parents looked on in disbelief. My kid basically never again had a bad attitude or lack of effort, and this incident was 9 years ago. The little things matter - coddling your kids produces shit adults.

There are probably tens of millions a year spent on useless TDYs/PCSs. Cue every person who goes to in-person PME, every bullshit “TDY for the boys” (but they are fun as shit!), every guy who travels to unending conferences and meetings while not providing, nor consuming, anything of value to their job and other attendees. We have endured a significant identity/priorities crisis for years in the DoD, and unfucking that is critical enough to not just throw it on YouTube or a TEAMs call (where nobody will actually listen/receive anything - they’ll be “present” with their muted mic symbol). Complaining about one TDY out of tons each of these GOs are doing yearly is lazy, political hacking on display. Attack the argument/point SECDEF is driving home, but you can’t, because it’s the most logical direction one has given in my lifetime. So, you jump to a retarded Red Herring argument of “but mAh TdY CoStS!” Hilarious, and sad at the same time.

I remember a tanker guy telling me he had to refuel in planned tracks and therefore couldn’t move to where I needed him. This isn’t the NAS douchebag, it’s combat. Luckily a guard tanker came in and did the job since AD douchebag wasn’t willing to. Insanity. That all said, most of the tankers were cool.

Those are the tanker dudes I love and respect. For the ones who would not move their location to better support TICs (especially really bad ones) or EPs/low fuel states, fuck you for being a gigantic pussy. For the young guys out there - do the right thing, deal with the man later.

Standards for everyone set at the appropriate male-based levels for physically demanding jobs. What a novel concept. I’m OK with a separate PT test for the non-combat side, but if you’re in a combat job or may see combat because you get attached to a combat unit, you must perform at a higher physical level.

Facing a shutdown because the Dems want shitloads of tax payer dollars to go to illegals. Has nothing to do with some TDY pocket change.