Lawman

Yeah but we put a poem at the base of a big statue we were gifted so that’s like law or something… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When his inaction or Tomfuqery gets somebody demonstrably killed, maybe we can join you in burning his effigy. You had no problem with that unqualified except for one single criteria flop run the DOD despite mistake after deadly mistake for years. Bonus, that’s after he ran CENTCOM into the ground when he was actually in the job that apparently qualified him beyond the obvious optics. Until then accept the fact that the normalization of security stupidity is now fully in place and every time somebody types “but her emails” a cyber fairy gets its wings. Stuff like the actual 9 April shake up to the failed acquisitions process or the fact we are actually hitting the Houthis instead of playing whackamole with unmanned rocket launchers makes the fact he told his wife he won’t be home because he’s gotta stay for a brief a non issue for those of us that can be pragmatic. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you would have actively taken a medical absence without notifying anyone and simply disappeared what would have happened to you? Congrats you figured out that the minions are held to a higher expectation than the bosses. I think Amex is giving out 10k points for figuring something out every enlisted E4 has long known already. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Future SEC AF: Congressman, what we are proposing is a “Hi-Lo” Mix of aircraft…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That sounds like the C-27 problem Effectively Leonardo wants obscenely amounts of money for sustainment of the airframes that didn’t go to the boneyard so they are ll essentially F’d. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

He flew the TA-50 as part of the initial search for a trainer to replace the 38. His statement was “it’s too much jet to be a trainer” and this was while we were watching the Phil’s receive their FA-50s. Now it’s likely to not only be the jet for the navy, but beat that clean sheet design with years of head start to actually doing its job as a trainer. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Oh I know an O6 I need to claim money from…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you can’t see the strategic vulnerability of the current supply chain given we are somewhere between weeks to single digit years from a real shooting war with CHINA, nobody here is gonna be able to help you. The Cold War victory did nothing but encourage us to outsource in ways we never would have. There is no point over the last half century where “hey let’s have the Soviet Union make all the _____ so we can buy it on the cheap” would have been an acceptable conversation either in a board room or in government. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Is it normal for manufacturers stickers to be all over your aircraft? I’ve seen data plates on mil aircraft but that looks more like an add. This looks what is really an N number airplane masquerading in a paint scheme for whatever potential customer or testing needs to be generated. Identical from a core airframe perspective but since it’s not like air tractor isn’t in foreign air forces they aren’t sticking mission equipment in it some Qatari or Phil Air Force General is just going to assume they get with their money. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It isn’t the jump pay that is costing, it is the associated tax on unit readiness to facilitate taking something like Brigade HHC full of non jumping MOS people to do their mandatory jumps. We don’t have a flying hour program funded to support a bunch of cooks and Hr clerks doing Hollywood jumps, though god knows I’ve burned useful blade hours supporting them. The crap the guys on jump status do for essentially drinking money and the misappropriation of unit training calendar time to facilitate is criminal. It is the Army of stuff like the Greywolf guys always coming down with a fully loaded Dornier full of “crew” every month to Zambo and providing the actual mission their with less seats than the C-12 for AMRs. We know why you’re here, and don’t pretend it’s to support for a critical mission. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think honestly the Chinese are readapting their strategy because of the decision last November. I think they figured there is no way Trump wins again. Everything seems to be suggesting the blockade/quarantine and dare us to do something while we dither and wither is the smart play towards reunification. It’s the only scenario where somebody can lose but we can theoretically be friends again later. Had Kamala won I think they’d have done that route expecting her to respond flaccidly if at all. Trump being who he is, I think now the shock and awe becomes more viable because he will test the blockade, and allowing us to respond on our own terms with all the forces in the region puts them at a disadvantage. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Every spring and every fall for the supportive weather. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Honestly as awful morally as the scenario is, a massive famine and mass death to the population is the cheap way out of the problem of solving for X here. That population is effectively traveling through time when the regime barriers come down. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Anybody with an ounce of economic sense doesn’t want reunification. There was a white paper done a little after the housing crises that talked about the amount of capital it would take to reunify using East/West Germany as part of its model. It was double digit trillions of dollars to fix the problem or we all just accept that one of the largest economies in Asia and a part of most global economic supply chains just drops off the map into oblivion like the war and nuclear exchange happened anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk