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I also love when idiots use “well regulated” in an argument for gun control not understanding the etymology of the phrase in its meaning. “In good order and supply” is hardly what they think it is and they are shocked to discover that by that requirement we should literally be buying people guns and ammo in order to effect that government sponsored training. When the due hards continue to argue “that’s not what regulated means!” I have to remind them I’ve been in several different Army Brigades where the logistics/quartermaster elements of the Brigade Support Battalion were named “regulators,” for that very literal translation of the word. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Every Marine KC-130 after their mid-air…. Just back their astern trying to find a white basket in a goggle blanking out sea of disco show lights. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They aren’t running out of shells or more importantly tubes for their artillery. Our sanctions haven’t impacted their ability to manufacture those items. Complex munitions like PGM and Kaliber yes… 152mm boom and 220mm rockets not so much. They bought stuff back to make the gap between realizing this wouldn’t be a short fight and getting their industry spun up to make up the difference. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Making Xmas dinner awkward with their family spouting off a semester of how wage stagnation and wealth inequality are a systemic criminal design of capitalism…. Failing to notice the irony that they are doing it across a spread of foods that aren’t just turnips in the dinning room of a 3300 square foot house…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

But but…. That’s not “real” socialism… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Their strategy for long term shift of Texas to a blue state has completely changed for the same reason. Used to be specific minority based issues and immigration. Now it’s shifted to a bunch of virtue signaling and millennial blame shifting like student loan repayment or “fair share” tax plans appealing to places like Austin. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Trump was receiving a good deal of attention as part of a coordinated plan by Clinton surrogates to weaken and deplete the Jeb Bush war chest. Trump’s campaign was largely on life support when it got a sudden infusion right before the primaries. There’s a series of political reports from her staffers talking about the original design of the campaign to face Bush and later Rubio. Then they just could not adapt to face the thing they helped to create in a populist Trump campaign. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“You want that favorable PCS assignment or not !?!?” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It should still list your zip code for BAH on your LES. That’s where I had to check since my post has 3 zip codes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bro how long have you spent in the employee of the government. The government acting has as much to do with appearing to be making an impact as actually making any impact. In fact it’s probably more the first one and if it happens to be impactful, bonus points. There is no doubt that wearing the RIGHT mask does actually make a measurable impact on you or any other possible vector spreading your nasty into the Gen pop. Problem is the right mask wasn’t what we sent people out with. Anything short of fishnets was pretty much accepted… and now you have a mass group of people with the feeling of “I have a mask so it’s cool” going out and interacting to plus up that size group because hey the government said it’s ok. Likewise how many people did you see wearing latex gloves. That works…. If you’re stripping gloves between movement and interaction. If you wear those gloves continuously (every gate guard I’ve interacted with) you actually increase the places you spread virus because it has a longer life on that glove than it does in your bare skin. That was actually a point brought to the post commander by our infectious disease OIC (friend of mine). Obviously the guy with a medical degree doesn’t know anything a star knows, so we just ignored it and the gate guards are still wearing them. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Don’t forget any and all commercial freight haulers in the state of California… That really ought to help the supply chain issues if we can’t truck from port to place of use/sale. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I mean hell if we’re getting comparative with accident prices, that B2 at Anderson that was lost because of a fouled Pitot a tube could have either bought a new nuclear aircraft carrier, or paid to refuel 4 of them. Not to say genuine shit luck accidents don’t happen… but… Stuff is getting ridiculously expensive and we are never forward thinking as a military toward prevention in a lot of ways. The more time I see the military fail to use smart preventative measures the more I think we operate off the same logic as my wife waiting until the car’s check engine light has been on for a month and it’s smoking and vibrating before we finally say/do something about it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It was passed…. It was also overturned in a bipartisan manner both of which occurred during the Obama admin. Yeah we’ve been here before bro. So you can stop acting like the GOP is some sort of problem to this.

Don’t think we don’t have a “solution” for that at HRC… We surveyed 100 people… top answers on the board. What is the way Army leadership will address the critical manpower shortage in aviation… “14 year ADSO!” Survey Says!…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It is sarcasm, but keep in mind it took how many decades to get there? This is another chance for the FAA to miff it and invent a new classification (Powered variable driveline? Or some BS) thus helping the Army solve its toxic crises and 58% manning for the force by simply… not doing anything for a while. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We already have composite components on the current fleet. The horizontal stabilator and the entire rotor system of the 64 (to include the new tail rotor) are entirely composite. Yes from a battle damage and austere repair requirement that does suck more than sheet metal and pro seal… but when you look at the problems inherent with the new build Chinook because of the structural decision on single milled frame components, that is a much bigger potential problem. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We’ve always maintained that capability through crypto. We did the same with partner nations during the GWOT exercised use of GPS guided munitions. Yeah we gave them to the nation for their inventory, but we held back the SKL with the codes that make it useful for a level of control. Doing so puts our say so directly into their targeting cycle. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You guys are missing the most important win for the Army with this procurement…. In picking an aircraft like the V-22 we game the system on how it’s hours count to getting an airline job, substantially solving the man power problem we are facing with the current loss of personnel to RTP. Winning…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

“Twitter using its power to silence misinformation is ok…. They are a private company entitled to treat the discourse on their platform to what they decide is truthful and fair…” *person with non liberal slant purchases twitter and even hints at changing the status quo* Facism! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Or realize there are literally more non flying stupid jobs than can possibly be staffed, and now you’ve got a population that literally can’t threaten walking papers. “Oh you didn’t make O4/5/6 and are now 3 years AZ. Well I have this opportunity at Fort Polk….” Like I said, the careerist mindset will be a lot more cutthroat. Not because you’re trying to make rank, but more because you’re trying to “stay in the air conditioning.” Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It is a “wide body.” I hear that’s what really matters. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

“I’m gonna get to fly Jets right?” Let’s just admit the only difference better the 20 year old versions of ourselves and others who decided to trade it in for something is the type of couch we were sitting on when we “agreed to it.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Along with that there were way to many people with Stars on that thought Biden would reverse what was happening so who needs a plan. And then like idiots we let the State Dep come up with a plan that had no red cell review from the way it fell apart. It’s like we wanted to make it harder. I remember standing in a brief with a 2 star that told us despite the peace there was no appetite to move the group somewhere else. Our presence would be “enduring.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sadly it would also raise the collective quality of individuals at the higher echelons of career. It’s no secret a whole lot of quality people with options and brains to be successful by and large leave, especially now with the pension having been changed to less lucrative from what it was. We are left with a depleted total talent pool to make LtCols out of… now while you effectively make the careerist mindset more cutthroat you also make it far easier to S-can that guy who can barely spell and shouldn’t be running a lemonade stand much less a squadron. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No no… the fact that literally nobody in a position of responsibility resigned or was fired after people fell off our gawd damned airplanes trying to escape and you had Apaches literally herding people off the runway with their wheels (and took fire in a few occasions)…. Totally normal. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk