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“Europe isn’t racist against black people!” “Ok well you’ve clearly never been there, but also they are really busy focusing on the Turks.” Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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If it wasn’t for the massive hidden profit schemes and selective acceptance to a lot of the mitigation ideas, most of the argument for change made by climate activists could gain much wider marketability in how presented. You could sell it much better as wider species adaptation and resource husbandry. Something that is really necessary regardless of what the climate is doing as more people and countries gain wealth and industrialize. Instead it’s BS like “drive an electric car if you don’t want all the Seals and Pilar Bears to die!” Or what them wholesale sell the necessities of reducing carbon, and lobby for a massive movement of government money toward a given populist industry like wind power and simultaneously lambast any investment in Nuclear which generates far shorter timelines for effect at curbing carbon emission. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Not really… For all the “it’s the death of Tanks” nonsense, there is nothing on the ground that can replicate or replace the Tank. More to the point, just because you are watch the Russians ignore the most basic tactics and make it easy for the defender doesn’t mean it’s a reasonable assumption to say tanks can’t attack an ATGM equipped defender. And while I’m sure somebody will bring up Israel in Lebanon getting a company of Merk’s torn up, a more thorough examination of that battle shows it was not something you can apply as a universal or even normal outcome to the match up of forces. Advanced ATGMs like Javelin didn’t do as much to make the tank go extinct as they allowed light/airborne/air assault infantry a capability to actually survive in the defense, which was something it didn’t organically possess before. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I watched a C-130 leave the Clark in the Philippines pretty much full of Yeti Coolers…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A little Humor in this fight… https://www.facebook.com/23305435/posts/10111839615901854/?d=n Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

First damn question in every Phil military interaction… “Have you had the Balut yet!?!” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Considering the number of plans calling for ARSOAC and AFSOC to provide leverage of capes to PR the Air Force is realizing what it already knew 20 years ago when it tried to acquire 47s. The greatest LimFac to PR being provided by H-60s is the H-60. The second greatest being the 130 they need to drag with them to get anywhere useful in a fight against a foe with IADS and long range precision fires capability. That’s a reality to the challenge if you’re talking China, or going deep into a Middle Eastern country roughly 3-4 times the size of Iraq to pick up those 2 dudes in the middle of nowhere. With the timeline to Future Vertical Lift, the Air Force is likely doing exactly what the Marines did when they passed on E/F Hornets. They are gonna slug along with what they got, and let the big revolutionary change be the real procurement target vs spend a lot of money on a new but marginal capabilities improvement and then have to justify replacing “new helicopters” in a decade when there really is something better. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s funny given the level of OPSEC and secrecy the Israeli’s are known for, they were so willing to provide plenty of film footage for a bad 80s action movie. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Another up vote for Jon and his team at Trident… VA loan completed, from a deployed locations and outside the normal but not required 60 day move in from Close requirement. Great all around work by his team. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’ll be “personal” for them if they come through this feeling that unification through force is an acceptable option in Latvia or Estonia…. Only in that case this will be an open ended conflict with NATO. Yes there are risks in this course of action with regards to what will Vlad and his inner circle do from their perspective. That said we all know damn well what NATO and our forces will do should Iskanders start landing in Tallinn instead of Kyiv. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Especially when there is an internal push to start prioritizing certain Hornet E/F guys to SEAD/DEAD as an acknowledgment that it’s a highly skill intensive specialization and not something you can just generate on an ATO line. There is a reason we are simultaneously seeing news articles about how great the paring of 35C and 18G are as a strategic collections package, but also talk of just shitcanning a couple squadrons. It’s like your wife implying you how much more sex you’ll be having if you buy her this _____. It’s a trap. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh there is no doubt the Navy is setting up its position for the big budget pie share fight. They’re proposing this, retiring Nimitz, folding up all its Cruiser force in a matter of a few years (which form a big chunk of ABLM shield)… The Navy is selling the idea that it will have to hit its self because they’ve seen the proposed budgets. They can’t afford the replace the Ohios, build the ships they wanted to build, get the FFX to replace LCS, etc. They want the congressional reps that need those programs to argue to cut back on things the Air Force wants like modernized nuclear triad, less B-21s, etc. But don’t anybody suggest retiring the A10… that thing will be flying when we retire the 35 just because of nostalgia. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don’t think anybody has look at or even though about putting the ALQ legacy or next generation pods on anything outside the Hornet for one… I’m sure as much random stuff as you can bolt to a Strike there is a way to carry it all, but then you’re talking about allocating an already limited group of airframes to pick that mission up on Top of what they are already penned for in the big Jpint peer fight. And while “let’s just get/leverage another 4.5-5th Gen” is a plan for the strike side of that fight. There are a whole lot of missions (air resupply, PR, SOTF, etc) that will live/die based on the presence of an available stand off jamming platform to function. Loosing a third of that fleet will mean severe delays to other parts of the big plan that can’t move forward until assets are allocated. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So minor side bar but I don’t mind airing this bad laundry… A year ago a CW5 from 160th was awarded the highest military honor from the Norwegian military. First time it’s happened since WWII. It was only that award being given, that forced regiment to pony up some medals like ARCOMs for the rest of the guys on that event. Before his award went up on the radar ARCOMs weren’t even given to the crews. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looking at how low it’s riding in the water, and given the condition of so much other Russian equipment in this war… I’m betting they made a hell of a lot of effort fighting fires, but don’t have the pumps and trim capability to deal with the excess amounts of water the ship was filling its self up with trying to contain the fire. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Picture of the Moskva Appears to be in the middle of fighting fires aboard. Obviously the guy on the support vessel who snapped this didn’t do his annual cyber awareness and OpSec training. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Having relieved the rest of that unit in Iraq, the general attitude by everyone who wasn’t there was one of, “And…?” Seriously, the Battalion Commander seemed to completely dismiss it as any sort of heroic action or show of exemplary performance. If your own boss is barely your advocate, good luck getting anything justified and through the F’d up rewards system that is the status quo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Meanwhile in the Army… All awards for the 64 pilots who were herding people off the runway or the CAB for the crew that got shot/hit by small arms… still sitting at division. 29 hours continuous operations in one case (crews swapping twice with the aircraft going waaaay past prescribed maintenance checks) ….yeah we will get to that when we feel like it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And let me pay with a check if I god damned want too… I’ve got a clearance already. Obviously my credit wasn’t at risk and I’m good for it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Ok sidebar on this point, because the building narrative by the current party in power and a lot of people safely on the sidelines is plainly obvious with this. Absolutely nobody was aware of how disastrously led, planned,or resourced the actual Russian ground campaign was going to pan out. Austin Green was on record days before actual hostilities prediction to Congress the inevitable fall of Ukraine’s military to the “overwhelming numbers” of Russian BTGs in the area. Anybody trying to change history now and say we were all plainly aware the Russian Army was a paper Tiger and would fall on its face are flat out lying to try and look good in the current trend. Furthermore; this war is far from over. And the danger with feeding that narrative is the thing that has actually given Ukraine the tools and maneuver space to fight this conflict ultimately risks drying up if we stop treating the Russian Army as a legitimate threat and referring to them like some 3rd world power. While I think we all would be a little more comfortable about our tactical chances with the O-plan should the balloon have gone up, none of us should suddenly act like NATO going into Kaliningrad would have been a cake walk, nor should we be saying things that minimize the reality that Ukraine is paying for their freedom with blood and burned/broken cities right now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anecdotes speaking to the organization of their withdrawals. This was taken along the Sumy axis after 4th Guards got its ass handed too it. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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I didn’t see one person fat enough to pass for Navy in that whole trailer. Every Key West dive school support mission 3/160 does they walk into the base gym like we are the first ones to have ever found it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

*Laughs in German* If they can’t get that thing out into open water and away from more drone strikes, it’s gonna get messed up. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk