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How many Blk30-40 Vipers are out there. And while people think Omg brand new systems, remember that used to be the norm in a conflict. Look back at how many aircraft we went from paper to actively on the front lines with in WWII or Korea or even Vietnam. Hell even outside conflict look how many times the primary fighter for the USAF/Navy changed in the 50-60s. It is not some impossible hill to climb. And if it’s worth real effective qualitative advantage in combat power at the front because these aren’t unproven systems, they are known quantities. We can teach a kid with literally no experience with a tractor or a drivers license to not only be a soldier but be a loader in an M1 in a sum total of weeks. We can absolutely take guys with workable experience in their systems and rapidly grow them to the system we give them. They are worth the logistical burden because of the capability gains and the ability to keep that training nested in survivable combat forces. That’s going to be critical in this attritional fight. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You know what’s a lot more important than the tank…. The people you spent umpteen man hours training to effectively use a tank. If you don’t understand the massive survivability advantage Leo/Challenger/Abrams enjoy over the old Soviet designs and the logistical component of people actually familiar with and able to use the system you are hopeless in understanding it is well worth the logistical impact on needing more fuel or track pads or being heavier and putting more strain on recovery/engineering/bridges/route planning…. Oh no it’s got a new shell…. One that has to be loaded and comes in a single contained piece vs the multi piece shells for the carousel auto loader…. Oh and we can battle carry a fuel load of them instead of going with only the 20-24 in the floor because we are concerned about cooking off a wet stored round in the T64/72 turret…. Do you realize how much of an improvement that would be? About 6 ish months ago the big comment was “why are we sending them HIMARs what could they possibly do with it.” Those same critics are now telling us how they can’t use a “jet fuel powered” tank because of their vast experience working with Armor. And this isn’t about getting this capability to them tomorrow, which guess what we are doing sourcing T72 and 64s from NATO stocks. This is getting the ball rolling on a capability issue that will give the Russians absolute fits in the 6-9 months from now it takes to start fielding it. It’s not the one or the other option you’re calling it. The Russians have absolutely nothing comparable in parity to an Abrams or a LEOA5 or later. They’ve expended the best of their Armor. They are pulling 55s out to put them into service. Putting a Battalion of modern western armor anywhere is a serious problem for them they can’t easily solve, same as a half dozen GMLRs are giving them fits. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think people are missing the point he was rightly making. The people saying “it uses a chinook engine!” Or “it runs on jet fuel” don’t know what they hell they are talking about. Yes it’s a turbine, but it runs on the NATO common air ground fuel (F24) same as every other piece of equipment we own. It’s not unique like we have separate fuel trucks for it amongst every other vehicle in an Armor unit. You fill the M88 and Bradley off the very same trucks. Those are both conventional diesel engines. And it’s not a god damned chinook engine like so often parroted on the history channel. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Who told you this bullshit…? JP8 is low sulfur diesel. We run our gators, helicopters, generators, and tanks off the same fuel. I’ve literally watched fuelers use our FARP to also service the generators and Humvees from the same truck that has the single point running to the aircraft. It’s literally a fundamental requirement of our entire logistical model for ground forces in NATO. It’s been that way before my dad was in the Air Force. You can also run a number of non specific fuels similar to our cocktail in the M1. There are power pack inspections and different maintenance checks that have to be done, but it was literally built to fight a ground war in Europe. One where logistics would be limited and the primary Armor would need to be able to scavenge as well as use what was planned. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

How many years passed between the Russia attempt to annex anything in Georgia and their bleeding in Afghanistan? Never mind the ridiculousness of comparing Afghanistan and Georgia with the conflict going on in Ukraine or the potential one in other Soviet Satellites like Poland/Czech etc. How many years did it take for the Old Bear to come out of its cave with teeth borne and attempt to seize territory? Because if this conflict in Ukraine resets the clock to even half that before the Russians can restore any sort of actionable conventional combat power we are getting off stupid cheap. We are also setting a very fine reminder to any other global leaders with ambitions of glory that maybe we aren’t going to just roll over and let you have country X, Sea Y, Straights of Wherever the hell…. And yes letting them off the hook in Georgia and Crimea (which some of us were screaming about then) did nothing but embolden them into the conflict you see today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The system of life you enjoy is build around the framework that for the last 70+ years a developed country could not annex another developed country by force of arms without global repercussions (See Desert Storm). Failing to get off our collective asses and do something about Russia attempting to upend that system absolutely impacts your ability to “do normal stuff.” Because right now the accepted global norm is at the near bank of the Rubicon in what the accepted global status quo is. Throwing up the isolationist “not our problem,” is crossing that to the other bank which would be an entire new paradigm in the global status quo. One that will very well likely require us to get directly involved in a conflict of arms vs what is now a relatively simple matter of giving a somewhat friend the ability to hobble a definite opponent. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Dark humor is best humor…. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh you’re cooperative…. Well take all the time you need to find this stuff you were never supposed to have in a location it isn’t legal to be in that seems to keep appearing from god damned nowhere. It’s cool guys… the dudes Lawyer told me he’s good to go. It’s like they aren’t even trying to hide the blatant hypocrisy. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s weird being on the LZ when the heavier stuff is going off because you blank out the goggles but you can see… then it gets dark again… then it’s bright again… it’s like being unaided in a T-storm at night, but luckily by that point you’re pretty much completely on instruments anyway so it’s just peripheral noise. Makes it real damn critical to spot the laser back at the RP though if you’ve got a difficult LZ. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They made a building next to me disappear. It was pretty legit. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

So given the fact he and his representative mouth pieces keeping finding new documents we should have the FBI thoroughly check all his properties for them right? In raid jackets? The disparity between the two and the reaction of government agents is pretty damn stark. The National Archives at least knew and accounted for what was in Trumps office, his lawyers said they returned it all, and when it was discovered there was more they executed a raid on a secret service guarded residence. Meanwhile nobody has a clue Biden has this crap, nobody has bothered to ask, they discover it, they call it good…. And we just accept that? How is one set of A-hole lawyers allowed to call their search complete and the others has to be raided and double checked by the FBI? We literally have no accountable tracking for Biden’s documents, and they keep just magically finding more. Obviously prudence and transparency would demand at best a search by government agencies not his personal lawyers. Both these parties were negligent with the handling and storage of classified documents. Only one party was insinuated as to be doing something nefarious with them (selling them was a media narrative for a minute) while the other gets a free hand of oh no big deal it’s just a few pages of stuff that never should have been outside a secure environment….. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’ve got soldiers pulling 24 hour guard of an SKL because we don’t have approved safes on hand while we run secure comms for an exercise. Jokes on them, we could have just kept that stuff in my garage. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/01/12/dem_rep_hank_johnson_suggests_classified_documents_were_planted_at_bidens_home_and_office.html So it’s not Ok when Trump suggests this… but hey why not. I thought Democrats were above such conspiracy theories… weird how you can only find this report in very slanted or at best neutral media. WAPO and other “respected media” are mum on it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m just gonna start taking my hard drives home and keeping them in my gun safe… imagine the work I could get done if I didn’t waste time getting them from the big vault we have to keep all our shit in that I’m not collocated with. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh it’s ok… it was in a GSA approved closet… That’s like totally secure storage. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So your contribution to this is to make a comment regarding autocorrect and me not typing with my glasses on…. What an informed and helpful position. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Some people don’t understand the Ukrainians have repeatedly come near too and can still very much lose this war. At this point it’s turning attritional. Just in the basics of will x means = ability to continue Russia has a large advantage in categories to that off manpower and manufacturing resources/base. The more attritional this becomes the more critical it is for the Uke’s to continue to disproportionately create casualties and expenditures for the Russians to just keep parity in the conflict. Nobody will care who sank the Slava of three years from now when one side cannot continue to recruit men and the other has tens of thousands it can press into service. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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