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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

Considering EMP range is increased with altitude to a relative blast yield… Yeah people would probably not be ok with the resultant crash of every airborne commercial aircraft within hundreds of miles, not to mention the mass attack to infrastructure of countries not directly involved in hostilities. Setting off a nuke in the modern age whether in or outside the atmosphere is the unacceptable escalation to any conflict. That should be pretty clear at this point to anybody sane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok… I think we need to restructure our OPFOR plan. I can imagine a lot of situations where we’d be scraping together mixed units of national guard weekend warrior types trying to reconstitute stuff in a hurry…. In none of those scenarios do I foresee us breaking into armories full of WWII stocks of small arms and equipment. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah ok boss. Insert Bradley Replacement, JAGM, M-4 replacement, Osprey, Comanche, JSF…. Just keep surging into the humor equation whatever wonderful example of our acquisitions process until you can find one funny in your head. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If we shot a few people for their failure we might actually have a working replacement for the 135… Just saying… modern problems, very old working solutions. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s not. Post ad: Interesting few hours. Lot of surprise from a lot of people honestly because they’ve all but finished the new nuclear deal (despite the Russians delaying). I’ll be interested to see what happens after this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok… there is an understanding that seems to be missing with the constant “let’s deploy faster!” Ideas. During the deployment is when the assault force is collecting intel and performing mission planning. It’s built into the deployment cycle for SOF. Otherwise all we are doing is getting to a place faster to build the plan there. Not to mention you have to deploy all those supporting elements to make it successful. So either way you’ll be waiting on somebody. Because we aren’t going to fit these dozen+ C17 package SOF contingencies on a 100ton payload rocket. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I don’t think the Tank crews were either… *crew comes back from scavenging fuel* “where the hell is our god damned track!” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

When questioned on details for his plan the President responded he was, “going to make America great, once more…” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s also a suitable Ad Hoc anti air system. You won’t hit anything fast or high with it, but against Low slow flyers like helicopters or drones it’s been remarkably effective as a tool. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk