Lawman

When this shit show ends, and we start talking about Awards and Citations, the arm chair reviewers better just shut the F up and forward the DFCs for the people over there right now to do this last heavy lifting. You’re taking a vulnerable cargo aircraft into a chaotic situation at best, parking it in front of ever Afghan who wants to escape and loading pax/refueling while the security perimeter hopefully lasts. This is some Berlin airlift worth shit for our Cargo and heavy Helo brethren and it damn sure needs to be recognized as one of the bright spots in this total F up. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

https://gazette.com/military/toxic-fort-carson-battalion-commander-returns-to-job-despite-recommendation-to-fire-her/article_004b4d41-b9bd-5385-91cf-79180581003f.html 2 weeks after her command was returned to her she fired every senior warrant officer in the formation. Turns out she had been given the sworn testimony from the investigation complete with names. She also made O6 and was given a command. Mark my words, she will pin her star, and will be the first female Branch commander of aviation in the Army. The system is truly broken. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Some of us know Olympians. It’s not my fault your social circle is so limited. Maybe expand beyond the D&D and R/furry communities. Expand your horizons a bit. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

https://fb.watch/772rJMY8Nj/ There’s other places to find it, but this thread has been great for tracking highlights. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah apparently you missed (along with plenty of other things proven in your post history) the fact that some of us are watching and cheering for Olympians both within and outside the big press groups like women’s gymnastics. Every second of air time in ESPN or major media outlets spent on her right now is somebody that went through god knows what to compete at that level not getting that time. So long as the games are ongoing, there are 612 athletes that deserve attention before we dedicate any time to discussing her. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Same with shooting. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Damn… just to hammer home this point one more time because this randomly came up in my news feed and points out exactly what I’m talking about. It’s like they invested so much, we can’t not point a spotlight at her. Yeah it’s unfair to make her a media mule for the machine, and yes she absolutely deserves to make the choice for herself on what and how she wants to live. This is still ridiculous though that she not competing is still receiving all this attention and limelight. If you’re number 3 or 4 on the gymnastics team or in any other Team USA position, how can you not be outraged that your moment is being hijacked for this. Table her situation and conversation for after the games. This is the time to celebrate champions, and they deserve their time and exposure on the podium. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Except we are celebrating it… Go look at social media people are taking this as an excuse to expose all the times they handed in their chit at whatever challenge the encountered to be applauded by others in this self licking ice cream cone. You wanna quit something fine, good for you, now move the F along. This isn’t about whether it’s right to quit, it’s about a mob of idiots so used to easy self satisfaction in the form of like/upvote/whatever that not only is quitting good, we need to reevaluate why we as a society place so much emphases on success. This is the “everybody gets a trophy” coach still takes you out for ice cream after you lose but on a whole new level. You don’t want to stand on the podium fine, step down and clap for those that do. While the media sphere spends effort and Oxygen in Simone there is a whole team of people earning medals and still putting down that are not being talked about. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

While I’m sure a lot of that article is written intentionally to be provocative for the purpose of sharing and therefor add revenue… His points on the “cult of the Loser” and its toxic effect on society and culture are spot on. What next, we gonna have a book deal and movie for the guy that rang the bell 3 days into Hell Week at BUDS? Nothing worth having comes easy. We put champions on a podium for a reason, to stand above those and be awed by those who lack the skill drive and determination to be greater than the herd. That’s not something to be ashamed of, and the people suddenly pushing that narrative were probably picked last at Dodgeball and now feel like thanks to the magic of the Internet they can make that because society is toxic and not because they were the fattest slowest kid in 4th grade no matter how much gram gram told them they were special. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m less concerned about her actions and more worried and disgusted with the sudden attention to Kerri Strug and the famous “this is your moment and the world is watching to see what you’re gonna do” vault like she was a victim for doing what 99.9% of a million people faced with that choice would never have the fortitude to do, and do it in front of cameras. People have decided to project their own past failures or decisions they felt pressured into and turn it on her scenario like they know what was really going on, and it’s now a narrative of toxic coercion. Suddenly it’s ok to quit and in fact it’s “the right choice.” It’s not nuanced or a matter of last resort, just acceptable. F that… champions don’t think that way. Warriors don’t think that way. The real world outside peoples coddled suburban perspective life will absolutely crush a society that believes that kind of nonsense. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is only so much flat, graded, asphalt surfaced space and fuel farms/infrastructure on the island… I wouldn’t blame them not betting on repeated sorties when your opponent has Super Power quantities of SR/MRBMs not to mention a fleet of cruise missile carrying bombers. You’d be asking for performance out of PAC-3 and Aegis that nobody has actually been able to duplicate outside of a Tom Clancy novel. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We’ve watched the exact same thing with regards to Law Enforcement and the use of force, but that doesn’t stop the garbage being spewed there either. We are at our core a Mob of tribal brutes. Society is an thin veneer that only works as an anomaly to be sustained only when everything is comfortable. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

F all that… “Yeah guys perform air strikes for a foreign military with no competent representation on the ground to actually dictate the targeting cycle or call in/off air appropriate to the scenarios… Sure everything will be fine.” Do we get to just pick our own targets now? Or do we get to use the “dude had a 3rd grade education and barely spoke English, how was I supposed to know that was a school I was shooting” at a future war crimes investigation? We crushed people’s souls for doing the right thing and having stuff go bad when it was Top tier guys calling it in. No way should bubbas be flying strike lines for them without some seriously predetermined immunity for this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well… At least the market is very much in his favor at the moment… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You can always route federal funding to “resource” the base with Federal employees, despite the fact it has no real mission or justification for maintaining what is there in place. Fort Knox is a good example of this. No way the vault and Human Resources Command justifying the amount of real estate and support infrastructure that is on a base that used to maintain the Army’s second largest training intake BCT and the entire Armor and Cavalry branch schools. But still gotta pay all those range control guys to drive around on roads and make sure nobody is back there hunting without a pass. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I mean… anybody familiar with old world Asian racism would admit they put a lot of the stereotype Redneck racists to shame… Had a 1st Gen Korean roommate in college lay out the sort of triangle hierarchy of Asian hatreds his parents were vehemently bound too. Crazy stuff… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I want to believe that somehow somebody in a room is pointing out the possibility of a massive impact to manpower and personnel losses. Like, “Col/Gen we forecast a loss of 6-9% from our Active duty component which will take 3-4 years to full recover due to increased workload on the remainder driving higher rates of ETS/UQR…” But after watching them F away so many other personnel problems with the standard, “nobody wants to leave except quitters and they’ll all be homeless! Reenlist!” zeal, I don’t think anyone at that level actual anticipates this is a problem. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mil could always do that. The issue was after the massive F’up with the force wide mandatory Anthrax Vax nobody wants to touch that. Getting the force vaccinated has nothing to do with protecting us and everything to do with one less hoop to jump through with strategic level issues like “can we rapidly deploy troops through country X on the way to Country Y.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On camp Alpha during the attack in December 19…. The highest risk to personnel was the dumbasses running around with M9s in the headquarters building and Dorms shouting random challenges at anybody. Meanwhile… the people qualified to have guns were out on the wall with belts of ammo gleefully dumping rounds into anything within 150 meters of the perimeter wall for an hour. Scariest moment was the next day watching the Full Bird in charge of CJSOAC be walked around by some E-6 Security Force moron outlying how she planned to train HQ personnel to defend the facility. I truly enjoyed pointing out she had no clue wtf she was talking about with another W3 and then laughing about the dumb ideas being presented to the COL. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

KAF in the RLBs, sleeping during the day because you’re on Vampire shift. Winds have the traffic pattern oriented for East Takeoff/Landings… A German Tornado does his 11 minute full afterburner run up and departure… you lay there through all of it having been woken up. You finally start to go back to sleep… then his god damned wingman starts… Or the Harriers come in to fuel and leave… The Earth can swallow that entire god forsaken country. Next time send Nukes. It would have been cheaper in the long run. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I mean just spitballing… - immediate expulsion from both the G7 and the security council… - 5-10 trillion dollars in reparations to the world bank or some other entity… - All the concessions in literally any economic negotiation for the near future… Look if China built this thing and then F’d up or more to the point in the CCP, reviewed their options and chose to go with “deny this in the WHo so everybody goes down with me,” either way they are F’d and deservedly so. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Start right at Dwyer, Bastion, Farrah, and Shindand. You’ll get everybody to the East with the fallout, and The first country in the path of prevailing winds kinda brought this on themselves over the last 30 years. Maybe it’ll give them pause to keep trying to provoke the Sub-Continent. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

What Russia does not have is quality in its Pacific harbors. If you look back on a 70 year long history of Soviet and later Russian “just make it work,” the quality control and corruption in places like Vladivostok is terrible in comparison to its North Cape or Baltic fleet stations even by old Soviet standards. Russian subs and surface combatants were typically built first in their European stations, fitted out, shook out, and then after a few years sent to the Pacific to serve out a lengthy term. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And prudence demands we deploy our ships to watch your ships… Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It was kinda the old TIB also… what a waste of congressional appropriated funds and available mission space on airlift…