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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…

The guy with the highest rated “cable news program” doesn’t sit in the White House press corps, doesn’t get briefings from the Secretary of State, doesn’t have dozens of upper echelon contacts from years of working in the field to use as a vetting source for the truth. EVERY one of those dipsticks sat around and took the information not just from Trump but from Pompeo and other members of the administration and went “yeah it’s a conspiracy America, don’t listen to this, in fact we will turn it off for you.” Then the talking heads from whatever network they work for worked overtime to shut down any story involving the Wuhan lab when it came out of the mouths of people that receive Senate Intelligence briefings. The media narrative has in one coordinated effort, killed any real chance of holding China accountable for their actions throughout this whole ordeal. And they did it because for them it was more important to blame Trump for it than to actually stop, examine, vet, and report the truth of the matter. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Are you F’ing kidding. The media claims to be the arbitration element of governance but has basically given itself a pass on what they were doing a year ago. This is there “we don’t have to apologize even though it was deliberate” message https://apple.news/AQ28_k7_pR46x8Kzjf89QOw They didn’t care what or where this thing came from, just in preventing Trump from shifting the focus of all the negative out of it. It had nothing to do with the validity of intelligence (which hadn’t changed since some of us started reading the lab theory stuff all over SIPR around April of last year). The media had more than just Trump to look at and confirm of this theory had legs. All those anonymous sources for every other story apparently didn’t exist on this one subject. It’s absolute proof they were in the bag for a particular side and came out and exercised every form of censorship and de-platforming anybody that didn’t tow the line. Meanwhile now it’s such a possibility Jon Stewart is free to joke about it on late night TV and it’s a god damned comedy trope. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I will tell you the most interesting CTC I was ever in was the one where the White Cell actually limited logistics because the ground force just hand waived that part of the problem set. Suddenly you had OCs keeping extreme tabs on the ammo/fuel/water distribution and it was amazing to see leaders either adapt or fail miserably. “What do you mean we have 29 Hellfires in the AHA and that’s it?” Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I mean, so is Hellfire (or Maverick and Griffin for that matter) and we have no limit on the amount of money we keep pissing into that river. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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We would have been out of Afghanistan last month, had congressional Democrats and Trumps few republican opponents not written it into Law that he couldn’t be the one to pull the plug on this waste. Congrats Joe, you ended the war by literally letting us sit on our asses for 7 extra months before the C-17s started moving. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah let’s be honest but the C-130 is the turboprop timeline version of the same shit we did with the 707. It wasn’t that there was a perfection of that airframe to do a role, it was that there were literally so many of them nobody cared that somebody wanted to take one and try something with it. And now because like the 707 series it’s literally doing “all the jobs” nobody is going to replace the damn thing because as an aircraft developer you are trying to replace more a family of systems off one airframe, not just an airframe. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m just laughing because it’s obvious communities aren’t really talking to each other to build a cohesive strategy of support… The guys going deep (STS) need all those big theat rings to go away… How many times have you heard a SEAD/DEAD guy make the comment of “don’t send me… send a SEAL team and slit that SA-XX operators throat….” Those SEALs get there in Black Helicopters….. Those Black Helicopters are gonna need those MC’s to be doing something other than futzing around as the 5th string of JASSM shooters, especially in a conflict where the Tyranny of distance is more in effect either because a whole lot of Ocean, hostile ability to target your support zones with SRBMs, or combo of the 2. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Without some sort of direct support attempt to make specialized catwalk scaffolding or reinforcing the fuselage for structural platforms capable of holding 400-600 lbs top mounting engines like that would be a MX nightmare. It would make any part or component not single hand carry size a major manipulation to move on/off the jet. This is definitely one of those cases of engineers and the people that work on what they design not talking to each other, which is no surprise for anything coming out of Europe to anyone who has owned a European car. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Stumbled across this article touting new awesome high intensity fight capabilities and this thread immediately put into perspective the complete disconnect between the right hand (future tactics and capes development) and the left hand (actual line units managing limited time to train what the other hand made). https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40958/mc-130j-commando-ii-simulated-launching-a-pallet-of-cruise-missiles-in-mock-strike-mission If there isn’t/aren’t enough tails, time, and aircrews to even support normal mission requirements while also training for the future high intensity conflict, what the hell is this except projecting a not real capability in the hopes it scares some Chinese intel guys into briefing it as real. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The last 18 months or so the “real wars” have really been expensive 100+ plane pretend wars anyway so can we really call one a priority. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah I’m saying an F load of reevaluation on what is a tangible and necessary mission for training and what is a particular COCOMs effort to present its self as important needs to occur. Having cool names attached to “_____ package” if scenario X were to pop off in every AO we could operate in briefs well, but it doesn’t resource it’s self just because some staff made a CONOP of a plan for the unlikeliest but scary contingency. Its not a sustainable concept. Outside of SECDEF or POTUS level movements, most of those fancy cool guy groups are historically a waste of efforts. More to your point, continuing to resource those packages takes away from actual assets needed by units both in the fight or actively training for the peer conflict so they can support over employment of resources at a location because nobody is prepared to tell a 4 star, “make your contingency plan work within this given set of resources.” We can’t keep pissing away resources like money, personnel, and tails grow on trees. It’s time to stop acting like every 11 hours there is a dirty bomb in location X that needs to be handled. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

There would be something to be said here about maybe scaling back the number of “Break glass in case of ____” packages that tie tails away from the actual fights/requirements we are in. Watching the retrograde in Afghanistan tear a swath through all the “just put something on the calendar” training events that didn’t need to happen is pretty humorous. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk