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Yeah, we’ve suddenly woken up to what those of us in the survivability and tactics sections have been screaming about for over a decade. There is no actual plan to buy Spike, it was just to prove possible the theory that a 64 doesn’t need to live/launch with line of sight half way in the WEZ of every modern RF threat. They were using it because we (the worlds only super power) lack stocks of a missile better than cold warrior veterans like AGM-65 or AGM-114 since we have comfortably demonstrated that’s all you need to kill a D-bag with a shovel planting an IED or riding a moto in the desert. When you look at the war stock of what we will go fight a peer with, and compare the Pk of the frontline R model Hellfire against a T90 or 72 with modern ERA and God forbid working Arena APS on it the numbers start getting scary. It’s probably a good thing we are pulling the Volcano mine systems out of the warehouse and revalidating our TTPs for it (another relic of the Cold War). Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Harpoon and Hellfire haven’t cut it for the peer fight since 2003 and yet here we are, still buying.... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

1. Our society and the greater whole of western nations have an extremely short memory on anything, much less the will to actual do something about changing our relationship with China. 2. When the original evidence to this theory propped up last year (checkout the SIPR side of things) it was widely criticized as nothing more than a Republican fabricated ploy to wag the dog and distract. So yes the critics and talking heads that kept up that narrative need to be held to task on them spinning it as a narrative. We have more than enough people involved in fixing the problem, we don’t need to solely focus on that and let China exercise their soft power influence in the WHO and scrub/secures any existing evidence while we diddle and wait. If this is indeed what happened what they did makes the Soviets and Chernobyl look like not a big deal.

Some of the very same people sitting at the desks demanding answers from Pentagon and Defense contractors on “why does X cost so damn much” were sitting in their making decisions that made this process happen. Nobody for 1 second holds the names of people up with a D or R next to their name that decided to fold a 4.5 Gen Harrier Replacement, a 5th Gen Viper replacement, and the Navy JAST program into a single platform. As jacked up as letting people 10-15 years removed from tactical relevancy in acquisitions branch decide “what we need,” it beats the hell out of elected officials blindly pulling levers in decisions because of campaign promises or lucrative back door deals. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just a few points of perspective on that movie... 1. Actual COL Burton was a moron (look up some of his other Sprey-acolyte work) 2. The Bradley development went nothing like what is depicted in the movie (to include the imagined Israeli narrative) 3. The Brad has served longer in the Army than the Jeep, and is loved by anybody that ever crewed them about as much (particularly the Cav Scouts with the M3). Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m O+, along with my mother and sister and It kicked all our asses on the second dose, so I don’t buy this blood type rumor going around. Might as well start a reaction rumor to astrological sign while we are interneting Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are few things more damaging to the self image of the fiefdom D-bags out there than somebody with nothing left to lose. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I spent 4 years living in Italy. They can send their food and their women to whatever theatre and that would be magical, but somehow some damn fool thinks they should bring “combat power” to eat ramp space and force cap. Not to mention having to watch Speedo-suave and his Plumber palls try and out creepy leer at the hot Brigade surgeon who just wants to do her CrossFit in peace. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They also refused to wear anything but speedo pants to work out in our gym. That may have contributed to the shortage of sterile wipes for COVID. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They can’t/won’t fly in the dark. Keep in mind these guys and an NH90 utility helicopter were the on call CSAR for all of Northern Iraq during the fight against ISIS. This was the reason my task force kept an air reaction force (82nd Platoon and 2x CH-47s) on dedicated stand by during the fight. We were honest in our summation that the Italians literally contributed nothing to the mission other than building us all a nice coffee shop in Erbil. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That’s another funny/hypocritical part of this whole thing. Like we had to listen to the 8 years of tropes and jokes on GW basically being a distracted kid in a day care whole Cheney and the other evil capitalist corporate men ran the government from the Shadows... Now the same people peddling that it’s simply impossible that Biden is just a propped up face man for the people actually running the government. Like for a group of people in one political reality it’s possible, in the other it’s insulting to even describe. And we just switch who gets to feel what as the letter next to the name changes in office. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wesley Snipes playing a Dictator/General is by far my favorite part of this movie.... the whole “story book time with child soldiers” had me nearly piss myself. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Oh don’t worry, we are still F’ing with soldiers at unprecedented levels. For instance “quarantine” in a literal warehouse during movement to theatre with no food/showers/etc for 36 hours waiting on the C-17... the crew was in the hotel at Rammstein. Hooray we prevented COVID or something. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

See this is what I’m talking about with command level hassle, I’m already seeing reversals and levels of risk acceptance changing for quarantined troops. Like we have an upcoming exercise and since everybody is conus coming together in this some groups are requiring X while other personnel are doing Y. We’ve got a wide disparity of who needs a finger prick, who needs their brain scrubbed, and oh if your double vaccine with no symptoms we will just ignore anything all together. Commanders are feeling emboldened and approving policy based of a set of completely arbitrary made up standards which is a nice change from everybody afraid to make any decision under the SECDEF level because of Croizer’s “public execution.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Neither did the last guy, or for that matter GW, but you didn’t see the press over-apologetically calling it a stutter every time they rambled off in noise. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’d argue the entire reason commanders want their troops vaccinated has nothing to due with actual risk to force and everything to do with the pain in the ass that is all the COVID mitigation’s and hurdles put in front of training and deployments. Likewise I’d say we could do far more good vaccinating dependents vs non deployed garrison forces. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I feel like blowing it up is the only reasonable thing to do with it now... Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

This.... I can say I did meet an Oathkeeper/Alt-Right/whatever label crazy person actively serving in a position of senior influence during my time in the military. He was a CW4 and literally in a position to influence a lot and had a soapbox to do so from while he was presiding over young impressionable flight students to discuss constitutional authorities and other dreamed up nonsense during the Obama era. The difference between the BS being reported and reality was he didn’t last long. He was subsequently smashed in place when he decided to open his mouth on a monthly basis for what we that were willing to make sworn statements referred to as “Brant’s Rants.” Extremists do exist for sure, same as rapists, racists, creepy dudes that play with My little Ponies, and plenty of other weirdos. The problem is the media won’t report that we don’t tolerate them, just that they exist and therefore must be an epidemic. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Right but nationalism/brandish in the form of performance motor sports is something we’ve seen and celebrated before. (Ford vs Ferrari, NASCAR, etc) and this is really just a new version of that when I hear people talk about Tesla. You can celebrate it and it’s achievements in high performance bleeding edge tech, it isn’t anything beyond a PR campaign for the actual mass sale by other vehicles which share little with the buzz ship. Somebody will probably try to counter with “well they already sold out the cyber truck forever so there is a demand” and I’ll remind you that ostentatious buzz purchases of people with more money than sense happen in all markets for the new must have thing. Watch broke people find a way to own the newest phone and it’s like that is written in our DNA. We live in the influencer age after all. Every first year Challenger was sold before ever arriving to a dealership and that is hardly an amazing car. I think Tesla recognizes their marketshare cannot expand beyond a certain point and with GM saying they will go all electric in 14 years and other manufacturers taking on EV full heartedly at all trim levels they have to do something to force an influx in market participation. That’s why you see him actively switching messages from it’s totally workable to just own an EV to now saying “we don’t have the infrastructure” in more idealistic policy forums/discussions. I think he is hoping to draw attention from idealists with the power to make it happen and for serious billions bankrolled by the government in a future infrastructure bill. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wow you mean if I spend half the equity of my mortgage to purchase both the vehicle and an infrastructure that won’t move with me if I relocate, I can drive a car that isn’t big enough to suit my needs and charge it from the comfort of my home!?! What an opportunity. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It is a compact... crossover... barely. Look around you when you drive literally anywhere in Suburbia, or look behind you if you’re like me and have a pair of car seats. That is not a comparable vehicle size to the big burly 3rd row might be an option SUVs that America has been in love with since the mid 90s. That’s exactly what I’m talking about when I say I’m confused at exactly how Tesla is supposedly this revolutionary idea. It seems like they really want to just creat a buzz, and let a major manufacturer like GM or Ford do the heavy lifting of producing the mass of vehicles we actually buy, meanwhile Tesla will happily reap the benefits of being the go to source for infrastructure investment. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Bro that’s a risk regardless of vehicle. Going overseas with a stateside vehicle of any kind can incur all sorts of negatives like loss of warranty plans, issues with vehicle smog/safety requirements... There is a reason pretty much ever overseas installation has a known place everybody buys their beater car from. Also you damn sure don’t take anything nice to Korea. Personal advice I’d give anybody short for orders is don’t buy anything, particularly if there is a risk/desire to go OCONUS. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m still mind blown that Tesla hasn’t spent more time trying to attack the segment I think would make the most impact in wedging it’s self into American driveways. Crossover/SUV/minivan is what I need as a middle class household with the budget to afford an EV, not a luxury sedan or hyper powered space truck. And no the Model X absolutely does not qualify for this. I don’t need a battery powered Jeep Compass Where the heck is the Tesla model to take on the Honda Pilots of the world. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Somewhere in Europe circa 1997: Euros: “We are building an Eagle killer... “ US: “Yeah we kinda did that a decade ago... and we gave you a chance to jump on it...” Seriously the Typhoon is the 4.5 gen fighter version of Tornado, a plane which literally did nothing as well as any of its peers except fly fat slow and stupid down a runway and get shot down in spectacular fashion. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Did you flip a switch in your house and the lights come on? Ok you know how that is like an expectation because you pay a bill... yeah that’s part of being a 1st world country. And no, you can’t choose to not be part of that. There have been court cases literally requiring property owners to reattach themselves to power/water/etc utilities. Turns out there is an actual category which makes something a public utility vs just another commercial business. If a private company wants to make themselves part of that enterprise, they have to meet certain expected capabilities. A lot of them are safety related like you can’t just kill people with crap wiring, others are expectation related like yes you have to pay overtime and maintain a grid of sufficient resilience we don’t see rolling blackouts because it snowed. Right now there is a war going on in legislation as to whether or not to categorize digital data exchange (ie the thing we are talking via) as a utility and that fight is ongoing. We long ago decided that sewage, water, electricity, etc were public utilities. So yes, the governmental oversight and the private companies responsible for designing and managing Texas electrical utilities absolutely have questions to answer here. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk