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It’s the same for the Army. If you go to OTS without things like a specific completed flight phys, a current SIFT, a letter from Jesus etc, there is no way to select it. Even if it’s available people go to OCS only to watch it pass by and end up a chemo or something. That often times a reason you meet warrants with college degrees that directly assessed. They didn’t want to end up in the quartermaster corps as a 2Lt. For the regular line officers it’s West Point > ROTC > OCS if your stated goal is to end up in aviation. In fact the only people I’ve met that didn’t really want aviation but got it were West Pointers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That’s a must see in theatre after watching it last night. It will still be amazing on whatever screen, but the raw awesome of the worm riding scene was way improved by the size and sound of a theatre. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah my grandparents had HBO and would mail tapes every couple months. Also like the commercial says, OPSEC is like the bricks in a building … you can beat a hobo to death with them or something or other. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Listening to anybody driven by political alignment defend this guys it’s clear they haven’t done any reading in his history. A reminder for the room, this was the COCOM commander that oversaw the rise of ISIS and its view by the admin at the time as a “JV team.” This guy giving the position to Votel was a godsend…. And then we put him in charge of everything because he checks a lot of boxes. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Some of us grew up in EUCOM, so before AFN there was SEB (serving Europe’s best). When I tell people what shows we were watching as kids, people assume we were forced to by our parents. Like no…. Adam West Batman and F troop were all that was on. Also Thursday night was designated black tv show night so you got to watch Sanford and Son and Amen. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

How do you square that with the fact that not one but two NATO countries have in recent past (since he started aggressively annexing places) killed his troops. If you’re making the assumption that any provocative or challenging act could result in Putin acting irrationally, than everything from sanctions to Atlantic Resolve could be viewed as an overtly hostile justification to act, but that presumes Putin to be psychotically irrational or act in a way that all historic precedent says won’t occur. You have to make a long series of specific assumptions/action within this hypothetical simulation that is neither happening nor in any immediate future going to happen (direct deployment of combat formations). It’s not like 2nd Stryker is in the motor pool at Rose Barracks getting ready to reinforce some beleaguered Ukrainian mech brigade. And the attempt to paint the mere presence of any uniformed personnel in any capacity to be the equivalent of that as an act of provocation accidental or otherwise is just a false comparison. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You guys realize we’ve had combat observers, intel officers, and assistance trainers preceding our participation in every conflict since the First World War right? Like we had people in England during the blitz, we had people observing Japanese action, the Russians had people take active part in combat that we know about in Korea. This isn’t new. And the ones of you acting shocked are either doing it for effect or have clearly never worked in a FID or similar capacity. We had strict rules when I was doing it, we were not direct combatants. Nobody was under any confusion that me or anybody on our team getting killed by some hostile combatant was going to suddenly trigger the US into a war. Likewise it didn’t do anything when we slaughtered a bunch of Russians in Syria. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Historically active duty it’s majority prior enlisted with about 20-35% of an assessed year group being straight street to seat. For guard it’s almost exclusively folks that spent some time in the states units as an E sort of earning their bro credentials because the states pay for their schooling. While college education and outside flying experience can make a big impact in the direct warrants (09W MOS), it’s not a requirement. It’s mostly a factor of SIFT score, letters of recommendation, your board evaluation, and finally and most importantly needs of the Army. Selecting street to seat honestly pays off more for the Army long term because it’s guys who can live to CW5 without going past 20 by a significant amount, but there has never been a big push to make it the majority of the selection pool culturally because one of the best parts about our warrant pool is the presence of a lot of prior E guys (many who worked in aviation) kind of maturing their peers faster. Of the senior aviation warrants in my brigade HQ though, almost half are street to seat….. that isn’t normal, but it’s becoming more common. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Because you can do it as a warrant. For an enlisted soldier with little to no that’s a huge advantage. Nobody pretends it’s the normal Army though. It’s like a weird thing in its own MI/VIP world. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Destroyed” as reported by media leaves a hell of a lot of leeway by what we would classify as destroyed in actual Armor. Knocked out or disabled, yeah probably as that’s happened a lot in the past in Iraq as well. If you are disabled remaining with the hull would be suicide and the crew is the most irreplaceable component. But, short of burning if you can perform a recovery it’s pretty ridiculous how badly battle damaged but through rear area MX is restorable. The resilience of the platform and survivability of the crew is really what the M1 has historically shown its self to be. People confuse that with some form of video game god mode invulnerability. That’s why ours and every smart western military has focused so much on not repeating the mistakes the Germans made and put Armor recovery vehicles in our MTOE. It is far easier to replace a tank from the battlefield than it is to wait and build a new one. If the Ukrainians can recover it back to the rear they can Low Boy the thing to the Depots we already have in Europe for exactly this contingency. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’ve tried 6 different GD ways to link it, this forum doesn’t like it. Searched red storm rising and fixedit and you should land in the right place on YouTube. Also unrelated to RSR, this is another storyline somebody has put together with a gaming engine to create vidoes. The scenario he presents is basically every warfighter exercise I’ve done since 2016… just hit “the next world war” in YouTube search. I’d attach both links but the forum doesn’t like it so it’s one or the other. My absolute favorite part of this is where the infantry brigade commander is killed because of poor cellphone discipline because opsec doesn’t outweigh high rank self importance and I’ve been convinced that’s how I die in a real shooting war, killed in a division headquarters because of some dumb ass major/LTC who wouldn’t give up their phone.

There is a guy on YouTube taking the audio book and making videos out of DCS with it. All it does is further build my rabid demand to make a miniseries out of that book. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you’re looking for ~36 hours of road-trip material, it’s available on YouTube and Spotify. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I see Operation Dreamland is going well. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It’s not a new threat, or even the key development of ASAT tech… but it is an election year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Reached for Comment President Putin said: Maybe it was something he ate.” That dude was on borrowed time. They already tried to kill him with nerve agents and the only reason he lived was evacuation for treatment out of Russia. Stones for going BACK to Russia to try and do something to push back at Putin. Not a lot of good it did for him unfortunately. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are far more educated people than Tucker who have studied Putin (and in the case of this interview Xi). This is about 1:40 combined and ~8 months old if you’re bored enough to listen to it. Way better way to get an idea of the thinking process behind a geopolitical foe or in this case their sort of unhappy marriage of being more in opposition to us than to each other. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m saying don’t leave it to Biden which is exactly what you’ve done. And if “no compromise” is your only meaningful opinion on the matter than guess what you share in this fault. Every person coming across the border now does so with less agents funded. The ones caught have less places to be detained. You could literally have let 5k people across the border every day with a ride to a city of their choice and it would have still been less illegals than he had cross the border his first year in office. And that’s not even what the law actually did but you know that you’re just obtuse or delusional, not really sure anymore. Congrats, you really showed Biden. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You are still blaming somebody for the mess while preventing and even celebrating not taking actual action on it. Biden is the president now. Passing or more importantly NOT passing this bill doesn’t change that. You or anybody else bitching about what dumbass things he did to get here doesn’t change that. But it actually gives funding to the poor SOBs down there on the border trying to do something about it. For all the dream that Trump is gonna solve the border, 400k people is still 400k people. For all the “we have to do something” that’s still a lot, you think he does better in an immediate lame duck presidency? Republicans wasted time and effort to impeach Myorkas and guess what, he is still parking at the same spot in the DHS lot. So what good was that waste of time and effort? It was pandering for cameras and they managed to trip themselves up on that. So stop giving Biden free rein to do what he feels like and actually pass legislation that would impact his actions over the last 3 years. Congress gets sent to do work not stand around blaming each other while the President rules via executive order. In the last 2 decades we’ve gotten worse and worse at that. And stop acting like the Border is the ONLY god damned thing we need done if we are gonna happily stand around and congratulate ourselves on not doing anything of actual effect except campaign. That’s why I’m still shouting about this in a thread about Ukraine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We will instead take no action but to allow Biden to keep doing what he has the last three years. Wow such great success. None of the republicans being drowned out by the twitterverse who negotiated this were against enforcing the border that was willing to vote for this law, but a whole lot of people made it obvious it was more important to be able to campaign off the issue than to actually do something. Do any of you want to run with the idea that less border patrol agents with less funding somehow helps us secure the border? And no matter the administration we are not simply going to shoot people coming across the border so bitching about how much water is in the boat does nothing, we’ve got idiots arguing over who put the bigger whole in the boat while refusing to actual bail water. And meanwhile Congress will continue to go on vacation and do absolutely no actual useful business while they claim that this is the sole problem to focus on. Hooray for gridlock in an election year. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

My god 400k people… what was Trump doing! Asleep at the wheel he hates America! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Nobody is letting illegals in by supporting the bill you need to have to have an adult read and explain to you. Congratulations, you’ve managed to decrease funding to the agency actually tasked with stopping illegal border crossings so they’ll have less people to do it and less assets to use once they catch the ones they can. Great work, massive achievement towards dealing with the border. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Then there is a process for that in the justice department and judicial branch. That’s how blue states attorney generals kept suing the Trump administration over, and current red AGs are suing Biden over. It’s also necessary if you’re ever going to have an argument for legitimate impeachment of somebody like Myorkas, which achieved what exactly besides demonstrating the poor control Johnson has of the chamber. The first step though is to actually make a law. That’s what we elected Congress to do. Demanding the president do something without actual legal framework is nothing more than politicking for reelection, and more importantly it denies Congress putting money to actual achieve effect on the border which the executive can’t simply materialize. And then you move to prevent stuff like this happening https://www.axios.com/2024/02/15/ice-border-detention-funding-congress moving you further from the whole idea of a secure border. But hey we can all wait until the end of the month to take action, because Congress is in recess, I’m sure if Republicans say no louder they will suddenly change their bargaining position and get whatever they want right? Again, what is being accomplished through no action on the border which is what they managed to achieve by vocally killing this deal before it was ever even released to be read by its critics. It’s not gonna change the number of seats in congress, and if this is the definitive crises than why can we apparently wait until Jan 21, 2025 to solve it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The problem with Iranian tech if for every system they build with legitimate capes they’ll have some ridiculously cartoon system that people can point out and be dismissive of their whole enterprise. We’ve got the same problem with them that was prevalent in opinion of the imperial Japan and being utterly dismissive of their ability to produce some of the tech they had like the Long lance Torpedo. I’ve met leadership that believes the Iranians simply aren’t smart enough to build a nuclear warhead and they are basing that opinion off some stereotype in their head that looks like it was colored by their experience with the Afghan bazaar guy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If they are concerned with that then the funding bill they’ve all decided to unilaterally scream about would actually fix those identified issues. Closing down those ports of entry which is what the 5k number they are so hung up on is exactly counter to effecting how we account for and maintain close hold on people coming across the border. Whatever the status of the border makes absolutely no effect to the rat line movement of illegals. Now instead you get to have less agents with less resources being told make do while a bunch of idiots act like the purpose of this law was to just yeet 5k illegals into the general population. What’s that old mantra about a good plan executed now vs a perfect plan executed never… yeah that’s our actions on the border. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk