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That's one of the reasons I generally like this guys content, he's not afraid to call himself out. Though in this case, I wish he'd have gone into more detail on what made him jump to such a drastic conclusion so quickly. I was waiting for a follow up from him, glad he ate crow rather than moved on.

Despite how this dude looks in this short clip, he posts some great content where he hunts down an calls out mis/disinformation. Former Army intel guy/current cyber security guy. Anyway, just another data point and context for the dude Ryan is interviewing. https://www.instagram.com/p/DEYkTNsMtEL/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again https://www.youtube.com/@RyanMcBethProgramming/videos

The good ones all leave because they're scared they won't be backed up by their leadership. We have lots of LE on our Guard base and many have left their gigs for full time Guard for these reasons. They all say the same thing, I'm one well edited video away from being fired, or worse. These are great people who I imagine we're great cops, trying to be good public servants to their community. Just like active duty experiences, most of the good ones bail and your left with what's left. The good ones who do stay, have an uphill battle. Side note, I could never be LE... I'd be fired, or in jail for excessive force when dealing with some of the assholes/bad guys they deal with daily. I'm very thankful we have those who can keep their tempers in check.

I mean, he didn't break the spar, did he? Thought I heard he was a union rep at AAL? That could be someone else though.

LAS Vegas Bomber was a Army SF guy. Graduated from a high school not far from where I grew up. 19 year SF guy who "was very patriotic and an ardent Trump supporter." Something seems really off.

I remember flying with fighter pilots from a particular middle eastern nation, where the pilots spent the entire debrief trying to save face, rather than actually learn. From talking with some guys who have been sim IP's at various Asian airlines, their culture seems similar, with the added bonus of not wanting to challenge authority. If I remember correctly, the FO on the Asiana 777 that smacked the seawall in SFO, knew it was going bad, but didn't challenge the Captain. Hopefully this isn't the case, but I'd honestly be worried about that flying on Asian carriers.

I read them as well and got a good laugh. I expect nothing less from young, steely eye warriors. As an old washed up, has been, I'm super thankful for these guys quick thinking under pressure. I know there are some very happy parents/wives/gf's/side hides/kids back home as well. Hope they peel back the onion until they've extracted ounce of lessons learned.

It looks like they were flying with the throttles. Makes sense if they lost a HYD or whatever else from the FRAG. Horrible situation, it seems like the crew did a great job saving as many lives as they could.

Some Navy Commander right now...probably.

What makes them amazing? I'm in the middle of researching different banks, after being with USAA my entire adult life, I'm bailing on everything.

I blame the CC's, but I also blame officers who allow these types of acts to go unchecked. You're an officer, don't be afraid to act like it. Just don't be a dick and be right. On the spot correction are powerful and can quickly straighten up any culture of lax good order/discipline. In 22 years of enlisted and officer service, outside of some punishment I had to hand out as a CC, I can only remember two situation that rose to the level of "get in this office and shut the door," type corrections. Both situations were as a Captain and Major, and I never heard a thing about them again, and more importantly, they worked.

If they were really worried, they'd try some ACA assets.

I'm in agreement that this will likely never happen and there are lots of issues with it. But on your point, we did successfully created a temp MOA about 25 miles from base. It's turning into a published MOA in the near future, so it can happen...after a monumental effort lol.

Given that we're a "total force" now, I've always said they should move AETC to the ARC. While some wouldn't care to teach UPT/FTU, many would. It's a ANG dream, no deployments, no chem gear, much easier job to maintain as a part timer...it's a no brainer from that perspective. You'd have no problem filling squadrons and keeping great experience around to teach the young studs. Free up all those AD IP's to fill the spots in AD squadrons. Rotate a small number of AD pilots through to keep a fresh look/perspective, but that will naturally happen as we hire AD pilots anyway. If we had something like that, I'd probably still be in.

So this guy says Putin doesn't want to take over Ukraine, yet at the beginning of the war he tried to take over Kyiv. That makes it seem like he was either wanting to take the place over or install his own puppet government. Either way, the speech at those minutes don't show a signed promise that NATO wouldn't expand east. This was more my point. Everything I've found says there isn't a signed agreement that limits NATO from expanding east. Even Gorbachev himself seems to agree that there was nothing agreed to about NATO and their eastward expansion.

Was there a signed promise with Russia? Legit question, I'm still trying to educate myself on the history. So far, this just seems like Putin being Putin in an attempt to restore Russia to their "former glory."

Shack! If your point could be turned into a video, it would be this guy. I'm right, you're wrong and I have the moral high ground, so you can't even talk. This is why Trump won.

On of my 38 IPs (crusty passed over Major) said that every General needed a crusty, passed over Major by his side to tell him "no, that's fucking stupid" because nearly everyone else around him just says yes sir. His delivery was way better than I can every convey here, but I just laughed at the time. The longer I went in my career, the more I realized he was right.

Oh man, this is either good intentions being twisted into political fodder or there is about to be a shit storm in FEMA come Jan lol. I don't want to believe that this was a wide spread policy and that there was not one person with a spine to blow the whistle on such a thing. This will be interest to see how this plays out.

Could probably swing by the sheet metal shop and have one built for some SQ swag and a few cases of beer.

The best time to retire, was yesterday.

MODS: I apologize if I missed it, but can we get this (or any other thread that's already got a good list) stickied to the top? Given that the read file hasn't had a post in years, I assume this place gets more visibility. I'm a firm believer that readers are leaders and I'd love to see what you're all reading. I'm rifling through books on audiobook at a rate of about 1 per week right, so I'm always looking for my next book. There area bunch of smart mofo's on this forum and I'm certain you all read some great stuff that may not be in my normal list of subjects. Not looking for this to be just a military book thread, but rather a collection of books that you enjoyed and you feel are a great add to anyone's reading list. Of course I'll start with a military book. Just finished 53 days on Starvation Island and found it to be a great read. It follows a few survivors of the Battle of Midway through their combat experience on Guadalcanal. I can't even begin to imagine the shit these guys faced. Outstanding book...Hero's, all of them!

It's funny to see Jimmy Kimmel talk about something being bad for women...the same guy who co-hosted the man show. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Just one of his eyebrows.

It's more like 20M not showing up, 20M showing up, then 20M not showing up again. Not sure if anyone is looking into the data to see why the turnout was so high in 2020, but I'm sure it would be a great story for someone willing to nerd out in the data.