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She’s in deep shit legally, the question is if DOJ has the balls to prosecute under extreme media pressure to mislabel this as “going after political enemies” or other such mischaracterization.

Honestly these dudes seem to have a lot more fun at war than we do.

Taliban say reoccupation of Bagram is not happening (fun propaganda video included). OSINT accounts also disputing the claim using Google satellite imagery. Always possible secret discussions are ongoing, but lacking any secondary confirmation this remains a single source claim.

Sorry bro, after the C19 lies the democrats never acknowledged or apologized for they have forever become the party of institutionalized deceit with full MSM support. Quite rich to see these articles and claims now; where was this journalistic fervor 6 months ago when our president was brainless and his staff using an auto-pen to issue EOs and pardons?

Yea super immature. Can't imagine anyone in that chat needed that info. Curious what happens. Democrats will clearly demand firing, but they didn't when last SECDEF botched AFG and was literally AWOL for days so R's will focus on the hypocrisy. So maybe those positions are beyond accountability but I hope Pete gets fired. If he had owned it I might have a different opinion but he also lied when questioned by the press so credibility shot.

He should fire Pete, that text was stupid and his subordinates would be fired for sending it. Easy kill. Waltz should likely resign, although I'm still murky on details so am uncertain.

Oof. Well maybe Pete can get back on with Fox 😂

that's a lot of questions bro, I'll try to engage: Your screenshots are real, and principals have said so. However those screenshots do not show any secret war plans and I see nothing inappropriate about them (other than the bone headed move to add the wrong person). The troubling claim is that within the same text chain secret information on operational details was shared, but the journalist was too patriotic to release that info. Instead we should trust him, and the principals should resign. DNI refuted that assertion under oath today, and the journalist himself has a history of pushing debunked Russian collusion claims in the past. If proof exists that these principals were discussing secret operational details on an unclassified system, fire them at a minimum. I think that covers the gist of your questions without answering each one line by line. curious what is meant by "secret war plans" considering the journalist making the claim has never seen secret war plans. I have, and I've seen unclass principal level discussion of messaging sync after tactical strikes. The legal distinction making something secret is if release could reasonably be suspected to cause damage to national security. So, let's see it then decide.

Other than the claim from a compromised reporter with a history of pushing false narratives, do you have any proof of this claim? If it's true it should be easy to produce a screen shot.

Stop trying to make WICKR happen! I'll never log into Teams!

Yes, that's what I want. The assertion is these were war plans for strikes that have already happened. If that's true there is no OPSEC issue with releasing them, and it would convince me to advocate for punishment. "Trust me, it's very secret and they should resign" is insufficient from the same person who pushed the Russian collusion hoax. That said, adding a reporter to your principal chat group is laughably stupid & incompetent. If Waltz did it, regardless of whether secrets were discussed, he should be fired.

Agreed 100% with your last few posts, I think some folks aren’t understanding what you’re saying WRT “experience” and the implications to AF decisions recently. Hours is a poor metric to judge “experienced” but it’s a good metric to judge “inexperienced” because there’s no training that can take effect below a certain threshold and I assert that principle applies across communities. That said, not sure experience of the MP plays into this since the procedure design was so bad and controller so complacent. There’s an over-emphasis on altitude deviation when it appears the entire RW crew had zero SA on actual CRJ location they were instructed to follow. It’s a shit procedure and they flew it poorly (including the IP). I get it, I’ve made a lot of mistakes but holy shit the risk acceptance of DCA with RW training flights flying under you is totally unacceptable.

When I was a SQ/CC I sent alot of guys to get seaplane and tailwheel rated at a 2 week civilian school in Alaska. I would have done everyone but didn’t have the budget, instead it was about 2 dozen and used as an incentive/reward for great work: IP OTQ, Pilot OTY, etc. Didn't work with everyone’s schedule so randos got to go too. It definitely teaches pilots to unlearn some overly safe attitudes in UPT (nothing wrong with that for their level) and how to fly aggressive without being unsafe, meaning have the confidence to take calculated risks. You can’t quantify the benefit of learning to be comfortable outside your comfort zone, but vignettes can draw connections between unconventional training and success in unconventional combat situations. It’s the same logic used sending officers for masters degrees- “this may not apply directly to current job but you’re learning how to think using new tools, thus arming you for the unknown.” That’s the argument I used to get it approved and left my boss speechless, lol. My thoughts are that if you aren’t actively finding fun creative ways to make the team better you have no business leading. Also if you aren’t willing to take some personal career risk by trusting the team to do these things, you have no business leading in combat. We ought to have the best pilots in the world and that costs money and requires leaders who aren’t pussies.

I don't think this will change how you feel, but for the record you were completely wrong. if I were you, I would be asking myself: what other strongly held opinions do I have based on things I assume to be true but are in fact, not true? How else am I the victim of a propaganda machine?

I'd be happy to engage with you if you could answer one question: who blew up the Nordstream pipeline?