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A great rebuttal to LT Granville's poorly written letter. http://www.askskipper.com/

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Your Local Comm Sq and CYBERCOM will be closed this Christmas -

Sucks for the girl whose picture got thrown on the letter that didn't even write it!

I think the Duffel Blog did a better job of the LTs letter than she did. http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/04/resigning-commission/ Personally I though her letter kind of sucked and the rebuttal was awesome. Not that I'm against these resignation manifestos or ignoring the problems in the military - hers just struck me as lame. zb And the Joint Chiefs' response is the best of all: http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/04/jcs-dont-care-youre-resigning/ zb

Not sure this belongs here, but then again, where better than the Squadron Bar - whether an official one, or at your home? Via Christina Olds on Facebook: How many pilots know that Robin Olds was also a terrific artist? My dad humorously doodled and sketched his way through classes, briefings and meetings during his entire career. People have often asked me to share his drawings and I have finally put a few of them on my artist site at Fine Art America. Here are only a handful out of the more than 500 he left with us. So, if you want just a notecard or a big poster for your Squadron Ops room, have fun looking at these. I love his irreverent and usually politically incorrect sense of humor. She's got both prints and some of the original artwork from the 40's and 50's available (at what I'd think are pretty reasonable prices...) Please see her page at:http://fineartamerica.com/art/all/christina+olds/all

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What Whittle completely ignores is that the most significant amount of the destruction of the warrior culture took place under the W Bush administration (it is really post-9/11 that the changes he mentions in his video began). All of that change, by the way, was a natural evolution of the changes put into motion under the Clinton Administration during the mid-late 90s. All of the Clinton shenanigans, for reference, were part of the fallout from the witch-hunt following the scandal at Tailhook '91...which, for those of you historians out there, took place during the administration of the 41st President. So, I find his whole "Obama the Socialist's plan to destroy the tool of American Imperialism" schtick completely shatters his message because it represents a colossal misunderstanding of what has led up to the situation we have today. It gives way too much credit to one Administration -- it is really not possible that it is the "fault" of any one of these Administrations as part of some dastardly strategic plan, but rather it is part of an overall cultural shift in the US.