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What? There are ten parked on our ramp right now. ESSS has been around since the 80s and was a pretty standard phenomenon. You didn’t see it in COIN Iraq/Stan because of either the weight penalty, the lack of requirement due to availability of FARPs, or some combination there of. In the 90s it was pretty much normal, same as Apaches flying with a single tank inboard. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No matter the squeak apparently. If it makes anybody feel better we don’t trust our own air defense either. I just want to know where Division Main is so I can avoid it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I couldn’t tell you anything about the flying part, but having dealt with my father’s painful journey the sooner you figure out the dietary inflammatories in your life the better. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/gout-diet/art-20048524 He started keeping a lot of anything he ate that caused significant flare ups. Learned a lot on curbing how often he ate a series of types of meals, changed around the way he and mom ate. Between that and Morning fasting cardio (he just walks as soon as he wakes up for an hour), huge impact on his overall quality of life. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It was more too the room, and given how much I was drinking “shitting on” was probably more strongly worded than intended. More making the point that while TopGun/Airshow demos and the like sell movies and get kids to look up at jets and agree later to sign on the paper, they aren’t what wins the geopolitical war on their own. And while in the eyes of some the Mudhen is barely a fighter or whatever, what they just accomplished was bad ass. As this disposable drone warfare and AI synchronized targeting take over the kinetic I think the chances of that fighter on fighter scenario only decrease. What we saw this weekend is probably more in line with the reality of what we need the DCA and Air Defense players to be able to accomplish. I think I’m far more likely to be hit with that than with some random section of SU-24s getting through to the soft, important, vulnerable parts of our order of battle. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

How many MASCALs do the actions of a Robin Olds or Dick Bong etc prevent? I know this virtuous knights jousting in gleaming steel amongst the clouds crap people buy into is sexy, but reality is fighters unless they are sweeping the skies to prevent mass devastation by bombers or in this case drones, mean absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of geopolitical weight. Now don’t get it wrong, I want them viciously deadly at their job, I just don’t pretend to care it matters more than how many bombs some eod tech defused or how many routes some 19 year old in an MRAP with a roller plow prevented from being effective. We just dont have cool names for that kid. While you guys are shitting on a bunch of mudhen drivers, they may have just helped in actions that prevented a world war. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Call my accounts manager…. Tell him to put half of it in Raytheon. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They will assess people into Ranger Bn (enlisted guys out of AIT for example) who haven’t done Ranger School, but have past RASP. It’s a kind of checks in the mail requirement as they only have so much capacity in the pipeline. They get treated like Ranger privates regardless of rank though until they get their tab, and failure to get it is grounds for putting them back in the regular Army. Outside people trying to get into a Ranger Battalion it’s usually a highly competitive process to get whatever brigade/division slot(s). We called it the Hunger Games when we were offered the opportunity to send 1x Lt/Cpts to it from the Aviation Brigade. Whatever this dude did to get his leadership to fight for those school slots, he is more than likely ridiculously hard charging amongst his peers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/04/14/russia-sent-70-year-old-t-55-tanks-to-ukraine-without-even-upgrading-them/?sh=41432a5534d2 Surely the only reason they would be doing crap like this is they want to do it… It wouldn’t possibly demonstrate they are consuming their best equipment faster than they can replace it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think like Fourfans is saying though, that’s the problem, and it needs to be retasked or rewritten to understand who has the authority and responsibility. I’d argue State as an Embassy owner does need to play a critical role in researching the scale and scope of a NEO same as a HADR, but in reality it’s going to be the COCOM that ends up resourcing and reaching out for what it doesn’t have and should be where the planning is nested. Have Embassy’s come to a planning event, staff it with SMEs resident in the COCOM with State playing but understanding its job is to keep this plan handy and execute its portion of alerting and organizing on the ground. It would prevent what happened in Afghanistan of no plan being there to execute because State wasn’t really forced to make anything, the DOD being the magic red button, and the immediate action being activate the Global Reaction Force and tell TRANSCOM to just throw all its tails at it in priority. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

State is probably also not the department of government I’d go looking for in depth intelligence on understanding combat power. Be like asking the TSA how to do counter intelligence ops. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

“Well you see Congressman…. All the existing plans started out of BAF….. “ Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Well 20 years ago he was a democrat… Oh wait did I say the quiet part out loud? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Considering 100% turns off property tax in Texas, that’s a steal. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Luckily I’ve still got a few more years to build the ammunition of documents. When I crossed the 15 year mark I started stalking up paperwork. Next year when we get back I’m due a series of MRIs. Sad thing is there have been such an over abundance of weak dicks lately that the benefit of the doubt seems to have shifted for some of our most recent retirees. That assumption that as aviators we went out of our way to not report has been turned into a careful game of start your paper trail far enough out it doesn’t look like fraud. We’ve got guys with 4-5 deployments and 20+ years fighting to get above 50% when they can’t play in the yard with their kids because of recurring back/knee/shoulder/neck issues. Somehow “you made me fly 2000 hours with goggles on my head wearing body armor that is front heavy” couldn’t be linked to any of that. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

So there is the part that’s supposed to have a curve to it… And there is the part that isn’t… Really looking forward to some VA doc that graduated 274 out of 275 in med school tell me none of this is service connected. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tip I got from my chiropractor (Former SEAL): Document things that happen to you any time the military made you be there, that time you rolled down a hill at unit mandatory fun, that time you tweaked your groin jumping down off an aircraft… just everything that could have contributed to the condition you find yourself in as you are older. In that documentation name possible witnesses, dates and times, and then digitally sign the document. Stow it away in your personal email. If you find yourself in a fight with the VA to review your final total these documents effectively serve as evidence to force them to reevaluate your number, and you can hand them one at a time and force multiple reinvestigations of your condition. This is what he had to do because all of his injuries are heavily redacted from his time as a SEAL, only his career ender made it into the normal medical records. All those times he rolled an ankle in a place he couldn’t go to sick call or “fell” off a roof/truck/etc… that stuff was never covered. He just successfully got his rating up to 100% so no more property tax in the state. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No, just making the point of having guys with an Acitve RF missile designed to kill tanks but “hey look it works on drones” isn’t a solution anybody wants. The prox fuse was put there for the FIAC mission over the Gulf. Air Defense of force isn’t in the METL, and nobody wants it there (except maybe Warren, but we all agree that guy is crazy). The fact they did it surprised everybody. It wasn’t planned for that either, there was desire to have something in the back pocket since the KA-52s had started carrying Archers. That ECAB commander was… special. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gone and I think that means the last flying Comet (granted variant) went with them. Brits bought P8s to replace them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If hovering Helicopters hit with a bomb count yes we would like something done about the 1 way low cost cruise missiles. Plus historically V-1s counted. Seriously, as I alluded too in another thread you do not want the Army working out its own solutions to this problem. Hearing some knucklehead yelling “Fox 3” over FH-secure should scare the hell out of all of us. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed. This is one of those “well that sucks” things to happen, but then again so is a freak Hurricane or a good size industrial fire in a port handling facility or other. Shit happens, but we’ve got deep enough alternatives and contingency mitigations to make this a small bump to the system. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are currently 2x US Apache pilots with air to air engagements against a type 3/4 UAS. That would be 1 more kill than a lot of guys flying things with pointy noses. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Important note, a Company commander in a regular aviation line company is a Captain usually about mid way through the rank TIG. A company in Infantry/SF/etc is a Major. The only place you will find O4 commanders at the company level are the Medevac or UAS Company or in SOF. That is due to field grade being the required authority in the Army for risk mitigation in just about any solo isolated operations. And whatever you’ve seen in Iraq or other places the last twenty years forget it. That is a COIN task force model. LSCO we fight as a brigade, as an enabling brigade of the Division. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Again, do you want to be the first person to attempt to cross that threshold or for that matter know whoever gets to be that test dummy? Until someone successfully does that there is no codified standard for every single other court Ohio or otherwise to use in consideration of bringing charges against somebody for firing a warning shot. Even when there is, it will be case by case to classify what is a legal warning and what is reckless mishandling of a firearm, and civil penalty will still apply state to state which is its own nightmare. Ohio didn’t do anything of substance to actually allow somebody to be so stupid as to use a warning shot and expect anything but an extremely painful and taxing outcome. The people applauding this or the “legal experts” in places like Glocktalk or SAF circles are giving terribly short sighted advice based largely off a poor understanding of how the prosecutorial process is evaluated and executed. You’ll notice the actual charges are mentioned, that’s because that charges would allow for the affirmative defense of “acting in self defense” and it helped widen that potential umbrella but in this case the judge denied that incorrectly and the lawyer didn’t do his job. And an affirmative defense is not the same as guilty until proven innocent, you now place the obligation for preponderance of evidence on the defendant. Had the prosecutor gone after this guy for say reckless endangerment and he had been the first person to cross the threat threshold from say strong words to an active posture, an affirmative defense wouldn’t have been allowed in the courtroom and the judges instructions to deny such consideration by the jury would have been proper. You can read in the amicus brief on the actual case one of the reasons the court wanted a an affirmative self defense to be allowed (again one of the reasons for overturn but not nearly as much as ineffective council) was that it didn’t allow the jury consider whether Wilson had legal standing to fear for his safety and then be allowed to use the force continuum at all in his defense. Had he not warning shot or lethal aimed kill shot wouldn’t have mattered because the initial top charge wasn’t felonious assault. This case is not the sudden “warning shots are ok now” that some barracks lawyers are trying to argue it as. And until it’s successfully used to overturn a conviction when there are states with case law going the other way leading to an eventual federal appeals process no, you’re not suddenly covered under self defense with this ruling or any of the previous ones that exist on the books. For the love of god don’t use that term ever when discussing a post firearm related incident in a statement. It will go nowhere good. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No you’re saying that the Ohio Supreme Court ruled warning shots legal, which is not at all what they did, but it’s a headline and you won’t let it go. What they said is that because of the charge the prosecution brought against this particular defendant he should have been allowed and was denied the ability to use an affirmative defense which a jury would have then been instructed to consider and later rule on. None of that was allowed, and the court said you have to essentially offer the opportunity for a defendant to use an affirmative defense in the case of what you are classifying as a “warning shot.” It did not in any way suddenly declare them legal. You will have to under the affirmative threshold convince a jury to then allow for such action to be deemed legal and that would only be under a statue that allows for self defense to be an affirmative defense (you couldn’t just say that for example if you were needlessly/recklessly driving a car through a crowd of people to say you feared for your life). Because it was a conviction overturned, by legal definition nobody has effectively made an argument that warning shots were legal to use as a codified example of self defense then therefor allowing somebody else to use that as codified justification of their own actions. Until such time as that survives the legal process a warning shot is just as illegal today as it was 2 or 20 years ago, and all you’re now allowed by this ruling is the opportunity to be the first guy to successfully be charged and survive. F’ing great odds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes if there is anything Lawyers use in their arguments it’s public statements in media you can google and not legal briefs or scholarly articles. Again, the fact you are trying to use this singular example to defend the idea of warning shot, which still lacks any form of definition in the courts majority opinion, and the original discussion that took us down this rabbit hole was a guy firing a firearm in the air to stop people on his property engaged in no form of assault, they were cutting down trees. Try finding somebody reputable in any self defense legal circles recommending warning shots… please I dare you. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk