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Well sucks for this guy, for the first time in probably ever, none of the combatant commanders will be Army; CJCS is still Air Force, the Army continues to become less relevant than Air and Naval Forces especially looking at the IPC AOR. Heck, even in CENTCOM, Army’s main mission is protection, C-sUAS, and missile defense; most ops and strikes are accomplished from the carrier or the Air Force. Anyone who’s ever worked in a joint environment knows how frustrating and annoying the Army can be and I’m glad that’s starting to change.
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9 hours ago, tac airlifter said:
100% agree and that fact should shame our GOs; their success compared to our prevaricating came from willpower not technical inadequacies on our part.
Just reminding everyone we've been tricked before WRT WMD.
Not saying our GOs weren’t a contributing factor in the mess that was GWOT (Afghanistan and Levant) but I would say most of the failures belong at the political level.
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4 hours ago, Anon1 said:
Back to the Middle East we go.
What do you mean back to!? We still have a large presence there and many of us get to deploy there every couple years
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21 hours ago, Biff_T said:
LA (the city) mostly sucks. I live in Cypress CA. I'm about 30 seconds from LA county by car. Whenever I go to LA (city) I'm saddened by what a shithole it has become. It used to be a cool city 20 years ago. Now, it smells like piss and the whole city looks like that house down the street with 6 broken cars and 69 cats living in the front yard.
You can thank Maxine Waters. She’s 86 by the way.
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I was dead set on getting out as a Captain. WIC was a huge goal for me and I went later in my career despite adding a year to my ADSC. Afterwords, serving as a patch and feeling like I was making an impact on the next generation was a turning point for me. I loved serving, leading, and having a sense of fulfillment. So I stayed…jury is out whether it was the right decision but I’m essentially locked in to retirement.
I love flying, and while airlines were tempting, the job wasn’t for me. I’ll likely buy an airplane when I retire to scratch the itch. There is a lot that is wrong and frustrating with the Air Force; but focusing on what is right (the dudes in the squadron doing the mission) and honing in on that pushed me to stay and try to make it a little bit better.-
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17 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:
Dudes, I went to SOS in a Bush admin and the Blue Bedroom had plenty of social lectures. Shit ain't nothin new. But does this crap really need SecDef energy? Between India/Pak shit, Israeli shit, Prez courting the M. East shit, renaming bodies of water shite, Chiner shit, Russian shit, Ukraine shit, Houthi shit, Signalgate dumbass shit, firing staff shit, Defense programs shit, budget shit (better show up with your homework, Pete.. don't be like Pash), dude has a lot of real shit to think about. I mean, the Gulf of Alabama isn't gonna redo itself on all those maps.
It wouldn’t need SecDef energy if his predecessors hadn’t wasted time on it.
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On 5/10/2025 at 6:32 PM, disgruntledemployee said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-orders-military-pull-library-192211948.html
Please Pete, tell me there's nothing more important that a good ol book burn. How many hours will be spent on this? How many hours so far? Wait, there's a panel of people? DOGE them, money saved. Does the list include the Bible, seeing as it contains racism? The buzzword is on the ban list.
JFC Pete, do you need help figuring out priorities?
Let’s flip the script, how many man hours were spent building radical ideology such as CRT into curriculums at all levels of the military; and said books into the libraries to begin with? CRT and other communist ideology should have never had a place in the military to begin with. Like I said before, most actions occuring now might seem radical but that will be the case when you aggressively course correct back to normalcy.
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On 5/8/2025 at 2:11 PM, Vito said:
My Opinion on this subject is the Democrats ultimate goal of opening the border was to flood the country with millions of new and perpetual DEMOCRAT VOTERS. Period. They saw what happened in the 2016 presidential election , when Trump won by a slim margin and wanted to insure that would never happen again! So, as others have said, they had no issue allowing people to illegally enter the country, but suddenly are all about following legal proceedings for each and every Illegal alien in order to be deported! Again, the courts can’t handle this flood of cases, so these illegally imported Democrat voters will be in our country for years to come, able to do whatever they please, but more importantly, They will be around to VOTE, and WHO DO YOU THINK THEY WILL VOTE FOR?
Fast forward to 1:11:38
And to top off just how dumb democrats are, many Hispanics are staunch conservative Catholics and tend to actually swing right. Yeah most of your dirt bag MS13 types will vote left but “too many” Hispanics lean right on a lot of issues to the point where it should be uncomfortable for democrats. You saw that with DeSantis winning Miami dade, a large sect of Hispanics sticking to Trump and many rising young Hispanic conservatives in congress.
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On 5/9/2025 at 11:09 PM, Pooter said:
I would exert political pressure on that ally (Israel) to knock it off in Gaza. They have more than retaliated for Oct 7 and gone orders of magnitude past that. The stated position of the houthis is that they are attacking Israeli ships "in support of their muslim brethren in gaza." Which I actually believe because so far the only time the houthis have stopped shooting was during the short lived Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire. I would immediately stop any talks of a Gaza riviera developed by us and Israel. The gaza riviera is a bad idea of biblical proportions that will have Israel cemented as a permanent pariah state, with us as the enablers.
Of course all of this assumes im king for a day and not completely beholden to AIPAC like the current admin and most of the left are.
edit: The other biggest problem with the gaza riviera plan is that it's the stumbling block preventing any meaningful negotiations from happening to get back the remaining hostages. Think about it from the perspective of hamas. Once you give up the hostages you've given up your last card, then israel is free to completely bulldoze the place. So what incentive do you have to negotiate a cease fire and return hostages if the only thing looming on the horizon afterward is complete displacement?
Why would Israel do that? When you have terrorist living football fields away from your citizens you don’t just tuck tail.
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2 hours ago, brabus said:
Shiiitttt, this guy hasn’t been TDY almost anywhere. He’d have an aneurism if he went to SE Asia or Eastern Europe.
Yeah, we took our First Sergeant (medical I believe) to an Ex with a stop in Pattaya. Dinner on the outskirts of walking street - she about had a heart attack. This was after her perplexity that we didn’t use rank on the airplane. Truly different worlds we live in. Flight doc though? Took a shower in the airline club.
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Fuck Pakistan and its terrorist sharia state. India all the way. Time for Trump to solidify India as the new Ally in the region, something we should have done decades ago.
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On 5/7/2025 at 12:10 AM, GrndPndr said:
https://notthebee.com/article/the-supreme-court-allows-trumps-trans-ban-to-take-effect-immediately
This may well be really hard on the Navy.
This is very much a good thing. The number of issues folks who suffer from gender confusion cause in the military makes absolutely no sense as to why they should be serving. They should have never been given the exception by Obama and then Biden.
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On 4/24/2025 at 8:42 PM, Swizzle said:
They're lowering the semester hours total required to graduate USAFA. Nothing to see there...wonder what class requisite(s) will be cut - perhaps Civics and/or Ethics? Elective like basket weaving?
Idk, classical philosophy really helped me out as a pilot and officer. 😶
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On 4/18/2025 at 1:39 AM, disgruntledemployee said:
Here's another.
"Col. Christopher Meeker, the former commander of Wright-Patterson's 88th Air Base Wing, was sentenced Tuesday evening after entering a guilty plea to violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including Article 90, willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer, and Article 134, fraternization."
In other words, he was told to stay away but just couldn't do it. Her name must have been "Sunshine."
Side note, it's good to see that Punk is climbing the command ladder, 18AF now, probably a 4 star job in the future.
Punk is one of the good ones, till this day still down to earth and takes care of folks.
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11 hours ago, Prosuper said:
Maybe she hated being at Thule, what is with female officers who think they don't need to follow orders of the POTUS? Is the whole female officer corps suffering from TDS.
Checks. Many of them got shuffled through the ranks over the last decade, now that their sex won’t carry them as far some of them are getting upset. Same with African Americans. I would say this is the case with any current Trump policy. When you’ve gone so far off course as a nation (taxes, civilian workforce, DEI, transgenders, foreign aid, etc.), an abrupt bank back to centerline is going to seem extreme to those who benefit from said insane policies when all that’s happening is a course correction back to normalcy.
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10 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:
Good, clean kill. Sitting 0-6 Installation CC should know better. Would have felt the same if it was about Kaaamala.
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To be fair there is nothing stopping MAJCOMs and subordinate units from establishing family days. I guess sucks for you if you’re in ACC with Wilsbach.
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6 hours ago, brickhistory said:
Yes, this, 100%, why we are still in a much better position today than this alternative.
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5 hours ago, Lawman said:
The Author is at best an isolationist attempting to hide behind a facade of budgetary justification and frame the argument that US Forces Korea exist behind glass separate of any other conflict or use. The author’s idea that the Army is not present in an IndoPacom fight is demonstrated ignorance of not understanding what that fight will actually look like or what previous historical fights in the Pacific were either.
No, there will not be a Tank Division driving across open plains to achieve some sort of armored breakthrough, however the Fires and with it wide area security/control as well as the echelons of intel collection that occur resident to those Army formations will absolutely be at play in a conflict over the 1st Island Chain. And anybody that doesn’t think large scale ground maneuver warfare happened in the Pacific should really go take a look at WWII Burma or Luzon.
The Marines will get the press but the reality is the Army will be the one that secures Islands because mass means something when you talk the scale of the pacific, and keeping those elements in 2ID that far forward grants a lot of reaction space and time made up. Same was true of WWII.
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkNone of which will happen until the AF and Navy achieve air and maritime dominance first respectively. Otherwise, sitting ducks without the logistics to get some Patriot batteries to their locations.
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22 hours ago, M2 said:
Interesting, it appears Trump is giving up the SACEUR position after the US has filled it (STS) for 75 years...
Trump Intends to abandon US command of NATO forces in Europe
Honestly that’s a really weird relationship since the EUCOM CC is dual hatted. If it’s a 31 country alliance and the desire is to get other countries to step up, it would be better optics (regardless of views on NATO) for other countries to share leadership of the alliance. EUCOM does and will continue to do most of the work anyways!
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13 hours ago, M2 said:
Yeah, not feeling it so much anymore (STS)...
Woman Made Air Force History. How She Stays Winning (Exclusive)Yepp I bet she’s a real peach to work with. Def had her as an “instructor” and she packs quite the punch.
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18 hours ago, GrndPndr said:
Sorry to just throw this in here, but here's what the RAF is getting up to:
Color me shocked. Another datapoint to put a nail in the coffin to racist and sexist affirmative action processes in our military. Save that for your Ivy leagues, no place for that in our business.
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1 hour ago, disgruntledemployee said:
That's all you got? Spellin?
Holding Ukraine accountable for the billions of tax payer dollars we have given them isn’t “Pro Russia,” good lord when did you leftists become so anti peace? I thought that was your mojo back in early 2000s. Also this Trump pro Russia nonsense was tried in 2016, failed then and will fail again. You all will never learn, hence why Trump destroyed Kamala who would have had this country on its knees pissing away money so Zelensky doesn’t have to actually have an election and potentially lose his grasp on power. Let’s see your tone when Zelensky comes crawling back because there are literally no other executable options than to rely on the United States. No longer do we have a kick me sign on our back under the blithering half wit.
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4 hours ago, busdriver said:
Please vomit all over all the threads. It's super useful.
Who the hell is this Liquid Guy? Isn’t he some fake retired general or something?
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What's wrong with the Air Force?
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Not just enlisted… we seemed to finally be moving in the right direction away from queep, chiefiness, sock colors, and reflective belt police..now we are headed back in that direction but now under the guise of readiness and GPC. Boot height, really? Also in ranks inspections are an utter waste of time.