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Y'all are ridiculous. First "it didn't happen" because the multiple reliable osint sources aren't reliable. Then after it's been confirmed by both sides it's "again?" as if it's a joke before knowing the status of the crew. I hope the MIA, potential american POW, has no idea that y'all think this is hilarious.
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And yet the straits are closed by Iran doubling the price of oil, the regime is still in power, they still have ballistic missile and long range drone capabilities, and now have a POW for political purposes. Remind me how many targets did we strike in Afghanistan? Vietnam? What was the result? Strikes do not equal victory. What are our objectives here? Have they been achieved? No one knows because leadership hasn't said and I'm not sure they even know. It's not that I want this to fail but we have no business being here in the first place. We have no objectives. No means to pull out. No way to achieve meaningful objectives without a long protracted costly and likely bloody conflict. We've been at war in the middle East for decades. Can we stop wasting money, time, and lives over there and focus on home? How are we making America great again when we're slashing funding for infrastructure, Healthcare, etc. to bomb mud huts? When we're irreversibly damaging our soft power by being unreliable negotiators. Trying to bully our European allies to get involved in this. Showing we can't protect our middle Eastern allies who've given us land for bases. All against Iran. Imagine a near peer like China. We'd be screwed both in the soft and hard power spheres. They're already starting to dominate us in soft power.
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This is war...people seem to forget that whether one thinks we're in this for the right reasons or not. People (dorks on Reddit mostly) are calling this an abject failure and how the US isn't the air superiority king it used to be. We've reigned supreme in the air for nearly a half century and people have become accustomed to/expected that to continue. No one wants to see dudes/dudettes get shot down, but it's gonna happen, even with air supremacy. As @ClearedHot pointed out, pretty good mission success rate so far. Further, we haven't faced an adversary with this capability for over 20 years (maybe even going back to DS). This isn't Ahmad taking plink shots with his AK over in the 'Stan.
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The liberal utopian dram playing out in Canada....Despite 97.5% of Canadian citizens thumbing their nose at this new law, their dear leaders are sending the Royal Mounted Police door to door to collect your now illegal guns.1993 CIA headquarters shooting - Wikipedia I've mentioned this incident some time ago in the same context. Bases/Concerts/Outside Airport Security the list is endless. Bad guys don't need to breach security just set where everyone is concentrated and most likely unarmed.Wow, this thread took off since I last checked it. I think one thing most of us can agree on is that the American people should be skeptical anytime any Administration promises a swift, clean military operation. The enemy gets a vote, and it almost always ends up more messy than promised. We’ve lost access to the Strait of Hormuz, several American lives, and billions of dollars of hardware. We have no choice but to double down now. <s>From a geopolitical stance yes. We've shown we can't defend our bases abroad against drones or balastic missiles. A curbstomping doesn't cost us multiple strategic aircraft. It doesn't cost us billion dollar radar arrays. It doesn't cost us American lives. It has Displayed our weaknesses to China. We've shown the degree to which we've ostracised ourselves from our allies with most of Europe refusing over flights. We've shown that we lack any long term planning capabilities or forethought by rushing into this without having a plan for keeping the strait open. We've put iran in a stronger position as they have gone from a theoretical to actual control of the straits. Rising oil prices are increasing the funds in both Iran and Russia's pocket to continue their fight. Iranian leadership may be dead but clearly they're working decentralized ops well. There's no scenario in which we walk away from this in the near term with any meaningful victory. Blowing stuff up doesn't equal winning on the global stage. Oh and no one trusts on the world stage trusts us to negotiate anymore seeing as it was never serious and used as a pretext to prepare strikes. We had a solid deal that this admin tore up the first time. We've messaged to the world "get nukes ASAP or you're next." For the photos. A few more have come out plus some vids of a herk and Blackhawk allegedly conducting sar over Iran. I don't trust everything but there's some decent amount of reports coming out and unfortunately our propaganda arm is just as unreliable. SAR ops vids: https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2040044384951922868?s=20 https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2040059365189722249?s=20b"Iranian media" is almost as credible a source as the War Thunder forums...though the forums have more accurate tech data... Do you genuinely believe the the air-to-ground curb stomping Iran is receiving is on par with the failed all-out invasion a next door neighbor by Russia? Tell me again how you aren't disgruntedemployee's troll account.It could be like the Langley policy circa 2015 timeframe. Carry through to your first parking spot, then put the gat in a lockbox in the trunk.Howdy! If you have access, the PSDM has been published! https://myfss.us.af.mil/USAFCommunity/s/knowledge-detail?pid=kA0Rw0000000tAzKAIOdds they completely FUBAR this. Hurlburt was one of the first to allow service members (and retirees), to bring weapons on base. Current rules require you keep it in a secured location in your vehicle. If you've been through the front gate in the morning (I assume most bases are like this), the back up and proximity to Highway 98 created the perfect L shaped ambush set up. Additionally, the memo addresses the thousands of uniformed personnel who work at the Pentagon, stating that the building's police force — the Pentagon Force Protection Agency — shall also apply a presumption of approval to all personal-carry applications. However, the memo stops short of allowing personal-carry within the walls of the building. Rather, it states that the Pentagon Force Protection Agency must allow fair consideration for Pentagon personnel to "store a privately owned firearm in a vehicle on the Pentagon Reservation," pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations. For those who have successfully completed a sentence at the Pentagon (sadly, I did two), you know how difficult the Pentagon cops can be. Random bag searches and on more than one occasion I was hassled over the length of a pocket knife.Just had to come back to this... "Commandant of Cadets Brig. Gen. Gavin Marks will retire later this year" https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-academy-leadership-retiring/ 😬bondi/bongino/patel have been MASSIVE disappointments. good riddanceYeah, I definitely included that in the package. This was a formal CMS case requesting I sign the AF Form 63. I fully understand and agree to the 10 year ADSC, just didn’t expect to actually sign it until near the end of training. It sounds like everyone should be getting it to sign prior to PCSing to UPT, and if you don’t finish training for whatever reason, then it will revert to a 2 year ADSC.
