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Inertia17 replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
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I like how John Clark quoted the Sundance Kid. "Think You Used Enough Dynamite Butch?" At least in the book version.
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In general, I'm strongly against "political signaling" by way of military action, but in this case, I'd say it was used appropriately. Doesn't feel like they actually thought through the second and third order effects though. I feel like Tom Clancy already wrote this this story line...but @uhhello beat me to it...
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Bring back Ding Chavez and John Clark...
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Spend 30 minutes with the JTF-North guys down at Eagle Pass…. You’ll very quickly come to the conclusion we were doing TF3-10 in the wrong place. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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Direct covert strikes (complete destruction and elimination) on every upper echelon Mexican drug guy’s houses, buildings, and businesses should happen immediately.
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Exactly. What level of mental illness? Decided by who? How long is it enforced? Enact this and floodgates are opened to backend gun confiscation and the like.
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The question to answer is, should individuals with mental illness be allowed to own guns? The hole gets deeper when you then have to answer which ones (or is it all, no matter how “small”), what level of diagnosis/“proof” is required, can somebody be “rehabbed” and subsequently go back to owning guns, etc. Logically I don’t want a mentally deranged individual to have a weapon, but the harder determination is how does that desire sync up with 2A? Is a PTSD claim considered mental illness? This is a tough one.
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Not all hero’s wear capes
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So we should let them operate unimpeded because they might hurt us if we resist? No, they should fear us. Every enemy should fear us. I'm tired of policy by weak dick cucks. Maximum violence is the answer to anyone seeking our harm.
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Okay? Lets just keep doing the same thing then. That's been working great. I'm not saying this is some groundbreaking 'we're going to win this war on drugs thing' but I'd say it's a much greater deterrent than the status quo
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So fucking dumb and some will eat it up without looking at the consequences and precedent.
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The profits from a single drug boat making it in far outweigh the costs of rounding up the crews' families and telling them you'll cut off all their heads if they don't get in the boat and sail.
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News reports indicate that officials within the Trump-era Department of Justice are considering proposals to potentially restrict transgender individuals from owning firearms!
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Air Force to Field Autonomous Cessna Caravan
fire4effect replied to fire4effect's topic in General Discussion
Joby Logs 7,000 Autonomous Miles in Military Exercise More on the subject. I admit I didn't know about this. -
MOAB. That's a clear, but mistifying, deterrence-message.
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I think the intent behind the demonstration is to be a deterrent
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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
Clark Griswold replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
Question How many hours of T-7 time will SPs get if they go (ultimately) to this T-7 only UPT model? -
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised that Maduro at some point gets the Soleimani Treatment depending on how the stars align. Clearly the strike was a very public message the gloves are off. That said now we should use a lot of nonpublic strikes that don't make the news if we aren't already. Out of sight out of mind for all but the targets. Strikes at sea especially leave very little evidence behind. I know semi-submersibles are used to try and evade sensors especially from above though real USN Submarines excel at tracking acoustic signatures. Of course, if you're using a semi-submersible that's Prima Facie your up to no good and are a candidate to become an artificial reef. To me our drone capability is perfect for these types of missions and has benefited from last 20 years of operations worldwide and present minimal risk to our side.
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I didn't see any posts related to DIC.. but I'm currently paying a SBP which would net a surviving spouse 50% of my retired pay. I just read up on DIC which I'm not sure I even knew existed. From what I stand, DIC will pay $1653.06 to a surviving spouse if the cause of death was a service-connected condition. Previously they were offset, but now a spouse can receive both benefits in full...? I was going to get rid of SBP and use the $400 to put into other term life insurance something else and hope for DIC if it came to that. But it seems like if something (service-connected) were to happen to me my wife could get close to $4600/month with SDB and DIC? Is this correct?
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This statement woefully overestimates the value of the people on the boat, to the people who own the boat. But hey, it got a cool headline and maybe distracted from some files Pam Bondi promised she was going to release...
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"Yeet"
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Initial Pilot Training and Future Pilot Training
dusty69 replied to LookieRookie's topic in General Discussion
The damage from legacy to UPT 2.5 in the T-1 was more in the grading and less in the hours, IMO. The syllabus was shaved a bit, but the bulk of the bell curve could keep up. Those who couldn't keep up, obviously resulted in more 88s 89s. Those failures were retained or pushed to stay, which resulted in a climate of "no matter how hard we grade, leadership will graduate them anyway" which in turn leads to easier grading. You can talk about holding the line, and lots of IPs tried. But at the end of the day leadership isn't sending that message. Only worse now with T-1s gone. The sim syllabus was an absolute joke. -
I've always been a fan of "Out of Court Settlements"
