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Dallas and Ft Worth seem to be the biggest US cities with Republican mayors. No idea what their crime rates are, but these are cities that have Constitutional Carry, vs say, Chicago.
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Certainly not a perfect record, but overall, I voted for this: Illegal border crossings drop to lowest level since 1970: ‘Most secure border in American history’ Kash Patel says FBI agents fired over monitoring GOP senators Trump's DC police takeover: What the crime stats show National Guard Exceeds 2025 Recruiting Goals | American Military News Comey pleads not guilty in court after indictment on alleged false statements, obstruction As to non-citizens serving in the Guard and how they feel about helping ICE, while I certainly can't know, I imagine most of them feel like those immigrants who came here the legal way - make the illegals earn their entrance. Dude who enlisted is paying his dues to get his citizenship. Why should someone else get a free ride?
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Dude, you’re just embarrassing yourself. https://app.enhancedvoting.com/results/public/shelby-county-tn/elections/General11052024
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@Day Man Memphis is a blue city with a Democrat mayor (and has the NG on the way). Try again.
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-law-and-order-in-memphis/ Also, you think Memphis is Red?
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For sure, I’ve been there with nit picking my own tapes and seeing others get nitpicked. Also have seen people get sent home. In zero of those cases did someone go to jail, have any lasting career effects, or not end up coming back (whether to rejoin same deployment or on a subsequent deployment). My point is do what’s right/what needs to be done, have zero thoughts about what “the man” may nitpick later. Failure to execute when called for because of CYA thoughts is unacceptable.
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Memphis?
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Philosophically, if the governor isn't asking for help, then I'm inclined to be against it. I would make exceptions for the protection of federal buildings, such as during the race riots of 2020, but that's not happening right now. Politically, I have no idea. It could work, and it's not a stretch to see how. That could be a big political win if it forces Democrats out of their reflexive embrace of crime.
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Which ones specifically are you thinking about?
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I’ve known more than a few people who faced and felt repercussions of what was the interruption of ROE/MISSION in AFG mostly. A lot of it was just nit noid lawyering on the tape to make sure their pillars were met before they were excused for doing what the ground force asked for during the post surge phase of Obama era. A couple people had careers crushed… one I remember had to basically be sent out of country because somebody wearing a silver bird wanted a pound of flesh. Somewhat different but then again if you look back at 91 gulf war there are some discussions of early strafe runs that very quickly we’re ket with a 3 star level KIO. I don’t doubt that will always be part of war for us. “We want you to win, but make it easy to put it on camera while you do it,” kind of mantra. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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i know some red states with terrible blue cities, but not aware of crime ridden red cities (i guess it might happen if the city is trapped in a blue state). I’m still waiting for the AR or MS guard to invade TN and take Memphis from us. We’d be one of the safest places in the world without Memphis.
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I have no problem with any bad city seeing intervention, regardless of local/state gov’s predominant party affiliation. That said, are there GOP led cities that should be prioritized over places like DC, Chicago, Portland, pick a city in CA, NYC, etc? I’m not implying there aren’t GOP-led cities with crime issues, but so far, has the priority been invalid?
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why do you suppose no R cities are being floated for mil intervention despite having high crime too?
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This is a great example of why you just do what’s right. There were always rumors of JAG witch hunts, etc…and while I’ve dealt with some of those guys, to this day I’ve never met an aircrew member, SOF dude, etc. who did the right thing and ended up in jail. It’s all hyped up BS, minus maybe some total outlier that happened at some point.
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No problem with it. US citizens in these cities have been abandoned by their city and in some cases, state, government. Their local govs have been heavily siding with/supporting criminals and their actions while willfully putting innocent citizen’s livelihood, and lives, at unacceptable risk. At some point (such as right now) the fed gov has a duty to step in to defend them. It’s incredibly sad portions of our country have come to this point, but the answer is not to just ignore it and say WGAF because you (the royal you) don’t live there.
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Looks like a C-17 flew the Texas Guard to Chicago. I know we've all embraced our fair share of military suck but I'm curious how BO community feels about this mission. I can definitely see a long-term effect on recruiting and retention in the Army Guard depending how this all shakes out. More than a few enlisted in the Army/Marine Corps are not US citizens or have family members who aren't.
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My problem with Massie and Paul is they love to pontificate on libertarian utopia while completely ignoring the real world. Their minds live in a fantasy (like all “full” libertarians), and therefore they are roadblocks much of the time to REALISTIC results because they only will accept UNREALISTIC results. So, instead of accomplishing anything, they just run their mouths and generally get in the way. Ergo, hot air.
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Curious why you would say that about Massie. Which of his stances are “hot air?” MTG has legitimate conspiracy theory brain. Big difference between that and having some sort of values. Is it just the Epstein thing?
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“In Iraq and Afgh, you'd be labeled as a rogue tanker pilot if you relocated your orbit to sit over or near the TIC to facilitate the fight. I know because I've spoken with enough of them. One was even threatened with paperwork for "disobeying orders" afterwards...he was literally the airborne standby tanker with no scheduled receivers...mind blowing.” As someone with 3,000 hours and eight deployments in the KC-135, I have never seen, nor heard of, anyone being labeled that for supporting a TIC, or threatened paperwork for doing so. I have personally been apart of crews who have told C2 we were supporting a TIC on our own accord and was never given any grief about it. When a tanker’s primary mission is to do AR, then yes, fuel efficiency is a major component of the planning. Of course the CAOC are also the retards who bitch about fuel efficiency, then would have a tanker give 80K to a B-1 who would then get cleared RTB and fly home in burner.
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I’m not a big Mike Johnson fan, so maybe there is some truth to it. But also Massie is like MTG - blows lots of hot air, so I’ll take anything people like them say with a large grain of salt.
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Republicans calling out Mike Johnson saying he’s complicit in covering up the files.
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Swedes buying C-390 https://theaviationist.com/2025/10/06/sweden-buys-c-390-millennium/# Not clear if they are buying it with air refueling capabilities but another customer
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Apparently Germany is now getting the mysterious drone incursion treatment as well with no clear answers from where they are originating from or how to deal with them and probably too proud to ask the Polish.
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I can't get into specifics bc I suspect the info wasn't intended to be a public release but they're in my career field assigned to AFPC.
