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Of course, it happens the week after I move from Denver 🤬

At least the KC-135 ANG crew that flew a whole sortie naked had a chick copilot.

https://www.benefits.va.gov/persona/veteran-incarcerated.asp

Musk was able to derail several investigations into Tesla and SpaceX and his new payment platform for X. Musk got what he wanted. All the while DOGE was openly shuttering USAID, Musk was closing down or reducing regulatory agencies and things that would affect him and his companies. He was also able to harvest god knows how much personal data as well as the ability to install backdoors into any number of systems. Oh yeah, and White House communication is going through Starlink now. No way could be abused... He was able to accomplish exactly what he set out to do. https://www.wsj.com/politics/tech-silicon-valley-government-influence-70b43ca6?st=fDN1mW&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

And now Musk, by most appearances, is pretty much gone too. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wiped-elon-musk-name-150848889.html

I knew him as an O-6, a no nonsense submariner. I would NOT have thought this was the same guy when I saw the headlines. Thing is, dudes that make 4 stars almost always have no problems getting a good post mil gig that doesn't involve doing shady shit. Even the assholes get jobs. If you remember, he was charged with recommeding the fate of the Navy Carrier Capt that sent the SOS email during covid. He rec'd restoration, SecNav chose torpedo.

The Navy/DoD will do an Officer Grade Determination to decide at what lower grade he last served honorably. In theory that could be as low as an O-1. If he were still active and received a dismissal he’d lose all of his retirement. Since he’s retired I’m not sure if that’s an option. The sentencing will be interesting to see.

I don't hate cops, my brother is a cop, but cases like this clearly demonstrate why qualified immunity needs to end or at a minimum be seriously modified. Several layers to this case and the one that disturbs me the most is what happened while in custody. They supervisor running the detention facility tells him if he doesn't shut up he is going to get punched in the face...he says it several times AND tells the guy we have cameras and audio. Qualified immunity was invoked and approved by both the lower level federal court and the circuit...thank god SCOTUS stepped in.

I think it has a lot to do with his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, she is no nonsense and he seems to listen to her. He was certainly more (relatively), disciplined during this election. Supposedly she has drastically reduced access and the ability of his family and far right influencers to simply walk into the Oval. My wife hates politics and rarely watches any coverage but together we watched part of one of his speeches in the Middle East last week. The minute he went off script and started dropping the "most powerful, rigged election, horrible people" comments she couldn't help herself..."can't he just keep his mouth closed and enact his policies." Tapper used to be a journalist, I used to watch his segments on CNN, sad when he converted to mouthpiece. Joe Scarborough - “I spent, as I’ve said before, two and a half, three hours with Joe Biden in the White House, all over the White House, talking at length, at length and in depth about foreign policy matters. And he was as sharp as anybody else I’ve spoken to and spoke actually like a man who’s been doing this since he was 29 years old and knew world leaders.” The GOP seems determined to investigate what happened at the end of JB's term, yesterday senior DNC folks suggested any investigation should be stopped now that Joe has been diagnosed with cancer. I hope they continue, not as retribution but I think we as American's deserve to know who was leading the country and how do we stop that from happening again. The mainstream media is finally acknowledging what happened and they are using Tapper's book (Original Sin), a recent summary - "The inescapable conclusion is that party leaders were well aware of Biden's diminished capacity and were more than willing to mislead the voters."

Anyone know what we do during that ~1 month period between our RNLTD and IPT class start?

Ouch. Bummer. I had heard of some ANG ASOSs shutting down/changing mission, but didn’t realize it was that heavy.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2023/04/14/air-force-looks-to-cut-nearly-50-of-tactical-air-control-party-jobs/ Was proposed several years ago. Sounds like Lawman is seeing it actually happen

Part of the restructure to the Division model and the cutting of what has been explained as extraneous support requirements that don’t fit in the post coin LSCO model. Brigades have basically lost their Aviation staff support and with it that commanders primary advisor on how to use air. What is at the division is extremely limited (both in size and in the case of my division intelligence). We will not have forward placed air control parties outside of only certain Special warfare communities. What we’ve gotten to keep is essentially a deep targeting coordination capability not close air support in the traditional sense. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Huh? What have you heard that I haven’t?

https://www.twz.com/air/russia-testing-shotgun-armed-yak-52-trainer-aircraft-to-down-ukrainian-drones

Every time I walk by her caricature at KLIT, I hope someone has added horns and a Hitler stash to her fucking mug on the wall.

Trash Panda. There, feel better? 😁

He won't

No DIBS!

What level will he get retirement for?

I hear she smells like sulphur...

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Well, I guess that’s one [emoji640]-star pension that DoD won’t have to pay. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Can you imagine if this bitter old @unt had been elected. Now she thinks only a DNC female can be POTUS.

Not fired because now retired, but still in a world of self-induced sh1t: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/retired-four-star-us-admiral-convicted-on-corruption-charges/ar-AA1F53M2?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=16dacbfb21d24cd397e8bb219d52d4e7&ei=14