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Legit wonder. I shall Claude it as that's about as reliable. Then Google. Then I'll kill a chicken and look at the pattern of bones and blood for a final conclusion.

Frankly the mil should be testing for a shitload more things. The fact I have to pay hundreds out of pocket every year to get full blood panels to track health is dumb. But then again, the mil hasn’t given a shit about my health in over 20 years. It would be awesome if the mil started doing yearly blood panels for every service member - that would be an immensely good thing…and something some people would still lose their minds about for some illogical reason.

This just in, No One asserts an objective exists that never did (100% destruction of BM capability) and he’s aghast that Patriots don’t have a 1.0 pK. Oh no, it’s all over folks! Is going full retard your professional job, or just a hobby?

For us or them? Their 100% neutralized ballistic missile capability just managed to hit some CLUs. So on the one hand at least it wasn't our invaluable radars or tankers this time and we know for a fact they have 2 less missiles now so you could say things are improving. On the other hand it turns out they still have ballistic missiles and that's sort of awkward. There's also vids of multiple patroit interceptors missing at least 2 ballistic missiles.

Just so I understand. Low-T is a brutal condition that affects the ability to maintain physical conditioning. And it affects multiple service members on this board alone. and We shouldn't be testing for low-T. Do I have that right? Are we doing to pretend like we care? Women in the military was never about physical performance.

Big day for the 2A. It still surprises me to see so much progress in support of the 2A

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KDLF 26-14AB T-38 x 5 C-5 x 2 (Dover, Travis) AC-130J x 2 MC-130J x 2 HC-130J KC-135 x 3 KC-46 x 3 C-21 x 3 C-17 x 4 (1 x Dover 3 x TBD) C-12 x 2

That would be about as pedantic as the rest of this thread.

You know we are celebrating 250 years of not having to root for them right?

So does the WPA counter restart?

Huh, this hits close to home for me. I spent the last 5 years trying to get treated for low-t. Put the balls through a ringer trying (and failing) to have kids with the wife. The "docs" wouldn't do shit. You know how hard it is physically to be low t and work out for the PT test? I could never recover, constantly tired. Testing BELOW 300ng/do and the fucking prick said, "That's what the APA says, but I go to 200." Retired, went to a real doc and asked to get tested and they called me and said the scrip was in and to start ASAP. In 3 years I went from 370 to 174. That said, fuck the govt doing a mandatory test like this. I have zero confidence this stays like he said it will. Are we going to be testing females for their gonad profile? I know many broads who had the same damn issues I did. I know we have to take tb and hiv tests, I would classify those as not the same thing. All from a dude who can't bench, no less.

I meant a culture building that allowed that to happen.

There's no such thing as correcting exactly back to the trend line. Hegseth was the response to things getting way out of whack on the dei/safe space/pussification side of the spectrum. He's going to spin the wheel hard right, get back to the center line, and blow through it a little bit. We're never going to know whether or not this is handled correctly because we're not going to know what the actual debrief for that pilot sounds like. But if he is chastised, given a few shitty additional duties here and there, and otherwise not punished for a singular mistake, then I would say hegseth and company have handled this well. There is absolutely no need to discuss the disciplinary side of this publicly, because ultimately nothing happened.

Nuh uh there, good buddy. NOWHERE did I encourage said maneuver, but rather called the shot that Pete et al will intervene in any inquiry and nothing will happen, which is what happened. I think Pete & Co meddling in unit disciplinary actions is unsat. Maybe SoW and Navy would have a different reaction if 3 kids had to go to the ER for sand-to-eye injuries. I get the mistake part here, but that's not my commentary, its Secretary level meddling in unit ops.

obviously unsafe. previously the pilot would be shot and a commander fired. now it's celebrated. there's a middle ground to find. acknowledge the mistake, correct it, and move on.

At least the Blue Angels Lead is willing to go on the record and call this unsafe/it’s going to be debriefed and corrected. Any professional aviator (military or civilian) knows the road this is going down. I honestly don’t understand why Hegseth sees the need to insert himself into these discussions, especially given all that’s happening in the world and that lately military aviation has had several crashes, to include the Growler airshow crash.

I seriously doubt this is another Bud Holland. The Blues take safety very seriously as many here already know. "I'll fix my safeties boss I'm glad to be here"

I was trying to be a bit funny. I bet that thought crossed a few peoples minds. People chasing that disibillity rating.

Big difference between a new guy making a mistake and someone who should know better.

Really wondered how you guys would assess and all I could think about is a few things: Using "Hooyah" un-ironically should be grounds for firing. The video of the B52 doing manoeuvers and crashing. Hoping it doesn't come to that before this admin is over.

A few more details as I live here and it has been the main topic of conversation in the news and social media. This was not even a demo flight, it was a fam flight in preparation for the airshow this weekend. The jet that did the flyover was #3, NOT the solo. Important because he was not running down the showline, just trying to do an impromptu flyby as part of the rejoin and he obviously overshot the crowd line. The Boss did a local interview where he stated (paraphrasing), "it was a mistake, it was debriefed, we are moving forward with the show." One of the troubling comments came from another local press interview with #4 who said (again paraphrasing), "we are not backing off, push it up for the show this weekend." A few friends I flew with (all Navs I will point out), told me I am talking like an old guy, it was cool. I simply replied - "there is a reasons I am old guy." I FULLY understand he made a mistake and long ago I adopted the leadership tactic of a senior leader I think a lot of..."we should not electrocute an Airman over a single mistake." This is a debreif item, not an FEB or some other punishment. HOWEVER, we should not celebrate breeches or mistakes and cheer the outcome. As folks like @disgruntledemployee, such actions will only fan the flames and encourage the next guy to go lower/fast/inverted.

Oh and how’s that new round of bombing coming along? Oh right not a single thing has materially improved from a strategic perspective lmk when we bomb Kharg island and it fixes everything

What do you mean it doesn’t match the headline.. it’s literally in the first paragraph: “Israeli nationalists chanted “death to the Arabs”, “may your villages burn” and “Gaza is a graveyard” in a state-sponsored march through Jerusalem to mark the anniversary of the city’s capture and annexation.” We’re not the ones that made up the idiotic standard that societies should be judged by what people chant at random protests.. that was you.. a week ago: “And in ~75 years I have yet to see an Israeli street rally calling for death to the Muslims.” Well now you have seen one. And since we’re playing your stupid game, this one matters just as much as when gazans do it if you care at all (we know you don’t) about logical consistency. But I look forward to learning how this is totally different, or fake news, or something..

First article: Garbage. The headline doesn't match any of the actual quotes in the article. The actual quotes are much more boring. The best you have is "a few Jews at a rally said evil things." Now, if the minister with the flag had said something like "we will kill any Palestinian that prevents us from retaking the Temple Mount" then you might have something. But to try to compare this to even the now-boring "from the river to the sea" is idiotic. Second article: “There’s no such thing as ‘means, intent and ability’ in Gaza,” Vilk says. “No soldier ever mentions ‘means, intent, and ability’. It’s just: a suspicion of walking where it’s not allowed. A man aged between 20 and 40.” Nonsense. The article pretends that there was no enemy at all. Just a bunch of refugees looking for food. There's tons of footage of Hamas fighters engaging the IDF. If their repeated, documented use of civilians and civilian disguises made the IDF paranoid and trigger happy, that's a bummer, but entirely predictable. The US soldiers killed a lot of unarmed Germans as we took Europe from the Nazis. Yet no one is stupid enough (except for Tucker Carlson) to claim the allies were the bad guys. Welcome to war. Maybe your military service was so blessedly uneventful that you never saw or heard these very human things happen. Your general philosophy does usually reek of ignorant utopianism. It still doesn't make it even remotely difficult to know who the bad guys are in this situation.