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So... They hide behind civilians, which gets the civilians bombed, and because they implement the strategy consistently and effectively you no longer believe it? Copy. What's hilarious and sad is that Hamas is not even particularly shy about this, admitting their strategy openly over the years. Ah, there it is. So strange to have someone who is/was in the military have such a morally confused position. Your geopolitical philosophy is ultimately incoherent and incompatible with the realities of human nature, so the things you must believe (and refuse to believe) will be increasingly unhinged as the inconsistencies build. Edit: Also, holy shit dude, *that's* the source you want to post 😂🤣. This is like asking a Boeing lobbyist for dispassionate facts about the 737 Max crashes. For anyone interested, check out their statement of "journalistic" integrity: https://www.972mag.com/about-journalism-israel-palestinian/

I'm not suggesting equivalence. Israel kills civilians in far higher numbers and with far more efficiency than hamas could ever dream of. I used to buy the Daily Wire line of thinking too but after the 40th hospital/school/refugee camp got bombed I stopped buying the "they hide behind the civilian population" line. I won't tell you guys what to think but when I took off the "Israel good, palestinians bad" blinders it became easy to see that an atrocity of historic magnitude is happening right now. Also, a lot of your arguments are undercut by years of Netanyahu's covert strategy of indirect support for hamas to ensure the Palestinian government remained divided and dysfunctional. It also likely contributed to October 7th. https://www.972mag.com/netanyahu-hamas-october-7-adam-raz/

I call bullshit. Zero percent chance a helo driver passes on a lifetime of threesomes, even if it's a couple legs short.

Before most of you were born … we said… “You can drink em ugly, but ya can’t drink em thin”.

Leave the Qatari jet as is plus security upgrades, give to First Lady for her official transportation He’ll win husband of the century and go up 15 points with soccer moms Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wait there's more: Not as bad as the Siamese twins (no Dibs for sure) but I still ask myself WTF?

Well, that's enough internet for me today.

Third time's a charm! Brandon Rogers 3.mp4

As is this... Brandon Rogers 2.mp4

Don't judge, but this is some fucked up shit! Brandon Rogers 1.mp4

Free, is too expensive

Use the Qatari 747 for training Tell Boeing to move all of the people to one aircraft in San Antonio. And get one done as soon as possible Once both of them are flying. Take the Qatari aircraft apart for spares

Perhaps you're right. The follow-on Boeing gigs have really sharpened up that company...getting that talent even earlier ought to really pay off for the civilian sector. Same folks who've "led" for Iraq, Afghanistan, Houti bombings I, managing the procurement of a new AF1, T-7, M10 "Booker" not a tank tank, LCS class ships, Boeing space capsule, no food at US Army posts, black mold in barracks, so much time on DEI, renaming installations, etc, etc, etc. Finest kind, I believe is the phrase.

I suppose that's better than scoring A2A kills outside DCA

Definitely agree! But you know as well as I we aren't going to do that.

Getting back to what we have… VC-25B was selected for 4-engine redundancy, it was a program requirement for systems and survivability reasons. Electrical generation is a part of the requirement as well. As such that narrows the program down to some variation of the 747, or the A380 or Il-96 and obviously those two aren’t happening. The two aircraft in the process of conversion right now, are both used airframes that were leased to a Russian airline (Transaero?) briefly, but I’m not sure if they ever took delivery/saw service beyond storage at VCV or MZJ. Make whatever jokes you want about Boeing, or the absolute shit state of the DoD acquisitions process (turn DoGE loose there, geez), but there’s a reason that conversion takes a very long time and Boeing is losing substantial money since it was negotiated as a fixed-price contract…not that I feel sorry for them. It’ll be ready when it’s ready, and it’ll be interesting to see how Sierra Nevada fares with converting their acquired second-hand 747-8i airframes as the E-4B replacements as they have similar EMP shielding/power generation/communications requirements. So getting to this Qatari FreeCee-25…yes it’s another low-time 747-8i, this one a BBJ from the outset rather than a conversion, but other than luxurious interior appointments it lacks much of what makes up a VC-25, converted properly to US Head of State requirements it will take just as long as the other two already purchased. So even if it indeed is ‘free’ there’s substantial cost still involved, and oh btw you do need two of them operationally so other than being a third airframe for use, having just one really doesn’t help. Yes the 742s are very long in the tooth, there’s a reason the replacement process has been in motion for like 10 years now (and the E-4 program now as well), but this is just further appeals to impatience and vanity and ego for the gold toilet guy. Or it’s yet another red herring.

Any update on the -135/-46? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oct 7 eliminated the possibility of the two state solution for the next 35 years. The odd part is that was about how long the Israelis kept offering it to the refusal of Arafat and the rest of the Palestinian leadership. At this point, you’ve demonstrated for greater than a half century your inability to govern yourselves, so now the offer is assimilate or die in your open air prison. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Speaking of beef. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/14/entertainment/takeaways-cassie-diddy-combs-trial Pee Diddy.

So there I was: One of my last TDYs was to a small range for gun training. The last night of the trip, we cleared the range and checked in with the range controller. As a helo, we were typically below radar so the controller relied heavily on our position reports for SA. We were all fatigued from flying multiple sorties that day and night. During the process of setting up the first gun pattern, one of my gunners noticed the targets were moving (they weren't supposed to be). Turns out they were cattle. Due to my shitty navigation, I turned down the wrong split in the river and we had accidentally flown to some dude's ranch. We almost slaughtered a few cattle behind some poor unknowingly rancher's home. Not a moose but there would have been plenty of beef. Helicopters baby!

JRT at SVN back in the 80s. Pave Low landing in a farmers field for a piss break and stealing watermelons.

Shed hunting from a helo - I’m in! As long as @Biff_T is flying and approves a 30 rack in the back.