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That is all horrific, but you missed my point. The system cannot do anything in and of itself; only the people within the system. So being disgruntled at the entire system because of some bad people doesn't make sense. You apparently got screwed by some people that had no business being in authority and have every right to be angry at them. My point is that there are good and bad people in every organization, the nature of the military just ends up giving those people the potential to have a larger impact on other people's lives than most civilian structures.

My point was Hegseth probably said something very close to what he's being accused of saying, just in another context. And the admin folks can't backdown because that would be tantamount to admitting Hegseth made a mistake (or violating the never apologize rule). So two things can be true: the re-attack in itself can be not a problem and Hegseth opened his mouth and stupid came out.

What’s your point?

For sure there was telephone game involved. That still doesn’t absolve any of the dumbassery involved in said string of comms, ranging from outright lying to putting little to no effort into legitimately corroborating statements. Par for the course for MSM and anyone willing to feed that machine. Generally stated, shack on nuisance and decision making. However in this case, based on the first strike video I saw, there wasn’t really any nuisance. It was clearly a DWE failure with following reattack. This one wasn’t even remotely questionable to anyone who actually knows anything about DWE and doesn’t have a political axe to grind.

now do heart disease...this has little to do with cocaine

I don't know any of this thing from the inside. But it isn't hard for me to imagine that the one person telephone game through a WaPo reporter would destroy the nuance of military decision making and org charts, especially if it's influenced by the SoW saying something chest thumping and kinda douchy in response to a CDE type of inquiry (my suspicion).

Dang, that's equivalent to 26+ 9/11's a year.

The SEC (and ND), Bias is horrible. Alabama barely survives a 5-7 Auburn and they move up. Miami crushes (38-7), a 23 ranked Pitt and they fall out of the CFP. ESPN is on it...College Game Day is going to the the SEC Championship on Saturday, for the third year in a row. They have deemed a matchup between #3 and #8 more important than the Big Championship which is an undefeated #1 versus an undefeated #2. Sickening.

I can't believe it's been almost a decade. Damn I feel old 😂🤣

He'll leave LSU once Bama opens up.

I can’t say your skepticism isn’t justified however given the essential nature of the mission & capabilities of this platform, I may be naive but methinks it will quell the parochial greedy shoe clerks of the MIC and get done with an acceptable amount of bull fertilizer I blast pointlessly into the ether for more flying for training for an organization supposedly run by pilots, who seem hell bent on doing as little as possible so I feel your pain

Yeah, I don't know if I agree with that. I had just made MSgt in nine years when I got a random phone call from the Chief Enlisted Aviator at the Pentagon (Massengill for your gunship peeps) with the CSAF standing right next to him. The E-9 proceeded to scream at me over a Facebook comment on a USAF humor group because I said vehicle ops were stupid due to not being able to drive us out to the right jet 69% of the time when I taught at Altus. He then slammed the phone down, sent a PDF snapshot of what I said to my Sq/CC and Sq Chief, and I was later signing an LOR and a UIF I received from the Sq/CC. I almost lost my line number for MSgt, but I did lose any aspirations of making Senior or Chief. Right before I PCSd from Altus, I got divorced. I show up to Fairchild knowing I'd never make Senior or Chief, and they knew that too, so they were trying to throw me in bullshit jobs with a high probability of worthless staff deployments. I was able to argue my way into Sq Stan Eval. I started hooking up with an Airman boom operator in scheduling for a few months, then we quit, and that was that. I was deployed to the Deid and hooked up with a SrA boom operator who was also in scheduling. Then two years later, I was deployed as OGV. Some fellow SNCO ratted me out about hooking up with those girls years before to the OG Chief, who then told his boss, the OG/CC, and an unprofessional relationship investigation started on me. The girls got called into the First Sergeant's office, read their rights, and signed a statement saying they never hooked up with me. Then the SrA tells the Airman they're going to get in trouble and to go to the SARC and just say I sexually assaulted them. I was flown back from the Deid to Fairchild, grounded, fired from OGV, and left to rot in an office after losing my flight pay for almost a year while OSI tried to wiretap the SrA to record me, call my ex-wife to convince her that I used to beat her (she said that never happened and was never called as a witness), followed by OSI agents as I did mundane things like grocery shopped, had my cell phone records and email subpeonaed, etc. Eventually, OSI creates a bullshit "Report of Investigation" where the SrA didn't actually make an official statement, the Airman admits I didn't really sexually assault her, but sexually harassed her, and then I was charged with Article 120 Sexual Assault, 93 Maltreatment, and 92 Dereliction of Duty. Then six months later, I was sent to a general court-martial. The court is pretty wild where you get to sit there stone-faced in service dress while the prosecution and defense are talking you naked and having sex in front of strangers who outrank that you don't know, family, and friends. It's also 10-12-hour days of you just sitting there praying that you're not going to be a sex offender for life and a felon for crimes you know you never committed. Then one day, the panel (jury) deliberates, comes back out, and gives the verdict to the bailiff to hand to the judge. Then you stand at attention as you almost pass out from hearing the verdict of guilty or not guilty of the charges. In my case, I was acquitted of the 120, 93, and found guilty of the 92 for, in essence, having consensual sex with two subordinates. I was sentenced to a reduction to SSgt and a LOR. The legal office was irate that I didn't get a punitive discharge, so a week before I hit 16 years in the USAF, AFPC confirmed I was a "Career Airman" and could retire at 20 years as an SSgt, they sent me to an administrative discharge hearing. I was discharged with a General Under Honorable Conditions discharge at 16 years, 3 months, and 9 days. No check of the month club for me. Did the girls get in trouble for lying? Of course not, in fact, today the SrA is an SMSgt. Did I fuck up? Sure. But did I do something so egregious that it warranted getting booted at 16 years and losing everything I worked hard for? No. The retarded prior 19 AF/CC was found guilty of a lot more shit than I was in his court martial, but he's still a two-star (as of now). So yes, organizations can and will betray you. But in the civilian world, you can be a free agent and leave before it gets to that point. I was pretty bitter the year after I got out, but life worked out in a great way for me because the one thing the USAF taught me more than anything else when it was betraying me all those years via those examples was tenacity and perseverance. That has translated into successful ways multiple times in my post-USAF life.

Duly noted. I don’t think anybody can afford to build new computers at this rate. RAM prices have gone ballistic.

From what I've read the VR2 is finicky when using it with a PC. I bought a Quest 3 instead. It works good.

facts. standard re-attack.

It is wild how strongly the left sides with terrorist and criminals. But maybe it is just Occam's Razor: they’re so ruled by TDS that they’ll lose their shit over anything and everything they can even loosely connect to Trump, real or imagined. No capacity for nuisance and critical thought.

CDC reports over 80,000 overdose deaths in the US in 2024. Obviously, Opioids are a big part of that, but they are often combined with other drugs including cocaine. Lot of social costs and taxpayer money get sucked up in this problem not to mention health care. On a side note, the cartels covert PR machine will do whatever they can to shape the narrative.

#Heaux. once a douche canoe, always a douche canoe. Cowher lays it all out. Why would a parent ever listen to anything this turd says and believe he will look out for their kid?

No organization will ever care about you, nor will it betray you, because it can't. The people in the system are what matters and you'll find good and bad people in every system. I had far more good than bad experiences in my AF time and I would absolutely do it all again, but I know that experiences will vary. I still think that there is a higher proportion of good dudes in the AF than in the airlines (I'm at a legacy) or in most other career fields. Timing and luck play a huge part of your AF career; I knew good guys that got repeatedly shafted and I knew guys that had a great career even though they were less deserving. But by far more common were good dudes that got some good deals and some bad deals. It sucks when your commander/boss happens to be one of the guys that shouldn't be there, but that happens everywhere, including at the airlines. The only difference is at the airlines it is often easier to distance yourself. If your career really was just one bad deal after another than either you were extremely unlucky (it happens, I knew a good guy like that) or it might be your attitude. Looking back at my career, I'm thankful for all my good deals. They made great friends, memories, and stories. But I'm also thankful for most of my bad deals because they helped shape my path to be where I am now.

Well this got even more hilariously stupid. No DEVGRU on the boat executing people, just a target boat that wasn’t destroyed after the first shot (#hellfire, amirite!), so they shot it again to ensure a better F-Kill. OMG, that’s only happened hundreds of thousands of times across history. Guess many of us on here should also be convicted of war crimes. Absolute political hack job asshatery. See kids, this is why you don’t blindly believe fabricated political hit pieces masquerading as “factual news.”

get the quest also i need you to help build me a new computer bb

Don't knock it till you try it. 😄

I have no plausible deniability on this one. Sounds like y'all don’t either!

@Clark Griswold I just say 50 by going off historical precedent. We were supposed to get 700+ raptors and 100 B-2s. There are already talks of cutting F-35 production in favor of NGAD paper promises. We’re dumping the wedge tail and can’t field a single engine jet trainer without a litany of issues. I’ve ranted about this in other threads before but I don’t think we have the attention span to stick with programs or build jets in numbers that are tactically relevant anymore. I would bet on getting 25% of the airframes we originally planned for. 50 would be 50% of the original B-21 order number which given how f-ed our acquisitions are right now would literally be a moonshot best case scenario. Would love to be proven wrong