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  2. Lord Ratner
    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.
  3. Today
  4. FourFans
    Which ones specifically are you thinking about?
  5. Lawman
    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
  6. bfargin
    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.
  7. brabus
    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?
  8. Day Man
    why do you suppose no R cities are being floated for mil intervention despite having high crime too?
  9. brabus
    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.
  10. brabus
    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.
  11. fire4effect
    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.
  12. brabus
    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.
  13. Banzai
    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?
  14. Sua Sponte
    “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.
  15. Yesterday
  16. brabus
    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.
  17. Banzai
    Republicans calling out Mike Johnson saying he’s complicit in covering up the files.
  18. Clark Griswold
    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
  19. HeyEng
    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.
  20. JASSM_ER
    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.
  21. M2
  22. Polar Bear
    Why does the Army have yearly minimums but not the AF?
  23. Boomer6
    I'm not arguing what a dead guy would do. George Marshall, on several occasions went out of his way to have face to face discussions with his GOs abroad on important matters. If you want to get nit-noid and say he never got them all together, I'd say you're correct, hard to do in the middle of WWII. You can't prove he'd be worse than Marshall unless we enter another war similar to the Korean War (when Marshall was SECDEF). I guess it's a good thing for the SECDEF your opinion doesn't matter, just like mine doesn't.
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  25. Vito
    Disgruntledemployee, Perhaps if you view Trump as a non-politician, it may help you warm up to him. He isn’t a politician, he’s not a smooth talker, he’s blunt, says what’s on his mind and often gets in a lot of trouble for it. But he’s a damned effective leader, rough around the edges for sure, but he gets things done! I’m sure. He’s also beholden to no man, doesn’t need money, and loves America. I can think of a lot worse people. George Marshall was a very good soldier, leader, and undoubtably an effective politician to earn all those stars.
  26. disgruntledemployee
    You're arguing about what dead guy would do, and I'm saying said dead guy should be a model of leadership. You can never prove your point, but I can continue to compare a historical figure to a TV talking head. If you think I'm displeased only with him holding a meeting, you haven't been paying attention. Pete is not a leader and I don't see him growing into one.
  27. Justwanttofly
    And I’m just curious what plugs do you have to get this info lol. I myself know people in high places but none particularly in AFPC.
  28. JASSM_ER
    What I know: AFPC/DPMO personnel working UFT packages were furloughed two days after the board finalized their list. So while they had a little time to start moving packages forward, they had not yet gotten to coordinating with A1, assignments teams, etc. before the shutdown. Uniformed personnel at AFPC should still be <working> but my understanding is the UFT team is entirely civilians. 😞 Speculation: they will probably push faster once the govt reopens, but only so much can be done in so long. The time AFPC can "flex" their standard timeline to accelerate processing results is the difference between the standard release date and a delayed release that still arrives earlier than the lag duration of the shutdown. But this year the selection process timeline was shortened (down to 3 months instead of 3.5 months), so they may already be on a condensed timeline and therefore not have much ability to accelerate release of results further. At least this pretty much guarantees nobody will be getting an RNLTD during the holidays.
  29. Biff_T
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