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Ummm NO! Are you out of your mind? Use Nellis, Eglin, Andrews, Joint Base San Antonio as examples, what do you say to the locals when you start spraying 4100 rounds of 20MM into neighborhoods around the base in the name of self-defense? CRAM is great at FOBs but CONUS bases need a different and layered solution.

Mover and Gonky discuss Red Wolf on OA-1 Posted as the skeptical views they share on the utility of it add (I think) to the broader point that I don’t believe the AF likes or believes in distributing fires capabilities to non traditional (not fighter/attack or bomber platforms) This must be overcome IMHO at high level Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I think putting a CRAM at every base, not just FOBs, is a no brainer now.

Truly one of the dumbest posts he's ever made...Started in 90 and have had a clearance ever since.

You know it!! Lol

slc when the waitress asks if he wants the senior discount

Been in since '94 bud and still have all the clearances.........careful w/ your assumptions on here

Wait till Pooter finds out that retirees and civilians can have security clearances... XedkA8l.mp4

@brabus @M2 you guys sound like such tools attempting to security clearance flex on people in an Internet forum.. But to answer your stupid misread, no I’m complaining that their pitch for the war directly contradicts their own administration’s DNI Annual Threat Assessment linked below now for the second time in this thread. https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2025-Unclassified-Report.pdf “WMD We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.” So no, my source isn’t some amateur defense blogger. Just the Director of National Intelligence. Now maybe your point is the secret version of the DNI report says the total opposite of the unclassified version. Fair. It’s a possibility and I haven’t read it. Although in my experience classified doesn’t usually contradict unclass stuff, it just adds more detail/sources/methods/numbers. I’ll go in the vault Monday and track it down. I’m also confident you haven’t read it either and are completely talking out of your ass. Because no tactical pilot spends their time in the vault reading DNI reports. We read tactical level documents like the 3-1 and the threat guide. Also with a baseops accounts dating back to 2005 and 2003 respectively there’s a very low likelihood either of you are even still in the military or have a clearance at this point which makes it even weirder you’d attempt to pull the ‘I know more secret stuff than you’ in a public forum. As if the boomer memes didn’t already give off clear enough retired energy

What percentage of their munitions against fixed targets actually hit vs how many were intercepted? What would the conflict look like without those intercepts?

When did this become a Holy war for us, the Pope making a statement that God doesn't hear our prayers when we claim we fight in his name? Glad that I am a Luthern.

Ah yes. The ol' trust me bro. Just as the founders intended. My open source mind will sit this one out. The 'good' people got this one.

Hegseth shows why he was the correct choice. He’s bringing religion back to the Pentagon by delivering a sermon himself! Pray with me: Amen!

The US has not been good at the money/cost side of warfare since Vietnam. We outproduced Germany in WWII in part by making something that is 80% as good as the German equivalent for half the price and then making 4x as many. When we had Cold War defense budgets, we could get away with making a bunch of the most advanced (expensive) weapon we could find, but hopefully this is a bit of a wake up call for our acquisition side (probably should have occurred in the 2005 time frame).

Exactly, PUBLIC. Not sure why it’s so mind blowing for people that there is way more to things than what’s going to be stated publicly. In your open source based opinion, we are “far from a cohesive reason.” Those who are fully informed know that’s not an accurate statement. My biggest recommendation to you and others is understand there are great people doing amazing work for good reasons - and just because you aren’t personally in that realm/in the know doesn’t mean it’s not true. Also, open source (including admin press conferences) is primarily dead wrong, mostly full of shit, or intentionally vague/misleading.

Too bad the US doesn't have an option for "six months hard labor". There are still a lot of ditches that need to be dug and potholes that need filling.

I guess this gets into a convo for possibly the other thread. Happy to move it there. But where would you say the balance is for making this assessment? Sure, we pounded them super hard, obliterated their Navy and AF, smoked leadership (plus a school)...but they still held strategic military and civilian assets at risk throughout the entire process. I won't even get into the money/cost portion. Speaking of which, keep the sailors who've been deployed for 10 months in your prayers. Operating off a flight deck after almost a year at sea sounds like a special hell. Even if they got the knock it off today, still a month to get home.

I hope my old bros and sis's executed well.

Possibly Revoke his passport while in jail, prevent this bullshit from him again and set an example

I guess this dipshit was competing with the quadruple amputee cornhole player for lowest IQ of the year.

So Trump is getting different intelligence than what all the other intelligence agencies that brief him? If we're committing blood and treasure, there needs to be a cohesive reason. That has been far from the case. We struck them last time because they were close to making a nuclear weapon. We 'obliterated' their capability to do so. Then we went full send this time to prevent them from an imminent nuclear weapon capability. The "I know a secret you don't know" shit doesn't fly in this case. Clearly laying out to the world where Iran was in the production of a weapon would have only helped our country in this pursuit. One can wonder why that wasn't presented or at least not contradicted intelligence agencies public statements....

@Pooter M2 summed my answer up quite well. It’s very evident your opinions and arguments are predicated on open source trash, or at best, some vaguely informed intel bro who read this one thing on SIPR (e.g. basically NIPR these days). You are far from accurately informed on this subject, but you talk like you’ve got it all figured out. There’s a lesson in this, if you can find it.

So you're complaining that the administration didn't share classified intelligence?!? Speaking of which, do you have access to any real reporting outside of open source? Because if so, there's a lot you don't actually know. Go ahead and criticize all you want, but rralize you may not be the smartest guy in the room...