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The what about-ism's gotta stop for the republican party. Admit your fuckup, fire/don't fire and move on. Republicans aren't going to 'win' over mainstream media regardless. They will lose some voters who came over for a change. I love the policies (mostly) so far. This is a massive own goal. Move on. As someone said up higher, we could have told the Houthi's everything and it would have had zero effect on their response.

Much of this is self-induced by absurd over-classification. I did a TSP and everyone was told the location was classified. Finance accidentally typed the location into our travel orders and that resulted in their network being isolated for a day while comm went through and did whatever they do to fix that. Obviously finance was even less useful than normal during that time. We were told that we could tell our wives where we were going once we arrived in country. Meanwhile, the local national travel agents on base with zero clearance for anything booked ADVON on commercial flights and emailed us our tickets to the 'classified' location. Then we arrived to a reception of a dozen host country reporters to cover our arrival who had been told a month prior. We had to jump through all sorts of hoops pretending the location was a secret, but everyone knew where we were going and there was no real reason for it to be secret in the first place. Things like this make people desensitized to classified.

WICKR (the CUI app) is more cumbersome than Signal/Whatsapp but not overwhelmingly so; it’s better than it was a couple years ago. If a tech retarded guy like me can make it work anyone can. The SIPR options aren’t hard. I had access to them as a peon O-5 staffer (on a little j staff). I’m sure at the NCA level they’ve got some pretty gucci shit. It’s just in this case, for whatever reason, people chose not to use them. I don’t disagree with your point about people becoming complacent when handling classified. Unfortunately it seems the higher in rank/position some people get they feel the rules don’t apply to them. Anecdote: I once had a boss who we were fairly certain tunneled into an SVTC in the middle of an international airport with a jacket thrown over his head and the laptop.

I can normally be found hunting ancient artifacts like Indiana Jones....or maybe hanging out with Lara Croft? I do use WeChat during my Shanghai and Guangzhou layovers, so maybe that makes me a CCP associate.

Maybe listening to Yuki on the radio will make Horner "explode." Too soon?

Try again...

Yea super immature. Can't imagine anyone in that chat needed that info. Curious what happens. Democrats will clearly demand firing, but they didn't when last SECDEF botched AFG and was literally AWOL for days so R's will focus on the hypocrisy. So maybe those positions are beyond accountability but I hope Pete gets fired. If he had owned it I might have a different opinion but he also lied when questioned by the press so credibility shot.

UPT direct to the Red Eagles, it’s new.

Based on the poster...they dropped MIG-25s too!

I hear you brother and there is blame to share but LM does NOT deserve all the blame. As noted, requirements creep and an unrelenting desire to purchase a single airframe for all services that forced multiple comprises, usually without coordination within the service let alone with other services. As an example I was in the five sided funny palace when they discovered the F-35 datalink was incompatible with the F-22 datalink...YGBSM...built by the same company! And for the record, that company tried repeatedly to tell the government it was an issue but got the hand waive from DoD until suddenly it was a crisis. Fat Amy will always get a bad name but behind the green door she is a bad bitch in her mission area. Post merge she is the chick you don't want your friends to see you with, especially when the bar closes and the lights come on. Behind closed doors and pre-merge she will rock your world (sts) like a MILF nymphomaniac who spent time in Thailand. I truly hope everyone continues to underestimate her. For all her incredible capabilities on the classified side, they made huge sacrifices to make a VTOL version. They made even more sacrifices to get the naval variant on the boat while meeting the range requirements...as a result it doesn't even have a gun...didn't we learn that less 50 years ago in Vietnam? Many of the issues are software related and driven by DoD that does not understand AGILE software development. The history of the sausage making behind the scenes is boring yet maddening, the government made it SOOO much harder (sts). Similarly look at the V-22...the Marines ran the program and controlled all the key design and performance requirements which led to many of today's issues. As an example, the rotor disc is not aerodynamically optimized, the diameter should be about 20% larger but it would not fit on the boat so out of the gate a huge sacrifice in performance that impacted every service that flies it. I am certainly not a test pilot but have been told the performance issues like Vortex Ring State are made worse by the reduced optimization of the rotor diameter. All is not doom and gloom, especially with Fat Amy. In reality in most circumstances if a peer or near peer gets to the merge with an F-35....even if the F-35 is flown by a mediocre pilot, something went very wrong. Not saying things don't go wrong, but she is not incapable.

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From Jan 20, 2021 - Jan 20-2025, 189 pages in this thread while Biden was President, but we still don't know (cough, Obama, cough) who was making decisions. From Jan 20, 2025 - present, 96 pages in this thread. Just shy of 50% of the pages for an entire presidency in 2+ months. Interesting on what some find acceptable.

“Don’t talk about the deployment on social media… “ Also “Your families can find the times and specifics for the redeployment on the unit FB page.” I think my favorite was the PAO taking pictures of the Camp Alpha Christmas party with all the secret stuff on the walls. As for Tulsi… she was an MP. That’s the bar she cleared. How much classified material handling do you think she honestly did, I doubt she ever even had a token. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You've obviously never been to a shopping mall in Minneapolis.

Also something for discussion is the conduct of official business on a message chain set to automatically delete after a week. Doesn’t seem congruent with requirements for record keeping. Tough to FOIA a disappearing Signal message.

Immature and amateur. Trump, Harris, Biden, Clinton.. our “choices” for the last couple election cycles have been awful. We live in the world of Southpark, a Giant Douche or a Turd Sandwich

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When his boss doesn’t admit to fucking up, don’t expect him to do either.

we get it..."lock her up". do it, doubt anyone here gives a shit (including me). would love to see the same disdain for the complete willful disregard of OPSEC here as you have for Hillary American military lives are literally being further risked due to the sloppy, apathetic, and general DGAF attitude of this admin

This is what happens when you hire amateurs. When Trump made these noms, our enemies cheered him on. Pete, a talk show type with lots of baggage with women, there's room there for manipulation. Tulsa, a flip flop, there's room there. When Mattis was nominated, our enemies shit their pants. The T2.0 cabinet, they laughed out loud.

I guess this is what happens when you nominate an Army Guard Major to be SECDEF [emoji51] They need to own the mistake and then move on. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wait... is this an elusive "Hacker spotting"?!?! Kind of like seeing Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster! Or did Chang hack Hacker's account??

ilhan omar tomorrow

To be fair, the previous admin was never at risk of leaking any secret war plans because none were made.

This is the part that I find so funny. People act like these programs have existed for thousands of years and are the sole reason why humanity has survived. Who gives a shit if we over correct? If the alternative is fixing nothing, I would rather zero the budget out entirely and rebuild from scratch then guarantee my children and my grandchildren will live in a financially collapsing empire. People all over the world are living in much worse conditions than we are. We can survive a reduction in government provided quality of life, for a decade or so.

The math checks out