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Miles was an awesome dude, mentor, and aviator. We lost contact over the years but I happened to see him at a fellow crewdog's wedding and it was great to catch up with him for a few hours that night. While I kept wanting to know about all the cool test stuff he got to do, he would mostly talk about what his family was doing and how proud he was of his kids. Tragic loss for his family, the Air Force, and the world in general.

They don't care...orange man bad, who gives a flying F if thousands of Americans died from Iran's support of terror.

Not mad at all, just calling out frauds like yourself. Your entire “knowledge base” is built on whatever the media spews and a significant political bias. You do not have first hand knowledge and you demonstrate such a lack of understanding of classification and information ops, I doubt you’re even in the mil, or at least in a role that would actually understand these things. Specifics? The last post I replied to, and somewhere around 90%+ of your other posts in this thread alone.

Yes, we get it. You’re a progressive who doesn’t like Trump or people who support Trump.

Because you are not telling the truth... 1. Unlike the deal with Obama we are not flying a plane full of cash to start things off, this is performance based deal. They get ZERO access to the funds until they comply with the nuclear details that have yet to be fully agreed upon. 2. There are no taxpayer dollars, again ZERO U.S. dollars. .69 seconds of GoogleFu and your argument is displayed as nonsense. It cool if you don't like this deal but when you lie to try and make you points sound better...it turns out ungood. 13 deaths...horrible, the outrage should go both ways like the other 13 you don't ever mention. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Darin T. Hoover Marine Corps Sergeant Johanny Rosario Pichardo Marine Corps Sergeant Nicole L. Gee Marine Corps Corporal Hunter Lopez Marine Corps Corporal Daegan W. Page Marine Corps Corporal Humberto A. Sanchez Marine Corps Lance Corporal David L. Espinoza Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jared M. Schmitz Marine Corps Lance Corporal Rylee J. McCollum Marine Corps Lance Corporal Dylan R. Merola Marine Corps Lance Corporal Kareem M. Nikoui Army Staff Sergeant Ryan C. Knauss Navy Hospital Corpsman Third Class Maxton W. Soviak

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Guessing they had some test engineers...terrible loss.

Don't think so, that is the bird that has been testing the new AESA.

Wild read. Miller is a fucking ghoul independent of this article. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/politics/trump-scharf-habeas-corpus-insurrection-act.html?

You mean 13 attributable to a mass murdering radical Islamic controlled government? We have been in conflict with Iran since 1979. More Americans have died from Iran directly or indirectly than from any other country. This escalation was bound to happen eventually.

20 years ago, PBD-720 announced the retirement of the U-2. I was interviewed in the press and said "the last U-2 pilot isn't out of elementary school yet". I should have said "the last U-2 pilot isn't out of kindergarten yet". https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2006/01/04/Pentagon-to-retire-U-2-spy-plane/88231136416087/

The War ZoneFour U-2S Spy Planes Would Be Restored In Bill That Would...Congress is also moving to again block the Air Force from retiring the entire U-2 fleet amid continued questions about capability gaps.

USMNT 1, CAN 2. Gay

One of the greatest has flown West. Maj Gen Pat Halloran was 95. He had 100 combat missions in the F-84 before being selected for the highly-secretive U-2 Program in the 1957 time frame. Pat went on to be one of only 18 pilots to check out in both the U-2 and SR-71. After retirement, be remained involved in flying experimental aircraft and homebuilts, including some very exotic replica aircraft from the Tom Wathen Collection, like the De Havilland Comet. He was a regular at Oshkosh. Just a fantastic guy and incredible pilot. A toast to the General...

Eight confirmed dead. Him Him 🥃

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So setting aside the service members who died, aircraft we lost, facilities damaged, and stockpiles depleted let's see where we are at. Allies lost faith in our ability to defend them and pissed off our European allies for blind siding them. Chucked by Israel continously. Destroyed Iran's airforce and navy (as if they were ever a threat). Disrupted the global economy and validated Iran's ability to exert control over the strait and region using mines, drones, and ballistic missiles. Traded a deal that unfroze $1.7B of their cash for a deal that's going to unfreeze $25B of their casb and give them another $300B of our cash allegedly. Replaced extremist leadership with even more hardline military extremist leadership. Traded an inspected and managed uranium stockpile for unknown results but certainly not what's claimed. If the B-2s did the work they claimed last year, why are we here again? Any limitations not included in this deal. Explicitly excludes any missile program related concessions despite those on here saying that was a key flaw of Obama's deal. OH and killed a bunch of school kids making another generation or three of anti-american extremists in the region. Did we win daddy?

I can name at least 13 directly attributable to the current admin. "Pallets of cash" conveniently ignoring that legally it was Iran's own money that had been previously locked up. And we're now looking at paying them 15x that amount immediately and 176x that amount later on. And not out of Iran's frozen funds this time but out of our own taxpayers pockets to boot. This thread is hilariously quiet while everyone waits to get their talking points on how what I outlined above is actually the checkmate move in trump's 4d chess game and not what it is at face value. Total capitulation and global embarrassment.