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In case you needed an example how a senior leader (who tangled with POTUS) should say farewell Considering the tensions of the time--it just goes to show how much of an ass Milley is.

...here comes the dibs meme again...

Back in the day when I was going on football recruiting trips in high school I went to Nebraska. After my visit, they fired Frank Solich (for bad recruiting among other things)and the program has been down bad ever since. So yes,I personally destroyed the Nebraska football program.

Zài jiàn, MFer. Go be fat somewhere else. https://x.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1707788800577945927?s=20

I agree, to an extent. It wasn’t the entire squadron, it was two dudes. And they were really damn good. So it wasn’t like the entirety of the 6th was running around down there. I can’t speak to the bigger picture wrt Air Force employment since I was an outsider looking in back then. The irony is that what they were teaching and working towards aligns almost perfectly with what big Air Force is trying to do in that AOR these days, but at that time it wasn’t CENTCOM so people were like WTF are they doing?

“Impactful on partner nation real world operations” is a great way to answer my question. Well stated. Your next sentence is equally as true. You’re right they employed like an ODA. Except Army ODAs were doing the Lords work in AFG and accepting huge risk to help ANASOC commandos increase lethality. If the CAAs had been helping the US Military do things we needed and asked them to do, they’d still exist today. Instead they did one off GCC requests and DOS partnerships. Ok, that’s not nothing, but in the world of finite resources they lacked a convincing articulation of benefits provided to those paying the bill. Combine that with some odd cultural idiosyncrasies and their fate was unsurprising.

You don’t have to go back that far to make your point either. Things got more and a bit excitable in Syria from about 2014 and on. Trading rounds, knocking down aircraft, and actively killing Russians has happened so recently you can YouTube it. Somehow with all of that we are all still here. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Are nukes on the table for Russia? Yes. Just like they’re on the table for us. Is it likely to escalate there? Almost certainly not. Many were surprised that we DIDN’T use nukes in Korea. Maybe the talk about nukes dragged us in a different direction. The point is: if you argue that Russia is concerned about certain actions triggering escalation and assume they are actively managing those risks, you have to consider the increasing possibility of that mitigation failing at some point (human error) as the conflict drags on. The USSR and US traded aircraft during the Cold War, sure. That was the norm. It is not the norm now, and retaliation in kind would be both justifiable and escalatory should that situation have ended differently. Would it be WWIII? Probably not. Is there a series of unlikely, unavoidable events that would get us there? Yes. The folks absolutely convinced that this is the road to the big one are probably nuts. But anybody whose job exists in the security apparatus has to consider it as part of the strategic context.

Define "meaningful work."

What are the odds on Milley becoming a "trans"national? Lol That dude wears a leather dog mask for sure.

They're.

They're both CJO's, so just like applying for multiple interviews, there is nothing that stops someone leaving AD to get CJOs from multiple airlines and picking the one he wants as he retires/separates. Two years out gives a bit more peace of mind than six months, but doesn't really change that much. This is a solid step in the right direction. An even better step would be to actively recruit guys that are at the 7 or 15 year point. Send them through indoc on a week or two of leave and then know that they're going to drop long term mil leave for 5 years. Then you have a 99.9% chance that dude is going to show up at your airline at the 5 year point. It is obviously not free but it's not that much either. With how much airlines are spending on trying to create their own pipeline, this seems like an easy answer to get some top tier candidates with a very predictable timeline.

Bravest, not Brightest.

As I got older, when some shoe clerk said that, I would ask "How far back does your always go? Because mine goes back pretty far"

He is a dishonorable man and disgrace to the uniform. The worst CJCS perhaps ever. I’m hopeful I can eventually say it to his fat face.

They did, I flew them there and back.

Dude is an embarrassment to the uniform. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app