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AF is planning to order new C-20s...why not strip the gear out of the E-11s and convert them back to passenger configuration?

Good video of the F-15E crew that bailed out over Libya in 2011 and what happened after they returned to friendly control; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZvhhTpNFqU Excellent channel, BTW, if you like aviation.

I guess the Left would rather the Iranians progress to the point of North Korea, who are untouchable at this point. Too much artillery aimed at Seoul, nukes, and ICBMs. Only Iran has been even more aggressive at stirring up trouble and exporting violence abroad. God help us if they get nukes and ICBMs.

Everyone forgets how much support the Soviets gave North Korea and North Vietnam to include Soviet troops participating in combat operations against us in those wars.

I feel sorry for the illegals who are taken advantage when they come here, but they shouldn't be here. We can't let in millions of unskilled people and expect our society to remain stable and prosperous. My wife had a friend who overstayed a tourist visa to secure work in restaurant. Her friend worked for that restaurant for a year without pay (was provided food from the restaurant and lived onsite) and when she demanded her back pay, the employer threatened to turn her into ICE (and to another employee they did the same thing to). She ended up going back to her home country without having gotten paid for a year's labor. We put her in touch with some NGOs that help illegals get their pay (illegal or not, nobody deserves to be taken advantage of like that) but none were able to help and so she went back home (she wanted to work in the US to earn money for her daughter's cancer treatment but wasn't able to find a job in her home country due to being past retirement age). At any rate, illegal immigration and fraudulent asylum migration will continue until the incentives are removed.

Aggressive ICE ops wouldn't be necessary if the Republicans in Congress would get off their asses and pass some laws that a) dramatically increased the penalties for employing illegals (i.e. seizure of business, heavy jail time, etc.), b) 50% tax on remittances, ban on illegals receiving any taxpayer funded assistance, c) bill their home countries for their education and medical care costs incurred in the US (and trade embargoes on those who don't pay up), and d) remove counting illegals in the Census for Congressional apportionment (which is why the Dems are fighting so hard to keep them here, plus the kickbacks and grift). Most would self-deport were these policies enacted and aggressive ICE ops wouldn't be necessary. But the Republicans in Congress are only pretending to oppose the Dems.

Yep. Why is Dylan Roof still alive 8 years after he was handed a death sentence!?!? He was caught red-handed and there isn't the slightest doubt as to his guilt but yet justice is delayed and delayed. And don't get me started on Sgt Hasan Akbar. 20 years!

Probably goes a long ways to explain why we as a country can't win wars, build roads in a reasonable amount of time, why our biggest manufacturers (Boeing, Ford, etc.) have lost their way, etc.

Isn't that insurrection?

I don’t understand why a system, the E-7A, that is already operational with other air forces requires so much development investment, is so expensive to acquire, and has such a long lead time. I suppose the Air Force monkeyed with the requirements too much but still, should have been off-the-shelf.

The land components just lost two wars and are mainly responsible for our Euro-centric defense posture that allows the Europeans to freeload whilst we go broke defending them. Not interested in a damned word the Army has to say...

Well, it does run through 2034...

https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4218062/

I hope the US Air Force is paying attention to this and has countermeasures in place. If the PRC attacks Taiwan and doesn't do the same thing here in CONUS, they would be fools. Doubtless there are already PRC agents in place given our lax border security and student visa program.

I was not impressed with the will to fight, or lack thereof, my Taiwanese F-16 pilot classmate displayed (at the ROKAF Staff College), albeit that is a sample size of one (and this is before the Hong Kong crackdown, which probably stiffened some spines in Taiwan). However, I wonder what the will to fight is among the Taiwanese military and civilian population now. I wonder how it would stand up to a massive PRC missile barrage and a naval minelaying campaign, both of which could happen before we could intervene...