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Too bad, guess another bro got the GO lobotomy.

Realistically manned AWACS has zero utility in the PACOM fight, assuming full blown kinetic (and non-) hostilities. IBS, UAS, etc. were needed yesterday to fulfill the Tac C2 mission in that war.

Freddy is a smart dude who was a solid sq/CC - I hope he hasn’t strayed from that path. He’s also very data driven, so if objective data supports the shit show claim, at least old Freddy would do something about it.

Just a couple of bat shit crazy chicks fighting over who gets to suck Michael’s (I mean Michelle’s) dick. Nothing to see here.

If it’s in good faith (you’re trying, just T-38s/fighters aren’t in your cards), the unit will generally try to help a guy find a heavy unit willing to take them. This usually works out. If its SIE, then the unit can retain you in another career field, release you, or see if there’s another unit who wants to take you for a non-rated job.

Not required, it was crystal clear what he was talking about for anyone who has the capacity to listen.

So you heard it, but did not listen to it - there’s a difference. To address this single point you (and that article) have cherry picked out to try and use as some beacon of “mental faculty loss,” Trump was talking to the cadets about the importance of momentum - finding it, keeping it, and if you lose it, recognize that and pivot. He used an allegory of a businessman he knew who lost momentum, made poor decisions whilst doing so, didn’t recognize it early enough, and thus he basically tubed his life. It was long winded (as Trump can be) and could have been shortened with the same allegorical effect, but the valid message in the allegory is clear…unless one wants to be a politically-motivated hack and try to completely misrepresent it by cherry picking a couple words and talking about it without any context. Trump is a loud mouth and showman, we all know that, but along the lines of public speaking and mental faculties, this speech was 1000x better than Biden or Harris could have given. And that’s not so much a compliment to Trump as it is stating how incredibly bad the other options were…but I digress.

Nice ludicrously leftist hit piece you referenced. I read the whole transcript - laughable to conclude this is something akin to Biden’s mental implosion. Yep, it’s got Trump flair in it, but his speech is a pretty average political leader speaking at a grad ceremony speech. He actually says a lot of good things and addresses many reasonable topics given the audience. It’s no orator of the century speech, but it’s not remotely what the left (specifically this article) is trying to make it out to be. Bottom line, going to the actual source once again proves to be much better than just immediately gobbling up some garbage article that popped on Google or a CNN link.

Dear God, please don’t let the Senate fuck this up.

Would Biff have dibs’d her?

That’s a hell of a lot of conspiracy theory there. Not to say there are no things that would benefit his companies, but to address a couple of those points: Starlink is a significant force multiplier in many ways - it is an excellent product that will continue to increase our military capabilities. It’s a better investment than much of what we’ve thrown at LM, Boeing, etc. USAID is complete garbage, not even a shell of what it was originally designed to be. Same applies to many orgs/sub-orgs that DOGE highlighted. The regulatory bureaucracy filled with unelected bureaucrats must die - it is not a negative to target those things for closure.

Ouch. Bummer. I had heard of some ANG ASOSs shutting down/changing mission, but didn’t realize it was that heavy.

Huh? What have you heard that I haven’t?

Sure, but still kind of a red herring for the situation. Saw it all the time - armed assets available for ODAs, but dipshits somewhere decide not to for zero valid reason. Employed weapons more than once after I proactively moved my “do nothing” XCAS container to another one because I talked to the guys night prior and found out their JTARs were denied. The ASOC actually got mad after they caught on because I was not “letting them do their job of managing air assets.” Similar type of level 69 dumbasssery with Niger, Benghazi, etc. etc.