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Again, you are either willfully or just ignorantly trying to give her a pass. You assumingely (by being on this site) know personally of instances of persons being crucified, livelihoods lost, careers ended, because of stuff far more benign and innocent than anything Hillary did. We threw guys to the wolves in SOCOM for far less. Yet you spent god knows what time on Reddit or wherever digging up a wall of reasons why it’s ok she didn’t face any repercussions for intentionally setting up an illegal server in her house that classified material just happens to make it onto. And then you excuse her actions quoting a guy saying “well if you charged her all these other people would have to be charged.” Yeah bro, a whole lot of people would be fine with Trumps indictment had a whole lot of other people ever been charged. Instead this is absolutely standing as proof that if you are connected and protected or not, your actions carry different consequences. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you want to know why a whole lot of people are calling out this action as dubious given the political protection granted to Clinton, it’s probably got something to do with this almost forceful way that people dismiss Clinton and her actions from discussion. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-email-server-top-secret-217985 Absolutely nobody paying attention at the time could see what Clinton was ignorant of what was found on the 2/3 of her server that were actually investigated (because a lot was destroyed intentionally before it was turned over). But nah… totally on the up and up there. Nothing to see… in fact we can’t even remember it happened…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Right… it’s the over abundance of educated people in high earning jobs that somehow pushed the thumb down on the scale. It’s not the mass appeal of populist stupidity that keeps people like (for example) Jayapal in Seattle or Sheila Jackson Lee elected to their positions. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

How many Air Assaults did you fly? I’m just curious if your pax list looked different than mine, because while what you’re describing it as looked accurate early, it damn sure didn’t match what was in my aircraft during the later years of the war. But yeah, you got it all figured out. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It is when behavioral health or medical surveys ask… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It does, and honestly it would more mirror the Russian force structure. Even still, as the systems go from big theatre stuff to divisional/regimental footprints the parent you live with is gonna change. Little known fact though, SA-22 isn’t an Army system, but look at where it is currently nested in Ukraine trying to plug holes and shore up the regular aligned Army ADs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You want to own a supporting formation within an Army maneuver formation? One that has to get its organic maintenance and sustainability from the wider formation of Army it lives with? I’m not saying it can’t be done, but I can give you a guess how your representation and treatment at the big table in Division when you literally exist to be apportioned out to BCTs as needed and now you aren’t even in an Army uniform. THAAD could probably be passed off pretty easily, but everything below that is too entrenched into maneuver formations. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s only getting worse… LSCO has fundamentally shifted the application but the mindset or “oh everything below X altitude is just mine,” has been hard solidified in two decades of COIN “Doctrine.” And in the next couple years we’re looking to greatly increase our SHORAD and protection at the Division level. So having just done the Suwalki gap warfighter I’d say you’re best bet to fit through that 80 mile corridor of airspace nightmare…. Is to not and just come down from Norway or something. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Honestly given Patriot’s track record, I’d say that has more to do with the lack of active ground based air defense in the US. You guys realize you are relying on an Army element of the TAGS/AAGS architecture to not only have the right mode 4/5 comsec, but also to have the smartest people you’d expect over there. There is a good reason we are planing our routes to avoid friendly concentrations of forces. Hint: Air Defense doesn’t require near the asvab score you would expect it does. And one of the dumbest warrants I’ve ever worked with was an AD branch guy. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you’re going with that “short” a distance, I’d go with either a combination standard red dot and magnifier, or leaning more toward not going in houses just a standard 4x optic. I’m a big fan of Aimpoint and magnifier combos. Little heavier but does either job well, just practice transitioning. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The only place it’s really “common” is in ARSOA. Even then it’s really weird that the battalion XO is suddenly in your pilots office and now you call him Sam. Other place is seeing guys asses to guard positions so they become a warrant when they cross over having been and active duty captain or whatever. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That isn’t exactly true… there is a process to it but it’s ridiculously weird and complex. Oh also we routinely see months long gaps in getting paid for our RLOs that revert to Warrant. One in my office was literally getting 0.00 LESs for 6 months before the issue was resolved. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’d just like to point out literally none of those masks is anything but a cloth napkin…. The president isn’t wearing an N95 compliant mask… neither is the 2nd in line in our chain of succession. So besides optics what the F was the point. It’s like they literally think we are too stupid to notice them not obeying the made up rules. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s kinda like Jonestown as an analogy. A whole lot of people were willing to drink the Kool-Aid…. Some people were so crazy they were willing actually Make it… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

B/1st Bn 82nd CAB we’re the Apaches performing “route clearance ops” for the Airlift at Kabul. They evacuated to Kuwait…. Then stayed to wait a few weeks for the rest of their Bn Task Force to finish RIP and depart Iraq….. Yeah… wtf right. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Korea is the Disney Family PG version of a tour in Asia compared to the stuff going on in my dad’s or my Grandfathers military. Spending 6 months in the Philippines on staff and seeing Clark and Subic in person a lot of old jokes made waaaay more sense. My dad used to say that you could always tell the guys that went to Guam/Japan/etc vs Philippines. The ones that did the PI islands came back “broken” to normal life elsewhere. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just another Tuesday night on the boardwalk at KAF… watching another O6 eat ice cream with an E4…. Nothing to worry about…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

F-15Y… Write it down. I’m calling it as gonna happen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Either this is about “everybody being under penalty of the same legal system” or it isn’t. Hunter Biden isn’t “political retribution” should some next admin (because it sure as hell won’t be this one) chose to act on demonstrated public crime. He cannot legally own a firearm… yet he bought one… that’s a felony. We don’t need a 3 year special council investigation to establish that any more than we can’t prove him in possession of narcotics when he’s literally been photographed with a crack pipe. So felony firearms violations…it’s a Federal crime violated so yes it is in fact evidence that the executive branch does not intent to apply justice evenly and is carrying out action entirely based off political alignments. You can’t claim some sort of legal justice seeking narrative going after a political opponent and then suddenly act like anybody connected to the opposite side being prosecuted for demonstrated crimes is “retribution.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You don’t get to start paying attention but just with the other political side. If attorney generals wanted to actually make an argument hey we’re attempting to impartially apply judicial action where it was appropriate but neglected due to political connection, they would start with their own party. Then they’d have a leg to stand on that this isn’t politically motivated. We aren’t seeing that, so don’t try and sell it for them like as soon as we get done with this we will move on to the massive publicly visible nonsense they are ignoring in the meantime. Just for example You have the son of the president dead to rights on everything from drug possession to federal firearms violations. But we won’t see that action by the justice department likely ever. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I dated a capitol police officer back in the day. Coming from my background compared to hers their department is in a word, “weird.” They are staffed and equipped almost like park police vs the more civil authority model used in metropolitan police. But then they had riot kit that was prestige and sub machine guns. It wasn’t heavily manned though because here are something like 5 different law enforcement agencies in the same location intermingled in responsibility but no centralized command and control. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

A whole lot of us in Eucom at the time we’re waiting while one of our poorest foreign policy leaders dithered and conducted poll’ing. The media narrative of “little green men” paralyzed us resolve combined with an IO campaign that it was a populist revolt by locals, because we couldn’t prove to the average person what the smart people in the room knew, that those were Russian troops from VDV and Spetz units. By the time our administration got off its ass to “do something” the Russians had all the key terrain and the Ukrainian military of them was not the military of today (a decade of FID/training saw to that). Also geographically Crimea is a much smaller operation than trying to take a region the size of Massachusetts (vs a country of 40+ million people that is the size of Texas). If we had responded militarily to it we would have been executing a joint forcible entry scenario to restore Crimea. And we’d have largely been doing it alone considering how Merkle ran her seat at the NATO table. We thought repositioning rotational troops and throwing some sanctions on the Russians would be enough to deter further aggression, but the whole time we prepared the Uke’s in case it failed. And yes failing to act then was one of our dumber mistakes and another big show of why Obama was a pretty awful leader in the form of foreign policy, and we all owe Mitt a public apology. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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“The arrogance of the officer corps…” Though your general hostility viewed in that particular lens makes more sense. Now you need to know you are amongst friends here. So please show us on the doll where the bad Major touched you. It’ll be ok. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I mean there is in fact a way the Russians can win this, and that’s the west pulling back it’s industrial capacity and economic support for the Ukrainians and making this a simple attritional arithmetic. At that point it’s simply Ukrainian casualties and ammo consumption vs Russian casualties and ammo consumption and last man standing wins. That is still a fight that as bloody as it would go the Russians are more than willing to take as a “win.” This is a society comfortable with casualties to accomplish a means in a way we in the west simply can’t fathom. Same as a 27 million casualty victory sounds insane to us, but they celebrate it in their text books. They also leave out all the ways they were economically propped up to win the great patriotic war by our economic capacity. At one point the Russians were “winning” against the Wehrmacht… in a 6 to 1 exchange in casualties against them. The Western powers absolutely cannot afford to succumb to the isolation and apathy preached by some and back off on the support because it’s the one thing the Russian don’t have in abundance and can’t simply muscle over. The worst thing going on now is the fight over Bakhmut is sapping combat power the Ukrainians could be using come spring to launch more offensives. The Russians know this which is why they are happy to lob bullet sponges in the form of their prison conscripts because what does that cost them compared to its effect of soaking up useful Ukrainian combat power. Even still Crimea is extremely vulnerable right now in the long term because they are slowly being cut off from logistics. The rail road bridge is gone and the Uke’s now have the ability to range into the region with long range precision fires so the Russians can’t mass logistics even if they had trains they could run forward. If Crimea falls into disarray that could be the negotiation token Zelensky is waiting for to call for a negotiated withdrawal of Russian troops. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk