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While I’m sure a lot of that article is written intentionally to be provocative for the purpose of sharing and therefor add revenue… His points on the “cult of the Loser” and its toxic effect on society and culture are spot on. What next, we gonna have a book deal and movie for the guy that rang the bell 3 days into Hell Week at BUDS? Nothing worth having comes easy. We put champions on a podium for a reason, to stand above those and be awed by those who lack the skill drive and determination to be greater than the herd. That’s not something to be ashamed of, and the people suddenly pushing that narrative were probably picked last at Dodgeball and now feel like thanks to the magic of the Internet they can make that because society is toxic and not because they were the fattest slowest kid in 4th grade no matter how much gram gram told them they were special. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m less concerned about her actions and more worried and disgusted with the sudden attention to Kerri Strug and the famous “this is your moment and the world is watching to see what you’re gonna do” vault like she was a victim for doing what 99.9% of a million people faced with that choice would never have the fortitude to do, and do it in front of cameras. People have decided to project their own past failures or decisions they felt pressured into and turn it on her scenario like they know what was really going on, and it’s now a narrative of toxic coercion. Suddenly it’s ok to quit and in fact it’s “the right choice.” It’s not nuanced or a matter of last resort, just acceptable. F that… champions don’t think that way. Warriors don’t think that way. The real world outside peoples coddled suburban perspective life will absolutely crush a society that believes that kind of nonsense. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is only so much flat, graded, asphalt surfaced space and fuel farms/infrastructure on the island… I wouldn’t blame them not betting on repeated sorties when your opponent has Super Power quantities of SR/MRBMs not to mention a fleet of cruise missile carrying bombers. You’d be asking for performance out of PAC-3 and Aegis that nobody has actually been able to duplicate outside of a Tom Clancy novel. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

We’ve watched the exact same thing with regards to Law Enforcement and the use of force, but that doesn’t stop the garbage being spewed there either. We are at our core a Mob of tribal brutes. Society is an thin veneer that only works as an anomaly to be sustained only when everything is comfortable. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

F all that… “Yeah guys perform air strikes for a foreign military with no competent representation on the ground to actually dictate the targeting cycle or call in/off air appropriate to the scenarios… Sure everything will be fine.” Do we get to just pick our own targets now? Or do we get to use the “dude had a 3rd grade education and barely spoke English, how was I supposed to know that was a school I was shooting” at a future war crimes investigation? We crushed people’s souls for doing the right thing and having stuff go bad when it was Top tier guys calling it in. No way should bubbas be flying strike lines for them without some seriously predetermined immunity for this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well… At least the market is very much in his favor at the moment… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You can always route federal funding to “resource” the base with Federal employees, despite the fact it has no real mission or justification for maintaining what is there in place. Fort Knox is a good example of this. No way the vault and Human Resources Command justifying the amount of real estate and support infrastructure that is on a base that used to maintain the Army’s second largest training intake BCT and the entire Armor and Cavalry branch schools. But still gotta pay all those range control guys to drive around on roads and make sure nobody is back there hunting without a pass. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I mean… anybody familiar with old world Asian racism would admit they put a lot of the stereotype Redneck racists to shame… Had a 1st Gen Korean roommate in college lay out the sort of triangle hierarchy of Asian hatreds his parents were vehemently bound too. Crazy stuff… Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I want to believe that somehow somebody in a room is pointing out the possibility of a massive impact to manpower and personnel losses. Like, “Col/Gen we forecast a loss of 6-9% from our Active duty component which will take 3-4 years to full recover due to increased workload on the remainder driving higher rates of ETS/UQR…” But after watching them F away so many other personnel problems with the standard, “nobody wants to leave except quitters and they’ll all be homeless! Reenlist!” zeal, I don’t think anyone at that level actual anticipates this is a problem. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mil could always do that. The issue was after the massive F’up with the force wide mandatory Anthrax Vax nobody wants to touch that. Getting the force vaccinated has nothing to do with protecting us and everything to do with one less hoop to jump through with strategic level issues like “can we rapidly deploy troops through country X on the way to Country Y.” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On camp Alpha during the attack in December 19…. The highest risk to personnel was the dumbasses running around with M9s in the headquarters building and Dorms shouting random challenges at anybody. Meanwhile… the people qualified to have guns were out on the wall with belts of ammo gleefully dumping rounds into anything within 150 meters of the perimeter wall for an hour. Scariest moment was the next day watching the Full Bird in charge of CJSOAC be walked around by some E-6 Security Force moron outlying how she planned to train HQ personnel to defend the facility. I truly enjoyed pointing out she had no clue wtf she was talking about with another W3 and then laughing about the dumb ideas being presented to the COL. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

KAF in the RLBs, sleeping during the day because you’re on Vampire shift. Winds have the traffic pattern oriented for East Takeoff/Landings… A German Tornado does his 11 minute full afterburner run up and departure… you lay there through all of it having been woken up. You finally start to go back to sleep… then his god damned wingman starts… Or the Harriers come in to fuel and leave… The Earth can swallow that entire god forsaken country. Next time send Nukes. It would have been cheaper in the long run. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I mean just spitballing… - immediate expulsion from both the G7 and the security council… - 5-10 trillion dollars in reparations to the world bank or some other entity… - All the concessions in literally any economic negotiation for the near future… Look if China built this thing and then F’d up or more to the point in the CCP, reviewed their options and chose to go with “deny this in the WHo so everybody goes down with me,” either way they are F’d and deservedly so. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Start right at Dwyer, Bastion, Farrah, and Shindand. You’ll get everybody to the East with the fallout, and The first country in the path of prevailing winds kinda brought this on themselves over the last 30 years. Maybe it’ll give them pause to keep trying to provoke the Sub-Continent. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

What Russia does not have is quality in its Pacific harbors. If you look back on a 70 year long history of Soviet and later Russian “just make it work,” the quality control and corruption in places like Vladivostok is terrible in comparison to its North Cape or Baltic fleet stations even by old Soviet standards. Russian subs and surface combatants were typically built first in their European stations, fitted out, shook out, and then after a few years sent to the Pacific to serve out a lengthy term. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And prudence demands we deploy our ships to watch your ships… Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

It was kinda the old TIB also… what a waste of congressional appropriated funds and available mission space on airlift…

The guy with the highest rated “cable news program” doesn’t sit in the White House press corps, doesn’t get briefings from the Secretary of State, doesn’t have dozens of upper echelon contacts from years of working in the field to use as a vetting source for the truth. EVERY one of those dipsticks sat around and took the information not just from Trump but from Pompeo and other members of the administration and went “yeah it’s a conspiracy America, don’t listen to this, in fact we will turn it off for you.” Then the talking heads from whatever network they work for worked overtime to shut down any story involving the Wuhan lab when it came out of the mouths of people that receive Senate Intelligence briefings. The media narrative has in one coordinated effort, killed any real chance of holding China accountable for their actions throughout this whole ordeal. And they did it because for them it was more important to blame Trump for it than to actually stop, examine, vet, and report the truth of the matter. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Are you F’ing kidding. The media claims to be the arbitration element of governance but has basically given itself a pass on what they were doing a year ago. This is there “we don’t have to apologize even though it was deliberate” message https://apple.news/AQ28_k7_pR46x8Kzjf89QOw They didn’t care what or where this thing came from, just in preventing Trump from shifting the focus of all the negative out of it. It had nothing to do with the validity of intelligence (which hadn’t changed since some of us started reading the lab theory stuff all over SIPR around April of last year). The media had more than just Trump to look at and confirm of this theory had legs. All those anonymous sources for every other story apparently didn’t exist on this one subject. It’s absolute proof they were in the bag for a particular side and came out and exercised every form of censorship and de-platforming anybody that didn’t tow the line. Meanwhile now it’s such a possibility Jon Stewart is free to joke about it on late night TV and it’s a god damned comedy trope. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I will tell you the most interesting CTC I was ever in was the one where the White Cell actually limited logistics because the ground force just hand waived that part of the problem set. Suddenly you had OCs keeping extreme tabs on the ammo/fuel/water distribution and it was amazing to see leaders either adapt or fail miserably. “What do you mean we have 29 Hellfires in the AHA and that’s it?” Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I mean, so is Hellfire (or Maverick and Griffin for that matter) and we have no limit on the amount of money we keep pissing into that river. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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We would have been out of Afghanistan last month, had congressional Democrats and Trumps few republican opponents not written it into Law that he couldn’t be the one to pull the plug on this waste. Congrats Joe, you ended the war by literally letting us sit on our asses for 7 extra months before the C-17s started moving. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah let’s be honest but the C-130 is the turboprop timeline version of the same shit we did with the 707. It wasn’t that there was a perfection of that airframe to do a role, it was that there were literally so many of them nobody cared that somebody wanted to take one and try something with it. And now because like the 707 series it’s literally doing “all the jobs” nobody is going to replace the damn thing because as an aircraft developer you are trying to replace more a family of systems off one airframe, not just an airframe. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I’m just laughing because it’s obvious communities aren’t really talking to each other to build a cohesive strategy of support… The guys going deep (STS) need all those big theat rings to go away… How many times have you heard a SEAD/DEAD guy make the comment of “don’t send me… send a SEAL team and slit that SA-XX operators throat….” Those SEALs get there in Black Helicopters….. Those Black Helicopters are gonna need those MC’s to be doing something other than futzing around as the 5th string of JASSM shooters, especially in a conflict where the Tyranny of distance is more in effect either because a whole lot of Ocean, hostile ability to target your support zones with SRBMs, or combo of the 2. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk