fire4effect
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Awesome everyone extracted safely.
I sure hope a lot of lessons learned come out of this as I finished my taxes yesterday.
Assuming it was one SA-6 that's a lot of bang for the bad guy's Rial
2 × MC-130J Commando II aircraft
4 × MH-6 “Little Bird” helicopters
1 × F-15E Strike Eagle
1 × A-10 Warthog
2 × Reapers
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17 minutes ago, frog said: WSJ confirmed a shoot down but didn’t list their source. Godspeed to the crew if true.
I guess we have an answer on the bounty. Reportedly around 60K.
Mail Online
Iran puts BOUNTY on American pilots after US fighter jet...
Iranian state media is incentivizing civilians to capture American pilots with a 'reward' after the regime claimed it shot down a US fighter jet. -
2 hours ago, ClearedHot said: Odds they completely FUBAR this.
Hurlburt was one of the first to allow service members (and retirees), to bring weapons on base. Current rules require you keep it in a secured location in your vehicle. If you've been through the front gate in the morning (I assume most bases are like this), the back up and proximity to Highway 98 created the perfect L shaped ambush set up.
Additionally, the memo addresses the thousands of uniformed personnel who work at the Pentagon, stating that the building's police force — the Pentagon Force Protection Agency — shall also apply a presumption of approval to all personal-carry applications.However, the memo stops short of allowing personal-carry within the walls of the building.
Rather, it states that the Pentagon Force Protection Agency must allow fair consideration for Pentagon personnel to "store a privately owned firearm in a vehicle on the Pentagon Reservation," pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations.
For those who have successfully completed a sentence at the Pentagon (sadly, I did two), you know how difficult the Pentagon cops can be. Random bag searches and on more than one occasion I was hassled over the length of a pocket knife.
1993 CIA headquarters shooting - Wikipedia
I've mentioned this incident some time ago in the same context.
Bases/Concerts/Outside Airport Security the list is endless. Bad guys don't need to breach security just set where everyone is concentrated and most likely unarmed.
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21 minutes ago, SocialD said: Hey Boss, I was just getting some hover and terrain masking practice in. I was just as surprised as WO2 Bagonuts to see some redneck standing there giving me a salute.
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1 hour ago, Clayton Bigsby said: Is Iran the Japan tho? Or is it China?
Actually I was referring to Russia. Sorry I wasn't clear. I was making the point how a country might feel backed into a corner and feel like they have no choice but to go on the attack.
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On 3/12/2026 at 9:49 AM, FourFans said: Sure, but I don't see behind any curtains anymore. In short, Russia is a dog we cornered that we have to be very careful with. We're probably doing this for the same reason the US Government limited Ukraine's starlink access as they tried to advance into Russian territory: Russia have nukes on functional ICBMs pointed at western nations.
Cutting off Venezuela and Iran in Russian oil calculus has made our sanctions that much more effective. I'd imagine we now have to carefully meter just how tightly we squeeze. Too hard and we get nukes airborne. It's a position of power that has to be carefully managed. Again, that's from my non read-in perspective. If I've learned one thing, it's that open source media is never privy to the behind the scenes negotiations that end up changing all the diplomatic calculus of how, precisely, the US is screwing over other countries. I'd guess this article is us seeing 10% of what's actually going on.THIS!
Unfortunately, the 10 percent is what the public sees and forms their opinion. People see gas prices and not much else. Taking out Iran's oil industry is really the only option at this point. Turn off their cash flow. Even if they hit their Gulf neighbors they'll watch as everyone else rebuilds and restart production while they sit on the sideline. They will run out of missiles and I'm sure most if not all of their manufacturing capability is a pile of smoking rubble at this point.
On a side note, harsh sanctions against Japan in the 40s pushed them to attack Pearl Harbor and we all know how that movie went.
They also had no hope of competing logistically with the US and after 1942 more and more of their assets were the start of artificial reefs with no way to replace them.
History repeats.
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NRA-ILA
NRA-ILA | By George! Washington, D.C.’s Magazine Ban Inva...
Even as its formerly more liberty-loving neighbor, Virginia, goes down the tyrannical path of unconstitutional bans on firearms and magazines, residents of the nation’s capital last week gained a measOf course, the anti-gunners in DC are crapping themselves pushing hard for a stay on the precedence and an en-banc review. If this stands it could give a circuit split (however this works in DC) and then on to SCOTUS which is absolutely the last thing any libs want to see.
BREAKING NEWS! DC DECLARES EMERGENCY OVER HUGE FEDERAL COURT DECISION!
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1 hour ago, FourFans said: Outstanding. The dude has no LEO experience, and I'll genuinely believe he'll do a great job. Character matters. AR has a long history of power hungry and otherwise low-professionalism cops. Let's hope he can clean house.
Especially in rural areas. It arguably has improved a little given social media/cameras are more prevalent unlike years past. Drug Task Force in Crittenden County made some cops quite a bit of money on the side over the years.
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1 hour ago, B52gator said: 3 Strike Eagles down over Kuwait. Blue on Blue. All made it out. Some wild pics and vid out there of the crews.
Good to know all those seat inspections from a few years back seem to have been successful 🤔
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Romantic tryst led to Mexican cartel leader's capture, death | Reuters
Who are we kidding? I think we've all paid a price in our lives at some point because we thought with a certain body part to the exclusion of all else.
Sometimes the price can be pretty steep.
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23 hours ago, Clark Griswold said: Getting spicy in Mexico
Breitbart
Mexico Erupts in Flames After Death of Largest Terrorist...
Cartel gunmen have begun carrying out terrorist attacks in various states in Mexico in response to the death of the country’s most powerful terrorist | Border / Cartel ChroniclesGB News
El Mencho killing causes chaos as gunmen storm major inte...
El Mencho was killed by military forces on SundayI hope Claudia Sheinbaum authorizes us (not that the current administration would really care about asking if it came down to it) to use everything in our arsenal including Hellfire's to assist. Not surprisingly the Cartels are as heavily armed as any insurgency with armored vehicles and RPGs
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6 hours ago, ClearedHot said: I read that to mean the evidence he did see on things like the tic tac video indicated they were something else...as in of this earth.
I guess it depends on his definition of contact. Does flying through a fleet exercise count as contact or does it require landing on the White House lawn?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/14/havana-syndrome-cia-norway-experiment/
BLUF: some guy in Norway did an experiment on himself to disprove Havana Syndrome and likely fried his brain in the process.
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15 hours ago, Boomer6 said: Surprised this isn't getting more attention. Maybe it's BS.
Seems like I've seen this movie before
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13 hours ago, Smokin said: Would be interesting if the dude filed a lawsuit against the ATF and the individual that denied it. Might give other bureaucrats pause when they're about to deny someone their rights if they know that they might lose their house.
Imagine any other right being treated like the 2nd... "no, sir, I don't consent to you searching my house because it is my right to not consent." "Sorry, but simply exercising your right doesn't justify exercising your right, so we're going to search your house."
It's funny but suing anyone in the federal government as an individual is usually futile. It seems the only time a federal employee is considered at fault as an individual is if it's a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act. I'm sure most on here remember a briefing on that at some point in their careers.
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32 minutes ago, ClearedHot said: The ATF still being the ATF.
I'm really concerned that the whole NFA fiasco is going to remain a CF long enough to allow a new Congress to make the tax 5k. On another note judges are experts at creative writing when they want a certain outcome. We the people be damned.
The Iran thread
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Family member flew the EB-66 out of Takhli Thailand in the 60s. His tail is sitting in the museum at Wright Patt. The stories he had were intense. He reminisced about those he knew that were not as lucky. He passed in 2022. I remember helping find a picture of the EB-66 that the funeral home made into artwork that went on his gravestone. 2 AMs and a DFC.