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That's nice. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the average Ukrainian solider doesn't have a huge amount in common with some Wagner scumbag that volunteered to fight in Putin's war so they could get released early from prison for whatever murder/rape/theft charge they were in for. I'm also pretty sure that I have very little to nothing in common with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or ISIS; I'm glad I did my part to help turn some of them into fertilizer. As I stated previously, good looking Wagnerites in that video/glad they're gonna be pushing up daisies.

First part of the video has some good looking Wagnerites featured in it.

https://apple.news/Ayd568PTuQxesqQIgSn2TxQ

Shame it didn't burn to the ground after the hit.

Huh, weird. No way anyone could’ve possibly known about this till just now /s

not trying to derail the thread but short answer is yes.

Bro if you'd seen what came out of the 3rd floor this week you'd know this overly checks/truer words have never been spoken.

I actually lol’d, this was me last year at 19 years in.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-t-90-tank-from-ukraine-mysteriously-appears-at-u-s-truck-stop Anyone interested in a slightly used T-90?

Thanks much, I’ll see what things look like closer to punch time.

Is there a PSDM on this program, info card, pamphlet something? I hit the jelly of the month club in three weeks, am planning on probably staying around another two years or so AD after that. I'd be seriously interested in something like this if there was a Herk or SOF unit that would take/need me.

Best use of my tax dollars I've ever seen!

NATO Edges Closer to Expansion as Finland Wins Over Holdouts (msn.com) And in other not great news for the Russians, Finland's NATO bid is gaining steam.

With any luck the Flanker crashed and burned on landing. Hopefully one less that the Ukrainians need to worry about.

For the most part agree with all above. I passed off the deep strike part as being more about unsupported Army helo aviation than anything joint or AF centric. In that the authors may have a point worth discussing. The portion on JFE is certainly interesting and something worth discussing. Vertical envelopment and amphibious assaults are going to be increasingly difficult to accomplish with widely proliferated, cheap and mobile ADA, anti-ship missiles, and loitering, kamikaze UAS. Not to mention any adversary with heavy artillery. I’ve worked with a pretty wide cross section of Army guys over the years, some fall into the above category you describe, others realize that we (The US military) isn’t getting anything done without the other services. The two authors of the above article probably fall into the former category if I was to guess, but they still make some valid points.

Lessons From Ukraine Many Don’t Want to Hear | RealClearDefense Army centric and doesn't emphasize enough the major impact of UAS and revival of long range massed fires but worth a read/has some good points.

The last STS one or the new female said that? Either way that’s ridiculous. And AFSOC wonders why they’re hemorrhaging so many O-6s.

It’s just Bashi’s alternate troll account.

Harkens back to the SAC days. Old instructor of mine used to be an EWO on BUFFs back in the 80s. He claimed that SAC used to keep a stable of O-6s on standby at Offutt in the event a wing failed an inspection. Said within hours of the failure the Wg/CC was relieved and his replacement was on a jet to the failing base before the day was out. Different AF.

https://apple.news/AZHlakA6nSvev7mfpdPCEIQ Bloodbath up at Minot today, anyone have more details?

https://apple.news/A4msnmJkKQOutX-GZzk_h6A Good news if true, Russia doesn’t have too many operational A-50s.

I thinks more a combination of poor tactics, inability to effectively perform SEAD/DEAD, and lack of effective self protect against the IR threat than an issue with the platform. Whatever makes them crash/burn quickly and contributes to mort’ing their aircrew is fine by me.

https://apple.news/A4WCDjMcHTRCX40vI217N2w Not a generally a huge fan of the Atlantic but this article was pretty good/worth a read for analysis on possible outcomes to this war.

Being jumped by a cougar and victimhood at the AJs scene definitely falls into “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” type situation.