What's wrong with the Air Force?

[Swizzle]

1 hour ago, herkbier said:

Sounds like a win for the military industrial complex! 

[Guest nsplayr]

The sooner you understand that the Department of Defense is *the* biggest, fastest, most efficient way to spend taxpayer money, and that that's the purpose, the sooner it all makes a bit of sense 😄

Only sorta kidding...

If there's a more expensive, more jobs-intensive way to have an effect on the battlefield, gosh darn it we owe it to the U.S. taxpayer to do it that way. Ask yourself this, how can I expend more of my SCL on this operation? Couldn't this CONOP call for more versions/personnel/fuel/airplanes in the stack? Anytime you try to make a DoD mission more cost-effective you're doing it exactly backwards.

"Giving" weapons to Ukraine/Israel/Saudi/whomever-the-fuck = middle-class manufacturing jobs in 50 unique states + territories.

[ClearedHot]

Now Fat Tony thinks he is an Athletic Director.  The only scores he understands are his round trip currency to the endless donut buffet.

[dream big]

1 hour ago, ClearedHot said:

Now Fat Tony thinks he is an Athletic Director.  The only scores he understands are his round trip currency to the endless donut buffet.

Words from bros that are AOCs is the place is now pure toxicity. Surviving the next 1-2 years is their only concern. 

[ClearedHot]

15 minutes ago, dream big said:

Words from bros that are AOCs is the place is now pure toxicity. Surviving the next 1-2 years is their only concern. 

Heard the exact same thing from civilian staff bros, complete toxicity just waiting for him to fire someone.

This is Slife's fault for protecting and enabling this sycophant. 

[dream big]

In other news in a deployed theater near you, Chief mafia is back in full force policing patches instead of, idk, being Chiefs and looking after the welfare of airmen. More concern with that than how our Airmen are affected by Iran and Israel in arguably one of the most unstable times in the Middle East. How we don’t get our asses kicked by China is beyond me. 

[cragspider]

15 hours ago, dream big said:

Words from bros that are AOCs is the place is now pure toxicity. Surviving the next 1-2 years is their only concern. 

I can attest to this as well. Hopefully some of the investigations going on can find a way to stick and get him out. He is out of touch.

[brabus]

7 hours ago, dream big said:

How we don’t get our asses kicked by China is beyond me. 

The only way is when all the warriors out there tell the pussies in leadership something like, “GFY, we’re doing it this way and if you don’t like it, come on out here and strap a jet on and fly west.”

There are some absolute retards in PACAF, and the counter will be the bros with a few good O-6s who get shit done the right way.

[Boomer6]

5 minutes ago, brabus said:

There are some absolute retards in PACAF, and the counter will be the bros with a few good O-6s who get shit done the right way.

Retards is putting it mildly. Godspeed on finding a few good O-6s. They're too busy searching the snacko closet for unapproved patches (true story)..

[SurelySerious]

PACAF already surrendered to the Navy, so they have practiced for China.

[brabus]

7 hours ago, Boomer6 said:

They're too busy searching the snacko closet for unapproved patches (true story)..

[McJay Pilot]

19 hours ago, dream big said:

How we don’t get our asses kicked by China is beyond me. 

Wars are not won by the most competent military force. Wars are won by the least incompetent military force.

Also, two oceans and decent relations with your border buddies are a helluva drug. 🍻

[HuggyU2]

13 hours ago, McJay Pilot said:

... and decent relations with your border buddies...

I contemplate what would be different, had we spent $2 trillion on Mexico (and other Central American nations) instead of Afghanistan. That money certainly didn't win us the war. 
 

I think back to 2004 and deployments  from then.  That was a long time ago.  
 

If we spent $300,000,000 every DAY since 2004, that sum today would be...

... $2 trillion.  That may have done something significant to preserve the dying Monroe Doctrine.  

 

Edited October 8, 2024 by HuggyU2

[Clark Griswold]

This 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/03/restoring-the-warrior-ethos-to-the-trump-military/

[O Face]

13 hours ago, Clark Griswold said:

This 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/03/restoring-the-warrior-ethos-to-the-trump-military/

This guy gets it!

[di1630]

Joint Program Office releases this with the knockoff Chinese J-35. Stayed up for a few hours.


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[Lawman]

Joint Program Office releases this with the knockoff Chinese J-35. Stayed up for a few hours.


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PAO winning the war…

We’re not sure who the hell they are are fighting for or with but they sure as hell are wining in their own minds.


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[brabus]

Gov PA across the board will always have the legacy of being horrible at their jobs. I think they may be even worse than Finance, and that’s saying a lot.

[M2]

It doesn't have leaders like MG William Zana...

An Army general’s final ‘walk’ at the Tomb of the Unknowns

MG William Zana, the only guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final guard shift on the night he retired.



At exactly 10 p.m. on the warm, last night of May, MG William Zana received his orders and began his final guard shift on the smooth marble stone plaza at the center of Arlington National Cemetery. In two hours it would be midnight, a new day and new month. A new guard would relieve him at his post, he would march off the plaza and suddenly, instantly, be a civilian.

But for the final two hours of his 37-year career, Zana wanted one last chance to stand a shift he had held as a young sergeant: keeping watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 

“I was Pvt. Zana when I showed up to the Old Guard,” Zana told Task & Purpose.“You know, all of us who raise our right hand and serve, there’s things that define you. First combat tour, first loss of personnel. For me, volunteering for and serving at the Tomb was absolutely both defining and shaping.”

(Full story at the title link)

I don't know the man, nor do I know much about his career other than what I read in his bio; but based on this article, I have the utmost respect for him!

[Lawman]

It doesn't have leaders like MG William Zana...

An Army general’s final ‘walk’ at the Tomb of the Unknowns
MG William Zana, the only guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to reach the rank of general, took a final guard shift on the night he retired.



At exactly 10 p.m. on the warm, last night of May, MG William Zana received his orders and began his final guard shift on the smooth marble stone plaza at the center of Arlington National Cemetery. In two hours it would be midnight, a new day and new month. A new guard would relieve him at his post, he would march off the plaza and suddenly, instantly, be a civilian.
But for the final two hours of his 37-year career, Zana wanted one last chance to stand a shift he had held as a young sergeant: keeping watch over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 
“I was Pvt. Zana when I showed up to the Old Guard,” Zana told Task & Purpose.“You know, all of us who raise our right hand and serve, there’s things that define you. First combat tour, first loss of personnel. For me, volunteering for and serving at the Tomb was absolutely both defining and shaping.”

(Full story at the title link)

I don't know the man, nor do I know much about his career other than what I read in his bio; but based on this article, I have the utmost respect for him!

It’s serious how the members of Old Guard take that duty. I’ve seen several enter the Army warrant community in aviation and they will all tell you their time as a tomb guard was one of the must solemn moments of their lives performing that job.

Bystanders also have no idea who is standing there performing the job because they intentionally don’t wear rank, which permits anybody to include very senior personnel to perform the watch as a Sentinal like the General did.


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[ClearedHot]

Policy by Powerpoint - Slife's master plan eviscerated by reality. 

He always thinks is he is the smartest guy in the room when in fact he is a narcissistic clown penis.

[dream big]

4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Policy by Powerpoint - Slife's master plan eviscerated by reality. 

He always thinks is he is the smartest guy in the room when in fact he is a narcissistic clown penis.

Don’t speak about the future CSAF like that! 

[HeloDude]

6 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Policy by Powerpoint - Slife's master plan eviscerated by reality. 

He always thinks is he is the smartest guy in the room when in fact he is a narcissistic clown penis.

I can only hope he is also shown the door for supporting all the DEI nonsense.

[08Dawg]

11 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Policy by Powerpoint - Slife's master plan eviscerated by reality. 

He always thinks is he is the smartest guy in the room when in fact he is a narcissistic clown penis.

Anyone with a quarter of a brain could’ve seen AFFORGEN was doomed from the start. Same thing with this A-Staff construct at the wing level. 

[SurelySerious]

Anyone with a quarter of a brain could’ve seen AFFORGEN was doomed from the start. Same thing with this A-Staff construct at the wing level. 

Shocking that you can’t theoretically just pick up a whole wing of the nuclear enterprise and deploy it with no consequences.