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This. This has all the hallmarks of the mob collecting "protection money" from shopkeepers. For the US to even consider sanctioning Iran enforcing such a fee or taking a "cut" shows the moral bankruptcy of this administration. 😠

Keep an eye open for future GOFO retirements/firings . . . The only thing saving 'Dumb McNamara' right now is that it would be hard to sell whatever comes out of this mess as a MAGA victory if the SecDef were fired. 🍻

They don't need to - Vance is already throwing the Pro-Europe faction under the bus. 🍻

If you want to deep dive into this you should start with the Brereton Report available at this site. 🍻

Latest update. 😠

Last spring we were in Stockholm and took in the Vasa Museum. Absolutely amazing.

Of course! We had a plan but the Kurds . . . :ROFLMAO:

That's a given. The real bet is whether he'll find a way to postpone or cancel the election. 🍻

Right now JTACs work, more or less in FOO/JTAC teams with some folks doing guns and some the aircraft. The issue that I see is that right now the JTAC locates the target, guides the aircraft to the point where the pilot identifies the target and carries out the attack. Where I see the...

I think that the days of the JTAC - as we know him - is numbered. Not that there won't be "terminal attack controllers" up forward, but I think that instead of calling in aircraft, they will be doing direct terminal guidance on loitering munitions and a variety of other guided weapons launched...

I can't help but say that this gives my some trouble. I do see where there will remain a niche requirement for this capability - the most recent rescue operations a good case in point. But how realistic is the need for an airmobile division? Or anything which requires that type of force at...

I think that there are quite a few places where the flexibility of the human mind, its ability to adapt and respond, still matters a lot. Machine responses may come up to a par - or better - but then there is the cost factor. Crude as it sounds, there are many places where the human is the most...

Having done that job from the back of an L-19 and the side seat on a CH-158, I can tell you that you do not need a human in the aircraft for either the "close or deep fight" that matters to the division. I can't speak for the even deeper one. In short, the brief glimpses you get of the...

Oooooh. Will there be a retroactive one for the Octoberfest? :giggle:

Fool them once; shame on Trump. Fool them two, or three, or four or five times; shame on them. ;)

I was at a GATES party after a BLACK BEAR when late at night - and after many a Whiskey-Cola (them not me - I'm a beer guy) - a group of junior tankers broke into the "Horst Wessel" song which resulted in a whole lot of embarrassed glances from the folks I was talking to at the time. ;)

Interesting. The current DND project for this is Joint Fires Modernization which goes beyond the pure artillery solution but involves "the full spectrum of effects (lethal and no-lethal, via munition and non-munition means) either mounted or dismounted" including training systems for the RegF...

I recall that you used to be able to claim a meal if the one supplied was insufficient. Can't recall whether that was entered on the claim itself or in an attachment. 🍻

Math is good in schools to build cognitive functioning in children. In adulthood - who knows, but I know that I haven't used algebra since 1970. Trigonometry - oh yeah. Lots; algebra - never. As an OCTP offr, I'm with you 100%. I decided against university because I was sick and tired of...

Your posts frequently have me sit back and review my own view of things. This one certainly got me reviewing my previous thoughts. Just as a background, I've been a fan of science fiction since friend's mother - our public schools librarian - got me hooked on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jon Carter...