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I don't think that's the debate. I think it's more of a, "Why wasn't the Marine Corps available?" when this is what the MEU advertises as one of their big things that they do. Why didn't the Navy have the boats to support? Isn't that what the Navy does? Why are we in a position where we had to...

Well. Our mission and the folks we support certainly changed for that period of time. We can't prove a negative, but who knows what fleeting opportunity that we train for in detail and regularly with our supported unit we missed because they/we had to pick up and do someone else's job.

I can say that there were units (perhaps not ground units) pulled from other ops, and we cancelled pushed to the right, a couple other ops, to do the Sudan NEO. They were not as important as evacuating Americans from an embassy.

This isn't a SCIF.

I think we're saying the same thing. Edit: as @Hotdogs interjected.. The Commandant has a right to say, hey guys if you want us here and want us to be able to do this you have to fund it. Or take the capability away. But those SOF units that were retasked to Sudan, along with all of the...

I get it what you're saying. I suppose it leads into a higher question of why do we have a Marine Corps? Where was the SPMAGTF? Is this a mission that Tier 1 SOF has the time and resources to take on? But really. What it boils down to is that we have a force that is supposed to do these things...

SOF doesn't do NEO as a core MET. Especially Tier 1 SOF. The MEU was absolutely needed, and wasn't available. So we pulled other assets from their current missions to do something that another unit should have been doing.

I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention.

I was stiff arming this one as "Kerry Russell reprising her 'The Americans' roll" kind of thing. She and (her husband) Matthew Rhys did such a great job in that show. I was thinking this would be disappointment. But I'll give it a shot this weekend. On another note- The Mayor of Kingstown on...

I think officers spend a lot more time reading, analyzing, and writing than they do solving math equations. Yet most officers struggle to read and write at a senior in highschool, much less college, level. Back when developmental test flight was nothing less than a graduate level science...

That's not what you said and your edits to your original statement are also wrong. If you have an engineering degree is means you studied and performed to an acceptable undergraduate level in some type of engineering as prescribed by the accreditation board of the university or college you...

AND.... you can wear all, some, or none, of the medal on our dress blues. There are a good amount of folks around here who wear their wings and nothing else. Putting together a ribbon stack that looks like a Banana Republic dictator takes a lot of time and effort.

I call BS on this as it's very narrowminded and narrow focused, and it's the perception of folks with engineering degrees on all others, not the whole of higher academia on itself. Any good program will require their students to spend a significant portion of their time and energy to be...

It's definitely got a Miami zip code thing going on.

You're doing something wrong if your car loan is above 6%.

Why are you trying to dig up old drama? Read the room.

You have to opt into it on your account preferences section...

Definitely a great resource for the Guard/Reserve guys!

Another space related podcast that I stumbled upon- The Last Soviet is really good. Lance Bass (yeah, him- but he is a qualified Cosmonaut he just lost his mission) hosts it, and it's about the cosmonaut program- centered around the guy who was left on Mir during the collapse of the Soviet...

Not pilot, but definitely aircrew. The pilot will be a traditional Navy/Marine or Air Force/Army pilot.

He's an astronaut. The Navy doesn't have Space Squadrons.

If you want to be a FAC, go USMC, there are more slots than pilots who want to do it.

Get rid of the chip on your shoulder. Understand who you're interacting with.

Then why are you here? You seem to have a chip on your shoulder, and don't understand that you're interacting with people who have decades of experience at every level in multiple branches of the military. You don't get to lecture us. You get to ask questions and listen.

The military is part of society, and if it exists in society, it exists in the military. If you're looking for reasons not serve you'll find them. There are way more people who say, "I would have served but...." than those who actually put their right hand up and swore the oath. Drugs...

Exactly! China is building aircraft carriers- great. We've been doing it for 100 years. They're still suck on how to train folks to launch and recover a single airplane safely in the best and most benign of conditions. When they start conducting freedom of navigation maneuvers around Alaska...

Look at the big increase in self production stuff- lights, cameras, sound, easy to use mixing and video editing software. It wasn't the music or movie industry that drove this stuff, it's OnlyFans. The big studios have a vested interest in keeping the large recording/sound/video studios as the...

Avenue Q already settled this debate and wrote a song about it. NSFW AND, Dr Cox in Scrubs did say that if they took away porn on the internet there would only be one website left. It would be called "bring back the porn."

Jeez. We're now getting AW annual training. Edit: I've always thought the tech annual training stuff was born out of very egotistical old folks who thought, "Wow, if I didn't know this until now, no one does! If I could fall for this scam, anyone can!"

No pitchforks! It's an honest thing to think about. But they're not training aircrew to be rescue swimmers, just to be able to self rescue for long enough to be rescued by those rescue swimmers when they show up. There are many SIRs within the last 20 years that have proven that in a mishap...

The best time to start lessons is now.

The sketchy part is the key logger- they collect every key stroke you make on your phone, and it's definitely sent to the CCP one way or another. Probably fine for Joe Schmoe, but if you're somebody that needs to be concerned about that you probably don't want it on your devices. However, if...

SQuEAK-3C! Long live the squeak! Would they say Squeaker ball when they call the ball?

Duh- haven't you read or watched The Martian? Dude was a space farmer! I can't speak to the others, but for airplanes that's very debatable. Engineers are needed to design, build, and test, but not really to fly. The Navy and USAF seem to have a hardon for engineering degrees, the Marine...

The joke just writes itself here!

They're super popular in the summertime here! The Merrell snowboot versions are the flavor for the winter. It's very nice that the AF decided to let anyone wear boots that a) fit their feet, and b) fit the climate they're used in, as long as they are the right color.

I mean, yeah. We have a couple of patches that say that. With the Kellogg's K and all. The locals love it.

Best damn MQ-9 Squadron in the USAF! (But I might be biased...)

Interesting to see how quickly we released the footage. Rule #1 of an intercept is to not hit what you're intercepting. The Instagram videos are great. 11M is more accurate for a baseline airplane. Pods and some other stuff cost more. The USMC probably knows the whole system cost better. I...

Hey, some orders are hell...

All of the 707 airframes are going away. I think we all saw the hieroglyphics forecasting this on the wall of the API building in 2009. I'm surprised it took this long. My brother, an E-3 guy, is headed to Australia for 3 years to get all of the E-7 quals he can so he and a few others can be...

It's g/F/y for bridge burning. Or G/F/Y. But never G/f/Y- that's just weird.

I think a good ASO and a good mishap investigation crew will acknowledge and flesh out any previous performance issues and make a proper determination regarding if they're causal or not. But people love to come out of the wood work and say, "Oh he stumbled this one time..." I hope they realize...

We had a dude here who paid his own way to go to in res command and staff. We're the Guard, we're always coming back to our state, and most likely our wing- no one is going to take an 11 month PCS and all that entails- especially with a family. So the dude ended up spending money on an...

Yeah, I'm not disagreeing. I have just seen folks commission in the USMC from other services without having to go to OCS. I don't know the specifics behind their stories and how their process worked. Perhaps they were all magic interservice transfers at a time when the USMC needed them. I...

This may have been that but spur of the moment actions in aviation rarely have good outcomes. Aviation is very planning heavy, and very thought out. We use to joke around the squadron that we should tell people that we get paid to read, plan, and talk about flying because we spend a hell of a...

You're not... Wrong... ?

Interesting that the JAGMAN says they was a top performer, but the FNAEB (assuming they didn't voluntarily terminate it themself) took their flight status. I suppose it only takes one flight if you really go big when you fuck it away. But interesting none the less.

Or like, IDK, an MQ-9 on a CT sortie...

It smells funky to me that you'll have to go to OCS again. I'm not saying that's wrong necessarily, but I'm saying that I know folks who commissioned in other services then came to the USMC and had to do TBS (but not OCS) before going to flight school. Or even had to go to TBS AFTER flight...