I'm not arguing that the middle east was the focus. But there was HUMINT resources in that area that were lost. Also Carter was after the Halloween Massacre, which is what I was primarily referring to.
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I'm not arguing that the middle east was the focus. But there was HUMINT resources in that area that were lost. Also Carter was after the Halloween Massacre, which is what I was primarily referring to.
People who scream for more HUMINT, as a rule, tend not to have actually worked with HUMINT. HUMINT is messy, hard, ambiguous, misleading, contradictory, and often wrong. Sometimes it is pure gold. Of course, people want the latter, not the former; the real trick is telling the good stuff from the bad stuff.
Don't get me wrong - technical intelligence has its strengths and limitations too. Like a lot of things in life, balance is what is required. What that right balance exactly is constitutes a hard question....
Ah, so true. If I believed every HUMINT report out there, I would hiding under my desk with tin foil hat.
Eh, you got a line on all of the guys fired?
ADM Turner firing 800 DO types at the CIA, that 'Halloween massacre' was under Carter.
All leadership should be jumping up and down flat our refusing to do this bullshit. Whoever thought that this is a good idea should be drug out into the street and shot. :icon_rage We are going to spend more hours trying to figure out how to "bill" our hours than actually working.
The only possible good thing that can come from this is for the higher ups to see what a giant waste of time it is to take "Intro to sexual harrassment" or "Navy and DOD drug abuse policies" on NKO for the 9th f'ing time. :icon_rage
What really burns me up is that some company was granted a multi-million dollar government contract just to develop the software to track our man hours. We have plenty of money to spend on that crap, but when guys from my aircrew shop came up to reenlist, the SRB was not there. So we have very talented air-crew leaving the Navy for greener pastures, and we don't have the money to buy .50 cal and M-240 rounds to qualify their repalcements prior to deployment.
This can be done purely through coding the program so that it is billed at logon, without the operator required to do any time-logging.
I think I qualify for a Doctorate in Information Assurance and Trafficking In Persons.
New USAF front office nominations from SECDEF. Note CSAF nomination is NOT a fighter pilot and although a Transport type, he did in SPECOPS flavored role so would be much more inclined to understand needs of COCOMs in that regard. Vice Chief is taking job held by Schwartz which is a step up, but that effectively clean sweeps any legacy parochialism (ie F-22) from those who testify to Congress in front office.
Inexorable
Sitting in Purgatory
First off . . . the General really needs to get his official portrait redone. That looks like the drivers license photo from hell.
Second, WTF is up with the reporter referring to "so-called" joint duty? That's the official term.
Second, WTF is up with the reporter referring to "so-called" joint duty? That's the official term.
You answered your own question...reporter. You think they really understand what they are reporting on?
Xtndr50boom
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General Schwartz is a great officer, and an awesome pilot; I had the pleasure of flying with him back in the day.
Anyone notice that the #2 man is a bomber guy? Hopefully the days of the fighter guys ruining the AF are over!
Anyone notice that the #2 man is a bomber guy? Hopefully the days of the fighter guys ruining the AF are over!
You mean he was good at latching up George?! OBTW Good pilots flair, awesome pilots, catch a wire
Looks like Spock!
