“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Admin steps on its d*ck – bigly
Well, our war planners have figured out how to keep things secret in a new way. Pinky swearing. OK, that was unfair…almost.What they did do, however, was about as infantile. Signal, for those (like me) who don’t follow the latest apps, is a ‘secure’ commercial messaging app on a par with Meta’s WhatsApp. You send […]
DEI purge and AI
Seems we can chalk up a lot of the controversy in the last couple of months to non-human causes. The officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations, said, for example, they were waiting for guidance on whether military “firsts” count as history that can be restored. The […]
Boeing wins F-47 fighter contract, heads explode
The competition between Boeing and Lockheed Martin for the Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter (NGAD) is over, with Boeing taking first prize. During the Oval Office announcement ceremony, Trump displayed a poster showing the first glimpse of the F-47 design, revealing a forward fuselage and sharply swept back wings but no further design features. The […]
Recycling old AF stuff
This adds a bit to AW1Ed’s column of deploying assets on our southern flank. The Air Force is finding some love for assets many of you probably thought had gone away. U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin has confirmed that U-2 Dragon Lady spy planes have been flying missions around the […]
Wednesday Mini-rants
A little DOGE: TSA K-9 bomb sniffer dog units have become the latest victims of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, just as the White House celebrated a national day honoring the heroic animals. Workers at the TSA were informed via email that “new guidance” meant that requests for costs including vet visits, kenneling and […]
Tuesday tidbits
Let’s open with Jack Texeira, the enlisted Air Force kid who posted thousands of pages of classified material for his game=playing buddies to read. He got 15 years for that little trick last fall – but he’s back. Teixeira pleaded guilty last year to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information […]
Vets – “not fit to have a job”? and Covid update
White House adviser Alena Habba stuck her foot right in it when she was asked about the thousands of people, many of whom are vets, who have lost their jobs in DOGE-led firings. Habba defended the cuts and said she had no sympathy for the thousands of people who have lost their jobs. “I […]
Confused? You Should Be.
Doubling down on re-naming US. Army posts BACK to the names we are familiar with, SecDef Hegseth has re-named Ft. Moore to Ft. Benning. “The Army awarded CPL Benning the Distinguished Service Cross for his extraordinary heroism in action south of Exermont, France, on October 9, 1918,” read a memo signed by Hegseth directing the […]
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