“Your Tax Dollars At Work”
Tuesday short takes
I’ll let others debate Trump’s desire for blanket Presidential immunity – have to ask, though, if the President is shielded from culpability, why does the Constitution include impeachment? Moving on – if convicted of a crime based on DNA evidence in Colorado, your lawyer should be smiling now. A Colorado Bureau of Investigation DNA analyst […]
Saturday weather, or climate, or something
Well, let’s start by beating up on EVs a little. Almost too easy. But we’re going to look at a different aspect first – tire pollution. Not disposing of used tires, but the particular stuff that gets ground off tires. This is directly proportional to softness of the compounds used in the tires, the weights […]
Let civilians do it
We’ve spoken a few times on the topic of outsourcing military base support operations to civilians. Here are a couple of examples of how well that is working: Ft. Leavenworth, has outsourced building maintenance to a civilian contractor, the Michaels Corporation. Fort Leavenworth, set to celebrate its bicentennial in 2027, is a National Historic Landmark […]
Ospreys back in action
We all know the V-22 Osprey – the hybrid helicopter tilt-rotor airplane mix which has taken over local airlift for the Marines and some of the Air Force. Not sure which air machine I have done more articles on, the V-22 or the F-35, but it has to be fairly close. Services may be heaving […]
F(riday) is for Follow-ups
Remember a bit back when an F-35 got all FODded up when a ground crew member left a tool, reportedly a flashlight, in the intake? Didn’t we set up a pool for how bad the damage was going to be? In March 2023, a maintenance team at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona was […]
Congrats to the Corps!
From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli We will fight our country’s auditors And will emerge victory Or something like that. Yes, boys and girls, an armed service has finally passed an audit! Plaudits to all of our crayon eaters, the Brotherhood of Leather Neck Guards, the few, the proud, the Marines […]
Odds and Sods II
Yet another thing we have to thank Mexico for. There is so much we have already – the crimes we are told they don’t commit, the welcoming conduit they provide for OTHER illegal immigrants, the 67,000+ fentanyl deaths in 2021 alone, the local drug gangs: regrettable as they are, they aren’t just disgusting. This is. […]
Another decade, another multi-billion $ Army helicopter program cancelled
The Army has once again sunk a massive amount of money into a new helicopter program only to cancel it. Does this story sound familiar? It should. They do it every decade or so. Here’s a brief history of US Army attack helicopter programs and their dispositions; AH-1 Cobra – Successfully entered production, though only […]
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