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Leaderless DoD… and we never noticed
As was mentioned in the comments a couple of days ago, seems Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized after elective surgery last week, and was non compos mentis unavailable from Monday through Thursday. Whatever the operation was supposed to have done, apparently it became serious enough to keep him out of action until Friday. Deputy […]
Crenshaw locks horns with Fox
Dan Crenshaw was mentioned specifically in an article on Congressional insider trading corruption, and was a bit NSFW unhappy about it. The Republican congressman’s tiff with Watters (Jesse Watters of Fox News – ed.) began on Tuesday after the host featured Crenshaw in a segment reviewing lawmakers’ stellar year trading stocks. In the interview, […]
Wednesday shorts
Good news for Marine junior officers – the Corps has announced they will be doing away with one of everyone’s least favorite institutions, the promotion board, for aspiring O-3s. Although temporary for 2025-2026, this will most likely become permanent. “The change to an AFQOL allows the Marine Corps to continue selecting fully qualified officers for […]
What’s Israel doing right?
We have talked before about the availability of flying F-35s in the US inventory. Here is a study from the Congressional Budget Office giving the raw numbers on F-35s. Cutting to the chase, our average availability is around 40-50% percent, so figure over 50% of the fleet is unavailable for missions at any point in […]
New robots to aid troops, Skynet smiles
Ok, nothing to do with Skynet, the supposedly mythical robot AI fighting humans in Ah-nuld’s “Terminator” series. (Yes, other people were in the movies and headlined yet others… but face it, he is the face of the franchise.) “We’re prototyping platoons,” Rainey (Gen. James Rainey, head of Army Futures Command – ed.) said. “This […]
Ups and downs
You may remember a while back when an Atlantan name of Everett Tripodis had his house town down by the city – erroneously VG Article due to a similarity in addresses (Lawton Avenue vs, Lawton Street). The city had the gall to SUE Mr. Tripodis for the demolition costs. Well, it just keeps getting […]
Fox News Friday: Biden, Homeless, Tree, and one helluva prostate massage
When the government contracts out big projects, one of the requirements is that developers pay development fees. Federal statute mandates that developers pay that fee prior to construction on their lease, a potentially hefty fee designed to guarantee federal property is returned to its original state after a lessee departs its lease. The Bureau of […]
Iran Upgrades Air Force
Mil Mi-28 Iran finalises deal to buy Russian fighter jets – Tasnim DUBAI, Nov 28 (Reuters) – Iran has finalised arrangements for the delivery of Russian made Sukhoi su-35 fighter jets and helicopters, Iran’s deputy defence minister told Iran’s Tasnim news agency on Tuesday, as Tehran and Moscow forge closer military relations. Iran’s air force […]
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