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This is your "Summer Before an Election" reminder:

There are a lot - and I mean A LOT - of various organizations based out of DC that have "veteran" in their title claiming to represent or support "vets."

If you have not heard of many before, you're not alone. These are just/1
...shell organizations that are holding pens, stalking horses, or more likely, marketing ventures for people desperate to get in politics who happen to have once served.

Before you read their stuff or sign their petitions, go to their websites. Check out their "about" section/2
...See who is on their board. There you will, once you scratch a bit, start to recognize a few characters. They've been playing the political game for awhile. Then look at their publications and shortly you'll see they are just another partisan grift or self-marketing tool for /3
...people looking for a shortcut to power or desire to market themselves for a political appointment.

I'll never begrudge someone from earning a living, but I just wish they would be upfront about it. They may be fooling some people, but not as much as they think.

At least /4
...to me it is a tired and worn game; transparent, patronizing, and a bit lazy ... but that is just me.

I'm not sure it signals the message those people think it does.

One thing it is good for is pointing out who is who in the intellectual zoo and act accordingly.

Hey /5
...I do opinion stuff all the time, as do a lot of other people who once wore the uniform - but at least we are putting it out as that - opinion - not trying to wrap ourselves in the flag, a bloody shirt, or pretending it is for some lofty cause.

Anyway - be skeptical folks. BT
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It simply is not done.

Here is how it works. This is for a 4-star, you can scale up to a CINC.

Before the 4-star sees the slide deck, 50/50 chance the COS has looked at it (another 3 or 4 star). Prior to that, the at least two other 2 or 3 stars have approved it. Before that /2
a whole gaggle of O6 types were involved in getting it ready for prime time. Everyone in that series would have to give a nod to a "throwaway slide" containing something they would not want to, or would not be able to, execute. Best practices, based on preliminary direction & /3
guidance, would allow 2 or at most 3 Courses of Action (COA) for the principal to choose from. They run a spectrum usually based on increasing levels of effort/risk. All COA are what the staff recommend as valid and executable options. Below the above mentioned O6 (Colonel or /4
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OK, gather around old Cold Warriors & kiddies alike - time for a trip down memory lane. I continue to work through Mama Salamander’s papers - a thorough woman who kept ALL THE PAPERS - & now and then I find a jewel.

This is a good follow-on to @RadioFreeTom & my snark earlier /1
this spring about how tiring it is to hear Millennials complain how scary & deprived they are, that the future is so bleak, why bring children in to it, bla, bla,bla.

We’ll let’s set the scene. Mama Salamander was born in the heart of the Great Depression & it was not until /2
her 10th yr that she saw the end WWII.

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1) Good news. We’ve been shooting up the horse for way too long.
2) Get used to it. There is neither the political will or the budgetary heft to build enough CVN to meet what we think we need. @ConsWahoo is correct, 13 is the minimum, but Congress will never fund that/1
...nor the airwings to put on them - not to mention proper escort numbers.

We need to accept this as we are about to enter the Terrible 20s. Political disruption has only begun, we will have a recession NLT 1QFY21, we will spend more on interest on the debt than DOD by 2023 /2
...Medicare goes insolvent in 2026, Social Security 2034. We need to learn to do what we can with what we will get, than think about doing more with what we will never have budgeted.

This isn’t the future I want, but it is the one the last 2-decades of politicians gave us. BT
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