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12 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Not gonna tag them b/c I legit feel sorry for them. "45th Space Wing" is a great name for a unit. A proud name, obviously. "Space Launch Delta 45," the new designation -- that's embarrassing. Poor guys
Can you imagine if you were in the crew of USS Lake Erie or USS Ramage and they renamed your ship "Large Radar-Missile BMD Shooty Surface Combatant 70" or "Slightly Less Capable Radar-Missile Shooty Combatant 61" out from under you?
"Yeah we know you guys liked being the world-famous and iconic 7th Bomb Wing but now your name is Variable Geometry Non-Nuclear Large Ordnance-Delivery Aircraft Organizational Unit 7. Carry on."

".... fly fight win, sir"
"Troopers, starting today you will no longer be known as the (non-ironic finger quotes) Screaming Eagles. This unit now will be called the Armed Soldiers Who Utilize Rotary Wing Aircraft In Order To Conduct Assaults Group Of Brigades One Hundred One."

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13 May
The selective credibility needed to entertain some propositions in this take is as interesting as its thought experiments -- a gubbment that couldn't keep its torture, overseas prisons, tech-exploitation or other IC functions secret could hide aliens?nytimes.com/2021/05/13/opi…
The US gubbment could not successfully build a moderate Syrian opposition, build a secular civil Afghan state, create a viable nation in post-democratic Iraq, buy a small naval combatant or even a new scout helicopter or armored vehicle for the Army among 10 million other things
Could it interface with space aliens or posses crashed alien spacecraft -- and keep that secret all this time?

:: former FBI director eye squint, looking up over the line of the camera, then back down ::

It's ... possible.
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11 May
I see all this commentary about China's public messaging and propagandizing, and without disputing the consequences of disinformation in general terms, question how actually effective it is based simply on its qualitative suckiness, tin-earedness and overall hamhandedness
It's one thing for a sophisticated foreign actor to shape the info environment by making it appear real Americans (who actually are fake) are saying things they aren't about internal U.S. matters with no reference to any foreign power. But all China does is talk about itself
Russia's efforts are disruptive and corrosive because it nihilistically puts its bugle into domestic disputes (about the NFL, for example) for the sake of simply turning up the volume. The resultant agita is a sufficient reward of its own, esp given the low cost
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10 May
Great story and what a fantastic chart here too. 👇 You can see clearly how the diversion to offload that poor sick bubblehead took the ship away from its transit course
Prolly a better voyage to contemplate academically, historically and technologically than it was to actually sail for the crew, tho -- possible to imagine that sailing the whole world dived might be a little tedious ... although who knows
Well there's only one way to find out. I hereby resolve to read Capt. Beach's account of this historic mission amazon.com/Around-World-S…
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15 Jan 20
Most important data point on this fabulous NAVSEA slide 👇 78 MW worth of installed power. On Earth 2, the Navy can use that to pivot DDG 1000 and its peers into energy weapons such as lasers or rail guns.

Can it be done on Earth Prime? Shrug emoji
... on a normal warship, one set of engines yields whirly-spinny effects to spin propellers and push the ship thru the water. Another set of generators provides the hotel power for the ship's Playstations, iPads and other vital systems. But DDGs 1000-1002 are different.
The ships have big main gas turbines as delineated here 👆and smaller, but still potent, aux gas turbines. They can operate together to yield zippity zap that CHENG and TAO and the CO et al can divide among priorities, the way Scotty can apply power to shields on the Enterprise
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28 Oct 19
Recent events bring a reminder that some of the most high-speed, low-drag operators in your Joint Force go into action not on two feet but four -- these U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps dogs at Camp Pendleton, for example, as captured by Lance Cpl. Nickels
... or your United States Army dogs such as Jeta, seen here back in 14 in A'stan in support of special operations forces. Photo by Sgt. St. Clair.
... your seapower canines include Spidey, who is, quite literally, a Debbil Dawg attached to the 26th MEU aboard LHD 7 and who knows it is a safety violation to be operating on the flight deck without requisite eye- and earpro. Photo by MC3 Coxwest.
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