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Jun 8 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
I found some planes
And some rockets
And some more planes
Hey @overdesigned it's a baby harrier
If you happen to be at Langley/Hampton/Newport News area, Air Power Park is a cool little feature

Last time I was out here everything was in extremely rough shape so glad to see they got some resources to put a new coat of paint on everything and on sticks to avoid puddles
Also afaik this all came from the city of Hampton which is impressive

Video if you want a status of what it looked like as of a couple years ago (as of a couple years before that as the video alludes to the planes/missiles were in roooooough shape)

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Jun 8
Armyland going into full Dobby got a sock and is a free elf mode over a policy that amounts to "you can't have your phone on you during the duty day but in exchange we won't text you at 3 in the morning demanding an immediate 'rgr sgt' ack" is some real stockholm syndrome shit
For all their other flaws AF leaders have in general managed to crack the byzantine code of "phones are a useful comms tool when truly needed but also you are adults with lives outside work so we will use this tool judiciously" (does not apply to work phones)
(If you have a work phone then you get paid enough I don't have a ton of sympathy for the occasional off hours text or call)
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Jun 8
Lol
Don't talk to the feds voluntarily, and if you are compelled to for one reason or another have a (competent) lawyer present (ideally one with significant federal defense experience) and for the love of god do not lie or otherwise attempt to cover up the truth
Also don't be an unregistered foreign agent, but considering it's retired USMC GOs we're talking about here I figured it best to start with baby steps
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Jun 7
I'm sure the Congress will be rmeasured and reasoned in discussing this and not fly off the handle citing CCDRs as the ultimate and only authority on professional best military advice while completely ignoring the CNO's position on this as a force provider
Also STRATCOM needs to answer the mail on why "non-visible" is so important, because this is pretty transparently a dodge to exclude bombers as a way to meet this requirement in their race to get a new toy and suffice to say I think their logic there is half-baked at best
If the whole point is deterrence (as Richard is on record as saying), and this is presumably intended as a deterrent tool for crisis (since the triad handles day to day deterrence fine), then if anything visible generation actually enhances that use case
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Jun 6
I see journos continue to not understand that in the year 2022 your social media accounts are official accounts of the outlet (or at the very least pseudo-official in the vein of 'personal' DoD accounts that include position in the bio)
I'm still not quite sure where the line is on the pseudo-official DoD accounts but I can say pretty confidently that "'joke' that states all women are either bisexual or suffer from a mental health disorder'" is well over it
Get yourself someone who loves you the way national journos love escaping the slightest modicum of accountability for saying stupid shit
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May 14
Something folks not in gun culture probably don't know is that for basically as long as gun shows have existed (at least back to the '90s) it was expected that there would be at least 1 vendor selling nothing but nazi/white power shit and everyone just kind of shrugged at it
Weirdly for some reason there was a massive uptick in the amount and overt racism of these vendors starting around 2008, not sure what else happened in the country that year
Anyway I don't mean to suggest that's the sole explanation for how we got to where we are today, but given gun (and especially gun show) culture's significance to the right + how far back it goes/how accepted it was, it probably explains at least a chunk of it
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May 13
Why are we trying to make "Davidson Window" a thing?

I get it as far as it goes as a rhetoric device to try to broadly frame public concern on an important topic, but it's gone beyond that to being used as a cudgel in force structure debates
For starters as I've said many times now, the assessment of the CCDRs is not inviolate and actually isn't 'objective' "best military advice"

They are all political actors within the DoD system and have their parochial interests, which shapes their comments
This is not necessarily good or bad, it just is/any positive or negative aspect is situation dependent, but if you are taking a CCDR's testimony at unquestioning face value you are a credulous fool
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