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44 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:
So... say it, Do you have an Opinion on Pete Hegseth?
or get the ***** out of this thread.
So you invent quotes that were never said.
Create viewpoints never expressed, and now demand responses, as if you have any qualification to do so.
The point is I don't care about Hegseth.
What I do care about is cabinet level influence at the Pentagon, which ultimately goes downstream to our services.
I do care that the past four years were marked by political appointments that were identity driven and not positive nor effectual.
Much the same as other gov institutions.
If Hegseth can reverse that and redirect the focus on fighting wars instead of social experiments, I'm OK.
If not, or if he proves to be a risk to that goal by lack if discipline or incompetence, fire him.
Not complicated.
I care as much about him as I do about you.
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2 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:
C'mon, you and Sherpa and 'Doc' tell me what a '***** fantastic' choice Pete Hegseth is as Secretary of Defense.
Add another to the list of things I've never said.
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31 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
stop the pretense. you're a trumper. And you're part of a shrinking minority who still support his lunacy.
Stop the senseless judgement.
You're wrong again.
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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
once again, we fully disagree. I'd prefer to be friends with Mexico, Canada and Europe.
We can be better "friends," once the gross abuse is addressed.
If you are not aware of that, and I am, you seem quite happy to tolerate it as long as it doesn't effect you.
Trump is calling a spade a spade, but like the frog in heated water, we have put up this this horsestuff for years.
Whether it's trade, NATO or the UN, the American worker has been abused by these entities for years.
I feel pretty good about how it will work out, but it absolutely needed to be addressed.
Perhaps not in his tactless manner, but it needs to stop.
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5 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
i would gladly trade the past admin for the current including Biden even conceding Biden's infirmity. Confused is better than insane.
Not me. Not for a second, and I'm not a fan of Trump at all.
The previous gov was clearly a Regency gov., and none knew who the Regents were.
DOD was a mess. FAA was a mess.
Hegseth cannot make another security misstep, but the plan underway, which is to return warfighting to DOD, is far better than the strategy to run it as a social program, appointing people nobody respected.
As those are cleared out, there is bound to be the usual Washington blowback from those impacted.
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Just bought a 100k CD for our vol fire dept.
Six months. 4.1%. Yield curve still inverted.
Nothing close to 5% available unless you go full lunatic, and even then, not available.
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51 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Seems to me battle plans are pretty important to keep secret, immediate consequences or not. But at least you made a choice - thumbs up for the tv host! My dad was a WW2 veteran. He used to say “ loose lips sink ships”. Is that not a thing anymore?
This is so typical of your stuff and the stuff that gets put out here all the time.
This, or these, were strikes against a country which has no air defense.
There is no evidence, anywhere, that such information effected anything.
You have two carriers in the Red Sea. That's a pretty small body of water with a lot of ships and a few belligerents who could have clearly seen the arming and positioning for the strike.
I'm not excusing the idiocy of putting this on unsecured social media. What I am saying is that it had no influence on anything.
Comparing this to any serious strike against a target that had significant anti air defenses is silly.
The guy screwed up. It amounted to nothing.
I don't excuse him for that, but I think comparing it to anything of a serious nature is wacky politics at play, as always.
If the second charge is true, and not accidental, get rid of him.
If not, get over it and be glad that we are finally doing something that makes sense, saves airplanes, shipping and lives, which we absolutely weren't under the previous group of who knows who making decisions.
And by the way, with all the crap thrown around here, I have never seen anybody, ever dispute what I have stated about the strategy involved, which is far more important than Hegseth's stuff.
That is what matters. That is what I have posted on, repeatedly.
Never seems to be an issue with folks here.
It's all about getting political pound of flesh, and not what matters.
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5 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
He needs to BE an example. to the grunts and everyone else. He clearly didn't kinda know what he was doing.
And your point about no one being able to keep secrets from their wives? How do you think Mossad spies ( perhaps Epstein) would fare if they told their wives their secrets. Cold war spies on our side or the Russian side? Heck, there was a real spy family that "The Americans" was based on. The kids had no idea the parent s were Russian spies living in American suburbia. How long would they have been assets if the couldn't keep secrets? yet, Hegseth gets a pass from you...
No. Wrong again.
Hegseth gets no pass from me.
The "grunts" as you call them don't need a SecDef as an example.
They need to be trained, prepared, equipped and deployed capably and honestly.
Most couldn't name the SecDef, and that is fine.
I think you are amazingly naive about this.
There are secrets and there are secrets.
Your comparison of this to Mossad is ridiculous, and I guarantee you the SecDef is in possession of far more things that would climb the ladder to your analogy which he wouldn't disclose. Didn't happen.
Again, I have no interest in defending the guy, and couldn't care less about him personally, but firing him?
I say that with the caveat that I really don't know what the second circumstance was, and if he has a defense, I'm willing to listen rather than send him out to the firing squad because, be assured, there are entrenched individuals who will do whatever they can to avoid upsetting the status quo.
Just like illegal immigration, DOD is an independent industry that seeks to maintain their current circumstance.
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13 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
maybd because he's the head of DoD and his example is very important?
People in senior positions don't need to have an "example."
Doing this, if he did it intentionally, and I think there is some question, is a stupid, irresponsible action, but these folks in senior positions don't need to be led by example. They kind of know what they're doing after 30 years.
What they do need is sensible, rational policy, and choosing leaders based on record of performance instead of gender and ID politics.
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6 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
Fire or not. is sharing pentagon war plans with your wife fireable? He hasn't denied doing it. You said it can't happ[en". what else do you need to know?
It's been happening since war was invented.
That is not to say it is OK, or should be tolerated, but if you fired everyone who shared info with a spouse you wouldn't have anybody left.
Again, condemnable, but if it ends now, I'm over it as I think we have have far more serious things to worry about.
The press loves the story because it's easy and requires no knowledge of actual import, but, if it was related to a strike where any level of capable integrated air defense was in opposition, I would be very disturbed.
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4 minutes ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
you should put a trademark on this. How bout you just give a thumbs up or down, caesar style, to Hegseth?
Perhaps you should stop telling people what to do.
I don't know enough about the changes at DOD to do that, and I really doubt anyone here does either.
I do know that the previous DOD and senior Pentagon people were not well thought of by the people in positions I am familiar with, and they had a bit of the Vietnam control from Washington going on, where there was significant disagreement between the guys with the triggers and the suits in DC, and that is never good.
Hegseth was a strange and risky choice, but he expressed solidarity with Trump in getting the war fighting aspect back instead of this insane social experimentation that was going on in both training and appointees.
It's too early for me to have an opinion on him, except to be displeased at these stupid mistakes that thankfully had no consequences.
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28 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:
I didn't assign it to 'someone', I assigned it to you.
I was expecting more from you regarding this situation- and it is very much a situation.
I apologize if I implied you bore a greater responsibility than any other poster here regarding Pete Hegseth and the position he potentially put the Navy pilots in - you have no more responsibility to comment on that than any other poster. - You comment on military matters pretty often, so I thought you might have something to say about his actions, but you don't, so fair enough.
(fantasy is not really my genre, btw)
You should apologize because you lied. I have never said anything close to the quote you invented.
Further, nobody here has any "responsibility" to anyone else, except maybe to be honest and not lie about them or assign views.
The Hegseth thing was really stupid. I'm not certain the truth about the second occurrence is really known yet.
Still, the impact was zero, because the Houthis couldn't do anything about it. But it can't happen.
The impact of actual insanity in handling our military is absolutely impactful though.
To wit, the foolishness that Washington imposed on Red Sea carriers that were firing million dollar plus missiles against few hundred dollar drones.
Seeking authorization to strike in Yemen, they were denied, except to attack sites that had just launched drones.
The Houthi actions resulted in length deployment extensions for the Ford and Eisenhower task forces.
These extensions really impact maintenance schedules and subsequent deployments.
More importantly the dramatically impact retention rates, which are more important than recruitment goals.
The US servicemen throughout the ranks operate very sophisticated systems that take years to master.
Senior enlisted and junior officer retention is critical, and it is really harmed by continued extensions to scheduled deployments.
You recruit the serviceperson, but you "retain" the family, and understanding that is crucial.
In the last few months, the Pentagon has OK'ed offensive operations against Yemeni positions that support or supply the Houthis, and that is a logical, sense making approach compared to what we were doing under the previous admin.
I don't care if the fire Hegseth or not. I care immensely that our military is deployed with purpose and intelligent response.
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5 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:
Scotch or bourbon?
I'm not sure what this additional bullstuff means, and by the way I have never expressed any "lover for these idiots," to quote your additional lie.
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16 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:16 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:
You jumped into a topic and chose to address an aside conversation, rather than the actual topic which involves the (pathetic excuse for a) Secretary of Defense.
You, of all people here, an ex Navy pilot, deciding to take the side plot and totally dismissing the main point just says... I don't even know what the ***** it says. This situation implicitly involves Navy pilots, and you just *****... nothing. Just dud...
Let's talk about troop buildup, fellas...
Meanwhile the show is backed by morons.
Exclaim your love for these idiots, or whatever your point of view is, but flexing that military muscle over random aside *****??
If you want to check out 'skirting honesty', check around the home-fires.
I have not interest is addressing someone's invented fantasies, and I have never claimed anything remotely close to your invented quote:
"Oh yeah, man, it's totally cool the guy was texting his mistress battle plans to show off."
You made it up and assigned it. Total nonsense.
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13 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:
You did it by deflecting to Iran and all the upcoming 'world traumas' as a distraction from the topic of whether Pete Hegseth should be fired- which I think would be a light sentence for that piece of garbage. You did it.
Absolute nonsense, and complete bullstuff.
You invented this claim, and then further assigned it to someone.
This happens way too frequently here, and it's deliberate deception.
I commented on military recruitment, and the good news what it was up.
I then argued why that was important given the mission and the status of our current capability.
The claim you made is your pure fantasy, preposterous, impossible and a lie.
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9 minutes ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:
How the ***** can an ex Navy pilot be going, 'Oh yeah, man, it's totally cool the guy was texting his mistress battle plans to show off'
I am unfamiliar with this claim.
Who did this?
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3 minutes ago, daz28 said:
Do you want me to list the all reasons why a ton of things that are important are being cut? All I have to do is say that "it's the mission", and "Congress says so" to justify it? Is that the exact same kind of thinking that has us in what some think has put us in an existential crisis; that the smart ones know will absolutely be our demise. Like I said, if it's that important, go ahead and throw another trillion logs on the military industrial complex fire.
Say whatever you want.
I'm just stating how it is.
Iran is way more dangerous than it was.
Russia has started a war.
China is very aggressive.
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15 minutes ago, daz28 said:
But also contrary to the notion that we're under the control of the most peaceful president ever, and that we can't afford anything.
I just looked it up. The average soldier cost $140,000 a piece.
It doesn't matter how anybody rates the "relative peacefulness" of a president.
What matters is what Congress has deemed the military mission to be, and what it takes to be able to provide that.
Right now, the mission is to be able to wage full warfare on two fronts. One in the Middle East or Europe, and the other in the Pacific.
That takes a certain amount of manpower and capability which we currently don't have.
We are short about 1000 Air Force pilots.
We have fewer and far older airplanes than in decades.
We could not possibly handle the operational tasking we covered during Desert Storm.
Not possible.
We are short two carriers, a bunch of Naval Aviators, and we can't man the carriers we do have.
Every carrier that has gone to CentCom, or the Med/Red Sea has been extended beyond reasonable time.
That has a massive impact on retention.
We are wearing out our airplanes, which have a defined service life, at an astounding rate. Far accelerated from the initial plan.
Our ship building capacity is sorely lacking, but getting better.
That's the way it is.
Want to change that?
Change the mission requirement.
Either way, the bump in recruitment is the best news in years.
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11 minutes ago, daz28 said:
For people that are hell bent on insisting trump is the most peaceful president in history, and hate wasteful spending, you sure are happy about the ballooning numbers in military recruitment. Hypocrite much?
This makes absolutely no sense.
The recruitment numbers, and trend changes are very good news.
Undeniable.
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There's a good deal of irony in this.
Jesus was put to death by the Romans, because the Jews did not have that power under occupation.
He was put to death on a made up charge of sedition, which was a capital offense under Roman rule.
The Jewish church Pharisees and leaders pleaded with the Romans to do it, thought Pilate had no desire to do so.
The reason they did it was because he was upsetting their nonsense Jewish law, which they had invented over the years, far away from what Moses was given.
So, Jesus gets executed for going against non religious traditions.
Everything posted in the claim of disparaging the Easter celebration is also a non religious human "tradition."
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11 minutes ago, Another Fan said:
I’ve never tried it. But walking through cities that have a decent Ecuadorian population I do notice lots of hole in the wall type places.
It looks pretty good…. Good amounts of food for not a lot of money
I used to go to Guayaquil and Quito a few times per year.
I liked their coconut broth sea food dish called Encocado de Pescado. Very good because the fish used is covina, which is even better than Chilean Sea Bass. Kind of like halibut but a bit better.
I always ordered ceviche, because that is my favorite food in the world, but it's better in Peru.
I found the food in Guayaquil to be better, since it's a coastal town catering to tourists.
The food in Quito was more traditional, but I still ordered the ceviche.
But they sold roses for dollar per dozed, so I always bought a couple dozen home.
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28 minutes ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
Let them put together an international task force and get our Navy out of there and deploy our forces to actual strategic missions.
Unfortunately, that isn't currently possible.
There is no such coalition available or foreseeable.
The US Navy is the only force dealing with freedom of navigation in international waters, just as the US military is the only force behind NATO, and footing the bill, and just as the US industrial base is footing countless foreign tariffs aimed against us, by allies and enemies.
That is the reality.
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6 hours ago, Homelander said:
Don't worry, nothing to see here. President Musk will fire these people first thing tomorrow.
A common, and meaningless event.
We do this same thing all the time.
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.Saw Byrd and James, Booker and a few others.
James was the best corner I ever saw.
As a fan, on passing downs, you could eliminate watching routes on the side of the field he was playing, because the simply would not throw there.
He was a physical force in a time it was, somewhat, allowed.
Simply the best.
Fire Pete Hegseth NOW - Hegseth shared attack details in second Signal chat
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Even that premise is ridiculous.
The comment I made about enlistment rate trends being a positive were a direct and immediate response to someone claiming such a situation was a bad thing because it was budget busting, which is preposterous.
After that, the pure fiction began.