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Is there a good observations/lessons learned/analysis blog out there that's keeping up with things?
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1500857592435908618?s=20&t=LzE8yuX-pLp3rzgWHrOYXA Nice to know those US cargo planes aren't heading west empty.
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Mar 8, 2022 01:35
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Flesnolk posted:How does Russia keep losing generals? US generals are never anywhere near the front lines these days. Abizaid kept tempting fate, but fate hosed us there.
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Mar 8, 2022 06:05
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So are Poland getting block 70 F-16s?
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Mar 8, 2022 21:14
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Slight food derail- some of my favorite Navy stories from my father were about the sub-legal horse trading and hijinks in the 70s/80s Navy, and no small amount of it revolved around food. When his ship (the Brunswick, a salvage ship) was anchored off a small South Pacific island, he was one of three people aboard a shore party to deliver a small generator to a remote outpost. The fishermen also on the island were running extremely low on diesel, as the supply ships in that area were variable schedule and unreliable, and they had gone a while without resupply. So they started plying my dad (a warrant officer). He called back to the ship, told the Captain to please trust him, and send a 55 gallon drum of diesel out on the tender. The obvious subtext was "for some poo poo I can't put out on the radio". So when they get done installing the new generator, they get on the boat back to the Brunswick. The CO was standing right there, wondering what he had gotten himself into. The returning sailors hauled up several huge laundry bags with hundreds of gigantic, feisty lobsters. Dad figured he was ok, but was still a little nervous that he had gone too far, as the CO looked at the lobsters for a minute, without saying anything. Then the CO turned to the XO and told him "tell the cooks I don't care what they're making, or how done they are. Throw it out and start boiling water", and Dad knew he was good.
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Mar 8, 2022 23:01
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Is NATO really going to do the stupidly transparent "we'll park them at an airport with the keys in the ignition" charade
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Mar 9, 2022 01:43
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EasilyConfused posted:I don't think that charade works when you openly say you want to give the planes to Ukraine. and yet give them the planes give em give em give em nooooooooooo not heeerrreeeee
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Mar 9, 2022 04:58
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If ATGMs aren’t the hardline but MiG-29s are, what about old M1s or Challengers? Paladins? Predators?
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Mar 10, 2022 23:37
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That Works posted:Assuming there's a bunch of Ukrainian troops that can jump into an M1 and fight I guess? Eh, good point. It’d be funny to see the agony of Tanker Twitter after some Ukrainians take an 8 hr crash MOS course and then proceed to kick Ivan rear end tho in one, tho
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Mar 10, 2022 23:52
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Yeah you’re right silly idea. Better one: https://twitter.com/sputnik_not/status/1501993288135413796?s=21
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Mar 11, 2022 00:03
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psydude posted:Pretty much all combined cycle gas turbines are sold by a handful of Western firms (GE, Siemens, and ABB). Same goes for the control systems that manage oil production and refining - almost entirely Western or Japanese companies. Anecdotally, back in the late 90s before I enlisted (literally, quit my job on the rear ramp on 9/12/01 after cursing my foreman for leaving me in the ship the day before when they evacuated the yard, drove to the recruiter) I worked on the conversion of a Ukrainian ro/ro ship that was built in 1984 for the Soviet commercial fleet, into the MSC ship LCPL Roy Wheat. The turbines on it, original equipment to the ship, were made by Siemens.
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Mar 11, 2022 13:29
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bees everywhere posted:Traveling groverwatch 
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Mar 11, 2022 13:30
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One of our mechanics bought his own bayonet and put it right there on the front of his IBA. When we were doing live fire convoy training in Kuwait just before OIF2, the retired Delta instructor mercilessly mocked him in front of the whole company for it. Treasured memory.
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Mar 11, 2022 15:42
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If I recall correctly, part of the strategic justification for the US military budget is being able to fight two large scale expeditionary conflicts simultaneously. Now that Russia is being exposed as a paper tiger, isn't that a reason to cut back on spending? If China is the only potential conventional adversary, gearing up for two enemies that don't exist comes off as a waste of money. The US military dropped the two-front doctrine (which had been an empty promise even before the great Reduction In Force of the early 90s, and a bad joke since then) in 2019.
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Mar 13, 2022 07:30
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What's the current assessment of the Russian nuclear stockpile? Has it degraded enough to the point that idiots might try to resurrect the early Cold War belief in US survivability?
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Mar 14, 2022 05:40
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Marshal Prolapse posted:So Edward Snowden is still quiet? I guess he wouldn’t want to offend his master? He gave the plausible excuse of "I'm shutting up because I got it so wrong", which also has the neat side effect of keeping him alive
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Mar 14, 2022 06:08
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I was prepared to poo poo on that BMW weapons mount but that’s some pretty quality fab work.
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Mar 14, 2022 17:26
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:No no this is a very well thought out plan and will totally work like their other plans have so far (rail and road connections between China and Russia are very limited and would take forever to move any significant capacity, but may be beat available option). They'd use some of that massive Russian airlift capacity. Hey doesn't one of their neighbors have a giant plane they could- oh
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Mar 15, 2022 02:08
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Gotta laugh that I associate Russian ATGMs with an early 2000s goon scat fetishist
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Mar 16, 2022 18:13
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Apart from the obvious high-profile pieces of vaporware that have yet to show up (Su-57, T-14), I'm assuming there's plenty of Russian gear we'd love to get our hands on and tear down for intel, right? Or is most of this poo poo we've already bought through intermediaries?
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Mar 20, 2022 05:50
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mlmp08 posted:All sorts of historical colonial violent takeovers come to mind, folks. Very aggressive, often successful! An old Doonesbury strip comes to mind (they’re hell to search for) where Uncle Duke is telling a Latin American ambassador “when has America ever interfered with Latin America?”, then gets a year by year account of every invasion. The punchline, to Honey (as the list keeps growing): “Bad news, looks like the Ambassador is something of a history buff”
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Mar 23, 2022 18:25
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Marshal Prolapse posted:On the subject of fragging, I’m surprised that during the Trump of execution bonanza that this guy didn’t come up. I figured he would be a poster boy for it. Military must have a different process. Considering what he’s on death row for, plus the fact that he stabbed an MP in a bathroom during his trial, I’m sure he’s getting extra lovely treatment in prison.
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Mar 23, 2022 19:38
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Consider Lindsey’s sudden anti-pedophile rant during the SCOTUS confirmation hearings as getting ahead of possible leaks
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Mar 24, 2022 14:41
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madeintaipei posted:Welcome to the wonderful world of break-bulk shipping. Pick up box, move box, ad infinitum. No, not there you ape! Use your legs, not your back! Whose cousin did you gently caress to get this job? Get the gently caress off my dock! Truth. Read this book. It's a fantastic dive into the transition from break-bulk to containerization. https://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy/dp/0691136408 edit- goddamnit that'll teach me to leave the reply window open while I eat
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Mar 25, 2022 01:39
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psydude posted:They call it treading in the Russian military, I think. Hunh. Actual realism in The Beast, then.
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Mar 25, 2022 17:09
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Jarmak posted:You misunderstand me completely. Getting lovely pallets that break is not a better way to make money. They don't teach you that at business school, they teach the opposite. Well, there are MBAs and there are MBAs. MBAs are usually just larger, more expensive cogs as well.
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Mar 26, 2022 00:28
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I feel like I'm too online because I got this. I finished my MBA in 2020 and the cult of just-in-time was just about to face its reckoning from the global supply chain fuckling. I got to see the open office trend live and die between undergrad and postgrad; business school curriculums are amusingly faddish if you take the long view. I've gotten to the point where I can break down HBR articles in my sleep- simplistic paradigm, 3-5 step model based on it, some anecdotal evidence with a smattering of data, pseudo-Gladwellish conclusion.
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Mar 26, 2022 04:10
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Bored As gently caress posted:https://twitter.com/iAmTheWarax/status/1507729143915495424?t=0zgg2ObFVoZbH1nP8C3DnA&s=19 Warax still dunking on Michael Tracey, I see
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Mar 26, 2022 22:30
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I love that they give an award that has annual in the title, which is only given out when a pilot faced a hosed-up situation enough to call for awarding it.
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Mar 27, 2022 03:25
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Hyrax Attack! posted:
Powers Boothe is an 80s character actor God.
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Mar 28, 2022 16:27
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Mira Mesa would be a pile of scrub canyons if it weren't for NAS Miramar, but when I grew up there you'd hear someone proudly brag about living next to Top Gun within 3 sentences of them also complaining about flyover noise. It was a slower version of the paradigm that's killing local racetracks across the country: thing (that makes noise) exists, people move near thing, people complain about thing's noise, people try to shut thing down. I will say, I never had an issue with the flyovers until the Blue Angels did a pass in preparation for the airshow that was so loving low I shook loose a turdlet while I was mowing the lawn. They were actually low enough I could read the loving flight lead's name stenciled under the cockpit.
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Mar 29, 2022 02:43
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(image of a sad mom leaving a Pomona yoga class, trudging to her Highlander and slowly peeling off the Slava Ukraini sticker that she had put next to her Sierra Club one)
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Apr 1, 2022 07:01
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I have to imagine there was a nickname contest in that wardroom for the pilot. I’m partial to Bubbles, but Das Boot has a ring to it
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Apr 1, 2022 22:17
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I'm waiting for Javelin trick shots like Modern Warfare 2. Dudes firing them up through elevator shafts and poo poo.
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Apr 3, 2022 04:49
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McNally posted:Keep your bloodlust out of my subforum. that is not what our founding moderator intended Liquid Communism posted:and religious believer in management by metrics in a vacuum. My fun job at Dish Network got ruined by some rear end in a top hat VP that Charlie Ergen hired from FedEx to throw tattletales on the vans and metrics on every little thing. It was the worst thing I had ever seen. Until the next job at a chemical plant that got bought out by Honeywell. Then I got to see how bad it was when metrics got mixed up with weeabo TPS fandom. Buncha loving rednecks preaching kaizen.
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Apr 4, 2022 01:17
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Taerkar posted:I worked for a place that did pretty much all of the Toyota Business Buzzword stuff, and they were a batch job manufacturer with a fairly customized range of products. Said company went bankrupt years ago. 10 years prior to the other two places (and pre-Army, pre-9/11), the shipyard I worked at, which made a ton of money as a repair yard, and lost a ton of money on the new ship side (due to such great management as making two entire right halves of a ship and not realizing it until it was time to flip the modules and put them together), hired a new President. He was a Six Sigma fanatic, who came from a lightbulb factory. Despite massive pushback from every single person there with a clue, he ordered us to sell, for scrap metal prices, all the rusty looking pieces of steel laying around in grass lots around the yard. You know, specialized jigs the yard had made over decades for jobs and kept, jobs for very specific equipment and ships that were repeat customers, who used us because we had them ready to go for quick turnaround repairs to major systems. Jigs that, when they weren't being used, looked just like big pieces of rusting steel in a field to morons who didn't listen to subordinates. Unsurprisingly, the money-making repair side very quickly made less money, as repair jobs went over on time. Eventually, the owner of the yard realized what was happening, and fired him, in the most hosed up way I've ever seen anyone be fired. See, he was British (the yard President). And he went home for Christmas. While he was there, the company pulled sponsorship of his work visa. And didn't tell him. He found out when he tried to board a plane at Heathrow.
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shame on an IGA posted:I wouldn't sleep on Vietnam, right after they finally got the french and americans to leave they had to turn around and kick China's rear end. They also ended the Khmer Rouge and liberated Phnom Penh on the very day I was born.
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Apr 4, 2022 14:27
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FrozenVent posted:What was Phnom Penh doing nine months before, mmmm? You laugh, but before I left for Cambodia in 2020 I did ask my father half-jokingly if there were any ill-tempered mid-40s Eurasian kids who were good with a wrench and had bad backs I should know about. He said “nah, we were there in 70 and I never got off the boat”. The ARVN boats they were escorting up the Mekong, however, came back loaded to the gunwales with loot. I think one sunk.
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Apr 4, 2022 15:24
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How long before the surplus of ORIGINAL UKRAINE BATTLEFIELD souvenirs hit the army/navy stores over here
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Have some lighter news. https://twitter.com/lapatina_/status/1510991411713347584?s=21
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