Current US Military

[Ph64]

Tyndall is not dead, just knocked down

Well, c'mon, what are the chances FL will get another nasty hurricane within the next say 20 years?

[Hastur]

Huge NATO exercise, Trident Juncture, going on in northern Norway now. A lot of it seems to spill over into Sweden as well. Our northern air base F-21 is packed with USAF planes. The exercise gathers around 51,000 participants from NATO and partner countries Sweden and Finland. 250 aircraft, 65 vessels and 10,000 vehicles are taking part.

But we still call ourselves Non-Aligned in peace and Neutral in war.

[C-Mag]

Mattis needs to get off his ass and fix this shit
http://theothermccain.com/2018/06/17/ti ... navy-ship/

Hey tough guy, don't go hiding facts like the military is gender studies course.

[heydaralon]

Mattis needs to get off his ass and fix this shit
http://theothermccain.com/2018/06/17/ti ... navy-ship/

Hey tough guy, don't go hiding facts like the military is gender studies course.

The ocean is not that big anymore due to globalization. Things happen fast. Sometimes, other ships merge into your lane without putting on their blinker signal. We can't blame these naval captains (regardless of their gender) for wastings millions of taxpayer dollars and putting the lives of countless servicemen at risk. Thats not fair and you know it. Sonar, radio, and binoculars are patriarchal inventions, and its absurd to think that female naval officers should be expected to use them. You just earned a Daralon Demerit for wrongthink.

[brewster]

Which president left office with the highest inflation adjusted military budget since WW2?

[heydaralon]

Which president left office with the highest inflation adjusted military budget since WW2?

Van Buren.

[brewster]

Which president left office with the highest inflation adjusted military budget since WW2?

Van Buren.

Yeah, you joke, but I really wonder how many Citizens can name every president since 1900. I had a "college graduate" working for me in the early 90's who didn't know when the Vietnam War was.

[heydaralon]

Which president left office with the highest inflation adjusted military budget since WW2?

Van Buren.

Yeah, you joke, but I really wonder how many Citizens can name every president since 1900. I had a "college graduate" working for me in the early 90's who didn't know when the Vietnam War was.

What field are you in? It disturbs me how little most people know about history, but if you worked in a STEM field and he was crushing it, then it is a bit more excusable. I know a reasonable amount about history, but work a pitiful POS job. If he made more than me, I'd probably trade brains with him in a heatbeat.

[brewster]

What field are you in? It disturbs me how little most people know about history, but if you worked in a STEM field and he was crushing it, then it is a bit more excusable. I know a reasonable amount about history, but work a pitiful POS job. If he made more than me, I'd probably trade brains with him in a heatbeat.

He had a design degree from Pratt. Still, we're talking about a war that ended less than 20 years previous, not ancient history. My wife has a degree in History, graduating in 89. when she told her septuagenarian adviser she wanted to do her thesis on the 60's 'war on poverty', he told her that wasn't history, it was current events!

No one with an answer to my pop quiz?

[heydaralon]

What field are you in? It disturbs me how little most people know about history, but if you worked in a STEM field and he was crushing it, then it is a bit more excusable. I know a reasonable amount about history, but work a pitiful POS job. If he made more than me, I'd probably trade brains with him in a heatbeat.

He had a design degree from Pratt. Still, we're talking about a war that ended less than 20 years previous, not ancient history. My wife has a degree in History, graduating in 89. when she told her septuagenarian adviser she wanted to do her thesis on the 60's 'war on poverty', he told her that wasn't history, it was current events!

No one with an answer to my pop quiz?

James K Polk had a pretty highly inflated military budget, but much of that inflation stems from the fact that the military had numerous military observation balloons that they put up in the air to see far into Mexican military lines. Adjusted for inflation, these balloons probably equaled several Fuji blimps.