Unless you believe that your personal feelings about “the gay thing” should dictate (aka limit) the career prospects of millions of other people, I’m not sure why they’re relevant to this story in the first place.

I’m still old school on the gay thing.

That old “benefits for your wife and kid when you die in service to your country” agenda.

I’m still old school on the gay thing.

because the story is about a lesbian soldier who was fighting two battles at the same time - one for her country, and one for her basic human right to express her love openly while serving her country.

AF OSI is constantly investigating overseas. Just like Army CID. This is very common.

Did you actually read the article? It's there because her rights as a lesbian is what she worked hard for.

Weird reaction for me. Air Force veteran here, my job wasn’t security related, and I’ve read plenty of stories similar to this with little emotional response beyond “damn, that sucks.” This one, for whatever reason, got to me a lot more than most. I’m always dreading reading a name I recognize, but that day hasn’t…

Obama never “took out law and order”; the Libyans did that and good for them. Obama simply saved civilians from having heavy weapons turned on them at their request. He also didn’t arm extremist groups; in fact he resisted Biden and Clinton’s call to arm the Syrian rebels - many would say wrongly, as it left Assad in…

Okay, a few points. Not to get into an Obama-Bush pissing contest, but there is no comparison between the two here. The canard about “Obama lost the region because he failed to leave behind x number of troops” is farcical. One, the Iraqi government didn’t want this. Two, the American people didn’t want it. Three, I…

I’m confused, Tyler. You excoriate Obama for not putting more boots into the fight against ISIS, ignoring the question of what comes after we “win”.

US special forces have been running counter-ISIS operations in Northern Syria for a while now; from what I can tell the F-15’s are mostly there as a deterrent/insurance policy to make sure Russia’s air assets don’t interfere. Probably can say the same thing about any covert operations that may or may no involve the…

At least the US has the balls to admit when they screw up. Russia dumps thousands of dumb bombs and barrel bombs into heavily populated areas yet have the nerve to say “no civilian casualties” every single time. Do you honestly think Putin would admit to bombing a school or hospital?? Its not like the Drs. Without…

I’m curious whether the story of the 18-man SAR team finding him is true. With one Mi-8 lost to ground fire, I would be surprised if they kept up the search. A possible alternative scenario that suits both Turkey and Russia would be that the Turkmen rebels captured the navigator, and that he was repatriated via…

He’s a sock puppet being told what to say. It’s quite obvious these idiots broke airspace AGAIN. Now Russia is going to cry and pitch a fit. I’d say tighten the bolts on sanctions now.

I’m glad the pilot is OK, but his interview is totally worthless. He could have landed 25 miles inside of Turkey and he’s still going to say, “No sir, we definitely didn’t fly over Turkey.”

If you can’t tell the difference between deliberately dropping hundreds of dumb bombs on a city and accidentally hitting a hospital due to bad intelligence then you might be an idiot.

It’s not baloney.

Since you seem to think that I believe Aviano was done on purpose, I’ll bite. No I never said they were employed to kill civilians in Italy. How you are conflating that with killing non-combatants in a warzone is beyond me.

You telling me to read Clausewitz and then not allowing the concept of the Fog of War to color your perception of what happened in Afghanistan is really great. People were given info, that info was wrong, someone made a bad call. That’s it. It wasn’t some multi-national geopolitical power play as it seems like you…