Ha! Following these comments you can probably guess who's a dealer and who has had to deal with car dealers.

I disagree with your #2 about the gun for CAS but I only have a single story. My neighbor was one of two F16s flying CAS at Robert's Ridge. The enemy was danger-close the entire time and they kept them suppressed with strafing. Imagine 20mm rounds shattering Afghanistan rock... he said it was effective.

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Seems strange to have a big city with 0 civilians. It makes sense in BF4, like everyone evacuated because war was coming. But I think they missed an opportunity to add a new gameplay element.

My favorite: After you finally agree on price (probably written diagonal-coolguy style and with a Sharpie) you spend the next two hours of your life moving from the salesman's office to the manager's office to the finance guy's office to the service office. Each stop you get to repeatedly tell them no to the…

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In my 2001 AS300 Air Force ROTC class, I had an assignment to give a position briefing. I gave a 5 minute presentation on why the JSF was a HUGE mistake. 13 years later - booyah!

You're probably right! Accept when I was fighting this the SF guys and AFOSI guys were pretty busy driving around GOs and guarding their cars at Corona in 2008. Yes, that Corona.

Who says I didn't! ;)

The Intel Oversight office is under the Inspector General. So yes, it was reported to the IG.

I know what you mean, I honestly can't read the guy. Anyone else think he was disturbingly calm in that interview? Something was just not quite right about it. He's clearly very smart and in a sometimes scary kind of way.

I wonder how many people will dive in front of these things to test the pedestrian avoidance, the foam front end, and Google's payout.

You are 100% correct. It most definitely was typical government disorganization. We were partnering with another government agency and once we told them, "No we aren't going to help you." They said, "ok" then searched around until they found a group who did. The last conversation I had was with the MAJCOM JAG who…

I believe him on the reporting through the chain and the Intelligence Oversight office. I had an experience reporting something through my local Air Force Intelligence Oversight office and the Judge Advocate. Weirdly they agreed with me that we shouldn't have been doing this specific thing and it did violate law. …

I wonder if they will advertise replacement air conditioners... That's a business model!

But high-altitude isn't so helpful in a CAS situation like Robert's Ridge. (I'll be nice and not bring up the F35 gun calibration issues and what a few degrees of error would have done in that particular CAS situation) Let's just say different aircraft for different purposes. That said, I do believe the Air…

I never thought the retiring of the A-10 was so much anti-A10 but further proof the AF is in WAAAAAY over their head on the F35 program. The A-10 is a high profile symptom of the dangerous world view that too many GO's are betting their careers on. They are starting to see airpower and the Air Force as an end by…