I was with a sqdn on a MEU with LPH. No well deck.

The part of the speech you didn't include explains he blames the Soviets for creating the Cold War environment that created the MIC.

Strat lift will be the real market if they can get the cargo payload large enough.

Glad they had enough guys standing by with fire bottles. Unlike poor Kee Bird.

It’s sometimes very difficult to put someone in pre-trial confinement. Believe it or not the UCMJ does have protections for the accused. Unless the command went to the effort it’s very easy for a guy to leave even under “restriction" to barracks. Most UA and deserters are not actively searched for unless again the…

It took me awhile to appreciate it but it's a crack up. I had an old starlog magazine that showed how they did some of the flying scenes and was impressed they built the M3 Lee from the chassis up out of an M7 Priest.

Waiting to see if the Airlander HAV can be a strat lift asset.

The first new FA article will be about the Triple T Tank.

Cobra Clutch!!!

Seems like I can't reply to TR? Is this the beginning of the end?

Haven’t always agreed with your opinions but salute you before Gawker crumbles in their fuhrer bunker in NYC (or Caymans). ;)

Coincidentally that’s Saul Goodman’s shadow corporation.

Schadenfreude. Too bad for FA. Moving on...

Funny to see the difference in comments between the FA vs Gawker articles on same event.

When did it become congee. All I ever knew it as was jook. My Cantonese grandpa ate oatmeal with ground meat and soy sauce but some days American style with milk and sugar.

1. Never say never. And who will fortify every mile of their coastline? Considering the majority of people live in the littoral it is a valid capability to maintain if only because it complicates your enemy’s problem set.

I get you don’t believe we need a Marine Corps but if you understand the concepts behind Ship To Objective Maneuver and Operational Maneuver From The Sea you’d know why we procured the MV-22.

Yes there are some in my old backyard in SoCal. IIRC the early white settlers of Orange County planted many to act as windbreaks around orange groves /farm fields.