But why is there pressure for him to have legit heir(s) of his own? Sure if there are NO heirs, Monaco revert to France. And that’s undesirable for him and Monaco. But he got enough legit heirs from his sisters that’s not really a concern. It’s not as if Charlene’s bloodline is anymore “noble” than the Casirahgis. If…

US military base took up 18% of the Okinawa’s main island. So it’s easy to understand the locals’ feeling. Not to mention the historical grievance the locals have with the central government in Tokyo. Not unlike what happened to USN in Vieques, Puerto Rico.

It all coming down to what you think is the source of this “carrier gap.” If you think the current problem is caused by

I don’t think current Abe cabinet would be hard to convince that more CVN in Japan would be bad.(Maybe not USS Truman. I remember reading somewhere USN almost deploy USS Truman to Japan, before someone mentioned Hiroshima/Nagasaki)

Or cut down on the transit time from US west coast to western Pacific by homebasing more carriers in Japan.

Sadly, that’s still more than what the men got. Hopefully they will get their just due, too.

If you believe Tyler’s source, the AESA radar on the F-35 can be used as a self-protection microwave weapon against incoming missiles. Maybe the money would be better off spending on retrofit such capabiliies to F-16. But F-35 is far from being dead meat once its stealth had been compromised.

Were you on Jalopnik when they covered this fallency of yours?

If you believe him, he only drinks at church, during communion, and he does that as often as possibile. This is from August 2015.

He says many things. This is another quote from him about attending church service:

I don’t know. I am not sure Trump would wrote this part “He has no history of ever using alcohol or tobacco products.”

I think there is a differece between C-130 and other systems on how often it’s being used to support other branches.

I think crew reduction was the original “selling point’ for C-130J in the post-cold war draw down. Just like LCS was designed for much smaller crew than FFG-7. Or Growlers have 2 vs 4 on Prowlers.

My understanding is that a lot of the C-130s are in NG and Reserve. Governors like to have those based in their states because they are handy in natural disasters, etc.

African American graduation rate doubled at UC San Diego after California voters outlawed race based affirmative action. Depends on which years and campuses you pick, more African Americans graduated from UC system in absolute numbers without affirmative action even as their population on campus shrinked.

Gingrich was out of Congress/Speakership in 1999. By the time Wolfowitz cancelled C-130J, he was living in the DC area, no longer local.

I don’t know. The C-130J model had some rough patches in its development. Some people who is current ragging on F-35 had some really harsh words on C-130J.

Not to say it doesn’t happen in Hollywood, but my linked article is about how other Asians went to Korea and found it to be really blatant and pervasive, even by Asian standard.

Many K-Pop management companies are not that different from sex traffickers.

Beside the fact that this group is very unlikely to be flying First Class. How do you know sex-workers are not being trafficked in First Class? What if the management company had chartered a private jet?