I know its kind of crass but all I keep thinking about is: 100 million of ordinance was just fired. (1.6 million a pop).

Finally.

Did they fix the problems with the EMALS? ... Or are we just going to commision it, then pay another $5 billion to fix it later?

The Gawkerverse need to pin this failure on the President to meet the goal of declaring everything a “mess” and ‘fascist”. We give the Pres too much credit (OBL raid) and blame (Yemen hostages killed) for military ops.

I am very curious here. Trump and the National Security Team do not plan raids. This was done by Naval Special Warfare Group with approval from CENTCOM. Anyone in the long chain from the LTjg up to the 4 star could have stopped this raid if they felt it was going sideways before they hit the ground. That the Op went…