Only about 1/4th of this graphic is jets so I don't see where your complaint is valid. And as the service that's always forward deployed and ready to respond to any crisis we kinda need aircraft to give us air superiority while our helos bring in boots to put on the ground.

It's a branch of the DoN yes. But don't you ever confuse the term Sailor and Marine ever again. Trolling or not that shit isn't funny. Marines are Marines and nothing else.

In a nutshell. Yes, every branch of service has its own air power. The Army only has helos as already stated. But every other branch has a mix of fixed and rotary wing.

That happens with any Marine A/C. I can tell you as a Marine Aviation Supply Officer that every A/C in country required more parts then expected just because the environment put a lot of the A/C into unscheduled maintenance. But I’m sure the Osprey was babied a lot more. Depending on what year it could have still been…

Dude seriously. Flying in them at TBS with full combat loads on and packs in our lap during take off and pulling hard turns definitely crushed my spine a little bit. But I loved every second of it.

If you don't know what OPSEC is then don't worry about it. Those of us that do will let him know when he crosses the line.

But they are shocks. It's in the name. I'm not disagreeing I'm just saying you can't generalize shocks these days.

Bilstein 5100s have been providing up to 2.5” of lift to 3rd and 4th gen Rams for years now. Now to be fair it’s more of a coil over shock but you’re still wrong.

Every aircraft after the F15 is pretty much all fly by wire (maybe the F16). Hell computers are the only reason the B2 can even fly. I believe many aircraft have redundant computer systems should the primary fail but don’t quote me on that.

I can almost use my exact previous response. Tell me that you’d say all of this to every F16, F15 and F18 pilot who’s flown over Iraq and Afghanistan for the past 14 years. I'm not necessarily saying you can call the F22 a combat proven aircraft. I'm just saying the reason you're disqualifying it would disqualify…

So you’re telling me every pilot who’s been deployed since 9/11 has never been in “combat” according to your logic. Yea you're an idiot.

They still do. We get to fly in the green top V22s.

A little known detail about the Green Tops that I didn’t know about until I got there is that they also fly around the Lieutenants at The Basic School. It was pretty cool to be able to say I've flown in an HMX-1 helo.

Well the truck enthusiast in me noticed right away that those headlights were F250 and because I know the Excursion died years ago (almost a decade now I think).

In terms of the Excursion and your picture? The Excursion came first. There’s a big difference between a converted F250 and an Excursion.

We have EAF (expeditionary airfield) capabilities. So it's within our realm to operate in austere environments. Plus we usually set up forward bases for aircraft (everything except F18s). And as an aviation supply guy I can tell you we have the ability to support aircraft as forward as they go.

Yeaaaaaa. Let’s be realistic here. Regardless the MC doesn't and they never will.

The AF doesn't do expeditionary. That's our (USMC) job.

If the MC did adopt the A10, which it won’t, it wouldn't be retrofitted to launch from carriers since a very small number of MC A/C even launch from carriers. They would just operate like F18s and C130s from land bases and just do a lot of inflight refueling to get where it's going. But it's ability to launch and…

Definitely siding with the family on this. They told the flight attendant that all she needed was hot food and nothing would happen and they refused. They even offered to pay for it. So the flight attendant is the one at fault here. I get that there's policies but you can bend the rules for something as rare as this.…