Oh sure...make fun of the Brits for wearing safety gear while actually working, but don’t mention the hated reflective PT belt worn by every US soldier every day when exercising...

I’m sure they were keen to dump the Shah. I think they wanted to go back to the pre-1950's coup days and their movement was co-opted by the religious zealots.

One of the best tools the Ayatollahs have to remain in power is to continue to paint their world as a struggle between Iran and The Great Satan. Fear-mongering and sabre-rattling tend to legitimize their power. One way to reduce that power is to switch from the “hard” politics of military force and threats to the…

That’s absolutely the gist of what I mean. Plenty of people that remember (and long for) the pre-theocracy days. Not a stretch of the imagination to get back to that type of society.

Iran was once a modern, moderate country, and an ally of the United States. There are still many people in Iran who remember life pre-1979.

Named the USS Sioux City. Do you suppose they’ll adopt Sioux City Regional Airport’s IATA code for her motto: SUX?

One of my fondest memories of my time in the USAF is the 2 weeks I spent at Creech AFB (then called Indian Springs Auxiliary Field) in 1997 at Silver Flag Alpha (Security Police desert warfare school.)

Ted Cruz is very interested in getting more F-22s....they can carpet bomb ISIS, right?

Back when I was a cop I changed over from a P-220 .45 to. G22 .40 S&W. Loved the cartridge, lukewarm about the Glock.

And then piss and moan and blame Obama for the deficit this will cause. Foolproof plan!

How about a smaller “flex deck” ship with an angled flight deck and 2 catapults installed. The internal spaces would be designed to be modular: hangers and shops when configured as a “CV lite”, Marine bunks and training space when configured as an LHA, and medical spaces/disaster relief supply storage when configured…

If they go to F-35s they’ll have to change the motto to Mortem ad Pecunias.

12 Gauge, maybe?