straight up laugh here.

I have no beef with this quality sports take product.

Funny. 3 years ago, Obama was laughing at Mitt Romney's contention that the Russians were our biggest geopolitical foe.

Great article. Air Force brat here, went to 3 different high schools. Portsmouth NH High School (Pease), Upper Heyford HS (England) and graduated from Zaragoza HS (Spain). I loved growing up as a military brat. My kids are Marine Corps brats. It builds kids who are independent, meet people well, and learn to adapt.

I see Chris Richie took over 38 now. He was a Lt at MACS-5 when I was the OpsO. Always had that lazy eye.

I'm sure I still know some of the folks in the field. Chad Breeden out at MACG-38 is a personal buddy of mine. Von Pigg, Dean Patterson, and most of the current O-6s are all buddies.

I'm a 7202, retired. When were you in? I ran Air Schools from 94-97

Absolutely concur.

Absolutely! I spent a lot of time explaining links early in my career. I consider assisting in the establishment of the JICO concept one of the best things I did on active duty.

25 years, or so, ago, I had a hand in ushering in improvements to Link 4 for Marine Hornets to exchange data link information with the Marine TAOC. I cannot tell you how difficult it was for aircrew to accept what was seen as an increase in pilot workload to look at the display and acknowledge receipt of engagement…

Looks like that thing runs on diesel

Funny stuff. I graduated Top Gun Class 3-84, and a bunch of the instructors I had were in the movie. Great recruiting tool, but the movie was fun to laugh at.

Absolutely love this kind of shit! Nice post.

I believe that the reins have certainly been loosened a bit.

They're called the Japanese Self Defense Force. They're small, but very capable. I did an exchange tour with the JASDF (Air) and found them to be better than I expected.

Lol...need to run this by Arkin at Phase Zero.

that's exactly what I expect to happen.

ah, yes....love the Osprey. Another fine weapons system that overcame early trouble to be combat proven.

Slick. Looks like a painting.

F-35 will do just fine. I recall the MV-22 histrionics, and that thing has proven to be a God's send to the Marine Corps.