Ben Franklin detained at Dulles trying to return home from Paris. What did that long-haired, bearded moo-slim expect? Ridiculous he thinks he knows more about the US Constitution than King Trump!.

Steve Bannon looks like Philip Seymour Hoffman - now.

Steve Bannon looks like a living ashtray.

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Nice idea, but an A10 is a poor choice flying in defended airspace. Great for plinking ragheads, but the 1973 Yom Kippur War demonstrated the folly of flying aircraft against armored formations with embedded SAM missiles. That’s what theater ballistic missiles are for; and MBTs.

What can I say? I can’t resist a golden opportunity.

Definite lack of leadership. Should never happen, and if true, people need to go to the brig.

I’m having a hard time feeling any sympathy for Trump voters who get health benefits via the exchange or who receive Medicare/Social Security who seem stunned that the continuation of these benefits is now in real jeopardy. I feel sorry for everyone smart enough not to vote for Trump who will lose access to these…

Flight hours per loss is the only relevant metric and raptors and other American planes deploy all over the world and are constantly doing exercises in a way only the U.K. Even approaches

Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, deep down, where it’s dark and wet, I sort of miss active duty. A little. Not much, but a little. I mean, it was exhausting, boring, and sometimes frightening as hell. But we did amazing, impossible, ridiculously dangerous shit virtually all of the time. Now I sit in a cube. I go…

Duh, everybody knows this is what a MiG looks like:

It’s an improvement. Another defense blog talking about the recent losses on the Kuznetsov talked about losing a MiG and a Sukhoi... then showed a Rafale landing on the de Gaulle as the main image.

Because sometimes you want to kill some people without killing everybody.

Countries that want to project power/protect their foreign interests without causing World War 3, I guess?