Worked as a civilian (GS) for the army for 30 year. This is pretty much SOP.
Everyone talks about honoring soldiers, but in every conflict they are used and discarded, like a used tissue. They come back with life long illness and are just abandoned.
It’s despicable, but is not new. No administration wants to pay the full bill for their wars.
Yup. Also have an LG big screen. So frustrating that it has such amazing features and remote, but you cant trust them enough to plug in an ethernet cable.
All that labor and effort to create a really great product, then completely destroying it with corporate greed to squeeze that last penny of value out of you by undermining your network security and privacy.
Just such a stupid situation.
Or, just never hook them up to your network.
I plug a laptop into my TV for viewing shows and never have connected it to my network.
Smart appliances are crap that aren’t worth the hassle.
Vampire owls of the arboreal forest.
Well, that didn’t last long. Things are going to get ugly tomorrow in the commodity markets.
We were never great. But we use to be mildly competent.
Holy shit. They got everything they wanted and USA got zip.
Then trump paid them 300 billion.
WTF?
Oh, and it’s only good for 60 day?
Good. Stay down.
“But there have been officials who stated it to news sources.”
And those statements have been made anonymously and without credible evidence to back up the statements. It’s just spin.
Over my career I saw the truth on the ground verses the stuff that came out the mouths of the “officials” they rarely if ever matched reality. Especially when it was a politician talking.
As for the rest of your statement, there is just so much wrong in it I’m not going to spend hours swatting it all down. I’ve made a valid effort to provide some reality to the news spin. I decline to comment further.
Wow, what a bunch of double talking assholes.
"KATV reached out to Google asking why the meeting was private, who was involved, and how invitations were determined.
In a statement, the company said:
“Today’s meeting focused on hearing directly from the immediate community. Our goal was to ensure varying neighborhood perspectives were at the table. This is just one conversation out of many. We remain committed to keeping this process open and transparent.”
Google allowed KATV into a separate meeting for about five minutes, but cameras were not permitted inside. Several questions about the process and attendee selection went unanswered."
The drone engine is hot and traveling at subsonic speeds. Mostly it’s just the right radar and the right thermal sensors connected to the right software.
A lot of modern platforms have networked capabilities so it’s not just a helicopter and a drone. Everything in the air and ground and at sea tend to work together.
Well, it supposed to work together… I’ve been retire for about a decade. I’m sure they have moved on since i stopped paying attention.
USCENTCOM has never officially said the copter was hit by a drone.
the closes they came is this.
And if you read the article it doesn’t say anything about drones.
The best i can find out is the crash is still under investigation.
I worked for the army for 30 years as a civilian at redstone arsenal where the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command headquarters are. They are responsible for the apache. I never worked on the copters, but brushed shoulder with the people who did. The statements made so far are a classic case of the president wants it to be an attack, so let’s agree without lying.
Also i gave you two links to previous episodes like this. Did you read them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1890)#Sinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident#Second_alleged_attack
The Israel’s have no assets in that area that could bring down an apache.
It has one of the best sensor packages available, you cant just sneak up on it and shoot it.
The Apache was deployed because its sensors could detect and shoot down drones. There is no way it was downed by a drone.
It wasn’t designed for a marine environment. This is a complex piece of equipment that most likely failed due to salt corrosion.
The USA has a long history of faking attacks to justify wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1890)#Sinking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident#Second_alleged_attack
Ai, tiktok, facebook are all digital drugs.
These companies have a huge number of employees who specialize in addiction and use them to ensure you can’t look away.
This is stupid on so many levels, it has to be for domestic Polish political consumption.
Trump has left us broke, disarmed and vulnerable. We have nothing left to give. We expended a huge amount of munitions in Iran and are having problems replacing them. Also we had to lower the standards for recruits to make the enlistment quotas. You really don’t want us or these new recruits in your country.
You’re On Your On dudes.
Paging Stephen King…. Will Mr king please report to Ithaca NY, your next plot line has arrived.
Low monetary cost, or low environmental cost?
Edit: Read the article, it sounds like it’s a closed loop system that should be environmentally safe. But it can’t be that easy. They make it seem like they found the holy grail. Nothing is ever this easy and good. Prove me wrong?
They will claim they have no control over third party data brokers that strip anonymity as part of the Real-Time Bidding for ads. Even though they do own the data brokers also.
God, I hate the “Thank you for your service” bullshit. I get it all the time and I wasn’t even enlisted. Especially from the conservatives, who thank you, then vote to cut benefits. It’s like fingers down a chalk board.