U-2 -vs- Global hawk
02-26-2014 | 05:21 AM
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They all serve at the pleasure of the POTUS, but as an observer it seems to me the current SecDef is equivalent to a box of rocks compared to his two most recent predecessors. A very useful idiot.
02-26-2014 | 07:00 AM
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02-26-2014 | 07:16 AM
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Hagel does have a decent breadth of experience, I'll take a wait-and-see approach for now. Sometimes you have to horse-trade to get things done.
02-26-2014 | 07:46 AM
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02-26-2014 | 11:06 AM
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I think it's funny that so many people were offended by that perceived slight against the medal, but have no comment about the devaluing of it that, in my mind, was a much bigger slight to those who risked much more in the past to earn it.
02-26-2014 | 06:19 PM
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At least he backed us out of the alice-in-wonderland realm where a "drone warrior" medal was created and ranked above major combat medals in a ludicrous and transparent attempt serve the marketing needs of the UAV industry.
Hagel does have a decent breadth of experience, I'll take a wait-and-see approach for now. Sometimes you have to horse-trade to get things done.
Hagel does have a decent breadth of experience, I'll take a wait-and-see approach for now. Sometimes you have to horse-trade to get things done.
02-26-2014 | 08:54 PM
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No, I'm not sure. I'm really hoping there isn't a national political strategy to castrate the military (physically and philosophically) to ensure that someone's foreign policy agenda survives into perpetuity. But the suspicious side of me wonders.
02-27-2014 | 04:37 AM
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02-27-2014 | 04:59 AM
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Has the U2 gotten the mod to bring the cockpit down to 16.5 yet? I completely assembled a U2 package including the wing commander endorsement but never pulled the trigger due to some of the unknowns of what happens to the brain at extended periods of time @ very high altitudes. The Al Dhafra fun-show and California politics might have played a secondary role 
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