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Hehehe...our ROTC colonel uses the "Air Force Smart" slogan
Air Force does have huge TEC and INT bonuses.
Awesome. It's the super hero who runs on pure hope.
LOL Chairforce. Navy operates under different rules then the other forces because it's sea based. Breeds independent thinkers and maniacs.
The Marines, which are an arm of the Navy (like the Air Force is an arm of the Army) have the biggest ratio of whacko motherfuckers as compared to any other service.
Us in the Army... well, we're kind of the backbone of joint ops.
Having worked directly for an Admiral I don't think it is. You forget (or are just ignoratn of the Navy on all levels), most Admirals are pilots, it's the fastest way to make Admiral the most fool proof. It's run by the pilots. I think you know squat about the Navy and are just speaking out your ass.
This is true, and why we can hit him on other things than his rank.
Being on a ship for 6 months at a time with a no-fucking restriction would do that.
This is just completely incorrect. What rank do you have to be to command a carrier group?
"Killing civilians with a gun is a war crime, doing it with a tomahawk is colteral damage, ie bonus points, stack em and rack em"
sick I know
The three I worked for were either rear admiral 1 star, or rear admiral second star. In all cases they were pilots, and the CO of a carrier, and the CO of the wing is always a pilot.
EDIT: and every battle group we handed off to was run a 2 star who was a pilot.
I'm correct, the navy is crazy.
Of course, that assumes logical thought. Never mind.
You're not a civilian contractor to the DoD, are you?
Also, if they're picking Romney it's fantastically dumb.
*the internets
So you're resorting to personal attacks, fine have at.
What you can't seem to grasp, is that the Navy is, for the most part, a strike force. We start the shit. It's about taking out targets and kill rate. Hence why most Admirals were pilots, it's all about how many targets you can take down quickly. Then send in the Marines and let the Army do clean up.
So the Navy never has to worry about the clean up, the aftermath of what went down, that's not our job. Army does that.
Thus, an Army General, and a Navy Admiral are going to look at things differently. McCain, is not that off when it comes to Navy thinking "can we blow the crap out all targets, OK then let's do it", and Clark was right about Iraq "yeah we can blow the shit out of it, but we sure as fuck can't control it".
Feel free to keep insulting me though, but I don't think you know anything about how the armed services differ on war logic.
EDIT:
I was an E-5 in the Navy when I worked for Admirals, I did contracting after when I got out.
It's a legit logo, yes
That said, the only thing that bothers me is a slight concern that Biden, working from the Veep's office, might overshadow the National Security Advisor / State Department in advising Barack or in carrying out public diplomacy. Barack is a seriously smart guy and I know he's not going to pull a Bush and farm out all the actual decisionmaking to his VP, it's just potentially a point of bureaucratic / organizational friction to be aware of going into the administration. Anthony Lake and Samantha Powers are probably the top candidates for Nat'l Security Advisor, and I don't know if there's any back history between them and Biden or not, but it would be worth looking into.
Does anyone know who will take Biden's position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? I think it's usually (but maybe not always, depends on what deals the majority leadership wants to cut) seniority-based? ((edit -- I'm an idiot, Kerry is on there, he will probably take chair.)) For Secretary of Defense, my money is on Sen. Jack Reed.
Ok, off to watch these videos now.
o_O
Yes, there is.
The Navy does not opperate under the same rules as other services. Does not have to deal with the after math of the cranage they cause, and a "captain" (ie someone who runs a ship) is close to a god in power.
Hence it produces rather head strong leaders, who aren't scared to take a risk, but who don't always understand the results of what they do.
This doesn't make the Navy bad, I LOVED the Navy, still do. Great service and did a world of good for me. But Navy Admirals don't think along the lines of say, oh, an Army General. Because they do a different job with different goals.
For McCain, yeah he's nuts, even by Navy standards. But his line of thinking "if I can blow it up the job is done" isn't that far off.
That's something that should be brought up. That line of logic has it's place, but not in a CIC.
Dodd would take the chair.
He's got Kerry by four years on seniority. And seniority generally speaking determines the chair, unless the senior member is reallly old/senile.
Obama's decision to pick Biden should be as awesome as Gore's decision to pick Lieberman was terrible. Obama/Biden is like the anti-Gore/Lieberman ticket, and should be a great change of pace from the last two elections.
Obama is afraid to get his hands dirty. Joe Biden isn't.
So does that make him Mr. America?
Awesome.
Off topic, but Wikipedia says that Pawlenty has his own radio station. Is anyone else uncomfortable whenever they hear that a politician has his own radio station? Is that really a non-partisan use of public airwaves?
Plus, it's generally the job of a veep to rip peoples throats out. Edwards was terrible at it, Biden is awesome at it.
This comparison of long range warfare to short range warfare isn't analogous to the differences between the branches. Every branch uses long range warfare and short range warfare.
McCain's Navy experience as a pilot is not going to do him a disservice as President (the being tortured for two and half years might, but not the flying of the planes or commanding a squadron), although it could be reasonably argued that it wouldn't be as handy as infantry experience. But you're not arguing that.
I figure Obama and I are practically cousins, now.
Um, I think you mean radio program. He has a one-hour show every week on Minnesota AM Radio (or at least he did when I lived in the Twin Cities). Ventura had the same thing when he was governor. Think of it as like the President's Weekly Radio Address, but with an interviewer.
And I really don't think Pawlenty's the VP, especially if tax policy continues to be the McCain campaign's main hitjob against Obama. Pawlenty is far too easy a target as "the governor who let a major bridge collapse because he refused to raise taxes." (I know that's a somewhat unfair attack against Pawlenty, but can you really envision Biden, or MoveOn.org, or someone on the Left not pulling out that attack?)
Considerign the games that his administration pulled with MDOT, probably not.