Thanks ma'am. Just a simple way to consider the observance of the day.

I can never do a post w/o a typo or a failed correction. My Dad retired from the Marine Corps in November 1988 during my senior year in high school. I received an NROTC Marine Option scholarship that Spring in 1989. The rest is history.

>under which we pursue all acquistion and development. The example I always go back to: The day before you had an iPhone and the day after you own one was an accelerating moment, but the tech itself was a 10 year project.
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>is instructive on what it really takes to build a resilient force for the long haul. This article's conception of how to relax budgeting and discretion at the speed of learning is more important than chasing some fantastic notion of a 5 year window as the constant timeframe<

>understanding the next 15 to 20 years of potential threats along with aligning government research, defense industrial base capacity, etc. It's not just 3d printing Group 1-2 UAS and calling it just in time. Marine Corps development of oppossed amphibious assault capability from 1918-1942<

People forget that CCDR's have a four year term (when they aren't told to fire illegally at targets) and their focus is on "fight tonight". Services and OSD have a requirement to commit long term. Acquisition timing isn't just a function of institituional delay, it is more often a function of<

>did 21yrs of service retiring before retiring my senior year of high school. It served me well enough. I wasn't always alright, but I shared that perspective from one veteran to another to them. It was all I knew then about integration after deployment. It helped me and hopefully it helped them.

>some tough things too. But it is not the everything. You're allowed to have joy in good things and be sad for others. This is not your sole personality or your identity no matter what news or movies say." My Dad, a veteran of extreme combat over/in Vietnam as a gunship gunner taught me that. He<

Spending today in the workshop, making lentil soup for the fam for dinner, maybe trying to fly fish the freshly stocked trout pond downtown. Its the reason for the season. These are things I dreamed about in 5 deployments.

OMG, I'm making a life-size version of this to match the life-size version we are living

Obviously I'm not going deep enough when I fly fish.

What I'm curious is how that provision can be in any way Constitutional? They effectively gave themselves a statutory pardon/immunity. And, in the same breath are offended that Jack Smith got legal access to records in order to pursue a case against a former President. This is so upside down.

It's the Dread Pirate Roberts' theory of Bond: I am Inego...I mean Bond. James Bond. Now prepare to die!

Not like we all believed Dalton or Brosnin were the same guys who defeated Goldfinger. He/she needs to be latter 30s to early 40s to be a Navy Commander. Maturity for an immature character.

Fiercely accountable? Is that like strenuously objecting? They pulled the football again...but we're holding them accountable for sure!

Pulling the 3-card monty to the rubes who believe that it is a legitimate dividend (vice illegal tax) & putting health care subsidies in an FSA will solve premiums. They think when the government hands out cash its because everything is working as it should. "See! The Dems never gave you money!"

Okay, not to take away from the sentiment, but a "pivot to the Pacific" is kind of a funny extract from this.

>Which brings us back to the Dems and Indpendents in the end. Raise the minimum wage, address health care affordability that isn't dependent on the whims of insurers, restore international trade but incentivize industry at home. Do it with urgency and alacraty that doesn't enable MAGA to return.

>to overcome this requires repudiation by the Courts and a message (with a plan) that gets through the mid-terms. Last, is immediate accountabilty for all of MAGA for every illegal thing they enabled, excused, and supported. That is when any of this will mean anything, & barring that, nothing will<

<rubes will fall for it, failiing of course to understand that the tariffs are a consumption tax built on an illegal usurpation of authority and that individual costs are increasing under an economy held together by an AI bubble and uber wealthy personal spending. For the Dems and Independents<