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Hello and Welcome! 👻

I consider both a badge of honor. Call me strange. Call me weird. I'll celebrate my strange wierdo badge, thank you. If others are offended by it, that's not my fault.

Especially today.

LOL ! ! !

As kmcorby noted, a slog indeed, but worth it.

LOL. I have to read along. If I just listen, I won't remember it and I'll drift off in my own thoughts. The speed gets me through it faster AND makes me focus on the text.

When I read a book for the podcast, I usually listen to the audio book on 2x speed. It's a lifesaver.

Condolences to their families.

Absolutely they do. The rules for the military are not the rules of any form of civilian life. If you're one of the ones who keep secrets, it's partly a point of pride, obligation, and duty to retain that secret. And if you don't, the punishment isn't simply losing your job.

I agree. 100%
But again, if they don't want you to know . . .
I also 100% do not believe that they don't know what this is. They absolutely do but, for some reason, have decided not to tell--which, again, makes me think they're involved. What better cover than to let the "conspiracy nuts" go nuts?

I'm not shocked that gov agencies would point fingers everywhere but at themselves. If they don't want you to know, they'll deny right up until one crashes with a tag reading "property of the US Gov." And even then, they'll say it was something else. Time will tell, or it won't.

I don't disagree. I do doubt that it's a rough individual(s). The way the gov and military work, a rouge on this level would have been shut down on day one which tells me its a planned op of some sort. A unit spokesperson could be told to say whatever. Again, that assumes it's actually military.

It may be that simply denying it has less to do with admitting they are doing something and more to do with not admitting that there is a hole in their security when it comes to these things. But again, it's just a theory--though I don't think it's any more off base than any other theory.