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Imminent Fury Needed (from Inside the Ring)
The Washington Times ^
| June 9, 2010
| Bill Gertz
Posted on 06/10/2010 8:48:40 AM PDT by Slam
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Critical read. Big lobby holding up a required, requested, COMBAT tested, mission essential platform that the folks on the ground want....NOW. Despicable! Those who know, know this is a NO Brainer.
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posted on
06/10/2010 8:48:41 AM PDT
by
Slam
To: Slam
But, but, but....what are we gonna do about the oil spill? /s
These government morons could care less about our troops! ERRR!
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posted on
06/10/2010 8:54:05 AM PDT
by
GWMcClintock
("We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaki)
To: Slam
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posted on
06/10/2010 8:54:27 AM PDT
by
houeto
(Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
To: Slam
Air Force no wanto. Must have F-16, preferably F-22, or maybe OKayee, but just, an F35 drop bombs on four guys with AK’s next to a rock.
Another alternative is to start the Joint Light Attack Aircraft Program. Hundreds of slots for Air Force captains,
Colonels, Generals. Ten years of design studies at the cost of billions, then competition, and then they grunts in the hills can get their support.
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posted on
06/10/2010 8:57:10 AM PDT
by
Leisler
("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
To: Slam
THIS is how we can win in Afghanistan (Dresden style!).
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posted on
06/10/2010 8:57:22 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: ScottinVA
You’re right. We really don’t care to rule that place (like the Soviets did), so we should beat them into submission until they give us Osama and their leadership. Screw what the people think living there...tell them it will continue until they fix this crap. Remember they started the war by allowing the Taliban to take power.
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:03:11 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: Slam
Always wondered when prop planes would be called back into service in the ME... the good ole strafings of WWII.
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:08:56 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: Leisler
Agreed, this is typical USAF brass. Never buy a cheaper plane when a more expensive one will do the job.
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:09:24 AM PDT
by
Notary Sojac
(I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.)
To: GWMcClintock
Actually, I think the regime does “care” about what happens to the troops.
They hate the troops.
They hate them because members of the regime feel like sh*t every time they compare their miserable cowardly, irrational, drug-sotted selves to them. How dare these troops be so brave, dependable, intelligent and moral? Didn’t they get the memo that we are all supposed to be worthless like the leftists and their supporters?
It is hard to enforce equality when the troops keep demonstrating superiority in every way.
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:17:36 AM PDT
by
helpfulresearcher
(Bipartisanship: The PC Term for Collaboration with the Enemy)
To: Slam
Super Tucanos are VERY capable aircraft.
THe SOCOM boys wouldn’t put in a specific request for them if they were not EXACTLY the right tool for the task at hand
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:27:37 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: helpfulresearcher
They hate them because members of the regime feel like sh*t every time they compare their miserable cowardly, irrational, drug-sotted selves to them. How dare these troops be so brave, dependable, intelligent and moral? Didnt they get the memo that we are all supposed to be worthless like the leftists and their supporters?It is hard to enforce equality when the troops keep demonstrating superiority in every way.
Plus the effeminate males of the Left have no idea what it takes to be a warrior and win a war.
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:35:16 AM PDT
by
444Flyer
To: 444Flyer
Didnt they get the memo that we are all supposed to be worthless like the leftists and their supporters? Good one...
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:36:52 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
To: helpfulresearcher
Sen. Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican who sits on the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, is said to be behind the holdup...
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:38:39 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: roaddog727
The Skyraider, as I recall, was a P-47 on steroids. It was the ground attack aircraft most feared by the NVA.
If the Army was allowed to operated the Skyraider as a ground attack aircraft to supplement the A-10, many of our problems with ground attack would be over.
The Spad, if they brought it back, could do the job.
Best,
Chris
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:41:29 AM PDT
by
section9
To: GOPJ; helpfulresearcher
Wish I could claim credit but that is Helpfulresearcher’s writing.:)
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:50:55 AM PDT
by
444Flyer
To: section9
Ithink it would take a good bit of time to get production going again for the Skyraider.
The Super Tucano is in production now.
A Brazilian bird - but Highly capable
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posted on
06/10/2010 9:58:24 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: section9
Longer loitering time but easier to shoot down.
UAV’s work just as well.
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posted on
06/10/2010 10:03:50 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Slam
What they are talking about, a Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano
What I am talk'n about...
Piper PA-48 Enforcer (pictured above). The PA-48 is an updated version of the World War II-era North American P-51 Mustang, which the USAF evaluated in the early 1970s for a possible COIN role. One potential issue is the PA-48 would not meet the USAF's requirement for a two-seat fighter.
Talk about a slick ride to cruse the Texas Mexican border, forget the drones.
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posted on
06/10/2010 10:04:29 AM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: TLI
Interesting- never saw one of those before.
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posted on
06/10/2010 10:41:51 AM PDT
by
GenXteacher
(He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
To: TLI
Wow, that’s a lot of hard points.
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posted on
06/10/2010 10:52:57 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(No Representation without Taxation!)
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