Letters of Mark

Response thesis: Christian America is not cutting it, but we can. We're Amer-I-can, not Amer-I-can't. No, this isn't about nationalism, that was purely tongue in cheek. Kind of. There are a lot of reasons why we aren't, and I won't address most. Maybe just a couple.

@BigJonnyQuest @FertigNeverDies @Abn_Panzer @absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo Indeed.

@FertigNeverDies @MThomasOTF @Abn_Panzer @absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo Us bigguns gotta stick together, the hobbits fear getting squashed by us

Apparently she survived after 45 minutes under canopy. That's 45 minutes more than some of the dirty nasty legs on here. 😤

@FertigNeverDies @BigJonnyQuest @Abn_Panzer @absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo I'm on chute detail. I'm an O-3. @RileyRooTwo, the best employment of a Bravo Delta E-4 is supervising the idiot O-3 on chute detail. This makes perfect sense.

@BigJonnyQuest @MThomasOTF @Abn_Panzer @absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo I'll be there, but might be on profile and get to E4 sham-shield my way out of chute detail. 😏

@FertigNeverDies @Abn_Panzer @absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo @BigJonnyQuest Well, that too. How you doing today?

@MThomasOTF @Abn_Panzer @absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo @BigJonnyQuest Landing speed wasn't my issue. It was the change in direction that put me right on my ass.

@Abn_Panzer @absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo @FertigNeverDies @BigJonnyQuest I mean, we both had issues with landing speed. I got next.

@MThomasOTF @absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo @FertigNeverDies @BigJonnyQuest Bruh….

@Johnny_Joey I wish I could disagree with some of this, but I can't. The A-10 really is suited to the USMC. I'd bet a lot of the pilots would take a transfer, too.

For those of you not familiar. The A-10 Warthog is the ugliest, most absurdly beautiful killing machine to ever take flight. A flying chunk of titanium molded around a gatlin gun style cannon; the equally absurd 30mm GAU-8. It commands the adoration of troops on the ground as the sound of its unmistakable mating call the “brrrrrrp” overhead means several enemy fighters have been neutralized. It flies low and slow delivering death more intimately than any other fighter jet could fathom. Cloaked in armor, it’s rumored to be able to take damage to 70% of its airframe and still land with ease. It doesn’t need a long or even paved runway. The uppity nerds running the Air Force have decided to “phase them out” this year… yet here they are continuing to “get some”. I personally think that @USMC should take the them over… they fit perfectly in our “take old shit and make it great” culture.

@absetzer808 @RileyRooTwo @Abn_Panzer @FertigNeverDies @BigJonnyQuest Maybe @FertigNeverDies should ask to borrow her rig.

@RileyRooTwo @Abn_Panzer @FertigNeverDies @BigJonnyQuest please track this lady down and get her manifested. Make her #1 jumper. 👍🏼

@BangSwitch5000 @DaleStarkA10 I hate this. We should have at least 800 of them as soon as possible.

So since we’ve been told that the A-10 can’t be built again but the plane is just such a beast…I have a suggestion…let’s make a new replacement. Here’s my proposal. The AA-20. @DaleStarkA10 what do you think? It’s basically an A-10 but with twice as much A-10!

@Joe86753091 Indeed. And recall that he had to speak both publicly and in testimony to Congress to get his message across. Angered a lot of senior officers. Didn't cross the line, because what he advocated for was undeniably reality. He said what needed to be said at high risk to himself.

sounds pretty good still: "In the war to come, God will be on the side of the heaviest air force. Don't forget it. Keep your eyes on the sky!". "In the development of air power, one has to look ahead and not backward and figure out what is going to happen, not too much what has happened".

Sometimes I wonder if this was what it was like to read Billy Mitchell's remarks a century ago. I think the military history books decades from now will have screenshots of his posts.

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Wait, I get to have 1,826 guaranteed safe unencumbered 20,000' free fall night jumps *and* get $100M to do it? That's almost 7,000 miles of free fall. Sign. Me. Up.

My allusion wasn't even about specifically airpower. It was about one officer with the guts to speak out against the entrenched bureaucracy and put both his name and career on the line to refocus the US military on warfighting. He saw what was coming and did something about it.

@TimChgo9 Not when they were square. Back then, Dr. Kellogg was inspired by them to invent Triscuits.

@MThomasOTF They were always triangles. Always.

Did you know that prior to 1986, Doritos chips were square? The inflation of the 1980s finally forced them to shrink the chips by 50%, but the triangle was to fool people into thinking they were the same size. It worked.

@Alan7098 I bet you think there was never a cornucopia either.

@MThomasOTF No, they weren't. They were always triangular.

@Alan7098 Okay, poodle. We have B-2s, F-22s, and F-35s now. However he did it, he proved his point. Note that his main point was ossification of bureaucracy leading to degradation of warfighting capability. He saw what was coming and was a loud voice against it, and he was right.

@MThomasOTF Billy Mitchell was a fraud. His vaunted demonstration of sinking Ostfriesland was conducted under ideal conditions with his strike aircraft flying suicidally slow. The ship was a stationary, defenseless target with no damage control capability.

@infantrydort May God have mercy on us if they are held as a madman's ravings. We will surely need it.

My posts will either be held in the highest of esteem, or simply be regarded as the musings of a madman. There is no in between.

@NativeTexan_17 @codym1917 That's just silly to say, sillypants. Of course officers save the day! What else would they be for?

@MThomasOTF @codym1917 No officers save the day tho..

Oh great. Just what we need, MORE Officers to ruin the fun.

@codym1917 I read the thread, I was just responding to your call for officers to come save the day!

@MThomasOTF In the thread.