@MontanaDES Prediction from Florida: Some retired judge will be out today playing golf during one of our late afternoon T-Storms and will be hit by lightning :(
Expect the unexpected...
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Marschal Rothe
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Marschal Rothe
@MarschalRothe
I believe in Dragons - Lover of art, architecture as well as aviation and ships.
Sarasota Springs, FL Katılım Temmuz 2024
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When thunder roars, go indoors! Thunderstorms are expected today and tomorrow, and they can escalate quickly. Watch the skies if you have outdoor plans and take shelter immediately if you hear thunder or see lightning strikes.
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@supbrow I used to work in post 9/11 emergency management at the state and county leve. Much interaction with Fed's including law enforcement and the "famous" fusion centers. Still waiting on on Common Operating Picture and Situational Awareness (but I still have mine).
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Ahhh....
The elusive Maritime Common Operating Picture (COP) for the region.
Desired for decades, but yet to be meaningfully implemented at regional scale:
💡Admiral Mullen's 1,000 Ship Navy in ~2006
💡 CENTRIXS Combined Maritime Forces Pacific (CMFP) demonstrated at RIMPAC 2006
💡 Information Fusion Centre established in Singapore in 2009
💡US Maritime Security Initiative launched by US SecDef Ash Carter at Shangri-la Dialogue in 2015
💡 SeaVision presented to ASEAN defense Ministers in Honolulu in 2016
💡 ASEAN's ADMM Direct Communications Infrastructure (ADI) formally launched in 2017
💡 IPMDA launched in 2022
💡 Quad IPMSC launched in 2026
Despite two decades of concepts, funding, sensors, fusion centers, and political declarations, Indo-Pacific partners still lack a truly integrated, trusted, real-time maritime COP shared across governments and agencies.
The barriers were never primarily technical. They remain political, legal, bureaucratic, and sovereignty-driven:
⛔ intelligence classification
⛔ national sensitivities
⛔ uneven technical capacity
⛔ incompatible systems
⛔ limited trust between states
⛔ reluctance to share commercially or operationally sensitive data
⛔ competing strategic interests
Meanwhile the threats have always adapted and metastasized faster than governments can.
@cdrsalamander
@BDHerzinger
@graham_euan
Ambassador Sergio Gor@USAmbIndia
Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting delivers strong, concrete results. From enhanced maritime security to new initiatives on maritime security, port infrastructure, critical minerals, and energy resilience - here are the top deliverables from this round of Quad cooperation. Thread below. #QuadFMM *Maritime Security* The Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting advanced major maritime security initiatives. New initiatives on maritime surveillance, domain awareness, and coast guard coordination will strengthen regional security, improve information-sharing, and support a free and open Indo-Pacific. #QuadFMM *Port Infrastructure* A big step for Pacific Islands! Quad partners will collaborate with Fiji to advance critical port infrastructure - the first joint Quad project of its kind in the region. #QuadFMM *Critical Minerals Deliverable* Quad partners announce the Critical Minerals Framework! The Framework will strengthen critical mineral supply chains in mining, processing, and recycling. Coordination across the Quad helps reduce vulnerabilities and supports long-term economic security. #QuadFMM *Energy and Fuel Security* Energy security is national security. The Quad’s new Indo-Pacific Energy Security Initiative expands cooperation on technology, energy resilience, and emergency preparedness to support a more stable and secure region. @ENERGY to host a dedicated Quad Fuel Security Forum later this year. #QuadFMM
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CL-60 USS Sante Fe cruise book. At the VA getting in-patient and found this WW2 (yearbook?) in a library full of cheap novels. Details of service from 1942-45 in West Pac including assisting the USS Franklin and gunnery support at Tarawa. Very cool.
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@CoelingAurochs Love it. Have this image of trudging through a fierce blizzard...
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Well said. Love church but after moving spent much time trying to find a church that doesn't open services with an extremely loud "pop" band. Piano and non-amplified vocals work for me. I doubt Notre Dame originally had a PA system with sub-woofers etc..
Clint Warren-Davey@Clint_Davey1
You could try listening to Gregorian or Byzantine Chant instead of "Jesus is my boyfriend" pop music.
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@Clint_Davey1 Well said. Love church but after moving spent much time trying to find a church that doesn't open services with an extremely loud "pop" band. Piano and non-amplified vocals work for me. I doubt Notre Dame originally had a PA system with sub-woofers etc..
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@PNWstevedore That looks like it could be quite a mess to untangle unless one is paying attention!
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Terminal 18
05/24/2026
RTG Main Hoist wire rope change today. 8 separate wires on this ZPMC crane.
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Please all give this guy a like and follow. It’s an incredible project that deserves your support and will result in a phenomenal naval attraction!
Clyde Naval Heritage (HMS Ambuscade/PNS TARIQ) SCI@FallsofClydeSco
All set up for today at the Glasgow Riverside Museum, couldn't have a better spot!
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@USN_Submariner I can't believe they wrecked an F-150 and a Tacoma :(
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This Friday is brought to you by Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
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@BuzzPatterson Well after looking at it on Google Earth, I'm glad I was never stationed there...
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BUZZ FLYING NOTE: ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYTHING!
Let me introduce you to Nouadhibou, Mauritania. Truly a 4th World hellhole.
In the US military airlift world, we will literally go anywhere and do anything, at anytime.
When I was a fairly junior C-141 aircraft commander, I was tasked (fragged) with flying a mission from Charleston, SC through Bermuda to Nouadhibou, Mauritania. We were delivering a generator. A single generator.
I don’t know how we found this place. I really don’t. It was a slab of concrete in the middle of the Sahara Desert with no navigation aids. We hit a VOR and tracked inbound using maps.
We found it and landed. We were met by a couple of dudes in turbans in pickup trucks. It was a scene out of a movie. They offloaded the generator and put some “gas” in the jet.
Our outbound leg was Mauritania to Dakar, Senegal, for crew rest.
As soon as we took off, we immediately had fuel filter bypass lights on all of our fuel tanks flashing. We had been loaded with contaminated fuel. We ran our checklists and made it into Dakar. We gave the jet to maintenance at Dakar, it was going to be a few days.
That night, we went to a local disco next to our hotel and partied with an Air France crew. Another day in airlift.
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For those that are weary of soul-less modern elevators...
HerodotusWave@HerodotusWave
A famous historic steam-powered elevator cage built around 1902–1903 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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@LieseAnne93756 Thanks for posting. My father had several of his lithographs collected while traveling in the Levant. David Roberts was under-rated.
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@cdrsalamander Your aviators are brutal! But life too short not to have a sense of humor...
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A take we all should seriously consider
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet. Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare. Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon. But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while. The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached. Latest 👇 gandalv.substack.com/p/ukraine-the-…
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@allhailtwit Having lived in Europe for three years I always found European maps to be better.
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Marschal Rothe retweetledi
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AI is an ultra-powerful tool. But so are our own minds.
In my latest for @Forbes, I argue why some work should never be outsourced to AI. forbes.com/sites/aytekint…
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On an island of the Knurd coast, a giant sword sticks out of the earth like the tall tower. The people of Knurden share legends of this ancient relic.
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