Ron Morse

@skippersthename @RenoMayGuns We're on the two-box rule here...shoot a box, buy two.

@RenoMayGuns I buy a box of each caliber every month.

EVERYONE START PANICKING AND BUYING AMMO. GO INTO CREDIT CARD DEBT!

@wil_da_beast630 I find it distasteful, but I'm not upset about seeing someone defend themselves against an organized onslaught seeking to discredit them.

Are you, personally, upset about Trump's violent trash talking on social media?

@Dukeford315526 @RobManess Didn't your wing king fly?

@RobManess Maybe things are different these days, but O-6 WSO's still actively flying were not particularly common when I served.

I hear people questioning why a full colonel would be flying combat missions. In the USAF, O6s occupy operations group and wing commander (and vice) positions. Leading in combat requires just that, leading. You can't lead from the airfield in combat as a flying commander, only from the cockpit. You better be combat mission ready.

@jarmaug @RobManess Very normal. Every squadron I ever saw had a normal practice of pairing junior pilots with a senior RIO (Navy analog for WSO) and junior RIOs getting to ride with a senior pilot, at least for the first six months or so.

@RobManess Serious question: is it normal for the weapons officer to outrank the pilot? I'm only asking because I have not seen the rank of the pilot anywhere and in my head I would imagine the pilot being a higher rank (or at least more time in rank) than the WSO.

@CreasonJana Thank you for pointing out that except for the nuclear weapon part, very little of this had anything to do with Iran. It's all about China and I give Trump credit for figuring that out and acting on it.

Continued 5 of 7 Now let’s talk about China, because this piece of the picture is pretty darn critical. China is not a bystander in this story. Iran is central to Beijing’s entire overland trade and energy strategy. Iran sits at the heart of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the infrastructure network connecting East Asia to Europe through land-based transport and Persian Gulf energy routes. Without stable access through Iranian territory, Beijing’s supply chains have no viable alternative. Iran exported more than 520 million barrels of crude oil to China in 2025 alone. Only Saudi Arabia supplied more. China buys over 80 percent of Iran’s oil. This isn’t ideological solidarity. It’s a dependency that neither side wants disrupted. Which brings us to the Strait of Hormuz.

I came across this opinion piece regarding what’s going on in Iran, and it is quite informative. Let’s get something straight, because this hasn’t been talked about enough. And I’m tired of seeing people grabbing headlines and posts that agree with their narrative instead of doing their own research. What’s happening right now in Iran is not Israel’s war. It’s not a Jewish vendetta, it’s not a Middle East skirmish that has nothing to do with the rest of us, and contrary to Tucker Carlson, it has nothing to do with Chabad. You need to know what’s actually going on. Thread 🧵Continued 1 of 7

@JAT74L @LCEOffers Leica Q3/35. Expensive, but sturdy. Nobody does lenses like Leica. The images are so nice you can do anything you want to them and they still hold up.

A very good camera that I don’t use enough. I also have a LUMIX TZ200 and I think I want to chop both in for the ultimate (smaller) travel camera. What would you recommend? @LCEOffers

@charlesmurray @SwipeWright Or a pat of butter. Really.

@SwipeWright Try heavy whipping cream.

Tried using half-and-half in my coffee. Nope. Coffee Mate powder has a superior taste and mouthfeel, and doesn't dilute and cool down the coffee. It is far superior.

@BrianRoemmele I missed the part where she gratuitously takes off her clothes.

Gas Pump Girls, 1979.

@DP_LTS @ClownWorld 700 Hp and grooved tires.

@ClownWorld Bruh how do you crash on a perfectly straight, flat road...

Stolen Ferrari Purosangue crashes into a power pole in Miami's Brickell neighborhood. Transformer explodes, lights go out, and the driver tries to run. Cops caught him. 31-year-old from NYC thought he could get away in a half-million dollar car. He was wrong. GTA in real life never ends well

@OnDisasters One of those big-assed drones we use has a V tail configuration. Forget which one.

V-Tail Bonanza A-10? You call yourselves OSINT?

@WhizBuckleyNFH @inside_IL_intel Traditionally, the Captain is last to leave the ship. That said, the back seater goes first so he/she doesn't get fried by the rockets on the front seat when it fires.

@inside_IL_intel It's impossible for the WSO to eject 'a little later'. Pilot ejects, WSO is about 0.25 to 0.5 seconds later.

🔴 Fox News: The second American pilot has managed to make contact with the U.S. military through encrypted radio. Sources familiar with the matter say the pilot was someone who initially contacted the U.S. military via an encrypted radio. After that, a special forces unit was dispatched to find and rescue him. It is reported that the navigator managed to eject a little later, and the search for him is still ongoing. A senior Israeli official has also stated that Israel has assisted in the search and continues to help, both through intelligence and by canceling several attacks that were supposed to take place in these areas, to avoid endangering the crew and to not disrupt the search process. @iranpahlavi_ir 03 APR 2026 | 16:41 ET ET SOURCE: ایران پهلوی (@iranpahlavi_ir)

@MinutemanAgain @SamaHoole If God didn't want us to eat animals, he shouldn't have made them out of meat.

@SamaHoole Very interesting post. We are made to eat beef and fat and lots of it.

Robert is thirty-six years old. In 1247, this is not young. Robert knows this. His knees know this. His back has known this since approximately 1239. Robert lives in a village in Worcestershire with his wife Agnes, three surviving children, and two chickens he is not allowed to eat because the chickens produce eggs and the eggs matter more than the chickens. Today is a Tuesday in March. Robert will describe it as a Tuesday in March. The concept of a 'week' as a unit of leisure is not yet something Robert has access to. 5:00am - Up. Pottage on the fire. The pottage is oats, leeks, and some dried parsnip from the autumn store. There is a small piece of salted pork in it, approximately the size of Robert's thumb. It is mostly flavouring. Robert eats around it for as long as possible, then eats it, then thinks about it for the rest of the morning. 6:00am - Field. Robert works the lord's strip first, then his own. The ground is still cold. His boots have a hole. He has had the hole since October. He has packed it with rags. The rags are wet. They will remain wet until June. Robert is technically eating a plant-based diet. He is not doing this by choice. He is doing this because meat belongs to the lord, the deer belong to the king's forest, and the last man in this village who was caught with an unlicensed rabbit spent a period in the stocks that his family still doesn't fully discuss. 10:00am - Brief rest. Rye bread, hard. A small onion. Robert thinks about the pig that was slaughtered in November. He thinks about this often. The memory of fat is a specific and enduring thing when you don't have much of it. 1:00pm - Back to the field. Robert's average daily calorie intake is somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 calories, the majority from grain. He is doing agricultural labour that modern exercise scientists would classify as extremely high intensity. He is, measurably, running on insufficient fuel. He is aware of this in the way that you are aware of things that cannot be changed: completely, and without drama. 4:00pm - Home. Agnes has made more pottage. It is similar to this morning's pottage. Robert eats it. Robert's teeth hurt. They have hurt for two years. There is no dentist. There is a barber-surgeon in the market town seven miles away. Robert cannot afford the barber-surgeon and cannot take the day from the fields. His teeth continue to hurt. 7:00pm - Sleep. Robert will be awake again at five. He is thirty-six. He will probably not see forty. The leading cause of death for men in his position is a combination of infection, injury, and the slow arithmetic of malnutrition across a lifetime. Somewhere, eight hundred years from now, someone will describe Robert's diet as "ancestral," "plant-forward," and "aligned with the earth." Robert would have a great deal to say about this. Robert does not have the energy.

@WEschenbach @Pixie1z I would explain that neither my dog or myself has any particular respect for Islam, nor do we desire to develop any.

@Pixie1z Get rid of my Muslim neighbor to respect my dog? … w.

What is your reply?

ICBM's are designed to solve a different problem. What I'm talking about is the ability of a carrier with 100 or so weapons orbiting around in safe airspace 200 or 300 KM away from hostile territory. It would dole out one or more of a variety of air to ground and cruise missiles as needed based upon targeting data from satellite obs, remote sensors or ground units.

@ron_morse @OnDisasters There was testing done on the C-5 to carry *and launch* ICBMs 😅

The USAF has acquired four Airbus A380's to serve in multi-capacity roles. Delivery is expected late 2026. ℹ️📸Mark Kahre

@FFS_WhatNow 300/gram? Outrageous!

I'm shocked he didn't see them coming.

@skibidiquasar @CynicalPublius I thought cruise ships going in and out of Port Canaveral was the biggest issue. Those things are tightly scheduled and the costs of missing a scheduled docking are enormous.

@CynicalPublius FAA NOTAM and Coast Guard notice went out but NASA lacks the authority to clear the range at gunpoint if some boomer in a fishing boat is violating. This is an ongoing problem with rocket launches and has led to people asking for permanent keepout zones on common trajectories.

I'm watching the NASA feed for the Moon Launch. Can any of you people with wings on your chest explain why NASA can't "clear the range" to launch?

@TitanUranus99 @MrJamesMay Looks like the result of a one night stand between a Spit and a P-47.

@MrJamesMay I'll just leave this here, shall I?

Spitfires became progressively less pretty from the prototype onwards. Braced and ready.

@GPCBackwards @BridgetPhetasy "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" by R. Kipling.

@BridgetPhetasy We’re in a historic disruption period. Lotta weird gonna happen. And lotta old school people will be left confused

Over a million views on my Leave Me Behind piece here—that is crazy. Whatever is going on in new media reminds me a lot of what happened with old media 2015-2021. Everyone is in some weird bubble and meanwhile normal people are looking around going —

@ArcticDodger @XFreeze Chemistry is just applied Physics.

@XFreeze That's not physics that's chemistry

Everyone thought the future was carbon fiber Elon Musk looked at the physics and chose stainless steel for Starship instead Sounds insane.... until you realize stainless gets stronger at cryogenic temperatures, handles reentry heat better, and costs massively less than advanced composites. It doesn't even need paint He chose a material that is faster to build, easier to weld, tougher in extreme conditions, and built for rapid iteration Classic Elon: ignore convention, trust first-principles engineering, and pick the solution everyone else missed He is taking science fiction and making it real. Building things that only existed in imagination, and pushing them to the absolute limits of physics