CMSMC
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CMSMC
@CMSMC3
29 yrs chasing the klaxon, 25 yrs caregiver to little old ladies, 60 years married. Father, conservative, luthier, bass player still honky tonkin. No DMs.
Minnesota, USA เข้าร่วม Ocak 2021
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ICE is not at airports to help TSA and reduce lines. They are there (without identification) trying to arrest people, exactly as I predicted.
ICE must be abolished.
Surajit@surajit_ghosh2
Chaos erupts at San Francisco International Airport
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Be meek and mild like Jesus, they say.....
Vrydenker@vrydenker
@Notwokenow In my view a good thing.
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@Richard86066778 One way to lose a sweet tooth, I guess.
Kentucky Girl@Notwokenow
Cadbury has changed Easter to “This Season.” But they’re still profiting from selling Easter Eggs. Christianity is not shameful. It is not offensive. Not another dime should be spent on Cadbury products by any Christian. Anywhere. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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@AdamOLykos Screw you. My son was one of the 22 a day. Aircraft recovery team in Germany, pulling what remained of the pilot out of the aircraft, head still in the bucket. He never filed for PTSD, but it damn sure took his life.
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@jmj_2025_2 @gman5180 Just guessing as I've been retired a long time. Rule used to be that he had to serve 2 years in grade to retire in that grade. He probably retired a LtCol.
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So you mean to tell me, an airplane can go right through the World Trade Center that had steel structure beams of 4 inch plate every 40” using 12 different grades of steel with a yield strength of 100,000 psi but if the same plane were to run into a firetruck on a runway the plane is completely destroyed.
Got it!

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What was true in the 1800's remains true today.
Dave📜🇺🇸@dbc603
@EODHappyCaptain Last stanza of "Tommy," by Rudyard Kipling...
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@Richard86066778 Amen, brother. Missed church and breakfast last week. Had to get a great niece married off. See you sunday,
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@SenatorDurbin I'm sorry, I don't remember meeting you in DaNang. What's your name again?
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@BDeschamp5241 @sentdefender Watched a YouTube video last night on an anti-drone shot shell. Buck shaped to spread, tied together with about 12 in string. Ukraine developed.
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Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, LA, has confirmed to ABC News that during the week of 9-15 March, several waves of multiple drones were spotted over the base that hosts the nuclear-capable B-52H "Stratofortress." The statement goes on to say, "Security Forces observed multiple waves of 12-15 drones operating over sensitive areas of the installation, including the flight line, with aircraft displaying non-commercial signal characteristics, long-range control links, and resistance to jamming."

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@StumblingOaf @MCCCANM @F111Driver I would add to that list Aussie Warrant Officers! Ask me how I know.
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A funny combat sortie in the KC-10:
We’re meeting up w/ a formation of British Tornados to fuel them in Afghanistan. Our next customers, F-16s if I recall correctly, announced they were showing up early, too.
We de-conflicted them altitude wise & arranged the meeting point.
As we approach, I can see both formations. They are nearing a rendezvous point from maybe 135° off different headings, the Tornados are closer. We’ll fly over & do a turn to help them get behind us…the Vipers have more time & will maneuver to wherever we are.
Anyway, suddenly the Tornados start dispensing flares & roll hard, pulling G to get to a different aspect of something & splitting up. The Vipers soon follow…or maybe they did simultaneously, I could only really see one flight at a time. 4 jets all getting away from us as fast as they can.
It takes me a second to figure out what’s going on. You see, the KC-10 had no real sensors. If someone was shooting at us, we didn’t know unless we saw it with our eyes. That was it, that was all we had. If we did manage to see it, we had no flares to dispense or any other countermeasures. We could try to turn or maneuver vertically. Good luck, Maverick, remember it still weighs 550,00 lbs after you’ve burned 40,000 to get to the front.
The fighters, though, had systems that can “see” a missile launch. They don’t need a “radar lock on them” like in the movies…the sensors see the heat plume & maybe even the track of a missile & can automatically start dispensing flares & such. It’s a necessity…not all missiles are guided by radar, some look for the Infrared Profile. In layman’s terms, they are “Heat Seekers”, but it’s way more complicated than that. So they are sitting & watching with sensors that don’t send out a signal to be detected until they launch…it’s extremely difficult to tell you are being targeted until it’s in the air.
(These missiles have gone through decades of being developed, having countermeasures developed to defeat them, then developing a way to defeat countermeasures, to have new countermeasures introduced, etc., etc.. They are very sophisticated)
But then they launch, and the second they do there are warnings in the cockpit…hiding the heat plume of a missile is pretty difficult. If equipped, the jet may dispense flares or other countermeasures automatically. Missiles come fast, you’ll only have a little reaction time to change your aspect & evade.
So, there I am, watching the fighters go away, and realizing why they are doing it. Then realizing I can’t do anything & even if I could, it was too late.
After maybe 30 seconds with no loud bang, I start thinking this has taken too long. There is some amount of time that passes, but eventually the Tornados come on the radio & apologized for a false alarm. Their sensors had picked up & interpreted a heat plume from the ground & sounded the alarm. I don’t know if the Tornado dispenses flares automatically or not, but it looked cool when the flares all came out.
Viper pilots don’t apologize. You should never expect an apology from a Viper pilot. I was probably in the wrong for endangering them.
I didn’t say it on the radio, but I wanted to say “what fucking alarm, dude, you bailed & didn’t say a damn thing to the brightest meatball in the sky”.
What I said is something along the lines of “no problem, join up left wing, we’re trailing the drogue”.
Hope you liked the story! As a coincidence, this is what I find questionable about video of an F-35 flying in a straight line & doing nothing after an IR missile is launched against it, then just keeps flying in the same straight line after getting hit & I wonder what the wingman was doing, too.
P.S.: new tankers & military cargo jets have sensors now, too. You can google “LAIRCMS” & go down the rabbit hole. Enjoy! Also, picture is not related to the story.

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@infantrydort Absolutely. Too many zoomies have never heard the heavy breathing on the other end of a radio, or the relief when contact has been broken. "Cleared Hot".
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Answer the question. Have you ever been in a ground battle that required a 30mm gun run?
Or are you just talking shit as a mil fan boy?
Are you a combat veteran or no?
Otherwise….well… you know what to do.
Discord Lies@Discord_Lies
@Ami_Marisol Let the hog perish and buy 50 more F-15EXs.
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Drop a photo you clicked.
No text.
Let it speak.

Garrick@8ntmuch
Drop a photo you clicked. No text. Let it speak..
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MAGA Republicans want to make it harder to vote than to buy an AR-15.
They want Americans’ information run through an algorithm designed by Musk and DOGE that could kick eligible voters off the rolls.
They want to turn voter registration into a bureaucratic nightmare and limit how people can register.
That’s the SAVE Act, and that's why Democrats will fight it until the end.
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How someone answers this question will tell you if anything else they have to say about guns is worth listening to.
Military Support@MilitaryCooI
Do you keep your mags loaded or unloaded?
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