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Oh well, I'll have to somehow survive with your condemnation. That is not a problem. But, two deployments to the WESTPAC as a Naval aviator/officer carrier pilot, going through TopGun and serving as an adversary instructor, then doing an airline career which included being a check airman on the 757/767, certifying folks from my company on domestic and international routes, I had the approval of people with billions at stake, I am not concerned about your view.

Well, the US Navy trusted me with a one megaton nuclear weapon, along wit scores of other weapons. What you think is completely uninteresting to me. I think you are significantly intellectually challenged. By the way, and since you are clearly ignorant, I will inform you. The missile I am resting my arm on is a HARM. The fat weapons are cluster bombs, called Rockeye, and the missile above my head is a Sidewinder. Also for the uninformed, the yellow stripes on those weapons indicate they are real warheads. The picture is after preflighting the alert 15 airplane on Kitty Hawk.

Your response begs the question. Why would I spend the time copying and then providing personal information simply to appease some guy who can't put together a single sentence on this forum? Further, why would it matter? I have posted many times on matters that apply to the subject, and if that is not evidence, I want my charities to be paid for my time. I'm glad to do so, if the accuser is willing to put up the same money I am.

You thought wrong, as always. There needs to be a bet that you would abide by for me to spend time copying licenses, logbook entries, US Navy Officer fireps., pics etc. I don't work for free, nor am interested in some goof unless it would be substantial and for charity.

So I guess your response is you won't take up the challenge. Another goof, with goofy accusations. You would benefit from restraining from accusations unless you are willing to back them up.

Then take the bet. It's $10,000 for your favorite charity. If not, shut up.

No. Let's make it $10,000. If I can't prove bona fides, I donate that amount to your favorite charity. If I can, you donate to mine. Want to engage?

You have exposed yourself. Another useless moron, unable to stand by senseless accusations, and hiding like a cockroach when confronted. The Tib's strategy. Never ends among you folks.

So you are offering an opinion without taking the challenge. You have made an accusation. I am offering to prove it, as I can, easily. You are doing the same thing Tib's did and following the same back down strategy. Doubt my bona fides? Bet. If not. Shut up.

Yes or no, or shut up.

Would you like to do a wager on that? Name the stakes, or shut up. Easily proven. Yes or no.

I have as much belief in your ability to judge me as I have I in your ability to spell or form a coherent sentence, both of which you have proven incapable of. I could not care less about who got an email. I do care, having served these alerts on the front end of a ship, in a national policy that strikes the aggressor rather than responds to it. Not interested in your view at all. Been there. Done that.

Evidently, the Trump Administration, and the history of the world, does not agree. And thus the wise decision to eliminate Houthi war capability. Incredibly stupid to continue the Biden policy of spending tens of millions against these hundred dollar drones and missiles. I would have done it within a half hour of the inauguration.

This is stupid beyond explanation. It is not "peaceful" to allow hundreds of attacks on US Naval forces and international shipping. It is undeniably idiotic. If you claim that is "peaceful," you are beyond hope.

I am extremely pleased that the US conducted air strikes on the Houthis instead of "catching" missiles and drones, That is what is important. They can clean up their email lists, but the important thing is to eliminate the threat at its origin, and they are doing that,....now.

Evidence of what?

What I think is that there are tons of people trying to capitalize any experience they have had. Write a book. Do an interview. Get attention and get paid. The point is that there is ten times more nonsense in this forum than issues worth worrying about. Just today, a guy claims that Trump cuts resulted in a lack of warning about a tornado. Next post is a guy who shows that it wasn't that way at all, that it was not detected, ergo, not alarmed. Nothing to do with Trump policy or actions. Next post some goof says that ya, Trump is causing this. It's gotten preposterous.

Like Admiral Pat Walsh?

I am getting really tired of this. If one wants to find people "off the rails," this would be low fruit, easy pickin' evidence.

I've got no problem with an anti Schumer vector to this. My view is using his idiocy to besmirch the CIA, and calling it a rogue agency, a claim made by some complete unknown is idiotic. We need to attract, recruit and retain the best people for that agency. Know what it's like to do that? Get in, which isn't easy. Train for a year to just get it figured out. Then train for a year in your specialty. If it's language, that's a year. Now you're two years in to get your first assignment. Got a spouse? You're moving. His or her career is upended, though they may make more money than you, and you are going to spend a ton of time away from home. Then after two years, move to a new assignment. Got kids now? That is the normal demographic. Uproot them for the new assignment. After a few years, get assigned to headquarters at Langley. Know how much it costs to buy a house in that area? Then after a couple years, get an assignment that does not allow you to bring family, though you kids are probably five-seven yeas old. Think that's an attractive career package? Anyway, all of that isn't the point. The point is that we have very dedicated people doing this and internet nonsense about them trying to overthrow the gov., by people who know absolutely nothing about this is not a good idea.

I said this because I have seen it before. People who know nothing suggesting there is something afoot becasue they find nonsense from other sources. I'll provide two examples, which you may or may not be familiar with, or remember. Someone posted a suggestion that someone who was a friend of mine, and someone I am quite familiar with, was involved in a bribery issue. He was a three star, and taking over the Pacific Fleet, and some moron suggested there was bribery involved because of people who attended the change of command. Someone here posted all that trash with no knowledge of who gets invited to those things. It was nonsense. The individual is an extremely accomplished Naval Officer and there is zero evidence, anywhere of his being involved. Second. Some guy on here posted a theory that the US was about to get involved in some military action in the Pacific becasue a number of carriers were in the same location. He made a statement, which made no sense, of something like "when have we seen that before without some military action." I pointed out that carriers often switch coasts. Some are west and some are east, but for various reasons, they swap, deployment scheds etc. When they do, they may "pass in the night in common waters. Means nothing. That didn't prevent this guy, here, from getting up in arms about some imminent military action. Total nonsense.

It is always wise to not post stuff from other sources, who have no credibility, on matters one knows little about. This is one of those situations. Most everything posted by non informed individuals regarding the CIA is total conjecture and useless, but nonetheless, potentially dangerous.

Trump announced that Boeing is going to build the "next generation air dominance," (NGAD) airplane, called the F-47. It will be manned, but the pilot will be more of a weapons system manager as it will probably fly autonomously. So in spite of Musk's incompletely formed view, there will be a human in it.

We have talked about this before. I was never CIA. I applied, got through the first two hoops, but got an offer that was better in a different industry. Musk doesn't worry me. I think he is genuinely trying to bring a fresh approach to am immensely constipated and dysfunctional behemoth, but has no personal financial goals. Not worried about him at all. What I do worry about are lunatics like AOC, Bernie and that moron VP candidate though I think his idiocy has been exposed. Those policies have never worked anywhere, but ya, let's try them here. Sure. As long as people like that are in our gov, I will always convert US currency into other assets, like equities. That has worked so far.

No. And I have no idea what you mean when you you claim that "Trump wants the deep state revealed," and I'm not concerned about any explanation. That seems to be part of this nonsense that you and the other two post that provides nothing of interest. My disagreeing with claims made by you and the other two don't matter. What matters is that Elon Musk has absolutely nothing to do with US military plans/policy re China. To think he does is the stuff of mad men,