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Should be a wild four years.

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They have revived the F-15 with the EX model and are trying to bring it back as a lower cost multirole which I think is great because the F-15 is like peak 80s America rolled into a giant bomb delivery vehicle that hauls ass and can be delivered anywhere in the world via carrier group. My understanding is the F-16 is well loved but isn't a carrier craft so that's part of why it isn't given as much attention.

The F-22 is a much better investment than the F-35 imo, but because our MIC is bloated and corrupt the F-35 became a way for contractors and officials to line their pockets from the billions in project funding. It's pitiful how many great innovations in our ability to blow shit up have been stifled by balding useless fat boomers and ugly harpies.
After Clinton cut the F-22 order down, the tooling was eventually destroyed as I understand it. We can't actually build any new F-22s, that's why the all in on the F-35. Also, the Navy couldn't procure a hot dog without spending billions and still not get a hot dog at the end of the day, that's part of why everything got rolled into one airframe. The F-35 isn't bad, it's just the product of too many committees and such.

The USAF loves its High/Low doctrine and the F-22 and F-15 are both on the High part of the doctrine. The F-35 is just a 5th generation F-16 replacement after all, but since we can't build any more F-22s it has to cover everything. You could probably make a navalized F-16, I believe the idea was pitched, but the Navy doesn't like single engine planes. They just got stuck with the F-35C because Naval Procurement is criminally retarded. F-35B is the Marines being happy to get something new for once and so Japan can have two Totally Not A Carrier multirole mothership destroyers. And I guess so the bongs can have their sad looking carriers too.
 
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I lost two friends to this shit, couldn't speak up without getting chastised by anyone else in the friend group, this feels right and I hope it's not too late for them.
Fuck every single attention seeking whore lesbian who pushes this on their kids and the awful pieces of shit who groom tomboys into becoming gross fat pooners.
 
The redditers may have noticed a potential gotcha in the "Fork in the Road" OMB offer.



Employees who accept deferred resignation should promptly have their duties re-assigned
or eliminated and be placed on paid administrative leave until the end of the deferred resignation
period (generally, September 30, 2025, unless the employee has elected another earlier resignation
date), unless the agency head determines that it is necessary for the employee to be actively
engaged in transitioning job duties, in which case employees should be placed on administrative
leave as soon as those duties are transitioned.
Basically, the second one does not say "paid administrative leave", which could imply that if the agency head decides you need to stick around for a bit to transition job duties, then after that they just put you on unpaid admin leave.
Personally I think it's implied from the first one that it's paid admin leave and that they just forgot to be specific enough the second time around and will probably have to issue a clarification. Still, could lead to some funny outcomes and some unhappy feds in the future if they do try to use this technicality.
 
The F-35 is multirole. It does a little of everything. Mostly it's OK. The F-22? Air Superiority. Completely different beast. Product of the best minds the cold war could offer. It fights anything in the air and goes well over Mach 2. Doesn't do the bombing shit much.
I'm gonna agree with the F-22, even if I prefer how the YF-23 looked. At least the Russians appreciated it enough to "borrow" from it. The Air Force still needs a cheap and cheerful low end, which is why we should have built the F-16XL and put a supercruise capable engine in it. Sure, not stealth, but hell of a low end bomb and missile truck, and sexiest F-16 after the Japanese F-2.
Somewhat unpopular opinion that people don't like hearing but the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet outclasses the F-22 in almost every way, and the Super Hornet is much cheaper to build individually. The "weak" point of it is that it's a carrier-based fighter and is actually a multi-role fighter rather than an air superiority fighter, it just happens to excel as an air superiority fighter as well.

Since the US is bordered by ocean between us and most of our tangible defensive threats, and due to them being more cost effective per plane, I would say yes to more Super Hornets (and longterm, more carriers. We have the most in the world at 11 but we could probably build and field more)
 
could lead to some funny outcomes and some unhappy feds in the future if they do try to use this technicality.
Doubtful. Paying these people to fuck off is more affective politically. If they got fucked over they could gain some popular support. something dems could use in 2026. Trump giving these people 9 months paid-leave makes it hard to galvanize dems to think he's gonna put political prisoners in camps. At the same time it encourages these people to go away.
 
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It doesn't seem to do anything that well - air-to-air or air-to-ground. My knowledge is admittedly limited.
It's much better than the ancient F-15 at both. It is somewhat like the Bradley, plagued by scope creep but ultimately a very good war machine. The F-22 was designed to defeat a threat that ended up never existing, the 1990s Soviet air superiority fighter.
 
I'd pay $25 a carton if it meant no more mystery meat favela trash and street shitting shudras ever and I'd have a smile on my face in the checkout line every time.
Counterpoint: if you didn't have every mystery meat favela trash and street shitting shundras working at the chicken farms and killing all the chickens with all the diseases known to man, a carton would be $2.
 
It's amazing how this scenario has kept playing out lately. Someone points out some bad thing happening and then leftists immediately jump in and claim "it's not actually happening, they're just lying to drum up support!" to placate the normies. Then policy is being introduced to stop the bad thing from happening and the leftists freak the fuck out. It's like the CRT shit all over again.

"Illegals are using public services and safety nets for US citizens, causing those systems to crumble into ruin."
"No! They are lying! They are just trying to enrage their supporters!"
"We're now introducing policy to stop that."
"NOOOOO, THEY'LL ALL STARVE AND DIE, YOU'RE MONSTERS! IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH!"
 
The e-mail is now up on OPM's website:


I do say that is one hell of a aggressive time line to get people to take it. Long enough to think about, not long enough to form a decent plan to do something about it.
My only concern is that useless people most certainly won't take this and useful people who can work remotely will just take it and use it as paid leave to find a new job.
 
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But muh eggs bro.
Muh eggs.

But seriously, if this goes how I hope it goes I would count this as the most ontologically good thing anyone has ever done in my lifetime. If you don’t understand why I say this, go into the Stinkditch and just read those threads.
“Child transitioning” is the most horrifying thing we have going on in our country. A literal industry built on predating upon children and making them lifelong patients at the same time. And the surgeries and drugs completely ruin you, forever.
 
It's much better than the ancient F-15 at both. It is somewhat like the Bradley, plagued by scope creep but ultimately a very good war machine. The F-22 was designed to defeat a threat that ended up never existing, the 1990s Soviet air superiority fighter.

Yeah, remember watching an F-15 take off straight up, leaving the two F-4's with it far behind, back in Korea about fifty years ago.

On a different subject, hope this turd has to leave the Army. Simply a disgrace to the uniform.

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