
Felix
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Good luck steering with your front wheels barely touching the ground.
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Unfortunately it's happening. Just one example. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/02/cia-layoffs-trump-administration/
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I don't worry too much about the military. It's the gutting of the intelligence services that scares the shit out of me. It's hard to hide that shit, but if the intelligence community is fucked, we all are.
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It's true. I'll just point out that most of the asymmetric warfare successes against our forces have been done during exercises by our own forces. This is what military planners do in a professional officer corps. I served in the 80s and 90s. Vietnam was very fresh in Army minds then and the Cold War was wrapping up. Our force structure has changed significantly since then, and it seems to me those changes are focused on smaller conflicts against less sophisticated enemies. All that being said, the main thing that separates the western armies and particularly ours, is the the professional nature of the officer and NCO ranks and I doubt the training tempos are any less than they were when I was in. We trained intensely, as realistically as possible, and as a combined arms force. I won't even get into logistics. Technology is constantly changing so there are always challenges, but I never found our officers to be hidebound in any way. Sure we have our doctrines and we train to those, but a large part of our training was leadership training and that training taught all levels of leaders to be prepared to act when the plan failed or unexpected things happened and our ability to adapt on the fly is probably our greatest strength. Company level officers and NCOs are not only encouraged to act as needed to accomplish the mission, but given the tools to take control of a bad situation, and the best field grade officers trust their teams and act to support them, even if it's off plan. Many times in training ops the guys on the scene were driving the bus and the higher level commanders were providing support and coordination to the guy at the tip of the spear instead of trying to drive the bus from a CP a mile behind the front.
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I would almost agree with you on land, but sea operations are an entirely different animal.
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Yeah I don't think people realize how effective a carrier task force is at not only defending itself, but preemptively striking before it can be struck. I'll admit our Navy has had some issues lately, the other thing people seriously underestimate is a military tradition. China has never done shit and until it does, I just can't see it. We have no idea how effective their weapon systems are, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts their training, command structure, etc are going to lead them to struggle to use them effectively. Not terribly relevant, but as a student of history, especially military history, and a veteran who trained officers from military's around the world, training, command tradition, and NCO experience are huge factors in effectiveness. There is a reason the British military is still one of the most effective in the world despite it's size and budget.
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I put it in cleaning mode to extend the wand and sprayed vinegar directly on the nozzles. That sort of worked, so I did it again and put the solution in a zip lock bag and secured it to the wand so that the nozzles were in the solution. After 5 minutes or so I removed it and it went to self clean and after that the pressure was much better. I have hard ass water too. It sounds like you might have another issue though, if water is spraying around.
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Vinegar worked for me but mine is only like 3 years old.
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"If You Think It's A Scam, It Usually Is"
Felix replied to ROFL BOX's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
The scam is most likely that they want to send you money to "buy your own equipment" but they'll send you way more than you need and then you send them back the rest, except the check was fake and you're on the hook for all of it. That's what I learned when my wife was between jobs. -
Well I'll be....
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Yeah I gotta question your police work there, Lou. Laugh faces are pos rep. So is Hearts, drools, and FAFO.
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I'm an equal opportunity negger. If you post something stupid or, especially, hypocritical (Derka), or just fuck up a thread, I'll throw a neg. I'm surprised it gets people so riled up, frankly. I also give out a lot of positive rep. I think some of y'all might be too tied up in what other people on the internet think of you. I also have a shitload of posters on ignore because otherwise I'd be negging everything the posted. Just like most of you, I've been on these forums for years and I've seen most of you post a million times. I don't have a lot of time or energy for arguing with stupid shit, so I neg instead most of the time, with a few occasional short discussions. It always amuses me when someone will type something absolutely idiotic, I neg, and then I get 20 negs on random shit I've posted over the years. Internet points don't concern me, but apparently it's serious business to some of you.
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Pope Francis: You know that hell thing? Never mind....
Felix replied to Aqua Buddha's topic in Daily Texan
They must have pictures of this guy fucking a little boy or something. It's the only thing that makes sense. -
Watched Number 24 on Netflix on my Dad's recommendation. Outstanding movie about the Norwegian resistance during WWII. It's a Norwegian film so you can watch it dubbed in English or Norwegian with English subtitles. I watched it with the subtitles. Some really strong performances by the actors.
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