Recent content by DaneKirk

The Chinese have pushed their luck multiple times, one of them being when one of their subs popped up too close to one of our Aircraft Carriers. They have aspirations that are not in line with our interests and this is normal posturing that any world power does. Russia does it with exorcises...

We work very closely with the Canadians especially. At McChord AFB where I am stationed I have helped train them and the Aussies on the C-17. Our Militaries have very close relations with each other so it does not surprise me. I don't think you have to worry so much about Canadians being...

I hope he loses, he is a socialist. I do not understand the love for him on this forum, people need to look at his other positions other than civil liberties THEN judge him. He is a wacko.

Could not have said it better myself. Screw the baby boomers, the greatest generation unfortunately gave birth to the worst one. I hope mine is not as dreadful.

I just pitched in too, I hope he bitch slaps that loser who is trying to take his seat in he primary.

I am deployed to Turkey near the Syrian border right now, and many of the jets that bombed the Kurds took off from this base. It would not surprise me either way they go with this, although recently things have been quiet. I hope they provide us with their exact plans because I could see there...

I thought this thread would be dead by now. Anyway, all of the bases we are at around the world are technically NATO bases, even though we are the ones running them and using them. I am not aware of any base around the world we operate out of that is not a NATO base or we pay the country to use...

I agree, but the fact is that keeping a small number of bases in strategic points around the world is not going to cost the taxpayer much money at all. I believe that we should dramatically reduce the amount of bases we have around the world more than anyone, but people get so wrapped up in this...

On my aircraft, the C-17, we are also flying them WAY MORE than they were meant to be flown. There are going to be some serious maintenance issues in the future unless we ratchet things down. And also in order to pay for the war they are cutting the amount of C-17's we are supposed to get, which...

Maybe in your unit they were like that but in mine and my friends they are not at all. Of course I am an aviator in the Air Force and, not to sound rude, we tend to be smarter. But then again my friend is Army Infantry and he is a free thinker, so it is not always true. When I step out of my...

Actually the grip that China has upon us right now is over exagerated on these forums, but none the less eventually it will be a big problem if we do not confront it now. I don't think that a complete withdrawal is a very good idea either. I think that we should maintain some select bases...

Yup, Bush will invoke executive privilege and this will get tied up in the courts. Bill Clinton fired over 40 attorneys when he took office, why the big deal over something like this?

I don't mind most of them but with all honesty how many of them served a day in the military? It is easy to sit back home safe in the states and be pro war, but when you are participating in it things are different.

I am proud to be one of the Air Force members who contributed many times to his campaign. We all swore to uphold the Constitution, that oath is not taken lightly. It proves that the military is not full of warmongers. Our leadership has to play the game and act like they support it but I would...

Well to be honest I do not work directly with the nuke guys here, I am deployed here to fly cargo into the shit hole to the southeast. But I am qualified to load those nukes if there was an emergency need to get them out of here. I just had to make sure that people did not read this post and...