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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
I am a formal congressional staffer in both the House and the Senate and virtually no one reads any given bill or even cares much about what is in it other than memorizing the talking points about it. Bills are almost completely written by
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
The largest polluter in the world is the U.S. Government. Tracking ships and whatever is all fine but there is a reason why the U.S. Gov ops itself out of every piece of climate legislation. The insane pollution I saw in the military woul
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
True but the F-18s simply couldn't do many of the jobs at all. I obviously have a bias but I think it is very plausible that politics had a lot more to do with it than maintenance.
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
Both but I think the superhornets will still under warranty so they even had not military techs who would fix them.
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
F-18s def are lower maintenance overall but they couldn’t go very far (important when your ship isn’t docked in Bagdad) or drop bombs in adverse weather so not very useful during a war. Doesn’t mean they are not politically useful, though.
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
It's fun to have been a part of history in that way though. And when I have some kind of career advancement I always throw up a "mission accomplished" banner as a joke.
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
Excellent question. I worked in politics after the military and when I was in the West Wing during the Bush admin it came up once! They said the same thing, that it was the ship's idea. I reminded them that aircraft carriers don&#x2
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
I think we thought they were a lot more sophisticated than they actually were. But shock and awe was designed to basically neutralize all of that anyway. The Navy was the night shift and that included a lot of tomahawk missiles too. The
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
I served in the last F-14 squadron, VF-31. When President Bush landed on our carrier (Mission Accomplished!) they had the inferior F-18s in the background for the political shots. We were told that was because the US taxpayers would be pi
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
Why would I get my climate opinions from an economist? I prefer getting my opinions from politicians.
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by CH1jZci6jV 4y ago
I use to work in Congress. 100% of it is written by lobbyists.