I have seen it all, as I'm sure you have. In my Air Force career, I had the highest security clearance and maintained all the various Intel databases, for example, everywhere I was stationed. Not that I poked around in them but we constantly had to tweak them and do test searches, queries, etc. to ensure all was in tiptop shape. While I won't reveal any classified info, I can say we—the DoD—did NOT have contact with aliens, did not purposefully leave behind thousands of POWs in Southeast Asia (in fact, we kept databases on every single report and sighting, no matter how vague or bizarre, on the HOPE that if we had ONE left behind we could get him out), etc., etc.
I got out in 1998 so I can't speak to the 9/11 Truther community directly, but what people need to understand is that other people are blabbermouths, especially if a story makes them look like a bigshot, a hero, etc., etc. So, my point is that the bigger the conspiracy, the more likely it is bullshit, as the bigger it is, the more people have to be involved.
Just because someone is a “redshirt” doesn't mean they're not valuable and have no story. So when I was talking to people who believed in Chemtrails about how the various Air Force people doesn't want to spray chemicals from the air that would kill their own families and friends, or that Sailors in the US Navy would talk if we “let” a Chinese sub fire missiles of out coast in our territorial waters (!!!), the word would get out faster than jackrabbit, they kept saying that the “little people” in the military would not be informed and if they knew, ordered to keep quiet.
LOL at that one. They never knew the Air Force troops I supervised. “Why do we have to do this Sarge?” Why this, why that, why, why why??!!!”
When I was a Master Sergeant in the Pentagon, a good friend who was an Army SFC I worked with asked me how I could put with up with all the complaining, second guessing and demands for more information from the Air Force troops. I noted that while it is a pain, once they fully understand the mission, they'll get it done with little or no supervision, often employing unique and smart solutions upper leadership wouldn't even have thought of. My experience with the other services was when something screwed up the younger troops would wait for someone ranking to come along and tell them what to do. Not to say all of them, but it happened more often.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. I think sometimes people like the idea of a grand conspiracy as it makes them feel in the know and not helpless to the whims of the world.
I think sometimes people like the idea of a grand conspiracy as it makes them feel in the know and not helpless to the whims of the world.
I noted that while it is a pain, once they fully understand the mission, they’ll get it done with little or no supervision, often employing unique and smart solutions upper leadership wouldn’t even have thought of.
I liked your rant. I have to say that the one “conspiracy” I really do buy into, though your thoughts above work against it, is Flight 800. I just refuse to believe it was not a missile, and the only question is, “who fired it”.