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Raytheon Calls in Retirees to Help Restart Stinger Missile Production
Defense One ^ | 6/28/23 | Marcus Weisgerber

Posted on 07/09/2023 8:38:15 PM PDT by Duke C.

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To: Allegra

I thought the GenZs are now known as Gen “Zero”?


41 posted on 07/10/2023 5:12:35 AM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Duke C.

Seems like common sense that if you haven’t been interested in building up stockpiles or tools of war, good policy would be to quit bullying and fomenting perpetual wars all over the globe.

Trump was right when he called the elitists stupid. They are not as capable as they think they are.


42 posted on 07/10/2023 5:30:35 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Duke C.
I thought that's what we had ISO-9000 for. Process documentation so that personal transmission of knowledge by long-retired employees wouldn't be necessary.

I say this tongue in cheek, having written many "procedure documentations," some useful, some silly.

43 posted on 07/10/2023 6:11:01 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: gitmo

That’s what the dems want...easy pickens’ for our enemies.


44 posted on 07/10/2023 6:16:09 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Duke C.

So, 30 years ago, we were 30 somethings and could make missiles because we also had 50 somethings to guide us, but the current generation of sissified 30 somethings cannot make missiles and the companies got rid of the 50 somethings.

Someone want to prove how China’s education system teaching kids calculus in elementary school cannot beat the US in a war? I think they could clobber us without breaking a sweat.


45 posted on 07/10/2023 6:19:52 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: Pox
Slide Rules are extinct and that era’s TI calculators have atrophied!

I still have two slide rules, and I use my 1985 HP-15C calculator nearly every day. RPN rules!

I will say that the only TI calculator I ever owned died after about two years.

46 posted on 07/10/2023 6:47:10 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Duke C.

“Pale, stale and male” could become a good thing again.


47 posted on 07/10/2023 6:50:43 AM PDT by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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To: Duke C.

90 year olds in Massachusetts and 70 year olds in Tennessee will be packing up and moving to Tucson?


48 posted on 07/10/2023 6:55:37 AM PDT by x
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To: Duke C.

There’s BIG money in them thar puppet wars.


49 posted on 07/10/2023 6:58:32 AM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: DesertRhino

Thanks.

I never saw that movie, nor that clip.

It’s pretty darn funny.


50 posted on 07/10/2023 7:54:37 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Pox
My slide rule is alive and still well maintained. Post Versalog, in case you wanted to know.
51 posted on 07/10/2023 8:42:34 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Salohcin

There is the Pentagon, and there is Raytheon.


52 posted on 07/10/2023 8:43:16 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I’ve written a lot of documentation as well. The trick is, nobody reads them. Most don’t even know they are there.


53 posted on 07/10/2023 8:49:57 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Sequoyah101
I don't think cost is an issue as the US government is literally printing money to get stuff over to Ukraine.
54 posted on 07/10/2023 8:52:32 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,301,904 Truth | 86,921,174 Twitter)
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To: SamAdams76

Maybe not from the gooberment to raytheon but from raytheon to the employee... eventually what it takes but as low as possible.

If cost of the employe is not an issue... Cha ching!

They also face the issue of parity to existing employees. Circumvented by hiring as conslutants.

Right about the Ukes but flogging what is looking to be a dead horse. We both know this is blackmail to xiden. He will spend our last penny to keep them quiet about his activities.


55 posted on 07/10/2023 9:00:39 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Duke C.

Pretty sad that the younger generations seem to be useless.


56 posted on 07/10/2023 9:20:19 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Duke C.

Kind of like the movie, Battleship where they pull the old Navy guys out of the retirement home to run the old ship.


57 posted on 07/10/2023 9:54:32 AM PDT by Pollard ( >>> The Great Rest is already underway! <<<)
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To: GingisK

Oh, a lot of people read them, but their eyes glaze over while they are doing so. Yet, their training records are updated show that they spent some time in front of the procedures, LOL.


58 posted on 07/10/2023 10:13:08 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pox

This can’t succeed. Slide Rules are extinct and that era’s TI calculators have atrophied!
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Own several slide rules and an HP 41CX.
Use them daily.


59 posted on 07/10/2023 11:36:29 AM PDT by dagunk
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