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1 posted on 07/09/2023 8:38:15 PM PDT by Duke C.
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To: Duke C.

That’s going to cost them.

It would if I were one of the retirees who was likely forced out.


2 posted on 07/09/2023 8:40:11 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance.)
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To: Duke C.

No good deed goes unpunished.

They’d have to at least link my pension to my personal Inflation rate.

Plus pay my Federal, State and Property taxes forevermore.


3 posted on 07/09/2023 8:42:26 PM PDT by Paladin2
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.....and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and learn of war no more”

“And they gathered to a place called, Armageddon.”


5 posted on 07/09/2023 8:46:54 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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So, this is a good time to pre-order!?


6 posted on 07/09/2023 8:46:59 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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oh no...not those awful 50yro white males....please tell it ain’t so...


7 posted on 07/09/2023 8:47:53 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Duke C.

This can’t succeed. Slide Rules are extinct and that era’s TI calculators have atrophied!


8 posted on 07/09/2023 8:53:09 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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Wait, what? The Pentagon didn’t think that there would be any more wars in the future? Isn’t that their entire raison d’être.
10 posted on 07/09/2023 8:56:30 PM PDT by Salohcin
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To: Duke C.

Twenty years is not that long ago. Is everyone from that era with the knowledge now retired?

This is what happens when institutional knowledge is not passed down because companies insist on hiring those that think their degree in gender students and grievance posturing is sufficient to power the world.

Did no one in our military think it might be important to make sure those companies had a plan to pass on this knowledge to a few of the younger generation?

This is the type of thing I fear happening to our infrastructure such as the power grid after all that can actually “do” are pushed out and gone and those in charge know nothing regarding the systems they are left to maintain.

It’s much like when the tech guy who builds your company’s computer system leaves to go elsewhere. If no one else knows where the bailing wire and chewing gum connections are located then you are in a deep spot when the system crashes.


11 posted on 07/09/2023 9:00:11 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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Make sure to build more cluster bombs for the libtards to kill civilians with


12 posted on 07/09/2023 9:05:29 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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“Raytheon Calls in Retirees to Help Restart Stinger Missile Production”

Take that Putin!!!! We make sure to keep our production capability intact so well that we have to go to nursing homes to restart it.


13 posted on 07/09/2023 9:10:46 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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This all begs the question: is the Stinger the best portable AA missile that we have? If so, we should have tens of thousands in storage, and if not then why build them instead of the more modern one. This doesn’t make much sense.

That said, I hope that the retirees drive a hard bargain and get their pensions bumped up a bunch, in addition to a bunch of salary. Maybe , in addition to teaching the newer generation how to make Stingers, they can also toughen them up. Oh, and maybe Raytheon and the other contractors will start putting away blueprints and procedure books so that this doesn’t happen again.


18 posted on 07/09/2023 9:27:43 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Seems they’re planning to continue bloody Vicky’s War for the foreseeable future.

-fJRoberts-


31 posted on 07/10/2023 1:38:23 AM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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Why don't they restart the Saturn V, while they're at it.

-PJ

32 posted on 07/10/2023 1:58:41 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Why not buy some back from the Afghanis they left them with?


39 posted on 07/10/2023 4:57:09 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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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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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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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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“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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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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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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