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480th Fighter Squadron Rapidly Deploys to Deter Russia on the Black Sea
Air Force Mag ^ | 4.11.2022 | Abraham Mahshaie

Posted on 04/13/2022 10:14:47 PM PDT by libh8er

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1 posted on 04/13/2022 10:14:47 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: libh8er

HERE WE GO


2 posted on 04/13/2022 10:30:39 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: mylife

Yep, this doesn’t sound good, does it?


3 posted on 04/13/2022 10:43:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Liberty is an antecedent of government, not a benefit from government” ~ Clarence Thomas)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

An old Simpsons episode depleted a Russian nuke on 55 2022


4 posted on 04/13/2022 10:45:04 PM PDT by Therapsid (eagan )
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To: libh8er
Maj. Jared “Roam” Aschenbrenner and Capt. Sean “Sega” Sheldon were in a dark room watching slides [...]

OpSec?!

Regards,

5 posted on 04/13/2022 10:45:34 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: mylife

[HERE WE GO]


Shades of the days when Russian pilots flew top-of-the-line MiG-15’s against F-86’s over the Korean peninsula and WWIII broke out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15#Soviet_MiG-15s_in_the_Korean_War


6 posted on 04/13/2022 10:53:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: libh8er

Meanwhile our border is being invaded.


7 posted on 04/13/2022 11:14:17 PM PDT by McGruff (A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes)
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To: mylife

I’m guessing you weren’t present for the Cold War? You’d be shocked to hear some of the things you never heard about in the “news”. This ain’t squat.

NATO is being prudently defensive - deterrence is key here - especially with Putin threatening more neighbors.

A friend’s brother retired from the Polish military a few years ago - he was just recalled to active duty. Russia’s neighbors are rightfully concerned.


8 posted on 04/13/2022 11:19:53 PM PDT by datura (Eventually, the Lord and the Truth will win.)
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To: McGruff

F-16s are useless on your border.
Your border patrol is perfectly capable of stopping border crossings. Your problem is your own governments policies. You are American, go out and change those policies. Act.


9 posted on 04/13/2022 11:38:25 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: libh8er

They’re desperate to get the shooting started.


10 posted on 04/14/2022 12:07:56 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: mylife

It may not seem like a big deal to those 3,000 miles away...but general attitudes around central and eastern Europe have sharpened up in the past month.

Finland and Sweden now say they will join NATO within weeks...something that less than one-third of the population of either country would have endorsed for the past 50 years. Switzerland is now bringing up the topic.

Just about everyone in Europe now has gone to the Trump discussion of 2-percent or more on military modernization.

Peddlers of ‘Ostpolitik’ are rapidly dismissed out of public discussions now.

It’s a whole new atmosphere in the making....compared to what existed just a year ago.


11 posted on 04/14/2022 12:12:06 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: mylife

Does anyone here really still think this is just Ukraines Military fighting this war? ...and Nato countries only supplying armament?


12 posted on 04/14/2022 12:31:01 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: libh8er

first of all, any USAF supply squadron of what was “T.A.C”, had already zet up “War Readiness Spares Kits”. These were mobile bins, that contained any “line replaceable Unit” (plug n play) for a certain number of aircraft. These kits were designed to be palletable, and could be loaded on any cargo airlift design necessary. In fact, in any number of squadron mobilization drills, the squadron had to assemble pallets, load, and have airborne these kits in 30 minutes time.

All of this was done during the Cold War, when I was Asst. NCOIC WRSKwarehouse suervisor, Dover AFB,Delaware, 1975, and Asst NCOIC Radar Calibration Docks, George AFB, California, 1977.

So, hearing these guys say it took a week, something’s off.

And,as far as “HERE-WE-GO!”, It, to me, was a foregone conclusion, with just when being the only question.


13 posted on 04/14/2022 12:40:22 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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(HERE WE GO)

Yeah no kidding.


14 posted on 04/14/2022 1:04:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: libh8er

We are being LIED to about this war! Anyone the Left/Socialists/Communists support...I OPPOSE!!!


15 posted on 04/14/2022 1:06:55 AM PDT by afchief
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To: McGruff

Meanwhile our border is being invaded.”

“Zuck’s Bucks” have resulted in disasters thousands of miles apart...


16 posted on 04/14/2022 1:14:01 AM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: buwaya
You are American, go out and change those policies. Act.

We're working on it.

17 posted on 04/14/2022 3:28:29 AM PDT by null and void (Bokassa always used to say, ‘You can’t feed people with politics.’)
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To: libh8er
I was stationed at Spangdahlem in the mid 1980s in the Communications Squadron. They flew F4s back then.
18 posted on 04/14/2022 3:44:30 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: datura
NATO is being prudently defensive

That's bovine excrement. It's NATO encroaching on Russia's border that will get alot of America's finest killed.

19 posted on 04/14/2022 3:45:19 AM PDT by McGruff (A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes)
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