I loved the musk comments. And now an internet of his fans regurgitating “tanks are stupid why do we spend money on them, drones and satellites”. Then my favorite “the government uses starlink and space-x puts stuff into orbit for DoD, and musk was on an advisory panel about such contracts… he knows.”
Meanwhile they are talking about an IFV, not a tank, and know fuck all about what they are commenting on.
CSB: toward the end of my tour in Iraq, I was driving for someone far more important than me, when I got a case of the pink eye. Some new bigwig came to town and wanted to talk to some of the locals. I had an eyepatch on my left and was told “you can still shoot, load up”.
So here I am, driving a fat pig of a truck through semi flooded roadways in south Baghdad. My depth perception is shit and as we pass though the lake of ankle deep sewage water thst was the road, we came to an uncomfortable looking car on the right side. I move over to the left and before I know it the gutter/curb gives way and my truck slips driver side down into the ditch of night soil. Homie riding shotgun says “you’d better get us the fuck out of here”. Climbed out the passenger side doors, hooked the recovery strap to our escort truck and got out.
Had to throw those boots away.
On topic: Buddy who’s from OK sent me a pic of a local need paper that says Ft. Sill is expecting Ukrainian crews to go through the Patriot course at the arty schoolhouse.