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Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes
Lanxon writes "Wired followed US Army Staff Sergeant Kevin Rosner into Afghanistan to see first-hand the tools, tactics, and pressures involved in coordinating military airstrikes. This lengthy piece explores the people and technology involved in high-risk airborne warfare, from their perspective. From the article: 'Strapped to his chest, Rosner carries a handheld video player called a "Rover," built by L3 Communications, a New York-based defense contractor. The device, the size and shape of a PSP game console and costing tens of thousands of dollars, reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft. With his Rover, Rosner can see everything a pilot sees, from the pilot's perspective. On his back he carries a radio programmed with secure frequencies that tie him directly to the pilots overhead and to his unit's headquarters, several miles away. At the headquarters, another JTAC monitors a bigger, more sophisticated video terminal that displays the same video Rosner sees, plus other data.'"
And if they calculate right, the only difference is who it comes down on, and who you are murdering.
Frankly, doesn't make much difference to me whether the people you murder are the ones you intend to or your co-conspirators. You are wasting my tax dollars either way, as far as I am concerned.
When enemy boots are on US soil, thats one thing, anything else is just senseless murder. I find it disgusting that anyone is willing to fight and murder for congress, the body that less than 25% of the country even trusts.
-Steve
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
So, the entirety of the US participation in WWII was "just senseless murder" to you?
Uhhh - you seem to see a difference between marine and navy pilots. There is none. The marines are part of the navy, and any marine pilot is pretty much interchangeable with a navy pilot. They fly the same planes, they go through the same training, they fly the same missions, they use the same support infrastructure.
"Best" means, we can do it all. We can deliver payloads anywhere in the world, under any conditions,and that is the bottom line. We don't make mistakes and fly nuclear ordinance halfway across a continent where they don't belong, or any of a number of other mistakes made by the Air Force. Which of the services has recently had it's chief executive replaced for what amounts to incompetence?
But - those with stars in their eyes won't understand my reasoning. Just go on believing that the Air Force is equal to the rest of the services. Maybe, just maybe, when the Air Force acquires a meaningful quantity of attack craft, and puts them to real use, and join the rest of us down in the real battle fields, THEN they might mature and take their proper place among America's fighting men.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
would you like to address what i actually said? or are you only capable of thinking in simpleminded extremes of position that have nothing to do with my actual words?
the world is complicated, the middle east is involved in the west and west is involved in the middle east. nothing will ever change that
so talking about binary choices is not something i am doing. it is what you are doing. you are criticizing me for a position i am not taking. you are criticizing me for a simpleminded interpretation of the world that only exists in your head. because your perceptual abilities are crude and limited
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Yawn... you've been posting this stuff since 2003 or earlier. Your capacity to engage with any arguments presented to you is matched perhaps only by planks of wood, or other inanimate objects - just as with your appreciation of history.
I use Friend/Foe + mod-point modifiers as a karma/reputation system.
it seems that you somehow believe that your grasp on reality and history is superior to mine. i await your indoctrination into the tired narrative of one side or the other being the malevolent player, and other such propaganda for low iq tools
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
You just wasted an awful lot of electrons failing to sound smart. Your sweeping sophomoric claim that "the former objective is democratic" shows you've drunk deep of the kool aid. Face it; you've earned the title of "idiot". Al Gore is merely the most recognizable face of democratic hypocrisy. You're being played like a fiddle by the libs and you wear the blinders willingly.
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.