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For those in the #Military wondering WTF is going on. If you are ordered to do something you feel is off, or against your oath to defend the constitution, you have RIGHTS and SUPPORT. #ArmedServices #ArmedForces #Army #Navy #Airforce #Marines #CoastGuard #AmericanCoup #Coup #Fascism
A fmr #AirForce fighter pilot, Maj Anthony Bourke, added: “When you disclose operational security, people can get killed.” He said that “these things are not taken lightly. I have never met anybody in the #military who does not know this.”
#Hegseth, a fmr #FoxNews weekend host, served as a #NationalGuard infantryman.
Cmdr Parker Kuldau, a fmr #Navy F/A18 pilot, called Hegseth’s disclosures, & subsequent response to them, “infuriating.”
The news that snr ofcls in the #Trump admin discussed plans on #Signal, a commercial messaging app, for an impending attack angered & bewildered those who have taken to the air on behalf of the #US.
The mistaken inclusion of the editor of #TheAtlantic in the chat & #Hegseth’s insistence that he did nothing wrong by disclosing the secret plans upend decades of #military doctrine about #OperationalSecurity, a dozen #AirForce & #Navy fighter pilots said.
#Republican Rep #DonBacon of #Nebraska spoke after #TheAtlantic published the screenshots from the #Signal “Houthi PC small group” texts.
Bacon, a retired #AirForce general, scoffed at #Hegseth’s assertion that no war plans had been shared on the text chain.
“That’s baloney,’ Bacon told reporters.” Just be honest & own up to it.”
#Trump #NationalSecurity #law #SignalGate #idiocracy #kakistocracy
[06:15] South Korea Air Force misdrops bombs, injuring civilians
South Korea's Air Force has said one of its fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs in the wrong place during a training exercise, resulting in several civilian injuries.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0306/1500485-south-korea-air-force-pocheon/
#SouthKorea's #AirForce #one #eight
#GiftArticle
By ret Lt Col Frank Kendall fmr secy of the #AirForce
“…#Trump’s decision to fire snr #military leaders w/o cause is foolish & a disgrace. It politicizes our professional military in a dangerous & debilitating way. What frightens me even more is the removal of 3 judge advocates general [#JAG], the most snr uniformed #legal authorities in the #Defense Dept. Their removal is one more element of this admin’s attack on the rule of #law, &…especially disturbing….”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/opinion/trump-hegseth-cq-brown-pentagon-firings-jag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk4.xGt0.VQTtps801Xnq&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The firing of three judge advocate generals is one…
The New York TimesGen #CQBrown spoke of how most of his mentors could not relate to his experience as a #Black man. He spoke of wondering whether airmen who have not had similar experiences “don’t see #racism as a problem because it doesn’t happen to them, or whether they’re empathetic.”
Gen Brown finished by talking about the weight he felt as the first African American nominated to be chief of the #AirForce. #Trump had nominated him for that position, on Esper’s recommendation.
Gen #CQBrown spoke of “living in 2 worlds, both w/their own perspectives & views.” He described what those worlds were like for him. He & his sister were the only #Black children at his elementary school, he said, & they tried to fit in. In their HS, half of the students were Black & they still tried to fit in.
“I’m thinking about my #AirForce career, where I was often the only African American in my squadron, or, as a senior officer, the only African American in the room,” he said.
#USpol #law
Against a dark background, a solemn Gen #CQBrown, clad in fatigues, stared into the camera, & said this: “As the commander of Pacific Air Forces, & a senior leader in our #AirForce, & an African American, many of you may be wondering what I’m thinking about the current events surrounding the tragic death of #GeorgeFloyd,” Gen Brown began. “Here’s what I’m thinking about.”
#USpol #law #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #military #WhiteSupremacy
In all, 6 #Pentagon officials were fired. In addition to #JointChiefs chairman Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., #Trump also fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first #woman to lead the #Navy; Gen. James Slife, the vice chief of the #AirForce; & the top #lawyers for the #Army, Navy & #AirForce.
#USpol #law #military #NationalSecurity #MilitaryPreparedness
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/trump-fires-cq-brown-pentagon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star…
The New York Times[12:12] Top US general fired in unprecedented Pentagon shakeup
President Donald Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General CQ Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of US military leadership.
https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0222/1498263-us-pentagon/
#DonaldTrump #theJointChiefsofStaff #AirForce #CQBrown #five #US
@benroyce@mastodon.socialbitter followup:
Harry hoped to become a commercial airline #pilot after he left the #military
He was rejected because he was #Black
After helping defeat #fascism in #Europe, he came home to suffer #fascist #American #racism
Now, anti-#DEI initiatives of the #Trump admin means the #AirForce removed training courses with videos of the #TuskegeeAirmen and the #Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of #WWII
(I heard this was reversed, but anti-DEI remains)
https://apnews.com/article/air-force-dei-tuskegee-women-wwii-pilots-ecdeac68dc7696535d093c7690ab73bc
B., the senior officer, claimed that in the current war, “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”
According to B., a common error occurred “if the [Hamas] target gave [his phone] to his son, his older brother, or just a random man. That person will be bombed in his house with his family. This happened often. These were most of the mistakes caused by Lavender,” B. said.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/ @israel @data 
#duty #protocol #conformance #AIRisks #riskApproach #risks #dehumanisation #AIWar #technoCriticism #ethics #efficiency #innovation #Targeting #industrialization #intelligence #AirForce #casualties #DataScience #DataScientist #SIGINT #Unit8200 #patriotism #JewishSupremacy #CrowdSourcing #OSINT #CROSINT #MilInt #military #army #ES2 #IDI #IDF #Unit8200 #Lotem #Habsora #Lavender #dataDon #dataGovernance #Gaza #Hamas #warCrimes #israel
Outrageous.
The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars
The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-government-cant-allow-elon-musk-the-power-to-intervene-in-wars
#PutinWarCriminal #Russia #Ukraine #Putin #ElonMusk #PutinPuppet #SecurityRisk #NationalSecurity #Defense #Military #Army #Navy #AirForce #SpaceForce #Marines #SpaceX
The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military…
The Daily Beast