re: Let's talk about military spending

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Force projection is the Navy's thing man. They're the best in the world at it and it's pretty much their mission in life.

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I was talking more in the realm of the Strategic Airlift capability. But I'm going to guess your response will be "Navy can do it."

I mean basically what you're advocating is that the Air Force just gets re-flagged as the Navy.

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Meh. We can obviously keep some guys on as full timers to maintain the knowledge base as a cadre. Under my plan the guard would be a lot better funded than they are now.

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The issue isn't funding, the issue is PERSTEMPO. Unless you mean massively expanding the AGR positions. Us M-Day folks have full time jobs, and any more of a increase in PERSTEMPO would put our jobs at risk.

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The Navy or perhaps even create a new branch all together to conduct this mission. It's not unprecedented. We created a whole new branch the last time a brand new facet of warfare was developed with the Air Force. Although arguable that never should've happened.

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Not the Navy. You guys suck at cyber I will say an entire new branch is probably necessary. I've still got quite a few friends and colleagues on the active side in various cyber units, and one and all they say "Big Army/Navy/AirForce/etc" is killing their ability to keep technical skills up and be flexible.