The Trump Presidency 2.0

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Agree the pilot deserves it.
As @Marauder06 would say, NSDQ.

 

[AWP]

I think that would be the 160th's first MOH.

 

[Marauder06]

wow—a MoH for a guy who actually lived, on a mission that was actually a success.

I hope it’s a 160th guy, but even if not… good news and well done.

 

[Devildoc]

lol ;) well played

IMO, the real radicalization isn't taking place as much in the grad programs as it is in the undergrad ones. Grad students, particularly military members, tend to be older, more experienced, more critical, and more willing to push back, It's the undergrads that get it the hardest, and the most.

My hypothesis is that most of the schools on that list have very few "out and proud" conservatives. By taking away the .mil folks, you're even further reducing the number of centrist-to-conservative minds at those schools, and undergrads and grad students with a centrist-to-conservative bent will have even fewer role models and mentors.

At the same time, if there isn't a chance for growth and development out in the force between undergrad and grad school (i.e. straight to grad school after commissioning), then those minds are often ripe for manipulation. If I were in charge, there would be no one that the .gov paid to go to undergrad school go straight to grad school after commissioning, unless it's something like med school because it takes so long to get through it. Everyone would go into the force first, serve the entirety of their first commitment (normally 5 years) and THEN you can compete to go to grad school. By then you have some life experience, but more importantly you actually know something about the military, and probably have a better appreciation for American because you'll have been to places in the world that aren't some kind of glorified curated internship and know that America really isn't that bad in comparison. You'll also have a fully-developed brain and be able to resist the kind of political indoctrination that drives you to do produce things like this: An anti racist west point

Duke is also on the list, and I agree with your undergrad vs grad assessment. In my very narrow experience grad students tent to be locked-in and shoulder-to-the-grindstone kind of people, older, and more mature. I ain't got time for that.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2023062654861049946

A taxi driver?

I kid, I kid. That would be very cool. Can't wait for one of the books to come out. I bet Rob O'Neill flew the first helo.

 

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I think that would be the 160th's first MOH.

It'd also be the first for an army aviator since Vietnam.

wow—a MoH for a guy who actually lived, on a mission that was actually a success.

I hope it’s a 160th guy, but even if not… good news and well done.

I'd say it has to be the Chinook pilot who got injured. From what i remember seeing, the one got injured before the infil, still put the dudes down, then managed to limp the bird back home.
Trump described it a bit more about it Over the weekend.

Operation Absolute Resolve — which involved more than 200 forces and 150 aircraft — left American helicopter pilots wounded “pretty bad in the legs,” Trump said during an address to troops at Fort Bragg, a major Army installation in North Carolina. Trump explained that the pilots landed on a “couple of machine gunners” who made it through a “thicket of bombs,” before adding: “but they were taken out rapidly by our snipers who were stationed on platforms.”

 

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