US Defence related thread

[Starlord]

While there is a path for a Direct Entry Officer, but I don't think you qualify for it, because it would require Citizenship, and of the 8 years I was in the Army, knowing hundreds, if not thousands of Officers, only 1 that join the rank as a non-Citizens but he is Australian and was a serving RAN officer and he went to Senate and got confirmed with a 3 star admiral backing

United States Army Recruiting Division - Direct Commission Program

Official page for USAREC Direct Commission Program

www.army.mil

And even if you can join up as an officer, the pay wasn't really that good

https://www.dfas.mil/militarymembers/payentitlements/Pay-Tables/Basic-Pay/CO_FE/

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With 4 years TIG, you are looking at $5200 a month as a 2LT. And if you enlist instead of going Officer, it's half that much

And finally, the "Joining Reserve or National Guard and you won't get deployed" is BS, the KC-135 that crashed in Iraq was staffed with Reservists and Air National Guardsmen from Ohio.

MSN

I see that people are still BSing you and trying to have people join lol, probably nothing is going to change.

Honestly speaking at this point I don't even know what is true and what's false when it comes to these recruiters, I think it would be a lot better if they just speak the truth and what new recruit should expect.
Anyway, I wasn't going to join but as always I am interested in what they offer, and military stuff

 

[Davey Crockett]

 

[Davey Crockett]

 

[Nimble]

It is doing fine. There is more focus on propaganda and less focus on data.

Western media is master of propaganda..... 1973 the war which Egypt actually won is somehow narrated in Israeli victory... fact is THAAD got obliterated in Jordan, Saudi, UAE and Israel.... and now again America is APPROVING 7 billions worth weapons to UAE to be able to defend against Iran.... how more stupids Arabs can be....

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Meant to post in this thread as well. Posted in the big thread last night. Article is well worth the read. Interview with someone who knows what he's talking about when it comes to missile defense:

Retired Patriot Battalion Commander On The Challenges Of Defeating Iran's Barrages

David Shank, former commandant of the Army's Air Defense Artillery School, offers a frank assessment of how air defenses are performing against Iran.

www.twz.com

 

[Davey Crockett]

Someone compiled Trump's remarks....

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip – step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 20: "The strait will open itself"
Mar 21: "Allies must open the Strait of Hormuz. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead now"
Mar 23: "Having productive talks with Iran; postponing energy grid attacks for 5 days."
Mar 23: "I cannot tell you who we are negotiating with in Iran because Israel will kill them"
Mar 24: "Jared sent them a 15 point plan they will never accept so everyone calm down"
Mar 24: "They are giving us a bonus gift too"
Mar 24: "They wanna talk to JD"

 

[Davey Crockett]

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[j_hungary]

Honestly speaking at this point I don't even know what is true and what's false when it comes to these recruiters, I think it would be a lot better if they just speak the truth and what new recruit should expect.
Anyway, I wasn't going to join but as always I am interested in what they offer, and military stuff

I will make it easy for you; everything they said is BS.

 

[Davey Crockett]

 

[Davey Crockett]

How the US Became an International Serial Killer​

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | Mar 26, 2026

How the US Became an International Serial Killer - Antiwar.com

For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. On March 17th and 18th, the United States and Israel assassinated three senior...

original.antiwar.com

Yet assassination is explicitly prohibited under U.S. law. Executive Order 12333 states clearly: “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”

That prohibition emerged from the Church Committee’s investigation into U.S. assassination plots against Fidel Castro in Cuba, Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam and General René Schneider in Chile.

It also reflects long-standing international law, including the Hague and Geneva Conventions.

After 9/11, however, the United States systematically ignored or circumvented many of the constraints of U.S. and international law. As U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq led to widespread armed resistance, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began arguing for what he called “manhunts,” to deploy US special operations forces to hunt down suspected resistance leaders and kill them, as Israeli undercover units already did in occupied Palestine.

General Charles Holland, the head of US Special Operations Command, refused to authorize such operations, but his retirement in October 2003 allowed Rumsfeld to appoint more like-minded officials to senior positions and bring in the Israelis to train American death squads in Israel and North Carolina.

 

[Solomon2]

How the US Became an International Serial Killer

by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies | Mar 26, 2026

These are the Code Pinkies. Tone-deaf to arguments, they exist to promote the anti-Israel, anti-American line. I stopped reading after the second sentence because E.O.'s aren't law but directions from whoever is prez at the time.

The author is currently living it up at an all-expenses-paid 5-star hotel in Cuba, working hard to convince the where-did-electric-power-and-gasoline-go ordinary Cubans that life is great and the U.S. is to blame for any privations they may suffer.

 

[F-22Raptor]

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The US has conducted another test of the LRHW system

 

[_Arabia_]

Generally depends on the number of orders. This isn't like automobiles. That said, Lockheed;s backlog is normally public information.

If I were to make a wild guess, there is both a public number and an undisclosed one—likely much higher than the official figures.
This concerns state security, so some level of secrecy is to be expected.

Whatever the case I hope that all the military orders that KSA have made will be delivered as soon as possible.

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The US has conducted another test of the LRHW system

Will there be export versions of this system in the future?

 

[MS Sandhu]

Ground Invasion not happening.

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[mythbuster]

Ground Invasion not happening.

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There won't be any need for ground attack , Iran has agreed to almost all of American conditions..... Iran's 5 conditions are ! Promise you won't beat me up again.... promise you are not going to beat my proxies..... compensate me for butt kicking me ....allow me to trade...... these are not tough conditions of tough guys ... these can be worked with , no Biggie.