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October 19, 2015

"Sparkle” wasn’t focused on the desert outside her window.

It was 2009 and President Obama was sending troops in a surge to Afghanistan.
Sparkle’s mind was on a desert 7,000 miles away. Over the next 24 hours she would track an insurgent, watch as he was killed by a Hellfire missile, and spy on his funeral before ending her night with a breakfast beer and a trip to the dog park. She Kills People From 7,850 Miles Away

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 19, 2015 5:54 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Flight suits ? Assassins sitting in comfy chairs wear flight suits and are awarded medals ? Honorable, really honorable.

Posted by: tired dog [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 19, 2015 7:25 PM

Things aren't always as they are portrayed.

Remember when they said they hod satellites that could read license plates?
Then somebody discovered license plates are vertical, satellites are vertical, a physical impossibility.

What the gov't does do is, it swings a very big hammer to make up for it's lack of accuracy.

Collateral damage be damned.

IOW, if they drone your house all of your neighbors will die too, and maybe you'll live.

Imagine a bloated 300 lb drunk with a 16 lb sledge hammer trying to put an 8d finish nail in a piece of door casing.....

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 20, 2015 7:04 AM

Just damned glad I did my time 40-60 years ago. Wish I had known back then how good I had it. Wouldn't fly in today's military for all the tea in China.

Posted by: BillH [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 20, 2015 7:25 AM

re: "Remember when they said they hod satellites that could read license plates?
Then somebody discovered license plates are vertical, satellites are vertical, a physical impossibility." tired dog

Circa 1974 an engineer working at Vandenberg for GE re-entry systems showed me a glossy photo of a scene taken by a satellite of an Israeli officer with an outstretched arm with the wrist watch visible and one could see the time from the position of the hands of the watch. This was taken during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Slant range images could easily resolve license plates.

Dan Kurt

Posted by: Dan Kurt [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 20, 2015 8:22 AM

Anybody got a satellite picture of a license plate?

Matthew Brady was rewarded and than chastised for *positioning* civil war corpses for gov't pictures.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 20, 2015 1:45 PM

What a lovely name, Sparkle. Bless her heart, and the hand she guides with.

Posted by: Grizzly [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 20, 2015 4:46 PM

"....her headset has bedazzled jewels running along the headband and earpieces."

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That's just lovely.
Children playing video games.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 20, 2015 7:54 PM

I have no issues with these drone strikes. If the jihadis wore uniforms and only attacked military targets, it would be different. But they don’t. They are illegal combatants who attack mostly civilians. They deserve to get smoked by an unseen enemy.

I did my time getting shot at over North Vietnam. Yeah, it's a manly thing to do, but these new whiz bang laser guided bombs with standoff capabilities sure would have been a nice touch back then.

When it's war, the idea is to kill the enemy as quick and efficiently as possible. When enough of them are killed the war ends. Simple concept. Difficult for our progressive leaders to grasp.

Posted by: Jimmy J. [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 20, 2015 8:37 PM

Gee, ghost, you seem a bit indignant about the decorations on Sparkle's headset. I say, cut her some slack.

I've seen photos of WWI planes with cheesecake pinup girls or fierce monsters painted on their fuselage. Also bombs and torpedoes with tender notes to Hitler written on them. For all I know, the same thing happens today. I guess that makes all those airmen and sailors just children playing games, eh? Well if so, I thank God for those children and what they did for us all.

Posted by: Grizzly [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 21, 2015 5:13 PM

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