That's what happens when you put some dipshit who thinks militaries should be only "warriors" when all of history tells you successful militaries are logistics engines first and foremost
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And worse, when professionalism is replaced with naked sycophancy and corruption.
I wonder how many thousands are gonna get fucked up by being roided up on testosterone supplements they never needed.
It's a leadership skill issue.
Once upon a time I would find this sad because USA was an ally defending democracy and freedom, or at least so I thought.
But honestly today, I don't give a shit.
Fuck USA.
They never, ever, defended democracy.
Here in the grand ole USA we defend concepts even higher than the ideal of democracy first and foremost. Fruit companies. Oil. Shareholder value. HOO-RAH!
We straight up installed dictators and over threw democracies all over the world in the fight against communism because they decided to vote in more left leaning politicians.
I’m very well aware of the failings of the US, but to claim that the US has “never, ever” been on the side of the “good guys” is manifestly false. Specifically: WW2.
WW2
You're gonna hate to learn they needed to be paid-off to get into that conflict. "But but but mercenaries for the good guys that time" doesn't hit so hard.
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defending democracy and freedom
When exactly if I may ask
- WW2
But to be fair, that is pretty much the only unambiguous example that comes to mind.
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Genuinely the recent sci-fi trope where the current wave of human civilisation simply sputters to a halt because all the technology is too complicated and unrepairable with built-in obsolescence and all operational knowledge tied up within itself
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This is what an un-audited military gets you. Auditing the pentagon’s budget is a matter of serious national security. If they don’t submit to one, they are not defending the nation so should be completely defunded.
Yep. It's obvious if you pay attention to real veteran complaints about the va not having enough resources or always denying claims. The money is being funneled to those at the top
The purpose of the MIC is to funnel money to wealthy contractors
MIC stock goes brrrrrrr
The reason the Taliban didn't bother trying to use US helicopters and other advanced equipment left in Afghanistan, was that the required maintenance wasn't just expensive, it required a robust supply infrastructure.
The entire US military has massive supply issues, and the idiots running it will keep destroying very expensive equipment and risking the lives of service members because they're not acknowledging the supply issues.
No one wants to put ten toes down and say "that can't fly".
Because all the high up officers who won't just tell trump what he wants, resigned to protect their pensions.
They're all cowards and this is on their hands as much as the yes men who stayed in.
I think Americans are starting to realize Trump see us as entirely disposable.
It's not that, it's the same shit as what happened to the Soviet military.
It's nothing but grifters and yes men, so "on paper" doesn't match reality.
Like inventory sheet says 100 helicopters that have been getting a million dollars of maintenance a month. But in reality you got 50 "good enough" and 50 that literally can't fly. You can't admit that, so the 50 do double duty flights, still not getting maintenance even tho the government is paying for all 100 to be serviced.
The "good enoughs" could be brought up to working order, but instead the problem is hid, and they crash totalling them out and people die. Everytime it happens, it increases the odds of happening again.
This isn't just something that can be fixed on day 1. It's a rot deep inside the military because everyone not doing it at a high level resigned.
Now we got to push everyone still in out, and replace them.
That takes decades at this level, because new officers need to raise their the ranks, and good people won't join till the image recovers.
Whether it's for better or worse we'll have to wait and see, but the days of global American military precense won't be back for 20 years at least.
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Those helicopters have low testosterone.
Maybe they need gender affirming care?
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Boeings doing what Boeings always do, nothing different about the Boeing.
Let me guess, AI decided to extend certain maintenance schedules and the wrenches who know better were ordered to go along with it.
Engineers are woke. We DOGEd em all because we care about your freedom
I'm picturing the selection process for pilots to be the same as Battlefield games where it's first person to get in the vehicle.
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Good. Maybe they’ll have to take a break from blowing up schoolgirls and hospitals.
A lot of comments on here didn't read the article and/or simply don't know how aviation or military aviation works.
Some blaming the current administration even though the article notes a slightly higher accident rate in 2024. The current model Helicopter was fielded in 2011, and the article doesn't mention when the transmission issues began.
This could be a maintenance problem, a Boeing problem. Is Boeing or an army subcontractor rebuilding the transmissions?
I just did inspections on some gearboxes because the incorrect self-locking nuts were used. I've seen a series of accidents caused by o-rings made out of spec internal to hydraulic servos. I remember NASA killing a crew due to o-ring issues. I remember a few decades ago Airbus had a series of helicopter accidents where the main rotors detached due to a gear in the main transmissions being hardened incorrectly. Before all that De Haviland Comets were coming apart in air due to metal fatigue.
We should be concerned with the reaction to and correction of the issues. The Army has grounded training flights, which they should. Not long ago the V-22 fleet was grounded for like a year while clutch failures were investigated.
Just because YOU'VE only just heard of an issue doesn't mean it hasn't been a long standing issue nor that it's the fault of whoever is in charge right now. We need more information before we start finger pointing.
Though Boeing has been on a downhill trend since the McDonald Douglas takeover.
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Sure, we'll stop supporting affirmative action and pretend that firing anyone who wasn't us was a good idea. It's not like being a mechanic requires a certain degree of oddball tendencies, and going out of our way to punish oddballs definitely won't come back to bite us.
Sabotage? What's that?
Good
I support this message. Ignore the empty-headed uncritical moralizing from the other comment. These helicopters are weapons of genocide and colonialism, the people flying them understand their function. You shouldn't feel burdened and shunned for writing down what most of us are already feeling, and that feeling is not ultimately in conflict with a universal respect for all life.
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Behold the new fundamentally flawed apache attack helicopter, hundreds of millions spent to replace the old fundamentally flawed apache attack helicopter. Boeing too busy counting their money to notice.
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This is what happens when they leave the Jesus pin out of helicopter mechanic school
They must have bought them from the U.S. and, as we all suspected, someone is playing around with the kill switches. /s
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