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What did 20 years of GWOT cost us in terms of the public trust and is that the root cause of our recruiting problems today? Fellow SOF veteran Ethan B. sat down and talked about his recent article for the Modern War Institute at West Point "The Ghost of GWOT Haunting the Military Recruiting Crisis". Check out his insights on how the public perception of the military has shifted over the past two decades and the impact it's having on recruiting efforts today. #GWOT #MilitaryRecruiting #PublicTrust #MilitaryPerception #MWI

Insightful article on ‘Cat and Mouse ASW’. Thanks for sharing Ryan Ramsey!

Speed Tape and Middle Earth knowledge.

Inside Delta Force: Best Tips to Pass Selection and Assessment https://buff.ly/3YeqjYa

New issue of Call Signs hot off the presses! Call Signs serves as a way to highlight the work AEPs (and our many research partners) do to support the Naval Aviation mission. Articles in this issue cover a wide range of topics in aerospace medicine, human performance, and safety. This one is unique because of all of the research contributions were projects from first tour AEPs. The highlights: - Alexandra Kaplan’s work highlighting the challenges of bladder relief devices in the aviation environment (plus bonus background article on why she joined the Navy). - Sarah Beadle’s summary of the Navy’s first Maintenance Line Operations Safety Assessment conducted by an all active-duty team and what the data can be used for. - Kaila A. Vento’s spotlight on investigations into sex differences in responses to aerospace stressors and hypoxia. Our website has all the prior issues of Call Signs at: www.navyaep.com/callsigns/ #scienceandservice #aerospacemedicine #humanfactors #aviationsafety #experimentalpsychology Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton

Check out this remarkable review of #bombinghitlershometownbook from the good people at The Cipher Brief! The reviewer writes, "I suggest you cinch your harness tight and know where your parachute is—you are sure to need it!" He's not wrong. https://lnkd.in/g-Mt-2Am

No sh*t... Ya think? Especially since none were ever completed. For that matter, neither would the Fletcher Class Destroyers, the Essex Class Carriers and/or the Baltimore Class Cruisers... Same with the Kon Tiki and SS Minnow. Are all of these Chief Editors and publications that starved for content that they actually solicit shallow, filler pieces like this or are they secretly in cahoots with each other to see which publication can continously and continually waste all of its readers' time by publishing the most "captain obvious" and / or sophmoric / neophytic piece of drivel? This historical fiction-esque article has the intellectual depth of badly translated Chinese VCR instructions and the martial relevancy of a Hand Turkey holding a pointed stick or Pack 10s Rain-Gutter Regatta secret hull design. Next up: Laura Ingalls Wilder would be no match against Mike Tyson's right hook / uppercut.

Congress has ordered the Navy to study what #ships can be up-armed for a potential conflict with #China, with the Senate Armed Services Committee, “concerned with the number of #Navy battle force ships and vertical launch platforms for missiles over the next two years.” Frustratingly, the fleet left a direct answer to this question on the table almost 8 years ago. The force understood & posed novel solutions to fleet gaps in 2015 when VADM’s Thomas Copeman & Rowden proposed Distributed Lethality @ the Surface Navy Association. Distributed Lethality provided a refreshingly honest, public discussion by the surface force about our historic mistakes in weapons procurement & development while charting a practical path forward. That’s not to say DL was the be-all answer, but it was a strong start of an honest, pragmatic discussion that should have continued in earnest. Unfortunately, the institutional PR defenses went back up, DL died, and almost a decade of opportunity for advocacy on issues pre-empting #Congress’s concerns was lost. The institutional response has greatly improved, but the eight years lost after distributed lethality’s initial proposal should be a lesson to all that care about advancing American Seapower & professional discourse. #weapons #innovation #warships #leadership #Pacific #SouthChinaSea #Defense

PLA intensifies preparations and posture improvements on LAC. IA needs to be wary of these designs. We should not be caught unaware again. An analysis presented https://lnkd.in/gcYiuPHX