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Air Force: 34 nuclear missile officers implicated in cheating scandal

Posted by Mitch 10 years, 3 months ago to Government

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Really, not these guys…

SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/15/air-force-34-nuclear-missile-officers-implicated-in-cheating-scandal/

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Posted by WillH 10 years, 3 months ago

Meh, the military is just seeing the same rot the rest of the country is. It is illogical to think they would be exempt from it.

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  Posted by Mitch 10 years, 3 months ago
  
  My point isn’t that I think that military personal could possibly be corrupted, it’s that the people with the finger on the button are corrupted. Let’s replace the command and control system with something more efficient, something that can make strategic decisions on its own; wait I think that’s a move already, never mind…
  
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    Posted by WillH 10 years, 3 months ago
    
    You mean like Skynet from the Terminator movies?
    
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      Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 3 months ago
      
      "I'm looking for Sarah Connor."
      
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        Posted by WillH 10 years, 3 months ago
        
        The 12-gauge auto-loader
        The .45 long slide, with laser sighting
        Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range
        The Uzi nine millimeter
        
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        Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years, 3 months ago
        
        I like this little off shoot here! BA-BOOM
        
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    Posted by Mimi 10 years, 3 months ago
    
    Are Daleks big donors of the Obama camp?
    
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  Posted by khalling 10 years, 3 months ago
  
  in the fifteen years I lived in my home in Colorado, we were robbed twice. Both times it was army soldiers at the nearby base. there are people behaving immorally in all walks of life
  
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    Posted by WillH 10 years, 3 months ago
    
    Truth, and honestly there are civilians around the world that have honest reason to hate Americans based off the behavior of soldiers. It is one of the prices to pay I guess.
    
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      Posted by khalling 10 years, 3 months ago
      
      I know great people in the military and some who have made it their life's work. This reminds me of my good friend Gus Lee. He was at Westpoint when a huge scandal broke. He wrote a semi-fictionalized book about that experience. good read:
      http://www.amazon.com/China-Boy-Gus-Lee/...
      
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Posted by MikeMarotta 10 years, 3 months ago

What would George Clemenceau say? "Defense is too important to be left to the military"? On the other hand, does the revelation of the problem and the scandal validate the process of command, control, (and remediation)? By the Objectivist theory of psycho-epistemology, the situation must be worse in Iran, Russia, and China. So, given, the orders to launch, it is likely that nothing actually will be launched ... and humanity breathed a collective sigh of relief (individually 6 billion times).

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  Posted by WillH 10 years, 3 months ago
  
  I agree defense should not be left to those trained for the primary purpose of killing people. The civilians in command, like the POTUS and the SecDef are annoying sometimes, but necessary in the chain of command.
  
  I would not bet on that. If the balloon goes up and someone launches I think we are all done for. Humanity would have destroyed itself.
  
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