NatSec, memes, and NatSec memes. High-altitude balloon enthusiast and Air Power Metamorphosis enjoyer. Views/memes are my own
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Apr 27
CEO of what
Apr 26
Deputy Chief of Mission Aaron Snipe recently met with Shoji Yutani, CEO of Weyland-Yutani Corporation, to discuss greater 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 coordination in deep-space exploration. With companies like Weyland-Yutani considering new large-scale terraforming and atmosphere-processing projects on distant planets, ties between government and private industry have never been stronger. #weylandyutani #LV426
ALT Two men shaking hands.
ALT Two men walking down a hallway and talking.
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Reading military history makes it clear that issuing commands to subordinate formations in a strategy game should really be a skill check
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Apr 5
John Krasinsky and Chris Pratt are handed two ends of a broken pool cue at CIA headquarters, whoever emerges alive gets to play the lead in the already-in-production Iran War downed pilot rescue movie
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The guy who proposed setting up a FARP inside of Iran
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>What if we did Desert One again?
>It works
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Behind Enemy Lines 5 is gonna be lit (yes they made 4 of them)
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Officials are saying the second aviator recently rescued from Iran is Lieutenant Chris Burnett, callsign "Longhorn"
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The British Army is now so small it could only “seize a small market town on a good day” thetimes.com/article/dcd153b…
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from DoD research in the '50s and '60s
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Mar 5
We’ve evolved back into WW1 discourse
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Mar 4
Analyst friend to me: "This is more of a Gulf War more than the first two Gulf Wars were Gulf Wars."
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Some random Kuwaiti when the CSAR team arrives to pick up the F-15 pilot
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Mar 4
Kuwaiti AF Hornet pilot promotion board, 20 years hence
"30-plus years of service. Combat medals. Citations. Only man to shoot down three planes in the last 40 years. Why are you still a Captain?"
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When a Kuwaiti F-18 ruins your perfect 104-0 air-to-air record
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SCOOP: A Kuwaiti F/A-18 fighter jet was the cause of the accidental shootdown of three American F-15s on Sunday, according to three people familiar with initial reports of the incident. wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-is…
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Enclave vertibird pilot encounters raider in the Mojave Wasteland, 2276
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Mar 2
INDOPACOM seeing JDAMs wheeled out
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Former fighter pilot here.
Exactly as predicted: the air defence of Iran has been completely dismantled.
The US is now loading jdams - weapons that have no place in a fight between a working modern air defense and fighters.
But - It has a very good place if your fighters can operate without real risk of anything but AAA and Manpads - allowing you to stay well above those kind of low tech systems while pinpointing strikes.
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Me when my boss thanks me for completing a 20-minute task (it took me all week)
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William "Balloon Guy" Kim retweeted
Mar 2
THE TECHNOFEUDAL WARS ARE UPON US
The US military used Claude to plan the attack on Iran, in the days after it went to war with the company.
Iran is retaliating against Claude, or rather Amazon’s cloud infrastructure more generally. Two Amazon data centers in UAE and one in Bahrain have already been disabled by missiles. Claude is currently offline for consumers including in Europe. Amazon is telling its customers to stop expecting its Middle Eastern IT intrastructure to work and to fail over to other regions.
This can easily have knock-on effects for lots of other websites. When an AWS data center in Virginia went down in October, the affected sites included Zoom, Discord, Twitch, Venmo, Duolingo, Delta Airlines and several major UK banks.
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