This is a pretty good wrap. I don't care for the fonts or the graphics but the data is pretty good. I'm impressed.
On top of everything else, Putin's most interesting unintended consequences:
- reinvigorating EU
- reinvigorating NATO
- enlarging NATO by at least two, maybe three
- bringing US back into Europe and, worse, eastern Europe
US getting incredible experience and training in Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting.
Amazing.
From the linked article:
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has 9,730 personnel permanently deployed throughout Britain, an increase of 22 percent from six years ago.
Analysis by Declassified has found that Britain hosts the third-highest level of USAF personnel of any country in the world, ahead of historic U.S. military outposts like South Korea and Italy. [Italy?]
These American airmen have in recent years flown bombing missions to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya from their bases in Britain.
“The USAF presence in Britain isn’t just some remnant of the Cold War, it’s ongoing and very active,” Kate Hudson, chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), told Declassified.
The USAF from the Brits' point of view? Oversexed, overpaid and over here. Yeah. I know. Not original.
Some of the best years of my life were in England: RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Menwith Hill.
1. Of course you need to watch 12 O'Clock High and Command Decision. Movies about USAAF in UK.
ReplyDelete2. The Navy used to have an HQ (CINCUSNAVEUR) that was in Grosvenor Square. Yes, near the embassy. I served reserve duty there. 2 weeks in London on per diem! You had to wear civilian suits to the office, to discourage IRA terrorists. Oh darn. Few years ago, they moved to Naples and combined with 6th Fleet. Which makes all kind of sense. Was a strange command.
3. Had a UK gf (that I met in Australia). She was a secretary for her job. Wrote the most amazing letters! Great accent. And a lady Di haircut. Even better looking body. But great hair. Short and soft.
A very, very small world. For several years I went back and forth on temporary duty to a small clinic in the north of England, RAF Menwith Hill. There I worked along side a most wonderful psychologist. Not being an MD (medical doctor), "only" a PhD, she could not write prescriptions for medication without an MD co-signer. Her co-signer was a psychiatrist at a Navy station in London -- no doubt yours -- and very possibly you knew him -- LOL -- but after hours and weekends if an emergency popped up, I provided the co-signature for the RAF Menwith Hill psychologist. She knew what medicine to prescribe and how to prescribe. She generally had to tell me how to spell the medication.
DeleteNow you've got me worried about all those typos and math mistakes. ;)
DeleteJust kidding, old man. Had a gf who was a Navy nurse who messed up meds a couple times. Happens. :-(
Pretty funny. Not meant to insult anyone but physicians generally have a stronger math background than nurses, and it's the nurses doing the calculations to administer the meds, and some of those calculations are not easy.
DeleteThank you for taking time to write, and the kind words.