reeko

in with a grin. ;)

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

I have a diff take on this: GOP elites with uniparty connections are running these awful losers in Dem primaries. Why? So they and their deep-state uniparty "R"s will look like the better choice. Ergo, uniparty TDS anti-Trump "conservatives" will get more power to derail MAGA.

[JoeLange @JoeLange]

In case you aren’t seeing it.
The democrat party is taking its last breaths.

Have you seen their candidates in some of the must win elections?

A Nazi woman abuser?

A pro trans beta boy in Texas?

A friend of the blind sheikh terrorist, who tried to blow up the Twin Towers?

The democrat party doesn’t have a bench at all.
Several of their big mouth incumbent candidates have ALREADY lost their primaries.

The democrats are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel, looking for candidates.
This is only doing more damage to the democrat party nationally, as we quickly move towards the complete exposure of the democrats built in election fraud system.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

@EODHappyCaptain this is exactly why i am ONLY a lifetime member of the DAV. we have a zero-tolerance rule for chapters to not become bars.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

most of these apply to aircrew as well. not all, but most. IYKYK 😎

[Rich "Corky" Erie @RSE_VB]

A compendium of Pilot Rules (Number 30 is Gospel in Fighters).

1. The only three things a wingman should ever say are:
“Two's up. “
“Lead, you're on fire.”
“I'll take the fat chick.”

2. In a multi-place aircraft, there are only three things the copilot should ever say:
“Nice landing, Sir.”
“I'll buy the first round.”
“I'll take the fat chick.”

3. As a new copilot on a bomber I was told to say these three things and to otherwise keep my mouth shut and not touch anything:
“Clear on the right.”
“Outer (marker) on the double (indicator).”
“I'll eat the chicken.” (Crew meals consisted of one steak and one chicken to avoid possible food poisoning of the cockpit crew).

4. As an aviator in flight you can do anything you want. As long as it's right. And we'll let you know if it's right after you land.

5. You can't fly forever without getting killed.

6. As a pilot only two bad things can happen to you and one of them will:
One day you will walk out to the aircraft knowing that it is your last flight in an airplane.
One day you will walk out to the airplane not knowing that it is your last flight in an airplane.

7. Any flight over water in a single engine airplane will absolutely guarantee abnormal engine noises and vibrations.

8. There are Rules and there are Laws. The rules are made by men who think that they know better how to fly your airplane than you; the Laws (of Physics) were made by God. You can, and sometimes should, suspend the Rules but you can never suspend the Laws.

9. More about Rules:
The rules are a good place to hide if you don't have a better idea and the talent to execute it.
If you deviate from a rule, it must be a flawless performance. (e.g., If you fly under a bridge, don't hit the bridge.)

10. The pilot is the highest form of life on earth.

11. The ideal pilot is the perfect blend of discipline and aggressiveness.

12. About check rides:
The only real objective of a check ride is to complete it and get the bastard out of your airplane.
It has never occurred to any flight examiner that the examinee couldn't care less what the examiner's opinion of his flying ability really is.

13. The medical profession is the natural enemy of the aviation profession.

14. The job of the Wing Commander is to worry incessantly that his career depends solely on the abilities of his aviators to fly their airplanes without mishap and that their only minuscule contribution to the effort is to bet their lives on it.

15. Ever notice that the only experts who decree that the “age of the manned flight” is over are people who have never flown anything? Also, in spite of the intensity of their feelings that the pilot's day is over I know of no such expert who has volunteered to be a passenger in a non-piloted aircraft.

16. It is absolutely imperative that the pilot be unpredictable. Rebelliousness is very predictable. In the end, conforming almost all the time is the best way to be unpredictable.

17. He who demands everything that his aircraft can give him is a pilot; he that demands one iota more is a fool.

18. If you're gonna fly low, do not fly slow! ASW pilots know this only too well. (Amen)

19. It is solely the pilot's responsibility to never let any other thing touch his aircraft.

20. If you can learn how to fly as a 2nd Lt and not forget how to fly by the time you're a Maj. you will have lived a happy life.

21. About night flying:
- Remember that the airplane doesn't know that it's dark.
- On a clear, moonless night, never fly between the tanker's lights.
- There are certain aircraft sounds that can only be heard at night.
- If you're going to night fly, it might as well be in the weather so you can double count your exposure to both hazards.
- Night formation is really an endless series of near misses in equilibrium with each other.
- You would have to pay a lot of money at a lot of amusement parks and perhaps add a few drugs, to get the same blend of psychedelic sensations as a single-engine night flight in weather.

22. One of the most important skills that a pilot must develop is the skill to ignore those things that were designed by non-pilots to get the pilot's attention.

23. At the end of the day, the controllers, ops supervisors, maintenance guys, weather guessers, and birds are all trying to kill you and your job is to not let them.

24. The concept of "controlling" airspace with radar is just a form of FAA sarcasm directed at pilots to see if they're gullible enough to swallow it. Or to put it another way, when's the last time the FAA ever shot anyone down?

25. Remember that the radio is only an electronic suggestion box for the pilot. Sometimes the only way to clear up a problem is to turn it off.

26. It is a tacit, yet profound admission of the preeminence of flying in the hierarchy of the human spirit, that those who seek to control aviators via threats always threaten to take one's wings and not one's life.

27. Remember when flying low and inverted that the rudder still works the same old way but hopefully your flight instructor never taught you "pull stick back, plane go up".

28. Mastering the prohibited maneuvers in the NATOPS Manual is one of the best forms of aviation life insurance you can get.

29. A tactic done twice is a procedure (refer to unpredictability discussion above).

30. The aircraft G-limits are only there in case there is another flight by that particular airplane. If subsequent flights do not appear likely, there are no G-limits.

31. One of the beautiful things about a single piloted aircraft is the quality of the social experience.

32. If a mother has the slightest suspicion that her infant might grow up to be a pilot, she had better teach him to put things back where he got them.

33. The ultimate responsibility of the pilot is to fulfill the dreams of the countless millions of earthbound ancestors who could only stare skyward ...and wish.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

disagree. as a former Russian Airborne Cryptolinguist and TAC/OP from the mid 70s and retiring as one of the USAF senior jet engine mechanic/inspectors last year... i know what made the MiG-21 special: it was the world's first super-maneuverable jet fighter - since the 1950s.

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

Do you know the MiG-21’s secret? It never tried to be the "best" fighter. It simply focused on being "good enough." By prioritizing simplicity over perfection, it became the most-produced supersonic fighter in history - the AK-47 of the skies - and give over 60 nations a multi-role fighter that was actually affordable, reliable, and lethal.

​For me, the nimble MiG-21 is, and forever will, be the most iconic jet of the Cold War. What’s your pick?

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

@eda2026 bravo! i started in Jan this year but for diff reasons - all medical. keeping low/no-carb, no seed-oil, and high-fat meat is working for me and i am making this my life now. FYI i researched it myself and didn't find Sama or the other influencers until after. following you now.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

@LTCTheresaLong Congratulations! Well Done!
your wingman,
reeko

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

we had some before this. 😎 and they were the reason both GE F110 developed the F110-129 (29!) and Pratt and Whitney the F100-229 (29!) because the MiG 29 was, like its precursor the MiG 21, highly super-maneuverable and we, until the F22 Raptor had zero ability to be.

[Aircraft history junky @AircraftJunky]

The day the U.S. Air Force stole an entire MiG-29 fleet… in broad daylight.

October 1997. A quiet Moldovan airfield. No press. No cameras. Just a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III with its rear cargo bay wide open, winching aboard a fully armed MiG-29UB trainer (tail 61) like it was routine maintenance.
This wasn’t a movie.
It was textbook covert tradecraft.

After the Soviet collapse, Moldova inherited 21 frontline MiG-29s, including 14 nuclear-capable Fulcrum-Cs they couldn’t afford to fly. Iran had already sent inspectors and was ready to buy the whole fleet.

U.S. intelligence got the tip in late 1996. Backchannel negotiations kicked off in February 1997, months of secret, frantic diplomacy. By October 10, the deal was locked under the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (CTR).

In the final two weeks of October, small U.S. teams moved in furtively, disassembled the jets on site (wings off, everything crated), loaded them onto C-17s, and flew the entire fleet, jets, 500 missiles, spares, and diagnostic gear, straight to the black world.

Public announcement? Only on November 5… after the planes were already gone.
Wright-Patterson AFB for deep technical teardown at NASIC.

Groom Lake / Area 51 for classified flight testing by the ultra-secret 413th Flight Test Squadron—the “Red Hats.” Tonopah Test Range for real-world dissimilar air combat training against the legendary 4477th TES, the “Red Eagles.”

One lightning-fast, low-profile op.
$40 million cash + humanitarian aid + trucks for Moldova.

A rogue state denied game-changing fighters.
And the U.S. gained a masterclass in late-Soviet avionics, radar, and missiles that paid dividends for decades.

This is how real great-power games are played: quiet, decisive, and completely off the books.

What’s the wildest “quiet” military op you know?

#MiG29 #Fulcrum #C17Globemaster #RedHats #RedEagles #Area51 #ConstantPeg #ColdWar #AviationHistory #USAF #NunnLugar #SecretOps #BlackProject #NonProliferation #MiG29UB #CovertOps

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

linoleic acid truths

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Here's the thing nobody mentions about seed oils.

You stop eating them tomorrow. Brilliant. You've done the work. You've thrown out the rapeseed oil, you've stopped ordering the chips, you've made peace with the awkward conversation at the restaurant.

You're not out of the woods.

Linoleic acid has a half-life in your fat tissue of approximately 680 days. Not 680 hours. Not 680 minutes. Days. Roughly two years for half of what you've already stored to be metabolised out.

In the meantime, it sits there. In adipose tissue. In the phospholipid bilayer of every cell membrane you own. In the cardiolipin of your mitochondria, the membrane your energy production depends on.

Sitting. Waiting.

Polyunsaturated fats have two or more double bonds. Double bonds are weak points. Weak points oxidise. When they oxidise, they produce 4-hydroxynonenal and a small library of related aldehydes that adduct to proteins, damage DNA, and trigger the inflammatory cascade your body spends most of its energy trying to suppress.

The fat in your love handles is not inert. It is a slow-burning fuse made of stored seed oil from every chip shop dinner and supermarket dressing of the last decade, waiting for the next oxidative spark to set it off.

The spark is a virus. A drink. A bad night's sleep. A workout. A stressful Tuesday.

Adipose linoleic acid in the average modern person has increased 136% over the last fifty years.

You are walking around with kindling under your skin.

Quitting the oils is the start, not the finish. It is a two-year project of letting your body slowly metabolise out a decade of stored damage, replacing fragile membranes with stable ones, and rebuilding the tissue you live in from a different substance.

You begin today.

You finish in 2028.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

@ElieJarrougeMD since Sarcopenia is reversible but Inclusion Body Myositis isn't, is there any hope for IBM mitigation?

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

@GuardianUSAF @EODHappyCaptain @supersean415 I know why. That was my best friend who took my place on the Cobra Ball crash at Shemya 15 Mar 1981. Shortly after, all Eielson/Shemya airmen were directed to the flight surgeon for foot prints; then MAJCOM-wide; then AF-wide. Feet were the only thing left intact to identify.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

see those four GE F101 Augmenter-Exhausts? (aka Afterburners)... yes, those are what I rebuilt for about 10 years. There is a very good chance that I did at least one or more of those... 😎

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

The Bone taking off from Vegas. What a machine! 💪🇺🇸🔥

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

YES! but it was made for pigs THEN jumped to humans. from 2022: https://t.co/SzAEHd9xRC

[Irene Mavrakakis, M.D. @IreneMavrakakis]

WHAT part does everyone not understand?
Covid was a gain of function lab created bioweapon with spike protein being a major aspect of the mechanism of harm but by no means all of it.

Covid shots are also a bioweapon. It literally is synthetic Messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid) that goes into your cells and provides instructions to make you a spike protein producing factory. It does not just go away, the shots have DNA contamination, and the pseudouridine insertions lead to frameshifting and aberrant protein production with their own problems.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

@SamaHoole ...and the Royal Guards were/are also called Beefeaters for THIS specific reason.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

@SKDoubleDub33 and Robert Kagan's sister is Elena Kagan. it is indeed a small world when they run it.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

Now do "Peak Oil" - the other lie based on the assumption that somebody forgot to tell earth to stop making oil. Spoiler alert: the world continues to and has done so for millions of years. There is no "peak".

[. @LarrySchweikart]

Yep. I came to understand this about 30 years ago when the volume of oil really never changed. It's in the earth.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

This is the submarine that my friend and i were recruited to be "volunteered" to serve a 1-yr tour on after we graduated from Air Force Airborne Intel School at Goodfellow AFB TX as the top two students. We turned them down. IIRC, we found out what they do and said "hell no!" LOL

[🇺🇸𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿⚓️ @USN_Submariner]

40 years ago today, Ex-Grayback (LPSS-574) was sunk as a target near Subic Bay.
The first US Navy submarine built specifically for guided missiles, as SSG-574 performing Regulus deterrent patrols before special operations conversion in 1969.

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

dayum right.

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

Gen. Patton on profanity:

“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty.

It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember.

You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity.

An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.”

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

pig bombs. O Noos! don't tell Achmed the Ded Terrorist! LOL 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

So most current explosives are not made from Gelatine or Glycerine that are made from pigs.

But not all!!

How ironic would it be for the people that want to blow us up as part of their holy war to find out they've been using items made from pigs?

[reeko @ReekoTweet]

@SamaHoole big problem. that is NOT cheese. it is processed seed oils. do NOT put the cheese on it.