Greg Shanks

Retired USAF. Atlanticist. Arms control and nonproliferation professional. Geography nerd. Go Buffalo! Views are my own and not that of my employer.

[Greg Shanks @gtshanks]

@cljack From Dappr Furniture at the RAF Mildenhall Christmas bazaar when I was a GS at Lakenheath.
https://t.co/nyvj1ZYbc1
their webpage doesn’t do them justice.

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@mmciastro @Aviation_Intel The New START treaty expired on 5 February 2026 without a follow on agreement. There is no agreement at this time requiring satellite verification of the nuclear bomber fleet.

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@thekevingrimm What local farms in NE are growing bananas, mangoes, and oranges? I understand the sentiment, but your message about buying local would resonate more when it’s illustrated or worded more accurately.

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@rickkruse @michaeldweiss Read about the MC-130; what you are describing is their whole mission set.

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@cljack The number for Torrejon air base is 916274710–call and ask for the CAOC? 🤷

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@cincinnatvs_rex @HustleBitch_ This is not the demographic that got vaccinated.

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@cljack Does a kiss count? Kissed an E-3C after an IFE where it did its best to kill us.

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@Munson_Royy @SGTWipper1Each It’s clearly a European, not AI: Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom all fly the CH-47.

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@Aviation_Intel Chinese quantum radar?

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@BlckCt316698 @Archer83Able This is absolutely compatible with being in NATO. Read paragraphs 47-60 of the Vienna Document to understand observation events. Belarus all 56 participating States of the Vienna Doc and U.S. participation would not have been a surprise-the RSVP date would have been weeks ago.

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@thewarzonewire The photo you have labeled as RAF Lakenheath is really the western end of RAF Mildenhall ~7km SW of RAF Lakenheath.

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@ScholarshipfPhd 269,568

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@HomeDepot how is it possible that your Reston, VA a store is so mismanaged that they haven’t anyone working who’s trained to cut blinds? This isn’t brain surgery, it’s a basic in your business.

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@ScholarshipfPhd ~$65—the $30 in change + $35 for the wholesale value that they actually paid for the $70 of goods (probably less than this, but I’m being generous).

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@ArmsControlWonk Next, let’s do those range rings from Helsinki…

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@autovate @vxunderground My top of the line Gateway 2000 P90 came standard with 8MB RAM in January, 1995 which I upgraded to 40 later that year at great cost!

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@secretsqrl123 @joa_vh Bad take Dave; I was an officer and aircrew. Our burn pits were inside “the wire” and everyone took their turn there—including me on non-fly days.

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It wasn’t just 26 minutes of speeding, it was the blaring music, and the constant fiddling with phone applications while driving at 11:30 PM.

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Maddening that @Uber doesn’t take rider safety seriously. “We’ll remind the driver of these guidelines and the importance of following local traffic laws.” It’s not the answer you want to hear when your driver constantly drove 20 miles over the limit at night in the winter.