Eight crew members are believed to be dead in a B-52 bomber crash shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base, northeast of Los Angeles, on Monday morning, the base said.
The B-52 Stratofortress was on a routine test mission that took off at 11:20 a.m. local time at the remote air base, officials said, and “initial indications are that the crash was not survivable.”
No. It very much speaks to a military that has increasingly demonstrated it exists solely to cause suffering. Every chance we have had to do anything right (like deposing the taliban) we have found a way to somehow leave things even worse. Similarly, we have been proving since we dropped the draft that veterans are screwed once they leave the US version of socialism (but they get priority parking at Lowes so…). And the past few years have been nothing but attacking the military itself in the name of Othering the folk dumb enough to still try and make it work.
And this is AFTER the military has demonstrated it will just wait to side with the winner in the event of a violent insurrection
Fuck 'em. Anyone in the military is “just following orders”. So if a few gomers want to crash their planes and result in a few less guns aimed at a civilian populace? Who am I to stop them?