I just can't take him any longer. Was watching the sit rep in bed this morning and started yelling at the TV, "YOU FUCKING MORON!!!!"
Wife asked why I was yelling. I said, "BECAUSE HE'S A FUCKING MORON!!"
This guy is wrong about almost everything. I live in Las Vegas. He said there is a TFR for Vegas because of an air show. No. There is no air show. Not even a canceled one. Yes, the MyRadar app hints to that, but it's not the case. Nellis AFB calls for TFRs all the time under the guise of an air show since the USAF Thunderbirds are based there. So, no rich analysis from Monkey because he's just videoing himself reading data from a publicly available app.
Then he pointed out planes flying near the "Pax River" area. They were actually flying near Joint Base Charleston. Those two bases are nowhere near each other.
And all the fucking banter of P-3s and P-8s flying around Florida, like they are looking for enemy subs trying to kill Trump. No, they are training. That's what pilots do. They train almost every day. Even the other guys aboard are training as well. Not every military sortie over CONUS is an act of war.
And no, when a president travels aboard a USAF jet, it is not REQUIRED to carry the call sign of Air Force One. The captain can have the call sign whatever he wants. Usually Air Force One, but doesn't have to be. And a lot of the time the presidential jet doesn't have a transponder turned on at all.
I saw a C-32A traveling from JB Andrews to California and it had the call sign AF2. It was Kamala going home. I don't think Monkey will acknowledge that.
The worst was when he claimed the massive ingress of "heavies" into Nellis AFB back in December was an indicator of something big was going down. I was aboard Nellis that weekend. I saw all those "heavies" on the ramp. Any guess on where their crews were? At the Bellagio throwing dice. It was an exercise. One that is huge, but not uncommon.
There was a similar exercise at Peterson AFB a year earlier, almost to the day.
https://defence-blog.com/news/u-s-air-force-conducts-massive-airlift-exercise.html
So he claims to have 35 years of experience in this arena. I seriously doubt that.
He is lying, or just plain ignorant?
I stopped watching him. i did learn some things which were helpful in the beginning of my planefagging but he's a dooming idiot most of the time.
He likes to throw out inside nomenclature and then when explaining what that means uses a little more known inside nomenclature ... pretty much the first term and his explanation are terms only military would know and that impresses civilians who won't ask for clarification the second time because they'll feel like they should know the second term. "Oh he knows his stuff, he said "twin turbo prop" or whatever the hell he says.
I was Army (but used to jump), I don't know squat about the Air Force besides falling out of C130s and C141s or what's normal.
Very cool to see the U2 up but I doubt they are using that to track Pelosi because if they were, they wouldn't have the damn transponder on. Same with the sub hunters. They don't want China, Russia or Iran to know where they are hunting them.