Mid-air collision with a flight attendants’ union

Live updates: American Airlines plane, Black Hawk helicopter collide near Washington, DC; no survivors expected | CNN

A massive search operation is underway after a passenger aircraft carrying 64 people collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, DC, according to aviation and defense officials.

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U.S. military “special forces” have been and are being “junked” and politically repurposed too much.

The reason there are special forces of course is they are on special missions. It’s a little unclear to what extent this is true, but if they are getting their orders straight from the White House or worse yet the previous adminstration, or from a Senate Select Committee on some matter or another, then they’re somewhat on their own outside the regular armed forces.

For example, is the Secret Service a branch of the military?

And there is a certain civilianization to special forces that are in the military. The females talk about “seduce-or-die” missions in military special forces, but that’s only the general innate drive of human survivalism that appears in a general wartime scenario. (“What is a woman?” What is a woman’s purpose on earth? And not without the man, it all goes back to the same thing, survival and continuity of the family unit, preservation of a way of life.)

Anything special-purpose and not built for general use is going to be too fragile.

Suicide? Sabotage? Outside military attack?