My nephew is a manager for Boeing in SC.

 Boeing is under so much stock holder pressure to make ever increasing profits and pay dividends they are cutting corners and it is coming back to bite them.

This trend is what is happening  to most corporation across the country. Ceo have a small base pay but their real pay is more and more based upon payment in stocks and bonuses and they are pushing to employees, lower level management and their subcontractors and vendors to the extreme to maximize profits.

Then the subcontractors and vendors are forced to do the same thing. It is a vicious cycle. Not just ceo's.  Boards of these companies are under so much pressure for profits  and if it does not happen they will get replaced.

They don't need to train for street fighting, they'll just send in drones to do the dirty work.

Special Operations: Legacy of the Master Street Fighter
 
May 6, 2024: Continued fighting in Ukraine and Middle East, plus the worldwide persistence of Islamic terrorism and urban violence, has revived interest in William Fairbairn, the developer of close combat methods used by police and the military, especially special operations or commando type troops.

Fairbairn died in 1960, having developed close combat fighting methods and taught them to soldiers and police personnel starting in the 1920s, continuing through World War II and for over a decade after the war. Fairbairn specialized in what he called gutter fighting, a ruthless, no holds barred form of combat referred to as The Fairbairn Method, which were developed in Shanghai, China, during the 1930’s when Fairbairn was an officer of its Chinese police force.


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Fairbairn also developed various forms of hand-to-hand combat as well as innovations like the Kill House and bullet-proof transparent shields for police, the commando knife, and pop-up targets. Fairbairn trained allied commandos during World War II and these special operations were so feared by the Germans that Hitler ordered that any who were captured were to be immediately executed. The Germans believed, with some justification, that these commandos could be dangerous even when handcuffed or otherwise restrained. Authors of espionage and special operations publications found, and still find Fairbairn’s books excellent sources of material and details of close combat.

 https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsf/articles/202405060656.aspx

Boeing Woes Also Infecting Military Aviation
By AFP Staff
May 9, 2024
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The failures at Boeing, by design in our opinion, have reached military aviation. The following memo from Boeing to the U.S. Army is being circulated.


Shoe writes, "In light of all the news about Boeing, defective parts, and whistleblowers dying, someone sent me this memo sent from Boeing to the Army, and it’s shocking. The Army just had another Apache crash two days ago on Fort Riley. We don’t know the cause of the crash, but we do know there have been AT LEAST two catastrophic tail rotor failures over the last two years. This memo says from 2019 to 2024 there have been defective tail rotor blades coming from the manufacturer. Over 4000 of them. These blades have been in use and installed fleet wide and are not reaching their expected service life of approximately 6600 hours. Many not even close to that at all. The Army and Boeing have been good about keeping this all hush hush. Are these crashes due to tail rotor blade failures? One was a 64E at Rucker in June 2022, the other was a 64D at Bliss November 2023. 3 of the 4 crew members were able to walk away, while the 4th will not fly again due to back issues. Because no one died, it’s easier to keep these incidents on the down low. In a perfect world, the whole fleet would be grounded until this was sorted out, but that’s never going to happen."

https://armedforces.press/boeing-woes-also-infecting-military-aviation/

A couple of stories from a family member who works with a hospice organization (not a hospice in-patient facility):

* A hospice patient living in a skilled nursing facility (SNF) was given written permission by their doctor to have "one or two beers" a day, as they desired. The SNF asked the hospice organization to clarify what "a beer" is. While this was probably given the attitude of the hospice people was, "(S)He's dying. Who cares how many ounces 'a beer' is?"

* One of the requirements for hospice care (Medicare, and probably private insurance) is a good-faith diagnosis by the patient's PCP that the patient has less than 6 months of life remaining. Many patient at this family member's hospice die within 2 weeks; most die within the 6 months, but a few live longer, a few of those live for a year or more, and a few of those go off hospice, because their condition improved.

That's the question a PCP and hospice attending physician have to discern/balance - is the patient really in the process of dying, and if they are, how much does it matter if they get intoxicated (by whatever)?