Recruit Woke, Go Broke

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So, according to the woke geniuses over at the pointy building with five corners, military recruits just aren’t smart enough to join our armed forces because they are having a tough time adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

The Pentagon (that’s the building with one more corner than a standard building for the benefit of future military recruits) says that in order to assist potential future military personal in passing the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB test, they will, in the near future be allowed to use a calculator.

According to somebody with a pointy head in the five cornered building, “The department is carefully considering the use of calculators for the ASVAB. We are taking a systematic approach, which will assess the impact of calculator use, and we are developing a way forward for calculator inclusion based on best practices in test development and psychometric theory.”

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Hello SpaceX and Dasvidaniya Russia

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Since the end of the Space Shuttle, NASA has relied primarily on the Russians for transport into space. Our astronauts had to hitch rides on Russian spacecraft just to get to and from the International Space Station (ISS) but that wasn’t the only part of our space program that was connected to Russia.

The Atlas 5 program had also become reliant on Russia for engines used to launch NASA and other satellites into space.

While the Atlas 5 has been reliable as a launch vehicle; it is somewhat of an antique in the space industry. The Atlas 5 was the launch platform for Mercury missions in the early 1960’s that first took U.S. astronauts into space making the launch vehicle now a working museum piece of sorts.

For now, there are some 26 Atlas 5 rockets still in the NASA inventory, all of which have been dedicated to specific satellite launch missions and all of which are powered by RD-180 engines manufactured by and purchased from the Russians. While the RD-180 engines are proven and reliable, having been used by NASA for the better part of a decade, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and our nation’s sanctions against Russia, issues have arisen.

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