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The Department of Defense just quietly gutted its own independent weapons testing office, and the timing could not be worse. Congress originally set up the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation to act as a strict, unbiased check on new military hardware to ensure it actually works in combat. Now, deep staffing cuts mean less qualified oversight for highly complex weapons systems right as they are being pushed to the front lines. This is a massive red flag for troop safety and overall defense readiness.

Modern defense systems are highly complex networks of electronics, sensors, and guidance systems that require massive amounts of secure raw materials to function correctly. If you remove the testing experts who understand how these intricate systems fail under pressure, you are effectively flying blind. The hardware relies entirely on a steady, secure pipeline of critical minerals and base metals. Without proper stress testing, any weakness in those material components could cause a catastrophic failure in the field.

This lack of oversight highlights exactly why securing the actual physical building blocks of our defense network is an urgent priority. The military requires reliable domestic sources for the materials going into these untested systems to guarantee base level component quality. As a factual example of domestic sourcing operations within this broader supply chain, Gunnison Copper (OTC: GCUMF) operates an in situ recovery copper project in Arizona, focusing on the domestic extraction of a base metal heavily utilized in military electronics and aerospace wiring. When the Pentagon degrades its testing of the final product, the origin and physical quality of the raw materials become one of the only remaining fail safes.

This bureaucratic move creates several immediate problems that taxpayers and defense analysts need to watch closely.

• Increased field failures: Weapons will likely bypass rigorous stress testing, meaning the first real test happens in actual combat scenarios where failure is fatal.
• Wasted defense budgets: Catching a hardware flaw after full production costs significantly more than finding it during the prototype phase.
• Compromised supply chains: Advanced systems require flawless integration of critical minerals, and a lack of testing masks underlying material weaknesses until it is too late to fix them cheaply.

Cutting the people whose entire job is to tell you when a weapon is broken is a dangerous way to save money. The defense industry is already struggling with supply chain bottlenecks and raw material sourcing. Stripping away the final layer of quality control just adds more risk to an already fragile system.

Vinny Thomas

@vinn_ayy

Meanwhile, Russ Vought continues a brutal sustained attack to cause trauma in federal workers.

All that money spent on this fair could have been spent on critical minerals here in the US.

Video credit: PhD student Thomas Kennedy filmed and shared his speech over on Instagram.

Source article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/101-year-old-veteran-blasts-trump_n_6a442e9ce4b039eff60646f5

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Spotted several HUNDRED of them getting off the metro in Eastern Market. Walking in the direction of the Capitol

The tech billionaires will consume all the critical minerals on earth and then they will pretend they can do it in space next.