I don't want to hear a single person say "this is not who we are". It IS who we are and always has been. State violence is baked into the cake. Our task is to become something different.

Com licença…?

Como fez pra provar? 🤔

But did the A-36 designation not come before the P-51 designation?

Should they skip all those numbers and have the MH-139 ? (Not)

Should they call the recent COIN AirTractor agplane the OA-1K ?
(Definitely not)

Was the USAAF right in calling the recon P-51 the F-6 ? or would the USAF be more sensible in calling it an RF-51 ?

(I don’t even know if they effectively changed the designation in this case.)

is the first two-seater F-15 a variant whose function is now TRAINING instead of fighter and therefore to be called TF-15A? or is it a FIGHTER that ALSO does training on the side and therefore F-15B ?

Designation systems are my fascination and object of avid reading since the 80s… The exceptions and lacks of compliance are so many!
An easy case:

Indeed!!!

The original Enterprise had an Asian piloting it. The comms were handed by a black woman. The nav was a Russian!

Spock was the first character I ever saw who was akin to a person on the Autism spectrum. Kirk dated aliens.

Folks apparently missed all of it. lol

IMHO both the USAAF’s and the RAF’s systems would have worked quite well if only people would be consistent about them; and even moreso the post-1962 American system.

Trouble came from a lack of consistency. Methinks.