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framer wrote: ↑

Dec 23, 2025

Kinda interesting to see Boeing employee recruitment ads airing during football games. Not sure if they're mostly local, but STL is featured prominently. Also interesting to see them branding St. Louis as "Fighterland USA". 

I like that image. Let's use that & run with it. We have not been good at marketing our region in recent decades. Too bad we can't focus on our aviation past with our sports teams. I still think the Flyers name with the Spirit of St. Louis plane on the helmet would be perfect for an STL NFL team. Spirits of St. Louis for an NBA team. The airport should take our amazing aviation history & make it the theme. Hang giant planes like we had & then some. The SOSTL plane, 
FA-18, F-47 & other including contributions to the space program. Let's make our airport decor let visitors know of our history. 

DogtownBnR wrote: ↑

Dec 23, 2025

framer wrote: ↑

Dec 23, 2025

Kinda interesting to see Boeing employee recruitment ads airing during football games. Not sure if they're mostly local, but STL is featured prominently. Also interesting to see them branding St. Louis as "Fighterland USA". 

I like that image. Let's use that & run with it. We have not been good at marketing our region in recent decades. Too bad we can't focus on our aviation past with our sports teams. I still think the Flyers name with the Spirit of St. Louis plane on the helmet would be perfect for an STL NFL team. Spirits of St. Louis for an NBA team. The airport should take our amazing aviation history & make it the theme. Hang giant planes like we had & then some. The SOSTL plane, 
FA-18, F-47 & other including contributions to the space program. Let's make our airport decor let visitors know of our history. 

I like that idea.  We'll let Cleveland be Cleveland Rocks.    We can be St Louis - Fighterland.  We would tie it to our F-4, F-15, F-18 fighters built here. We already reference them via Battlehawks team name.  

It can also refer to fighting back from our rust-belt legacy.  

We also have a legacy of prize fighting.  I asked Gemini AI "Who were the top prize fighters from St. Louis, MO?"  The answer is too long to list, with the Spinks', etc.  But I like the entry that said Sonny Liston learned to fight while in prison in St. Louis.  Who knew.  

^I bet they'd be fine if the major league franchise made a sufficient contribution and a promise to allow Lindy's continued use of the name. That said, I believe we've established the major leagues attempt to avoid existing IP in expansions, even when they don't strictly need to. (Lindbergh's trademark shouldn't extend one iota beyond high school sports. There really shouldn't be any issue at all. And a little money would make it a remarkably easy pill to swallow anyway.)

Rogan and Gillis just more or less endorsed a Nick Fuentes run for president a couple days ago so we can probably expect a lot more Nazi glorification

Unfortunately it revolves around Fighters jets/drones and conflict  instead of commercial flight like MD but St. Louis/Boeing might be in for another golden era in terms of producing planes IMO

 https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... 6#cxrecs_s

Boeing Defense is returning HQ to StL

The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is returning the headquarters of its Defense, Space & Security (BDS) division to St. Louis.  St. Louis Business Journal today.  From Arlington VA where it was moved in 2017.

Yep, and do we ever need some better economy news:
https://www.stlpr.org/economy-business/ ... n-st-louis

Beat me to it 

Great news!

This is great news to have them back


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Awesome news! 

Boeing really seems to have turned things around, their commercial unit has been killing it lately and we all know about the wins the defense department has been stacking up. Good times ahead!

Breaking: The military industrial complex is getting even more boosts under the pro-death fascist government.

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Does anyone know how many jobs this brings back to North County? It’s great to have this division of Boeing come home.

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7:20 AM - Feb 19

Breaking: The military industrial complex is getting even more boosts under the pro-death fascist government.

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They will get an even greater boost when we attack Iran once the Olympics end

Chris Stritzel wrote:Does anyone know how many jobs this brings back to North County? It’s great to have this division of Boeing come home.

Handful of high level corporate jobs. The BJ article specifically said that the VA operations would remain the same.

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4:35 PM - Feb 19

Chris Stritzel wrote:Does anyone know how many jobs this brings back to North County? It’s great to have this division of Boeing come home.

Handful of high level corporate jobs. The BJ article specifically said that the VA operations would remain the same.

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So this is basically a symbolic move. Which I’m not knocking. St. Louis needs companies that moved away to have their corporate presence return and what not. Maybe overtime more employees will be moved.

Chris Stritzel wrote:

StlAlex wrote: ↑

4:35 PM - Feb 19

Chris Stritzel wrote:Does anyone know how many jobs this brings back to North County? It’s great to have this division of Boeing come home.

Handful of high level corporate jobs. The BJ article specifically said that the VA operations would remain the same.

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So this is basically a symbolic move. Which I’m not knocking. St. Louis needs companies that moved away to have their corporate presence return and what not. Maybe overtime more employees will be moved.

More or less yes.

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I think it is bigger than symbolic. Having the HQ here 'could' lead to more jobs as the Defense Unit 'hopefully' grows. The only jobs staying in VA are the ones that require close in-person contact with DC. That being said, while some jobs are coming here, it is not a ton as of today.  

Don’t be surprised if Boeing goes from 18,000 to 25,000-30,000 jobs here by end of decade

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑

5:29 PM - Feb 19

Don’t be surprised if Boeing goes from 18,000 to 25,000-30,000 jobs here by end of decade

That would be great! I think I heard somewhere that McDonnell Douglas peaked somewhere in the neighborhood of 50K employees in the glory days. No idea how accurate that is.