SNAFU!

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Closing time funny

This is so funny no matter how many times you watch it.. 🤣

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— Be Believing (@Be_Believing) January 4, 2026

22nd MEU(SOC) | CH-53E External Lift...Video by Sgt. Maurion Moore

U.S. Marines and NATO Allies Conduct Joint Training in Preparation for Nordic Response 24....Photos by Lance Cpl. Christian Salazar

CH-47 Sling load....Photos by Staff Sgt. Brandon Rickert

Mission Master Aerial Lift...Video by Lance Cpl. Daniel Granados

U.S. Marines with 4th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division conduct a Mission Master Silent Partner aerial lift rehearsal on a CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 466 on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, Jan. 12, 2026. This training iteration was the first time an unmanned ground vehicle was validated for aerial lift via CH-53E Super Stallion on Okinawa, proving a new option for how to move and deploy this unmanned ground vehicle platform within the First Island Chain. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Daniel Granados)

Monday, January 19, 2026

I don't mind college players getting paid but this is just plain wild....

What’s wrong with College sports summed up in 17 seconds.

“What has it been like being you in class this week?” - Reporter

“I graduated 2 years ago.” - Carson Beck, QB1 University of Miami.

The 18 to 19 year old College athlete is going extinct. The opportunities of kids… pic.twitter.com/ht4mTMzaA9
— Shane Pruitt (@shane_pruitt78) January 20, 2026

Dude should have been in the pros or working somewhere if he really did graduate two years ago. Even if he's still playing college ball what happened to working on a Masters?

Rampaging elephant in India

Chaos in a small town in India: A killer elephant is still on the loose after a terrifying rampage, leaving 22 people dead in just 10 days — including an expert who was called in to stop it. 😳 pic.twitter.com/sTfADTVzMv
— Rain Drops Media (@Raindropsmedia1) January 19, 2026

Just plain wild. I would think that a rampaging animal could easily be tracked down and neutralized in this day and age. In the US let one bear go crazy and kill someone and he'll be hunted and killed. Things must be different in India.

China is making a huge push into....MICROWAVE weaponry for use against drones, manned aircraft and even GROUND VEHICLES!

Read it and weep. Remember the microwave weapon that was posted on this blog from a US corporation that many of YOU decided was shit? Well China is rushing whole hog into the concept. Wonder how many of the doubters will now proclaim them to be world beating. On a personal note I've seen enough of this to wonder how we can protect our intellectual property. I hate the "secret" & "classified" designations that are tossed around like potato chips but I have to wonder if national security MIGHT require that the public MIGHT NOT need to know. Every concept, every design, every inkling of an idea the Chinese are vacumming up and at the very least trying to perfect it.

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Sunday, January 18, 2026

Canada has donated 89 new “ASCV” (Armored Combat Support Vehicles) with really modern technology and protection to Ukraine, but apparently they haven’t fared well.

Canada has donated 89 new “ASCV” (Armored Combat Support Vehicles) with really modern technology and protection to Ukraine, but apparently they haven’t fared well.
Problems include excessive weight (29.5 tons), leading to increased tire wear and ruptures in intense conditions.
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— Roy🇨🇦 (@GrandpaRoy2) January 16, 2026

29 tons is now excessive weight? Ukraine is changing everything. Increased electronics (to give situational awareness I assume) makes them easier to detect? Just a few years ago (to include while the war was going on) we or at least me, considered the ASCV to be a good vehicle. Now we're seeing there are issues. They can be corrected but I wonder if it will cheaper just to build new vehicles.

Bill Maher comes clean on the covid fiasco. Covid is the biggest scandal this nation has ever seen, all perpetrated by the Govt

We all knew it. Finally the left gets it after all that suffering they caused!

Bill Maher finally gets it - COVID experts were total frauds! Lab leak, Ivermectin worked, masks useless. We were right all along! pic.twitter.com/WHEsFijXUg
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) January 17, 2026

This really should be huge news.

The fact that Bill Maher is getting out in front of this should be telling.

The idea that many people had their lives, careers, were unable to properly have closure with their loved ones (funerals), that many ill people were denied the support of family (6ft distance rule that kept relatives out of hospitals) is a sin and disgrace.

The US Govt took what should have been a simple medical issue mostly affecting the elderly and used it to place the nation on lockdown SHOULD have us all damn near ready to revolt.

Think about it.

Basic civil liberties were curtailed because they made a form of the flu into a 1000 ft tall monster.

Yet even today we nod it away with many saying we should move on. I don't get it.

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China is testing 2nd group of amphibious barges. Apparently they still believe in amphibious assault

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Saturday, January 17, 2026

Finally got an answer on why the French Mountain Troops wear those crazy oversized berets

The French mountain infantry soldiers (chasseurs alpins) wear a distinctive piece of headgear: an oversized beret they call "la tarte" (the pie). Its wide wool design offers practical protection against cold, sun and snow, and the shape allows versatile use in field conditions.… https://t.co/kgIdGz5nQp pic.twitter.com/k0Qnq4LWNM
— Tom Antonov (@Tom_Antonov) January 17, 2026

The Greenland issue won't come to war but the memes are hillarious

Free Healthcare Won’t Save You pic.twitter.com/AUCO6jvU0D
— Luca Maxim (@ChildOfKhan_) January 16, 2026

Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle (AI powered) refused orders to retreat, held the line and allowed infantry to seize ground

A Ukrainian AI-powered ground combat vehicle near Lyman refused to abandon its forward defensive position and continued engaging enemy forces, despite receiving multiple orders to return to its company in order to preserve its hardware.

The UGV reportedly neutralized more than… pic.twitter.com/WMEQazOPsb
— Astraia (@astraiaintel) January 17, 2026

A damn near miraculous outcome but unsettling nonetheless. AI disregarded human instructions, somehow decided that it needed to hold ground and did, which led to infantry (humans) to seize ground.

Awesome right until you realize that they essentially lost control of the robot.

Implications? Yeah. A shit ton of implications. The first that is downright shocking to me is that "man in the loop" ain't gonna be enough unless we can properly control (to include muzzle if necessary) the good guy robots.