Regardless it's good to see Gunner Wade back spitting knowledge!
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
Gunner Wade is back spitting knowledge about barrel length and accuracy!
Regardless it's good to see Gunner Wade back spitting knowledge!
Frozen Fighters | Cold Weather Training
ABSOLUTELY LOVE these quick vids. Nice to see the FMF still doing the Marine thing.
Great way to take the edge off after the news earlier today....
2nd Cav Regiment is still teasing pics of its shrink wrapped Dragoon....
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Join us as we count down the days until more 30mm Dragoon Styrkers arrive to 2CR. This Stryker was named for our Regiment and will be fielded across the Squadrons throughout 2018.Why are they still playing this shrink wrap thing? Everyone knows what this damn thing looks like. If they've made mods in the field then awesome but stop playing this game.
This is the first bad move from 2nd Cav public relations I've seen. Too bad. You don't tease pics of fucking fighting vehicles. You let the beasts out into the wild.
You toss that turret around, you send rounds down range....In other words you FUCKING ROAR!
The Ne0-Cons and Dept of the Army says that Europe (your freaking backyard) might see hordes of Russians at anytime. Start acting like you're forward deployed and ready to hook and jab with enemy forces!
Take the fucking shrink wrap off. I mean you are "ready to fight tonight" right?
US Army plans on trialing 2 finalist for it's light tank project by the end of the year...
via Army Times
As future war planning shifts to confront near-peer threats, Army leaders are looking at their ground combat formations and seeing something missing — a light tank.Story here.
By late 2018, the Army expects to start trials pitting two companies to produce 12 prototype light tanks each, according to a recently released Request For Proposal.
Originally reported by Defense News, a sister publication of Army Times. the competition will then yield a winner that will build up to 54 of the light tanks, with the first unit receiving the Mobile Protected Firepower, or MPF, in 2025.
The Army plans to spend more than $1.2 billion on the program over the next four years.
Wow. The Army is doing the same crap the Marine Corps did with the ACV. Taking basically off the shelf vehicles, testing them for a year and then slow walking them to the units.
They're gonna start trials by the end of this year but it will be till 2025 till the first unit receives the vehicle?
I don't get it.
Why isn't anyone in the Pentagon able to act with a sense of urgency anymore?
You guys and this SWATTING incident...let me hit you with something else!
You guys and this SWATTING incident.
I tried to point out that there are incidents where it comes down to officer judgement and when its poor I HAVE PERSONALLY been on the opposite side of those cases with you folks.
But on this one I find it amazing that no one is taking the time to understand that this SWAT Team was primed to go face to face with an armed kidnapper and that the fault doesn't lie with the guys at the sharp end but the people sitting in the back in air conditioned (or heated) comfort, smoking and joking, having a good time and maybe even watching events playout like its some sick sporting event.
I'll simply ask you all to consider this.
You do know that dispatchers have Caller ID on anyone that calls in don't you? You do know that "call blocking" doesn't work when it comes to the 911 service don't you?
Have you even considered that the dispatcher knew that the person that called this in was halfway across the country?
Did you even consider that they didn't gather even more information as to how he knew that there was a kidnapping/hostage taking in progress?
Did you even think that just MAYBE supervisors/the Chief...someone should have slowed the situation down and asked basic questions like...how does this fucker know something is going on? Have we had any reports of disturbances in that neighborhood or at that address?
I WILL SECOND GUESS PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPOSE TO BE IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS SITTING IN WARMTH, DRINKING COFFEE. THERE WAS NO NEED FOR THEM TO ALLOW THE SITUATION TO GO FORWARD.
My basic point is that if this was a better world, not perfect...simply better, then this whole thing would have been squashed between the dispatcher and her supervisor...long before it even made it to patrol units or SWAT.
I tried to point out that there are incidents where it comes down to officer judgement and when its poor I HAVE PERSONALLY been on the opposite side of those cases with you folks.
But on this one I find it amazing that no one is taking the time to understand that this SWAT Team was primed to go face to face with an armed kidnapper and that the fault doesn't lie with the guys at the sharp end but the people sitting in the back in air conditioned (or heated) comfort, smoking and joking, having a good time and maybe even watching events playout like its some sick sporting event.
I'll simply ask you all to consider this.
You do know that dispatchers have Caller ID on anyone that calls in don't you? You do know that "call blocking" doesn't work when it comes to the 911 service don't you?
Have you even considered that the dispatcher knew that the person that called this in was halfway across the country?
Did you even consider that they didn't gather even more information as to how he knew that there was a kidnapping/hostage taking in progress?
Did you even think that just MAYBE supervisors/the Chief...someone should have slowed the situation down and asked basic questions like...how does this fucker know something is going on? Have we had any reports of disturbances in that neighborhood or at that address?
I WILL SECOND GUESS PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPOSE TO BE IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS SITTING IN WARMTH, DRINKING COFFEE. THERE WAS NO NEED FOR THEM TO ALLOW THE SITUATION TO GO FORWARD.
My basic point is that if this was a better world, not perfect...simply better, then this whole thing would have been squashed between the dispatcher and her supervisor...long before it even made it to patrol units or SWAT.
The US fucking Marine Corps cuts infantry to field cyber? Why aren't we resourcing that like the medical field from the Navy?
Thanks to FormerDirtDart for the link!
via Marine Corps Times
The Marine Corps is doing away with its 0351 infantry assaultman military occupational specialty and phasing out the assault section of Marine rifle companies in an effort to build up communities such as cyber and electronic warfare, Military.com has learned.Story here.
Commandant Gen. Robert Neller, who confirmed planning in December while on an annual tour of deployed Marine elements around the world, said he expects the move to happen in the next three to five years as part of a slate of changes designed to help the Corps prepare for future fights.
The 0351 infantry assaultman, one of the Marine Corps' five core infantry positions, is tasked with breaching, demolition, and rocket fire against fortified positions. Assaultmen carry the MK-153 shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapon, or SMAW.
Do you get the total disconnect here? HQMC is pushing the idea that fighting in a MegaCity is unavoidable. Now we're getting rid of our hip pocket breaching and demolition bubbas?
Even more irritating is the fact that we have yet to know what cyber and electronic warfare specialists are suppose to do...or rather how they fit into the Marine Corps way of war.
According to Marine Corps doctrine Marine Air delivers our electronic warfare set piece. How cyber is gonna help in the assault or defense is beyond me, but why hasn't anyone asked the basic question....why is the Marine Corps trying to get into the cyber business in the first place!
We leverage medical care via Navy Corpsmen and use their hospitals and doctors. Those bastards are so shit hot that they're just confused Marines that got led astray by Navy recruiters!
We could easily do the same with cyber and electronic warfare. Have the Navy provide the training and have a school to get them up to Fleet Marine standards and leverage the whole thing off the Navy's money pot!
This is an idiot move.
I thought Neller was hitting his stride but this is batshit crazy!
Saudi Arabia to buy 3 FS56 Patrol Boats from CMN...via Naval News Instagram
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| French Shipbuilder CMN: the three patrol ships contract has finally come into force in Saudi Arabia Riyadh has put into effect the contract for the sale of three FS56 patrol boats manufactured by the shipyard of Cherbourg, CMN. The amount of the order is estimated at 250 million euros. Initialed at the end of 2015, the contract for the sale of three FS56 patrol boats built by the shipyard of Cherbourg, CMN (Mechanical Constructions of Normandy) to the Saudi navy was finally finally put into effect (first deposit paid), according to several sources concordant . The contract is evaluated for these three fighter-type patrollers at 250 million euros. Initially, these three patrol boats were to equip the Lebanese navy under the tripartite Donas contract signed in 2014 between Saudi Arabia and ODAS, on behalf of Lebanon. In disagreement with Beirut, Riyad finally took over for his army the Donas contract, now called the Saudi-French Military Contract (SFMC). Despite the complicated relations between Saudi Arabia and France, Riyad has put into effect the contract signed by CMN, owned by Lebanese businessman Iskandar Safa. That's two years after the signing of this contract. This decision corresponds to a need of the Saudi navy for these warships and the strict application of the contract, whose execution continues under the control of ODAS, representing French interests in Riyadh. |
East Africa Response Force (EARF) Soldiers Conduct Live-Fire Training
So the 10th Mtn is in the Horn of Africa? I wondered where they went off to. You hear about everyone except those guys lately.
I wonder how they're gonna run those missions when SOCOM leaves with its tail between its leg? Are they gonna plus up the Response Force and increase aviation support so that our guys aren't on the wrong end of a very long rope?
God I hope so.
One thing to keep your eye on. The planning section for these missions. If SOCOM keeps their guys in the room and if the Combatant Commander is Special Ops crazy and is in love with the partner bullshit that is all the rage with the Pentagon then you'll see conventionals trying to run these missions just like SOCOM did. Too light to survive and too far away for help to arrive in time.
Let's hope some basic infantry common sense is applied before we lose more guys on that forsaken continent.
Tuesday, January 02, 2018
IDF creates a new infantry unit along the Gaza strip...
via algemeiner.com
A new elite IDF infantry unit is about to take up its position along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip.Story here.
The Haruv (Carob) unit, named after a renowned force that operated in Israel’s southern desert border in the 1960s and 1970s, was once a regular infantry battalion in the Kfir brigade, focusing on security operations in Judea and Samaria (the territories).
Several months ago, the IDF decided to convert this battalion into an elite unit, and to give it the training, weapons, vehicles and high-tech equipment to fight in Gaza.
Since then, the unit has been selectively recruiting cadets into its ranks and placing them under intense special force training. This process culminated at the end of December, in a large-scale war drill that simulated Gaza’s urban warfare settings.
Wait. So Israel is starting to operate independent Infantry Battalions? Are they still part of the Kfir Brigade? I read that certain battalions in all IDF Brigades were "special operations capable"...is this a return to that old standard?
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