Saturday, January 14, 2023

US Army Vet From Iowa Rats Out Ukrainian Corruption via GATEWAY Pundit

 Thanks to Moebius2249 for the link!

via GWP

Meet Ryan O’Leary. He currently is in the Bakhmut area of operations fighting under the command of Ukrainian officers. Mr. O’Leary is not happy. He is a 34 year old alumni of Carroll High School in Iowa and a National Guard veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq,

He reports that his unit is undermanned and lacking in heavy weapons because “they’ve gone missing.” In other words, the weapons are being sold on the black market. O’Leary blames the logistics problems on the corrupt, criminal behavior of his Ukrainian chain of command — from the Major General to his Captain. He specifically calls out a Captain Baroda, noting that Baroda traffics in a host of illegal narcotics. Read the following series of tweets. They are self-explanatory:

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This has been my concern all along.  UKRAINE IS CORRUPT!

The idea that we would pump so much sophisticated gear into that country without proper oversight is batshit stupid.

No doubt the Pentagon and White House is aware of the problem but instead of being transparent about the issue they hide it and continue the mindless propaganda.

My only concern is O'Leary.

Don't know if he's still in the combat zone or if he's made it home but he's gonna die and probably die nasty.

A weird single vehicle car accident at home or a concocted missile strike by the Russians but one thing is clear.

He won't be allowed to testify in front of Congress.

The swamp creatures/globalist/Ukraine zealots won't allow the money train to even slow so this bubba HAS TO DIE.

This statue honoring Dr. King is beyond nasty/ugly/horrible. If they love Dr. King they should tear this shit down.

Two things.

Tear this shit down.

A pause on all memorials till we sort our shit out.

Parasitic Batfly via NatureIsFuckingLit

 The Parasitic Batfly has co-evolved with its bat hosts for millions of years. They have developed a flat, hard body to prevent being crushed & velcro-like hairs & claws to hang on to their host's fur.

Open Comment Post. 14 Jan 23

Army goes beyond Marine Corps planning and chooses to develop an Iron Dome +

Well this explains why the US Army didn't go with the Iron Dome. They're gonna build an Iron Dome +. Kinda makes sense. The threat will evolve and quickly (too much anti-air being developed built right now).

Friday, January 13, 2023

3d Battalion, 3d Marines is dead. How many battalions have they killed over the past couple of years?

You my friends are watching the death of America's ground combat power. Once lost, especially in the current environment, you can bet that it will be almost impossible to reconstitute. They're taking risks with national security based on a poorly formed theory. If the next war is lost remember this day. If you can lose a battle for want of a nail then you can surely lose a war for want of a Marine Infantry Battalion (or 2).

The Marine Corps is focused on the 1st Island Chain but China is going global....the fight could be anywhere, even our backyard

New! FM 3-98, Reconnaissance and Security Operations (JAN23).

Nothing to this blogpost except that it made me say "WOW"

John Brown’s Black Raiders Executed

 via American Heritage

On December 16, 1859, two of John Brown's black comrades, John Anthony Copeland and Shields Green, were hanged in Charlestown, Virginia (now West Virginia) for their role in the raid on Harpers Ferry.

They were two of the five African Americans in “John Brown’s Army” whose stories are told in my book, Five for Freedom. The 18 raiders, led by Brown, seized the town’s federal arsenal and rifle works. Brown’s plan was to incite a slave insurrection that would topple the hated institution of chattel slavery. The raid failed in its immediate objective but, many say it sparked the civil war that ultimately abolished slavery.

They were hanged together, starting at 11 a.m. on that fateful day, racially segregated from two white raiders whose execution would occur hours later. Shields Green, believed to have been a fugitive slave from South Carolina, died quickly from the hangman’s noose. But Copeland, an antislavery activist from Oberlin, Ohio, died a slow, agonizing death on the same scaffold.

At 23, Green, the youngest of the five, had been living in the Rochester, New York home of Frederick Douglass, where he first met Brown. In August 1859, the two met again with Brown at an abandoned quarry outside Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where they were recruited to join in the raid. Douglass demurred, but Green said, “I think I’ll go with the old man.” Of the raiders — white and black — there was just one survivor, Osborne Perry Anderson, an African American who published the only insider account, in 1861.

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