Thursday, February 08, 2024

Aviation Guys make me understand. We keep seeing Marines die in aircraft that meet the "minimum" requirements?

 

I saw this originally on Reddit and the refrain was that we keep losing brothers in aviation mishaps, and it might be possible that this video explains why. Its old. I don't know the context of this but the threat is there. A maintainer will not down an aircraft. If they do then the Senior enlisted will yank his qualifications.

I never knew it was this bad on the aviation side of things. Those guys are getting fucked over too.

My bad bros.  I laughed at the jokes too.  I guess everyone gets a chance to suffer in our magnificent Marine Corps.

But back on task.

I remember when Amos was trying to make the Corps aviation centric.  The weird thing is that Force Design 2030 ABSOLUTELY builds on that.  Maybe it triples the pressure because widely dispersed forces are gonna be a bitch to deploy, resupply, provide CASEVAC and either redeploy them to a new location or withdraw.

The USMC can pressure the Navy all it wants to build a "tailor made" ship but the real work horse will be rotary aviation.

Are they pushing them too hard?

Is the desire to get this plan proven causing everyone down the chain to take on unnecessary risk?

Meanwhile we have lost another 5 Marines in their prime.  Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers...their entire family is in pain.

God bless them all and may the fallen rest in peace.

Monday, February 05, 2024

A bad plan, poorly executed...

More from the flooding in California you're not hearing about...

This is what I'm talking about when I speak of "America first". Washington, DC is consumed with talk of aid to Ukraine AND EVEN Israel, while fellow Americans, misguided as they might be, are in a hurt locker. This should be the focus. Once home is sorted then we can help others.

Fox News is part of the deception campaign. We heard about the King Of England having cancer but nothing but massive flooding in California...

 

The modern news media, to include Fox News is just a massive deception campaign. Been watching off and on all day and they never touched on the flooding in California. Know what they did saturate the air waves with? The King Of England being diagnosed with cancer. If you're in the UK I get it. In America? We don't have a king. We do have fellow Americans, misguided as they are, in California taking a gut punch. Make it make sense.

The US "has a duty to warn". We even warned Iran of a terror attack. So did we warn Israel on Oct 7th?

 Do you remember just a little while ago when terrorist attacked Iran and how our State Dept stated that the US has a duty to warn and notified Iran?

The attack on Iran was relatively minor.  Certainly much smaller than what we saw on Oct 7th.

We can assume that the US warned Israel.  We can assume that certain nations in the EU also got wind and even if we weren't aware they would have notified us, and then we would have notified Israel.

What I'm saying is that the attack was horrific, but we're missing a very important piece in all this.

Someone screwed up big.

It was either incompetence, politics, pure evil or maybe all three.

Another thing bothers me.

Netanyahu was in big time trouble before the attack.  He was about to be ousted.

Everytime I think about this thing it keeps circling back to Netanyahu and those around him.

If you have the means to stop an attack or at least warn those of being attacked and do nothing that makes you a monster.

Enough musing.  What I'm saying is that I find it difficult to believe that Netanyahu and/or the Army Chief didn't know this was coming.  If they knew and did nothing to protect their people then they're worse than the terrorists.

The only thing I can't figure out is why aren't more people in Israel asking ANY questions on this.

Open Comment Post. 5 Feb 24

Sunday, February 04, 2024

UNWRA is a filthy organization...and we're funding them!

We, meaning the USA, are playing a dangerous game. We are funding the very people that would luv to gut us and watch us die a slow painful death. We need to get our house in order. I don't know when it happened but our govt is broken, possibly beyond repair, but we've got to at least try and fix this. If you disagree then make this make sense!

Danish Leopards 2A7DK during exercise

 

PARS Alpha 8x8

Am I wrong in saying that outside of Rhienmetall & Arquus, and then I'm not sure, the Turks have the most active armor corporations in Europe? Quite honestly while we've been sleeping the Koreans, Turks, and Chinese are all zooming ahead with new offerings. I don't know what's happening but at least when it comes to open programs even our aviation seems to be stuck...resting on its laurels. We got to do better. We're getting fat and nasty and they're working out hard.

Saturday, February 03, 2024

Straight Black Men are the White people of Black people....Uh...Wow....

If Toyota was allowed to bring this truck to America it would destroy the US auto industry in a year...especially if you're able to turn a wrench on it yourself

 

OTOKAR Tulpar with Leonardo Hitfact MK2 Turret

 

Open Comment Post. 3 Feb 24

 

Dr Fauci.  We're not done with him yet.  He did some very evil things while in office and he will pay. He won't be protected forever.  He will go down in history as a monster, even if his masters protect him in life.

Friday, February 02, 2024

Raking the forest...

 Weird days.  Sorry for the light posts.

Example.

Driving thru the backwoods.  Come across this lady raking the freaking forest.

I stop.  Ask her..."are you ok".  She says yes.  I ask her, what are you doing...she says "raking the forest and looking at rocks".

You know what this is.  I know what this is.  She's not dancing in the middle of the road, not howling at the moon.  Just raking leaves and looking at rocks.

Ok.  Be careful.  You got family around here?  Yeah they're about a mile down the road.  Ok.  Gonna check back on you in an hour ok? Yeah sure but I'm good.

Mental note added.  Drive further down and I get flagged down.  Geez.  What is this bullshit.  Not up for any shenanigans today.

Hey Deputy.  I saw where you coming from and no worries.  So and so is my mom.  I'm gonna let her do her thing before I go get her in a few so don't you worry ok.

She's about 20...been told about this family before.  Alright then...ya'll take care of business but if you need me call me.  Oh we got it don't you worry.

On to the next episode.

Raking leaves and looking at rocks in the forest.

Meth is a helluva drug.

Back to regular posts after this weekend.

Open Comment Post. 2 Feb 24

Thursday, February 01, 2024

BAE delivers first test vehicle of the ACV 30mm....still don't know how this fits with FD2030

 

Ya know what proponents of FD2030 won't tell you? That maneuver is dead with FD2030...at least ground maneuver. Even if the ACV-30 is for use in the "littoral" environment it still doesn't match up with the concept as presented. The new Marine Corps is all about recon/counter recon. Eyes and ears of the joint force and all that bullshit. So why are they even buying the ACV much less the ACV-30? As things stand the USMC is no longer capable of sustained land combat. It has destroyed the Ground Combat Element and turned the Marine Corps into Naval Infantry with a few missiles. Make the ACV buy (in any form) make sense with the FD2030 concept!

The US is playing games with retaliating against Iran....its just drama for the masses...

Exhibit Number 1. So we're about to hit a country and basically discuss targets with them? Interesting tactic. 

Exhibit Number 2. Check the dates on this. We first heard that we will strike Iran hard. Then it was "talk to Iran to get approved targets for a strike". Now its we're gonna hit Iranian personnel in Iraq and Syria? Bet you big money that those bases will be cleared of "essential" personnel. I wouldn't doubt that they fill it with people facing the death penalty so that the US can get a body count. If you have been keeping up with the news then you know that we've capitulated to Iran. There will be strikes but they will of no consequence. Quite honestly we'd do better to save our munitions for REAL targets, not this made for TV drama.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

All this "carbon" frenzy is madness...Do you know what percent of our atmosphere is CO2?

THEY'VE BEEN LYING TO YOU!