Open Comment Post. 17 May 24

Society is being manipulated and they told us so

Remember. They told us that we were food on the table and that they're basically eating us up. A society of more than 300, almost 400 million people are being manipulated and most are HAPPILY accepting that manipulation.

The audacity comes from telling those that you're using, that you're using them is stunning to me.

I've been trying to figure out when it all started turning.  The best I can come up with (and I could EASILY be so wrong here) is towards the end of the Vietnam War.

The first step was to try and popularize an unpopular war.  Once they lost Walter Cronkite things became clear to them.  They had to own the new media and that would ensure proper control of information to the public.  The rest is sad history.

It accelerated from there.  Reached its zenith (or what should have been its zenith, with a huge course correction) when Bush Jr persuaded America (me too) that we had to invade Iraq to get the terrorist that attacked us.  An international police action (literally police action, not police action like Vietnam was called) against Bin Laden with Special Ops support was what we needed.

Instead the bastard son of Bush Sr launched an invasion of two countries.

We bought the bullshit (I take my share of blame) instead of pushing back against it.  That was our chance to get it right. What happened instead was that corporate America, Neo-Cons, Globalist etc...all picked up on the various tools to bend us to their will.

We let them.

We're fucked.

Open Comment Post. 13 May 24

Marines with 2nd Recon conduct Mjolnir Strike

A U.S. Marine Corps UH-1Y Venom takes flight during exercise Mjolnir Strike 4-24 at Bombing Target-11, Piney Island, North Carolina, April 23, 2024. Exercise Mjolnir Strike 4-24 is a fire support-focused exercise for Joint Terminal Attack Controllers to increase proficiency while incorporating multiple fire support capabilities, such as ground-based indirect fires and close air support. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isabella Ramos)

Ya know what's weird with Force Design 2030? You would think that Force Recon would move a bit into the background and that ANGLICO would become the new kings on the block. I mean they ARE the masters at coordinating air, ground and naval fires right? They are the kings at getting different services and allies to jointly put steel on target right? So why haven't they seen a new push for their capabilities....or is it that SOCOM has rendered them obsolete?

Forgot that they posted courts-martial results....might be the new Marine Corps but its still a wild place...

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Cultural acceptance has to have limits. Not everything is to be respected, condoned or allowed

A 13 year old Lebanese girl, forced to marry 29 year old man, crying in pain: "The girl can't say no. It's against our culture." the man smiles: “It's love at first sight!"
byu/Citron_Neat ininterestingasfuck

Want to talk about a virus sweeping thru America? Its the acceptance of the unacceptable. I post this just as an example but we're seeing things just as bad across the board. Cultural acceptance MUST HAVE LIMITS. We should not and cannot accept stuff that is repugnant all because we want to spare feelings. Lines have to be drawn. A 29 year old with a 13 year old? Where I come from that's called pedophilia. Saying that its culturally accepted so we must accept it is idiotic.

Open Comment Post. 11 May 24

A big push to get more people into trucking went on and now we're seeing a bunch of accidents/goofy-bad stuff on the streets...

Trucker threading the needle to avoid an accident
byu/railker innextfuckinglevel

Has anyone paid attention to certain professions? We seem to have a bowwave of people employed. So many in fact that we saw layoffs in those fields just a few years ago. Now? Now they're so understaffed that we've seen big pushes into the industry. That applies to a whole host of professions. Nursing. Aircraft manufacturing. Teaching. Oh and trucking. In the trucking field we're seeing a whole bunch of accidents/goofy shit happening on the streets. My bigger concern (although that's concerning enough) are the ones that affect people in their most vulnerable state. Doctors. Nurses. Teachers (I list kids as being vulnerable because they're like unwritten books that you can place any info into). I don't believe in managed societies but maybe we should consider properly managing our professions in the future?

Hamas gunmen opened fire at Gazan civilians — allegedly for stealing.....THIS IS WHO THEY PROTEST FOR!!!

 

Long spill before. Let me change it up. If criminals are caught performing horrendous crimes they aren't covered by the Geneva Convention. With that said, the criminals that accompanied Hamas on Oct 7 (when did we legalize a known terrorist organization....cartels are quasi governmental too so why aren't they recognized?) should face military punishment in the field right?

Marine Corps Commandant @ Modern Day Marine...

Byron told me to watch the CMC's testimony in front of Congress.  He warned me that it was a big nothing burger.  I watched it anyway and it was as described.

All those fucking Congress Critters and not a damn one asked the hard questions.  Not one of those idiotic, pampered so called leaders had the courage to do their jobs.

They praised the CMC, praised each other, the CMC praised them on what a great job they all were doing.

It was fucking disgusting.

Hope springs eternal.

I thought ok.  Maybe I'm just a dumbass and that just wasn't the right venue for him to talk about the hard shit.

Maybe he'll open his mouth at Modern Day Marine and stop playing politician and start talking plainly.

I called myself a dumbass?  Naw bro.  I was a fucking idiot to think that he would come correct.

More useless platitudes, more talk about the legacy Corps while he's pushing full speed ahead with this abomination that they're building.

Mark my words.

This new Marine Corps will get its shit pushed in.  We will run out of body bags and the mothers of America will be crying their eyes out.

I tried.  I fucking quit.  These fuckers can get what they fucking get.  Only Marines that count are those in the game?  Ok.  Hope you fuckers are ready to play cause I can sit at this keyboard and rip apart that Littoral Regiment without even trying hard.  The Chinese will ass rape that thing into oblivion.

The only thing I ask of these ass hats is to change the name of the organization.  They tarnish what has come before and since they don't give a fuck then complete the re-missioning and rebranding.

Open Comment Post. 10 May 24

Now this is an interesting obstacle course

 

Tak pokonują tor przeszkód #OSF NAJLEPSI! Jest moc! 💪🏻

📍Zamość, 3 Batalion Zmechanizowany, Mistrzostwa Dowództwa Generalnego RSZ gr 4 - 18 Dywizja Zmechanizowana pic.twitter.com/J3JjTqLpn0

— 18 Dywizja Zmechanizowana (@Zelazna_Dywizja) May 10, 2024

Open Comment Post. 9 May 24

 

101st begins transformation to "Mobile" Brigade Combat Teams

How did the US Army get their transformation so right and the USMC get it so fucked up? I'm watching both services and I'm amazed. The US Army has given up NO capabilities yet is simultaneously swinging full bore to the Pacific while at the same time adding to their Airborne/Air Assault/Light Infantry. Their armored forces are modernizing too. The Marine Corps? Naw. The whole damn thing was torn down by rogue transformationalist and the failed and flawed defense battalion concept of WW2 was rebranded/reborn. The USMC has become ultra-regional and single foe focused while the US Army is setup to take all comers. Bad days in Marine land and the Army is drinking our kool-aide.

Soldiers assigned to 2nd Brigade Combat Team (Strike, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) fielded and tested a prototype of the Mobile Brigade Combat Team as part of the Army's Transformation in contact during Operation Lethal Eagle 24.1 at Fort Campbell, Ky., from April 11 2024 through April 30, 2024. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), is one of the Army’s first units to prototype the mobile brigade combat team (MBCT) concept. The MBCT will be lighter and more lethal while providing increased mobility to close combat forces. The Army is undertaking its most significant transformation in more than 40 years to dominate large-scale combat operations in multi domain environments. Through Continuous Transformation, the Army will maintain dominance against rapidly evolving and emerging threats in an era of dynamic change in the character of war.

TRML-4D mobile radar stations

Starliner Crew Flight Test mission overview

Leonardo DRS

 

Are you fucking kidding me MARSOC? Hamas just used para-gliders to murder Israelis and now you tout this as a new capability?

 

Marine Special Operations Paragliding Capabilities Emerge At Demonstration In Tampa

Paragliding Marines went on a mock drone hunt at the event, but this is a capability that could be valuable for a host roles.

Story: https://t.co/POX5XaMryq

— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) May 8, 2024

MARSOC can't read the fucking room. The IDF is involved in a war against Hamas terrorist that used this same "capability" to murder Israelis at a music festival and now you roll this out? Have you bastards been pulling so many triggers that you can't see that this probably isn't the time to have US Special Operations, especially MARINE CORPS SPECIAL OPS imitating what a bunch of terrorist did? GEEZ! You guys are awesome but sometimes you come up short in the commonsense department. Oh and I know I'm gonna get flamed on this take but I stand on all ten on this one. Let Navy SEALs roll this out. Even Green Berets but not you guys. BAD BAD BAD LOOK!

Late Open Comment Post. 8 May 24

 

B-Roll: Balikatan 24 – ACVs Conduct Waterborne Gunnery Live-Fire

U.S. Marines Corps amphibious combat vehicles attached to Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, launch from the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LDS 49) to conduct a waterborne gunnery live-fire range during Exercise Balikatan 24 at Oyster Bay, Philippines, May 4, 2024. BK 24 is an annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military designed to strengthen bilateral interoperability, capabilities, trust, and cooperation built over decades of shared experiences. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Peyton Kahle, Sgt. Patrick Katz, and Gunnery Sgt. Antonio Campbell)