Saturday, July 20, 2024

Open Comment Post. 20 July 24

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I found it. This was the impetus behind Force Design 2030. It's the snapshot in time that led to the current madness

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Friday, July 19, 2024

We've been talking about this at work. The Secret Service don't have red dots on their pistols? How ancient is that!

 

Yeah someone said it out loud. The Secret Service don't have red dots on their pistols? US Marshal's do. Hell most Sheriffs and Police Depts do. A helluva of a lot of 2A following citizens have them but not the Secret Service? Puzzling as hell and reinforces the perception held by many that they're accountants with badges and not real deal trigger pullers.
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LSU Football...PURE TESTERONE!!!

 

Don't fuck with the boys from the bayou! 616lbs and he made it look easy! Pre-season All American Will Campbell!
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Berger was following previous commandant's by wanting out from under the M1A1....but what about direct fire that everyone said was still necessary?

 


OK.  I've been getting an online education about Force Design 2030.

Berger and crew WAS RIGHT in their wanting to get out from under the weight of the M1A1.  I consider that weird cause a force that arrives from the sea SHOULD BE able to carry more tonnage than one that arrives by air but that's a different conversation.

Oh and make no mistake.  In my online learning I found that MANY previous commandant's wanted out of the M1A1 family.

But those previous commandant's always declared that direct fire was a necessity. 

So how did we reach a point where the 82nd and other Army light infantry has a medium tank ENTERING service and the Marine Corps is on the outside looking in with many wondering if direct fire will be organic to the Marine Corps or if we will have to beg the Army or Allies to provide it for us (getting tired of the line that you never want to fight alone and that you MUST have allied nations with you....SOMEONE has to lead...when will we learn that OUR allies will not provide us with capabilities and that they DEPEND ON US!).

This brings me to the ACV.

I've asked many times but that vehicle really has no clear role in Force Design 2030.  No one can spell it out with the new way that the Marine Corps is approaching things.

Did you know that at one time the ACV was gonna be a WHOLE family of vehicles to include a mobile gun system sporting a 120mm cannon?  That appears dead.  I've seen no talk of the USMC acquiring the M10 Booker.  The Recon Vehicle seems to be lost in the sauce with no indication of forward movement with that program, quite the contrary, it appears that they're making Mobile Companies that are small boat and robot based to assist in fleet battles rather than providing firepower to Marines on the ground.

That's what's so frustrating with this whole endeavour.  They're attempting to have it all three ways.  They point to past statements but forget that those previous commandants were all struggling to make the Marine Corps more nimble WITHOUT diminishing its combat power on land.

Force Design 2030 is so Navy centric that the Marine Corps will soon be an afterthought while tucked under them and soon to loose its independent service status.

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How did we get here with Force Design 2030? Part 1.

 This is gonna be a bit rambling and I hope to flesh it out so bear with me while I try and chew thru this mess that has torn at the Marine Corps family.

1.  How did we get here?

If you listen to the advocates of the plan (trying to keep this one civil) this all originated in the 2019 NDA.  We don't have access to the classified and I would assume more detailed versions of that plan but the advocates said that the USMC MUST TURN to the pacing threat that is China.

I think this is the first shatterpoint.

We don't know if the NDA pushed the Marine Corps to do this or was it the interpretation of the then Commandant Berger alone.

What do we know?

That the refrain of the USMC becoming a second land army was all the rage in General Officer circles.

No one explained exactly what that meant.  The Marine Corps fought the battles that the nation needed.  I never understood the rationale of the USMC becoming a second land army when it was carrying out the tasks assigned.  Additionally whenever the OLD Marine Corps was talked about it was how affordable the Marine Corps was.

X amount of infantry forces.  X amount of tactical air.  X amount of this and that (much of it land forces) from what is statistically a small force.

What I DO KNOW is that the Marine Corps became a victim of Navy shipbuilding.  I don't blame that all on the Navy though.

If you remember correctly the Marine Corps pushed for the formerly called Mobile Landing Platform.  The idea was to have a key enabler for the Ship To Objective Maneuver scheme (which I still believe in).

So long short, the Marine Corps had an era where it was going for gold plated systems in the form of ships and the Navy was providing it while leadership was gyrating from concept to concept and seeing those same golden ships basically being tossed to the side when a new great thing arrived.

Looking back a bit more we had a series of what I now call "radical" commandants.  Amos was all about air power and the ground suffered.  We had Neller who seemed to be all over the place and lived in the social side of things in transforming the Marine Corps that way.

Then we got Berger that had gone native in the Pacific, seems scared to death of China and wanted to push his plan and basically break the Marine Corps to such an extent that it couldn't be replaced with the added idea of putting those supporters of radical change in positions of power to keep his ideas going.

Which leads me to MY conclusion of how we got here.

Berger and those who think like he does did not do change agent 101 shit that they teach in business schools.

He did not get buy in and did not consider any critique of his ideas.  He would ram rod Force Design 2030, change an entire organization that emphasizes discipline while at the sametime asks its members/former members to always be faithful to the same organization.

He didn't sell this sea change.

He rammed it thru.

That's  the rub too.  Mattis was SecDef during that time and he's part of Chowder II.  He's against Force Design 2030.  So the whole reason for FD2030 that they insist is based on the NDA that the man in charge of it pushed says the FD2030 is fucked.

We're either faced with arrogant leadership, leadership that can't change when faced with new facts, leadership that used a directive to alter the Marine Corps to their personal desires or all three.

No matter how you slice it this whole thing is an example of poor communication at its lowest level.

Trust us is not enough and that's what FD2030 advocates are hanging their hats on.

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The female sitting behind Trump at the assassination attempt that I accused of acting suspiciously was the Executive Assistant Director of the FBI National Security Branch

 

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44 days till LSU & SEC Football is back!

Don't fuck with the boys from the bayou! 

HORNS DOWN! 

Texas and OU fucked around and now they're about to find out. 

We built DIFFERENT down here!
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Thursday, July 18, 2024

Reports are that Biden will drop out of the Presidential Race this weekend...they pulled off the first part of a fucked up plan

 

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Late Open Comment Post. 18 July 24

 



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Project 2025 & the USMC...

 

 
Ward Carroll and the Conservative Wahoo are talking about Project 2025 in relation to defense and the various services. The whole thing is worth a watch but my audience is about the Marine Corps so I started the vid on my blog there.

Not much to talk about really...at least as far as the document is concerned.  The real action is the interplay and discussion between Carroll & CW.

I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what is going on here.

They don't talk about aviation at all.  The Medium Landing Ship barely gets a mention.  Its all the glitz behind new anti-ship missiles and HIMARS.

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

They kinda said it too.

The Marine Corps tilted so hard into Force Design 2030 and was so willing to give up its missions that its become more than an after thought.

It's like the budget writers are telling the Corps to get in a corner and play with their toys but don't get into any trouble.

Meanwhile?

In this same Project 2025 the US Army is getting everyone of their "Big 6" backed to the hilt, being pushed for rapid deployment with Carroll & CW stating that military sea lift is gonna have to get back in the game to make that happen and a general focus that I find kinda shocking (the USMC's biggest competition is the Army--- a little friendly interservice rivalry I guess).

They're about to play all over the globe while the USMC is stuck on a few islands in the Pacific playing the "deterrence" game against China.

The USAF gets much love in this document too.  They're set to make up for all their losses and if Trump wins will have a global force able to fight two regional wars (like the US Army).

The Navy?  Lost in the sauce.  Can't really see their path forward except for hoped for ship building.  The type needed, the basing, all the stuff that you need for a global Navy is missing.  They just talk about ship numbers.

The Marine Corps hyper focused on China at the expense of everything else the nation has called it to do, the Navy can't get out of its own damn way and the US Army and US Air Force seem to have advocates at the Heritage Foundation that are about to fill their baskets full of new gear.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

First to get a ticket game (Watch till the end!)

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When CNN feels free to go after you then its time to polish up your resume. Secret Service Chief needs to start polishing hers...

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This is HIMARS®

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“Queen Hornet” 15-inch quadcopter

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This Secret Service agent is getting fried on the net...

 

She obviously forgot that any day could be THAT day....
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Open Comment Post. 17 July 24

 


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Saw this on Libs Of Tik Tok...I think they've gone too far...

 

Don't see how you can take pride (they appear to at least to me) in smashing an old lady working at Home Depot as a check out lady. That sucks for her. She voiced her opinion OFF work hours on her own page and it was hunted down and she faces scorched earth because of it?

Libs Of Tik Tok is working too hard to get clicks.  Ruining a ladies life that is scrapping by sucks dick.

So now the right is doing what the left has done?  Bad look.  Real bad look.

Aim up not down.
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Wow. The evidence is piling up. Trump is winning the black vote. About fucking time~!

 

Sorry not sorry for the politics.

Trump is changing the Republican party for generations.  Instead of Wall Street the party is becoming for the working class party.

I've been shocked and happily amazed at what's going on in the black community but I've read that its happening across all demographics.

Unless we see massive cheating this fall is looking like a blow out.

The Dems are still working hard to get rid of Biden but its looking like a suicide mission at this point.  Who wants to be the one to get rid of Biden and then try and lead a dysfunctional party toward a massive defeat.

They should have started the removal process a year and a half ago instead of shielding the guy.
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Who dies first is a faggot?

Everyone is a hero till the bullets start flying. Meth is a helluva drug. False motivation ain't motivation. Wonder if they lived and if they did if they give a fuck now?
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