Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Amazing~! Zelensky now agrees with me and wants to turn the war off....

A perfect plan too late is still a shit plan. Two years ago this might have made a difference. Now? Not so much. The Russians are grinding down the Ukrainians and the Ukraninian response is to fill the net with snuff vids of Russian soldiers getting zapped by drones. His bigger problem is that once this is over the Ukraninian people in my opinion are gonna want to hunt this guy down. He better find a safe haven sooner rather than later.
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Open Comment Post. 23 July 24

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Plain talk from Military Officers. Yes, it did exist at one time. Check out a UK example of then vs now....

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Saturday, July 20, 2024

Un-uniformed Ukrainian teens (civilian clothing), appear to be engaged in the hostilities .... how are they classified?

 

No matter how Russian troops respond this is gonna be a nightmare for them. Engage them as combatants and they're shooting civilian kids that were just out playing, and if you don't its gonna embolden them even more and Ukraine could make whole platoons of these rascals. They just better hope they don't have US military type JAG officers that are trying to make a name or they're fucked regardless.
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I do NOT understand the flow chart of the Middle East groups. ISIS has declared war on Hamas????

This has been circulating all morning. Its the execution of an ISIS member that was smuggling weapons to Hamas (I think). Anyway it appears that ISIS has declared war on Hamas. I don't under the flow chart of the region with regard to the different groups fighting each other. What amazes me is that our intel agencies are exploiting this to the max. I don't understand why the IDF isn't exploiting this.

Long story short?

The so called puppet masters should be able to have all these groups fighting each other while we sit back drinking a cold Coors Light!!!
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Nylon holsters are dead. Long live Kydex (for now)

 

Please for the love of God invest in a good holster and not this garbage
byu/nextwave4030 intacticalgear
Its not that nylon holsters are dead, its just that the design esthetics of the day have changed. Dating myself BIG TIME but remember the old leather and nylon holsters for the Beretta 92 and before for the 45s? Flap holsters had the advantage of providing protection to your side arm in jungle conditions. Current kydex, at least the ones in use for duty, don't do that. I bet if the military turns back toward the jungle fight then the old designs will find new favor? Until then its kydex with retention all day every day.
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More food for thought on Berger's total focus on the pacific and ignoring other regions

 I've wondered what events conspired Berger to totally focus on the Pacific.  What made him go whole hog on Force Design 2030? What happened in his career (if we're assuming that Force Design 2030 isn't a vanity play) that would have him alter the Marine Corps in such a way that retired/former Marines would damn near revolt, yet would cause him to be so convinced in his "rightness" that he would ignore anyone that wasn't onboard with his radical plan.

I went open source trying to find speeches.

That was pretty useless.  Until he became commandant they were mostly boiler plate.

So I decided to look up his Wiki page and see his postings...via Wiki

Berger started serving as commanding general of Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center on January 11, 2013.[8][11] In July 2014, Berger was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and assumed command of I Marine Expeditionary Force.[12] On August 26, 2016, he was appointed simultaneously the commander, United States Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, and commanding general, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.[13] During his time in that position he worked to strengthen the partnership between the U.S. Marine Corps and its local allies in Japan, Korea, Australia, and the Philippines,[10] including by increasing the size of the Marine Rotational Force in Darwin, Australia to a Marine air–ground task force. He also oversaw the introduction of the F-35 Lightning II and the expansion in the usage of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.[13]


On August 28, 2018, Berger took up his new post as the Commanding General of Marine Corps Combat Development Command and Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration.[14] His appointed to that position happened around the time that the military began focusing on the rise of China. As the head of MCCDC, he began considering how the knowledge he gained while commanding Marine forces in the Pacific could be applied to the Corps. Berger oversaw a wargame at the Naval War College that simulated a potential conflict in that region, and its results influenced his policies when he later became the commandant. According to him, the wargame showed that mobility and sustaining forces in the Western Pacific were going to be challenges in such a conflict, but with certain changes, the Marine Corps could have an important role in sea-control and sea-denial operations.[10]

I accused the guy of going native.

I was right but wasn't forceful enough in my declaration.

Because of his postings and because HE CHOSE to only see China (a cover given to him by Mattis), he sought and has so far succeeded thanks to his minions, to transform and pigeon hole the Marine Corps into a future that I believe will lead to its destruction.

Arrogance, vanity and a belief that only he can see the future.

Berger's term MIGHT serve to do one good thing.  Any commandant that chooses to do so currently can do things that no other service chief would dare.

We are now aware of the IMPERIAL COMMANDANT, and it will take Congress to reign in his power or we will see this shit again. 


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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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