Boxer CRV for LAND 400 Phase 2

Thanks to SvD for the link!

The UK military tests for steroids

via Sputnik

Over the course of the year, 730 soldiers in the UK Army tested positive, which is more individuals than make up an entire infantry regiment, compared with 570 in 2015. The Royal Navy saw a 60 percent increase, with offenders rising to 50 from 30. At least 50 service personnel tested positive for illegal steroids. The Royal Regiment of Scotland had 90 failures, while the Royal Engineers had 110.

Interesting.

I knew they tested for drugs but steroids?  Wow.  I'm betting they have made a swing to the Royal Marines, Parachute Regiment or UK Special Ops in general.  I've seen those dudes and they're jacked (well alot of them are).

If the US military wanted to kill SOCOM all you have to do is do a steroid test.  Want to reduce the Marine Corps and Army by half?  Do the same.

I wonder if the Brits realize what a can of worms they're unleashing by doing this. 

3rd ABCT, 4th ID sends rounds downrange in Poland....

Note:  You see armored vehicles all I see is pain.  You know those guys are freezing their asses off.  Gotta look and see how cold it is in Poland!  I'm back.  According to Google the high is 24 F with a low of 14 F!  If they're playing for real then you're gonna see at least a couple of bubas with frostbite.

LCS alternatives by Navy Matters Blog

Navy Matters Blog tackles the idea of what to do with the LCS.  This is a must read article because for better or worse it appears that we're gonna be stuck with the ship so we need to figure out what we're gonna do with it.

NMB hits some pretty good ideas that are worth considering.  The funny sad thing?  This generation of military leaders have given the military a mixed bag of weapons to fight the next war.  Remember this.  We went to Gulf War 1 and 2 and Afghanistan and even the current fight in Iraq and Syria with the weapons that the guys from the 60's and 70's designed.

What will we get from this generation?  The F-35, MV-22, LCS, AMPV and JLTV. Everything else we're buying is simply improving on what the previous generation gave us.

Somehow someway we're not as innovative as those that came before.  We seriously need to figure out why.

How did the Marine Corps declare the F-35 IOC and send it on deployment with this many deficiencies???

via FoxTrot Alpha.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive military program in the world with a total cost of more than $1 trillion. Now, a new Pentagon report suggests that the futuristic fighter jet still has hundreds of deficiencies and won’t be ready for ready for full combat testing until 2019.

The Pentagon’s latest brutal assessment of this high-priced aircraft was part of an annual report from the Pentagon’s director of operational test and evaluation Michael Gilmore. The dossier includes a five-page evaluation of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the results of which are damning—emphasis ours:

The Services have designated 276 deficiencies in combat performance as “critical to correct” in Block 3F, but less than half of the critical deficiencies were addressed with attempted corrections in 3FR6.
That’s not all. In addition to the hundreds of flaws that have already been found in the aircraft, the Pentagon expects to keep finding more. The report specifically states that deficiencies are popping up at a steady rate—emphasis ours:


Deficiencies continue to be discovered at a rate of about 20 per month, and many more will undoubtedly be discovered before and during IOT&E.
The operational performance of the aircraft is a complete joke. The plane’s “objectionable or unacceptable flying qualities” while breaking the sound barrier are just some of the many flaws plaguing the aircraft including overheating problems and cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could lead to compromises of F-35 data.

Story here. 

Simple questions.

1.  If the Marine Corps knew of all these deficiencies then why did they declare initial operational capability on the F-35?

2.  With these deficiencies how and why did the Marine Corps think it prudent to send these airplanes off on deployment.

3.  How much of a budget hit will the Marine Corps face to bring all the F-35's already bought up to operational capability in another 3 or 4 years IF WE DON'T HAVE FURTHER DELAYS?

4.  Why does the Deputy Commandant for Aviation still have a job.

This is more than a procurement mistake.  The F-35 is a scandal, has shown a lack of integrity of Marine Officers at the highest levels and show a disregard for the lives of Marine Aviators that have to fly this plane.

Someone needs to go to jail.  If not that then reduced in rank and forced to retire.

BAE Says Trump Seeking at Least 10% Cut in F-35 Fighter Cost

Thanks to William for the link!

via Bloomberg

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has asked Lockheed Martin Corp. to reduce costs on the $379 billion F-35 fighter-jet program by at least 10 percent, according to Roger Carr, chairman of BAE Systems Plc, which is a key participant in the program.
“We’ve been told through Lockheed that the president has an ambition to reduce the cost of that aircraft by a material amount of money, many percent, into double digits over a period,” Carr said in a Bloomberg Television interview Tuesday from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We respect that and we’ll work towards a contribution towards that.”

I don't buy this for a minute.  My bet is that Lockheed is throwing a number out there that they think the Program Office will be pleased with so that the uniforms can sell the plan to the President Elect.

Trump is a skilled negotiator and you don't lay down a solid number like 10 percent.  You push for max savings!

But what has me spinning is why did BAE release this info instead of Lockheed?  Games are being played!

Open Comment Post. Jan 18, 2017.

Little Elm, Texas | Officer Down Shooting Audio | 1/17/17

Thanks to Tony for the link!



Words escape me.  Rest in peace.

Jurassic gator caught on film...

How did two genders suddenly become 60?

Thanks to Collin for the link!

This German MP trolled a diversity bill by addressing 60 genders and it took him two minutes #Germanyhttps://t.co/fOFDeI3c5w

— IN THE NOW (@IntheNow_tweet) June 23, 2016

I've been flabbergasted by the LBGTQ thing that was brought up when talking about the Manning sentence commutation.

Little did I know that "alternate" sexual identity is now a thing.  Little did I know that there are more than 60 different terms for how people suddenly identify themselves.

This ladies and gentlemen is a sign of the end times.  Don't get it twisted cause I'm far from a bible thumper but this is societal madness. 

Side note.  Can someone grab a liberal and ask them why this is a thing?  Why has being "other than" male or female suddenly become so damn popular?

UK Prime Minister calls for clean break from EU.

via Times

She confirmed that Britain is determined to regain control of migration from the European Union and rejected the supremacy of the European Court of Justice. That stance is anathema to the European Union, which has made the free movement of people — as well as goods, capital and services — one of its bedrock principles and which relies on the court to arbitrate.
“Let me be clear,” Mrs. May said, acknowledging the differences. “What I am proposing cannot mean remaining in the single market.”
She said that she hoped to complete a final deal with the European Union by March 2019 and that it would be voted on by both houses of Parliament. She was not clear about what would happen if Parliament rejected the deal, though some speculated that a rejection would result in the sort of chaotic, “cliff edge” breakup that she and Britain’s bankers and business leaders hoped to avoid.

 Follow this link and make sure to watch the video.  What does May emphasize?  No more MASSIVE payments to the EU, they will take control of immigration and they want skilled labor---not massive numbers of unskilled, and that they will not accept the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.

Brexit is real.

President Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence

via NY Times

President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world, disrupted the administration, and made WikiLeaks, the recipient of those disclosures, famous.
The decision by Mr. Obama rescued Ms. Manning, who twice tried to commit suicide last year, from an uncertain future as a transgender woman incarcerated at the male military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. She has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction.
Now, under the terms of Mr. Obama’s commutation announced by the White House on Tuesday, Ms. Manning is set to be freed on May 17 of this year, rather than in 2045.

Become a member of the US Army.  Steal secrets.  Declare yourself a female even though you were born a male.  Then get your allies in the LBGT community to get your sentence commuted.

Only in America.