Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Local Cops in California not responding to calls of assistance from Border Patrol?
via The Daily Caller.
In one example, the El Cajon Police Department refused to help Border Patrol agents pursue three suspects who were fleeing in a vehicle, despite multiple requests form Border Patrol dispatch.Story here.
“After the event, it was determined that the officer declined the request to assist presuming it was an immigration matter, as opposed to a fleeing subject whose identity/immigration status was not known at the time of the incident,” Scott wrote. “This declination for assistance occurred even though it involved a vehicle that failed to yield, endangering federal law enforcement and the public while traveling on a California Interstate and highway within their jurisdiction.”
Other California sanctuary laws have impacted the Border Patrol’s ability to locate illegal aliens, Scott says. One is Assembly Bill 450, a law enacted in October that, among other provisions, prevents businesses from granting border agents access to “nonpublic” areas of their property unless the agent has a judicial warrant.
This is crazy.
I didn't think much of the new California law because I considered it business as usual but this could get nasty.
Even worse.
It could get people killed.
From my seat car chases in California seem like they're batshit crazy and any chance to end them as soon as possible would be in everyone's best interest. The idea that Border Patrol will pursue vehicles with boatloads of people inside and not get assistance is beyond my understanding.
They need to sort this out.
How does your 9mm Ammo perform in a ballistic gel test?
Caution with these tests bros. Everyone likes to crunch the numbers and do comparisons but just like all those bubbas that swear by .40 cal and can't hit shit with it, the sad truth is shot placement is the crown jewels of putting down a bad guy.
Don't matter if he's six feet eight inches and muscled up beyond belief or five feet two and a buck forty soaking wet but has superman strength cause he's been doing meth for the past 12 hours, it all comes down to shot placement.
Remember the mantra.
Six in the chest and the rest in the pelvic girdle. Why? Because for the average person, aiming center mass (chest) will usually deliver results and if it don't then pelvic girdle shots will render him incapable of doing further harm (assuming your load is ineffective in stopping him...remember Miami Shootout!).
Why no head shots?
Watch people on the streets. The head is animated, it moves around especially for the mentally deranged, or drugged up.
6 in the chest the rest in the dick.
Check out the test here to see how your ammo performed.
Is the F-35 the "ultimate" failure?
via National Interest
The F-35 has now entered an unprecedented seventeenth year of continuing redesign, test deficiencies, fixes, schedule slippages, and cost overruns. And it’s still not at the finish line. Numerous missteps along the way—from the fact that the two competing contractors, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, submitted “flyoff” planes that were crude and undeveloped “technology demonstrators” rather than following the better practice of submitting fully functional prototypes, to concurrent acquisition malpractice that has prevented design flaws from being discovered until after production models were built—have led to where we are now. According to the latest annual report from the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), 263 “high priority” performance and safety deficiencies remain unresolved and unaddressed, and the developmental tests—essentially, the laboratory tests—are far from complete. If they complete the tests, more deficiencies will surely be found that must be addressed before the plane can safely carry our Airmen and women into combat.Story here.
Despite this, the F-35 Joint Program Office now intends to call—quite arbitrarily—an end to the plane’s development phase and developmental testing. Instead of completing the presently planned development work, the Program Office is now proposing to substitute a vaguely defined F-35 upgrade program called “continuous capability development and delivery (C2D2).” The DOT&E report states flatly that this plan, as proposed, is “not executable due to inadequate test resources” in the rapid timelines proposed.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
You like Lasers? Railguns? Hypersonics? Forget that! 3d Printing will revolutionize the military!
via LinkdIn
A $4K house, 3D-printed in 24 hoursThis.
Nonprofit New Story teamed up with construction firm ICON to develop a 3D printer that can construct a four-room house in 12 to 24 hours. Human-built equivalent houses take between 13 to 20 days to build, making this tech a potential game changer for the 1.2 billion people who lack adequate shelter. The team plans to bring costs down from $10,000 to $4,000 per house and build 100 homes in El Salvador next year.
This shit right here will change the way the military fights and no one is paying attention because it isn't "sexy". By that I mean kinetic...or in layman's terms it doesn't go boom, swoosh in the sky or is tacticool on a Navy SEAL.
3d Printing if taken to an extreme will transform humanity. The power of production in the hands of individuals? Or groups of individuals? Or organizations like the military?
We're talking about a power dynamic that could fundamentally change our economic system!
Pay attention to this. I know it isn't the usual fare on this blog but I think this is the thing that will change all our lives.
A hard, terrible and uncomfortable TRUTH that we should finally starting talking about with regard to our Military...
Thanks to Noble for the link!
via Zero Hedge.
“As far as decision-making, it is a partnership,” he continued, stressing nonetheless that “at the end of the day it is about the protection of Israel – and if there is a question in regards to how we will operate, the last vote will probably go to Zvika [Brig.-Gen. Zvika Haimovitch, head of the IDF's Aerial Defense Division].”Story here.
Washington and Israel have signed an agreement which would see the US come to assist Israel with missile defense in times of war and, according to [Israeli commander] Haimovitch, "I am sure once the order comes we will find here US troops on the ground to be part of our deployment team to defend the State of Israel."
And those US troops who would be deployed to Israel, are prepared to die for the Jewish state, Clark said. "We are ready to commit to the defense of Israel anytime we get involved in a kinetic fight there is always the risk that there will be casualties. But we accept that - as every conflict we train for and enter, there is always that possibility," he said.
Zero Hedge and others are outraged by this statement. The part where he talks about US troops being prepared to die for the Jewish state.
That was "inartfully" put but it gets down to the crux of our current defense posture.
This is what Forward Presence is all about!
Yeah you hear that term thrown around all the time. It's even become a talking point to Congress...a chest thumping meme...something to brag about.
But the American people and many in uniform fail to take into account what that really means.
If you're in S. Korea, Japan, Australia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Israel, The Netherlands and many other countries, the powers that be have determined that they will roll the dice with your lives.
You are an instrument of foreign power and if you die while deployed to those nations you will be buried under the US flag but make no mistake about it (I'm talking about during combat operations) that you in essence died for other people.
It's been talked about on these pages before and it infuriated me. They came at me sideways but at the end of the day the results are the same. When we deploy to another country we are acting as THEIR soldiers.
Think about the situation in S. Korea.
There you have servicemembers AND their families....some of them within artillery range of a country that they're still at war with! A reader from S. Korea proudly called our forces and their families hostages.
That sorry bastard was right.
But back to this story.
That AF General let the cat out of the bag. We don't like to talk about it because it gets in the way of our flag waving but all these international entanglements have setup a situation where we do the bidding of others, for agendas that we don't understand to achieve solutions that we might not like.
Saying that our guys are prepared to die for another country is a bitter pill to swallow but unfortunately from my seat its more true than not.
Monday, March 19, 2018
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