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| Marines with Marine Rotational Force-Europe move toward their objective during Exercise Winter Sun 18 in Boden, Sweden, March 14, 2018. |
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Marine Rotational Force-Europe train with allies on NH-90's in cold weather conditions...pics by Cpl. Raul Torres
New Chinese IFV VN17
Thanks to Mr T for the pic!
FUCK! I've been predicting this. I knew the Chinese had to be working on their next generation of IFVs and this is probably just the first batch of new stuff coming online.
The West is so focused on aviation that they are missing the fact that we've been stuck in neutral on IFV/Armored Vehicle development, that our potential foes have or are about to take the lead.
The ridiculous thing?
Judging by how we fight all our enemies need to do is to reach a stalemate in the air...just prevent us from gaining air superiority and they can roll over our ground formations.
We have shot our conventional forces in the foot and based everything on air power being our saving grace.
That's idiocy on a stick.
Expect more from the Chinese. What am I looking for? The next gen amphibious assault vehicle. One that makes up for the poor performance and armoring of the current one. A rig that is as formidable on land as it is on water. In essence a true Chinese EFV.
Regardless, we need to shake ourselves out of the current batch of stupidity and get to work.
FUCK! I've been predicting this. I knew the Chinese had to be working on their next generation of IFVs and this is probably just the first batch of new stuff coming online.
The West is so focused on aviation that they are missing the fact that we've been stuck in neutral on IFV/Armored Vehicle development, that our potential foes have or are about to take the lead.
The ridiculous thing?
Judging by how we fight all our enemies need to do is to reach a stalemate in the air...just prevent us from gaining air superiority and they can roll over our ground formations.
We have shot our conventional forces in the foot and based everything on air power being our saving grace.
That's idiocy on a stick.
Expect more from the Chinese. What am I looking for? The next gen amphibious assault vehicle. One that makes up for the poor performance and armoring of the current one. A rig that is as formidable on land as it is on water. In essence a true Chinese EFV.
Regardless, we need to shake ourselves out of the current batch of stupidity and get to work.
SOCOM has gone quiet....
After watching that promo film from the 1st Special Operations Wing I realized something.
SOCOM has gone quiet.
I remember the bravado that was on display during the Bush Admin, the craziness of a former SEAL that took charge of the command and how every week it seemed they were making movies or writing books.
Then I remember tragedy hitting.
A senior NCO that got killed on a raid with Iraqi Special Ops to rescue prisoners. Close calls for our guys beyond forward in Syria, and finally the tragedy of the incident in Africa.
I also remember an old skool Special Ops guy telling McRaven to get his guys out of the news media, the reporters at the briefing laughing at the old guy and then McRaven basically telling the retired 3 star to pound sand.
It seems like SOCOM has learned its lessons. They've noted that the more they stay in the media the more chances the enemy has to read their playbook. I also notice that they've seemed to tone down that other thing that annoyed the fuck outta me. They stopped teaching questionable allies how we do things (essentially they were teaching the very terrorists that they would fight within a month).
So SOCOM has decided to fade into the background.
Good.
But they're still trying to wage the dog.
They're still trying to be the supported instead of supporting force and its obvious by the latest fantasy of fighting in mega cities. Do you guys remember that a few years ago the next fight was suppose to be over resources? Yeah they called them resource wars and how we needed to be ready to fight them (resources aren't in cities...only consumers are in cities...the shit they need to sustain themselves are usually in the boonies...to include food and water).
This is a good start for SOCOM and I credit Army leadership for reigning them back in.
Now they need to complete the mission and go back to being the guys worthy of all the praise heaped on them .... oh and maintain standards .... quality over quantity .... there should be no more than 6 SEAL Teams .... half of USAF special ops teams should be canned .... 3 battalions of USMC Special Operations .... for fuck sake why....at most 2 and preferably 1~!
26th MEU Arrives in Djibouti...pics by Cpl. Santino Martinez
Side note. We haven't heard a peep from the Chinese who are just down the road from our base in this country. I don't know how many of you realize that this is another cold war redo. We did it first in Cuba with the Soviet Union and now we're doing it in Africa with the Chinese.
Many are still fighting my contention that the Chinese are our real enemies and that we can/should reach some type of understanding with the Russians but I simply point to our stance in Africa as proof positive that the Chinese are taking an offensive posture against us while the Russians are taking a defensive one.
Interesting pic via Global Air Instagram Page....
I don't have the eye to tell if this is real or fake, but if it's real it's beyond interesting. Oh and don't bang on me if it's fake...never have paid attention to a flight line and don't know if all those lines and such actually exist on a real one or not.
Saturday, April 21, 2018
This judge is a piece of shit. Not even the courts are to be trusted....
First check out the vid above and read the story here.
This judge is a piece of shit. Ignore the fact that the woman was obviously suffering medical issues, this glorified bitch wearing judges robes talked down to damn near everyone in the courtroom.
Too many people don't realize a simple fact.
If you want respect you have to give it. If you don't give it don't expect it. I don't care who you are, what you're doing or what you think you're entitled to.
Resigning is too good for this whore. She needs to suffer some consequences for this shit show she put on.
The terrible thing for the country?
Not even the courts can be trusted. Instead of interpreting the law they've started MAKING law to fit their own personal agendas.
So you tell me.
What institution do we have that we can trust? The military? After 20 years of warfare and they're saying we need to stay the course? The police? When they've been turned into a revenue generating operation for municipalities? The church? When we've seen them teach everything but the word of God and all the scandals that they have on an almost daily basis? Education? The last thing they're doing is educating kids. Hospitals/Medical personnel? How when we have more deaths each year from medical mistakes than we do from firearms?
We're screwed people. The terrible fact is that on a societal basis we've already hit bottom. We just need to feel a bounce or two before it becomes widespread knowledge.
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