Sunday, June 13, 2021

In the age we live in we make heroes of people that don't deserve the title....this guy deserves it in spades...

https://tinyhousesolutions.tumblr.com/post/653912503517167617/and-he-never-told-a-soul
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Sunday Funny...IT'S A TRAP!!!! Don't fall for it bro!!!

Geez. So now we've got to check to make sure the hair is real, they don't have dentures and rub off the makeup to see what really lies underneath?

Women complain but life is hard for men!

Trust issues indeed!
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General Dynamics Flyer 72 GMV 1.1 4x4 (Fast Strike Vehicle) of the 9th Assault Regiment "ColMoschin" (TIER1) of the Italian Army

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Former Sec Of the Navy/Marine Corps Jim Webb takes apart Berger's folly point by point. MUST READ!

 Thanks to CoffeeJoeJava for the link!


via National Interest (just snippets...READ THE WHOLE THING!)

Interestingly, when citing his philosophical inspiration at the outset of his proposal, General Berger chose to ignore two centuries of innovative and ground-breaking role models who guided the Marine Corps through some of its most difficult challenges. The giants of the past—John LeJeune, Arthur Vandegrift, Clifton Cates, Robert Barrow and Al Gray, just for starters—were passed over, in favor of a quote from a professor at the Harvard Business School who never served. Many Marines, past and present, view this gesture as a symbolic putdown of the Corps’ respected leadership methods and the historic results they have obtained.


Much more important is the potentially irreversible content of the proposal itself. If authorized, appropriated and put into place, this plan would eliminate many of the Marine Corps’ key capabilities. It could permanently reduce the long-standing mission of global readiness that for more than a century has been the essential reason for its existence as a separate service. Its long-term impact would undo the value of the Marine Corps as the one-stop guarantor of a homogeneous tactical readiness that can “go anywhere, fight anybody, and win.” And after the centuries it took to establish the Marine Corps as a fully separate military service, it could reduce its present role by making it again subordinate to the funding and operational requirements of the Navy. 

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 While it is certainly useful to develop contingency plans should Marines be called upon to conduct such limited tactical interventions, building a force around this concept is not a bold leap into the future. Rather, it reflects a misunderstanding of the past, as well as ignoring the unpredictability of war itself. Such scenarios are hardly a full reflection of “what the Nation requires of the Marine Corps.” The General seems to acknowledge that when he states in his proposal, “We need better answers to the question, “what does the Navy need from the Marine Corps?”  (SNAFU! Note.  This is a fundamental failing of Berger's Concept..the question should NOT be what the Navy needs from the Marine Corps, the question SHOULD BE ... WHAT DOES THE NATION NEED FROM THE MARINE CORPS!!!!)

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 Depending on how limited one views the future responsibilities of the Marine Corps, this plan is erected on a fragile house of cards: that future Marine Corps operational commitments should be shaped by the reduction of front-line infantry battalions, whose casualties in any sustained engagement would quickly require replacements that may not be available if the battlespace expands; by subjecting Marine Corps commitments to the needs of the Navy; and by an unproved reliance on the augmentation of combat units such as aviation assets and tanks from other services that may not be available and who will not have trained with the Marine Corps.

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 The proposal was based on extensive wargaming, in which the new Commandant has great confidence. But it is axiomatic that experimental war games (like staff studies) can be biased through subtle control of the methodology decided upon by those who design the war game. There is no greater danger in military strategy than shaping a nation’s force structure to respond to one specific set of contingencies, giving an adversary the ability to adjust and adapt beforehand. Nor would it serve the country’s long-term interests for the Marine Corps to careen from two decades of overemphasis in the Middle East to a fixation with narrow naval scenarios in places like the South China Sea.

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 The most important evolution of the Marine Corps in our national security posture has been as an immediately deployable, fully capable expeditionary force, with an included mission of amphibious assault. And this has usually required “sustained land operations.” (SNAFU! NOTE...YES! YES! YES!  A Trillion times YES!)

Look.

I could basically copy and paste this whole article cause trying to grab the good parts is failing badly.

THE WHOLE DAMN THING IS SPOT ON!

I'm beyond pleased.

I'm grinning like an idiot.

The scrubs (I include myself in this) exit stage left.  The powerhouses have now entered the fray. 

This is a good thing.

Time is running out for Berger to implement this thing.  The Navy's budget is a mess that will take the strength of Hercules to unwind.  And finally the tribe is NOT sold on this madness.

We can beat it back, take the good parts (what few there are) and make them apart of the MAGTF and then jettison the rest.

There is a chance to save the Marine Corps from it's leadership...assuming we're not too late.

Read the entire article here. 

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Quick Political Hit. You're being manipulated on this "Justice Dept under Trump spying on reports thing"

 Just a quickie.

You do know you're being manipulated on the "Justice Dept under Trump spied on reports thing" don't you?

Do you remember the time right after his election (and we can tell from reports of how long they extended this thing that this happened just after his election)?

Everyone in DC was leaking all kinds of stuff.  The FBI, Justice Dept, the News Media...it was obvious that they were attempting to take down Trump.

This isn't a defense of the dude just a tick tock of the time we lived thru.

I don't know how they worked it out but you saw a few select reports getting breaking news on an almost daily basis and the news media breaking arms patting themselves on the back because of it.

It was quite disgusting.

Now?

Now we discover there was a leak investigation but what has me puzzled is the fact that the only person I remember getting arrested was some chick that worked for a defense contractor in Florida(?).

I'm sure they had the goods on quite a few reporters and even a few Congress people but didn't pull the trigger.

That's the real scandal.

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WHO does not rule out COVID-19 pandemic may have been caused by lab leak

Just gonna leave this right here. They called those of us that believed this thing got loose "conspiracy theorists". They called us that on days when they were being kind. Most of the time they called us looney toons...
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Open Comment Post. 13 June 2021

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Italian Navy Special Ops exit a sub...

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UNIFIL PeaceKeepers on exercise...

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So now the ACV is a deep attack vehicle?

via National Interest
The ACV, in development for several years, is replacing the existing Corps AAV and configured

with 8 x 8 wheels for greater speed, maneuverability, and survivability on land. As a tracked vehicle, the legacy AAV is not as mobile for land attack, and the new ACV is engineered for long-range sea-land attack operations. 

The ACV can travel roughly thirteen miles through the water at speeds up to six knots and reach 60 miles per hour on land for hundreds of miles inland. The wheeled configuration of the ACV removes torsion bars, a design feature which can add new possibilities such as the addition of a V-shaped hull. The ACV is able to carry up to 200 gallons of fuel for a 365-mile mission and weighs 30 tons. It is built with a digitized drivers instrument panel, unmanned turret able to integrate a 30-millimeter gun and 700 horsepower engine, more powerful than the AAVs 400 horsepower engine. The ACV uses ocean water to cool the engine and is armed with a .50-Cal machine gun.

The plus-up in ACV numbers is quite significant as well, as it appears to align with the Marine

Corps’ transforming amphibious assault strategy based on training for more cross-domain, dispersed attack concepts. With 5th-Generation air support, and manned-unmanned teaming and vastly more capable networking technologies, amphibious attack tactics continue to measurably expand.

Added cross-domain functionality not only means air-power coordination but a commensurate ability to advance and fight on land, which appears to be part of the reason the Marine Corps is both looking for larger numbers of ACVs and also building them for more extended land assault.

Here 

I am gobsmacked by this article.  Extended Land Attack?  In Berger's Marine Corps?

Either this thing has evolved behind the scenes OR he's trying to quiet the tribe with friendly articles.

I don't know.

I do know this is the first time I've heard of "extended land assault" used in the same sentence with Berger's Littoral Marine Corps.

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