Monday, October 21, 2019
Exercise Iron Spear Tank Gunnery Competition...
On Oct 11 and 12, #eFP BG Latvia hosted Ex IRON SPEAR, the world’s largest tank concentration and shooting competition. Forty-four tanks from 8 countries competed. 🇫🇷's Foxtrot 5 took first place, 🇳🇴's November 5 took second place and 🇺🇸's Yankee2 took third. #WeAreNATO pic.twitter.com/YmY7NkoJIK— NATO eFP Battle Group Latvia (@eFPBGLatvia) October 15, 2019
Turkish Nazi Force?
What the hell is this!?— Giran Ozcan (@GiranOzcan) October 20, 2019
Video is from the #Turkish-uccupied Kurdish city of Afrin in northwestern Syria.
These Turkish-trained Nazi saluters are after the #Kurds in the whole of northern #Syria. pic.twitter.com/9B8OPa1pF6
Weird to see but history is our guide. I'm surprised but shouldn't be. The stain of Nazism is strong in the Middle East.
Open Comment Post. 21 Oct 2019
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| Yeah this is on Open Comments but I'm gonna keep circling back to this puppy! Where are we with it? Why aren't we hearing more about it? An ideal solution to get heavier armor to shore (or our ACVs near it from far out)....forget robot planes, how about robot ship to shore connectors!!!! |
Chinese born US Navy Lt arrested for spying worked at the ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE UNIT in NAS Jacksonville
via News4Jax.com
The FBI investigation into a Jacksonville Navy lieutenant with connections to Chinese nationals added a new twist Friday.Story here.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by News4Jax, another arrest was made in a separate investigation with ties to Jacksonville Lt. Fan Yang, a Chinese-born man who became an officer with the U.S. Navy.
Zheng Yan, 27, has been accused of conspiracy to violate federal law for smuggling U.S.-made vessels, flash drives other and equipment that was bound for the Chinese government.
Zheng Yan is named in the United States District Court complaint along with Lt. Yang and Yang Yang. Ge Song Toa, a Chinese national with connections to the Yang's and Zheng Yan, is also facing multiple charges.
Lt. Lang and Yang Yang were both arrested Thursday and accused of conspiracy to violate federal law, specifically prohibitions on firearm possession by an alien admitted under nonimmigrant visa and transfer of a firearm to a nonresident between March 2017 and Sept. 2019. Their home in San Jose was raided by the FBI and NCIS on Thursday.
The case could have bigger implication because Lt. Yang is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Anti-Submarine Warfare unit at NAS Jacksonville and had top security clearances.
We are thoroughly penetrated with traitors inside our military and security services.
We can't win until we conduct a complete and thorough mole hunt. Sorry folks. It's past time to get serious about this stuff.
The Chinese are robbing us blind and our own "sensibilities" are being used against us.
Be hard. Be fair. But how about a little common sense! We MUST remove these threats!
Sunday, October 20, 2019
Sunday quick hit. Turkey is allowing the Kurds (their enemy) to retreat basically intact guaranteeing an ongoing insurgency...
What's worse than a half thought out plan? A plan that's been done in detail only to be allowed to go off the rails when politics and not tactical reality takes hold.
More to the point.
I'm making assumptions here.
I'm assuming that Turkey prepped the ground for their assault on the Kurds. I know I've watched as they warned any and all that would listen that they would make an incursion into Syria to create a buffer zone (if I recall correctly parts of Iraq were included too). The warning went on for more than a year.
So when they finally launched their incursion I wasn't a bit surprised. What did surprise was the ferocity of their assault. Let's be honest here. The Turks went all out and unleashed massive air and artillery strikes. The Kurds without their American benefactors were reeling from the hits.
I'm also assuming that they were aware that Europe and the US would be outraged by this action. I'm assuming that they were prepared to take the hits on a public relations front and to a degree even economically.
I was wrong.
The Turks are claiming victory. They're still involved with sporadic fighting, but make no mistake about it. They messed up badly.
If the Kurds are the terror group that they claim then they lost a massive opportunity to stomp it out.
By agreeing to a ceasefire they're allowing their enemy to retreat in order to muster their strength to fight another day.
The US will turn around and resupply the Kurds. The Syrian govt will welcome them in order to help reclaim the rest of their nation.
The Turks will have an emboldened insurgency on its doorsteps and will see a slow but steady trickle of dead/injured soldiers returning home.
Turkey isn't a winner in this thing.
Syria is.
Russia is.
The US might be if the goal is to untangle ourselves from the middle east tarbaby.
But Turkey? Not by a long shot.
More to the point.
I'm making assumptions here.
I'm assuming that Turkey prepped the ground for their assault on the Kurds. I know I've watched as they warned any and all that would listen that they would make an incursion into Syria to create a buffer zone (if I recall correctly parts of Iraq were included too). The warning went on for more than a year.
So when they finally launched their incursion I wasn't a bit surprised. What did surprise was the ferocity of their assault. Let's be honest here. The Turks went all out and unleashed massive air and artillery strikes. The Kurds without their American benefactors were reeling from the hits.
I'm also assuming that they were aware that Europe and the US would be outraged by this action. I'm assuming that they were prepared to take the hits on a public relations front and to a degree even economically.
I was wrong.
The Turks are claiming victory. They're still involved with sporadic fighting, but make no mistake about it. They messed up badly.
If the Kurds are the terror group that they claim then they lost a massive opportunity to stomp it out.
By agreeing to a ceasefire they're allowing their enemy to retreat in order to muster their strength to fight another day.
The US will turn around and resupply the Kurds. The Syrian govt will welcome them in order to help reclaim the rest of their nation.
The Turks will have an emboldened insurgency on its doorsteps and will see a slow but steady trickle of dead/injured soldiers returning home.
Turkey isn't a winner in this thing.
Syria is.
Russia is.
The US might be if the goal is to untangle ourselves from the middle east tarbaby.
But Turkey? Not by a long shot.
MAWTS-1 Marines Conduct AV-8B Harrier Landing and Refueling...Pics by Cpl. Adaezia Chavez
USMC from HQ to the School Houses are all in on the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations.
Are we moving too far toward being enablers instead of warfighters? Are prioritizing aviation to such a degree that our ground force becomes irrelevant?
Blast from the past. USS Truxton running aground off the shores of Canada...
Note. This tale of Canada has a happy ending..thank God!
When @USNavy USS Truxton ship ran aground off the coast of Newfoundland in February 1942, Lanier Phillips’ shipmates told him to stay with the sinking ship.— Canadian Forces in 🇺🇸 (@CAFinUS) October 20, 2019
They said he’d be lynched if he made it ashore through the frigid and oil-covered Atlantic waters. pic.twitter.com/kbJ17kSP02
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