Outrage over plans to change Royal Marines’ centuries old ranks and uniforms

via The Sun

ROYAL Marines Top Brass are up in arms over plans to change their centuries old ranks and uniforms.

Under shock new proposals Royal Marine officers will have their rank structures removed and replaced with with Royal Navy ranks.

The potential change will also affect the insignia worn on uniforms as senior Navy officers seek to drive the 6,000 strong Royal Marines further into the Royal Navy “fold.”
While the Royal Marines are part of a the Royal Navy they are seen as a distinct unit with a unique identity.

The proposed changes - hatched by the Royal Navy - sparked immediate outrage.

Former Royal Marines officer Major General Julian Thompson who commanded 3 Commando Brigade during the Falklands War, blasted: “This is an absolute disastrous ideas and it is total rubbish.

“The Royal Marines have been with the Navy serving at sea since 1664 dressed as soldiers – which is what we are.

“We are not sailors who pretend to be soldiers.

“It’s absolute nonsense, it would create a ludicrous situation.

“It is utter rubbish and the idea is totally fallacious.

“They haven’t thought it through, we’ve always looked like soldiers for 350 years. It is preposterous.”

Here. 

YPG scored two ATGMs hit vs SNA / Turkish Army vehicles

YPG scored two ATGMs hit vs SNA / Turkish Army vehicles (one APC / one M60 MBT ?) near Serêkaniyé /Ras al Ayn
Syria - Turkey |borderwarfarepic.twitter.com/zgC1Rvjfsn

— Harry Boone (@towersight) October 16, 2019

Something tells me Turkey's low temp insurgency is going to heat up a bit...

Rheinmetall Lynx KF41 Glamour Shot...

Taiwanese M1A1

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!?

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

— Giran Ozcan (@GiranOzcan) October 20, 2019

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.

US Recon Marines exchange VBSS tactics with Philippine Force Recon Marines during KAMANDAG 3....Video by Cpl. Kameron Herndon

Australian Army's 2nd Cav Regiment Pic Of The Day...

CH-53 Day Battle Drills WTI 1-20....pic by Cpl. Claudia Nix

Open Comment Post. 21 Oct 2019

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.

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. 

Story here. 

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 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.