Hmm. Outbreaks of new diseases in different nations on the globe? Guess we're all going to be junior virologists this century.
When the WHO finally gets into the mix I'm betting this is just another strain of COVID-19. Many forget but there were two different strains of the disease at the outbreak so seeing a third isn't too far of a stretch.
Mixed feelings on this. Imminent Domain is the right of every govt. Western nations do it all the time in the interests of state.
I guess the big thing is that we're seeing stressed citizens everywhere. I've pointed to the coronavirus lockdown as being the cause of some of the stress we're seeing in the US and I have to think that the same is happening here.
For some reason authorities are so focused on what is a mild disease for the healthy (admittedly lethal for those with pre-existing conditions) that they're ignoring the mental health aspects of this thing.
Honestly I'm surprised we haven't seen even more disorder in China. They had a much more draconian lockdown than we did so if my theory is correct we should have seen a more drastic response to it.
A Marine assigned to Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team Company, Europe, fires an M27 infantry automatic rifle during interior tactics training on board @navsta_rota. pic.twitter.com/GRrJa1h8kI
Saw the above Tweet and it got me wondering. How has FAST Regiment escaped Berger's meat cleaver?
I really and truly don't understand his rationale but if it's to salami slice the Marine Corps to ribbons (which it seems like he does) then this force would seem to be on the chopping block.
It seems they're prepared to fight in every clime and place. From Europe, to the Middle East and the Pacific. They're evolving to meet the threat, not trying for false transformation.
Translated from French by GoogleMexico: Video documenting sicarios from the Sinaloa cartel who installed roadblocks in Culiacán after the execution of El Chapo Guzmán's nephew. We can expect incidents soon in the city ...
Mexique : Vidéo qui documente des sicarios du cartel de Sinaloa qui ont installé des barrages routiers à Culiacán après l'exécution du neveu d'El Chapo Guzmán. On peut s'attendre à des incidents prochainement dans la ville... pic.twitter.com/2gijdkZVPE
I don't know how big the Sinaloa cartel is, but if it has a bit of "heft" to it then we could see a full blown narco-insurgency.
This could have serious ramifications for our border security. I have no confidence that NORTHCOM is capable of dealing with this situation if it turns bad.
Someone should dust off some contingency plans...just in case.
This will be a MUST SEE series. More importantly its a warning for our future. The US Army (all the services) all geared up for a nuclear war with the USSR. It never came. What did we see instead? Wars in the Middle East. Vietnam. Police actions all over the place.
The USMC is gearing up for a war with China and stripping away its entire Ground Combat Element in a vain effort to develop a way to fight easy.
It doesn't exist.
What do I predict?
That history will repeat.
The USMC will be LEAST READY when the nation most needs it to be ready for the challenge. We are getting ready for the wrong fight. China will meet us on a battlefield, but it won't be in the first island chain. It will be in Africa, the Middle East or perhaps even S. America.
I was watching Rick and Morty at the end of shift and I saw the above commercial and I had an epiphany.
This has been laid out for us since 2018 but we all missed it (guess we got caught up in the visuals and didn't devine the meaning behind it all...but how could we?).
Watch the video carefully and listen to the words.
"It's not about the ships". Then we see a big deck go away. Berger is wanting amphibs that are much smaller.
"It's not about the armor". Then we see LAVs gone with the wind. Berger has said that he has little confidence that LAVs will be useful on future battlefields.
"It's not about the aircraft". We see F-35s vanish (literally...not the stealth version of it). Berger has said that he's planning on cutting the number of F-35s. He cited pilot shortage but its obviously much different. Maybe cost. Maybe he wants robot planes instead. Maybe it is about pilots. Maybe all of the above but suddenly the "die in a ditch" program ain't worth dying in a ditch anymore.
Do you get the force of connection?
I've been under the impression that he did a study once he got into the big chair and came up with this stuff.
He didn't.
This is a well laid out plan that at LEAST goes back to Neller and probably as far back as Amos.
We've all been played folks.
For better or worse the USMC has designated itself the anti-China force and the rest of the world is the US Army's responsibility.
You'll see token forces here and there if conflict breaks out in other parts of the world but for the foreseeable future all ground combat resides firmly in the grasp of the Army.
The Marine Corps is willfully going from a medium weight multi-purpose force capable of scaling up and down the spectrum of battle (Berger himself said that we're not that anymore) to a coastal defense force. The Marine Corps is becoming an Island Defense Corps with 3 Island Defense Divisions.
Pathetic. This will be the final nail in the failed leadership we've experienced from Marine Corps leadership from the start of the war on terror. The generation that either lost Vietnam, came right after and said not another Vietnam (gave us 20 years in Afghanistan so they could make what came before look like sunshine), is moving forward on a plan to ensure we lose the next war.
Heavily armed black protesters march through Stone Mountain Park near Atlanta, Georgia, calling for the removal of a giant rock carving known as Confederate Memorial. A monument that many see as a symbol of racism. pic.twitter.com/NSDpsyIJJZ
Time to hold up a mirror to some of my readers. Does the above piss you off? Upset you? Make you wonder why Law Enforcement didn't rush to arrest everyone involved?
If you do then you should have had a problem with the armed protests in Minnesota...I'm bringing this up cause I've seen all kinds of posts that were going batshit crazy over the above but cheered the below.
The 2nd Amendment is for all or its for none.
If you think that both groups have a right to protest with firearms then fair enough.
If you think that both groups were idiots to parade around in public with firearms then I'm with you.
But I'll add this.
Both groups need to chill the fuck out. I predict (quite easily) that a horrible accident will occur with this nonsense and whoever is involved (from whatever group) will be crying like a bitch once they set foot in the land of the barbarians (jail).
The USMC has selected the Kongsberg offering for its MADIS inc 1 SHORAD requirement. The RWS suggested by Kongsberg includes the XM914 30 mm cannon and stinger missiles, and control commonality with the PROTECTOR series used by the US. https://t.co/uzEjWOyu8Qpic.twitter.com/0BaV2goVCP
Interesting. I knew MOOG was in the running but had no idea that EOS was involved.
What concerns is the MEAGER lethality of the system. Against anything but small UAVs this will NOT PROVIDE A CREDIBLE defense.
A heavyweight UAV like the Predator could launch missiles outside the engagement zone of this system.
In other words this system solves nothing. My preference? I'd go European and still be relatively light...
Raytheon/Kongsberg NASAMS
Land Ceptor
Or perhaps the best option for this NEW Marine Corps would be the system the Army tossed away...
Of course it would never fly in the NEW Marine Corps because Berger is hell bent on making the Marine Corps as light as possible...combat effectiveness be damned.
But if by chance he would take a beat. Reorient. Change his ways before he sends his boys to hell...he would realize that one vehicle could fill the role of HIMARS, Anti-Ship, Anti-Air, and an ability to break up armored formations when firing Hellfire missiles.
But he won't do that.
He's got a plan and its hey diddle diddle we ain't a gonna have Ground Combat Element no more...
