Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
We've got to find a better way of dealing with the mentally ill...
via Heavy.com
The Suffolk County District Attorney does not believe Armand set out to disrupt the election process or undermine confidence in mail-in voting. DA Rachael Rollins explained in a news release that she believes Armand is “emotionally disturbed.”
Rollins added, “No matter the intent of Armand when he set fire to these ballots, his actions strike a nerve in our society at a time of nearly unprecedented political divisiveness. The destruction of ballots is simply unacceptable.”
A “dangerousness hearing” was scheduled for October 30 to determine whether Armand could be granted bail. This hearing was set after Armand refused to talk to a court clinician who was working to determine whether Armand was competent to stand trial. According to the district attorney’s office, Judge Summerville decided against sending Armand to a different facility for a mental health evaluation after the medical professional reported back.
The DA’s office also disclosed that Armand faces a separate arson charge in Malden District Court. Details of that case are unclear; a search of online court records does not bring up any results for Armand’s name.
Make no mistake about it.
99% of the people in jail are suffering some type of mental issue. They're semi-functional though (the operative word is semi!).
My issue with this guy is that even if he's occasionally functional he's clearly teetering on the edge and someone will have to deal with this dude in their living room...probably while he's committing a burglary (hopefully that's the extent of it).
We've got to come up with a better way. This catch and release of the criminally mentally ill is NOT working.
The fight in Armenia just got crazier....
The wife of PM of #Armenia is going to defend Motherland.
— Sukhoi Su-57 Felon 🇷🇺🇮🇳 (@I30mki) October 27, 2020
From tomorrow, a detachment of 13 women, including myself, will begin to train. In a few days we will set off to defend borders of our homeland. We can not concede either Motherland or our dignity to enemy.
Anna Hakobyan pic.twitter.com/hZgTPBoKOU
Call me old fashioned, a neanderthal, patriarchal...whatever. I do not understand the modern trend of sending mothers, daughters...women in general to fight in combat.
Yeah.
I know.
I'm depriving them of rights. But in my opinion you DO NOT send your women to fight in a war.
To me its stupid and downright sinful.
Send me your hate and have the feminist and their followers spam my inbox with hate mail. I don't care. This shit is batshit crazy.
The Australian issues with the NH-90 for Special Ops work comes down to the door?
New piece by ABC that gives some further details on issues with NH-90 (Taipan in ADF service), which may also explain dislike of SOF operators for the model (and the new push to procure Black Hawk for that role). #helicopters #Rotary https://t.co/jHl2CapjLD
— Alex Luck (@AlexLuck9) October 27, 2020
Wow. It's all about the door! You would think that something that simple wouldn't be a deal breaker but in something like rapidly deplaning it can be.
What I can't figure out is why the modifications are so hard for this. If I remember correctly a Nordic country got them to make it able to carry taller soldiers better so a wider door seems like an easy thing to do.
Regardless.
In walks the H-60 in whatever form the Aussies want. Knowing them by the time they get finished drawing up the specifications it'll be a missile/gun toting, troop carrying, all around combat capable helicopter.
I'm thinking the job the Colombians did to their model but on steroids...the good shit...I'm talking mega doses of pharmaceutical grade tren type shit!
Which is better? Which one says "yeah...that's badass!"
Above you see the Marine Corps new commercial....below is the Army's. Which one makes you say that "that shit is badass"????
Let's take my readers out of it. Let's say you're 21 sitting on your couch playing playstation/x-box all day. Smoking weed/drinking beer, playing grab ass with friends and jacking off. You lack direction and have visions of glory dancing thru your head cause you just played Call Of Duty and watched whatever action flick for the 40th time (John Wick type shit).
Which one grabbed your attention?
Which organization appealed to your dreams?
These weren't made for me. My time is done. I wonder which one is working for today's youth. I wonder how Marine Corps recruiting is doing with this new direction? They picked a good time to experiment though. The Corps is about to have a self imposed drawdown so pressure on recruiters should be down .... they're going for nerds now instead of knuckle draggers.....the Army though...they still like brutes!
Monday, October 26, 2020
If Trump loses does Pence take over the top of the Republican Party? What happens to "never Trumper-ers"?
Wondering about the questions in the title. What do you guys think? Especially curious is what happens to the anti-Trump Republicans?
They can't stay with the Dems...they'll be purged with a quickness.
They're gonna try and take back the Republican party but I'm sure at least half that party will hate them forever.
So what becomes of those folks?
Qatar Emiri Air Force F-15QA carrying Lockheed Martin: Tiger Eyes IRST+LANTIRN navigation pod+Sniper ATP
Qatar Emiri Air Force F-15QA carrying Lockheed Martin: Tiger Eyes IRST+LANTIRN navigation pod+Sniper ATP..HMD for both pilots(from Elbit Systems)..Qatar also ordered DB-110 Tactical Reconnaissance Pod..F-15QA has one of the best looking paint job of any modern fighter jet pic.twitter.com/fpRmHVqFtQ
— Abdulmoiz (@abdulmoiz1990) October 26, 2020
Russia is knocking Turkish drones from the skies of Armenia?
Logical really, given this approach as noted has worked for Russia in Syria, but also in Ukraine.https://t.co/vNLTj2bbIA
— Alex Luck (@AlexLuck9) October 26, 2020
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Trump has a 46% job approval rating with black voters?
Morning Reader Data Points:
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) October 23, 2020
National Daily Black Likely Voter Job Approval For @POTUS - October 19-23, 2020
Mon 10/19 - 25%
Tue 10/20 - 24%
Wed 10/21 - 31%
Thu 10/22 - 37%
Fri 10/23 - 46%
This election is gonna be wild. Now I see why former President Obama is on the campaign trail so hard for Biden.
There are some strange undercurrents going on here and I can't quite put my finger on it.
Maybe the fact that Biden hasn't been forced to disclose his plans for the country? Did the left really think it was going to be enough to just be anti-Trump?
In the end it really doesn't matter does it?
Regardless of who wins we're gonna be stuck with some pretty intense drama. Unfortunately I believe 2021 is gonna make 2020 look like a picnic.
Saturday, October 24, 2020
Friday, October 23, 2020
Australia's Air Force is set to become the most powerful air arm in the Pacific (pound for pound) with the aid of Boeing's Loyal Wingman
Watch as the #LoyalWingman remotely piloted aircraft taxis down the runway for the first time.
— Royal Australian Air Force (@AusAirForce) October 23, 2020
It's another testing milestone for the @BoeingAustralia project, which we’re supporting to explore different concepts for unmanned aerial systems.
Next step will be its first flight. pic.twitter.com/9FGHDO5Am6
This is crazy! It's a darn shame that the Australians are getting such a big jump on us with this airplane. It's gonna be a world beater and with it teaming with the Super Hornet will probably be more lethal than any other combo flying today.
The crazy thing?
They aren't even playing with the thing yet! Imagine loading up one with a wing full of missiles. Another with jamming pods. A third acting as a scout with AESA blasting away...all while being trailed by a Super Hornet playing point guard directing the action. Why the basketball instead of football comparison? Because on the court every player can score. In this mythical package every plane can shoot and kill. Even the AESA variant playing the scout can use its radar in the electronic attack role. Killing electronics might be just as important as blasting apart structures!
I like what they're doing.
We should have beat them here but we didn't.
I guess we can take comfort in knowing that they're our allies and not another foe.
New Polish IFV Borsuk (Badger)
#tanktwitter
— Damian Ratka (@DRatka1) October 23, 2020
New Polish IFV Borsuk (Badger) in it's second prototype variant was just recently tested at Drawko Pomorskie proving grounds. From what we know tests wen very good. Start of mass production is scheduled to start 2022/2023. pic.twitter.com/REdaQxbs6M
The craziness of maintaining Marine Infantry when Berger really needs is a ton of ANGLICO!
It’s not so much becoming observer for fires, because other enablers will do that but instead finding your place in an organization that emphasis is now support of the fleet and that fleet doesn’t see the need for the seizure of key maritime terrain.
— Ron (@RonMcLaughlin2) October 23, 2020
This tweet is in response to a great article that talks about the Marine Infantry dilemma.
The reality?
With Berger's force we don't need Marine Infantry anymore than we needed the now discarded Marine Tanks.
All we need is all the missiles and rockets the son of a bitch wants to buy and a whole lot of ANGLICO.
Let the reality of that sink in.
In Berger's world the only thing that would be recognizable about the Marine Corps is aviation (which would inevitably be consumed by Navy Air). Everything else would be turned upside down.
No one is calling him on it and he's halfway to completing this craziness.
Ain't that just perfect for 2020? The seeds of defeat are being sown by one out of control Commandant and his sycophants that cheer for something even they realize is flawed beyond recognition.
I told you LAR was the walking dead and just didn't know! I told you the ACV did not fit with Berger's one region, one opponent vision!
via National Defense
A draft request for prototype proposals for the platform’s base variant was slated to be released in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020 with the final RFPP scheduled for spring 2021, the press release said.
“PM LAV will focus efforts targeted on industry RFIs and strategic small group engagements,” John Myers, program manager for Marine Corps Systems Command’s light armored vehicle portfolio, said in the release.
However, these timelines are now being questioned as the Marine Corps and Navy have gone silent on the ARV.
Over the summer, the program was transferred from Marine Corps Systems Command to the service’s Program Executive Office for Land Systems. Since then, public affairs officers have declined to answer follow-up questions about the program, with MCSC spokespersons referring questions to PEO Land Systems, and its spokesperson referring questions to the Office of Naval Research, since it is classified as a science-and-technology program, not a “program of record.”
An ONR spokesperson declined to answer questions about the program, citing “national security” reasons.
Read the entire article but its easy to read between the lines. LAR might survive in name but it won't look like anything most of us would recognize. From the same article a bit about the ACV.
“With the shift in our primary focus to great power competition and a renewed focus on the Indo-Pacific region, the current force has shortfalls in capabilities needed to support emerging joint, naval and Marine Corps operating concepts,” Berger said in the report.
Mark Cancian, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, noted that the service is not only divesting its tanks, but also scaling back on other ground platforms such as the Amphibious Combat Vehicle.
“That vision is for small, highly agile teams that will use long-range precision fires,” Cancian said. “Combat vehicles don’t fit very well into this concept. … Ground combat vehicles are most useful if you are conducting operations against the conventional ground forces of another power. The Marine Corps looks to be fighting at long range.”
And a little about Berger's concept in general...
Cancian said he has reservations about the service’s vision for its vehicles, noting that the Force 2030 document is heavily focused on island warfare in the Western Pacific.
However, adopting a new reconnaissance vehicle would help ensure that the service is able to conduct operations in a variety of environments, he said. The Marine Corps should remain versatile in its warfighting abilities, he added.
“A reconnaissance vehicle would be extremely useful if you have a conflict in Korea, if you have a conflict in the Middle East, if you had a conflict in Europe,” he said. “My personal belief is the Marine Corps should hedge more against an uncertain future instead of building its forces and its concepts exclusively for a single kind of conflict.”
They just restated the point I've been making. I've yelled this shit from the rooftops.
Berger is building a Marine Corps that is viable in only one region against one opponent.
He is ensuring the death of the Marine Corps when the big fight happens where he didn't expect.
All-Domain Reconnaissance Detachment ?
Note. I guess the forever rebranding of shit continues....maybe. Is this simply Recon or something new? I have no idea. Interested in finding out. Additionally it seems like some of these Combat Photographer bubbas are getting "inventive" with their captions lately. Could be nothing. Could be something. Who knows.
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| 201012-M-PQ459-2016 PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 12, 2020) - U.S. Marines with the All-Domain Reconnaissance Detachment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit hoist a simulated casualty aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) during emergency readiness training. The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and the 15th MEU are currently conducting at-sea training events in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Sarah Stegall) |
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