Tuesday, August 29, 2017
2nd Med Battalion conducts air exercise...while a real emergency is going on!...pic by Pfc. Nicholas Guevara
Awesome. Now do you get the force of connection? 2nd Med Bn is conducting an exercise while a real world emergency is happening in the 4th largest city in the US.
This is unsat and someone somewhere needs to address this and provide answers!
Why aren't they assisting the authorities in Texas?
Why aren't these Corpsmen backfilling the civilian medical personnel that's operating on their last legs by now?
Why aren't we seeing resources that are sitting on the shelf, simply doing exercises being flexed to aid their fellow Americans?
I know you're tired of me beating on this drum but this is infuriating!
Monday, August 28, 2017
Modest Proposal. The US military needs to be able to render the same aid at home that it does overseas!
I've been banging my head on my desk wondering why we're seeing Texas struggle with getting gear to Houston to assist in the rescue effort. I've punched the wall about 10 times already wondering why the Marine Corps isn't leaning forward and pushing an AAV Company to the area to assist in high water rescues.
Then I read this note from JD Strike in response to a pic I posted showing elderly people being stranded in a nursing home, many of them in wheel chairs with water above their waists.
Sol, when we had the Hurricane come through Georgia last year, my wife worked EMS at the time for a private company. One of the issues she noticed was how the movement of elderly, nursing homes and hospitals had a problem with was finding bed space for all the people to evacuate them. She was heartbroken having to do runs up to the area of Atlanta to random places with a patient. Talking 1 ambulance to move one person 3-4 hours away each way. all in about three days prior to landfall. It is a total shame what we do to our most vulnerable. Add to most of patients are poor and tied to Medicare or health insurance which has to approve/ pay for the movement, its so criminal to leave these vulnerable people to the elements. You would think our military assets for field hospit als could be put up and centralize in an out of the impact area where all these people could be moved to temporarily. Our nursing homes are underfunded and overcrowd as they are. Just sickening.Don't remember the pic? Check it out below.
Sadness doesn't describe it. Anger doesn't either. Mix those emotions up and add a bit of rage at seeing people...the elderly being in those conditions and it's wall punching time.
Many readers informed me that it's a Title 10 issue. I personally thought that once the President declared a state of emergency those issues went away. I know for a fact that the President has expanded powers due to the terrorist threat to act outside the law to ensure public safety.
My modest proposal is simple.
We should provide the same aid and the same response that we do for foreign nations here at home. Our military should be forward leaning and ready to act.
If that means that laws need to be rewritten then so be it.
But the power of the US military must be used to help the American people when necessary. What do I mean? During Katrina the 82nd and elements of the 2nd Marine Division deployed to New Orleans to help out. We should do the same here. God knows enough time has passed that its a no brainer.
The units that could assist are numerous and many of them are available NOW! The 101st could provide helicopter support. The Marines could provide AAVs. The Army and Navy could provide medical personnel. The National Guard and Reserve could provide security at refugee centers.
The list goes on but its frustrating to see emergency after emergency on a large geographic area and the govt respond slowly to the event. We must do better!
S-97 RAIDER
Hmm. Lockheed just posted the photo today so I guess they got it back up and flying pretty quick. Heard it crashed a couple of weeks ago.
Early lessons learned from Hurricane Harvey's assault on Houston.
It's not too early to do a "lessons learned" about Hurricane Harvey's assault on Houston.
1. Don't trust authorities to determine your course of action. Make the assessment yourself!
This one will rub many readers the wrong way but listen before you slam me. The local govt called for people in essence to "shelter in place". This was based on past experience of trying to evacuate the city. Long traffic jams, people running out of gas etc. Well look at the situation today. High water rescues and cars abandoned in the streets. The expense of just clearing cars off the street will run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's before you actually add water damage to buildings etc..Decide when you and your family should leave and act on that instinct!
2. Prepping counts.
Some will say that prepping couldn't have helped in this mega storm. They're wrong! If a decision is made to leave and its done at the last minute you can grab your essentials and be out the door. If its done in a timely manner then you can save many of the irreplaceables in your home. Family heirlooms and such. Being prepared for emergencies means that when they strike you're better prepared to deal with them.
3. Emergency funds count!
The news media is already descending on evacuation centers in Dallas. The tales of woe are being told and the stories are similar. We're looking at people without a dollar to their name being evacuated and now being herded like cattle in a mass refugee center. Better to have a fund set aside to spare your family that drama and then contact your insurance company so that you can recover what was lost in a timely manner. A hotel stay, stay with relatives etc is better than a center any day of the week.
Conclusion.
Prepping works. Independent thinking works. Emergency funds works! Plan for emergency and you will deal with it much more successfully than will a person that has a normalcy bias and believes that since it hasn't happened it never will!
Note. What I can't figure is how do you care for the sick and elderly in these type situations. Once again we've seen people in a nursing home left to their own devices. This is a wall punching constant and we've got to do better.
My first thought is WHERE ARE THEIR RELATIVES! My second thought is why would authorities respond so slowly? This should be a priority rescue. I need to chew on this one before I can come up with a reasonable solution...what I do know is that it's not being handled properly today.
Could the US Navy circa 1987 defeat the US Navy of today?
Consider this your mind fuck of the day.
The above picture brought the title to mind but it applies to all of our services (most especially our ground forces...the weight of fire they brought seems on paper to dwarf what we can do today)....could the US military of the 1980's defeat the US military we have today?
I have my opinion but suffice it to say that "hidden" strengths like sensor fusion, data links, networked firepower or even "enhanced" diversity can make up for pure firepower and the ability to put steel on target.
We might be more precise today but we can't throat stomp people like would could almost 30 years ago.
I can't be the first person to have had this thought. Does anyone know of a paper that makes the actual comparison?
YF-23 vs. F-22...more than 20 years later and many still think the USAF chose wrong...
via National Interest.
Even in 1991, in terms of raw performance, the General Electric-powered YF-23 was acknowledged to have been the best performer even compared to its Pratt & Whitney YF119-powered twin. The YF-23 had much better supersonic cruise performance, stealth and was only slightly less maneuverable at extremely low airspeeds.Story here.
“Interestingly the YF-22 and YF-23 had exactly the same trimmed AoA of 60°. The YF-23 could do it without thrust vectoring. Those V-tails were very powerful especially when coupled to an unstable airframe,” said one source who is intimately familiar with both the YF-23 and the Raptor. “The YF-22 probably had an advantage at very, very low airspeeds but neither company had enough time to investigate dynamic low speed, high AOA maneuvering. This was a good example of how a competition needs to consider the PR value of flight test events. Lockheed understood this and did high AOA and shot missiles and pulled 9Gs. All single point, benign condition events but they left an impression.”
The source added that in some ways, it might have cost Northrop the Advanced Tactical Fighter competition—barring the other factors involved in the selection.
“ACC [Air Combat Command] pilots were enamored with dogfighting and Lockheed gave a good visual demonstration of high AOA—albeit a very limited and benign test,” the source said. “Northrop chose not to do high AOA during DemVal and that was a mistake. Both airplanes could do the same exact maneuver—trimmed, high AOA. As it was, the YF-22 ‘appeared better’ because they did something visually exciting and Northrop couldn't—or so it was inferred.”
My view? The USAF did make a mistake by choosing the F-22 and they fell prey to marketing. In essence they bought into image over substance.
It's funny.
The old skool Pentagon warriors would never have been swayed by such simplistic, unrealistic propaganda campaigns but the new breed were easily fooled.
Imagine this.
If the USAF had selected the YF-23 then we would not be wringing our hands over range. The whole course of air supremacy would be different.
In essence we would have maintained air supremacy instead of facing the mind bending reality that it's up for grabs if we ever meet a peer opponent.
The YF23 vs. F-22. The first hint that our acquisition programs were broken.
Note: This breaks the old chestnut that the USAF picked the F-22 because it was a better dogfighter. That was all PR nonsense. The definitive history on this selection process still waits to be written. Only after a few more people die will the truth finally come out.
The Pentagon has been lying about troop levels in Iraq!
via Politico.
Caps on troop levels in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria mandated by the Obama administration have led to an elaborate Pentagon accounting system that conceals thousands of troops from the public — one that is quickly unraveling as the Trump administration prepares to send more troops to the region.Story here.
With new plans to ramp up the war in Afghanistan, the military is finding it exceedingly difficult to maintain a practice that purposely doesn't count certain troops in the battle zone that military officials insist was not designed to be misleading but many critics now assert is at best an officially sanctioned charade.
The U.S. already has as many as 12,000 troops in Afghanistan, significantly higher than its 8,400-person cap. If President Donald Trump sends nearly 4,000 additional troops, as officials predict, the total will be nearly double the current public number. In Iraq, where the Baghdad government faces political resistance to a large American troop presence, the 5,200 troop figure the Pentagon uses in public serves as a useful fiction. In fact, more than 7,000 U.S. troops are in Iraq, according to recent reports.
Wow.
This is .... bad. How can you trust an institution that lies about something this simple? This basic?
Even worse? The Obama admin has truly infected the Pentagon. This was obviously sanctioned because if it wasn't heads would have rolled. Quite honestly heads should roll now! This is a breach of public trust.
The sheeple are sleep but if they were awake then they'd be enraged. These wars weren't winding down. They've gone underground.
Think about it. We had what amounted to an additional Battalion of troops in Afghanistan and in Iraq another 2 plus!
The Pentagon is simply another govt bureaucracy...and bureaucracies develop to serve themselves, not the people.
Could this be the event that crashes the economy?
Watching coverage of the Hurricane this morning and what's going UNDER reported in all the hysteria behind the high water rescues is what this will do to the American economy.
How do you extract money out of the pockets of every swinging dick and ovary in the US?
You go after essentials.
How do govts make money? They go after essentials.
Fuel...energy...is such an essential and while this event was totally unplanned, it will provide an opportunity for oil corporations AND the govt to make a god awful amount of money.
Despite all common sense the US has a sizable portion of its gas production facilities located in a coastal city that is in an area prone to storms. Additionally the timing couldn't be worse for the consumer. Gas producers are about to switch over to the idiotic "winter" blend which will take additional plants offline.
Consider it a one two whammy.
Gas production will ground to a halt for at least a month or more and oil rigs are all shut down.
The stock market will roar later today. The public is about to see at least $2.50... probably much higher a gallon gas and govt tax collection will see a spike.
The pain in Houston is about to spread. Get ready for sticker shock when you go to refill your truck. If that isn't bad enough you're gonna see it across the line, most notably in food prices. Expenses are pushed forward so increased costs to harvest and deliver food will be passed to the consumer.
This could crash the economy. We're already teetering and this could be the event to do it.
How do you extract money out of the pockets of every swinging dick and ovary in the US?
You go after essentials.
How do govts make money? They go after essentials.
Fuel...energy...is such an essential and while this event was totally unplanned, it will provide an opportunity for oil corporations AND the govt to make a god awful amount of money.
Despite all common sense the US has a sizable portion of its gas production facilities located in a coastal city that is in an area prone to storms. Additionally the timing couldn't be worse for the consumer. Gas producers are about to switch over to the idiotic "winter" blend which will take additional plants offline.
Consider it a one two whammy.
Gas production will ground to a halt for at least a month or more and oil rigs are all shut down.
The stock market will roar later today. The public is about to see at least $2.50... probably much higher a gallon gas and govt tax collection will see a spike.
The pain in Houston is about to spread. Get ready for sticker shock when you go to refill your truck. If that isn't bad enough you're gonna see it across the line, most notably in food prices. Expenses are pushed forward so increased costs to harvest and deliver food will be passed to the consumer.
This could crash the economy. We're already teetering and this could be the event to do it.
Russia to develop an amphibious combat vehicle variant of their Boomerang 8x8!
via Sputnik.
Military experts expect the Bumerang to become a universal combat platform, capable of solving a wide range of military tasks. This is line with Russian armored vehicle makers' broader doctrine of modular vehicle design, designed with cross-compatibility, interchangeability, and wide configurability in mind. In the Navy, the Bumerang's missions will include amphibious troop landing, fire support and ground engagement.Story here.
Both in amphibious mode and from aboard landing craft, the Bumerang must also be able to fire using all of its onboard weapons systems against coastal targets.
"An amphibious version of the Bumerang APC is being tested," Alexander Krasovitsky, general director of the Military-Industrial Company, the developer of the vehicle, told Izvestia on the sidelines of ARMY-2017. "The exact form of the vehicle is still being finalized according to the customer's requirements, so it's too early to speak in more detail about its capabilities," Krasovitsky added.
Presently, Russia's Naval Infantry is fitted out with the BTR-82A, the latest version of the BTR-80 APC, and with the 2S31 Vena 120-mm amphibious self-propelled artillery system.
Vadim Kozyulin, military expert and professor at the Academy of Military Sciences, pointed out that the Navy's plans also include the construction of a series of new large Lavina amphibious assault ships. These ships will be able to deliver up to 60 light armored vehicles to shore, dropping them off either via their bow door, with the help of speedy smaller landers. With this in mind, it's only logical that the Bumerang be fully compatible with the Lavina.
Most everyone knows that I monitor Sputnik, DESPITE the complaints that it's supposedly "fake" news. I find that puzzling. The US govt and military has been complaining about Chinese and Russian govts not being open about their military news and here we have it on a plate and MANY are still not satisfied!
Amazing isn't descriptive enough. How about being baffled! That better expresses my feeling on the subject.
But back on task. An amphibious version of the Boomerang 8x8? Sounds formidable. I like it. Even better they're looking at the ability to mount different weapon systems on it.
It also dawned on me about the 57mm cannon that's being trialled. We've seen the issues with the 120mm when utilized by the Stryker. I know they've managed to develop setups that work on wheeled vehicles like the Centauro and the Japanese MCV but what if a better solution is a smaller caliber that can accomplish all the other missions EXCEPT engaging enemy MBTs?
The only question I have is it's ability to defeat enemy fortifications but against any vehicle short of a modern tank it will be deadly into the distant future. The rate of fire will defeat APS that's gaining popularity and it will have enough rounds available to stay in the fight. When by chance it does meet MBTs it will have ATGMs available to balance the engagement.
This is steady improvement. Sensible development. The armor race is on and the Chinese and Russians are winning.
Open Comment Post. Aug 28, 2017
Old skool transports all had a similar layout that's been abandoned today. The cockpit was over the cargo compartment giving a "thru deck" potential. What I mean is you could usually load the craft from stem to stern. Cargo planes still retain this but not cargo helicopters. Wonder why.
Trump to lift ban on providing military equipment to police....Obama once banned tracked vehicles, maybe now Houston can get AAVs!
via Washington Times.
The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies under a program that had been sharply curtailed by the Obama administration amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters.Story here.
Documents obtained by The Associated Press indicate President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order undoing an Obama-era directive that restricted police agencies’ access to the gear that includes grenade launchers, firearms and ammunition.
Trump’s order would fully restore the program under which “assets that would otherwise be scrapped can be repurposed to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement better protect public safety and reduce crime,” according to the documents.
This story joggled my memory. The Obama ban on providing gear to police specifically targeted tracked vehicles.
That's why my push to get municipalities and states AAVs stalled.
As soon as that ban is over every state along the Gulf should be pushing to have a few in their garages somewhere ready to act when the next flooding event occurs.
NOTE: John made a good point yesterday with regard to the idea that the Marine Corps, specifically the Reserve Units being more responsive. I knew that there is a Reserve AAV unit in LA, but didn't realize there was one in Texas. The Governor is reaching for his National Guard but leaving a VERY CAPABLE asset sitting on the shelf. Even worse is that the Marine Corps Reserve isn't forward leaning enough to aid their fellow citizens during their time of need. Marine Corps Reserve and active duty leadership picked up another chit in the "bad mark" book.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
The shit storm is coming...call it Katrina 2.0 in Houston!
Oooh! I'm watching coverage of all the high water rescues in Houston and you can feel the shit storm coming. Call it Katrina 2.0 in Houstoun!
What's being said on Fox News?
1. People want to know why the Mayor of Houston told people to shelter in place. Why?
2. The city govt has told people to go up to the attic and make sure they have an ax to cut themselves out. They're talking about DAYS to get to some trapped people and that they will be exposed to the elements if they cut away their protection.
3. Why hasn't the governor activated the national guard.
4. Why don't we see FEMA on the scene providing aid and shelter to the displaced.
This is gonna turn into a major league mess unless someone in the Trump admin gets forward leaning on this quick. The flooding is bad, its a major city and everyone already has the long knives out.
This will be a real controversy unless someone in that admin gets smart and gets moving.
What's being said on Fox News?
1. People want to know why the Mayor of Houston told people to shelter in place. Why?
2. The city govt has told people to go up to the attic and make sure they have an ax to cut themselves out. They're talking about DAYS to get to some trapped people and that they will be exposed to the elements if they cut away their protection.
3. Why hasn't the governor activated the national guard.
4. Why don't we see FEMA on the scene providing aid and shelter to the displaced.
This is gonna turn into a major league mess unless someone in the Trump admin gets forward leaning on this quick. The flooding is bad, its a major city and everyone already has the long knives out.
This will be a real controversy unless someone in that admin gets smart and gets moving.
Modest Proposal. The USMC should donate 5 AAVs to every flood prone city in America!
Modest proposal. THe USMC should donate 5 AAVs to every flood prone city in America! Paint them bright red or orange (whatever the color is that the local fire dept uses), slap fire-rescue on the side and when flooding hits and people get trapped the first responders have a viable vehicle to get to them!
I'm sitting here looking slack eyed and silly watching the news covering the MASSIVE flooding in Houston (still haven't even seen a drop of rain...just overcast skies in Central Louisiana). I'm seeing what some call High Water Rescue trucks being unable to navigate certain streets because the water is too high.
I fear that the lives lost will be much greater than is known at this moment. I'll skip the discussion about people bugging out and simply respond to the idea that we should be prepared to help. If Fire Depts had AAVs they could.
Facts...
1. The USMC has around 400 AAVs in storage.
2. The USMC is looking to divest itself of AAVs (I'll skip and ignore whether that's a good or bad idea...it just is).
3. The USMC will soon select an ACV making the AAV redundant to a certain degree.
And finally we once had this capability. After WW2 the LVTs were used in southern states for flood rescue. They were also used for wildfire fighting (huge cargo hold could carry a bunch of water to remote regions).
This one makes nothing but sense. We should do this poste haste.
Note: I keep making these posts after every flooding event in my region. The Marine Corps, FEMA, and Dept of Homeland Security refuses to act. That's a pity. This is a capability that is sitting on the shelf just waiting to be used.
Note 1: If giving to cities is unworkable then each state's emergency management center can take ownership. Even give them to the state national guard but don't let a low density, high demand asset go to waste. This is workable if they only try!
Interesting theory on where the Black Hawk that crashed off the coast of Yemen came from...remember the MV C Ocean Trader?
Lee, a sailor and frequent commentator on naval websites has an interesting theory on where the Black Hawk that crashed off the coast of Yemen came from.
I never would have thought of it in a million years.
Long short? Remember the MV C Ocean Trader? Yeah that Roll on Roll off transport ship that the Navy converted for Special Ops use that NO ONE seems to have good photos of and seems to be a freaking ghost on the high seas?
Yeah, that ship.
The weird thing? It's suppose to have been modded with a flight deck able to handle CH-53's, hangar space, able to launch small boats/jet skis...yet I've looked online and can find no pic of the ship with said mods!
Yeah.
We're involved in shit all over the globe and they're playing word sausage to make it happen. Do we have boots on the ground? Depends I guess (if they're playing the word games I think) on when you ask the question. If they have a mothership off the shore of Yemen and they go in and out, the only way you could get a legit answer (if they didn't fall behind the "no comment" cover phrase) is if you asked them while an actual operation was underway.
All this does beg for one other question though. What about those MLPs that the Navy is converting to AFSBs? Do they still have a role for SOCOM or can we use them to make a four ship MEU converting it to a Reinforced MEU that I've been shouting 3 years for the Marine Corps to experiment with?
How good are databases in the US? Arrests are still being made in the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" weirdness...
Note: I know where most of you stand on this. I stand on the opposite side. I don't expect your opinion to change because mine won't. You march at night with torches saying you're with the KKK, Neo-Nazis or a White Supremacists then I won't ever be on your side. Fuck you, your family and your friends. Having said that this is somewhat disturbing on a different level. Read the linked articles and decide for yourself. You come on the blog spouting WHAT I CONSIDER stupid shit and it's gonna get deleted and possibly more.
Story 1. Video Shows Man Shooting At Crowd During Charlottesville Rally, With No Police Response via Yahoo.com
A man attending the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month fired his gun in the direction of a black counterprotester who was holding a torch, and police in their vicinity did not seem to respond.Story here.
Those events appear in a video filmed two weeks ago by a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and published by the civil rights group on Saturday.
As seen in the footage below, a man in a blue sleeveless shirt, a green vest and a bandana on his head pulls out a gun and aims it at a counterprotester, who is off camera and appears to be holding a makeshift lit torch. The first man appears to yell a racial slur at the black man, then fires the gun toward the ground in the direction of the counterprotesters.
The shooter then leaves the scene by joining a line of white supremacist protesters and walking past law enforcement officers, who were standing behind metal barricades about 10 feet away.
I remember this particular incident...well a part of it anyway. The black guy used a can of aerosol as a flame thrower. What I saw were Nazis/KKK swinging back with sticks and clubs.
I did not see a person shooting and why this came out so late is beyond me. My belief is that they were seeking to tamp down tensions and the thought that one of the protesters actually fired on the counter protesters would have lit a fuse.
The next thing that's a mystery is that this happened 10 feet away from law enforcement? It'll never be made public but you can bet that someone from the Charlottesville police is gonna make a ton of money touring the country giving a lessons learned from this incident. I'd sure like to know why they didn't act immediately but oh well...at least no one was shot. Question. How can you fire into a crowd and hit nothing? Don't tell me he didn't want to. You yell a racial slur and then shoot into a crowd and don't want to hit? That son of bitch can't shoot.
Story 2. Three Charged in Charlottesville Alt-Right Rally Attacks via Daily Beast.
Three people have been charged in connection with the white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville earlier this month, police said. Daniel Borden, 18, and Alex Ramos, 33, were charged with malicious wounding, likely in connection with the beating of a 20-year-old black man, Deandre Harris, inside a parking garage. The incident was caught on camera. Borden is being held in Cincinnati, while Ramos is still at large. Richard Preston, 52, was charged with “discharging a firearm within 1000 feet of a school,” according to a police statement. Preston was arrested Saturday in Maryland.Story here.
Remember this one too. It was caught on video. They separated this guy from the group and beat him with clubs, sticks and heel stomped him. Weird thing. He should be dead. No way he could have gotten away if they intended to break him. He weighed a buck oh five and had no fight in him. He just sat there getting the shit kicked out of him and didn't fight back. Not once. No skills, no training, no strength. He put his life in the hands of men that have no regard for him. The dude that got his ass beat disgusts me. Outnumbered? Pick one and fuck him up to the best of your ability. Make him bleed. You're gonna get fucked up so you might as well make them remember...at least one of them but no. This guy was pure pussy.
Having said that, this is somewhat disturbing. Many of these guys have no police record so how are they able to track them down so fast? How can they be identified so quickly?
I can tell you and some will say conspiracy theory but it's obvious. They've merged databases and they probably have facial recognition working overtime. If you have a drivers license, were in the military, social security recepeint, have a facebook page, post pics of yourself online then they can track you down. Hell one dude was able to do it just from images of people online...he tracked them down, publicized that they marched and many of those people got fired or are being run out of their homes (not shedding one single fucking tear about that either).
We live in a police state guys. If you're involved in a high profile incident you can't disappear in the crowd.
But back to my audience. What can you do to evade this scourge (and I'm assuming that you aren't a law breaker but a guy wanting to protect his privacy)? Modify your habits and do this to your ball cap, cover whatever you want to call it.
Warning though. Do NOT wear this in certain locations...areas that you might consider low threat will get you a close look by security personnel if the cameras are monitored. But better to have security follow you around a store and having them be a bit bewildered than popping up on the database.
Mayweather stops McGregor....
via Reuters.
A ruthless Floyd Mayweather scored a 10th round technical knockout over mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor on Saturday, the American cementing his legacy as an all-time boxing great with his 50th win in as many fights.Story here.
Mayweather, who had guaranteed an early finish to the 12 round contest, made good on his promise when he pinned a brave-but-limited McGregor on the ropes and mercilessly hammered the Irishman before referee Robert Byrd stepped in to halt the bout.
The fight, which Mayweather insisted would be his last, sends the 40-year-old into his second retirement with a unblemished 50-0 record to surpass heavyweight legend Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 mark for most wins without a loss or draw.
”This was my last fight tonight. For sure,“ Mayweather declared in the ring. ”Tonight was my last fight. Tonight I chose the right dance partner to dance with.
”Conor you are a hell of a champion.
So predictable it hurts.
The only thing that's surprising by this result is that the fight last this long! For McGregor to get it to the 10th? That was NOT delivering on a promise of an early stop!
Either way both guys got paid. Many will be debating this fight. MMA and Boxing will probably try and work something out so that they can have a "cross champion" by blending certain rules together...that way Boxing can get back on the map and MMA can develop a means to pay their fighters a decent wage across the board...
In the end though I still think this was goofy dogs breakfast of a combat sports event. The vid below sums it up....
The Ten Commandments of Rational Debate.
Read it. Learn it. If I'm wrong then tell me but don't stomp your feet and simply say because. Don't get pissed and utilize a logical fallacy to think that you've "won" the argument.
More importantly this should apply to discussions on the blog.
We once had an exchange of useful information. Not so much anymore (oh and I've learned what my readership CAN handle and what they CAN'T when it comes to discussions). You can have whatever strongly held belief that you want (I certainly do) but don't be surprised if it's challenged.
Defend the idea properly. Take a stance on whatever but do it the right way.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Black Hawk crashes off the coast of Yemen...Do we have boots on the ground in Yemen????
via Sputnik.
A US service member is missing after a Black Hawk helicopter fell into the water some 20 miles off the coast of Yemen on Friday during a routine training session.Story here.
According to Stripes.com, five other service members aboard the helicopter were rescued immediately following the crash, whose cause is unknown.
A Pentagon spokesperson said in a statement, "This aircraft was based and launched from an overseas location [in support of] US Central Command operations."
A Centcom spokesperson stated, "When the incident took place the helicopter was not very high above the water," cited by Reuters.
Training missions in high threat environments? Does the public and the news media really believe such obvious bullshit?
The real question is this. Do we have boots on the ground in Yemen?
Correction.
It's obvious that WE DO have boots on the ground in Yemen. The real question is why!?!?!
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