F-35 update

Lt. plays pattycake. 21 US troops die in 48 hours in Afghanistan.

 

Thanks for the heads up Resident Author on this story.

A few have stated that I'm too tough on the Lt. in the previous post for playing pattycake.

I'm not at all sorry for my characterization.

Follow this link and feel the pain.

Marines are involved in combat.  The special trust and relationship requires that she prepare her Marines to survive the horrors of war.  Playing pattycake isn't getting that done.

Wow Lt. isn't that special! How about leading Marines instead of playing patty cake?

Will someone in Headquarters Marine Corps spare us the sight of an of Officer of Marines playing patty cake?

If she can't find something better to do with her time then its time for a serious reduction in force.  Guys in Afghanistan are fighting and dying and this officer is playing.

Amazing!

Army Operating Concept.

Well I definitely haven't been paying enough attention to the Army Guys lately. 

The decision about the GCV was telegraphed for months...the Army Chief of Staff himself was expressing doubt about the weight of the vehicle and I still don't believe that they'll get it across the finish line, but perhaps more interesting is this new Army Operating Concept.

Security Stabilization Operations?

Give me a break.  Its a new name for a Three Block War.  But the ball busting part of this whole thing is how they've settled on the 2016-2028 timeline.

Didn't I once see something like an Army 2020???? 

Regardless its here for you to read ...

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You guys rock!

You guys are the best.  Once again, readers here have clued us in to information before the rest of the web has picked up on it.

I could point to more than a couple of issues but the latest is the ongoing saga with the Kel-Tec PMR-30.

We've been looking at the slow delivery of this firearm to the market place for a while but now it seems that the dedicated firearms blogs are noticing...the "Firearm Blog"...is one of the best and they have finally keyed in on this.  Read it here.

Again, you guys rock.  Thanks.

Singapore's answer to the LPD as mini-LHD.

I posted yesterday that the idea of using LPD's as mini-LHD's has merit.  Well my friends Leesa and Marcase were a bit skeptical.

Fair enough.

But the main area of disagreement dealt with the limited space for aviation and in particular the limited areas for aviation maintenance.

My rebuttal comes in the form of what Singapore is doing with their LPD.  Below you'll see a sales brochure (yeah I know a Sales Brochure) but the point is this...there is plenty of space...on the San Antonio class the space is evident and on the older LSD's and LPD's the space has been made available with the use of removable hangars.

If we're going to do distributed operations.  If we're going to have mini-ARGs then this is something that must be done.

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