Read the entire article but if this doesn't highlight the issues with liberal states and military training then nothing will.The Army is shifting at least some high-altitude helicopter training from Hawaii to Colorado — at a taxpayer cost of up to $11 million — following an additional environmental review imposed by the state.The regulatory process has already delayed training by four months, creating a tight deadline for Wheeler Army Airfield pilots preparing for a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan in January.Now Gov. Neil Abercrombie has informed the Army it must conduct a state environmental assessment in addition to a federal environmental assessment to use six existing landing zones high on the slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Hawaii plays hardball...US Army play nice.
This story from Hawaii perfectly illustrates the issues for the military when it comes to training and the power that environmentalist are using to deny training areas. To sum it up, Hawaii plays hardball ..and the US Army plays nice even though the state is doing its best to screw them.
AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcat
The AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcat (previously called the Future Lynx) is an improved version of the Westland Super Lynx military helicopter.
The AW159 will serve in the battlefield utility, search and rescue and anti-surface warfare roles. The helicopter has been ordered for the British Army and Royal Navy. It is to enter service with the Army in 2014 and with the RN in 2015.
F-35C starts carrier suitability testing
The F-35 is moving right along.
You know that certain parties (Sweetman...Wall...APA....fellow travelers) are banging there heads saying please make it stop!
I love it!
F-35 arrives at Lakehurst
F-35 carrier variant CF-2 flies to NAVAIR at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., June 25 for Jet Blast Deflector testing. |
Russia's Army can't be in this bad a shape can it?
English Russia has a pretty damning photo expose' on the Russian Army. If things are this bad then the Russians are a threat only to themselves.
Gates still placing foot in European ass.
via AFP.
Gates brings up a legitimate shortcoming in the alliance and instead of being taken seriously, is accused of being a tired, retiring old man.
This outcome is predictable. This 'war' will drone on for a while (unless someone gets lucky and kills Khadaffi) and both sides will sue for peace.
The alliance will be exposed for the sham that it is but everyone will continue to pretend that it isn't and will continue business as usual --- building bigger and more elaborate headquarters buildings...doing dog and pony exercises that serve no real purpose....and creating staff billets for generals and admirals.
NATO is useless. When they go against a second tier military its lights out. NATO will be routed unless the US participates in full.
"The Libya air war has exposed serious shortcomings among NATO allies and European governments will have to agree on joint defense budget priorities to rectify the problem, Gates told AFP in an interview.Of course the designer and main cheerleader for this fiasco in Libya, the President of France had this to say...Translation by Google...
The Pentagon chief, who is due to retire this week after more than four years in the post, reiterated views he expressed in a blunt speech in Brussels earlier this month, in which he warned the alliance faced a potentially "dismal" future.
"The truth is, as I said in Brussels, there is a lot of military capability and a lot of money being spent in Europe," Gates said on Thursday."
THE PRESIDENT - Mr. Gates was retiring, apparently it does him no pleasure. So do not blame someone who is retiring to be a little bitter. I think his retirement did not have to closely observe what was happening in Libya, because you can say whatever you want but I do not feel in Libya most of the work done by our American friends. You were speaking of Libya at the same time is to say that our American friends have two drones, a number of tanker aircraft, we are very sensitive but it would not come to the idea of a man as responsible and intelligent than President Obama to say that it is America that is the main work in Libya.Awesome.
This was especially moved by Mr. Gates saying that. And more completely wrong, given what is happening in Libya. There were certainly other moments in history when he could have said it, but not when the Europeans, bravely took the case of Libya, where mainly the French, the English and their allies are the work! I will not allow me to make this statement when, after 15 days the Americans have decided to reduce their aircraft. So it's a statement that is unfair for them falls ill and does not correspond to reality.
Gates brings up a legitimate shortcoming in the alliance and instead of being taken seriously, is accused of being a tired, retiring old man.
This outcome is predictable. This 'war' will drone on for a while (unless someone gets lucky and kills Khadaffi) and both sides will sue for peace.
The alliance will be exposed for the sham that it is but everyone will continue to pretend that it isn't and will continue business as usual --- building bigger and more elaborate headquarters buildings...doing dog and pony exercises that serve no real purpose....and creating staff billets for generals and admirals.
NATO is useless. When they go against a second tier military its lights out. NATO will be routed unless the US participates in full.
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