Wednesday, January 17, 2018
BvS10 BEOWULF
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| A vehicle with unrivaled mobility, the BvS10 BEOWULF is a dual body, amphibious vehicle with well-proven technology that is designed to provide total operational support where other vehicles cannot. |
RAF Odiham and 657 Sqn sundown the Lynx helicopter
Either they're disbanding or going to the Wildcat. Too bad. The Lynx was never an attractive helicopter but apparently it's pilots would throw it around the sky like a toy. The UK seems to be following the Army's lead. Light attack helicopters are going away and their Apaches will fill the role.
4/25...America's Airborne Brigade in the Pacific doing work!...pic by Alejandro Peña
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| JOINT BASE ELEMDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (Jan. 9, 2018) - Paratroopers assigned to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, descend over Malemute drop zone during airborne training at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. The Soldiers of 4/25 belong to the only American airborne brigade in the Pacific and are trained to execute airborne maneuvers in extreme cold weather/high altitude environments in support of combat, training and disaster relief operations. |
If it isn't (and I suspect it isn't) then why the need to include it? The 4/25 has a huge role as a contingency force throughout the region. Maybe they should focus only on that?
Marine killed at the School of Infantry (West) another taken into custody...
Marine Corps Times.
One Marine was killed and another taken into custody after a fight broke out at Camp Pendelton’s School of Infantry on Tuesday, according to a Marine official.Probably over something stupid too. Someone is gonna pay because of another person's "oh shit" moment that went too damn far.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that the Marine was fatally stabbed.
“An NCIS [Naval Criminal Investigative Service] investigation has been opened, and is currently ongoing,” Marine Capt. Joshua Pena, a spokesman for the Corps’ Virginia-based Training and Education Command, told Marine Corps Times Tuesday.
Pena said the incident occurred “aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, at the School of Infantry West.”
Pena declined to offer any other information.
“The name of the deceased will not be available until 24 hours following next of kin notification,” Pena said.
This story was first reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
5th Columnist exposed as former CIA Agent that led to killing of numerous US operatives in China...
via NBC News
A former CIA officer who was charged Tuesday with unlawful possession of secrets is suspected of a much worse crime: betraying U.S. informants in China, sources familiar with the case told NBC News.Story here.
The former officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, was arrested Monday after flying into New York on a Cathay Pacific flight from his home in Hong King, federal authorities announced.
Lee, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, was charged with a single count of unlawfully possessing national defense information, based on a 2012 search that found him to be in possession of two notebooks containing the true names of CIA assets and covert facilities, which are some of the agency's most closely guarded secrets.
But sources familiar with the case say he is suspected of funneling information to China that caused the deaths or imprisonment of approximately 20 American agents, in one of the worst intelligence breaches in decades.
Told ya so. We are thoroughly breached by the Chinese. Quite honestly the FBI should expand its counterspy operations by at least 500 Agents and they would still be behind the power curve.
Gentlemen. We need to start a mole hunt. Good men and women will probably get caught up but I don't see any other option.
The Black community should be ashamed....
via Bayou Man Blog.
The project came about [in 2016], when Rhea McCauley, Ms. Parks’s niece, met Mr. Mendoza in Detroit. As part of an art project that explored his own sense of home, as well as the American subprime mortgage crisis, Mr. Mendoza successfully transported an abandoned house from Detroit to Europe, winning the trust of Detroit community members along the way. Ms. McCauley told him she had managed to buy back the family house for $500, but she could not find anyone interested in saving it from demolition.Go to Bayou Man's house to read the rest of this drama.
Mr. Mendoza, who makes his living as a fine-arts painter, agreed to help. He raised a little over $100,000 by selling some of his paintings, and set out for Detroit. There, he worked with a local team to take apart the house, which had fallen into extreme disrepair.
He then shipped the wooden exterior to Berlin, where he spent the winter painstakingly rebuilding it, mostly alone, by hand. “It was an act of love,” he said.
That the house had to be shipped to Berlin to be saved is extraordinary, said Daniel Geary, a professor of American history at Trinity College Dublin, given that, “in general, in the U.S., with public heroes, there is an attempt to preserve anywhere they lived.”
Mr. Geary said that to him, the neglect of a house like this one speaks to a contemporary American unwillingness to deal with racism’s legacy.
How do I feel as a black guy?
I'm outraged. I'll get racial and most of you won't like it but deal.
Why was this even an issue?
And no. Sorry but don't need whites involved in this. This is about black America and the values that we supposedly hold dear. We all had righteous indignation over Civil War statues but when an ICON's house has to be preserved it means shipping it to Germany? This isn't about America. This is about us.
I'm pissed, I'm angry, I'm fucking demoralized...but mostly I'm ashamed.
This shit is fucking pathetic.
Even worse? I didn't even know about this shit. I never knew the house was endangered. All the bullshit I hear black politicians talk about, all the bullshit I hear during political season from black ministers and they missed this? What about all the so called activists that called for people to march for this issue or that, but NO ONE could call the community together to pass the hat for this?
Scream at the sky time. You do know what this really means don't you? Black History Month is a damn joke.
Note: Watch your mouths on this one. Daily Stormer bastards will be banned on sight.
Howe & Howe is still pushing the ripsaw!
Dang! H&H keeps popping up with variations of this vehicle! Why did it catch my eye today? Cause they somehow managed a photo spread on NewAtlas (here).
If nothing else that's pretty good marketing!
Marine Time Machine | Desert Shield to Desert Storm
Daddy did it so right. Son did it so wrong. No. Son fucked up beyond recognition.
The question we must ask. If we had a Powell, Schwartzkopf, Boomer, Horner, Yeosock and Arthur today would the fight we're in turn out differently...or is it a case of civilian leadership/think tanks turning sugar into shit?
That is one thing that I can't wrap my head around.
Military leaders take the blame for failed operations (or should) but what happens if civilian leadership doesn't set the conditions for a win? 18 years at war and civilian leadership hasn't taken its lumps for the failed strategy. Is that right.
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