20K National Guard troops are preparing to assist in an "unprecedented" immigration crackdown...per Stars & Stripes

 

Hmm.  I support this.

BUT!

I hope they're prepared for violence.  They are going to be wading into some murky waters in the big cities of America.

The National Guard better view this as a combat mission in my opinion.

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These dudes are better than me. Just watching this has me saying nope. Not me pardner. Hats off to the dudes in that community. This is the link to their page.

Bro! MARRY THIS WOMAN!!

 

He needs to marry her asap pic.twitter.com/KbrLSNIahb

— internet hall of fame (@InternetH0F) June 3, 2025

It's a joke. Get over it to all the "take that filth down" crowd of no fun bastards...

Barstool had an interesting conversation (video). When does freedom of speech need to be restrained in the modern era?

WATCH THE VIDEO BEFORE YOU COMMENT!

 

JUST IN: Dave Portnoy has a meltdown, tells Barstool's Kirk Minihane to "shut the f*ck up you bald f*ck" after Minihane criticized Portnoy's approach to "Jew jokes"

Portnoy: "Shut up!... You work for me!"

Minihane: "Sure. You bet. For now..."

Portnoy: "For now? Quit! I'll save… pic.twitter.com/AM5Y2InCll

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 4, 2025

Open Comment Post. 4 Jun 25

Aerial drones are moving forward.  Surface vessel drones are moving forward.  Underwater drones are moving forward.  So why are ground combat drones stuck in neutral????  The drone craze is everywhere except in the ground combat vehicle domain.  Something is wrong with that.

FNSS’ KAPLAN MT

Somehow I think this "activity" is beyond grey zone. China needs to be dealt with!

BREAKING: Two Chinese nationals have been charged for allegedly smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen into the U.S. called “Fusarium graminearum” that could cripple the U.S. economy, food supply, and endanger American lives.

The FBI arrested Yunqing Jian (33) and Zunyong… pic.twitter.com/HodSnYhXW1

— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) June 3, 2025

You saw the title. My question is this. What is the appropriate response. Oh and no response doesn't cut it.

You MUST check out this duty log...

 

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— Jarhead (@Jarhead3534) April 26, 2025

I doubt if true but funny. Now that I think of it...PROBABLY true.

Swift Response 25 wasn’t a drill - it was pure domination.

Swift Response 25 wasn’t a drill - it was pure domination. Paratroopers dropped in fast, linked up with Allies, and unleashed chaos on the opposition.

LGOPs owned the fight. Flat, fast, accurate and lethal. #aatw pic.twitter.com/3Y3lI8od0R

— All American Division (@82ndABNDiv) May 29, 2025

Ya know there was a time when the US Marine Corps talked star spangled bullshit like this. Those days are over. We're too busy trying to be fucking squiddies...

Chinese robotic vehicles in action

31 Seconds with 31st MEU | Mechanized Company...Video by Cpl. Angel Diaz Montes De Oca

 

Late Late Late Open Comment Post. 3 Jun 25

 

If this doesn't exist it should...also a chapter on fat girls...

KAMANDAG 9 | 3d MLR Conducts Simulated Maritime Strikes with NMESIS...Story by 1st Lt. Anne Pentaleri

via press release

BATANES ISLANDS, Philippines – Strategically positioned on an island in the Luzon Strait, U.S. Marines with 3d Littoral Combat Team, 3d Marine Littoral Regiment, 3d Marine Division, established a Fires Expeditionary Advanced Base (EAB) with the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) and conducted simulated maritime interdiction as a part of Exercise KAMANDAG 9, June 1, 2025. The event was tied to a larger Maritime Key Terrain Security Operation (MKTSO), during which U.S. Marines with 3d LCT and Philippine Marines with Marine Battalion Landing Team 10 rehearsed securing and defending key maritime terrain in the advancement of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific.

KAMANDAG is an annual Philippine Marine Corps and U.S. Marine Corps-led exercise aimed at enhancing the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ defense and humanitarian capabilities by providing valuable training in combined operations with foreign militaries.

In preparation for the KAMANDAG 9 MKTSO, 3d LCT’s Medium Range Missile (MMSL) Battery rapidly inserted the NMESIS into the Batanes Islands via KC-130J Super Hercules assigned to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 352. Once inserted, the MMSL Battery remotely operated the NMESIS from the airfield into a concealed position, minimizing its signature. In short order, the Fires EAB established its capability to interdict maritime targets from key terrain in support of maintaining open sea lines of communication.

Back on Luzon, 3d MLR’s Fires and Air Direction Element (FADE) initiated the dynamic maritime targeting process, calling on the capabilities of numerous maritime patrol and reconnaissance (MPRA) and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets to find, fix, and track maritime targets for notional engagement in coordination with Joint, Allied, and Partnered naval forces. The supporting assets, which were coordinated by 3d MLR’s cross-functional fires and effects planning cell, formed critical nodes in the kill web required to execute complex maritime strikes on the modern battlefield.

The functional depth of Joint kill webs provides redundancy and flexibility in 3d MLR’s ability to generate kill chain options. National overhead systems and organic maritime radars generate maritime domain awareness. In one instance, a P-8A Poseidon sourced by the U.S. Navy’s Commander, Task Force (CTF) 72 provided the FADE with identification and targeting data. The FADE, by means of its delegated targeting authorities, then provided technical fire direction to the MMSL Battery, and other participating firing units, to notionally engage vessels of interest transiting the Luzon Strait.

Although no live-fire was conducted during the execution of the MKTSO, each fire support rehearsal allowed the 3d MLR Fires Center to exercise its proficiency in maritime strike planning, execution of maritime dynamic targeting and air direction authorities, coordination and synchronization of munitions employment, integration of aviation operations, and management of tactical data links to enhance the Combined and Joint Force’s common tactical picture.

“The constructive kills executed during the KAMANDAG 9 MKTSO are yet another example of the 3d MLR’s proven value proposition to the Combined and Joint Force,” said Lt. Col. Patrick Schrafft, 3d MLR’s Fire Support Coordinator. “3d MLR’s Fires Center - to include the FADE and the Cross-Functional Fires and Effects Planning Cell - outpaces like entities by leveraging the subject matter expertise of our highly trained and driven fires, targeting, and air direction professionals. This, when combined with persistent maritime domain awareness, delegated authorities, and a resilient communications architecture, allows us to action the targeting objectives of the Task Force or Joint Task Force Commander within an assigned area of operations and associated airspace.”

3d MLR’s Tactical Air Control Element (TACE) conducted air control and deconfliction for MKTSO fire support rehearsals. Using the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), the TACE integrated friendly aircraft while the NMESIS and other participating firing units notionally fired their munitions.

While the MMSL Battery was focused on neutralizing the MKTSO scenario’s seaborne threats, U.S. and Philippine Marines with 3d LCT and MBLT-10 provided security. Spreading their combined forces across the island’s key maritime terrain, the U.S. and Philippine Marines rehearsed patrolling, seizing, and defending strategic airfields, ports, and access corridors against the scenario’s ground-based threats.
3d LCT’s Littoral Reconnaissance Team (LRT) – a low-signature, multi-disciplinary sensor team – supported the operation by providing increased maritime domain awareness and enabling multi-domain fires through the employment of various sensors and collection assets from the island’s high ground.

3d Littoral Logistics Battalion’s Damage Control and Resuscitation Team (DCRT) – a team of Naval medical personnel uniquely equipped to provide enroute care, trauma resuscitation, and stabilization of patients – also supported the exercise from various islands.

The synchronization of U.S.-Philippine forces during the KAMANDAG 9 MKTSO showcased the increased ability of the partnered militaries to coordinate complex, all-domain operations and further demonstrated the ironclad U.S.-Philippine alliance.

3d Marine Littoral Regiment is a dedicated U.S. Marine Corps unit specializing in amphibious and littoral warfare operations. Stationed on Oahu, Hawaii, and deployed throughout the Indo-Pacific region, 3d MLR is committed to promoting regional security and stability through strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts with Allies and partner nations.

I will be so freaking happy when they get past these "simulations" and actual fire the fucking thing.

I've heard the complaints and I echo them.  This Force Design 2030 has been more than 5 years in the making and they still can't make it work.  Resupply, extraction, mobility, casevac....the whole thing is built on a house of cards.

It would have been simpler and easier to dedicate Marine Air to the naval battle and leave the ground forces untouched but no!  For some reason HQMC had visions of leading the naval battle from onshore.  They had illusions that a few ground radars and Marines in rubber raiders could somehow actually influence a high tech naval/air battle. 

For fuck's sake they even tried to dabble in sub hunting.

Marine Corps leadership is off on a tangent and no one in the Pentagon or the White House has the balls to yank some chains.

31st MEU | F-35B night flight operations B-Roll...Video by Sgt. Peter Rawlins

KAMANDAG 9: 3d LCT conducts notional fire mission with NMESIS during MKTSO...Photos by Cpl. Malia Sparks

QUART: ACV Movement...Photo by Sgt. Patrick Katz

QUART: ACVs embark, conduct qualifications aboard USS Harpers Ferry...Photos by Cpl. Luis Agostini

U.S. Marines Assigned to 22nd MEU Depart USS Iwo Jima...Photos by Seaman Andrew Eggert

 

Ok. I'm becoming a bit alarmed. Have you heard of Palantir and what it does/how Trump plans to use it?

 Don't know how many of you are into stocks.  A buddy of mine gave me a stock tip while we were grinding at the gym.  I looked into it and at first I saw the returns and thought wow!  It has jumped like the Hulk in the past few days.  Then I dug into what it is they do cause I never heard of them. 

Now I'm a bit alarmed.  Check this out via New York Times

In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power.

Mr. Trump has not publicly talked about the effort since. But behind the scenes, officials have quietly put technological building blocks into place to enable his plan. In particular, they have turned to one company: Palantir, the data analysis and technology firm.

Please read the article here. 

Then this from the Daily Beast.

Most Americans have never heard of Palantir. That’s by design. It doesn’t make phones or social platforms. It doesn’t beg for your data with bright buttons or discount codes. Rather, it just takes it. Quietly. Legally. Systematically. Palantir is a back-end beast, the silent spine of modern surveillance infrastructure.

Palantir’s influence isn’t hypothetical. It’s operational. From the battlefields of Ukraine to the precincts of Los Angeles, its software guides drone strikes, predicts crime, allocates police resources, and even helps governments decide which children might someday become “threats.” These aren’t sci-fi hypotheticals. They are pilot programs, already integrated, already scaling.

This software—Gotham, Foundry, and now its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP)—is designed to swallow everything: hospital records, welfare files, license plate scans, school roll calls, immigration logs and even your tweets. It stitches these fragments into something eerily complete—a unified view of you. With each data point, the image sharpens.

Here 

I know you're gonna ask why I'm alarmed.  This simply seems as a move to link govt databases in an effort to limit corruption.

Yes I agree that could be the case.  The problem is that we've been bombarded since 9/11 with efforts that are suppose to increase safety, efficiency and now corruption by BOTH political parties.

The unintended consequences always bite the little guy in the ass.  The fact that this isn't widespread news should alarm everyone.

Maybe I'm paranoid but it really seems like the business of govt is control, not serving the public but controlling it.

Want the best example?  Remember covid restrictions?  That wasn't about the safety of the public.  It was about control.  Remember the Patriot Act?  It wasn't about fighting terrorism.  Tools were already in place for that.  It was about control.

Remember this too.  Some of us bitched and whined but that's all.  Those measures are still in effect.  The damage done has never been corrected.  Only investigated.

In the modern era the differences between political systems seem thin ... at best. At worst they mirror each other.

Hegseth warns Chinese invasion of Taiwan ‘could be imminent’

 

Interesting.

I've been stating that this seems to be the war the Pentagon wants.  If China could/would invade Taiwan "imminently" then it will be a sight to behold.

The world will plunge into recession if not a depression and the Chinese economy will collapse with major internal problems to follow (probably here already).

I can't define imminent but some of the stuff I would expect to see isn't happening.  No propaganda, no shaping of minds on the global stage, and not even internal preparations.

I hope this is credible (because I would hate to think that they're shouting the war is coming bullshit) but I have to wonder.