Vet 0369
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6 hours ago, NamEndedAllen said:
Except unhappily now, in the USA. Growing proud displays and embrace of all things Nazi, Hitler by the white supremacy crowd across the country. Swastika flags flown even in some smaller cities (recently here in mine, during a “vandalism” knockout of our electrical utility service.)
Examples recent - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/box-truck-crashes-into-security-barriers-near-white-house-2023-05-23/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/07/texas-mall-shooting-few-details-knownAs a strict Constitutionalist, and not one of the offensive far-right or just one of the morons who were force-fed hatred by their even more moronic parents, I feel I must say that the First Amendment of the first 10 Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, known as The Bill of Rights, guarantees every citizen of the U.S the Right to Peacefully Assemble, the Freedom of Speech, and The Freedom of Association, among other things, even with those whom the “majority” feel are reprehensible. The only time an American Citizen can lose a right, since a right cannot be taken away, is if that right is used by the individual to harm another in some way, such as yelling “Fire” in a theater in order to cause a panic. As long as exercising one’s rights isn’t done directly to cause harm or violate an existing law, that person’s “right” cannot be taken away.
Even though we might find their speech and symbology disgusting, they have the right to express it.
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9 hours ago, Eddy said:
And that's the difference between a professional and a bloke sat on his sofa - I thought it was for obscuring the bridge somehow
This is the correct question to ask if you’re looking to develop an “intentions” profile. Like “why would the Russians be testing smoke devices to obscure movement over a bridge or water borne movement?” Or, “which way, to Crimea or from Crimea,” And “for what purpose?”
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2 hours ago, kevinkin said:
I am with you. For some reason the A10 has become a polarizing aircraft. Some still love it and others want to fade it out. Maybe it comes from turf wars. Army aviation vs USAF and the role each has in CAS. But having A10s on the sidelines without even giving them a try out in a war desperate for any available firepower is puzzling.
This is absolutely the reason. The Army LOVES the Hog (there’s nothing like a good”Brrrrrrt” for close air support, except USMC F/A-18 Super hornets), and the Air Force “Fighter Mafia” has been trying to get it cancelled and later obsoleted so they can use that funding for more “glamorous” and dazzling fighters. It has been a very public, bitter, and long running fight. The Hog does have some every strong Air Force, Army, and Congressional supporters though.
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4 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Yup, technically. In reality I think the Marines view the Navy as an aquatic Uber service.
Steve
Yes, you’re absolutely correct. Whenever Sailors would tell us that Marines were part of the Navy and needed the Navy to take them where they needed to go, we’d simply reply, “Yup, everyone needs their taxi service.” That said though, the Navy and Marines have always supported and complemented each other’s missions. Unlike two of the other branches who are constantly trying to “one-up”each other and steal the others funding while still constantly arguing over whether the Army is violating the 1949 Key West Accords that created the Air Force by arming helicopters.
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3 hours ago, Splinty said:
Actually the US Marines are technically part of the US Navy, but generally are treated as their own branch.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps historically reported to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), which is the Navy. The Commandant now directly to the Secretary of the Navy to whom the CNO also reports. So, by extension, it appears that the CNO has the Navy, and the Commandant has the Marine Corps. The Commandant also now has a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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13 minutes ago, sburke said:
They have been pushing the boundaries on this for a bit now, but with a very questionable amount of internal support. The real issue is China, but the supplying of arms to Ukraine may be part of a strategy to loosen the public perception.
Pacifist Japan unveils biggest military build-up since World War Two | Reuters
Danke
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9 hours ago, Beleg85 said:
One of more unusual and interesting players in background of this conflict is Japan.
I read that Japanese PM just promised more direct military support in Hiroshima, too, in the form of combat vehicles and perosnnal eqiupment. There are rumours among some millexperts that Japanese are also very active in prividing signal and humint intelligence, but this will probably be widely only known years from now. Several interviewed volunteers in Int. Legion mentioned that they were surprised to see not-small amount of Japan volunteers, too.
To be honest, this would basically stun me. If I’m not mistaken, Japan has very specific provisions in their Constitution to prevent any sort of “extra-territorial” involvement in conflicts. I would be very interested to see how the Government could circumvent those Constitutional provisions.
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12 hours ago, Kinophile said:
For the vets here, Ref battlefield medicine.
This netting on the guys head is for what? I assume a good purpose, of course, but what exactly?
NYT front page.
Not something I have seen before, but I’m sure it’s a newer innovation to maintain pressure on a head wound. One of the reasons for the U.S. Military hair regulations is because you can bleed to death very quickly from a head wound if there is a lot of hair between the wound and the direct pressure dressing.
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19 hours ago, Aragorn2002 said:
Old habbits die hard.
Oh boy! First Orcs and Mordor, and now Habbits?
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On 5/4/2023 at 7:45 PM, Fenris said:
My reading pertains mainly to the German experience in the east.
That mi amigo, is about 80 years out of date. Sort of like the weapons differences between the U.S. Civil War in 1865 and WWII in 1945!
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On 5/4/2023 at 5:01 PM, Artkin said:
Is ammunition so short for the tanks? 78 rounds of munition is nothing when you're talking about a company of troops. If you give one of those soldiers a job in a factory I bet you he would make hundreds of rounds a year single handedly.
From my point of view, the C.O.’s punishment probably wasn’t so much because they used so many rounds than the fact they disobeyed orders and violated what we would call “fire discipline.” I remember one time when a member of a sister Squadron who was on a deployment to an Air Force base got caught spray painting his Squadron insignia on the Air Force fighters. The result of his “Non-judicial (Office Hoursj assessment was a punishment of a $50.00 fine, to be paid at the rate of $1.or per month, not because of what he did, but for getting caught!
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On 5/4/2023 at 11:43 AM, sburke said:
Ha I was once accused by a cop of breaking windows in a windowless storage shed!
Were you? Come on, you’re old enough to fess up now. LOL
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3 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Exactly this. The importance of these attacks is to force Russia into acting as if there is a high level of threat. Damage is highly desirable, but getting the Russians to expend energy on counter measures and/or implementing solutions that degrade military capabilities is a win for sure.
Steve
Exactly this! When you look at the first U.S. air attack on Tokyo, what was the actual result, very little damage, but a major Japanese move of Air and Naval assets to protect Tokyo, at the expense of supporting the overall war effort.
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2 hours ago, Fenris said:
Another view, smoking in the cockpit again Yuri?
Looks to me like a fan or turbine came apart, or, it could have been a natural even such as a large bird strike. This is the time of year when geese, ducks, and others begin migrating to nesting sites in the Arctic. We’ll probably never know.
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On 4/21/2023 at 5:04 AM, Butschi said:
Luckily I can't speak from any personal experience but I think there is also a difference between killing in the heat of battle or shortly thereafter (like executing enemy soldiers who try to surrender) and deliberately killing in cold blood.
In the Book of Exodus of the Bible, it recounts how Joshua orders killing every living being, even animals, except the “witch” who helped breach the defenses, and then required anyone who had blood on themselves, their clothing, or their weapons, to perform a “ritual cleansing” for five days before returning to the Hebrew camp.
Do you think that even that long ago they knew it wasn’t a good thing to take allow warriors who had just butchered an entire city population to rejoin society right away. And to anyone who wants to invoke “ethnic cleansing,” if I’m not mistaken, the Hebrews were in fact also a Canaanite tribe.
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On 4/20/2023 at 6:05 PM, womble said:
Doesn't he have the Kerch Bridge in the wrong slot in that OOB? Is it worth leaving up as a rat-escape-route, vs dropping it to deny rail and road supply?
Sun T. said to always leave your enemy an escape route because an enemy without one will always fight like a cornered animal. (Paraphrased.)
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On 4/20/2023 at 12:35 PM, Beleg85 said:
For me personally (and professionally-happened to write some articles on how massed combat was viewed through Eastern Roman military manuals back in academia times) the human averse to killing is fascinating topic. It is not directed by higher ethics (this layer exist, but let's face it- it's easily breacheable) but by more primitive, apish impulses- chiefly, danger of direct reciprocity. We are very, very social animals when in crowds, even at mirroring behaviour of persons we want to immediatelly kill. Take for examples these stories from Crimean or Civil War when soldiers armed to their teeth in lethal muskets suddenly started to pick stones or even snowballs (!) and within seconds deadly serious battle could turn into throwing contest. Something very similar we are witnessing now in "club war" on India/China border. Quite amazing that in XXI cent. both sides prefer to behave like Stone Era warriors, even developing their own creative tactics, marking champions from both sides (there was an article year ago about one Sikh soldier who get "touched" most enemies with his club) or agreeing on "safe spaces" where wounded can crawl.
It's deadly, lethaly serious, but also so silly in the same time. Homo sapiens are strange creatures.
There are many theories as to why this type of behavior exists. The human psychology at this point in time is probably well beyond what we (Scientists, Anthropologists,Psychologists, etc) are capable of understanding at this point in time. The switch from “war game” to “war” can be almost instantaneous. There are many documented examples of men, and women, involved in an organized and planned military war game has suddenly devolved into an actual battle with entrenching tools, bayonets, combat knives, rocks, helmets, etc. I saw it in a NATO operation in Norway when Norwegian Infantry asked us if we had bayonets. We said no, and asked why they wanted to know. They told us that an SAS unit (aggressors) they had attacked the previous night, had fixed bayonets and stuck a couple of their unit.
When I was in a militia Minuteman group re-enacting pre and eventual colonial battles in the U.S. Bicentennial in 1974 and 1975, ram rods were required to be wired into the ram rod slot of all muskets and pistols because of the frequency of the ram rods flying down range at “the enemy, and no one was allowed to carry a bayonet or knife. There is something about our psyche that puts those turns of events on a hair-trigger.
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7 hours ago, Battlefront.com said:
Since Vet 0369 is obviously just catching up, I'll restate that we're trying to move on from the security stuff.
Steve
Yes Sir! You are absolutely correct. You know us old folks are a lot slower than you young whippersnappers!
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On 4/16/2023 at 6:50 AM, Ultradave said:
My dept. manager had to certify I needed access and include the letter (e-mail) appointing me to the review team. Legitimate need for access, and I had more than enough security clearance, just until then, did not have the need-to-know.
This is how it's SUPPOSED to work. IMO something at that ANG organization is quite lax and I would guess that's being looked into. We aren't the only ones realizing this.
This!!! I held security clearances at two major Corporations that made aircraft /engines for the U.S. Military. At one plant, the color of the numbers on your badge designated your clearance (white being no clearance). If you were caught in a secure area for which you didn’t have the required clearance, you and the supervisor of that area were fired on the spot. I also held a clearance while I worked for the FAA, but never saw a document for which I didn’t have the need to know.
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On 4/15/2023 at 11:48 PM, sburke said:
Yeah but I still don't think they will.
One never knows what they will or won’t do. When you kick a pile of garbage, you don’t know what might hiding in it, and what might come scrambling out. This young airman undoubtably has Senior NCOs and Officers above him, and at least in the U.S.M.C., the ranking NCOs and Officers can be held responsible for their subordinates actions where or not they are there with them.
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On 4/15/2023 at 11:03 PM, NamEndedAllen said:
Really? *A* clearance? I have family members much older than him, who sweated through the full SSBI or Full and TS/SCI process. It’s an 8-15 month trip. This wildly bigoted and troubled not-an-exemplary kid’s religion has nothing to do with the process. Regardless, we all know (or with any science background, darn well should know ) 19–ish year old teenage brains have not matured. The last part of the brain to mature is the frontal cortex. Where good judgement, self-control, social skills, and decision-making skill come from. So yeah. Not arguing about the drinking or voting age, or recruitment age. I do think it’s playing with fire to put “scores” of 19-21 year olds fresh out of high school into positions with full access to SCIFs material and entry into the JWICS. With no ability or program to monitor the changes these 19 year olds go through on their way to actual biological maturity. What could go wrong? BTW, anyone think he never spouted off about his government conspiracy racist fantasies to anyone anywhere else?
Lastly, the US.military is sufficiently large to revise and assign this critical responsibility to an age appropriate rank and paygrade. The number of slots is “scores”, not “hundreds”. Do we really need to gamble like this? No. While of course it’s no silver bullet, it’s a LOT easier than trying to institute some sort of Total Big Brother real time microscope on every minute of people’s lives.
‘The part of the brain behind the forehead, called the prefrontal cortex, is one of the last parts to mature. This area is responsible for skills like planning, prioritizing, and making good decisions”... and… “The brain finishes developing and maturing in the mid-to-late 20s.” https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-teen-brain-7-things-to-know
First of all, we’re talking about the AIR NATIONAL GUARD here, not the U.S. Air force. The National Guard is a STATE Organization. It is only Federal when activated by the Federal Government. It is what used to be known as the MILITIA. While they have enlisted and Officers, those report to State officials, are paid by the State, and their Retirements are State retirements. In fact, most activites are performed by Civilian Employees who only become “Military” during their drill weekends and annual two-week active duty training. Now, that said, he might be an active duty Air Force enlisted who is assigned to the National Guard unit, the same as an Inspector/Instruction Staff of a U.S. Marine Reserve unit. He might not be in the Air Force at all, just the Guard. I take very little of the media information for the “talking heads” at face value.
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On 4/15/2023 at 9:45 PM, sburke said:
what planet do you live on where "good Christian boy" precludes bizarre sexual behavior? For all their ranting about gay drag queen groomers, the worst groomers I've seen are these "good Christian leaders".
anyway I doubt this idiot is gonna get hit with the full ton of bricks. He wasn't passing to a foreign intelligence agency or trying to sell them, just being really stupid.
I’m not sure about this. The Government and the military have a history of going for the absolute maximum penalties in order to dissuade idiots from repeating this type of breach.
I agree with you about the “good Christian” analysis. All you have to do is look at the sexual abuse by Clergy revelations and convictions.
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14 hours ago, Letter from Prague said:
Are you sure brain is the part you want to protect the most? Have you thought about anti-probe tinfoil underpants?
Nah, at his age it’s definitely his brain he wants to protect more.
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13 hours ago, Cogust said:
I would be surprised if there were burn bags, that sounds like a bad solution, I would expect that hard copies are shredded instead to destroy them instantly when they are no longer needed.
That is how we do it from where I am from, we also have to register all S and TS hard copies and sign for them to be able to take them away. I thought that was common sense, but apparently not.
My belief is that they should shred the paper into a burn bag. I’m preteen sure that many members on this thread weren’t even born when Iranian University Students took the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. One of the unfortunate things that came out of that was that Embassy Staff shredded many documents because the burning was backlogged. Unfortunately, Students worked on the bags of shredded paper as they would with a jigsaw puzzle, and reassembled the which proved VERY embarrassing for the U.S. Government. I heard the process now is to shred and then burn.
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Yes, the new insignia is very similar, but not identical to the Polish insignia.