Space Force; Trump trolls media
The president is always looking for ways to toss the media out of it’s orbit. His latest was at a San Diego Marine Corps base where he audibly ruminated about a “Space Force” to battle an enemy outside of our atmosphere, according to Associated Press.
Saying his national security strategy “recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea,” Trump said at a San Diego Marine Corps base that he’s considering “a space force” that would be the equivalent of the Air Force, Army and Navy.
Trump said at first he wasn’t serious when he floated the concept, but “then I said what a great idea, maybe we’ll have to do that.”
Last week we were treated to the media reaction to Trump’s apparent embracing of the idea of a President for life. This week, it’s hand-wringing over the United Federation of Planets taking over the solar system.
Expert level trolling.
Category: Politics
I’m gonna sign up. Hope I get to shower with all those hot chicks.
“ROUGH NECKS!”
And NJP punishments will be performed by the Company Gunny at the whipping post.
On the bounce, Trooper!
Service guarantees citizenship!
Am I the only one who felt especially trolled by the shower scene in the shitty “Starship Troopers” movie? I mean, besides the fact that the whole damn movie was trolling, basically Paul Veerhoeven saying that anyone who likes the book is a nazi, despite him admitting that he never actually read it.
But seriously, did anyone else feel like the coed shower scene was deliberately done with females who weren’t all that impressive naked? Especially given that this was a movie featuring a young, hot, pre-Charlie Sheen Denise Richards! I dunno, it felt like even more of a letdown than the rest of the movie, almost like that Dutch bastard was throwing viewers a bone in an otherwise unwatchable shitshow, only for that bone to be fragmented and devoid of flavor. Yet another reason to add to the list of why I wish movies came with some mechanism for viewer feedback (not IMDB reviews, something that goes straight to the director, editor, producer, et al) so I could tell Veerhoeven, “Yeah, fuck you, too!”
Not to mention that the Commandant of the Marine Corps (General “the Anus” Amos) had that book on his reading list; considered “professional reading” for Lance Criminals and Captains through CWO4:
http://www.marines.mil/News/Messages/Messages-Display/Article/886361/revision-of-the-marine-corps-professional-reading-program-list/
There is virtually no meaningful resemblance between the book and that unbelievably crappy movie.
As I’ve repeatedly said, in the opening credits it should read:
“Based very, very, very, very, VERY loosely on the novel by Robert A. Heinlein.”
What are guys talking about?
Starship Troopers was a classic!
It is in my list of 10 movies and TV shows most influential on my life, together with Stargate SG-1, Power Rangers, Continuum, and a bunch of anime you wouldn’t recognize (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Cowboy Bebop, Brain Powerd, Hunter X, Ghost in the Shell, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ergo Proxy, Vandred, Bleach, etc.)
That explains so much.
A lot of shit just started making sense about you, Yef…
Now, now, guys. Don’t be too hard on Yef. Still has those Hot Wheels tracks hidden somewhere in the attic at his mom’s house, never mind the Slinky thing, and the case of microwave popcorn with cheese.
Hey, hey, Slinkies are still cool!
Yef. Finish police call.
You don’t get laid at all, do you? Follow SFC D’s advice and DON’T eat the daisies the CSM has you picking out of the PT Field!
List of books, movies and TV shows most influential in my life:
Have Spacesuit – Will Travel – practically memorized it; nothing is impossible
Hennessy (Jackie Cooper made me join the Navy)
Zorro (sent me an autographed picture 😛 )
Indiana Jones/Raiders of the Lost Ark (Never tell me the odds!)
Star Wars (The rest of them were 😛 )
Alien/Aliens (In space, no one cares if you scream; they only care how you smell.)
Ghostbusters (Listen! Do you smell something?)
The Haunting (B&W version, scared the living doots out of 10 of us in the middle of a thunderstorm at Great Lakes)
All those cheap half-hour TV westerns: tell a complete story in less than 26 minutes or less than 10 pages, single spaced.
I grew up on afternoon reruns of the following:
Emergency!
Airwolf
The A-Team
The Virginian (still one of the greatest shows ever)
Hogan’s Heroes
The Twilight Zone
The High Chapparal
Adam 12
Dammit, how could I forget “High Chaparral?” Good ol’ western!
Redhead in the shower is all I have to say
Join the crew. I feel like we’ve been uncovering spaceship gunners for years here.
It should be a combined coalition force so that our allies can share the cost, with Space Battleship YAMATO as the flagship…
Would it come with hot Japanese chicks?
But of course…
I’m in.
Where do I sign…
Prinz Eugen
J.R. Is that the German War prize USS Prinz Eugen IX 300 which sunk during the Bikini atoll A bomb testing? I started to assemble a 1-400 scale model of the ship using brass parts/scratch built but model was so small, I gave it up.
It didn’t sink there, they towed it out and used it for more testing till it was deemed to be unfit for use. During transport for a deep sea scuttle it turned over and sank next to Carlos island on Kwajalein Atoll. Great dive site, been on it a few times as the aft sticks out of the water.
Only if Derek Wildstar is the Gunnery Officer.
…and if it comes with a wave motion gun.
The Navy will have to restore the battleship Yamato and rename it the “Argo”.
One of my favorite cartoons growing up!
United Space Fleet, consisting of Search & Rescue ships (Angels) to snatch populations in danger of decimation by the Enemy of All Humankind and Juggernaughts full of USFMarines — yeah, I’m on it!
Way ahead of DTrump! I was there firstest!
I’d better get my Space Shuttle Doorgunner cert framed!
The only good bug is a dead bug!
Yeah, it’s a bug hunt!
A Xenomorph? What?
“It’s a bug hunt.”
I’m ready, man! Check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do NOT wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don’t worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Fwap ! Fry half a city with this puppy! We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks…
The media doesn’t get it. He really gets off on making them panic every day. They think they’re showing the world how crazy he is, but they come off like Chicken Littles as they push a super pro-DNC agenda.
Meanwhile Trump’s supposed lack of understanding of international affairs has the Norks coming to the negotiating tables, apparently willing to denuclearize.
I need a corporal. You’re it, until you’re dead or I find someone better….
Join the Mobile Infantry and save the Galaxy. Service guarantees citizenship. Would you like to know more?
Not needed. The Javelin penetrates all known Martian armour.
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if your wondering, Starship Troopers was the only movie i had on my first toure in Iraq 🙂
You poor bastard. My condolences.
It gets a lot of crap and is so loosely related to the book it’s almost unrecognizable. It’s still one of my guilty pleasures.
They couldn’t send you ‘The Battle for Apache Pass’, could they? No, not that, not ‘Vera Crus’, not ‘El Cid’, not ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, not nothing that was worth the bother, just a hokey, ripoff of a book that someone else wrote.
That figures.
Where is Flash Gorden when you need him.
I’m in as long I don’t have to wear the red uniform. Those dudes always get killed first. At least on the old Trek.
Except Scotty. Don’t know why he got to have job security when nobody else did.
Trump is Rod Serling and the media is his Twilight Zone.
We should start a count on how many times he can get the media to holler ‘the sky is falling’.
If we start counting that, I’mma gonna need a much bigger spreadsheet, a couple of Tb of disk space, more Gb of memory…
Somewhere Robert Heinlein and Gene Rodenberry are smiling.
Heinlein spun in his grave when the “Starship Troopers” movie came out. And Roddenberry was a socialist atheist, so by his own belief he went nowhere.
Private Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Private Vasquez: No. Have you?
*grin*
“Game over, man! Game over!”
“I say we waste this ratfuck son of a bitch right here!”
“Nuke the [fake news orgs] from orbit–it’s the only way to be sure”
I’ll sign up, as long as they’ll still use Hueys.
Roger That!!
When the very last UH-60 Blackhawk is deleted from the active Army property books, a Huey will sling load it out to the boneyard./smile
I just found out that my department is planning on replacing our Huey fleet statewide with Blackhawks. Needless to say, this sacrilege faces widespread resistance (not that they care what we think, but still) on grounds of practicality as well as principle.
They are citing increased capability. We are saying, “Like what? Higher cost? Increased maintenance? More expensive parts? Type-transition training for pilots? Much larger required LZs? Much lower ground clearance for rotor blade tips? Increased fuel consumption?”
Not saying the Blackhawk is a bad aircraft, because it’s not. It outperforms the Huey in a lot of roles. But the Huey does more things better for less money, especially in the wide world of wildland firefighting. Blackhawks have been commercially available for decades, but Hueys—especially long-body single-engine H models—have been the mainstay of firefighting, because they are simply better for it. Big enough to carry a decent load without needing five clear, flat acres to land on, maneuverable, versatile, easy to fly (as helicopters go, anyway), and easy to fix. Even LA County Fire, the first to put a civvie Blackhawk on the fireline, still runs more Hueys, because they’re just better birds for the job.
I saw a pic once in the 80’s, a CH-54 slingloading a Chinook, a Huey slung below that, and a Loach slung below the Huey. Anybody know if that’s actually possible?
Anything is possible with Photoshop!
Actually wouldn’t surprise me. Skycranes (as we call the CH-54) can do some really amazing things.
Nope. Don’t think so. A set-up like that would create too much of an oscillation to pull off.
Saw me a Skycrane once with two Hueys strapped together side by side as a sling load, but I’m thinking having too many birds single file hanging under wouldn’t be possible to either hook up or unhook.
Just my thoughts as a Huey Crew Chief.
This was pre-photoshop. My thoughts were that a load that long with differing weights at intervals would set up some kind of sine wave and cause some major pilot intestinal issues.
There was an aerial logging company out of North Bend (Washington) that used to run Skycranes (I saw two). The last time I went through there, I went to look for them but the company had gone out of business. Always thought aerial logging was spendy as hell, but it was great to see a Skycrane for real.
Go someplace that’s on fire. You’ll see Skycranes with slingload buckets and modular tanks. Take your pick.
Thanks TOW! 🙂
My team was going to get sent up to a huge fire in NE WA a few years back. There was a decommissioned Uranium mine that was in the path of the fire and some folks in Western WA were concerned that if the area burned over there would be huge release of radioactive material. The thought was to do several series of air samples for radiochemical analyses. So we got ready to roll, someone reminded our Director that the fire was mostly on the Spokane Reservation and that we actually better ask permission to show up. The IC said thanks, but unless you are sending a fire engine with your radiation dudes, no thanks. I was willing to go, but we probably would have had to have a team of firefighters with us to provide some kind of safety and that would have removed a much needed elsewhere asset. Calmer minds prevailed and we stayed out of the way.
But I do love helimochoppers and the Skycrane is one awesome helo!
Hey, not all illegal aliens come into the US by land, sea, or air. We need to be protected on all fronts.
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He’s not trolling though. Liberals are hysterical about anything military and defense unless it involve a gay parade fornication in public that is.