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Eye pro
Some of you said that you knew Richard Rahn wasn’t a real sergeant major because he had his Eye Pro on his noggin; So I guess this guy isn’t a real sergeant major either; Actually, it’s Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler, my old friend, and taken at the Army 10-Miler at the Pentagon […]
The really important stuff
Yeah, all of this talk about 4,000 troops going to fight Ebola in Africa, a few thousand more to fight back ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the troops involved in Somalia, the Pentagon hiking healthcare costs, and the White House trying to cut the troops’ pay raise…can we get back to the really important issues. […]
Redefining “No direct Contact”
As you may have read few things to Hondo’s post a day ago about the DOD stating that there will be a portion of the deploying force that will have direct interaction with the Ebola virus. The DOD gave the following statement that this does not mean interaction with actively infected patients. “In response to […]
The Ebola issue
As it stands right now, I have mixed opinions about how to handle the Ebola question. On one hand, the way that this outbreak is going on is a serious concern. The World Health Organization made a statement that it expects the number of new Ebola outbreaks to increase exponentially. But also in the number […]
About That “Lack of Diversity in Army Officers” Claim . . . .
To put it succinctly: based on publicly-available data published by DoD, the claim appears to be bullsh!t. The “lack of diversity” claim appears in this article by the Washington Times, and in this article from USA Today. In each article, senior Army leadership appears to indicate that Blacks are “underrepresented” in the Army’s Commissioned Officer […]
Task Force Black to hunt IS
The UK’s Mirror reports that the UK and US are forming a team from Special Forces and Special Air Services troops who will hunt the leadership of the ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State. They’re calling the new unit Task Force Black, which should attract a good number of phonies to their ranks after a few successes; British special […]
Pentagon guidance on ice bucket challenge
Apparently, there are too many lawyers at the Pentagon who are not engaged in rewriting the rules of engagement every minute of every day for the troops who are involved with fighting the war against terror, so some of them got together and wrote rules of engagement for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. From the […]
The fix is in on the M4
Rowan Scarborough at the Washington Times writes that the Army abruptly ended tests seeking to select a new main battle rifle when at least one rifle showed signs of outperforming the M4A1; The report also says the Army changed the ammunition midstream to a round “tailored” for the M4A1 rifle. It quoted competing companies as […]
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