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ICE paying recruiting bonuses
ICE is offering signing bonuses… pretty sweet ones. The agency is hoping to recruit deportation officers and other agency roles with signing bonuses of up to $50,000, and student loan debt forgiveness of up to $60,000. Other benefits include higher-than-standard overtime pay and promises of enhanced retirement benefits. The recruitment drive aims to double […]
Wednesday short takes
That Earth-shattering Big Story? Not today. First up, you may remember the odd case of the Massachusetts cop who was trying to buy a gun for his cop job and triggered an ICE response? A Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities has agreed to voluntarily leave the country, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]
Saturday oopsie
Well, it had been had an interesting week – the President doesn’t know Alaska from Russia, a Reaper drone lost its propeller, a Stolen Valor pissing contest went to using real bullets, a screwing couple really screwed the pooch (at least we know they felt the earth move, right?) – sorta thought things would calm […]
Hellfire upgrade
When you are fielding a missile already capable of taking out ‘most any conventional armored target on the planet, what do you do next? Give it a very UNconventional warhead maybe? Typically anti-armor stuff either makes a big bang, a focused bang, or has a specialized projectile that can do something spiffy like ‘blow through […]
Friday various
Kind of a good-news/bad-news article. Let’s start with the good: The Royal Navy is decommissioning the last of its Trafalgar-class hunter-killer subs. Considered as quiet (or more so) than our Los Angeles class boat, the first started being built and the last, the HMS Triumph, was finally pulled from service last week, almost 50 years […]
Trump goes golfing
The Golfer-in-Chief (a much more flattering name than his current nickname) has been in Scotland this week, playing one of his signature golf courses. and apparently striking a tariff agreement along the way. Seems like his usual ratio – a day or so work, followed by a few days golfing. This time, though, despite the […]
Why Details Matter
Attention to detail. Basically, an obsession drilled into anyone connected to the military – every little thing matters, and an error here can cause someone to get killed there. So we all had the religion of ATD drilled into us, right? Cause if you don’t…at minimum it gets embarassing. You may remember when, last year […]
Monday New Stuff
First up- Jeff LPH sends that per the Army Times there’s new rats for the troops. Supposedly they they have trimmed down the size and weight of the ration packs so troops can carry 5 day’s worth of rations where they formerly carried 3. The CCAR will replace the First Strike Ration and has a […]
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