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VA suicide prevention efforts need more focus on gun safety training
Here we go again. The VA is said to need to spend more energy on talking about gun safety training to combat veteran suicides? If there’s one group of people you don’t need to waste time on gun safety with, it’s a group of veterans. Every single veteran has already received firearms safety training in some form […]
Can the Air Force train new pilots without planes?
They’re gonna try. Worlds greatest military power that’s ever existed and we’re strapping our new pilots into VR goggles to teach them how to fly multi-engine combat aircraft. You can’t make this shit up. What’s next, is the Navy going to teach seamanship exclusively from stone frigates? Are the Marines going to teach amphibious assaults […]
DoD fails audit, sees Ukraine as ‘teachable moment’ in accountability
We can learn a lot from Ukraine. Apparently the current lesson to learn is that we need to stop wasting so much money. No, not like that, like in the way that we got a lot of shit and don’t know where it is. From Defense News; As the Pentagon racked up its fifth comprehensive audit […]
Air Force’s turn in the barrel
Well, I’ve puked on Army programs, the Navy and today the youngest services get their turn. The new AF/SF personnel evaluations system, myEval, debuted to fanfare in February as a cloud-based eval system designed to make everyone’s life faster and easier The system is also supposed to automatically pull in information from the centralized personnel […]
Military short takes: Russian losses, another LCS down, C130H followup
Russian Ukraine losses estimated. America’s top general estimated on Wednesday that Russia’s military had seen more than 100,000 of its soldiers killed and wounded in Ukraine, and added Kyiv’s armed forces “probably” suffered a similar level of casualties in the war. But Milley’s remarks offer the highest U.S. estimate of casualties to date in the […]
USCG Recruitment Woes
Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet recruiting goals, as noted in any of several articles posted here by the usual suspects. Stands to reason the malaise has reached the smallest service, too. Mick sends us an article on what lengths the Department of Homeland Security is willing to go to fill […]
Pentagon says UFOs are either spies or airborne trash
The Pentagon is set to release another report on UFOs. This on the tail of the Navy releasing a couple of videos recently of said UFOs. Their findings are that it’s either foreign spies or airborne trash. I thought the PC term for airborne trash was “Naval Aviator”. I kid. I kid. Only because I’m […]
Government tells SCOTUS colleges have to stay racist to bolster national security
The Supreme Court is set to rule on affirmative action at colleges. The way it’s been for the last ~30 years is that de jure racism in the name of “diversity” is a good thing. Not enough of a particular race group get good enough grades, SAT/ACT scores, or pre-requisite education? No problem. Just lower […]
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