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Katt Williams’ Marine claims questioned
CBS News has a story today about comedian Katt Williams. The funnyman has long claimed to have earned his EGA by finishing Marine boot camp, only to be tossed when they found out he was underage. When CBS asked the Corps for their version of events, they said, “Who?” From CBS; Katt Williams, the Emmy-winning […]
New toys
MBDA, the European defense contractor (part of their MIC, in other words) just announced a new variant on the venerable Exocet anti-ship missile. Sounds like a winner on paper. “It features a doubled range in the class of 120km with a new turbojet engine, to regain the stand-off distance in anti-submarine warfare,” Pierre-Marie Bealleau, head […]
Malcolm Nance loses it, has a persecution fetish
Malcolm Nance is a retired US Navy senior chief petty officer, who was a naval cryptologist in his active duty days. He retired in 2001, and didn’t return to duty after 9/11 like so many recent retirees felt the call to when the country was attacked, he instead went to work for organizations such as […]
CENTCOM CG under investigation for shoving Airman
Pictured is Army General Michael Kurilla. He’s the commanding general for CENTCOM, which covers operations in Southwest Asia and the Middle East. Of the unified combatant commands, it’s usually where all the action is the last few decades. As such, commanding it can be a springboard to higher command/office. Petraeus, Mattis, and Austin are among […]
Marine SgtMaj steals valor, loses all four rockers
Breaking news last night, of a Marine Corps sergeant major losing all of his rockers after pleading guilty to wearing awards that he was not entitled to. This included a CAR and Purple Heart, but he really fleshed out his fruit salad with a lot of extra awards. I don’t know how he ***edited to […]
Private that defected to North Korea gets time served, and the Navy solves their retention issues
You’ll remember Travis King, soon to be formerly a private in the US Army, was the boneheaded turd that was supposed to be escorted to the airport to fly back to the states from South Korea. As I recall he was being chaptered out. Somehow he slipped his guard, snuck into a tour group visiting […]
Scathing report indicts LCS’s entire Chief’s Mess in WiFi scandal
A while back, in one of my Stupid people of the week features, I mentioned the above pictured sailor. In June she was convicted at court martial and reduced in grade to E-7 for installing and utilizing an unauthorized WiFi set up while her ship (USS Manchester [LCS-14]) was under way. Her bio indicates she has […]
Stupid people of the week
A woman clocked in for work at Wells Fargo on Friday at 7 a.m. 4 days later, she was found dead at her desk. There’s an investigation underway in Tempe after a Wells Fargo employee died while on the job. A new timeline released by police suggests her body was there for four days before […]
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