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Family of still-missing WWII Medal of Honor recipient asks DOD to stop using his name
Alexander “Sandy” Nininger was a 1941 graduated of West Point and was in the Philippines, assigned to the Philippine Scouts, when America was attacked by Imperial Japan. Hours after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, they attacked the Philippines, surprising most of the aircraft on the ground, destroying them. So began a months long valiant […]
Thanks to Trump, troops are no longer forced to get experimental vaccines
This actually has nothing to do with any policy from the Trump administration, it’s just a by-product of the rampant TDS in society. Since the COVID vaccine was developed during Trump’s tenure, people don’t trust it. Whether that wariness is warranted or not is beside the point. The US military has a long tradition of […]
More MoH upgrades possible
The current defense budget, which is facing a veto threat from President Trump, includes a provision to waive the time limit for award of the Medal of Honor for four men. One of those is Sergeant First Class Alwyn Cashe, who we talked about yesterday. Trump already signed a separate bill authorizing Cashe to receive […]
We’re pulling out of Somalia
Both Jeff LPH 3 and the KoB have sent in this one, so I figured I better get at it. We’re finally leaving another place where we’ve been trying to force people to civilize. Pentagon says ‘majority’ of US troops leaving Somalia Pentagon officials announced Friday that the “majority” of U.S. troops stationed in Somalia […]
General Milley drops 15 megaton truth bomb
US Army General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the country’s highest ranked military officer has just spoke to our efforts in Afghanistan. “We believe now that after 20 years, two decades of consistent effort, that we he have achieved a modicum of success,” he said. Boom! What a honest assessment of […]
I used to like Mattis
Then I saw this headline from Military.com; Mattis Calls on Biden to Scrap ‘America First’ Policy, Slow Pullout from Afghanistan Da fuq? American First should be every Americans’ agenda. It wasn’t until after WWII that we even considered world affairs our business. Many, if not most, Americans supported isolationism until after the war when we […]
Trump bringing home the troops
Well most anyway. Breaking news! CNBC is covering the announcement from the acting Secretary of Defense that Trump has ordered all but 2,500 troops each in Iraq and Afghanistan home by January 15. Acting Pentagon chief Christopher Miller said Tuesday that the United States will reduce its military presence in Afghanistan to 2,500 troops and […]
The Associated Press still expect Trump to become a tyrant at the head of a military junta
Military Times ran this AP article with the title Military wary that shakeup could upend its apolitical nature. Whoa, this is concerning. What have people, such as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs said that the AP is so concerned? General Milley, the CJCS, said that the US Constitution is the “moral North Star” for everyone […]
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