Army
Friday footnotes
Nothing big and urgent that I can see today, so here are a few quickies. First off, the House Veteran’s Affairs Committee held a hearing on the use of psychedelics like MDMA or psilocybin in treating trauma like PTS(D). Researchers for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, or MAPS, have studied the safety and effectiveness […]
Crappy Tuesday posts
Remember a while back we discussed that the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) has a practice they call “titling’. The suit addresses an obscure military process known as “titling,” in which the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) creates a permanent record showing a soldier was the subject of an investigation regardless of whether they are […]
Army veteran allegedly threatened to kill soldiers in California
Christian Ernest Beyer, 41, was court martialed in 2021 for assault. In a separate incident, Beyer threatened a group of elderly people with a knife. After he brandished the knife, he got into his car and drove towards them. The current arrest involves a statement that Beyer made on YouTube under his own name. Beyer […]
CAS? What’s that?
Looks like the Air Force is once again doing its schizoid dance over close air support (CAS.) I’m pretty sure I dated bipolar psycho virgins who were more consistent. We all know the on-again, off-again saga of the A-10. The Air Force hates the damn plane and is doing all they can to shake off […]
Maine’s senators call for investigation of U.S. Army’s interaction with Maine shooter
Maine’s two senators are calling on the U.S. Army to provide an account of the interactions between members of the Army and Robert Card. His fellow soldiers raised the alarm about him, with one of their text messages stating that Card was going to snap and do a mass shooting. His apparent mental state during […]
Linguists not cunning
The Army Times says fewer than half of Army and Marine special operations personnel competed any of their mandatory annual.linguistic special training in the last five years. The Government Accountability Office reviewed five years’ worth of data and interviewed various special operators and commanders following a fiscal year 2022 congressional request for a report on […]
Monday Miscellaneous
Ah yes, the dawn of a new week. From the TV ads, time to start practicing “Bah, Humbug!” to be sure it snarls appropriately, like am unmuffled Triumph. First up (or down, depending on Willie Brown’s whereabouts) our Vice President showed off her exquisite sense of timing again. Evidently, beside curing the border and walking […]
Saturday Sound bites
At Ft. Bliss (no doubt the most misnamed post – I know it was named for a person and not a state of mind, but still…) 1st Armored held a competition for Best Paralegal. PFC Richard Zheng won, and had one request for his winner’s prize: Zheng, whose battalion is part of the division’s 3rd […]
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