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Channel collision with US Jet fuel tanker
Don’t know if you have been following the story – the Stena Immaculate, a tanker part of the US fleet of ten ships which carry jet fuel for the military, was hit by a Portugese-flagged container ship east of England Monday. Fire broke out, both crews abandoned ship, the Solong container ship is expected to […]
AWOL Austin: National Security Risk
SECDEF Lloyd Austin Watchdog: Pentagon chief’s secret hospital stay ‘unnecessarily’ risky By Noah Robertson A Pentagon watchdog found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin needlessly risked U.S. national security by not immediately informing Congress and the White House of his hospitalization last January. “Although we found no adverse consequences to DoD operations arising from how the […]
FEMA Ignores Florida Trump Supporters
Report: FEMA Official Instructed Hurricane Relief Workers to Skip Trump Supporters Homes Elizabeth Weibel An official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) instructed hurricane relief workers to skip over the homes of supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, according to a recent report. Marn’i Washington, a FEMA supervisor, reportedly informed hurricane relief workers “verbally and […]
Thursday Terrorism
A trial is starting in France for 8 people, implicated in the beheading death of a French school teacher over Mohammed cartoons. The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty, who was killed by an Islamic extremist after showing caricatures of Islam’s prophet […]
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 […]
Sunken Superyacht Security Suspicions
I am sure that Internet surfers will recall the sinking of the $40,000,000 super-yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily last month – a sudden squall arose, and the brand new 184-foot boat quickly went down. Seven died, including billionaire Brit Mike Lynch. Boats at nearby anchorages weathered the storm fine. Multiple theories were aired […]
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 […]
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