Military issues
New Army personnel system working as expected
Let’s be clear about this…”working as expected” if you’ve spent maybe 50 years watching how ‘well’ Army personnel systems work. Working well from an objective, “gets the job done efficiently and well in a timely manner version of ‘well’?” Uh, no, not so much. The outage, which is preventing the Army from issuing DD-214 discharge […]
Work begins for removal of Confederate names from DOD assets
The Pentagon ordered subordinate organizations to start working on the removal of names and artifacts associated with the Confederacy. Nine Army installations in the southern states and a couple of Navy ships will be renamed as a part of this order. The associated names must be removed from correspondence and other items related to the […]
National Guard Soldiers paid late due to expired continuing resolution
Many National Guard Soldiers across the country did not get their final pay for the year, which was scheduled before Christmas. The continuing resolution that temporarily funded the government expired before the checks could be issued, so pay was put on hold pending approval of the budget for the current fiscal year. Note on delayed pay […]
Twitter assisted U.S. Military PSYOP contrary to policy
Twitter released another round of Twitter Files, their eighth round. These files highlighted Twitter’s support for U.S. Military PSYOP. Twitter did this quietly, as its official position was that it would shut down state run covert information operations and deception. However, Twitter worked with the military so that they could get information operations accounts verified. […]
Defense Secretary wants to keep vaccine mandate
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated that he wanted to keep the COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place in the military. He mentioned that the virus killed a lot of people, and that the DOD had lost hundreds to the pandemic. Austin believes that the mandate has kept people healthy. From ABC News: ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY […]
Americans see the military as too politicized
According to a recent survey done by the Reagan National Defense Forum, a majority of Americans see the US military as too politicized. Half of Americans are worried that the military is too woke. Conservatives point to the emphasis on “wokeness” in the military, while the left claim that the “far-right” or “extremist” individuals in […]
GOP Discovers Woke Military
During a House Armed Services hearing, Florida Congress Critter Matt Gaetz asked SECDEF Lloyd Austin about his thoughts on Critical Race Theory in the military. Austin dismissed the issue saying, “We do not teach critical race theory. We don’t embrace critical race theory, and I think that’s a spurious conversation.*” This exchange occurred over a […]
Reduction of US defense stockpiles in support of Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has not just depleted defense stockpiles held by both the Ukrainians and the Russians. It has also depleted stockpiles held by the United States and by other Western countries. Would the US and its allies have enough defense stockpiles to support Taiwan or another country facing similar invasions? It does not […]
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