Military issues
Hey, Snowflake!!! Got a Minute?
This is literally priceless. If you’re a British snowflake, your Queen wants YOU in the Army!! Now!!! And this campaign is working, too, per this article. https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/03/28/what-the-us-army-can-learn-from-the-brits-snowflake-recruiting-campaign/ This was part of what has made it successful: Teamed with a private marketing firm, a plan coalesced around the idea of belonging. “Actually, soldiers who serve for […]
Missile Defense System Takes out Test ICBM Threat
The Missile Defense Agency recently conducted a test of the missile defense system. This test required two Ground-Based Interceptors against a target that served as the ICBM threat. The first hit the target, then the second scanned the results and hit the next biggest target. From Defense News: In the Monday test, the lead GBI […]
First Black Navy SEAL – Still Going Strong
NBCNews has reported that Navy Master Chief Bill Goines is still going strong, even in retirement. Goines, 82, believes it was sheer grit and determination in the face of all obstacles that helped him become one of the first original U.S. Navy SEALs, a military team created by President John F. Kennedy in 1962. It […]
“Love that dirty water…”
“…Offutt you’re my home.” Home Of Strategic Command And Some Of The USAF’s Most Prized Aircraft Is Flooding Offutt Air Force Base is succumbing to the massively swollen Missouri River and things could get worse before they get better. Things are not going well at the Air Force’s strategic base near the flooding Missouri River. […]
Female Scout Sniper Leaders Course Grad
NewsRep reports that for the first time in history a female has graduated the Marine Corps Scout Sniper Leaders Course. A female Marine lieutenant has become the first woman in history to graduate from the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Scout Sniper Unit Leaders Course. Previously, the Marine officer, who is a candidate for a […]
CNO defends hiding scathing internal report on Fitzgerald collision from public
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John M. Richardson participated in a town hall discussion about the challenges and successes of the past year during the AFCEA West Conference in San Diego on Friday. (Defense.gov) Before going further, please read the ProPublica report kindly forwarded to us by B-Bob on the Fort Jackson post. It’s everything […]
Air Force general calls himself out for wearing upside-down ribbon rack during State of the Union
A key characteristic of a good leader is one’s ability to put pride aside and admit one’s own mistakes. That’s exactly what Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, did Wednesday when he shared with the social media masses a gaffe he committed while attending President Donald Trump’s State of the […]
Donald Trump: Breaking With The Past..
..and The Beltway Ain’t Happy. President Trump is taking an axe to the old ways of doing the nations business. From Iran to China, the Middle East and the Korean Peninsula he’s pulled out of arrangements made by the previous administration, re-negotiated treaties in America’s favor, and wants to end the nearly 70 year old […]
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