Quick updates: Norks, Recruiting snafu, Homeless vet count drops, Illegal Mick, WH kills 4-star nom
The Norks continue to try and twist the tail of the lion…provoking an attack by provoking an attack so they can try to sucker-punch the South with nukes. Remember the fat playground bully who tried to terrorize kids by provoking them to fight, then when the first punch was thrown ran crying to a teacher to get the other kid in trouble? Me too. We can add to their list of missiles from small to purported ICBM (more properly classified as IRBMs) scrambling up to 180 fighters to orbit and make the ROKs nervous.
South Korea scrambled dozens of military aircraft, including advanced F-35 fighter jets, after tracking about 180 flights by North Korean warplanes inside North Korean territory in what appeared to be a defiant show of strength. North Korea‘s aerial exercises came after the it test-fired around 30 ballistic missiles over the two previous days, including an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday that triggered evacuation warnings in Japan, in an angry response to U.S.-South Korea joint air force drills involving hundreds of their warplanes.CBS News
Saturday update – Just to make Kim and the lads feel better, the US flew a coupla B1Bs around the ROK yesterday. Think either of those Bones can carry the equivalent of more than the entire Nork arsenal in payload. The games continue.
Army Recruiting
A bit back we talked about an issue where up to 1900 many folks who had received headhunter bonuses (G-RAP) for recruiting wound up in the FBI’s NCIC database whether investigated, tried, convicted, or not – costing some their jobs and careers.
“We expect to have the majority of these investigations reviewed and corrected by the end of 2022, though a few may extend into early 2023,” Gregory Ford, director of CID said Thursday.
Ford noted that for those who were negatively impacted by the sweeping investigation, any sort of compensation or relief will likely be determined on an individual basis.
“The Army has repeatedly denied these same facts over the last decade,” O’Connell told Army Times. “The admissions today are the result of negative media coverage and a desire to resurrect the G-RAP program to compensate for failing recruiting numbers.”
End of this year…sort of like the Navy sorting out their DD-214 issue by September. Me, I’m not holding my breath for the poor sods who innocently participated and got screwed by the NCIC listings.
For what should be a piece of GOOD news for a change, vet homelessness dropped 11% since 2020…but the stats are from the same government which cheered a large Social Security COLA triggered by the same inflation they largely caused. They say only 33,000 vets are chronically homeless now…my math is a tad weak but that tells me the number has been reduced by what, 1000 per calendar year? Wonder what all those programs cost during that time – might have been better just to cut the deserving vets a check for, oh, say $100K each. (No, the selection of that particular pic is not accidental – he’s the “good samaritan homeless vet” who helped scam a lot of compassionate folks a while back.)
And it has been confirmed that David DePape, Mr. Pelosi’s assailant, is indeed illegal and facing deportation. No word on any Irish ancestry.
The White House is said to have killed the nomination of LGEN Walter Piatt for promotion since they believe he was “too slow” to respond to a plea for National Guard troops on January 6. (Posse Comitatus, anyone?)
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth and Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville supported the nomination of Piatt, the Post reported.
LGEN Piatt was essentially forced into retirement despite the support of the normal Perfumed Prince cabal listed.
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So the Deimoscrats’ Open Borders policy let DePape stay in the country until he attacked one of the self-elected Elites. Irony is more than a tire iron I guess. But it will be lost on the Deimoscrats.
As for Gen. Piatt, what petty, vile, vain, vindictive, small minded, souless cretins occupy the White House. Though he should really drop that last ‘t’ and become PIAT.
I am a legal Mick.
Do not…. seeeekkk….. the treasure….
As to Paul Pelosi and Pepe Le’ Pew, it has been reported that ICE placed a detainee on the “alleged undocumented immigrant”. It will be interesting if San Francisco does turn him over for federal immigration issues, since San Francisco, and California, are “sanctuaries” who have laws in place forbidding any cooperation with Federal Immigration officials.
And as a side note, Chris Plante of WMAL (DC Talk Radio Station) would like everyone to know that Stately Pelosi Manor does not have any solar panels. Looks like they want to destroy the planet. How dare them!
Come to think of it, last I heard, NOT ONE house or mansion owned by Al Gore Junior has even one solar panel on it. OH, and Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s use of USG Jets for travel, her spending six-figure sums on booze for her travels,… all while she and her ilk try to tell US that we need to eat bean sprouts and ride the bus.
Well, that ICE detainer will be meaningless until Depape completes his prison sentence. So, it will be many years from now before ICE will liberate him from the BJT deli.
Damn! This thread’s subjects coulda gone under the Stupid People of the Week Heading.
Sometimes there is a fine line between snark-worthy targets and SPOW. Actually, MOST of the targets are SPOWs. But, hey, I gotta have something to write too. I am refraining from my rant about Americans and how the car industry leads them around by their dicks… guaranteed to irritate almost everyone.
I do wonder if SanFranNan will still be a staunch defender of illegal immigration now that it has, so to speak, struck home?
Tubby little Kim-Cheese really mellowed out while Donald Trump was POTUS, but he does WTF he wants now that Sniffy-Joe is in the White House. Happenstance? Coincidence?
Kim was pretty active when Trump was pres. I think the Russian ass kicking and the beginning of the world wide food shortage has him spooked.
At the bottom of the food chain there is no way for them to avoid mass starvation this year.
The media has been doing a great job of suppressing it but the food index is the highest in history. Some things will be almost completely crazy by December such as cereals, grains, crab, oranges, pork, turkey, greens and vegetables. By February we will see real shortages in this country.
A series of unfortunate events has led us here and there is no easy way out.
Right after the election we will hear a deluge of pent up problems and issues from the media and WHY THE FUCK ISNT SOMEBODY DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT!????.
It’s a cliche at this point.
5JC,
Spot on. After Nov 8, the media will claim the Republicans created these problems and need to solve them now. And this will be the narrative day after day after day…
An entire truck…excuse me…lorry load of Guinness at the end of the rainbow?
Now THAT is pure gold.
I would still like to know the stats on homeless vets who actually completed their terms of service with honorable discharges, as opposed to the ones who are fakers or flakes like the venerable Jessie Macbeth.
rgr769,
Are they counting all the fakers panhandling at the offramps?
DePape was a snowback. Bet that Canadian US border will be sealed up tight now…
Love that Guinness photo too.