Thursday Shorts
Well, if Mr. Trump is elected, he will at least simplify one confusing aspect of current life.
Fort Liberty in North Carolina could revert to its former name honoring an unsuccessful Confederate general if former President Donald Trump is reelected in November. Military.com
“An unsuccessful Confederate general”…geez, guys, kick a guy when he’s down for 150 years, why don’t you? Even if it is the truth.
Little ambivalent on this one – I’m old enough to prefer the names I grew up with, but they could have done better than ‘Liberty.’ “Benavidez’ maybe?
H/t to Jeff on this one.
And PINO Joe promoted KJP.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre received a promotion to senior adviser to the president Monday.
“Karine has been a trusted advisor to the President and all of us here at the White House since day one. Her counsel will be critical to get as much done as possible for the American people in the coming months,” White House chief of staff Jeff Zients told ABC News.
ABC News reported Jean-Pierre would begin the role “effective immediately” while still maintaining her job as press secretary. This would be the first time in decades a press secretary has also served as a senior adviser. Fox News
Sounds like the kind of promotion where you don’t get a raise to accompany it. Or, maybe there is a HUGE raise – for slinging the lies taking the kits for two years . Who knows?
Faulty weld update – it’s been tossed around that there were “intentionally faulty welds” done at Norfolk for the last couple of weeks, and two ships had been identified as having faulty, albeit non-threatening, weld faults. That estimate was a little low.
More than two dozen Navy ships — including three that are currently in service — received faulty welds at the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Newport News, Virginia, the service’s top civilian leader told lawmakers last week.
In a letter to Congress dated Oct. 3, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro said that poor welds were found on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington as well as the attack submarines USS Hyman G. Rickover and USS New Jersey. In addition, the welding issues were identified on 23 more ships — a mix of new construction, ships in maintenance and aircraft carriers undergoing refueling.
Despite the back and forth of letters and even a public statement from HII’s leadership, specific details such as how many welds are in question on any one ship or their location on the vessels remains unknown. Military.com II
Heck of a difference between 2 and 26. BTW, HII is the primary builder of the Ford-class aircraft carriers.
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I’ve got no problem with a different name but Victory? Ridgway was available and made a helluva a lot more sense. Not only was he one of the most effective leaders of WWII he also turned the Korean War around and saved it from being a complete disaster. His assessments in Vietnam and other places were dead on and he was honest practically to a fault. The man gave his entire life to fighting the nation’s wars and of course he was the first CG of the 82 Airborne (after the conversion) and the XVIII Airborne Corp as well.
Sounds like we need to do a letter campaign to endorse this, so the change makes sense and is accepted.
I never liked to Bragg anyway!
Yes, I imagine there were plenty of outstanding people they could have named the fort after.
I don’t have any particular affinity for confederate generals so my main opposition to changing the names of those bases revolved around the principle of “don’t feed the bears”. Give those “anti-racist” assholes an inch and they’re going to be demanding a mile. Best to tell them to pack sand from the jump and nip it in the bud.
Regarding the welding issues in Newport News: I know they’ve been hurting for qualified welders for a long time. I also have to wonder what their DEI policies are. Maybe they’ve been “settling” for less qualified or less skilled employees because they just can’t find good people that fit the right demographic requirements to fill the roles?
Doesn’t explain how the bad welds made it through the QA and inspection process…that probably involved a lot of “if we don’t pass this inspection we’re not going to make our deadline” kind of conversations among the shipyard staff.
Just another sign of the rot eating at the core of our society.
More likely “if we don’t pass this inspection, we won’t get our bonuses and I just bought something new and expensive “.
Interesting though that aside from being an absolute beast as a general Ridgway was anti-racist and well ahead of his time. You would think that someone who did as much as he did to advance civil rights would be on their A list.
Ridgway was the first to desegregate and integrate his 8th Army, well before the Army itself integrated. He also integrated the ROK forces into his plans and operations.
This hadn’t happened because Gen Almond was a raging white supremacist (and a below average general to boot) who felt that blacks and Asian were inferior and couldn’t fight. His over confidence in this directly led to the Chosin catastrophe and a bunch of attempts at revision history as to why he got his ass kicked. Integration of the ROK forces was one of the deciding factors in saving the country and the Capitol.
I think Colin Powell said it best at his eulogy; “No soldier ever performed his duty better than this man. No soldier ever upheld his honor better than this man. No soldier ever loved his country more than this man. Every American soldier owes a debt to this man.”
Promoted to senior advisor, eh? Bet that comes with a pay raise to pad her retirement from her .gov job.
Some people can weld. Some people cannot.
I know a guy….
Well d, where’s the rest of the story Beans.
I can make two pieces of metal stick together. It may not be pretty but it’ll work.
The alternator bracket on my 1969 F100 broke in half many years ago. I welded that back together and put it back in the truck. Ugliest weld you’ll ever see but it lasted another 20 years (outlasted the engine).
The point being: a pro would look at my welds and say “that guy can’t weld”…but I’ve always been able to make it work for me.
Hit don’t have to be purdy, does hit?
Sailorcurt, so it’s true: “Audentes fortuna juvat!” A long time ago, my feller intended to install those new fangled seat belts utilizing his newly acquired welding stuff but somehow lit up the whole thang! It’s a wonder he wasn’t injured but like a true backyard hero, he managed to save the car and we lived happily ever after, at least until my daddy intervened!
….From wherever he gazes upon mankind, the shade of Hyman Rickover may be getting ready to come back and kick some serious ass.
One can hope!