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| January 22, 2025 | 27 Comments

Sometimes a column needs 1000 words per topic, and sometimes a lot of little things crop up. Hopefully the major news of the week is the new administration, but here are a couple of other quick items.

In good news for recruiting, in the first quarter of the fiscal year the Army signed up 30,000 recruits, fully half of what they projected for the entire year. It’s a mixed blessing.

The early recruiting milestone this month, first reported by Military.com, is largely attributed to the service’s delayed-entry program, which consists of 11,000 recruits, about double the numbers from recent years.

That pool consists of young Americans who volunteered to serve last year but were delayed being shipped to basic training until this year, which is when they’re formally counted in the recruiting numbers.

One reason the delayed-entry pool is so large is that the service has effectively run out of space to conduct basic training, giving up some of that real estate to the Future Soldier Preparatory Courses. Military.com

So the preparatory courses are helping meet goals, but taking room from ‘real’ Basic training. Someone needs to think this through.

Multiple articles here have mentioned the security risk of using some fitness apps when deployed – the French just learned this.

A major security breach unfolded when officers and crew aboard a French nuclear submarine inadvertently exposed critical information, including their location, patrol schedules, and movements, by using the popular fitness app, Strava, according to media reports.

The incident occurred at the highly secure Ile Longue submarine base, situated in Brest Harbour, France. This base houses four French nuclear submarines, each equipped with 16 nuclear missiles capable of destructive power 1,000 times that of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs.

Despite stringent security protocols prohibiting mobile phones and employing round-the-clock surveillance, third-party fitness apps on smartwatches managed to slip through the cracks, causing this significant breach.

In one case an officer logged his fitness daily, until he went dark for six weeks, indicating his sub was on patrol. But wait – as Mr. Popeil said, there’s more:

Le Monde’s investigation, dubbed “StravaLeaks,” revealed even more troubling insights. Bodyguards of French, American, and Russian Presidents were found to use Strava as well, leaving their fitness data—and potentially their high-profile leaders’ movements—exposed.  Interesting Engineering

Ponder this, that a French newspaper is schooling our folks on intel leaks. That is just embarrassing. At least they are in the same boat, so to speak.
And Christine Wormuth made the Command Assessment Program permanent, reportedly to prevent bias in command promotions.
Army Secretary Christine Wormuth issued a directive Thursday permanently establishing the Command Assessment Program, introduced as a pilot nearly five years ago to review officers and senior enlisted personnel in line for command billets or sergeants major jobs. Military.com II

Last, but not least, our favorite Georgian, Stacey Abrams, founded groups to register more young and/or minority voters.

A pair of voting advocacy groups founded by failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams were hit with a historic fine by the Georgia Ethics Commission for violating campaign finance laws to bolster Abram’s 2018 election.

“Today the State Ethics Commission entered into a consent agreement with the New Georgia Project and the New Georgia Project Action Fund for a total of $300,000,” the Georgia State Ethics Commission posted in a statement on Wednesday. “This certainly represents the largest fine imposed in the history of Georgia’s Ethics Commission, but it also appears to be the largest ethics fine ever imposed by any state ethics commission in the country related to an election and campaign finance case.”

The groups admitted to failing to disclose about $4.2 million in contributions and $3.2 million in expenditures that were used during Abram’s election efforts in 2018, according to the commission’s consent order. The groups were hit with a total of 16 violations, including failing to register as a political committee and failure to disclose millions of dollars in political contributions.  Fox News

Yeah, this is my shocked face…

 

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Slow Joe

So, that’s one of the tools use to try to steal the Georgia election for Stacy Abrams.
Let’s find out the other tools employed.

HT3

That fat piece of shit Abrams is still in the news? How many times do I have to tell people that the bigger turds require you to flush twice, three time if necessary.

5JC

Was Stacey.Abrahms pardoned already? Refresh my buffer memory.

OAE CPO USN Ret

In other news, today marks 7 years since an esteemed legal scholar spread himself across the landscape in Florida. While googling this historical event, I found a Youtube channel that put together the timeline of events. What’s sad is that the commenters on that video aren’t aware of this jackwagons history.

A Proud Infidel®™

“…additionally, the pilot’s mental state at the time of the accident could not be established.”

“Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s underlying physiologic or psychiatric disease.”

Especially the psychiatric.

Tallywhagger

IIRC, he had only been out of Portsmouth Prison for a few days after an extended visit. Easy to imagine that he had neglected to maintain his prescribed medications.

Happy Last Day, Dan!

5JC

He was ‘sick” they got that part right. Hopefully no gators died of indigestion.

rgr1480

God! That was sooooo refreshing! Thanks.

Former Defendant
— rgr1480

Army-Air Force Guy

RIP the plane.

Hack Stone

You know how McDonald’s serves Shamrock Shakes every St. Patrick’s Day to raise money for charities ? Well, today bars and taverns across America will be serving Kamikazes to help raise awareness about leaving the flight line without enough fuel to reach the destination.

SFC D

At least he had enough to make it to the crash site. Made good time, too. Got there ahead of the fire department.

Hack Stone

He left a lasting impression.

Pretty sure that the biggest laugh Hack generated when the thread initially posted was asking what was the chance of the hearse running out of fuel 200 yards from the cemetery.

A Proud Infidel®™

AS TO Stacey Abrams, she is definitely going the liberal way, never accepting any responsibility, then setting up every kind of vote cheat apparatus, then blaming everyone else for her failures. IMO she’s a wannabe Al Sharpton.

KoB

Maybe if the DoD hadn’t of pissed off the largest potential pool of recruits (Southern Whyte Boys) they wouldn’t be struggling to fill the ranks from fat dumbasses.

“Smart Watch” technology for military members should be limited to a self winding watch. Hell, even your vehicle is broadcasting it’s location. I doubt very seriously that we have any “secrets” from the ChiComs.

“…prevent bias in promotions…” Bwaaahahahahahahahaha That’s been around since like…forever. At least in the past a good portion of the ossifers and Senior NCOs were qualified Warriors. The ones that weren’t, Darwin culled them out in the FIRST (heh heh) firefight…albeit at the cost of losing a bunch of good troops in the process.

Notice that Stacey “The Tank” Abrams’ group was taken over by Warnock…and he got the Senate Seats for the DemonRats. There are some schools of talk that Rino Kemp swapped the Senate and Prezzy vote to get the Gov’s gig for himself. Georgia is gonna play hell getting those Senate seats back for the Repugnicunts. Watch

Claw

Here’s some stark reality (as of 01 Jan 25) on Buck Nothing E-1 Privates:

Base Pay per Month: (under 4 months) $1,949.10
Base Pay per Month: (Over 4 months) $2,108.10

Monthly Base Pay for a Buck Private E-1 way back when I first came in:

$134.40 per month /s/

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26Limabeans

I don’t get as much SS retirement as a buck private?
Where do I go to sign up?

jeff LPH 3 63-66

Sign up, so how about I signed my name and became a star having a ball with my guitar. “The All American ‘Boy”
by Bill Parsons 1959 on the Fraternity Label.

Tallywhagger

You win, I’ve never heard of that one. Did it ever make the AM charts?

Hack Stone

It was about $512 a month for E-1 when Hack came in, back in 1981. Back then, a hair cut from Shakey Jake at the C&E Beer Hall Barber Shop was $1.75. Hack was down at Fort Belvoir a few weeks back, and on base haircut was north of $18.

Odie

My neighbor has a fiat, and he is constantly working on something or other, so I can see how you made a bunch of money.

KoB

Fix It Again Tony.

Tallywhagger

IIRC mine was about $388/per day/once a month. I came in just when JUMPS was becoming operational and we still had some cash pay days.

rgr769

2LT base pay in 1968 was $305.

Green Thumb

I picked up extra Fire Guard shifts at OSUT for $20 bucks.

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neanderthal

$300,000 fine. That would go a long way toward funding my retirement.

timactual

the Future Soldier Preparatory Courses

“The idea is to meet young Americans where they are, getting them into shape or providing them critical tutoring…”

Gee, what a stroke of genius; Reality–deal with it.