The Army is the senior military service, because it was our nation’s first military service. I’m proud to have served in it. A big Army HOOAH to all my brothers and sisters past present and future from a former Army “field grade.” Happy Birthday Army!! 🙂
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Trump grants clemency to 2 Army officers accused of war crimes, restores rank to Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher
Federal appeals court gives Trump a win on transgender military service
Which is exactly what has been happening ever since then-President Bill Clinton issued his “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in the mid-’90s. I was in the military then, and vividly remember the s_it storm that started…and it went downhill from there, especially under Obama. What so many liberal Dems (who have never served in the military), and their equally ignorant accomplices in the dominantly liberal mainstream media down want to accept is…that nobody has a right to serve in the military. There is no constitutional right to serve. It’s a privilege. Secondly.. The military discriminates all the time, and has been doing so for generations. If you’re too tall, you can’t fly fighter jets. If you’re too fat, you can’t join. If you’re disabled and/or in a wheelchair, you can’t join. And, on and on.. The mission of the U.S. military is to WIN wars. Period! Anything that undermines that mission, including all of the politically correct social engineering bs imposed on it by Democrat presidents and lawmakers, puts our troops’ lives in jeopardy, and undermines our ability to WIN.
Obama appointees flee Pentagon; Trump left with scores of vacancies to fill
Nearly two-thirds of Navy planes grounded due to years of budget cuts
Ash Carter to be Defense Secretary nominee: reports
Reasons Russia Should Be at Table on Gas Deal Talks
Definitely something to keep an eye on.. Russia is just now beginning to feel SOME pressure economically. That’s a good thing! But, its imperative that we continue to keep pressure on mother Russia because Vlad’s goals have NOT changed. He’s just trying to put himself, and Russia, in the best possible economic position. So, this is a strategic move on his part. Ukraine, the EU, and the U.S. should NOT be fooled by this. To that end, it is still important that we tackle this problem set from several angles to include: 1) Continue economic sanctions, and increase as appropriate 2) Conduct LARGE scale military exercises with our NATO partners in eastern Europe 3) Re-establish the missile defense shield in Poland that Obama so foolish had dismantled after he became president. 4) Park an entire U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group (CSG) in the Baltic. 5) Provide military intelligence, weapons and ammo, secured (with LOTS of strings attached) loans to Kiev, and military training to Ukrainian troops. Its imperative that we build a strong relationship with Petro and his government in Kiev. and, finally, 6) that Congress emphatically rejects Obama’s offensively pathetic Dept of Defense (DoD) budget calling for the U.S. Army to be reduced to levels not seen since before WWII!! We all know how much Obama hates the U.S. military. But, if anything, in this time of global unrest in Europe, Iraq, Syria, N. Korea, and so on..we should be doubling the DoD budget, if not tripling it; NOT cutting it in half!! Its breathtakingly irresponsible!! Hopefully the new Senate (after next month’s elections) will be under GOP control, and then both chambers of Congress will be able to scrap Obama’s awful federal budget entirely, and make DoD more of a priority, as well it should. After all adequately funding the military is one of the very few things that the Constitution actually authorizes Congress to fund; not all of these domestic social programs which Obama and the Dems in Congress throw all their energies and monies at.
Colorado Law Enforcement Agencies Obtain Used Military Equipment
Colorado Law Enforcement Agencies Obtain Used Military Equipment
Currently there is a lot of debate about the need for such used/surplus military hardware/equipment that the military (primarily the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps) no longer wants/needs…and whether the current program of the DoD just donating such equipment to local law enforcement agencies across the country is wise. That was highlighted this week in Ferguson, Missouri where such equipment was on display and used by the St. Louis County PD…which clearly had a need for it. Some thoughts… If the alternative to it being destroyed/melted down is to pass it along to law enforcement agencies, or perhaps Army National Guard units in the various states, then yeah.. I think that’s appropriate, and in some cases even wise. After all, just melting it down or destroying it seems silly. BUT, it probably should be sent to those targeted urban areas where there are high population centers, high urban crime, and so on; where the need to have such hardware is more likely, statistically. Chicago, St. Louis, Washington D.C., Detroit, New York City, Oakland/San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Denver/Aurora, etc. are just some cities that immediately come to mind of such places where equipment like this might come in handy. Those places are no brainers. For those who may not remember.. There was a big shootout in Los Angeles with bank robbers in 1997 that had full auto weapons, body armor and so on. All the LA PD had were their little 9mm handguns (pop guns by comparison) and were NO match for the bank robbers. It was so bad that the LA PD had to go to local gun stores to purchase rifles, and use armored bank cars for protection. It was ridiculous, and pathetic. There are videos of that on the web if you’re curious.. So, yeah.. There ARE appropriate uses for such equipment, and there ARE places where it is, yes, wise to have such equipment. That said.. sending an MRAP (like the one pictured here) to La Plata County Colorado where they have about 131 officers in the entire county? C’mon.. That’s a bit much, methinks. La Plata is in the southwest part of Colorado, is about 88% white demographically, and the unemployment is below the national average. Its relatively calm and crime free compared to other parts of the state. Now, sending an MRAP to Denver, Aurora or Colorado Springs? I can see that. The demographics are more mixed, there are MANY more people by the hundreds of thousands, whereas the entire county of La Plata has only 52,000. In Aurora, alone, the population is around 400,000. And, that’s just one of several cities in Arapahoe County! So, the CO State Patrol, in my estimation, made a poor decision sending a big piece of equipment, however cool and “intimidating” it might be, to La Plata. They should have sent it maybe to Arapahoe County, Denver City & County, and/or El Paso County which has Colorado Springs, a city of around a half a million, in its jurisdiction along with two Air Force bases, NORAD/Cheyenne Mountain, Ft. Carson Army post, and the U.S. Air Force Academy. Its also where the Air Force and Army both have their respective Space Commands. So, probably wise to have such equipment on hand for use by the local law enforcement (i.e. El Paso County Sheriff, Colorado Springs PD, etc.) in case, God-forbid, it should be needed.