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Bet You Feel Safer Now, Yeah?
Inclusion study: I guess that’s a military thing now. But after seeing this from our Air Force brethren (I know, saying that is somehow mysogonist misoginyst misogynist), I kind of wanted to toss my cookies. Do you feel safer? You know, like your Air Force is ready to dominate the skies over any adversary stupid enough to pose a threat to these United States? Yeah, me neither.
The top kick of a four-star command just said “we have love for all of you.”
Senior NCOs down through the ages must just feel their ghostly chests (and breasts, I guess, not to be mysogonist misoginyst misogynist) swelling with pride.
Don’t sweat it, Sergeants Major, we’ve got NCOs out on the line that’ll keep this military rolling. Somehow.
Published in General
I doubt whether there is anyone left in California who is intelligent enough to go to a school named after Benjamin Franklin.
I might have an opinion if I could have understood what they were saying with those masks on. Maybe better that I couldn’t.
I’m taking the Biden regime/military brass promise of purging ‘extremists’ seriously; those who do not at least pretend to change their perspective will likely face escalating risks of dishonorable discharge (if not worse) on some pretext, while many of those who self-censor will eventually come to rationalize their discretion as agreement. Meanwhile, new recruits will be indoctrinated, and dissenters will experience some combination of ‘Don’t ask, Don’t tell’ and the experience of black soldiers in WW2.
But, as always, I must mention that I have no military experience myself; there may be details I’m missing that call for more optimism.
Remember the military is a volunteer force. The best way to avoid the threat is to not join or get out ASAP. Company employment is bad enough but the military always has the treat of prison if you do not comply to the whims of the bosses.
That would be part of the ‘if not worse’ scenario. On the other hand, we need patriots undercover in the Woke military if (when?) the poop finally hits the fan*, so I can’t advocate the wholesale abandonment of the military; just make sure young patriots know what they’re getting into (I know that sounds absurd for a profession where painful death is already understood as a risk, but there are worse things than death-especially, to my understanding, for soldiers).
*Or, for those who see reason for optimism, to begin the painful process of turning things around some time in the future.
Recruitment isn’t hurting. Covid, lockdowns, and all reduced civilian job opportunities for high school graduates so many enlisted.
Which gives the brass more leeway to filter out patriots in favor of recruits who are desperate and amenable to the official narrative.
Maybe conservatives should spin up their own military?
Guess you didn’t get the word Percival. SF School Board removed all the white supremist names from the public schools- Lincoln, Washington, Feinstein, etc. No word on when the first Sharpton school will be opened.
Nancy is doing her best to form her own military group. I’m guessing the 25,000 national guard will eventually be replaced by a force commanded by the Speaker of the House.
That’s why they’re going after militias.
My county in rural No California is the second poorest in the state. And until Trump came along and ended industry restrictions, young people in the county who were not college bound had few options.
Then Trump ended the restrictions. So young people could go stay with relatives in the Iron Range of MN and make a tidy fortune as mining there had once again created many jobs. They could get employment in the many areas where the shale oil resources kept people employed – again, at a very good rate of pay.
Now those job opportunities are gone, so the young people can once again “choose” to join the military.
Our milquetoasts are uninspiring.
Good thing they’ve perfected the art of slide deck pitching, and reading from an approved and thoroughly scraped for accurate language set of bullet points.
Probably the only bullets they’ll ever wield in anger.
Sissies.
A-10s make me happy in the pants.
I would, too, except for what went down at the Double Deuce.
Of all the plane types I have worked on, the A-10 is right up there with the AC-130.
When I was stationed at Hurlburt Field, we could see them flying over the range from our back porch and could hear the brrrt, brrrt, of the guns, with background music from the nearby Six Pack Shack wafting in the air.
The Fart of Freedom.
Those are incredible, but I have to admit, I have the biggest warm spot in my heart for this one:
I was lucky enough back in 1987 or so to take a flight on a C-130 (not a Spooky, which is incredibly disappointing) from Tucson (Davis-Monthan) to Edwards Air Force base, because I was in AF ROTC for a year. I might have been happy in the pants, slightly, so see all those military aircraft up close and get to sit in the cockpit of an F16, some modified one they were using for testing.
Essentially, the AF carted a bunch of college nerds out to the deeper desert, showed them shiny things, then sent them home with full tum-tums. Christo likey!
Hadn’t heard that one but must say it is accurate.
My house is in one of the training flight paths of the NH Air National Guard. It’s a regular summer occurance to hear that low level, mean & nasty whine that precedes the A-10 flying low and slow at treetop level, hugging the terrain, slow enough for me to see in the canopy and wave to the pilot.
My house growing up, in Winooski, VT, was right under the flight path for the Green Mountain Boys – EB-57s as a kid, then F4s (yeah, kinda loud), then F16s, now F35s.
When I’m home visiting Mom, I still go outside to watch them fly over. It’s still rad.
Nothing like being stationed on a fighter base with F-4s taking off….afterburner and all. Was stationed at Barksdale in 8AF and was treated to B52s. Love the sound of military jets.