This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Author: Poetrooper

  • You say boy or girl, Airman, we’re gonna rip off a stripe…

    That’s certainly the way it looks from this reported edict handed down by as some yet unnamed social justice warrior at high command level in the Air Force. According to this report from Fox News, the high flyers apparently think they’re still doing fruit loops for that clueless fool who sat in the command pilot’s seat for the past eight years.

    Fox News says this:

    The Air Force fears that words like boy, girl, colonial and blacklist might offend people, according to an email sent to Airmen at Joint Base San Antonio.

    And the reality of that is that it might cost them a stripe, a demotion in rank and pay, for nothing more than an inept violation of political correctness.

    The Trump administration has to get up to speed on liberal crap like this obvious holdover politically correct directive from whatever blue-suited twinkle-toes still survives and thrives in the upper atmospherics of Air Force command. Let’s toss his kind off the big plane and sans parachute is fine with this old Airborne soldier. It has to be tempting to the Trump administration to first go after all that loony lesbian, gay baloney that Ray (may his soul sink into and forever tremble in the muck of the darkest, coldest sediment of Earth’s deepest oceanic trench) Mabus inflicted upon our honorable Navy with his shameful naming of ships after queers who served without distinction, other than to survive as homosexuals in the hostile environment of a very virile and masculine United States Navy. But, as this directive should remind Trump’s folks, Obama’s social justice warriors still permeate the command ranks of all the services, a hard reality that calls for a purge of their unpractical kind.

    General Mattis, we who populate the pages of military internet venues beg you to return our noble military to what it once was: a reasonable representation of a real America, a cross-section of small towns and big cities, rural and urban youth, young people whose political beliefs cover the entire American spectrum, and not a social experimentation program for the Democratic Party.

    General Mattis, you must let your NCOs say boy, girl, and all those other politically correct banned words on their way to making responsible adults out of all those confused children liberalism has created. Please, please, rid us of these embedded social justice warriors who would weaken us as a nation with their social experimentation. Perhaps then we will once again become the warrior force, the fighting warrior force, which we have mustered for our nation’s every call to combat since forming into the clumsy ranks that defeated King George’s oh so politically correct forces and made this great nation possible.

    Semper Fi!

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Can we go back to high school?

    Here we go again with another high school teacher headed for the slammer for polishing some young stud’s hammer. From Daily Caller:

    A 39-year-old female high school teacher in Connecticut busted for providing a 17-year-old male student with oral sex and sending suggestive texts to a 15-year-old student has been sentenced to 3 years in prison.

    The teacher, Allison Marchese, taught English at Daniel Hand High School in the genteel coastal suburb of Madison, Connecticut when she was arrested back in 2015.

    Marchese, who was 37 at the time, provided oral sex to the 17-year-old male student, according to court records obtained contemporaneously by New Haven ABC affiliate WTNH.

    Get that word provided. Like it was a home delivery service except the report goes on to reveal that this cougar of an English teacher was doing the dirty in the classroom during the school day. Don’t know about you but Ol’ Poe thinks that beats all hell outta study hall, even a mixed-gender gym class, for cryin’ out loud.

    Maybe we need to establish a veterans’ classroom monitoring service where we can place veteran volunteers on site willing to be provided oral sex by horny cougar teachers during the school day. Or any other time that happens to be convenient for the cougars. I mean us old vets are flaccid, I mean flexible, flexible–know what I mean? But we swear to be rigidly determined to stand up to our duty to protect our callow youth.

    At first I thought Jonn might not post this ‘cause if all of us are in those classrooms being provided oral sex by horny cougar schoolteachers it might cause a major drop-off in readership and comments here at TAH; but then I said, “Nah,” realizing that everybody would be on here constantly bragging about how their cougar schoolmarm was the hottest hot lips ever, so no problem.

    Think maybe Poe’s on to something here? Volunteers? Anybody?

  • How’s she gonna get her rocks off?

    How’s she gonna get her rocks off?

    Remember Hank Johnson, the Democrat congressman from Georgia who was reluctant to transfer Marines from Okinawa to Guam because their added weight might cause the latter island to tip over and capsize? Well it appears the Dems have another congressional aspirant who slept through science classes. Brianna Wu, a transgender activist and prominent social justice warrior who is running for the 8th Congressional District seat in Massachusetts, has expressed a fear of a deadly risk that most of us, frankly, likely have never considered. From the Washington Times:

    “The moon is probably the most tactically valuable military ground for earth,” the tweet said. “Rocks dropped from there have power of 100s of nuclear bombs.”

    SpaceX announced Monday it is planning to launch a tourism venture to the Moon in 2018.

    After users on social media questioned her scientific literacy, the congressional candidate clarified that the tweet was “talking about dropping [rocks] into our gravity well.”

    Small space rocks can indeed do nuclear-weapons-scale damage if hitting the Earth at orbital speeds. But launching one from the moon, even setting aside issues of aiming, would still require escaping the satellite’s gravitational field, a task that requires the power and thrust contained in a huge rocket.

    In true Democrat fashion, when Ms. Wu came under fire for her foolish fear, she blamed her victim status on sexism:

    “…that’s the danger of being a woman on the internet!” she exclaimed.

    I don’t know about you but this chick sounds like Democrat presidential material to Ol’ Poe.

  • Putting the generals on a longer leash?

    Over at Daily Beast, Kim Dozier is reporting that the Trump Administration is leaning towards giving greater mission authority all the way down the chain of command, starting with allowing the SECDEF, General Mattis, and from him, on down to the field generals. Supposedly the thinking is that this will allow operational commanders to respond more quickly to suddenly developing or rapidly changing situations than was allowed them by the Obama White House. Dozier reports that the current leaders think this would be an important component of their plan to defeat ISIS and Al Qaeda.

    Those who read here know the truth of that. Too many presidents have hamstrung their field commanders by injecting too much geopolitics, national politics and just their own damned personalities into decision making that would have been best done much further down the chain of command. The author points out that all presidents have a fear of field commanders escalating small conflicts into something much more widespread. Ol’ Poe’s thinking is that had some presidents let the field commanders do some escalating we might have a different world today, such as no North Korea, a free, democratic South Vietnam and a Europe that never experienced Soviet occupation.

  • The real message of Democrats’ anger and protests

    The real message of Democrats’ anger and protests

    While Donald Trump may be the ostensible target of all the maniacal Democrat political wrath and public protests, the reality of the matter is far more sinister. Truth is, the real targets of all that insane anger and adolescent denial are folks like you and me who voted for him, and even more so, all the inhabitants of those American counties that are displayed in red on this 2016 election map, especially those that actually counted toward Trump’s electoral victory. Democrats taunt that Clinton won the popular vote, but the truth is Trump won 2,600 counties compared to Hillary’s 500. One hundred of Clinton’s counties were the most populous in America which gave her that popular vote margin. Without those 100 counties, she would have lost by 11.5 million votes. She was quite clearly the urban favorite, but even more clearly, she and her party were thoroughly rejected throughout the land that lies between the coasts.

    Democrats looking at this map are frightened and that fear breeds their irrational anger, outbursts and demonstrations, for they can easily see this is no longer nationwide politics as usual. Dems so hate Trump for denying them Hillary that they do not believe our vote has a value equal to their own, which it most likely would not should their totalitarian views ever prevail. But look at our America as it showed itself to be in November, 2016, and it is conspicuously clear that the Democrat party, while operating at the fringes of sanity, is also quite literally operating at the geographic fringes of our nation, with Hawaii being their most distant dependency. A commenter at American Thinker last week noted that Trump voters make up a vast geopolitical entity between Interstate-5 and Interstate-95, which is generally true except for some major urban centers, most college towns and a few counties with Hispanic, black or Native American majorities. Other blue counties are attributable to what I call coastal carcinomas, most in the Rocky Mountain States, where wealthy coastal, environmentalist émigrés pursue their ongoing, metastatic process of poisoning local political waters with their elitist liberal lunacy.
    But the key lesson for conservatives is that with their stubborn refusal to accept Donald Trump as their president, the Democrats are telling us our vote is invalid. It is but a small step from that to a totalitarian belief that we conservatives are undeserving of any vote at all. This map says otherwise. Old lefty folk singer, Woody Guthrie, may be spinning quite furiously in his grave right now but the pure red-hued truth is, for all you conservative Trump voters:

    “This Land is Your Land…”

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Vietnam MoH awardees challenge Blumenthal

    Vietnam MoH awardees challenge Blumenthal

    Fourteen Medal of Honor recipients from the Vietnam War have signed a letter challenging and rebuking Connecticut’s pathetic Stolen Valor Senator, Richard Blumenthal for his hypocrisy on opposing Supreme Court nominee, Neal Gorsuch. Their lengthy letter included this charge:

    Valor is too uncommon a commodity, and too precious a virtue, to be stolen by those who have not paid the high price for freedom. We recognize that some concerns over any appointee, especially the Supreme Court, are honest and legitimate.

    You, sir, are neither. If you ever had a sense of duty, if ever you respected the service and sacrifice of others, then please recognize your duty now:

    Sen. Blumenthal, “take your seat”!

    The signatories:

    Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Bennie Adkins, U.S. Army, Auburn, Ala.
    Retired Col. Don “Doc” Ballard, U.S. Army, Grain Valley, Mo.
    Retired Maj. Gen. Pat Brady, U.S. Army, New Braunfels, Texas
    Retired Col. Bruce Crandall, U.S. Army, Manchester, Wash.
    Retired Sgt. 1st Class Sammy Davis, U.S. Army, Freedom, Ind.
    Retired Col. Wesley Fox, U.S. Marine Corps, Peoria, Ill.
    Retired Col. Harold Fritz, U.S. Army, Peoria, Ill.
    Retired Maj. Gen. Jim Livingston, U.S. Marine Corps, Mount Pleasant, S.C.
    Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Bob Patterson, U.S. Army, Pace, Fla.
    Retired Sgt. Maj. Kenneth Stumpf, U.S. Army, Tomah, Wis.
    Retired Maj. James Taylor, U.S. Army, Trinity Center, Calif.
    Retired Lt. Mike Thornton, U.S. Navy, Dallas
    Retired Col. Leo Thorsness, U.S. Air Force, St. Augustine, Fla.
    Retired Col. Jay Vargas, U.S. Marine Corps, San Diego

    That’s some heavy artillery being brought to bear on a Democrat weasel who couldn’t be more deserving of being targeted. It’s a good sign to veterans everywhere when leaders such as these stand up to the military fraud that is routinely accepted by the Democrat party. Had Democrats had their way in 2004 we would have had a Stolen Valor fraud as president of this nation and commander of our armed forces. When John Kerry was exposed as a fraud by those who served with him, rather than consider that they might have made a mistake, the Democrat party and its complicit mainstream media went full out in an attempt to destroy the honorable men known as the Swift Boat Veterans who had exposed Kerry. Luckily for America, the people believed the Swiftees and not those treacherous, lying Democrats and their media hit men, who kept right on supporting Stolen Valor fraud candidates like this “Dick” Blumenthal for high national office.

    The Democrat party has no sense of either hypocrisy or shame.

    Crossposted at American Thinker

  • Army stands up six new brigades

    Army stands up six new brigades

    The Army announced Thursday that it will devote 3,000 troops to the creation of six new brigades dedicated entirely to the training of foreign forces. Called Security Force Assistance Brigades, these new units will actually be battalion size in personnel strength yet organized as brigade combat teams stripped of their lower ranks and staffed for the most part by officers and more senior NCO’s. It will be the foreign forces making up those lower ranks when these SFAB’s are functioning as intended. A new Military Advisor Training Academy is being established at Fort Benning to train the members of the SFAB’s for their missions.

    This is a major break from the traditional use of Army combat units being assigned to part-time missions for training foreign forces, an unneeded distraction from their readiness preparation for their primary missions. The Army says a further advantage to this concept is that should the country need new brigade combat teams on the quick, the lower ranks of these brigades could be fleshed out with American privates and specialists who could be quickly molded into a fighting force without needing to dog-rob existing BCT’s for leaders and cadre, the hardest personnel to come by when standing up a new combat arms unit.
    This is a smart move as Ol’ Poe sees it but with the catch being that it is imperative to keep rotating fresh combat experienced NCO’s in and rotating the old trainers back into ready units to keep the edges sharp on the trainers themselves.

    Opinions, TAH?

  • Lieutenant General Hal Moore, RIP

    Lieutenant General Hal Moore, RIP

    The absolute embodiment of an Airborne Ranger officer has passed at the age of 94. I say that with complete confidence even though the man made but a brief pass through my life long ago and far away. He literally whirled into my life on a quickly departing Huey that dropped him outside our battalion forward tactical operations center in the middle of what would come to be known as the Battle of Trung Luong in the summer of 1966. My unit, the 2d Battalion 327th Airborne Infantry, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, had choppered into another routine search and destroy operation with intel that the North Vietnamese 18-B regiment and perhaps another regiment might be active in the target area.

    They were active indeed—our two infantry companies landed in the midst of 18-B regimental operations and the fight, which would last three days, was immediately on. As Field Force II, our higher headquarters, realized from our contact reports that we might be into much more than they had anticipated, they ordered in reinforcements from the 1st Cavalry Division at An Khe and with those cavalry troopers came their commander, Colonel Harold Moore, he of Hollywood fame as portrayed by Mel Gibson in one of the most realistic depictions of ground combat in Vietnam ever made, We Were Soldiers Once and Young.

    Then-Lt. Colonel Moore in Vietnam

    We had no idea who this tall, strapping, lean colonel was who blew through the flaps of our forward Tactical Operations Center tent like a whirling dervish with questions, orders and possible salvation, but even more possible menace. I had been a paratrooper for five years at that point, a combat infantryman in a rifle company for several months prior to coming to battalion headquarters, and an NCO for a few of those years. I must confess I had never seen anything quite like Colonel Moore in my previous years of service. The man exuded that essential quality of leadership that all officers so desire: command presence. Hal Moore had it in spades. In my six years of Army service, I never saw another officer so confidently, completely in command. Yes, he has detractors who would say he was too confident, but I am only relating impressions from my brief 36 hour encounter with this soldier’s soldier.

    Inside the TOC Moore demanded to know who the best radio operator present was and a couple of fellow NCO’s fingered me, the battalion chemical, biological and radiological NCO, deferring to my previous experience as an RTO, a radio operator in infantry companies. Moore glared at me and ordered me to take control of the battalion tactical net and to stay there until relieved. That relief order came about 36 hours, hundreds of his orders and no more than two piss breaks later when the battle was finally winding down. During that time I was the mouth and ears of the most confident human being I have ever known in circumstances that would make many strong men waver if not fail completely.

    Lieutenant General Hal Moore was a soldier’s soldier and a paratrooper’s paratrooper. May he rest in the old warrior’s peace he has earned so well.

    Garry Owen, Sir!

    Crossposted at American Thinker