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Category: Military issues

  • Military Times poll; Trump by 2:1 over Clinton

    Military Times poll; Trump by 2:1 over Clinton

    Military Poll

    The folks at Military Times took a poll of 951 troops (66% identified themselves as enlisted service members) and found that more than 50% would choose Trump over Clinton who attracted 25% of military folks. 21% said they wouldn’t vote if those were their only choices. Bernie Sanders does better in a Trump/Sanders match up, garnering 38% and 11% voting with their feet.

    It’s really not surprising. The Democrats have consistently shown us their ass on issues like military readiness and national security. I’m pretty sure Trump would not crowd source decisions on those issues. But, then, who knows what he thinks about the military and our issues – he’s never been clear on that. But Sanders and Clinton are clear how they come down – Sanders avoided the draft in the 60s, like Trump.

    Hillary fake-enlisted in the Marines and fake-ducked sniper fire once. Her husband, however, slashed military spending while driving up the op-tempo with Meals-on-Wheels deployments. Her husband’s secretary of state wanted to know why the military couldn’t be used more often to cram our policies down other countries’ collective throats. The current Democrat president has gutted the military services to the bone and slashed pay and benefits leaving us barely able to defend ourselves, sending the troops off to war without allowing them to call it war. The social justice warriors direct foot traffic in the halls of the Pentagon. Who wants four or eight more years of that confusion?

  • Read ‘Em and Weep

    Isn’t it great that the world is so safe and peaceful these days?

    Army has fewest active-duty soldiers since 1940, report says

    I hope the sarcasm in the intro above was obvious.  Gee thanks, Mr. President.

  • More “Private E-mail Server” News

    Remember the Clintoon “private” e-mail server brouhaha?  You know, the one where the serving (at the time) SECSTATE refused to use government email, had her minions set up a “private” email server – which later was professionally wiped, but which has been confirmed to have contained over 2,000 classified items, including 22 items classified Top Secret as well as more than one SAP and/or TS/compartmented item?

    Well, we have some recent news concerning that little “shortcut” taken by Clintoon.  And from Clintoon’s perspective, the news isn’t that good.

    First:  the Romanian hacker “Guccifer” was extradited to the US a few weeks ago.  That apparently was not coincidental.  You see, it appears “Guccifer” – who is currently in Federal custody – may well now be cooperating with the FBI in their investigation of related to the Clintoon “private” e-mail server.  (The administrator of that “private” e-mail server, Bryan Pagliano, is also believed to be cooperating with the FBI.)

    It also appears that Guccifer penetrated the Clintoon “private e-mail server” – easily.  He claims to have done exactly that.  While the claim cannot be independently verified now (due largely to destruction of the original server), longtime cybersecurity experts who have knowledge of his claims say that the method Guccifer claims to have used to penetrate what little security did exist on Clintoon’s “private” e-mail server is eminently plausible.

    The “so what”?  Well, “Guccifer” may well be quite good at breaking computer security – and security on Clintoon’s “private e-mail server” was reportedly rudimentary at best.  But I’m betting the foreign intelligence services of Russia, China, and maybe a few other adversaries are likely even better than Guccifer, and have access to even better methods and tools.  And if Guccifer relatively easily penetrated that private server and thus obtained access to the classified information illegally stored there, well, . . . .

    Second:  it also appears that Clintoon may be forced to give a deposition regarding the case.  So far, she’s been spared the “horror” of telling her story under conditions requiring a truthful answer – like a LE interview, or a deposition given under oath.  Looks like the latter may be upcoming, presumably in the relatively near-term future.

    Third:  while Clintoon herself hasn’t yet been deposed, apparently the same is not true of her “close aide” Huma Abedin.  Abedin was reportedly interviewed by the FBI recently.  And while the FBI hasn’t commented on the interview, I’m guessing it wasn’t a social call to discus the weather, or to ask her opinion on the latest fashions. (smile)

    And, finally:  a curious expense on the part of the Clintoon campaign has been uncovered and made public.  In Feb and March, apparently the Clintoon campaign made payments to a Nevada company – a firm that provides IT security services.  What services do they provide?  Well, it seems that the company – American Document Destruction, Inc. –  apparently specializes in document and hard disk drive destruction.  The payments could have paid for the destruction of up to 14 hard drives.  Hmm.

    Yeah, I think I’ll keep following this story.  This could easily get really interesting.

     

    (Author’s note:  yes, I know that “Clintoon” isn’t the way the individuals I reference when using that spelling spell their last name.  The variant spelling here is intentional.  IMO, the individuals I’m referencing when using that variant spelling are little more than poor cartoonish caricatures of individuals worthy of holding high national office.  The spelling “Clintoon” is intended to highlight that fact.)

  • No “Boots on the Ground”, Mr. President? Yeah. Right.

    As Jonn noted yesterday, we’ve lost another one in Iraq.  This brings to 3 the number of US troops lost during combat operations against Daesh.

    The SEAL (initial reports were that he was a soldier) who was KIA was acting as an advisor to Kurdish Peshmerga at the time.  He was killed by direct fire in an engagement that occurred after Daesh forces penetrated Pesmerga lines.

    But don’t worry.  The POTUS has repeatedly told us we won’t have any “boots on the ground” or “combat troops”  in Iraq or Syria.

    Yeah, right.  Being killed while serving as an advisor to Peshmerga ground forces certainly sounds like “boots on the ground” to me.  And getting killed by direct-fire during a ground engagement also sounds one helluva lot like ground combat, too.

    But rest assured – those aren’t “combat troops”.  And we don’t have “boots on the ground” there.

    But what do you expect?  This is the same POTUS that told everyone they could keep their doctor under ObamaCare, too.  How’s that worked out for everyone?

    Yeah, you’re right – your leg’s wet.  And it’s not raining.

  • Two Terrorist Bastards Bite the Big One

    Some time back, an American married couple apparently decided to turn traitor.  Well, either that or they were just a couple of evil bastards who like oppressing or killing innocents.

    Why do I say that?  Because they traveled to the Middle East – and joined Da’esh.  There, they were known as “Abu Issa Al-Amriki” and “Umm Issa Al-Amrikiah”.  They even went to Syria to get “down with the cause” – or whatever.

    Well, it turns out they may have gotten just a bit more than they bargained for.  According to social media accounts linked to Da’esh, late last month both were taken out by a US RPA strike.  The Da’esh-linked accounts did not make public the couple’s previous names.

    Gee.  That’s . . . just . . . too . . . damn . . . bad.  (smile)

    And please, libidiot SJW crowd:  spare me the naive, “But that’s illegal – they were killed without a fair trial!” bullsh!t.  These a-holes had gone overseas to fight alongside sworn enemies of the USA.  Taking up arms against the US and/or our allies and fighting alongside our enemies means you’ve just made yourself a bona fide target for friendly combat operations.

    May these two evil bastards enjoy Shay’tan’s “tender mercies” – and his personal attention – for all eternity.

  • Russia’s Military Gets “Frisky”, Part 4

    Well, it looks like Russia’s military is flexing it’s muscles again. Or maybe Vladimir Putin just decided he wanted to flip off the POTUS again.

    Damn. I should know better than to write something like the previous paragraph.  It’s redundant as hell, isn’t it? (smile)

    Anyway: it appears that for the second time in about 2 weeks, a Russian SU-27 has “barrel-rolled” a US recon aircraft operating in international airspace.

    This time, though, the Russian jet “only” came within 100′ of the US aircraft. During the last barrel-roll incident, the Russian aircraft’s closest approach to ours was approximately 50′.

    OK, Mr. President. Vlad has given you the finger with both hands yet again, then immediately afterwards mooned you. But he’s apparently “branching out” a bit now. One of his aides must have suggested he insult you in German. This time I’m pretty sure he yelled “Deine Mutter arbeitet auf Vierzig Deutsche Mark-Straße, Arschloch!” as he was mooning you.

    Oh, and did I mention that it appears increasingly probable that Syrian-Russian operations to recapture the city of Aleppo – currently held by Syrian rebels – now appear imminent? That is, if they haven’t already begun?

    Your move, Mr. President. Time to get your “he-man war hero” SECSTATE working on another “strongly-worded diplomatic statement” or two.

    Or maybe you could simply ask him if you could borrow Terresa’s cojones .  Maybe if you did that you could start acting, well, Presidential.

  • More Ineffectual “Sabre-Rattling” by Lil’ Kim

    Well, the results of the Dork of NorK’ s latest episode of sabre-rattling have been released.  And it again looks like the “man” is probably going to need to have a public execution or two to soothe his injured feelings.

    Three days ago, Emmentaler-boi’s missile minions conducted two tests of the Musudan – North Korea’s new IRBM, likely the “big guy’s” second favorite missile after the one that’s his namesake (more about that later).  Intelligence reports regarding these tests have now been made public.

    The results?  Both missiles apparently blew up shortly after launch..

    Oopsie.

    This makes the number of successful Musudan by Lil’ Kim’s missile program precisely zero.  I’m sure that’s not exactly what the “big guy” wanted to hear.

    Further:  results from recent testing of ND:tBF’s favorite (and namesake) missile, the No Dong, haven’t been much better.  One test of the Scud-C-derived No Dong held last month was similarly unsuccessful, with that missile also exploding after launch.  (A  second No Dong test last month was apparently successful.)

    That’s 1 for 5 for the last 5 major NorK missile tests.  My guess is that this means there will be some significant opportunities for “upward mobility” within the NorK missile program in the near-term future.

    No word yet on how Fatboy Kim will calm his massive bulk after these latest two rather spectacular failures.  While a public execution or several is probably a given, the method to be used is anyone’s guess.  But it’s a good bet it will be gruesome and novel.

    And he can always down a few more kilograms of Emmentaler to make himself feel better.  What does he care if it means a few of his peasant comrades will have to starve for weeks in order to come up with the funds to import same?

  • Army Retains SFC Martland

    Army Retains SFC Martland

    Martland

    Jonn and I have written previously about SFC Charles Martland and the attempt by the Army to separate him for “assaulting” a child-rapist in Afghanistan.  The earlier articles can be found here, here, here, and here.

    According to Fox News, the Army yesterday changed its mind. They have now opted to retain SFC Martland vice discharging him.

    Sometimes sanity reigns – even inside that 5-sided asylum near the Open Air Brothel on the Potomac – and the good guys win one.  IMO this is such a case.

    Congratulations, SFC Martland.  Kudos to Rep. Duncan Hunter (and others) for publicly supporting him.

    And while SFC Martland never should have been considered for discharge in the first place, kudos also to the Army for finally seeing the light and doing the right thing here.