Category: Military issues

So, while the Obama Administration is busy dismantling the US military, they’ve also decided that they need more troops and aircraft in the hunt for African warlord Joseph Kony, says Fox News;

Early Monday, the White House confirmed a Washington Post report that the U.S. was sending “associated support personnel,” and a “limited number” of CV-22 Osprey aircraft to assist local forces in their long-running battle against Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. Obama sent about 100 U.S. troops to help the African forces in 2011.

The administration did not specify how many troops and aircraft would be sent to Africa, but the Post reported that the president had ordered four Osprey aircraft and 150 Air Force special operations members and airmen to Uganda.

National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden told the Associated Press that the aircraft would be based in Uganda but will be used in LRA-affected areas of the Central African Republic, Congo and South Sudan to support the African Union’s regional task force.

There’s that lyin’ ass Caitlan Hayden again. When she was minister of disinformation in the Eikenberry Embassy in Afghanistan, she posted on this blog, in the comments, that the US wasn’t engaged in talks with the Taliban. But, it seems that we were, so if she told me that it’s raining, I’d have to look outside.

20 years ago on this date, at Pope Air Force base an F16 fighter collided with a C-130 while they were trying to land. As the F16 hit the runway, the two pilots ejected while the F16 continued on his path into another parked C141 which waiting on Green Ramp for loading of paratroopers of the 82d Airborne Division. The two aircraft exploded into flames and the resulting fireball and debris washed over the waiting paratroopers loaded down with their parachutes and equipment.

24 were killed and 80 more were injured. Some of the survivors remember that day at Military.com and more at army.mil. One survivor and his wife remember the struggle afterwards.

Breitbart reports that a fellow who doesn’t look like he used to look has been charged with a series of prostitute murders in the 1990s. He claims that it wasn’t him, but the him that he was before he looks like he does now;

In interviews, Perry told police that Douglas [Perry] never stopped killing, but “Donna [Perry] stopped it.”

Donna further told authorities that she would not confess to murder because she didn’t do it. Donna also claimed not to know if Douglas killed the prostitutes in 1993. “I don’t know if Doug did or not, it was 20 years ago and I have no idea whether he did or did not,” she said.

Police cite testimony from Donna’s cellmate who said that the transgendered woman made all sorts of admissions in prison, even once saying she was a “sociopath.”

I figured that this was important because of the stories we’ve been reading lately about transgendered soldiers (15,000 of them, according one article), not that all trannies are serial murderers, but rather how this is just another excuse for past bad behavior. That Manning fellow, whatever his name is today, for example. It certainly supports the American Psychological Association’s continued listing of this condition as a disorder.

This is a confusing article. Hondo sent it to me early this morning and I couldn’t make heads nor tails of it on just one cup of coffee. It wasn’t until Country Singer sent it to me this afternoon that I could figure it out. When you’re reading the story, the fellow above is really Leah Eleazer who now goes by the name of Jacob Eleazer, but the Army still calls her Leah and she’s a Captain in the Kentucky National Guard’s 238th Regimental Training Institute. No, she’s not in the Army, like the article says. In order to understand the article, you have to remember that when they write “Jacob Eleazer”, “him”, “his” or “he” they’re talking about this Leah Eleazer person.

Jacob Eleazer, a 28-year-old Army drill instructor, learned he was up for promotion this December. For seven years, he’d been an exemplary soldier, rising to the rank of first lieutenant, and now on his way to captain. But there was a problem. Within the confines of his military training center, in western Kentucky, Eleazer still went by his birth name, which was female.

Outside his Army base, Eleazer lived as a man, one of 15,450 military personnel who consider themselves transgender but don’t dare come out to their fellow soldiers and risk jeopardizing their careers.

“My colleagues just assumed I was a really butch lesbian,” says Eleazer, who has the broad shoulders, close-cropped hair and a jutting chin one would expect of a drill instructor.

Yeah, that’s her or him in the photo. The article is basically about her struggle to be a man, of sorts, you’ll be happy to know that when she told her commander about her impending “transition” to a man, her commander was totally fine with it.

For decades, transgender men and women have been barred from serving in the military. The rule is rooted in an archaic theory that equated being transgender with having a mental disorder. Four years after Congress repealed the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, activists have been agitating for change, and point to other nations, like Israel and England, which allow transgender military personnel.

Yeah, you can call it “archaic” and a “theory”, but gender identity disorders is still listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders under the category of Sexual Disorders and Dysfunctions. So I guess, in this instance, the military should ignore the science and welcome these folks with whichever gender of open arms they prefer. And if these folks are so anonymous and fearful for their careers, where do they get that 15,450 number who they say are currently serving?

Like the repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, this is not about service, it’s about acceptance of a lifestyle choice. But they should be talking to the American Psychological Association, not the Pentagon.

In an effort to study the effects of the intermingling of males and females in a combat unit, the Marine Corps is planning to create an experimental expeditionary unit that is about 25% female, according to Stars & Stripes;

The task force will be made up of about 460 Marines, and about one quarter will be women, said Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine spokeswoman. The task force will look like a small battalion landing team with attachments such as artillery, tanks and amphibious assault vehicles — similar to the ground combat portion of a Marine Expeditionary Unit, but about half the size.

The Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based unit will replicate the predeployment training cycle that other ground combat units go through, and will help the Marine Corps evaluate whether women are capable of doing the jobs and physically demanding tasks inherent in the training, Krebs said.

The unit will be made up of volunteers….

I guess that, since they have to follow the ridiculous guidance of their political masters, this is probably the smartest way to do it. I just find it odd that this experiment is taking place while there’s still a war going on and those 300+ male trigger pullers are engaged in an experiment when they’re needed to fight the Taliban a half a world away.

Of course, it’s not the Marine Corps’ fault, it the fault of those social engineers in the Pentagon who are trying to ram this down the throats of the services while they still have the unfocused vision from the White House and while there are no grownups to stop them.

The photo is a verified phony SEAL

Too many of you folks to name each of you have sent us a link to an article from CBS in San Francisco which reports that some unnamed commission led by masturbation queen and pediatrics doctor who was fired as the Surgeon general by the Clinton Administration, Minnie Jocelyn Elders recommends that the Pentagon can admit transsexuals to the military with no discernible damage to the welfare and good order of the military establishment;

The report said Department of Defense regulations designed to keep transgender people from joining or remaining in the military on the grounds of psychological and physical unfitness are based on outdated beliefs that require thousands of current service members either to leave the service or to forego the medical procedures and other changes that could align their bodies and gender identities.

“We determined not only that there is no compelling medical reason for the ban, but also that the ban itself is an expensive, damaging and unfair barrier to health care access for the approximately 15,450 transgender personnel who serve currently in the active, Guard and reserve components,” said the commission led by Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who served as surgeon general during Bill Clinton’s first term as president, and Rear Adm. Alan Steinman, a former chief health and safety director for the Coast Guard.

Yeah, well, the problem I see right at the front of the whole line of problems is folks signing up for the military to get their treatment, have their “reassignment” surgery and then beating feet for the exits. You know, they do that now with their signing bonuses, so what’s to stop folks from doing the same for their turn at the scalpel?

The commission argued that facilitating gender transitions “would place almost no burden on the military,” adding that a relatively small number of active and reserve service members would elect to undergo transition-related surgeries and that only a fraction might suffer complications that would prevent them from serving. It estimated that 230 transgender people a year would seek such surgery at an average cost of about $30,000.

Yeah, well, I see a bigger cost because the military would pay for their training which would be money down a dark hole after they go AWOL, or claim they were mistreated, or whatever excuse of the day they used to get out of the remainder of their service. Yeah, I know this unnamed Commission says that it’s all about service, but that’s what they said about repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but then it became all about what people could get out of their service without actually serving.

“When you closet someone, you create a security risk, and we don’t need another Chelsea Manning,” [Retired Brigadier General Thomas Kolditz, a former Army commander and West Point professor] said, referring to the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning who came out as transgender after being sentenced for leaking classified documents to the website WikiLeaks.

Yeah, well, [insert current first name here] Manning wasn’t treasonous because he was gay or transgendered, it was because he was a scummy piece of shit, but nice try, Gen-gen, screwing the Army now that you’re out. I hope the Pentagon isn’t so stupid in this day and age that they’d attach their little red policy wagon to this band of morons led by Minnie Elders.