Someone found a dog tag at a flea market or something of that nature in Michigan, and would like to get it back to whoever it belonged to. I know we have some amateur historians, anyway you could help?
This is what the dogtag reads:
CLIFFORD
GEORGE
SUMMERFIELD
946-97-91
USNR-B
T-3-45-P
Swedish authorities arrested a man in the predominantly immigrant Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on drug charges yesterday.
I hope the POTUS has the good taste not to smirk too much when he says, “I told you so” at his next press conference.
The President has selected Herbert Raymond “H. R.” McMaster to be his national security adviser. For those of you not familiar with McMaster, I’d have to ask you “where have you been for the last 26 years?” From Wiki;
During the Gulf War in 1991 he was a captain commanding Eagle Troop of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of 73 Easting. During that battle, though significantly outnumbered and encountering the enemy by surprise as McMaster’s lead tank crested a dip in the terrain, the nine tanks of Eagle Troop destroyed over eighty Iraqi Republican Guard tanks and other vehicles without loss, due to the Abrams tank being state-of-the-art armored technology while the Iraqi equipment included grossly outdated T-62s and -72s of the Soviet era as well as similarly dated Type 69s of Chinese manufacture.
McMaster was awarded the Silver Star. The battle features in several books about Desert Storm and is widely referred to in US Army training exercises.
His book, “Dereliction of Duty” criticized commanders in Vietnam for failing to confront civilian leadership about the realities of the Vietnam War and it was a best seller in the halls of the Pentagon in the years leading up to the war against terror.
In April 2014, McMaster made Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is hailed as “the architect of the future U.S. Army” in the accompanying piece written by retired Lt. Gen. Dave Barno, who commanded U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005. “Major General Herbert Raymond McMaster might be the 21st century Army’s pre-eminent warrior-thinker,” Barno wrote. “Recently tapped for his third star, H.R. is also the rarest of soldiers—one who has repeatedly bucked the system and survived to join its senior ranks.”
We chewed the same sand when my unit passed through his from 73 Easting to Objective Norfolk through the swath of destruction his soldiers had cut through the Iraqi Army.
The Marines have Mattis, and the Army has McMaster – now Trump has them both on his team.
Anytime Congress Critters go mucking about in my hard-earned benefits, I’m paying attention. The new retirement options don’t affect me, but I am a frequent flyer at the local base’s Exchange and Commissary. The Commissary’s pricing scheme now is cost +5% to pay for expenses incurred, but that may soon change. A new “variable pricing” plan is being trotted out at select stores as a trial balloon.
“The variable pricing rule was included in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, signed by former President Barack Obama SCoaMF late last year, in an attempt to decrease the $1.3 billion in taxpayer funding the system receives annually.”
Somehow, I knew that customer service wasn’t a consideration, and the cost burden will fall on the military families. Thanks, Barry.
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Saturday night, President Trump made a sideways reference to an incident in Sweden which would illustrate justification for his immigration policy. From The Hill;
“When you look at what’s happening in Germany, when you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden — Sweden!” he said during the rally. “Who would believe this? Sweden! They took in large numbers, they’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
The Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., asked the U.S. to clarify what incident Trump was referring to on Sunday.
What the President was referring to was a Facebook rant written by a Swedish police officer on the cusp of his retirement, Peter Springare. He is currently facing charges of hate crime incitement. Here is his post on Facebook;
The Facebook translation;
I’m so fucking tired. What I will write here below, is not politically correct. But I don’t care. What I’m going to promote you all taxpayers is prohibited to peddle for us state employees. That tends to drive in a non-career and non-individual pay. Even though it’s true. I don’t care about all of this, will soon still retire after 47 years in this activity. I will now and every week to explain in detail what for employing me as investigators / investigator on coarse mcu police in örebro. It’s not going to be good with the opinion or other leftist kriminologers perception in the general debate.
Our pensioners is on its knees, the school’s a mess, healthcare is an inferno, the police have totalhavererat etc etc. We all know why but no one dare or wants to peddle the reason, due to the fact that Sweden always lived on the myth of prudes ultimate society who have osinnliga resources to be at the forefront when it comes to be the only politically correct option in a dysfunctional world that beats Knot on their own by destructive behavior in different name of.Here we go; this I’ve handled Monday-Friday this week: rape, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, rape-assault and rape, extortion, blackmail, off of, assault, violence against police, threats to police, drug crime, drugs, crime, felony, attempted murder, Rape again, extortion again and ill-treatment.
Suspected perpetrators; Ali Mohammed, mahmod, Mohammed, Mohammed Ali, again, again, again Christopher… what is it true. Yes a Swedish name snuck on the outskirts of a drug crime, Mohammed, Mahmod Ali, again and again.Countries representing the weekly all crimes: Iraq, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somalia, Syria again, Somalia, unknown, unknown country, Sweden. Half of the suspects, we can’t be sure because they don’t have any valid papers. Which in itself usually means that they’re lying about your nationality and identity.
Now we’re talking just örebro municipality. And these crimes occupies our utredningsförmåga to 100 %.
So it looks here and has been like for the past 10-15 years.
Fox News writes about another police chief in the Swedish city of Malmo;
About 32 percent of Malmo’s occupants are migrants. In the Rosengard district, 80 percent are migrants, many without jobs.
“We cannot do it on our own,” Chief Stefan Sinteus wrote in an open letter about the “upward spiral of violence.”
And Sinteus is not merely dealing with typical crimes that any modern city would witness.
Malmo had 52 hand grenade attacks in 2016 alone, a jump from 48 attacks in 2015, according to figures provided by the Swedish Police Authority.
Nationwide, the terror threat level is at “elevated” and police believe at least 300 Swedish nationals have travelled to Syria and Iraq for jihadi training. On Feb. 11, a Swedish man and a Danish man were arrested in Turkey, suspected of plotting to carry out attacks in Europe. Tofik Saleh, a 38-year-old Swedish citizen of Iraqi origin, had been training with ISIS since 2014, officials said.
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Sweden has taken in 650,000 asylum-seekers during the past 15 years – including 163,000 in 2015 alone, The Spectator reported.
Of course, no one at The Hill or the New York Times which are criticizing Trump for his remark are bothering to explain what he was talking about.
Republican Senator Rand Paul told ABC News that the country is “lucky” that John McCain isn’t president;
“Everything that he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he has got running with President Trump [over foreign policy], and it should be taken with a grain of salt because John McCain is the guy that has advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation,” Paul told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl on “This Week.”
“Actually we’re very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war,” the Kentucky senator added.
McCain has lately taken to criticizing President Trump’s attacks on the media;
“The first thing that dictators do is shut down the press,” McCain said in an interview with NBC News. “And I’m not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I’m just saying we need to learn the lessons of history.”
I disagree with Paul, in that eight years of a presidency isn’t “perpetual war” – the war in Iraq and Syria is still going on through the Obama Presidency. But that “maverick” McCain has outlived any usefulness he ever had to the Republican Party. What has Trump done to “shut down the press”? Other than call them out and talk around the media.
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
We are hear a lot these days from people who live inside of bubbles wholly shielded from the everyday challenges of the forgotten men and women who are the overwhelming majority of Americans. I refuse to refer to these groups of people as elite. From my background and upbringing, referring to someone or a group as elite was reserved for the best of us. These people certainly do not make the cut. Privileged they certainly are, but they fall well short of being the best of America – or the best of people for that matter. At the end of their road is self-preservation and maintenance of their perceived exalted stature.
We refer to the media elite, the Washington elite, the Hollywood elite and elitists in general based on personal wealth and its accompanying influence. It is these collectives who work every day to drive the conversational narrative attempting to steer the minds of the forgotten population in the direction of their ideologies and political aims. They divide people into groups of victims blaming their lot on a straw man enemy. The people – elitists – and their groups of useful idiots are an insignificant percentage of our population. Those who try each day to set the tone or drive the narrative attempt to make them appear the majority. It is a mirage, a potentially volatile and deadly one, but a mirage all the same.
They are failing. They have failed over the past decade and have experienced a steady decline in political power and influence. The forgotten of our country that largely exist paycheck to paycheck finally said enough. This is not their America. The social justice leveling of the playing field is a fallacy that serves to move middle class farther out of their reach. No longer are they influenced by these self-titled groups of elites who are losing their influence over the Middle America psyche daily and in great chunks.
The more our vaunted elitists fail the more extreme they become and will become. They refer to anyone who does not agree with them as fascists. It shows a level of ignorance amongst these people and their indoctrinated “protestors” that is nothing short of breathtaking. Fascism wants to silence opposing voices. It wants to control who has the ability to do business and sale their wares in the public market place. This is what we see every day. It is the narrative driven by the “elites” who refer to those disagreeing with them as brownshirts. Just for the uneducated Hollywood actors and faux journalists making these accusations, understand that it was the Nazis who sent their brownshirts to shut down opposing voices and destroy businesses and property. This is exactly what the paid for rent-a-thugs are doing almost daily. The day will come when a business owner or someone wearing the wrong kind of hat will declare enough. On that sad day for America you may just get the fight you think you want.
Peaceful dissent and protest is a hallmark of American freedom. Rioting, destroying business, and attacking people who disagree with you are hallmarks of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Communist China, North Korea… . If you are either too stupid to understand that or you actually embrace this approach, then you are not American. Not even close.
There is another group. These are the subversives inside our government agencies. These are not Presidential appointees, but career federal employees who are selected and promoted into sensitive positions because of their political connections and leanings. These are the people who willingly commit felonies by releasing transcripts of telephone conversations captured on classified signal intelligence networks. These are the people inside Congressional offices, NSA, DOJ, FBI, CIA, Homeland… who want to bring down our democratically elected government. These, not the useful idiots in the streets, are the people most dangerous to our country. These are the people who must be found and fully prosecuted under Title 18 US Code Chapter 115 Treason, Sedition and Subversive Activities.
But it is all connected. The elitists drive the media narrative and put the punks in the streets. The subversives inside the government give meat to the false narrative that “the Russians did it” then it just becomes a loop. A snowball rolling down the mountain until something pops. At least that is their hope and aim. Fortunately the indications are that they are losing this fight and will continue to lose as long as our President stands firm and takes the fight to them.
© J. D. Pendry 2017