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  • Weekend Open Thread

    The military is a dangerous profession. You often need a bit of luck just to make it through the day unscathed.

    But sometimes, you need a whole lotta luck. Or a Guardian Angel working overtime.

    That’s especially true for some duty positions and specialties. Here’s my pick for perhaps the luckiest guy ever in the history of the US Navy.

     


     

    A 5+ minute clip of the incident, uncut, can be viewed here.

    The incident happened on the USS Theodore Roosevelt on 20 February 1991. The lucky soul was saved from death or permanent disability when a crewmate witnessed him being sucked into the intake and signaled the aircraft’s pilot to kill his engines. (Other sources say the pilot of the aircraft in question heard his helmet and safety goggles beginning to impact the compressor blades and immediately shut down his engines.)

    Remarkably, the man received only relatively minor injuries. And if he needed new trou and skivvies afterwards . . . well, I probably would have too. (smile)

    The incident caused a change in Navy flight-deck training and procedures to prevent recurrence.

    Enough for today. Enjoy the WOT – and the weekend – everyone.

  • US Army Deserter Found Nearly Two Decades Later in Indiana

    US Army Deserter Found Nearly Two Decades Later in Indiana

    An American man who deserted the U.S. Army nearly two decades ago has turned up working as a dishwasher at an Italian restaurant in Indiana, police say.

    Robert Eugene Brodbeck’s cover was blown late last week after voluntarily walking into the Clinton Police Department and talking to officers due to a scuffle he had with a co-worker the day after Christmas.

    “He worked jobs in things where he was paid in cash,” Larry Keller, dispatcher and records clerk for the Clinton Police Department, told the Indianapolis Star. “Nothing that ever required a Social Security number. He lived in a low-rent apartment. He walked everywhere and never had a driver’s license. He was really no trouble.”

    But during conversations with police, the 46-year-old gave them the name Robert Eugene Bowmen — an alias that returned no matches in their databases.

    Brodbeck eventually gave them his real identity after he learned they were preparing to arrest him for providing false information, the Indianapolis Star reported.

    A search of Brodbeck’s past uncovered that he is wanted in Texas for dodging police and failing to appear in court — and that he deserted the Army in 2000, it added, although details of that alleged action weren’t immediately available.

    Nothing like a career in Low Expectations.  WTF is this clown thinking.  He will get a lawyer now and the VA will be required to provide complete medical coverage and compensation including back pay because of his PTSD.

    Somebody has to do the dishes…we need these people to be left alone.

     

    Source: US Army Deserter Found Nearly Two Decades Later in Indiana, Police Say | Military.com

  • CSM Assaults Soldier During Road Rage Confrontation

    From Popular Military: CSM assaults Soldier during road rage incident.

    A Command Sergeant Major and a Soldier were involved in a road rage based altercation. This is something that lends itself to being watched, video posted below. You guys could sort this out.

    From Popular Military:

    “I took your tag number,” he said, flipping his wallet out like an FBI agent on TV. “If I find out.. You’re in the Army..Command Sergeant Major.”

    “Oh, congratu-f***ing-lations,” Allison quipped.

    “F*** you, you little bastard,” the CSM retorted.

    After telling the CSM to leave, the NCO warned the Allison not to get him angry.

    “What the f*** you gonna do?” the driver asked.

    It was then that the CSM unleashed his mighty fury, striking Allison with the amount of force generally reserved for when little old ladies hit people with purses.

    The video shows that his head isn’t the only part of him that gets exposed:

    Thanks to Just An Old Dog for the link. You can read more here.

  • The Russians Now Have a Hypersonic Missile

    Vladimir Putin

    I’m only posting this now, because Vlad Putin is Russian Orthodox and the Orthodox Church doesn’t celebrate Christmas until January. And that’s getting close. Vlad is pawing the ground and snorting. He can now claim a successful launch of a hypersonic missile (a/k/a  a glide vehicle, per the story) as his ultimate answer to the US’s aggressive warmongering. Full story is at the link: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/12/26/putin-oversees-hypersonic-weapon-test-says-its-invulnerable/

    These days, I can’t figure out if he’s whistling Dixie in Russian or just yankin’ us because it’s fun for him to do so.

    From the article:  Speaking to Russia’s top military brass after watching the live feed of the launch of the Avangard vehicle from the Defense Ministry’s control room, Putin said the successful test was a “great success” and an “excellent New Year’s gift to the nation.”

    The test comes amid bitter tensions in Russia-U.S. relations, which have sunk to their lowest level since the Cold War times over the conflict in Ukraine, the war in Syria and the allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

    Note the linkie thingie to another article in the middle of the missile test news, in which he says we’re threatening him with war. Here it is:  https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/12/20/putins-ominous-warning-us-is-raising-threat-of-nuclear-war/

    Oh, puh-lease!  Yes, Vlad, I do know about Tsar Bomba, what it was like and its range. But that was the 1960s and this is a lot later. I lived through that. So did a lot of other people I know.

    We are not the ones who want nuclear war. We have always seen nukes, et al., as deterrents, not weapons. We won’t start it, but by God, we will end it.  We were glad the Cold War ended. You should have learned something from that.

    Be careful what you wish for, Vlad. You might not like it.

    Anyway,  Schastlivogo Rozhdestva.

    (My Cyrillic  script didn’t work here, so it’s phonetic.)

  • 11-Year-Old ‘Drag Queen’ Dances for Dollar Bills in Gay Bar

    11-Year-Old ‘Drag Queen’ Dances for Dollar Bills in Gay Bar

    There has been a lot of discussion behind the scenes about if we should post this.  It’s not really military in nature but it is an indication of how twisted the Libtarded can become if left unsupervised.  I figured it needs to be out there in Google land what many of us actually think about it.

    An 11-year-old boy known as “Desmond Is Amazing” danced on stage at a New York gay bar while grown men tossed dollar bills at him.

    “The pre-adolescent boy, dressed in drag to imitate singer Gwen Stefani, pranced around the stage at Brooklyn’s 3 Dollar Bill, an LGBT bar described as ‘queer owned & operated,’ and ‘Brooklyn’s Premiere Queer Bar & Performance Venue,’” LifeSiteNews reports.

    For reasons that suddenly make sense, the bar enforces a strict ban on cell phone usage.

    One Yelp reviewer wrote that the bar makes you “put your phone into a locked magnet pouch at the door, so it can’t be used while there. You can slip it into your pocket but can’t get in the pouch.”

    Another explained it this way: “The club put our phones in these locked sleeves, which we could [carry] around the club.”

    The first to report this about the sexual exploitation of this child was a YouTuber named Yosef Ozia, who connected all these dots based on the Yelp reviews:

    WARNING: some may find this very disturbing.

    As you can see in the video, this 11-year-old boy is dressed in drag and prancing around wearing a tank top as grown men cheer and throw money.

    In even creepier news, “Desmond Is Amazing” has been celebrated by the establishment media.

    The Daily Beast and NBC News have both gushed over what can only be described as the sexual exploitation of a child.

    According to LifeSite, “ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ (GMA) recently devoted a segment to the boy during which his cross-dressing was celebrated as an example of individuality, and his parents were praised for their support of his drag hobby.”

    The Daily Wire reports that this exploitation has been going on for years: “When Desmond was just six years old, he was featured in a music video with drag queen and Season Six winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Jinkx Monsoon. As a fourth-grader, the child was used to advance the LGBT agenda, giving a speech at New York City’s Pride in 2017.”

    According to Desmond’s biography, he came out as a homosexual — when he was born:

    Desmond was born in June 2007, during NYC Pride Week, at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan. As he tells it, this means that he “is a member of the Village People by default”. He has also claimed that he “came out of the closet when he was born”. Desmond has a loving family and lives in New York City with his father, mother, and many pets. He also has an older sister. Desmond’s nickname at home is Desi.

    In this same write up, though, Desmond’s parents claim they are just letting him do what he wants — that a therapist told them this is healthy. In other words, if he enjoys dressing like a girl, being an LGBT icon, and performing in drag, let him.

    But it also says this [emphasis added]:

    Although he wants everyone to express themselves as genuinely as possible, he is concerned about the growing trend of young teen and child drag performers to dress or act overly sexy or provocatively, much like their adult counterparts. He feels that it sends the wrong message about all young drag performers and results in added aggression, bullying, and hatred, not only from society, but from within the LGBTQ community itself. Although an often controversial topic, he would personally like to see more young people discovering a drag style that speaks to their personal truth, but is at the same time, more age appropriate.

    So, in public, Desmond is presented as a child just doing what he loves but in a healthy way that is not “overly sexual” or “provocative,”  in a manner that is “age appropriate.”

    But at gay bars where your phone’s recording devices are disabled upon entry, 11-year-old Desmond’s parents have him dancing around on stage in a tank top while grown men hoot, holler, and throw money.

    According to my watch, the Second Coming is already ten minutes late.

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    Somebody try to explain why this kind of thing should not be treated as child abuse, grooming a victim, sexual exploitation of a child and some form of child pornography.

    Source: Nolte: 11-Year-Old ‘Drag Queen’ Dances for Dollar Bills in Gay Bar

  • Ghosts for the Gullible.  The Joseph Wayne Dunagan skinny.

    Ghosts for the Gullible.  The Joseph Wayne Dunagan skinny.

    Beginning in 1962, secret U.S. military units, referred to as “Ghost Walkers,” operated clandestinely in North Korea. Their missions were so secret, in fact, the U.S. government refuses…

    While tensions flare in the Korean Peninsula, American Free Press has learned of a clandestine joint military and intelligence unit that has been conducting brazen cross-border raids into North Korean territory since at least the early 1960s. The outfit, known as the “Ghost Walkers,” performed top-secret missions on North Korean soil, including infiltrating a nuclear power plant in 1963 and kidnapping a North Korean general straight from his camp, who was later interrogated and executed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

    Information on this unit is so classified that the men who served in it have been unable to prove so, as it is not listed on their service records, and they have been denied veteran benefits for over 50 years, including but not limited to treatment for toxic chemical exposure, i.e., herbicides like the defoliant Agent Orange. The main reason the Pentagon refuses to recognize the service and sacrifice of these vets is the fact that, in carrying out their top-secret missions, treaty and other laws were violated, which would create a diplomatic firestorm if revealed.

    The joint CIA-Army-Navy-Marines-Air Force unit operated out of South Korea from ASCOM City, near Inchon, and may still be functioning, although its top-secret nature precludes those without a need to know from confirming its existence. ASCOM, or Army Support Command, is a U.S. Army Materiel Support Center that “had its beginnings in the mid-1930s when the Japanese built a large supply depot and arsenal at Bupyong-Dong, Inchon City, to support their troops in Manchuria.” After the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Army Support Command Korea was established and acquired the acronym ASCOM.

    I think most of you know where this is going.  Top Secret missions, Agent Orange and the shadowy super secret JCIAANMAFU (joint CIA-Army-Navy-Marines-Air Force unit) always deny veteran benefits to those who served.  I know dozens of MARMOOSEAL’s that completed BUD’s at Camp Klusterphuk and deployed to kill OBL and not one of them is being paid for their disabilities.

    When a gullible Spousal Unit swallows one of these lunatics lures hook line and sinker it’s really sad to watch.   I usually try to give them additional leeway but wonder if maybe an intervention of some kind might help.  The “Skinny” on her husband can be found in the archives of our Governments storage facilities.

    The wife of Oregon native Joseph Wayne Dunagan, one of the Ghost Walkers, who served in Korea from May 1962 to March 1964, reached out to this reporter with information she feels proves the unit’s existence. She explained how she began her quest over 15 years ago to force the U.S. government to honor its commitment to not just her husband but to all those who served in the unit. Dunagan was trained as a military policeman at Fort Gordon, Ga.

    “I know that my husband’s eligible for benefits, and I know that what they asked him to do in Korea was exceptionally dangerous,” Mrs. Dunagan said. “It would scare the pants right off of you if you knew some of the stuff that they had those guys do.”

    You can read the rest of this nonsense at the link below or suffer through the choppy video.  I would not recommend you try both.  Shame on the people that encourage these folks to make an ass of themselves.

     

     

    Source: U.S. Ghost Walkers in North Korea – American Free Press

  • Nuke Nerd Alert!

    The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying the crew of astronaut Nick Hague of the U.S. and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Russia blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov

    It seems that Vlad Putin is taking a stab at using nuclear-powered rockets to send stuff to Mars.

    Now, considering that rocket propulsion systems require a “push” to reach delta V (escape velocity, as shown in the Soyuz MS-10 photo), it is not clear exactly how the Russians intend to produce that effect. It’s not quite the same thing as using nuclear fuel to heat water to produce electricity and drive a big nuke bird farm, or even using Bernoulli’s principle to make a caterpillar drive propel a submarine, like that Big Pig in the “Hunt For Red October”. (One of Sean Connery’s better movies.)

    There’s no real explanation on how this nukey spacebird will manage to escape the chains of Earth and touch the Heavens. However, I’ve included a link to the original article at BGR, which tells us that Elon Musk’s reusable rockets will soon be outdated because Russia’s will be one better. https://bgr.com/2018/11/14/russia-nuke-rocket-spacex-rocket/

    And apparently, the US is bringing back an old tech program abandoned in the 1970s, which someone brought up in the comments for the article about the Russian announcement at WUWT.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/15/russia-will-shape-the-future-of-spaceflight-announces-nuclear-powered-reusable-rocket-programme/

    I’m really more interested in how a nuclear-powered engine can get something that big off the ground, never mind into Space. I understand how reactors work (at the basic level). I’m just curious as to what they intend to use for the propulsion system to create the liftoff.  I’m guessing, however, that they’d use conventional fuels to get liftoff and reach escape velocity, and then switch over to the nuclear engine to keep propulsion stable and control spin/yaw/wobble/whatever floats your boat.

    I’m leaving this for you nukey birds to discuss at length and confuse us mere mortals, and have some fun on a snowy Saturday.

  • Important Message From General Charles H. Jacoby!!

    I received the following e-mail last night, and am puzzled as to how to properly respond to it. I’m torn between being flattered that someone wants to give me 30% of $38,000,000 Big Ones, and knowing that no matter how earnestly I respond, the Western Union office that used to be next door to the restaurant on the highway is – well, it’s gone, because nobody patronized it, and the cash to which General Jacoby is referring would have to be shipped to me by Fed Ex – and I’m not sure that they’d want that kind of responsibility, unless, perhaps, General Jacoby paid to insure delivery before he shipped the $38,000,000 Big Ones to me.

    Of course, you do realize that I would expect to be rewarded for my endeavors by a considerably larger percentage than a mere 30%. If I’m to guard this cash hoard against all takers, I’d require personal weapons of my own, which requires qualifying for a CCW as well as acquiring an FOID, all of which takes time. There is no instant gratification in this kind of thing. I would also require reinforcement of the walls of my house, or else a new garden shed with a more secure door and lock on the front. Again, this takes time.

    Unfortunately, I might have to be completely honest with him and tell him that my spendthrift gene would flash the “ON” button at the sight and smell of all that moola, and I’d be gone so fast, papers would fly up in my wake.

    Any suggestions are, of course, welcome, and no doubt the good general expects to find his cash hoard intact.  So what say you all?  Tell the general ‘Yes, of course, I’ll take it to help you out”? Or should I be more forthright and tell him he has to ship his entire $38,000, 000 cash hoard to a small regional airport innocuously located at Minot, North Dakota? As I understand it, Fargo is not too far from there. And Minot still does 15 second MITO exercises, so my timing must be impeccable in this matter.

    General Charles H. Jacoby <gen.chj@usa.net>

    Fri 11/2/2018, 1:24 AM

    Recipients

    Greetings,

    My name is  General Charles H. Jacoby, I am an American soldier, presently in Afghanistan for the training, advising the Afghan forces and also helping in stabilizing the country against security challenges. With a very desperate need for assistance, I have decided to contact you for your kind assistance to move the sum of (US$38,000,000.00) Thirty eight Million United States Dollars to you if I can be assured that my share will be safe in your care until I complete my service.

    Some money in various currencies was discovered in boxes at a farmhouse during a rescue operation we conducted in one of the attacks by the terrorists and it was agreed by my colleagues and I that some part of this money be shared among us. The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal this kind of money became a problem for me, so with the help of a British doctor working with Red Cross, I was able to get the package out to a safe location entirely out of trouble spot. he does not know the real content of the package, and believes that it belongs to a British /American medical doctor who died in a raid here in Afghanistan, and before giving up, trusted me to hand over the package to his Family.

    I have now found a much secured way of getting the package out of Afghanistan to you for pick up and I will discuss this with you when I am sure that you are willing to assist me. I am ready to compensate you with 30% of the $38 million USD for your assistance.

    I don’t know how long we will remain here, and I was shot. I lost my wife and my little girl in Afghanistan during the attack. wounded and survived two suicide bomb attacks by the special grace of God. This and other reasons I mentioned later prompted me to reach out for help. 70% of my will be used for my investment and start a new life and settle down when i am out of here.

    Please contact me as soon as possible with the following details:

    Full Name:

    Full Address:

    Tel/cell numbers:

    Occupation:

    God Bless you as I look forward to your positive response.

    Truly yours,

    General Charles H. Jacoby.