April 10, 2013: For the first time in 69 years, there are no American tanks in Europe. On March 18th the United States shipped home 22 M-1 tanks, bringing to an end seven decades of American armor in Europe.
I am hoping that all the free money we where injecting in the European economy as they avoided any defense spending came home with those Abhrams tanks.
I am expecting the Marine Corps to get a serious shellacking from the grievance & victimhood council of our congress, after the participating females again failed to complete the marine officer infantry course. From the article:
For only the second time in history women were allowed to compete in the demanding Marine Infantry Officer Course this week – and for the second time none have passed. The two female officers made it through the first
Check out a post titled Turkey requested Nato missile defences over Syria chemical weapons fears.
A request by Turkey for Nato Patriot missile defences to be deployed on its territory followed intelligence that the Syrian government was contemplating the use of missiles, possibly with chemical warheads, Turkish officials have told the Guardian.
The officials said they had credible evidence that if the Syrian government’s aerial bombardment against opposition-held areas failed to hold the rebels
I have always supported the belief that with great power comes great responsibility. Authority conferred on those lucky enough to obtain it agree to comport themselves in a manner befitting the position, and those that fall short and abuse such authority get the wrath of the people dropped square on their heads. A fair and equitable bargain considering that they go in with their eyes wide open.
I keep seeing this story pop up on social media and I’m a bit surprised to find myself wanting to help the Democrat:
U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly appears to be borrowing a page from fellow Democrat Jim Moran‘s playbook in suggesting that his Republican opponent is unfit for duty in Congress.
Connolly, defending his seat against Army Col. Chris Perkins, said military deployments prevent service members from putting “sweat equity” into the districts they hope
The usual LSM outlets are reporting nonsense like CBS affiliate in DC which are trying to pretend that there is no stank to this whole fiasco. Yeah, Panetta, certainly isn’t doing CYA for the WH at all. Not everyone is playing along, though. Maybe it is because they are tired of getting thrown under that Obama bus. I already talked about the Clinton’s sticking it back to Barack for his attempt to throw Hillary under … Read more
You know I am the first to bust on Obama, and man does this guy provide a target rich environment, but I am going to have to tell people that are focusing on the lack of response in Benghazi that they are wrong to bitch about that. Yes, they had a drone over the area, unarmed from what I hear, and yes, it took 6 hours for the whole debacle to play out, but neither … Read more
Time to change gears. I got the US Open on my TV and am streaming the RNC convention, but I found something that brought a tear to my eye and re introduced me to my humanity. I am finding that as the years go by I find it harder and harder to write posts about our fallen military heroes, not only for the obvious reasons that when good men die we all are diminished to … Read more
It is no secret around here that I gave up hope on any possible Afghanistan success story years ago. Sure, I understand the need to exterminate AQ and the argument that it is better to fight them over there then over here. But after 11 years and two thousand casualties, I can’t see the rational of spending billions rebuilding that country or the possibility that any other scenario will occur except the inevitable, which is … Read more
It is no secret that the terror warrior in chief will trot out the head of OBL and parade it around for effect during the re election season, and who can blame him? This is a huge feather in his cap, and with the misery index, the unemployment rate, poverty level, debt, and inflated living expenses all stacked against him (that Damn Bush) success stories will be at a premium. But really, wasn’t it Valerie … Read more
