Interesting

From SWJ.com
" Insurgent operations aimed at developing networks, gathering intelligence, and distributing information is outpacing the antiquated, inflexible, and unresponsive system employed by our military."   

Considering the telephone call today I had with a young enlisted girl concerning zip files.... Houston, we might have a problem!

Merry Christmas

Peace on Earth!

Thank you for letting me sleep in peace tonight.

Why we are the "Best" at Humanitarian Assistance.

I like to say that we in the military, in general do not receive "Humanitarian Assistance" training.  We are usually too busy focusing on our core competencies like war fighting, IE Killing people and breaking things.

Anyhow, it occurred to me the other day that what makes the American Military fantastic and the Best at Humanitarian Assistance is that in general most military people are good people.  Boy scouts if you will.  We will help little old ladies who are broken down on the side of the road.  So naturally we want to help.  When was the last time Jones from the hood or Pierre from France pulled over and gave granny a hand?

Homosexuals in the Military

Ok, this hits a little close to home so I feel that I am uniquely qualified to comment on Obama's latest push to repeal the 'Don't ask don't tell"rules in the Military.

1. Personal Experience: As a young platoon leader, I had a poorly performing soldier who wanted to get out of the Army in a big way. A line that he used when he spoke with the command, IE the company commander and myself is, "I am gay!' Was he using this avenue as an easy way out? Was he really gay? A little investigating proved that there were no homosexual tendencies reported by his friends, peers and work mates. However who is going to admit that they too are "gay" to support a friend, a poorly performing one. If the booger is being "flicked", step aside so it does not land on you. How do you correct, train, discipline some one if they now say you are prejudicial towards them on account of their proclaimed sexual orientation. Easy, I treat em all the same! Work hard, play hard, follow the rules the best you can. If you cant meet the established "minimum" then you probably are not doing something right.

2. I personally know a couple of homosexuals. If you did not out right ask, " Hey are you a homosexual?" you would never know their sexual orientation.

Which leads to the point of sexuality, don't parade your tendencies and no one will know or care.

Read here: "Don't ask don't tell!"

Homosexuals catch bullets just as efficiently as the straight guys. If I had a bullet stuck in my chest, I don't give a crap, straight, gay, purple, bestiality obsessed, who is going to drag me to safety and patch me up. Just as long as they can do the job. That is the key: can one perform the job effectively? Can a 98lb woman drag a 220lb man in combat gear from a burning truck? I digressed a little on that with the women in the military, a different story and a different point of view for a different time.

Psycho from the Movie "Stripes" pretty much tells it like it is....

When officers will have to lead!

This is a re-post from a different site, however my angle on it is that this sort of crazyness will come down to the junior and midgrade officers "executing" the plan.  When does an officer execute their oath to defend the Constitution against domestic enemy's?

The U.S. Army War College warned in 2008 November warned in a monograph [click on Policypointers’ pdf link to see the report] titled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development” of crash-induced unrest:

The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The “widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” “An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home,” it went on. “Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD [the Department of Defense] would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance,” the document read.

Hail to the Chief?

"A tepid reception?"
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