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Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2015

Should you even be surprised?

July 27, 2015 Military , Obama 0 Comments

Under Obama, Our Military’s Strength Has Significantly Decreased

By The Daily Signal, July 26, 201

Barack Obama is not likely to be mistaken for Teddy Roosevelt. Yes, his foreign policy has been quite soft-spoken—especially when addressing openly hostile states such as Iran. But he has whittled America’s “big stick” down to kindling.

While “resetting” with Russia and “engaging” with Iran, Obama has presided over a tremendous down-sizing of U.S. military strength. The Army’s manpower is down 10 percent since President Obama took office. Our naval capabilities are aging and inadequate to meet our national security demands. The Air Force fields the smallest and oldest force of combat aircraft in its history. The Marines are running only about two-thirds the number of battalions they have historically needed to meet day-to-day operational demands.

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Sunday, April 19, 2015

So much for trust, but verify

April 19, 2015 Inspection , Iran 0 Comments
Iran's powerful Guard rejects inspection of military sites


By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Apr 19, 2015,
Associated Press

International nuclear inspectors will be barred from all Iranian military sites under any deal with world powers, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guard said Sunday, setting up a possible standoff as negotiators try to reach a final deal.



Gen. Hossein Salami, the Guard's deputy leader, told Iranian state television that allowing foreign inspection of military sites is tantamount to "selling out," raising the stakes as talks between Iran and the six-nation group are to resume April 22 in Vienna.

"We will respond with hot lead (bullets) to those who speak of it," Salami said. "Iran will not become a paradise for spies. We will not roll out the red carpet for the enemy."

Salami said allowing foreign inspectors to visit a military base would amount to "occupation," and expose "military and defense secrets."

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Semper Fi

January 27, 2015 AP , CBS News 0 Comments
Military Helicopter Crash Kills Marines In California

AP, Jan. 24, 2015, CBS News

The military says two Marines were killed when their helicopter crashed during a training exercise in Southern California.

The Third Marine Aircraft Wing chopper was carrying just the two when it went down late Friday afternoon at the base in Twentynine Palms.

Both Marines on board died as a result of crash injuries.

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Friday, January 16, 2015

Another day in the War on Terror

January 16, 2015 Ashley Fantz , CNN 0 Comments
After ISIS Twitter threat, Military Families Rethink Online Lives

Ashley Fantz, Jan. 15, 2015, CNN

In late November, the FBI issued a warning to U.S. military members that ISIS was calling for attacks against them, a law enforcement source told CNN. The source said that "overseas based individuals are looking for like-minded individuals in the U.S. to carry out these attacks."

The warning asked members of the military to "review their online social media presence for any information that might attract the attention of violent extremists."

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Monday, December 29, 2014

Death, taxes and Sharpton...

December 29, 2014 Al Sharpton , Ferguson 0 Comments
Al Sharpton Shows Up At Tragedies Like A Bad Smell

John Linder, Dec. 27, 2014, The Blaze

Mayor de Blasio ought to be impeached for incompetence or stupidity. Take your pick.

Al Sharpton ought to be imprisoned for inciting riots or evading taxes. Take your pick.

For those of us on the sidelines, just as we thank our soldiers who protect us from foreign threats, so should we pause to thank our police officers for the sacrifices that they make every day to keep our communities safe.

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

STILL 20,000K men and women were victims last year

December 06, 2014 Jacqueline Klimas , Military 0 Comments
Pentagon: Sexual Assault Claims Drop Among Military Women

Rowan Scarborough and Jacqueline Klimas, Dec. 4, 2014, Washington Times

Figures released by the Rand Corp., an independent government-supported research center, estimated that 20,000 men and women in the military’s 1.3 million active force said they were the victims last year of sexual assault — a catchall term that encompasses unwanted sexual contact, or attempts, up to and including rape. Both men and women reported fewer assaults, Rand said.

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Meanwhile, we are downsizing

December 06, 2014 China , Chinese 0 Comments
China Predicted To Have More Warships Than The US By 2020

Ishaan Tharoor, Dec. 5, 2014, Washington Post

China's well-documented naval expansion includes a considerable increase in submarines; its number of nuclear submarines is projected to almost triple between 2000 and 2020. China recently launched its first aircraft carrier. Its unveiling new destroyers as well as amphibious assault vessels. It has developed significant missile capabilities aboard its fleet. Since 1989, the Chinese military's budget has grown by double-digit percentages each year.

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

Sounds like a "neo-con"!

November 16, 2014 AP , Budget 0 Comments
Hagel: US Needs Game-Changing Military Innovation

Robert Burns, Nov. 16, 2014, Associated Press

Hagel announced a "defense innovation initiative" that he likened to historic and successful campaigns during the Cold War to offset military advantages of U.S. adversaries. He described a "game-changing" strategy to sharpen American's military edge in the face of budget impasses on Capitol Hill.

"We must change the way we innovate, operate and do business," he told a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

In a memo to Pentagon leaders in which be outlined the initiative, Hagel said the U.S. must not lose its commanding edge in military technology.

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Friday, November 14, 2014

Trading guns for butter, reneging on promises

November 14, 2014 Dave Philipps , Military 0 Comments
Cuts In Military Mean Job Losses For Career Staff

Dave Philipps, Nov. 12, 2014, New York Times

A Haitian immigrant who enlisted as a teenager, he deployed three times to Iraq, missing so many birthdays and Christmases that he sometimes felt he barely knew his four children. He hid symptoms of post-traumatic stress so he could stay in the Army, because he loved his job and believed that after 20 years he could retire with a captain’s pension.

Then this summer, on the day Captain Saintjuste reached his 20 years, the Army told him that as part of the postwar downsizing of the force he would have to retire. And adding insult to injury, he would have to retire as a sergeant, earning $1,200 less per month, because he had not been a captain long enough to receive a captain’s pension.

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Monday, April 7, 2014

5 Ways Blacks Are More Like Republicans than Democrats --Nada on unemplymt and the rethinking of "hope and change"?

April 07, 2014 Affirmative Action , Atlanta Black Star 0 Comments
By Lynn Brown, Apr. 2, 2014, Atlanta Black Star

In response to the country’s rapidly changing racial demographics, Republicans have talked a lot about their intentions to start recruiting more people of color to their cause. Currently only 7 percent of African-Americans identify as Republican, but this was not always so.

In the 1800s the Republican Party counted such illustrious Black scholars as Booker T. Washington as members and they were known to be aligned with abolitionists. However, this all changed dramatically during Herbert Hoover’s presidency and after, as the Republican Party instated more and more racist polices in an attempt to attract Southern voters.

Today, the ideology of the African-American community is seen as light years away from that of conservatives, but though there are some major differences, there are also some surprising similarities. 

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