Did you miss it? Another one of the ‘We have you now‘ Donald Trump! Media moments. There are several every week. This one involved the US Military and an airstrip near a Scottish resort owned by the President. Guess what? The Media Lied!
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2019: New Hampshire “Most Patriotic State” in the Nation (How’d Your State Do?)
New Hampshire popping up on a “best of” list is not new. Best for low overall taxes, high quality of life, low poverty, outstanding health outcomes, and more recently, an excellent growing increasingly business-friendly state economy. This number one ranking for Most patriotic seems like another feather in the cap.
New Facebook Poll Question: Use of Deadly Force to Protect the Southern Border
With the introduction of military personnel to patrol the southern border, the question had to be broached. What about deadly force? They may be there providing support. Working on engineering. Protecting workers installing barriers. But no matter how much marketing or PR you may see about other roles soldiers are a projection of force. To that … Read more
Viva La Revolution Venezuela
What happened? Reuters is reporting that Wednesday Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president. American President Trump formally recognized Guaido shortly after his announcement. Trump praised Guaido’s plan to hold elections. That was followed by similar statements from Canada and a group of Latin American governments including Venezuela’s neighbors Brazil and Colombia. Socialist … Read more
Appeals Court Upholds Trump’s Military Transgender Ban
A Federal appeals court has upheld the partial ban on transgenders serving in the military. In their opinion, the lower court erred in its judgment that the policy was the equivalent of a blanket ban. According to Western Journal, “The government took substantial steps to cure the procedural deficiencies the court identified in the enjoined … Read more
Of Martial Law
Before I begin my discourses on Locke and constitutional government my wife suggested that I needed to write on the definitions of two terms: martial law and militia. I am going to discuss martial law first.
Currently, my wife and I are reading an “apocalyptic” book which deals with life after an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) takes out the power grid. I read many series of such books to my son Jarrod in the last years of his life. Through out this genre of books there is a consistent misunderstanding of marital law. Provisions for martial law are included in our State Constitutions, and has definite meaning. The martial law is a lawful power of government, and proper understanding of it and its lawful implementation is important.
Do I REALLY have to explain this one?
Right – if those two headlines don’t get your blood rushing, you just don’t care. As the Dad of two combat vets, who put their lives on the line for this country, my blood boiled when I saw that active military have had their education cut short while those that shouldn’t even be here – … Read more
Yikes. Just…yikes.
Headlines from yesterday’s Daily Mail Online: “U.S. Air Force developing terrifying swarms of tiny unmanned drones that can hover, crawl and even kill targets. The Micro Air Vehicles will work in swarms to provide complex surveillance of a battlefield. They can also be armed with incapacitating chemicals, combustible payloads or even explosives ‘for precision targeting capability’.” … Read more
Anonymous responds to Obama’s 2013 Gun Control measures….
The pot is boiling. The Executive Branch’s DHS is buying fully-automatic rifles and millions of rounds of .223 caliber ammunition. When is someone in the GOP going to file an impeachment case against this President? Will it be left up to the people of the United States (likely just 3%, as in 1776) to correct this … Read more
This could be a serious national security breach, but what the hell….
I don’t CARE that GraniteGrok.com is supposed to be responsible. The team that got Bin Laden" needs to be recognized, regardless of the security consequences! So here it is….
Memorial Day: Remembering What We Did…
Marine Corps Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) Number 2112 “Precision Weapons Repairer. That is what I did. I found this entry on the Marine Corps Community for USMC veterans. I found it worthy of sharing. It took me back to the hard works and labors of my early days as a young Marine serving our country. So on this Memorial day, I not write of my own musings and thoughts, but I defer that to my brother Amorers who have so adeptly described what we do (and did). To them I say…Semper Fi!
The destructive power of a machine gun, mortar or rifle by itself is nothing, but when manned by Marines in combat, it strikes terror into the heart of the enemy.
Armorers in the Marine Corps make sure that each one of these weapons, along with many other small-arms, are secured, maintained and accounted for, until Marines need to put them to use.
Armorers are responsible for every weapon in their charge – 100 percent accountability at all times.
“Most people don’t realize how much we do on a daily basis,” said Sgt. Clinton Rosemeyer, armory chief, Headquarters and Service Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific. “Between the multiple weapons counts, issuing weapons, maintenance and inspections after recovering weapons – we keep pretty busy.”
The battalion’s armory contains pistols, rifles, machine guns and mortars. Armorers must be able to inspect the weapons to determine if they have malfunctions, need repairs or meet serviceability standards, according to Marine Corps Order P1200.7.
In order to do that, armorers must be able to disassemble and assemble every weapon in their charge, and be able to assess the condition of each piece of the weapon.
BIN LADEN’S DEMISE IN FOCUS
The news of Bin Laden’s demise was barely minutes old before the politicizing began in earnest. In the hours that followed, Barbara Walters on the view retorts, “I would hate now to be a Republican candidate thinking of running,” Like this somehow cancels out the high gas prices, the economy being in the toilet and … Read more
For readers from the Fort Campbell community – welcoming home the 101st Airborne, 1-327th 1 BCT!
Welcome families that are awaiting the State-side landing of your 1st BCT Soldiers. Having correlated inbound flight info patterns, our soldiers will be landing at approximately 8:08 pm here at Bangor International Airport here in Maine (no, the flight is not publicly listed). Having obtained airport mgt permission, we will be live streaming their arrival … Read more
Impeach Obama
Pointing out let wing hypocrisy is easier than hitting water when you fall out of a boat so when we find an opportunity to point out acts based on some kind of consistent principle it seems only appropriate to reward them with public comment.
DADT Meets The Matthew Shepherd/Pentagon Funding/Hate Speech Law
Now that DADT has passed, how long will it be before a homosexual service member caught in a sexual act with another service person who is not their legal “partner” files a lawsuit against the military,–probably prompted by some activist left wing lawyer–based on violations of the Matthew Shepard (Pentagon Funding) hate speech law?
Veteran’s Day
H/T to Publius at Big Government.com
Shea-Porter’s Anti-Millitary Stand
Blue Hampshire has a nice post about how Carol Seiu-Porter, the daughter of a WWII vet, married to a former serviceman, stands up for veterans and the military. (I have synopsized.)
Well if that is true, then the minute she gets back to DC for her lame duck session I expect her to initiate an investigation into why states run by democrats have such a hard time getting absentee ballots out to military personnel in the field, and getting them back and counted in time to matter. This is a problem that has gone on for years without any notice or action by the democrats or their so-called military supporters.
Is Carol Shea-Porter anti-millitary?
Carol Seiu-Porter’s energy policy agenda actually costs the US military billions of dollars more per year in increased fuel and energy costs. Stephen Hayward at the Weekly Standard estimated that every $10/barrel added to the price of oil costs the defense department (and you) one billion dollars more per year.
Largest Deployment of NH National Guard Troops…
This Saturday, September 11, 2010, 700 NH National Guard members, from the 197th Fires Brigade, will begin a deployment to Kuwait in "Operation New Dawn", part of President Obama’s new, reduced scope and size mission in Iraq. A public ceremony will be held at the Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester. Doors open at 12pm, ceremony begins … Read more