The Military Thread

[shorebird]

Is that one of the AF1 photos they took while they were scaring the shtein out of the people in NYC?

Yup.

[shorebird]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9_T9cPv_dg

No two ways about it this was a bad man right here.  

As well as a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, didn't the Republic of Vietnam award him with their version of the Medal of Honor also?

[Drunkmasterflex]

I believe so. 

[Diomedes]

this ought to give the warmongering macho men among you milky pants
it's worth reading for the other two of you as well.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/world/asia/18marja.html?hp

[Eagaholic]

updated 4:35 p.m. ET, Wed., Feb. 17, 2010

WILMINGTON, N.C. - An environmental contractor dramatically underreported the level of a cancer-causing chemical found in tap water at Camp Lejeune, then omitted it altogether as the Marine base prepared for a federal health review, an Associated Press review has found.

The Marine Corps had been warned nearly a decade earlier about the dangerously high levels of benzene, which was traced to massive leaks from fuel tanks at the base on the North Carolina coast, according to recently disclosed studies.

For years, Marines who served at Camp Lejeune have blamed their families' cancers and other ailments on tap water tainted by dry cleaning solvents, and many accuse the military of covering it up. The benzene was discovered as part of a broader, ongoing probe into that contamination.

[Drunkmasterflex]

this ought to give the warmongering macho men among you milky pants
it's worth reading for the other two of you as well.


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/world/asia/18marja.html?hp

you are such a wordsmith.  It is crazy the war in Afghanistan has gone on for almost ten years. 

[shorebird]

Treatment for Alcohol up 56% in Army ranks.

After years of increasing alcohol abuse within their ranks, soldiers are now seeking treatment in record numbers, according to new figures put out by the Army.

Nearly 9,200 soldiers sought treatment for alcohol abuse in 2009, a 56 percent increase since the war in Iraq started. Another 11,892 were required to undergo "alcohol education" -- a 16 to 20 hour course for soldiers who were disciplined for an alcohol-related incident, but not found to have an actual abuse problem.

[shorebird]

In case anyone missed it, Operation Iraqi freedom will be Operation New Dawn. Defense Secretary Gates, after honoring a request by Gen. Raymond Odierno, signed a memo renaming the war.

WTF? Does Gen. Odierno head the bureau of meaningless names for wars? It's said it is supposed to reflect the withdraw of troops later this year. Why is it seemed important to have some significant name to any type of conflict or war anymore? If anything it trivializes it as far as I'm concerned. Makes it seem like a friggen' comic book. It's the Iraq war, and no name will make it seem anything more or less.

[General_Failure]

I see. He's trying to get the retarded-ass Twilight girls behind the war. Very clever.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/qfTIUfDO304

Love it

[Sgt PSN]

interesting.  i just had a similar conversation with my marines this morning regarding their ability to clean the bathroom. 

as our numbers dwindle down in iraq, one of 2 things will happen. 

a.  they'll get their shtein together and actually start farging people up and defending themselves.

b.  all hell will break lose and all of the time and money spent by the gov't to train the iraqis will be down the toilet in less than 3 months. 

my money's on b. 

[shorebird]

"I'm gonna let 'em bomb your ass into oblivion because you won't do anything about it."

"You sit here with your thumbs up your ass because your too scared to do your job."

When the U.S. pulls out, they're all gonna' kiss suni ass and be lucky not to get there heads cut off. You can't train those type of people (scared shteinless) to fight an enemy who is raised from birth to kill and thinks it's a garaunteed ticket to paradise if you die for the cause. It's almost like the U.S. training the Rebublic of Vietnam soldiers.  We left and they all got slaughtered. Which is one of the big reasons why Americans shouldn't be dying over there.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/swf/blueangels/blueangels.swf

LOL, this reporter passes out 3 times doing manuvers in an F18   

[shorebird]

Japan starting to balk at footing bill for U.S. forces.

American officials say the deployment in Japan of troops, fighter jets and the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier based outside the U.S. has enabled Japan to hold down its own defense costs in line with the pacifist Constitution.
They say the U.S. presence also prevents an arms race in East Asia, acts as a deterrent against North Korea and counters the rise of China.

Interesting.

[Seabiscuit36]

all because of farging Toyota