This is not for the weak minded or those with a weak stomach. Don't blink. Don't turn your eyes away. This is the world we live in. The US lost an ambassador in Libya and it was a tragedy. Today is a tragedy for Russia. I wonder what their response will be.
Monday, December 19, 2016
BREAKING: Russian Ambassador Assassinated On Video In Turkey
This is not for the weak minded or those with a weak stomach. Don't blink. Don't turn your eyes away. This is the world we live in. The US lost an ambassador in Libya and it was a tragedy. Today is a tragedy for Russia. I wonder what their response will be.
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Quote about pain
"I can honestly say that every painful experience I've had has helped me to become a stronger and better person. That's why pain is something to be embraced, not hated. Let it mold you, but never let it stop you from pursuing what you want in life."
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Army defeats Navy 21-17
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Enjoy it while you can, Army. 2016 was the year for upsets.
I would like to take this opportunity to share a moment of silence for the plebe class of 2020 right now as a dark period of hazing is about to begin.
Russia can delivery thermonuclear bombs on a drone submarine
"The Pentagon has confirmed that a new Russian nuclear delivery drone is real. The undersea drone, which carries an enormous nuclear warhead to destroy coastal cities and military bases, was tested late last month. The test was leaked by unnamed sources to The Washington Free Beacon.
Russia calls the system "Ocean Multipurpose System 'Status-6," and it is allegedly capable of traveling underwater to distances of to 6,200 miles. It can submerge to depths of 3,280 feet and travel at speeds of up to 56 knots."
Quite an impressive delivery system for nuclear war. I'm glad things have never come to this. Subs are hard to track, especially since the Russians make some of best silent subs on Earth.
Friday, December 9, 2016
New US Army Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle
"The new AMPV is, like its predecessor M113, a tracked vehicle engineered to handle rugged and rigorous terrain; however unlike it predecessor the new infantry carrier will be built with new, reinforced armor, improved mobility and state-of-the art next-generation newtorking technology such as force tracking systems, mission command applications and Satcom links."
Both the Marine Corps and the Army operate vehicles that are practically ancient now. We have many from the Vietnam-Era still serving. Right now that's the like the equivalent of using Sherman WWII tanks during the Gulf War. It's really about time the Army got some kind of upgrade. Hope the Marines jump on this too.
Terror Plot Foiled in Germany: Muslim Teens Arrested
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4017148/Two-boys-aged-15-17-arrested-suspicion-plotting-Islamic-terror-attack-involving-bombing-shooting-Germany.html
The more and more this happens, the more and more this seems to prove that Islam is just not compatible with Western values. Germany is learning this the hard way apparently.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Shielding a tank was a tough job in Soviet Russia
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Hilarious Economist Magazine Cover on Nationalism
Nationalism on the rise in the West. The Economist thought they were being cute with this piece probably. Trump, Putin, Farage, Le Pen are the leaders embodiment of this movement. Only difference is now that instead of nationalism being a movement that purely unites a country against others it is now uniting countries against a Globalist movement.
Globalization is being rejected harshly by the West with the election of Trump and Brexit. There are still yet even more movements across Europe to leave the EU with referendums.
Globalization probably would have worked had they not tried to force it down the throats of those with a strong sense of national identity. I could still see it becoming a thing had these globalists not taxed the shit out of their citizens to bring in millions of foreigners and tried to force different cultures to mesh with each other. They also demonized and shamed those who held onto their national identity. Americans and British got sick of it and other nations are following.
Friday, December 2, 2016
The 2011 Intervention in Libya proved how weak Europe is
This was actually an older post I put up in a forum responding to a question about whether or not we should continue putting resources in Europe. The ultimate point is still valid:
Europe was definitely in need of these resources during the Cold War. From what I've seen of the plans we had to defend Europe it still wouldn't have been enough to defend West Germany from the overwhelmingly massive Soviet armored fist that would have rolled over it all like a speed bump.
However, now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union is gone the nature of the defense relationship between the US and Europe has changed. It has changed in a way the does not benefit the US in anyway, but practically gives Europe everything. It has also lost its purpose entirely. Europe cuts back its defense budget and relies on us to do everything. They didn't even try to stop the obvious massacres that were happening in the Baltic regions during the 90's when we thought they would take care of them. We still have NATO around even when there is no legitimate use for it. Very few countries in NATO actually spend the required amount of funding that the organization requires them to be in the group.
My country gives Germany as well as several other European countries billions of dollars a year for defense. What do we get in return? For the most part, just a complacent attitude of how we do everything wrong around the world. Sure you guys send us help from time to time in conflicts, but I've talked to commanders out in the field and whenever **** goes down the only people who get things done are the British, the Canadians, the Australians, the Dutch, the Kiwis (New Zealand), Belgium, and some Ex-Soviet Eastern European countries that I will not name. There could be more that I'm just not thinking of, but for the most part these are the major contributors. The rest of the countries didn't want to be there and didn't help much. Germany especially didn't want to participate in any of the conflicts. I can honestly understand their reluctance.
Meanwhile, Russia realizes that its military capacity for conventional warfare is diminishing so they have turned to making the best nuclear ballistic missiles available, which is more of a deterrent than an offensive capability. They feel threatened by NATOs expansion eastward and, honestly, who can blame them? The Soviet Union is gone, what purpose does NATO serve now? To them NATO = the US. If we were to draw down our presence in Europe then Russia would have little political ammunition to excuse any aggressive posture that they take. The more assets we have in Europe, the more the Russians can say that we are an enemy. Right now Putin is more concerned with trying to increase Russia's GDP and solve the ridiculous host of other problems that his country has.
The European militaries have been and are continuing to be hollowed out in favor of relying on us. No where was this more evident than in the 2011 military intervention in Libya, which was primarily carried out for European interests, most notably Italy. (Italy receives about 25% of their oil and 10% of their natural gas from Libya, and they aren't the only Europeans that rely on them for energy). Granted, the Libyans did get their freedom and we did succeed in stopping a massacre. Those both played a part in why we did it, but we always look out for our own interests when we start a conflict. This time we were looking out for Europe's.
We launched 110 tomahawk cruise missiles (each which costs anywhere from $1M to $16M depending on the block model) into Libya and sent several UAVs, EA-18G jammers, F-15E and F-16 fighters, and an assortment of other weapons to take care of the major fighting and destroy major weapons systems. After we had done all of that we handed it over to the EU because it was their show. They still needed to ride the US logistics supply bus to get to the fighting, which is literally just south of their continent. European air forces ran into the most ridiculous problems. When they got to the fighting they ran out of bombs and other munitions. They ended up using canisters of concrete with a laser seeker mounted on the front to drop them and literally crush targets (which I found surprisingly innovative by the way). They didn't know how to do a lot of the close in support missions like CAS/precision ground strike missions. They didn't have the equipment to do it either in many cases, which we were all too happy to supply them with. The countries involved in the fighting against Libya included:
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Denmark
France
Greece
Italy
The Netherlands
Norway
Romania
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom
Jordan
Qatar
Sweden
United Arab Emirates
I'm NOT saying that any of these countries lack brave men or good character. By the way, Germany didn't want any part of this and refused to participate. My ultimate point is simply this: EUROPE COMBINED ITS RESOURCES AND STILL COULDN'T DEFEAT A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY THAT IS LOCATED LITERALLY RIGHT TO THEIR SOUTH WITHOUT HELP FROM THE UNITED STATES. By the way, the military contributions of Britain and Canada combined were greater than that of Italy's.
This is not what pisses me off though. What REALLY pisses me off is the fact that the European Union shuts down in August. You all go on holiday/vacation and don't work at all in the summer. Most Europeans have no idea what an American work-day is like since American citizens work ridiculous hours compared to those of most countries of the world. We wouldn't have to be doing that right now if we weren't paying for your defense and trying to be the police of the world for over the past 20 years since the Soviet Union fell. We simply cannot keep paying for this and this relationship cannot last forever this way.
The US is growing increasingly impatient with Europe's inability to act on its own. In my opinion, we still have too many troops in Germany and this is not enough of a reduction. We can still remain allies with Europe, but they need to start pulling their own weight, which they just are not doing right now.
Europe was definitely in need of these resources during the Cold War. From what I've seen of the plans we had to defend Europe it still wouldn't have been enough to defend West Germany from the overwhelmingly massive Soviet armored fist that would have rolled over it all like a speed bump.
However, now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union is gone the nature of the defense relationship between the US and Europe has changed. It has changed in a way the does not benefit the US in anyway, but practically gives Europe everything. It has also lost its purpose entirely. Europe cuts back its defense budget and relies on us to do everything. They didn't even try to stop the obvious massacres that were happening in the Baltic regions during the 90's when we thought they would take care of them. We still have NATO around even when there is no legitimate use for it. Very few countries in NATO actually spend the required amount of funding that the organization requires them to be in the group.
My country gives Germany as well as several other European countries billions of dollars a year for defense. What do we get in return? For the most part, just a complacent attitude of how we do everything wrong around the world. Sure you guys send us help from time to time in conflicts, but I've talked to commanders out in the field and whenever **** goes down the only people who get things done are the British, the Canadians, the Australians, the Dutch, the Kiwis (New Zealand), Belgium, and some Ex-Soviet Eastern European countries that I will not name. There could be more that I'm just not thinking of, but for the most part these are the major contributors. The rest of the countries didn't want to be there and didn't help much. Germany especially didn't want to participate in any of the conflicts. I can honestly understand their reluctance.
Meanwhile, Russia realizes that its military capacity for conventional warfare is diminishing so they have turned to making the best nuclear ballistic missiles available, which is more of a deterrent than an offensive capability. They feel threatened by NATOs expansion eastward and, honestly, who can blame them? The Soviet Union is gone, what purpose does NATO serve now? To them NATO = the US. If we were to draw down our presence in Europe then Russia would have little political ammunition to excuse any aggressive posture that they take. The more assets we have in Europe, the more the Russians can say that we are an enemy. Right now Putin is more concerned with trying to increase Russia's GDP and solve the ridiculous host of other problems that his country has.
The European militaries have been and are continuing to be hollowed out in favor of relying on us. No where was this more evident than in the 2011 military intervention in Libya, which was primarily carried out for European interests, most notably Italy. (Italy receives about 25% of their oil and 10% of their natural gas from Libya, and they aren't the only Europeans that rely on them for energy). Granted, the Libyans did get their freedom and we did succeed in stopping a massacre. Those both played a part in why we did it, but we always look out for our own interests when we start a conflict. This time we were looking out for Europe's.
We launched 110 tomahawk cruise missiles (each which costs anywhere from $1M to $16M depending on the block model) into Libya and sent several UAVs, EA-18G jammers, F-15E and F-16 fighters, and an assortment of other weapons to take care of the major fighting and destroy major weapons systems. After we had done all of that we handed it over to the EU because it was their show. They still needed to ride the US logistics supply bus to get to the fighting, which is literally just south of their continent. European air forces ran into the most ridiculous problems. When they got to the fighting they ran out of bombs and other munitions. They ended up using canisters of concrete with a laser seeker mounted on the front to drop them and literally crush targets (which I found surprisingly innovative by the way). They didn't know how to do a lot of the close in support missions like CAS/precision ground strike missions. They didn't have the equipment to do it either in many cases, which we were all too happy to supply them with. The countries involved in the fighting against Libya included:
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Denmark
France
Greece
Italy
The Netherlands
Norway
Romania
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom
Jordan
Qatar
Sweden
United Arab Emirates
I'm NOT saying that any of these countries lack brave men or good character. By the way, Germany didn't want any part of this and refused to participate. My ultimate point is simply this: EUROPE COMBINED ITS RESOURCES AND STILL COULDN'T DEFEAT A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY THAT IS LOCATED LITERALLY RIGHT TO THEIR SOUTH WITHOUT HELP FROM THE UNITED STATES. By the way, the military contributions of Britain and Canada combined were greater than that of Italy's.
This is not what pisses me off though. What REALLY pisses me off is the fact that the European Union shuts down in August. You all go on holiday/vacation and don't work at all in the summer. Most Europeans have no idea what an American work-day is like since American citizens work ridiculous hours compared to those of most countries of the world. We wouldn't have to be doing that right now if we weren't paying for your defense and trying to be the police of the world for over the past 20 years since the Soviet Union fell. We simply cannot keep paying for this and this relationship cannot last forever this way.
The US is growing increasingly impatient with Europe's inability to act on its own. In my opinion, we still have too many troops in Germany and this is not enough of a reduction. We can still remain allies with Europe, but they need to start pulling their own weight, which they just are not doing right now.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Trump picks "Mad Dog" Mattis for SecDef!!!!
"President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, according to people familiar with the decision, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across the Middle East to run the Pentagon less than four years after he hung up his uniform.
To take the job, Mattis will need Congress to pass new legislation to bypass a federal law stating that defense secretaries must not have been on active duty in the previous seven years. Congress has granted a similar exception just once, when Gen. George C. Marshall was appointed to the job in 1950.
An announcement is likely by early next week, according to the people familiar with the choice."
Link to full articleThis is hands down the best pick I think we could have hoped for. What I'm really hoping for from Mattis is an end to all of the politically correct social experiments being done in the military and a return to the warrior mindset.
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Ukrainian Su-27 nearly crashes into camera
T-14 Armata Tank Combat Simulation
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Obama took a shot at Clinton on TV
Saturday, November 12, 2016
I'm African-American and I voted for Trump
I'm African-American, I've traveled to both Europe and the Middle East, and I voted for Trump.
I don't think anyone that voted for Hillary read the Wikileaks releases or listened to any of her speeches seriously. She was advocating for the US to establish a No-Fly Zone over Syria, which would involve getting into a war with Russia. I hate the idea of WWIII or anything involving nukes. She also revealed in her emails that she admitted lying to the public about her polices was okay and that she accepted money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, despite knowing full well that both of them are actively funding ISIS. The Clintons also wrecked Haiti for many years to come and their Foundation accepted well over $6 billion in charity funds that it never gave to disaster stricken Haiti. If you add that to the $6 billion missing under her watch as SecState, there's well over $12 billion dollars that has just gone missing under her watch. To put that in perspective, the low ball cost estimates to establish a colony on the moon are around $10 billion.
Clinton advocated censoring certain opposing media and news outlets just because their point of view was different and also wanted to take away gun rights of American citizens. She wanted to raise taxes on us and use our American tax dollars to bring in migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, which we here in America are watching destroy European countries and assault European women. Sweden's rape rate is now comparable to an African country. This has only shown us ever more so much why we need our 2nd Amendment right.
Also, Clinton's mentor was a man named Robert Byrd, who was a grand cyclops of the KKK, whom she said represented the "heart of America" and was a great leader at his funeral. Trump can't control who endorses him, but at least he denounces the support the KKK gives him and distances himself from them. Trump actually loves black hip hop culture and many black actors/artists/athletes. Every time we've elected the Democrats they make great promises and then leave the black communities in the dirt, which is why they've been voting blue for 40 years and only keep getting worse. Liberal news media outlets' attempts to portray our liberal left as angels and our conservative right as evil are just full of shit lies. A certain Wikileaks email revealed our major corporate news (CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, and others...) receive direct money from Clinton to do so. She literally bought out our media and now they won't tell the truth and everyone knows it!
Also, the main advocates for censorship and intolerance in the West now have become our liberal leftists. Only liberal leftists have been closing dialogue and censoring those who disagree with them. Our other side in our country was not allowed to have a voice because if they disagree they would be slapped with the label of racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobe, Islamophobe ect... Only those who disagreed with liberals risked losing their jobs, business, social isolation, and now we're seeing straight violence just for voicing a different opinion. That's why they stayed silent right up until they got to the voting booth. The liberals preach tolerance, but then become absolutely INTOLERANT of every other point of view. They preach against hate and bigotry, but will be quick to blame all Trump voters over the actions of a few (like the KKK), which is over generalization and prejudice... you know... just like racism is. They will preach against hate, but they will be quick to hate and insult those that disagree with them. Americans were sick of it and sick of our political establishment using it to their advantage while they passed laws draining our wallets of money. We voted against that!
I'm really REALLY glad Trump won. He may be an asshole, an absolute MAJOR asshole, but at least he'll be an asshole for American citizens. We need to try to make his faults work for us, not repeatedly insult him and hope he fails.
I don't think anyone that voted for Hillary read the Wikileaks releases or listened to any of her speeches seriously. She was advocating for the US to establish a No-Fly Zone over Syria, which would involve getting into a war with Russia. I hate the idea of WWIII or anything involving nukes. She also revealed in her emails that she admitted lying to the public about her polices was okay and that she accepted money from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, despite knowing full well that both of them are actively funding ISIS. The Clintons also wrecked Haiti for many years to come and their Foundation accepted well over $6 billion in charity funds that it never gave to disaster stricken Haiti. If you add that to the $6 billion missing under her watch as SecState, there's well over $12 billion dollars that has just gone missing under her watch. To put that in perspective, the low ball cost estimates to establish a colony on the moon are around $10 billion.
Clinton advocated censoring certain opposing media and news outlets just because their point of view was different and also wanted to take away gun rights of American citizens. She wanted to raise taxes on us and use our American tax dollars to bring in migrants from the Middle East and North Africa, which we here in America are watching destroy European countries and assault European women. Sweden's rape rate is now comparable to an African country. This has only shown us ever more so much why we need our 2nd Amendment right.
Also, Clinton's mentor was a man named Robert Byrd, who was a grand cyclops of the KKK, whom she said represented the "heart of America" and was a great leader at his funeral. Trump can't control who endorses him, but at least he denounces the support the KKK gives him and distances himself from them. Trump actually loves black hip hop culture and many black actors/artists/athletes. Every time we've elected the Democrats they make great promises and then leave the black communities in the dirt, which is why they've been voting blue for 40 years and only keep getting worse. Liberal news media outlets' attempts to portray our liberal left as angels and our conservative right as evil are just full of shit lies. A certain Wikileaks email revealed our major corporate news (CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, and others...) receive direct money from Clinton to do so. She literally bought out our media and now they won't tell the truth and everyone knows it!
Also, the main advocates for censorship and intolerance in the West now have become our liberal leftists. Only liberal leftists have been closing dialogue and censoring those who disagree with them. Our other side in our country was not allowed to have a voice because if they disagree they would be slapped with the label of racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobe, Islamophobe ect... Only those who disagreed with liberals risked losing their jobs, business, social isolation, and now we're seeing straight violence just for voicing a different opinion. That's why they stayed silent right up until they got to the voting booth. The liberals preach tolerance, but then become absolutely INTOLERANT of every other point of view. They preach against hate and bigotry, but will be quick to blame all Trump voters over the actions of a few (like the KKK), which is over generalization and prejudice... you know... just like racism is. They will preach against hate, but they will be quick to hate and insult those that disagree with them. Americans were sick of it and sick of our political establishment using it to their advantage while they passed laws draining our wallets of money. We voted against that!
I'm really REALLY glad Trump won. He may be an asshole, an absolute MAJOR asshole, but at least he'll be an asshole for American citizens. We need to try to make his faults work for us, not repeatedly insult him and hope he fails.
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
My Favorite WWII fighter: The F6F Hellcat night fighter
My favorite WWII aircraft: the F6F-3N night fighting Hellcat built with a radar in the fuselage and an antenna in a bulge on the wing. The inside cockpit was illuminated in red light and had a small monitor to view and operate the radar. It was considered to be leading edge tech during the war and was used to fight Japanese planes in the middle of the night.
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What's your favorite WWII fighter?
What's your favorite WWII fighter?
Under Hillary Clinton's watch about $12 Billion dollars have mysteriously vanished
I don't plan on treading into politics too much. I'll let you know I'm a Libertarian.
So this video of Haitians raging mad at Clinton has been circulating one of my feeds but I was surprised when I saw it shared by one of my hardcore BLM Democrat friends and even he said he found it shocking and wanted to look into it more.
Okay, guys, count with me here. There was $6 billion dollars in government money that is unaccounted for under Clinton's watch as Sec. State. Now there's well over $6 billion missing in Haitian aid donated to the Clinton Foundation that never made it to Haiti. That's a total of well over $12 billion dollars becoming unaccounted for under Hillary's watch. To put that in perspective, the low ball costs for a mission to colonize the moon is $10 billion dollars. WTF?!
Okay, guys, count with me here. There was $6 billion dollars in government money that is unaccounted for under Clinton's watch as Sec. State. Now there's well over $6 billion missing in Haitian aid donated to the Clinton Foundation that never made it to Haiti. That's a total of well over $12 billion dollars becoming unaccounted for under Hillary's watch. To put that in perspective, the low ball costs for a mission to colonize the moon is $10 billion dollars. WTF?!
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Saudi HSV-2 Sunk!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSW8N-LCsSM
This seems bad. Modern ships are going to need better protection against incoming small boats and small teams of skilled infantry. Check the Video here
This seems bad. Modern ships are going to need better protection against incoming small boats and small teams of skilled infantry. Check the Video here
Monday, September 26, 2016
Presidential Debate Drinking Game? Join me!
When I was in the Navy the term "drink like a sailor" was still alive and well, even if they tried their hardest to clamp down alcohol related conduct offenses (I got one such offense so I feel like I did my part). As crazy as this election is, it's probably better watched with some drinks in you. I found this awesome drinking game out for the presidential debate tonight. Pick a candidate and you drink to those candidates words. Community words mean everybody drinks. You don't have to pick the candidate you're voting for. (I'll reveal who I'm voting for at a later time). If there's one thing we can all connect on as Americans during a debate, it's alcohol!
After the debate please comment and let me know how drunk you got! Or what your thoughts on the debate were!
http://www.debatedrinking.com/
After the debate please comment and let me know how drunk you got! Or what your thoughts on the debate were!
http://www.debatedrinking.com/
HILLARY CLINTON
Family
Middle Class
*Cough*
Russia
Women
Together
DONALD TRUMP
Tremendous
Believe Me
China
Failed
Excuse Me
Bigly (or Big League)
COMMUNITY WORDS
Judgement
Plan
Reagan
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Someone please kill the LCS...
This ship is way over budget. Will the LCS just die already! We've had one LCS suffer two major engine casualties within a matter of days from being commissioned. REALLY, NAVY? SERIOUSLY?: http://www.military.com/daily-...
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Hey! First post of this blog!
Hey!
This is a new blog I'm starting! Little background on me: I'm a Naval Academy graduate from the class of 2013 with a Bachelors of Science in History. I received an honorable discharge from the Navy as a Lieutenant JG. I plan on pursuing a career in acting and modeling while working in private security. I hope to create and atmosphere my little corner of the net where we can respectfully discuss topics or arms procurement, foreign policy, weapons, history, and things of humorous value on occasion. Feel free to send me any articles or topics you would like to discuss as well!
-Insomniaddict
This is a new blog I'm starting! Little background on me: I'm a Naval Academy graduate from the class of 2013 with a Bachelors of Science in History. I received an honorable discharge from the Navy as a Lieutenant JG. I plan on pursuing a career in acting and modeling while working in private security. I hope to create and atmosphere my little corner of the net where we can respectfully discuss topics or arms procurement, foreign policy, weapons, history, and things of humorous value on occasion. Feel free to send me any articles or topics you would like to discuss as well!
-Insomniaddict
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