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Liberal Idiocy, Military, Tyrants, War
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Is a US Apology to Japan Around the Corner?
by idaho_karen on April 7, 2016**Bumped up from TAMWire, Posted by Idaho Karen** The odds go up on the apology if Obama shows up at the shrine. But of course AFP decided to add biased statements to the article and fails to mention that we were at war with Japan. Protecting the US and ending the war was the priority. AFP Via Yahoo News. US Secretary of State John Kerry and fellow envoys from the G7, including nuclear powers Britain and France, will visit Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park this month, Japan announced. Kerry will be the first US secretary of state to have ever visited the iconic park, where he is set to lay flowers at the memorial dedicated to the victims of the world’s...
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Obama Administration Considers Pulling Troops Out Of Sinai Due To ISIS Threat
by Shifra on April 5, 2016Remember how Obama said we were going to “contain, and ultimately destroy” ISIS? Yeah, right. Via CNN: The Obama administration is considering pulling troops out of a base in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in part due to the growing threat from ISIS and other militants, CNN has learned. The U.S. is mulling moving some U.S. and international troops into southern portions of Sinai. They are discussing the possibility with Egypt and Israel, which signed a peace treaty in 1979 that the Multinational Force and Observers mission monitors compliance with. Some 700 U.S. troops are currently part of the mission. So far, neither Egypt nor Israel has commented publicly on the talks, and any significant changes would have to be approved by...
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U.S. Marine Corps Dog Awarded Top Military Medal in U.K.
by Shifra on April 5, 2016Sweet! Via NBC News: Meet Lucca, a retired U.S. Marine Corps dog who lost one of her legs while hunting for homemade bombs in Afghanistan. More than four years after she was reduced to three paws, Lucca was awarded a top military medal for the 400 missions she completed during her service. The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals — a British charity known as the PDSA — honored Lucca with its Dickin Medal during a ceremony at London’s Wellington Barracks on Tuesday. The PDSA says the award is “the highest award any animal in the world can achieve while serving in military conflict” and has given it out just 66 times since 1943…. Tuesday’s ceremony was also attended by the...
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Not Good: Hundreds of Military Dependents Ordered to Evacuate Turkey
by Tammy on March 29, 2016What is it that’s about to happen that we don’t have the security or confidence to remain at 3 sites in Turkey? Note the proximity to Syria of the airbase involved. Last year Turkey began allowing us to use that airbase to strike ISIS. Not good at all. Via Stars and Stripes. The Pentagon is ordering the evacuation of nearly 700 military family members from Incirlik Air Base and two smaller military installations in Turkey because of concerns over the deteriorating security environment there. Families are expected to begin leaving Turkey on Wednesday, stopping first at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, before continuing on to the States or other duty locations, U.S. European Command told Stars and Stripes. “We understand...
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U.S. Military’s Ability to Fight Major Overseas War In Doubt
by Tammy on March 28, 2016The Obama legacy, as enabled by the GOP, continues… Via Washington Times. Beneath the positive press the military receives for preparing to mold women into the nation’s first female ground warriors this year, there is another story far more basic to war fighting. Some lawmakers are warning that budget cuts, a troop drawdown and a decade and a half of wars have created spotty combat readiness, overburdened forces, more fatal accidents and beat-up weapons. Weeks of congressional testimony from the top brass on next year’s $524 billion defense budget shows that many Army brigades and Air Force squadrons are less ready. The Marine Corps lacks sufficient aircraft to fully train pilots. The Army and Marine Corps can wage small wars...
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[Video] Watch a US Nuclear Submarine Emerge from the Ice
by Tammy on March 22, 2016A magnificent thing. Via PopSci. X almost marks the spot. The USS Hartford’s aim was just a little off, and as the nuclear attack submarine surfaced through the ice of the Arctic circle, the view from the aircraft overhead shows a giant X carved into snow just to the side of the vehicle. The Arctic is fortunately an empty place, and precision surfacing isn’t really the point of the vehicle. Instead, it was there as part of the ICEX military exercises, practice for the coldest war of all. By breaching the ice, USS Hartford (and its compatriot, the USS Hampton, shown above) joins a long tradition of nuclear submarines in the Arctic circle. The USS Nautilus was the first to...
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Democrat Says Russian Nuclear Submarines ‘Dangerously Close’ To U.S.
by Tammy on March 22, 2016Great! Another example of what happens when a president signals to the world that even he thinks we’re a problem and deserve to get our a**es kicked. Via Washington Examiner. Russian President Vladimir Putin is deploying nuclear-armed submarines “dangerously close” to the United States and European allies, a Senate Democrat said following a trip to the Arctic Circle. “No one is suggesting that Putin is contemplating a nuclear launch against a NATO country, but it’s not clear how tethered to reality Putin is,” Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy told reporters Monday. “And it should make us nervous that many of his submarines are starting to get dangerously close to the U.S. and our allies.” In recent years, Putin’s navy has pursued...
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Marine Killed In ISIS Rocket Attack In Iraq
by Tammy on March 19, 2016Awful. Pray for his family, and all those whose lives are on the line protecting our nation and human liberty everywhere. It’s worth noting, ISIS wouldn’t have had this “lucky strike” if this nation’s current administration had done its job and annihilated this barbaric enemy at the start. Via Fox News. An American Marine was killed and others seriously injured Saturday when a rocket fired by ISIS landed near his position in the town of Makhmur, 75 miles southeast of Mosul, a U.S. defense official told Fox News. The official did not want to give the exact number of wounded but said the number is less than five. They were flown to a hospital away from the base, the official...
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Serbia Finds US-bound Guided Missiles on Flight From Beirut
by Tammy on March 14, 2016Every one insists they’re “inert” (even though a bomb sniffing dog found them), and were just meant to train the Lebanese army. Sure. Which is why they’re on a civilian aircraft. Via Jerusalem Post. Two dummy US-made training missiles en route from Lebanon to the United States on a civil flight via Serbia, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday. The “captive air training missiles” did not have a warhead, rocket or guidance system, said one source who spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were headed to the United States after being used to train the Lebanese Armed Forces… The two inert missiles were discovered in wooden crates by bomb-sniffing dogs at Belgrade airport on Saturday, a source...
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Wounded Warrior Project’s Top Execs Reportedly Fired Amid Lavish Spending Scandal
by Tammy on March 10, 2016The situation is very unfortunate but at least it looks like the board is doing something about it. Let’s hope they get their act together as they provide an obviously imperative service to our vets. Via Fox News. The two top executives of the Wounded Warrior Project — among the largest veterans charities in the country — were fired Thursday after an investigation into accusations of lavish spending on parties, hotel and travel, CBS News reported. Wounded Warrior Project’s CEO, Steven Nardizzi, and COO, Al Giordano, were fired by the charity’s board amid criticisms about how it spends more than $800 million raised in donations in the past four years, CBS News reported. The charity’s board of directors made their...
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After 3 Years Apart, a Vet Reunites with His Military Dog
by Tammy on March 6, 2016Julio and Ben Beautiful story for your Sunday. Via NY Post. One reunion down, hundreds more to go. On Saturday, Army veteran Julio Muñoz finally found the dog he has been missing for three years — Ben, the canine that fought alongside him in Afghanistan. Muñoz, 32, of The Bronx, was supposed to have been given the chance to adopt the dog after deployment. But as The Post revealed, at least two Pentagon employees, along with contractor K2 Solutions, have been secretly dumping military dogs out to civilians instead of offering them to their handlers. Kim Scarborough, 52, was one of those civilians. She found Muñoz’s name on Ben’s deployment papers. She had told The Post after reaching out to...
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Trump Reverses On So-Called ‘Torture:’ ‘I Will Not Order a Military Officer to Disobey the Law’
by Tammy on March 4, 2016Well, I like the fact that he’s recognizing certain limitations, but then there is the ridiculousness that it also seems ‘international law’ only applies to us. At some point, we should look at what treaties and laws help us and which do not, and only an ‘outsider’ president will do that. But I’m guessing this statement will assuage certain nervous types. Via The Hill. GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Friday that he would not order the military to break international laws, despite calling for torture of suspected terrorists and the killing of their families. Trump told The Wall Street Journal he would “use every legal power that I have to stop these terrorist enemies. I do, however, understand that...
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Khamenei: ‘Divine Intervention’ Delivered U.S. Sailors Into Our Hands
by Shifra on January 25, 2016Iranian Brigadier General Hossein Salami claims that U.S. sailors cried when they were captured. But personally, I think Gen. Salami is full of baloney. Via Times of Israel: Ian’s supreme leader said divine forces had delivered American sailors into the hands of his country’s naval forces. Meeting with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy unit that took 10 US sailors captive when they strayed into Iranian waters on January 12, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed the “courage” and “strong faith” of the unit, semi-state Iranian news site Fars reported on Sunday. “You did an excellent job,” Khamenei told them. “Certainly, it was the divine job that sent the Americans straying into our territorial waters only to be promptly captured with...
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Congress Asking If Obama Admin Told Sailors to Apologize to Iran
by Tammy on January 15, 2016There is more to this story, obviously, then we know at this point. Eventually we’ll get all the information and it will likely be exposed as another complete disaster brought on by the Obama regime. What happened was disgusting. In addition to the strange apology, many would like to know who gave the order to surrender. That must be determined. Via Daily Caller. Congress wants to know if the State Department held any influence on the U.S. Navy sailor who apologized to Iran after he and his nine other sailors were arrested and detained by the regime. The video, which aired on Iranian television, showed all ten sailors kneeling on the decks of their ships with their hands behind their...
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Ten US Sailors Detained By Iran, WH Celebrates Big Block Of Cheese Day
by Shifra on January 14, 2016HT Weasel Zippers Well, since, according to the incompetent idiots the Obama Administration, a foreign country kidnapping our sailors at gunpoint is just “standard nautical practice,” looks like it’s time to have some fun over at the WH! People were invited to ask questions online, using the hashtag #BigBlockOfCheeseDay. The 3rd annual #BigBlockOfCheeseDay is today! Here's how you can participate: https://t.co/DXxU8c7zOe pic.twitter.com/diT4MJWQT1 — The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 13, 2016 . .@ErnestMoniz and @GinaEPA are here taking your questions on climate and energy. Ask using #BigBlockOfCheeseDay. pic.twitter.com/nQX6bedNIK — The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 13, 2016 And, of course, some priceless mocking on Twitter: @vj44 @WhiteHouse @periscopeco Here's a question for you. How do you feel about the $9 TRILLION YOU...