Category: Military

Help Wanted, Inquire Within

Employer is a US-based private security company seeking multiple Evacuation / Extraction Team Agents to conduct evacuation missions of individuals and families who are currently located in Sudan. Only highly experienced candidates who possess at least 5+ years of military experience in this region of Africa will be considered for this role – no exceptions. Preferred candidates are already located in Sudan or a bordering country. Non-competitive candidates will simply not be considered or contacted. [More]

So they don’t have to comply with diversity, equity, and inclusion rules…?

Next thing you’ll be telling me they don’t train with empathy bellies…

[Via WiscoDave]

UPDATE

It’s not like we need to worry about Sudanese biologicals with our “rigorous” border controls…

Government Has Known from the Start There is a Right to Own Machineguns

“You see, if we made a statute absolutely forbidding any human being to have a machine gun, you might say there is some constitutional question involved.” [More]

Now, what are all those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” in Congress going to do about it?

Time to Bring Back the ‘Be Someone Special’ Slogan

“As we continue to navigate a challenging recruiting environment, changing the AFQT requirement removes a potential barrier to enlistment, allowing us to widen the pool of potential recruits and creating opportunities for personnel who wish to serve,” Cmdr. David Benham, a spokesperson for Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, told Military.com on Monday. [More]

Reminds me of NatLamp’s Frank Rizzo ad.

[Via WiscoDave]

Casus Belli?

“As President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing,” Secretary Austin continued. [More]

Unless it’s within our borders.

Aside from leaving those open and/or rigorously admitting confederates of the people we’re taking out elsewhere, we’re also set on simultaneously disarming you and setting known predators loose to further our case for that.

What’s the foreign entanglement worth me and mine dying for over there, anyway? That’s the litmus test I use before expecting it from someone else.

Kick the Can

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a number of improvements in access to mental health care on Thursday to reduce suicides in the military, but held off on endorsing more controversial recommendations to restrict gun and ammunition purchases by young troops, sending them to another panel for study. [More]

Don’t look for the next one to be any less stupid than the first.

[Via Jess]

A Matter of Priorities

Pentagon announces largest-ever defense budget request [More]

Funny– Congress never spends even one penny on “organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States.” And none of those “staunch supporters of the Second Amendment” are demanding it.

Seeing as how the authors of the Constitution they all swore an oath to uphold viewed it as “being necessary to the security of a free State,” Why do you suppose that is?

DOD Suicide Report Long on ‘Gun Control’ But Short on Who’s at Risk and Why

How lumping the good in with the bad and the healthy in with the troubled, ignoring politically inconvenient realities, and mandating increased restrictions on the fundamental rights of all demonstrates excellence, dignity, and respect is not explained. Such “equity” seems a curious way of saying “Thank you for your service.” [More]

Is a politically self-serving report that ignores the basics and tells servicemembers they’re not trusted really the best way to help those in serious pain and immediate need?

Chain of Command

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a U.S. fighter jet shot down an unidentified object that was flying high over the Yukon… [More]

Our military is taking orders from Fidelito now?

I see there have been all kinds of recent incidents lately, and still think someone needs to look at the “Chinese companies” for administration ties. I’m also not sure North Korea and Russia wouldn’t benefit with some copycats.

And as far as shooting down space aliens goes, not bloody likely.

And Thank You for Your Service

A bill to prohibit the Department of Veterans Affairs from sending information on veterans or (beneficiaries) who are assisted by a fiduciary to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) list without a judicial ruling that they are a danger to themselves or others was reintroduced Feb. 2 in Congress. [More]

Funny, how there’s not a Democrat in the bunch…

[Via AK]

Clipped Wings

Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to prep by firing ‘a clip’ at a target, and ‘aim for the head’ [More]

I know the use of that term for “magazine” is considered heresy in most gun circles.

I used it a time or two myself in the early days. I don’t get too bent out of shape because no less an authority than the late Col. David Hackworth used it on occasion:

Now let’s talk center mass…

Never Mind

Received via email from Tully Rinckey PLLC:

After careful consideration and over a year after it was implemented, the Department of Defense has decided to no longer enforce the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members. Despite the fact that less than 100 service members died from COVID-19 since the pandemic started, many active duty, Guard and Reserve members who refused the COVID-19 vaccine faced removal from the service. This impacted military readiness and those who faced removal now need to understand their rights and how they can legally proceed with the reinstatement process. [More]

Or in the words of Emily Litella:

I guess that’s one less concern for gun-owning servicemembers to worry about, but the questions that remain are “Why the sudden big turnaround?” and “Why haven’t there been screaming headlines and demands for answers?”

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