Desperate Army, Air Force Recruit Immigrants With Promise Of Rapid Citizenship [More]
Who needs blue helmets when we can deploy our own?
[Via bondmen]
Category: Military
And Thank You for Your Service?
“Having a US military background is the single-strongest individual-level predictor of whether a subject . . . is classified as a mass casualty offender,” the study by Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) said. [More]
What it doesn’t say is what commonalities offenders share before enlisting. It also presupposes risks are evenly distributed rather than concentrated into observable subsets.
I can’t help but make the seemingly unrelated analogies that violent crime is not widespread but concentrated, and Trump is so good at firing people because he’s so lousy at hiring them.
[Via WiscoDave]
Through Diversity to the Stars
A recruiter for the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force referred to white men looking to join the air force as “useless white male pilots,” according to emails obtained by several British media outlets. [More]
As long as we don’t ever have to send any more useless white males over there to defend them again…
[Via Michael G]
What Can Brown Do to You?
Of Course, You Realize This Means War
Congressman Dan Crenshaw advocates military strike, calling cartels ‘clear and present’ threat [More]
Is he also ready to take out their embedded assets and enablers in government?
Before we start beating war drums (again!), let’s assess what “winning” means.
[Via Jess]
Shock and Awe
Just remember: This is deliberate. [Watch]
[Via Doc]
In the Navy, You Can Sail the Seven Seas
US Navy platformed ‘drag queen influencer’ to attract youth to the military in hiring crisis [More]
Our genius military leaders sure are more “progressive” at recruiting than these primitives:
They probably don’t even have a counterpart to Admiral Levine!
‘So We Can Kill People While Keeping the Climate Safe’
‘The Five’ co-hosts react to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm doubling down on an initiative to have the U.S. military implement an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2030. [More]
And who are we dependent on for the rare earth metals needed for electric vehicles…?
[Via Jess]
No Tinfoil was Used in the Production of This Document
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…
Just Close Your Eyes and Think of England
Dragon Rising?
And They’re Making It So We Can’t Afford NOT To…
And Thank You for Your Service?
Speaking of Aid and Comfort
Matt Gatez FORCES US Military To Admit Drag Queens Are BAD For Children | EXPOSES Drag On US Bases [Watch]
[Via Jess]
Tangentially-Related UPDATE
Guess who has different priorities.
[Via Doc]
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?
Back the Blue Helmets?
Would the United States be able to resist an armed force sent in by the United Nations (UN)? [More]
These foreign troops might pose a more immediate concern.
[Via Michael G]
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]
