[American Mil News] Command Sgt. Maj. Terry M. Sanchez, command sergeant major of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), with over 500 jumps, took part in his final airborne operations on Fryar Drop Zone, Fort Benning, Ga. Nov. 25, 2019.
The jump marked the last airborne operation for Command Sgt. Maj. Sanchez’s career and also marked the beginning for Pvt. Diego A. Sanchez, an infantryman, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, who was attending the U.S. Army Airborne School, and eldest son of Command Sgt. Maj. Sanchez.
"The significance of this jump is that I am passing the torch off to my son, who is going to go to the 82nd Airborne Division, which is where I started at ‐ and his jump career is going to begin where mine ends after 31 years," said Command Sgt. Maj. Sanchez. "It’s a proud moment, and it is bittersweet. It is bittersweet, but it is time for me to stop jumping and let these younger kids jump."
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The working and middle class have more of the sense of noble oblige than our ruling caste.
Yes, and some (from non-Euro backgrounds) manage to successful integrate into our society, set fine examples for their kids, as well as entire classes of soon to graduate, airborne students and cadre.
Ahhhh... the joys of Socialism
[Breitbart] At least 15 of Venezuela’s 23 states woke up without access to electricity on Wednesday after another power outage occurred in the early hours of the morning.
According to local media, the affected entities included the states Nueva Esparta, Zulia, Táchira, Mérida, Lara, Falcón, Miranda, Carabobo, Yaracuy, and some areas of the capital Caracas. There were also reports of minor disruption in the states of Bolívar and Barinas.
Although power had been restored by mid-morning, another blackout took place around 3 p.m., affecting 15 states across the country, many of whom lost access to the internet.
By late afternoon on Wednesday, neither Minister of Energy Freddy Brito nor any other representative of Nicolás Maduro's regime had explained why it had occurred.
Venezuela has been afflicted by power outages since March this year, when around 70 percent of the country received little to no electricity for nearly a week. Maduro repeatedly accused the United States of being behind the attack, despite failing to provide evidence of such claims.
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Maduro repeatedly accused the United States of being behind the attack, despite failing to provide evidence of such claims.
Seems to me that their earlier issues had to do with the maintenance, or lack thereof, for the various power plant infrastructure and equipment essentials that require it.
No surprise if they didn't learn their lesson(s).
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[BBC] China's exports fell in November as shipments to the US slowed sharply, adding to concerns about the effects of the two nations' trade war.
November exports from the world's second largest economy fell 1.1% from a year earlier, the fourth straight fall.
Exports to the US were down 23%, the worst such result since February and the twelfth monthly decline in a row.
Another round of US tariffs on Chinese goods is due next Sunday, as part of the ongoing trade dispute.
On Friday, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said the 15 December deadline - to impose a new round of tariffs on some $156bn of Chinese exports - remained in place.
Isn’t the little wubbums the most terrifying thing you ever did see?
[Jpost] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... has carried out a "very significant" test at its Sohae satellite launch site, state media KCNA reported on Sunday.
The report did not specify what was tested, but the site has previously been used to launch rockets into space.
KCNA said the test results would be used for upgrading the country's strategic status.
The reported test comes as North Korea has warned it could take a "new path" amid stalled denuclearisation talks with the United States.
[Aljazeera] Several Australian bushfires have combined to form a "mega fire" that is burning out of control across a swath of land north of Sydney, authorities said, warning they cannot contain the blaze.
New South Wales Rural Fire Service Deputy Commissioner Rob Rogers on Friday said "there are probably more than eight fires in all" that have merged to form what has been dubbed a "mega fire" in an area of the national park forest.
The blaze was burning across 300,000 hectares (740,000 acres) - with a front roughly 60km (37 miles) wide - within an hour's drive of Australia's largest city, which was again subsumed in a soup of toxic smoke.
[BBC] More than 30 people have been killed in a large fire at a factory in the Indian capital, Delhi, officials say.
The blaze broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning in central Delhi, and fire engines rushed to the scene.
Dozens of workers were sleeping inside the multi-storey building at the time, rescue services say. There are fears the death toll will rise further.
Home Minister Amit Shah called it a "tragic loss of precious lives".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the fire was horrific and that authorities were "providing all possible assistance at the site of the tragedy".
Delhi's firefighters received the first call about the fire at 05:22 local time on Sunday (23:52 GMT Saturday).
The area where the factory is located - Anaj Mandi - is home to one of the city's largest markets and many narrow laneways, which made it difficult to reach the blaze.
By 09:30 local time, at least 56 people had been moved to hospital, Delhi Fire Service director Atul Garg was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper.
"All of them had fallen unconscious because of smoke," he said.
Another senior fire service official, Sunil Choudhary, said the factory was used to store schoolbags, and bottles, among other materials.
[The National Interest] Key Point: At the end of the day, the G3 is just cheaper.
High capacity nine millimeter pistols were first introduced to the public as service pistols. Built for military and police without regard for size, service pistols were full-sized handguns that prioritized recoil reduction and magazine capacity over concealability. Over the years a compromise has evolved, resulting in a pistol mixing all three features. The Glock 19 is cited as the ideal compromise, and Taurus’ G3 pistol very much runs in that vein--but at a substantially lower cost.
The Glock 17 handgun was originally designed for the Austrian armed forces and then exported to civilian markets worldwide. The Glock 17 is a reliable handgun that, while lightweight, still has enough heft to absorb the modest recoil of the nine millimeter round. This makes it an excellent gun for conscript armies, where soldiers may not have a background in firearms. It also features a large, seventeen round magazine allowing soldiers to carry more rounds on their person.
The Glock 17 did well in the American commercial market but many buyers clamored for a handgun with a shorter barrel and slightly shorter magazine, resulting in the Glock 19. This defined the "sweet spot" for many compact nine millimeter handguns, and Brazil’s Taurus steps into that spot with the G3 pistol.
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Springfield XDM. I have shot glocks, I hate their grips, they feel funky while they shoot and get muzzle heavy as the magazine empties. I don't care if other people like them. Though I also don't like the idea of having a pistol with enough incidents to get an accident named after it. "Glock leg"
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Ugh... glocks. Hammerless is... meh, okay, I got a snub nose Taurus for the wife, but did Taurus have to copy the whole thing ? What is it with the sexless boxy design these days ?
Only revolvers for me.
I get to draw my gun so little I went all out and imported a Chiappa revolver in .357 on my new prohibited bore license in 2012, soon everybody wanted to see and shoot it. Nearly flew outta my boss's hand once.
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Crusader, it's because people think they will forget or won't have time to take the safety off in a gunfight. I am seriously not kidding. As if taking 2/10's of a second to drop the safety will matter. I've shot IDPA matches with my H&K USP and never once forgot the safety. Personally I think that's an idiotic reason to make your gun an accidental discharge waiting to happen. While the XDM I use doesn't have a safety you flip, it does have a grip safety. If it didn't, I'd have waited six more months and bought a H&K or Sig that did.
A polyamorous woman in Florida with four partners is pregnant, and says despite sharing her bed with her many lovers, she’s certain of who the father is.
Tory Ojeda, 20, lives with three of her four partners in their Jacksonville, Fla., home. Marc, Travis, Ethan and Christopher take turns spending time with Ojeda, "swapping in and out" of her bed each night, she tells Barcroft Media.
The household’s love story began three years ago when Ojeda met Marc, 18, in high school. Two months later, she opened things up with Travis, 23 ‐ to whom she is now engaged. Later, she brought Ethan, 22, and Christopher, 22, into the fold.
And despite her plans to get married to Travis, Ojeda said he’s not the father of her baby girl, due in February.
"Chris is the biological father," she says. "We just know that because of timing and when the approximate conception date was. Based off of the approximate conception day, we had been on vacation. So it was only us."
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I don't believe any of them have a choice but too be with each other, I've always heard ugly pl make pretty babies. That child is going too be BEAUTIFUL
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[American Mil News] Command Sgt. Maj. Terry M. Sanchez, command sergeant major of the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), with over 500 jumps, took part in his final airborne operations on Fryar Drop Zone, Fort Benning, Ga. Nov. 25, 2019.
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
