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2024-08-28 -Land of the Free

Pentagon says it can ‘walk and chew gum at same time' when asked about absence of carrier in the Pacific

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 It was fifty-fifty so we went with the sand lovers for causing the most trouble.

Don't worry, if we need one there it can be there in a few days.

Meanwhile Guam says "hi"

Posted by DarthVader 2024-08-28 00:15|| 2024-08-28 00:15|| Front Page Top

Twenty pages into it. Appears to be 'spot on' so far.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-28 05:46|| 2024-08-28 05:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe if you quit game of 'proportional response' and actually conduct war you wouldn't need to have ships lingering around places.

How about Germany V.2, take out all the Yemenis POL ability and then take out bridges and rail yards. Suddenly, stuff stops moving. You can get back to other issues while they use camels to drag stuff.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-28 10:04|| 2024-08-28 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Not a Good Look: The Army Fires Three Top Sergeants in a Month

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-28 10:25|| 2024-08-28 10:25|| Front Page Top

#5 So.
When was George Washington originally supposed to set out?

I love it when our Top Men talk like snotty 2nd graders when asked a proper question. Reminds me of my conversation with a local solid Democrat when she said today's kids shouldn't enter the military.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-28 11:25|| 2024-08-28 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ She might have been right about today's kids not entering the military although not for the reasons she had in mind.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-08-28 11:45|| 2024-08-28 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Mentioned one of mine scored well and was considering, she said don't do it, and went into a well thought out rant about the current organization.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-28 12:53|| 2024-08-28 12:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Get a move on. China needs to clear out anything that interfere with their attack on Taiwan

Posted by Regular+joe 2024-08-28 13:50|| 2024-08-28 13:50|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Mothballing Merchant Marine ships should assist with the upcoming mission impossible. There's really nothing we can do for them, the Taiwanese that is.

The transfer of soverienty began rather slowly then accellerated just before the Orange Man's 2025 enauguration. Timing really is everything.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-28 15:43|| 2024-08-28 15:43|| Front Page Top

#10 The basic objective of our military is to win wars. Endless wars, woke policies, and leaving wars before they are finished, and baling out of Afghanistan and leaving people and billions of dollars in equipment behind weaken our ability to achieve our main objective. We should not piss away our strengh.

Posted by JohnQC 2024-08-28 17:05|| 2024-08-28 17:05|| Front Page Top

#11 It's basically looking like we are offering up Taiwan or something.

Posted by ruprecht 2024-08-28 17:28|| 2024-08-28 17:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Biden Crime Family™ post-presidential income

Posted by Frank G 2024-08-28 18:34|| 2024-08-28 18:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Defending Israel is more important. We need the carriers where they're needed most.

Posted by Thor McCoy5884 2024-08-28 19:31|| 2024-08-28 19:31|| Front Page Top

#14 How soon can we get this war on Iran kicked off? It's long past time. Why can't the CIA engage in the conflict initiation phases we know they're capable of? No more Iran, no more Hamas, no more Hezbollah.

Posted by Thor McCoy5884 2024-08-28 19:33|| 2024-08-28 19:33|| Front Page Top

#15 The CIA is more interested in running the US.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-08-28 21:04|| 2024-08-28 21:04|| Front Page Top

#16 Active war versus potential war, my dear Thor McCoy5884. Do keep up in the midst of polemicizing.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-28 22:06|| 2024-08-28 22:06|| Front Page Top

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