Posted on 05/03/2017 9:04:56 PM PDT by blam
“The investigations were shut down by within a week after the Pentagon’s top intelligence official, James R. Clapper, then the Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence)) recommended doing so on April 1, 2008, nine months before Barack Hussein Obama was sworn into office”.
George Bush must have known and did nothing.
They have infiltrated us from top to bottom.
I might have left a few things out, both from before enlistment, and both during and after that first hitch. But one of which I'm rather proud of is that between my assorted military service and journalism racket career, I've met seven wearers of a little star-shaped medal that hangs on a pale blue ribbon with white stars; the Medal of Honor. That's not the amazing part.
That would be that I knew two of those recipients from before they earned their medals, one from my high school days photographing a pal's high school wrestling events in one match during which a mean little red-headed fireplug was the opponent, and one in which a pal from basic and AIT went to a sister tank unit of my own and had a busy night disputing the price for his being there. Both made it home, one's still alive- and they both received their Medals from LBJ in the same ceremony. What are the odds...?
Boy, are they going to be confused if they come my way!
Jaya Mahakali, Ayo Gorkhali! Haake palle!. Horrido!
That's about where I am, haven't learned a good death song yet. Not too spry though.
Write the book.
I wouldn't make the point too loudly around Texians who still take the motto *Remember the Alamo! right seriously.
Nor around French Foreign Leggionaires on April 30th, still celebrated by them as the anniversary of the Battle of Camerone in Mexico in 1863, though most of the Legion contingent there was wiped out that day.
Wake Island, Battaan, the Kasserine Pass, Malmedy during WWII, all rallied Americans to fight harder.
Remember too, that we'll have our own spies and agents inside their ranks, and they'll need things loose and chaotic enough to do their jobs. And after their rookie cannon fodder finds out how badly they're going to be misused and wasted by incompetent leadership, there are going to be some seriously bitter desertions from their ranks, especially if they suffer some early very bloody noses.
And do not forget what the wise old Chinaman said:
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Finnish WWII prewar target shooter and hunter turned *Winter War* sniper Simo Häyhä once made a comment to the effect that when he was stalking moose, reindeer or elk, he liked to stalk in to about 75 meters for a precisely located shot.
But when later dealing with Soviet soldiers, he extended that distance out to around 300 or 400 meters, because, he said: *You'll live longer.*
I remember that story. He was exactly right.
Considering he spent the better part of a month of the 4-month long war in hospital, nearly a quarter, and consedering we was working close enough to the Arctic circle at a time of year that there was only about four hours of shooting daylight a day, I'd say he knew what he was talking about. Still, he might have done well to have stretched the distance out even a little more. Oh well, 515+ enemy Soviet invaders in 4 months is not bad at all.
I was responding to a post specifying Vietnam vets, but your list of vets, wars and battles are also appropos.
And Free Assembly.
Colonel Rex Applegate’s School of Riot Control is now in session.
Anyways, snipers would initiate fire from the flank of a column ACROSS a river/pond/lake. As the QRF would charge the position, they would detonate the charges under the frozen lake, thus killing ALOT more Russians.
Agreed they are willing to shoot you or me for having a differing opinion however they are not from appearances well versed in such ideas as fields of fire & sweeping friendlies with your muzzle being a no no . That having been said they will learn & that will make them very dangerous.
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