Department of Defense/Mega
Posted on 04/14/2023 8:47:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
One of the previously undisclosed balloons flew over a US carrier strike group in the Pacific, according to the Washington Post.
Another Chinese craft, code-named Bulger-21 by US officials, circumnavigated the Earth from December 2021 until May 2022, according to top-secret documents reviewed by the news outlet.
A third balloon named Accardo-21 is mentioned in the documents and a fourth is referenced to have crashed in the South China Sea, the Washington Post reports, noting that it is unclear if Bulger-21 and Accardo-21 were the same balloons that crashed and flew over the carrier strike group.
Department of Defense/Mega
The documents also show that the balloon that crossed over the continental US in January and February before being shot down off the coast of South Carolina was code-named Killeen-23.
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Col. Douglas Macgregor says all this balloon fear is nonsense.
https://twitter.com/Judgenap/status/1623058616553971713?lang=en
Who is he, and why does he call it fear?
Col. Douglas Macgregor is the hero of the pro-Russia set, and fear isn’t a quote from him, did you watch the 34-second video of him that is part of an interview with Judge Napolitano?
Sorry, no.
What do you make of the “leak”? Seems to me that something is very wrong in how the Biden regime is handling the matter.
Col Douglas Macgregor was the “squadron operations officer who essentially directed the Battle of 73 Easting” during the Gulf War.[5] Facing an Iraqi Republican Guard opponent, he led a contingent consisting of 19 tanks, 26 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and 4 M1064 mortar carriers through the sandstorm to the 73 Easting at roughly 16:18 hours on 26 February 1991 destroyed almost 70 Iraqi armored vehicles with no U.S. casualties in a 23-minute span of the battle.[5] He was at the front of the formation in the center with Eagle Troop on the right and Ghost Troop on the left. Macgregor designated Eagle Troop the main attack and positioned himself to the left of Eagle Troop. Eagle Troop Scouts subsequently followed Macgregor’s tank through a minefield during which his crew destroyed two enemy tanks.
branch United States Army
Years of service 1976–2004
Rank Colonel
Commands held 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry
Battles/wars
Gulf War
Battle of 73 Easting
Kosovo War
Awards Defense Superior Service Medal
Bronze Star (with Valor)
Meritorious Service Medal (4)
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
National Defense Service Medal (2)
Southwest Asia Service Medal (2 Bronze Stars)
Kuwait Liberation Medal
Kosovo Campaign Medal
Humanitarian Service Medal
French Meritorious Service Medal (Bronze Star)
Parachutist Badge
Ranger Tab
Alma mater West Point (B.S.)
University of Virginia (Ph.D.)
Have you those qualifications? If not, shut your mouth.
I know all that, he is an idiot when it comes to his serving Russia though.
I think he is also lying or mistaken about this balloon business also.
I think this leak business has layers and is very complicated and that we don’t know the important parts yet.
For me, that means I will just have to bide my time until we can eventually figure out what the mystery is.
We don’t have to jump onto everything and pretend to know what is happening when we first hear about it.
Are you right every time you speak??
Those balloons, although should have been shot down, gathered no more information than sat systems.
As for the Russian Ukraine conflict, he is spot on per the cause and will be proven correct at the end. As for his predictions for massive military attacks by the Russians this past winter, he admitted that if not for the weather, the Russians would have moved massively.
As for his predictions of how fast that conflict would be over..no different than all the Generals predicted.
THERE IS NO STRATEGIC INTERESTS for the USA in THE..Ukraine. NONE. The whole GD effing place can be bottled up with one or two subs if need be.
As for his, and Tony Shaefers (sp) views on Red China. I am 100% opposite their opinions.
Taiwan is a vastly important country strategically and it MUST NOT be left to fall..as is ALL the Asian Rim.
Without Taiwan, we get nearly no computer chips. Taiwan produces over 60% of the world’s semiconductors and over 90% of the most advanced ones.
Until that chip manufacturer from Taiwan finishes building that plant in TX, we had better make GD sure that country doesnt fall.
We are done..
You are misleading about his predictions, he has made the same predictions for 14 months.
We aren’t talking about him making a mistake at the beginning, or in a later month during the past 14 of them, he says the same thing over and over, and over.
His predictions are always that this is it, it is over, Ukrainians annihilated, a few weeks at most, nothing left, and on, and on, and on, month after month, after month.
It sounds like you are disagreeing with that retired Colonel, not me.
Let the Russian have it. They can rebuild that hole.
Like one other member of this site said way back when. He traveled to THE Ukraine and never in his life had he ever seen so must squalor and drunkenness.
A low level Guardsmen leaking classified info. Something smells rotten
He can’t be right, those months have come and gone, the predictions were nonsense, and he had no idea what he was talking about.
From the article:
Teixeira faced a Massachusetts court for the first time on Friday.
The 21-year-old has been charged with unlawfully copying and transmitting classified defense records.
According to an affidavit unsealed Friday, an FBI agent said Teixeira had held a top-secret security clearance since 2021 and that he also maintained sensitive compartmented access to other highly classified programs.
You think the Chinese don't monitor US military using satellite technology and need slow moving weather balloons to accomplish that task? 😂😂😂
Read the posts again, I disagree with Macgregor.
Yeah...you disagree with Macgregor who thinks the Chinese spy balloon is nonsense because China has satellites that monitor the US military.
What part of that sentence don’t you understand?
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