Posted on 05/03/2017 9:04:56 PM PDT by blam
Following the Berkeley protests last month, where numerous Anti-Fa(scist) activists complained of getting a beatdown after they attempted to intimidate peacefully assembling Trump supporters, we learned that the left-leaning organizations are taking their organization efforts to the next level. Among other things, they have called for more combat training, better equipment, and even guns in an effort to scare those who disagree with their message of forced tolerance, equal rights and inclusion.
Today, we get a better look at what that means, with somewhat hilarious results.
The Conservative Tribune explains:
Poorly-regulated militias, it seems, are good for only one thing: laughs.
In case you missed our previous reportage on the Phoenix John Brown Gun Club, it’s a “militia” made up of Arizona liberals who conspicuously rediscovered the Second Amendment right about the time that Donald Trump had become the clear front-runner for the Republican nomination.
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(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...
“Any of these knuckleheads .......”
They are true “Useful Idiots” who are expendable to their handlers.
Bring back the Red Squads and the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Me too. In fact, all four of us do.
Gunner, co-ax. Dismounts in the open, 30 or 40 of 'em, about 450 meters out. Left to right, hose 'em!, FIRE!
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Target, cease fire, they're down. Gunner, stand by, watch for muzzle flashes from snipers, fire on flash. Driver, run over anything still moving. Might as well take 'em seriously. Loader, load willy pete, ready green canister for reload, might be another bigger bunch out there too. Driver, move out.
Out of curiosity, were you ever in the military?
This, much like their pose last month, seems to be a lot of theatre. I spotted at least three different cheap $12 Condor Molle battle belts with two empty pistol mags on the right side. No one, I mean no one, would ever set up their belt that way. Maybe some left hander possibly might do that, but three different belts all set up the wrong way?
Some dickery is afoot.
You are very observant and those are excellent points. Friggin’ bunch of scum bag pukes. I agree about the dickery afoot.
They better not ever come up against any vets, especially combat vets. Enough said on that except the Nam vets might be getting older but we have a “pissed off” attitude needing released, especially against those bastard types.
Yep. Began enlisted, Armor Individual Training at Ft Knox, 1966, crewman in M48 and M60 series tanks, and a tank crewdawg I'll always be. My first line unit was the 70th Armor in Germany, the oldest and most decorated independent tank battalion in the US Army, when I was in it, and still to this day. Formed to make Army amphibious landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy in Europe, the 70th hit more beaches than any Marine tank battalion during the Marine's Pacific Islands campaigns. If you ever saw the movie Saving Private Ryan with the meatgrinder landing on Normandy's Omaha Beach, understand that on Utah Beach it was very different. The 70th's tanks hit the beaches early, including with bulldozer tanks that simply pushed 5-ton sandpiles over any German gun positions dumb enough to fire on the 70th's tanks; it did not hurt that Navy destroyers came in so close to the beach landing and opened fire with their five-inch gun batteries on the German antitank positions. What the 70th gunners couldn't see or was out of range was hit by calling in naval gunfire with the tanks' radios to the Navy's gunners. That was 20 years before I was in the unit, but the standards and traditions from two previously were still important to us.
Ran several tours on the West German *Iron Curtain* border [no tank- groundpounder job] and fell in with bad companions from the 10th Special Forces Group at Bad Toelz who arranged for me to be thrown out of an airplane and found it so hilarious that they repeated the indignity several times until I began to rather enjoy it.
Then a tour in Vietnam, arriving on the night of the Tet 1968 fireworks celebration. Mostly not in Armor this time, since I was pretty good with a 4-inch diameter rifle with 10x telescopic sight, it was thought that I might cover for units that had their guys away at sniper school. That lasted about 6 months, after which I got to go wherever I wanted in-country, fore the rest of my first tour. Second was more interesting.
By 1970, I got out and went to school on the GI Bill for a journalism degree from the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism. In 1972 since I spoke German and still had a German civilian driver's license, knew the Munich/Pullach area like the back of my hand and as a news photographer had covered sports other than college football/basketball, I got a job with the Chicago Daily News covering the 1972 Munich Olympics; it did not hurt that US swimmer Mark Spitz was expected to pick up a few medals and I had covered every local and regional swim team meet of his for the previous year-and-a-half. And my college-teacher uncle lived two houses down from the swim team coach. As it turned out, the '72 Olympics became a major news story instead of a routine sports gig.
A year later, I was visiting an Israeli pal in Haifa I'd made at the Olympics fishing for a *one year later* anniversary story, and then the 1973 Yom Kippur War began. I rode with him to his reserve unit with the idea that I'd take his taxi back to Haifa for him. Instead we got to his unit and found that fewer than a dozen guys had arrived yet and they had 17 great big M48 tanks to get ready to fight. I figured when the Syrians and Egyptians showed up they wouldn't be checking for American passports real close, so offered to help clean and ready 17 co-ax machineguns, 17 loader's MGs, 17 .50 caliber commander's MGs and boresight 17 main guns. And break 68 Uzi submachineguns out of their wrappings. Technically, I was a civilian; the Israelis considered me a machalnik, a volunteer like the foreigners who helped get Israel started in 1948. We were covering the main likely tank route from Jordan and the Jordanian tankers were quite good, also with US-built tanks. Happily they did not come into the war for the most part and so I am still around to think about other ways it might have worked out.
After that, other things, military and otherwise. In April 1975 I saw TV news footage of Chinese tanks knocking down the gates of the US Embassy in Saigon, thought about pals I'd lost there, and went and got half-drunk, half-sick. Two years later I was elsewhere helping other Communists eat dirt, including some time spent inside Polish-built T-55 tanks, and feeling right comfortable about it. There've been more, DOD civilian, first for the Army, [Grenada] then the Navy,[Solidarność] then other things. Sarajevo, Desert Storm, turned into a 2nd lieutenant in the USAF Auxiliary teaching USAF cadets military history and radio ops and code and got accused of being a Greyhound bus driver in the blue uniform, Israel again, Finland, Russia after the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Red Flag came down. Some work as a newsman and other things in Memphis, helping spoil Al Gore's chances in his home state- and if he'd won there, he wouldn't have needed those *hanging chads* from Florida. Ran into a cute and pretty former USAF airplane fixer with an attitude and sense of humor about as close to mine as I'm likely to find, we decided to make it work together, and so far it has. I'm doing what I do my way, she does what she does her way, and we're together as much as we can be.
Along came Y2k and went, it made a great training exercise, along came 9/11, and that was no drill. And since then I've been trying to figure how best to do for muslum imperialism in the XXIst Century what I helped do for world Communism in the XXth. From 2002 to 2008 I took a paycheck for doing so, now I'm donating my services for the good of humanity and my grandkids. They can kill me, but they can't eat me, I'm too mean and bitter. But I can kill them, and I don't need to eat them since I can feed them to pigs. Last/highest rank for my tombstone [maybe] someday [no rush!] Major, O-4, but not as a tanker, so I'm jusr as happy to be thought of as a Specialist/5 gunner, and I still get along with junior NCOs pretty good.
Claro?
Among other happier experiences: What's the top speed of a BMD? About 32 feet per second/per second.
Claro? Claro que si.
You were definitely in the military. Thanks for your reply to my question.
You're welcome. The lengthy response was in part due to a request for a fairly detailed CV from a FRiend who wondered if we'd ever crossed paths. We've both been around a good bit. Piggybacking it with your question killed two, maybe three birds with one stone.
Good thinking.
Yep. Expendable cannon fodder for Soros.
Hope you're considering writing a book; I'll be first in line to buy it.
If you write a book, I’ll buy it.
Thanks for the ping archy!
They better not ever come up against any vets, especially combat vets. Enough said on that except the Nam vets might be getting older but we have a “pissed off” attitude needing released, especially against those types.
If I can talk her into letting me include the line Another fine mess you've gotten us into, Ollie.... I might do it.
As a former newspaperman I can handle writing descriptions, individuals and settings both, and I can do research. But I'm used to my interviewees providing the quotes, so I'm terribly stilted about crafting dialogue; and that's what she's good at. Bread and butter, peanut butter and jelly. But by nature, I'm Spock, not Kirk.
That, and that enough of us are in elderly/ragged enough physical shape that we can't run from a nasty fight. And so the plan is to work from a distance if possible, and if not, as before when we were younger: fix bayonets, fight like hell, go down swinging, and die in a big pile of brass with a grin on our faces.
Thanks, my FRiend.
I have always said 300 yards is a good distance. I don’t like to see messes up close.
The Department of Defense did from 2002 to 2008 in the aftermath of 09/11 after finding direct linkage between muslum terrorist groups and leftist groups and individuals, as well as common sources of equipment and services. 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.
Plus, antifa reichers battle cry is berzerkely where they were in a pitched battle and lost. Our pitched battles were likely TET, Khe Sanh, Hue etc. where we kicked asz.
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