Posted on 03/11/2013 1:03:00 PM PDT by Greystoke
United States Marines are being told to preserve ammunition and gasoline as a deal softening the impact of automatic spending cuts continues to elude leaders in Washington.
Marine Corps Commandant James Amos urged personnel in a video posted online Friday to "save every round, every gallon of gas," and to "take every single aspect or opportunity in training to get the most bang for the buck," a reminder of the cuts' immediate effect on the U.S. military.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Desperate times: Marines told to ‘save every round’
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One shot to the head..
Marine Corps Commandant James Amos is a political hack doing the bidding of his CIC.
THE SKY IS FALLING! ®
No ammo for this guy:
Perhaps Bath-House Barry and Big Sis could share some of their stash...
“Desperate times: Marines told to save every round”
Or they could just trot over to the DHS armory and liberate about 600 million rounds. DHS would never miss it.
Yes, I was going to say something similar. If DHS were to have all gun wielding employees start shooting today (safely at a range), the ammunition they have now would go bad before they used it all. It would take an army 20 years of war to go through 1.6 Billion rounds. I'm not sure there were $1.6 Billion rounds fired in WWII total (all forces, airplanes and ships included).
People don't understand how much a billion actually is. If a person started shooting one round/second, non stop (no food, water, sleep, etc.), it would take 50 years to fire almost 1.6 billion rounds.
THAT IS ONE ROUND PER SECOND OR 60 ROUNDS PER MINUTE.
meanwhile, 25% of all federal spending goes to public pensions... they’d never impact those
Soon they’ll be practicing with broomsticks.
In the military they have $5.2 million they spent on goldfish studying goldfish to see how democratic they were and if we could learn about democracy from goldfish. I would give the president the authority to go ahead and cut all $5 million in goldfish studies, (Rand) Paul said on Fox News.
So much for the use of the “Select Auto” button....
Yes. They would. They anticipate needing those 600 million rounds against the “Oath Keepers” and the American people. Why are the Repubs not all over this crap? Marines told to “save every round” while the DHS goons are acquiring billions of rounds, and thousands of APCs. Guess who’s planing on going to war. Soon.
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“Amos said his branch would cut $1.4 billion in 2013 and $2 billion in every ensuing year for nearly a decade.”
Yet Obama ask for 1.3 billion in military aid for Egypt in fiscal 2013.
Uh it’s estimated we fire 250000 rounds for each insurgent killed in Afghanistan. Estimates for WWII were 15000 and Vietnam 50000 rounds per enemy KIA.....
Just sayin...
Man, if we went back to the Civil War....it was probably twenty practice shots, and you were sent off to a battle campaign.
For my whole Air Force career....I probably shot about 2,500 rounds for my whole career...back in those days....after around eighty shots....you were stamped ‘qualified’.
You make a good point about the insane consumption rate needed to consume this much ammo, even in a war. The last two Fridays I’ve spent an hour in line at my local Gander Mountain trying to score some .22 LR. If DHS is buying up this much ammo, IMHO, it’s not doing it even for possible, illegal, domestic combat operations; rather, it’s buying this much ammo to create a massive shortage of the basic components essential to make all calibers of civilian ammo. After all, what good is a car without gas to run it?
“OK, Men!
Listen up!
We expect the Ragheads to storm the walls at dawn tomorrow.
You will fire only upon every other attacker.
The rest you will deal with using knives, bayonets and hand to hand combat.
Good luck and Godspeed.
Dismissed!”
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Desperate times: Marines told to 'save every round'
meanwhile, 25% of all federal spending goes to public pensions... theyd never impact those
. . . . Ping to Article.
Worse and worse... The intent: to destroy our country from within.
In addition:
(from Yahoo search)
"Bo the dog keeps motorcade despite sequester
"Fox News story over the weekend lamenting the fact that the White House has canceled its famed tours due to a lack of funds. But apparently, Bo the dog is still traveling in style.
"But the real beef (apparently only) conservatives have with Obama is his dog, Bo. According to Fox, whenever Bo travels outside the White House to certain events, vacations, or even Petco, he travels by way of motorcade."
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The fed is buying up this much ammo because they KNOW there is a date certain coming when they will no longer be able to be resupplied for a few years. Their planned collapse of America as we know it has warning signs we ought not ignore. This is one of them.
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