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Posted on 10/23/2012 7:31:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama ended up revealing an astonishing level of ignorance about the state of military technology during the presidential debate in Boca Raton, FL Monday night.
The U.S. Commander-in-Chief misspoke about bayonets. He misspoke about horses. He misspoke about the size of the U.S. Navy. He misspoke about the makeup of the Navy. And the whole time, he thought he was teaching his opponent Mitt Romney a lesson.
Obama mocked Gov. Romney's concerns about the diminished number of ships in the U.S. Navy by saying, "I think Gov. Romney maybe hasn't spent enough time studying how our military works."
Obama continued, trying his best to make the GOP challenger look foolish: "[Romney] mentioned that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well... we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go under water, nuclear submarines." Obama added that it's not about "counting ships," it's about "our capabilities."
These comments rang out with a snarky condescension that was only surpassed by their complete lack of factual support.
While the Army discontinued traditional bayonet training in 2010, the USMC still trains Marines with bayonets and issues them as standard equipment. The Army has also begun training soldiers in a different style of bayonet use--not affixed to the end of a rifle but as a secondary melee weapon.
To make bayonet training relevant again, the Army got rid of the bayonet assault course, in which soldiers fixed a bayonet to the end of a rifle, ran towards a target while yelling and then rammed the bayonet into the target center. Instead, soldiers learn in combatives training how to use a knife or bayonet
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My favorite Beatles tune is, “Yellow Ship That Goes Underwater”
obama is an ignorant condescending snot.
many are telling me that we can’t spend in military as guns come from china..duh!!! we could manufacture them if not for gov and unions. dummy democrats.
....his smugness is only surpassed by his ignorance. The all knowing little boy king has been out of his league since his madrassa days...
As the "Old Man" says on Pawn Stars: Often wrong, but never in doubt.
Yeah...I caught that too. The below pic is an M-16 combat rifle affixed with a bayonet.
Some things just never go out of style Mr. Obama.
BTW...
Q. What's the difference between Barack Obama and a bayonet?
A. One is a useless tool. The other is still used by the US Marines.
The US gun industry is one of the few thriving domestic industries.
Projection of his own inadequacies, as a typical Democrat. Knowledge about the military to them is always some form of book learning, at best.
HF
Not surprising from someone who repeatedly described a Marine Corps medic, without embarrassment or shame, as a “corpse-man”.
just the premis that China makes weapons is and excuse not to arm is insane..but Dems are buying it.
If either had been in the military, he would have had bayonet training.
Obama was wrong-headed, as well as being wrong, about when carriers and subs entered the Fleet:
First US submarine: USS Holland (SS-1) - commissioned 1900
First US aircraft carrier: USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) - commissioned 1920
Not unsurprisingly, the left (like Bill Maher) Tweeted with cathartic joy in regard to Obama’s snotty reply.
Have to think that Romney would have rather unloaded what he really thought but is now sure he has to battle (and somehow “work with” ) these pukes for the next 4 to 8 years.
A resounding landslide victory will be beneficial. But then unlike the aftermath of 2010, the landslide must be heavily pounded on the heads of the leftist machine to squelch the upcoming fleas on the tail of the dog that want to wag the world and reality.
Zero is so up on the latest technology....that’s why he used the real-time drone video to save his ambassador in Benghazi.
Truth be told he was probably peeing in his pants thinking that Hillary would launch an attack and he would have his own Blackhawk Down just in time for the election.
If bayonets are so useless and antiquated, why do libs consider bayonet mounts/lugs as one of the defining features of an “assault weapon” in their efforts to ban them?
More Obama/Liberal crap.
Of course it's about counting ships. A few highly capable ships at the bottom of the ocean serve no one. The fewer the ships, the more resources the bad guys can throw at each one. No capabilities can defeat swarming.
Reagan had it right about increasing the size of our blue water Navy. Means more jobs and better defense capabilities.
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