Posted on 06/25/2017 4:12:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Now here's a photo from our U.S. armed forces in the field worth a look:
It's an M109 self-propelled tank from an undisclosed field location, bearing President Trump's cryptic Twitter typo, COVFEFE, according to the Daily Caller, which ran the picture yesterday. COVFEFE was the subject of much speculation, mostly on the left, as to what it might have meant. In this case, one of the troops has helpfully given the answer: rising military morale. You never saw such repetitions of presidential words during the Obama administration. Did anyone ever stamp 'You didn't build that' or 'If you like your health care' on one of the barrels of a howitzer?
It comes against the backdrop of two things.
One, military morale has been disastrously low, with the military rating the legacy of Commander in Chief Obama in acidic terms across every service. Morale reached a rock bottom low in 2015 with 52% of the troops across all branches "pessimistic about their future," and 70% expecting it to get even worse, representing a 30-point plunge since Obama came to office, according to a Military Times poll. That was after the military spent $287 million during six of the Obama years on an "optimism program." Go figure that one out - sweet deal for some NGO sociology-majors probably. The various analysts of this survey cited bad pay, troop drawdowns, lack of support from Washington in the deployments in hellholes like Afghanistan and Iraq, and micromanaging of field decisions from the lawyers and White House petty officials. But most of all, there was commander-in-chief who didn't believe in their mission - and who didn't believe in victory. He just preferred to let the wars slog on and the soldiers pay the price.
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Trump Trumps the idiots again.
COVert Fire Effect For Elevation?
“That was after the military spent $287 million during six of the Obama years on an “optimism program.” Go figure that one out - sweet deal for some NGO sociology-majors probably.”
It probably wasn’t designed to raise morale, but to waste money. Mattis’ quotes probably improved morale better for FREE.
Stopped reading right there.
We've been at war for 16 years now, you'd think reporters would have learned something about the military by now. Yet another reason we need to bring back the draft...so our friggin' populace would know something about the military that protects their undeserving a**es!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I was in an engineer battalion at Ft. Hood in the mid 70s and we used to ride the tank trails (in M-113s) all over the place.
I felt the most sorry for those poor bastards who had to ride the M110s out in their exposed tractor seats in the dust and rain. Hopefully life went uphill for them after they ETSed.
8 inch guns are badass, though. (175s as well).
It’s how I say “coffee” before I’ve had my first cup of coffee.
The people at one dictionary don’t like Trump. Be interesting to see how they define it, when they HAVE to include Trump’s word.
This video is worth a look. It makes a good case that covfefe was not a typo. According to Google translate, it means “I will stand up” in Arabic. The real punchline is how it is pronounced in Arabic. Watch the video to the end to find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL89M9D40oY
“covfefe”: https://youtu.be/0Y3-oVbapyw
Or “I will rise”, I believe.
This was tweeted around the return of his foreign first trip shortly after POTUS historic meetings in the ME.
Not a typo.
Next time you're in a Starbucks, order a cup up covfefe... watch the barrista's head explode...
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