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“How long until someone shoots back with a real one?”

My thought exactly. I’m a CPL holder and I never leave home without it. My first reaction to getting hit with a projectile like that would be that I’ve been taken under fire, which would of course lead to me sending rounds back downrange in return. There would a lot of them, too, until I felt I’d ended the threat.

I’ve been kicked off the site twice. Two different identities, too. ;-) First time for quoting an article in which profanity was used, the second time for this: “Don’t trust China. China is a-hole.”

Scott does all the chat maintenance and is the one who decides just who gets the boot and who can stay.

Paul Mirengoff clearly suffers from TDS and is a GOPe (GOP Establishment) type who no doubt doesn’t like the smelly deplorables. I also wouldn’t blame Hayward in the least if he ended up throwing a beating at ol’ Paul.

(John is pretty much harmless, IMHO.)

“The LEFT will take this as a declaration of war.”

Yes they will. Which is fine with me. Better we get it on sooner rather than later, in my opinion. We have the tactical and strategic advantage and we need to exploit that.

Anything that helps these folks do better and screener faster and more thoroughly I'm in favor or, though that whole facial recognition thing needs strong privacy safeguards, IMHO.

“It’s not unfair for Spencer to “take the fall” for going behind his superior’s back- and over his head.

You just can’t do that.

As for the nuances of the Gallagher case, they don’t matter. You don’t do that to your boss.”

SECNAV should have had the good sense to fall on his sword after the debacle he created in trying to have it both ways (run Chief Gallagher through a SEAL suitability review board, but engineer him keeping his Budweiser after all was said and done). But he had to be fired, which makes things worse. Also, if he disagreed with his boss all along he should have resigned in protest and gone to the press or written a book or whatever.

Spencer way, way over-thought this one, and got caught in a lie as a result. He should have had the good sense to just shut his suck, salute smartly and say “Aye, aye Mister President!” and execute the directive he knew he’d been given. Self-inflicted gunshot wound on Spencer’s part all the way.

What the hell is going on with senior leadership in the Teams these days?

Instead of celebrating that one of their own was almost completely exonerated at general court martial — and by a board composed largely of Marine Corps combat vet officers (and if there’s one thing Marines are, it’s hard on those they feel have dishonored the naval services by committing a war crime) — and then completely exonerated and restored by President Trump to the rank he’d earned, and deserved to keep, Gallagher’s fellow frogmen try to throw him over the side?

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

In a televised interview the other day, Gallagher warned that he’d see retaliation from his command when he reported in, due to the President restoring him to his previous, and well-deserved, rank.

I don’t know what’s gotten into the SEAL community these past several years but it’s obvious there’s something wrong, and the fish always rots from its head.

These men and their activities should be among the most discrete in all the military, yet Trump himself had to step in to prevent a miscarriage engineered by the Navy’s — and the wider military’s — criminal justice system, with top SEAL leaders seemingly eagerly participating in the miscarriage.

I’m sure Chief Gallagher never thought the old SEAL axiom, ‘Check Six,’ would ever be so apt in his case, because until he retires at his present rank, he’s going to have to check his six constantly, because senior SEAL leaders are bound and determined that he continue to suffer for the crime of being a straight-shooting, no-nonsense Navy Chief and special warfare operator. Good lord...

What PDT did serves two purposes.

1) It demonstrates the quality of mercy — when such mercy is appropriate to demonstrate — that should be a part of any criminal justice system, military or civilian.

And...

2) It tells the military’s senior leadership, right up through each service branch’s Secretary (a civilian) and uniformed chief, that PDT is indeed the military’s Commander in Chief and that he intends to exercise his powers as top CinC whenever and however he needs to.

Hopefully, this message sinks in and we stop seeing uniformed members of the world’s greatest fighting force, such as a certain Army lieutenant colonel, testifying in front of Congress with the aim of undercutting the Commander in Chief.

Huh. Might possibly be why those TSA types at the airport sometimes let people walk right past them and into the terminal areas without even a "Howdy do!" ;-)

Happy 244th birthday to the United States Marine Corps! You are the finest expeditionary fighting force in world history and you have stood guard, defending the country against its enemies, and will continue to stand guard for as long as the there is a United States of America. Ooh-rah! and Semper Fi, do or die.

(From a grateful retired Mustang Navy officer who was privileged to serve “the Corps” as a Hospital Corpsman ‘Devil Doc’ for more than a few years before he failed upward. ;-)

How the HELL did that idiot measure make it onto the ballot in a place like Tuck-Son in the first place? I realize there’s a large(ish) progressive element running around the Grand Canyon State in their Birkenstocks and UGGs these days, but did they actually think voters in a town like Tucson — which oftentimes experiences the worst in illegal alien depredations — would go for this? Ummmm... okay.

“If you think I’m Traffic-ing in obscure pop references then you must be acting in Blind Faith.”

CC

Well, thanks for sticking with the Spirit of the conversation, then. ;-)

“LOLOLOL!!! That movie STILL cracks me up!
“LEMME HEAR YER GUNS,. BOY!!! AT-TAT-TAT-TAT!!””

“One authentic early American hari-kari knife. Pass it around, boys. Maybe somebody’s got a use for it.” — Hollis “Holly” Wood

“And, Yamamoto’s planning - being caught with a bad dispersal of forces as he was expecting us to come into a (too elaborate) trap from a particular direction...”

The Japanese always had a tendency to erect very intricate plans when it came to fighting naval battles, and everything had to go just right to pull them off. Chuichi Nagumo, the Japanese admiral commanding their fleet during Midway wasn’t a bad commander, but he wasn’t an excellent one, either, and the Imperial Japanese Navy needed an excellent battle commander that day to win. That and the complexity of the battle plan drawn up by Isoroku Yamamoto, Nagumo and their staffs added to his woes as well.

Add in that US Navy code breakers had tumbled to Midway as being the precise location where the Japanese were going to attack — as well as the outstanding courage and tenacity of the Navy’s airmen that day — and it quickly became a bad day at Black Rock for Nagumo and co.

Coral Sea, which had immediately preceded Midway in the Pacific theater’s ocean engagements between the two great naval powers in those waters, might have been considered a technical draw — but there was no other way for the Japanese to characterize Midway other than the full-on naval disaster that it was for them.

The wife and I are both retired military and we both have a keen interest in military history. We’ll be there that weekend, if not opening night, to see if they got the broad outlines (it’s Hollywood, so I never get too picky about particulars when it comes to these films) right and to enjoy what we both hope will be a good tale.

“She looks like the type of bimbo you’d find legs up in the back of a 57 Chevy.

The 57 Chevy has far too much class, far fewer miles, and needs a lot less bodywork for her to even get close to it.”

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Agreed. The ‘57 Chevy Bel Air was a dream machine. She’s a nightmare. I think an ‘02 Pontiac Aztek would be more appropriate. ;-)

“That makes her the first homosexual congresswoman to resign due to a sex scandal as well.”

Bisexual. Which means she can’t make up her damn mind and pick a side. ;-)

Good riddance to bad (I’d say “fugly”) rubbish. ;-)

“The soft bigotry of low expectations. Well, at least it’s not the low spark of high heel boys.”

CC

Please don’t traffic in obscure references here, sir. ;-)

Hillary actually said, “I don’t feel no ways tarred.”

Hilarious (that’s what we all called her back when I was stationed in the Beltway in the mid-90s) is a piece of work. During the 2016 campaign, didn’t she do an interview at a black radio station and, during the piece, pull some hot sauce packets out of her purse to prove that, why, she was just like all the other black women, in that they all supposedly carried around some hot source in their purses? ;-)