https://freerepublic.com/tag/pissingincident/ en-us Sun, 28 Nov 2021 07:36:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4016326/posts Four Americans gunned down in a withering, four-hour firefight in the Sahara -- part of a 10-man Green Beret team said to have gone rogue and been ambushed by ISIS while hunting down a top terrorist to "capture or kill" -- were ill-prepared, poorly trained and "not indicative" of their high-performing peers on the continent, U.S. military officials said. And in the strangest twist of all, they had been trying to locate an American aid worker who was being held hostage by the terrorist commander they were trying to kill. That story, as presented by the Pentagon, sounded like an... ABC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4016326/posts#comment Sun, 28 Nov 2021 07:36:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3074739/posts Yeah, it’s Army camo. Tell it to the Marines.Bad Pentagon civilian leadership brings about one of two outcomes — really principled, good uniformed leaders emerge, or really corrupt, bad ones. USMC Commandant General James Amos is cementing his image as a really corrupt, bad one by attempts to ‘crush’ Major James Weirick. Weirick is the JAG whistleblower whose revelations about Amos’s perseverating Unlawful Command Influence led to the prosecution giving up on a case — we covered that prosecution collapse last month, and have further coverage (Google search) of the Case of the Micturating Marines. Maj. Weirick, a staff judge... weaponsman.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3074739/posts#comment Fri, 4 Oct 2013 11:09:41 GMT