Greetings and Salutations!
This’s becoming a Queen song I swear man…
Hegseth fired yesterday/todayNavy Chief of Staff Jon Harrison because Harrison, an unusually powerful aide, reassigned staff meant to support newly confirmed Navy undersecretary Hung Cao, undermining Cao’s role and consolidating control.
All I can say is “Who’s next?” at this point
Dropping like fucking flies man…
Just a quick one tonight…
And as you may have noticed, I added the Spot Gold and Silver Monitor to the side… Just for casual observation donchaknow?
And CA has a New updated site!
https://westernrifleshooters.online/
Save the link!
and now?
I’m off to bed.
More Later
Big Country
Welcome back my friends to the crap that never ends, we’re so glad you could attend, we want your mind, want your mind.
Shooter
Let the bodies hit the floor
MK Ultra… What “is” real and what “is” an illusion? Moody Blues…
Shooter
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.” – William Blake
Just sayin’ 😉
There ya go, man, keep as cool as you can. It riles them to believe you perceive the webs they weave.
I was a bit bored during the Covidiocy. Standing too close to people, not wearing a mask and walking the wrong way down store isles loses it’s charm after a few hundred times. Randomly coughing loudly was fun too. As was being kicked out of stores. Sometimes I’d wear a mask in then rip it off in the checkout line while saying I can’t breathe! People would get out of my line so I’d get checked out lots faster.
Welcome back my friends, to the jab that never ends. We’re so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside. There behind the glass is the jab to kick your ass, be careful as you pass, move along move along. Come inside the jab’s about to start, guaranteed to blow your heart apart. Greatest jab that ever has been had, take our jab and we’ll be so very glad. You gotta take the jab, it’s so very rad, you gotta take the jab and we’ll be glad, ohh… /cue up dancing masked nurses…
Like Malcolm Reynolds said in Serenity, “I aim to misbehave”.
Shooter
‘Tis but a flesh wound”
– The Black Knight
That’s a good one, JB.
On a more serious note, was reading some Jefferson quotes on the Burning Platform and remembered something fairly recent service members could help with. Take a small military unit. Say, platoon sized. What are the current weapons they would be armed with? I submit that we, the unorganized militia, should be armed the same way. So if some of you folks could list what the normal Army platoon would be carrying, it would be appreciated by those of us who are not as up on what is the current loadout. Thanks in advance.
Shooter
Russell,
I can’t speak for the Army, just the Jarhead clan. Crayons are key. We prefer the red ones, they taste the best.
Jokes aside: I have to explain the differences in organization. Standard straight-leg infantry platoon in the Corps consists of three, identical squads plus Officer, Platoon Sergeant, Radio Operator, and Corpsman (medic).
Squad structure changed in 2020; my unit piloted it in 2015. Each squad has 15men. 3x fire teams of 4 men, a squad leader, assistant squad leader, and squad systems operator.
Weapons for a fire team:
3x M27 IAR (H&K 416)
1x M38 SDMR
1x M3E1 (Carl Gustav recoilless rifle)
1x M320 grenade launcher
Standard battle rattle for an individual:
PPE (flak/plate carrier with pouches for grenades/ammo, helmet, eye protection, FROG uniforms, boots).
Night Vision
IFAK
7 full magazines (SOP may call for more)
2x frag grenades
So, doing the math,
12x designated marksman rifles
12x Carl Gustavs
12x 40mm grenade launchers
37x Piston driven automatic rifles
3x M17 Pistols (officer, platoon sgt and corpsman)
98 frags
Plus individual battle rattle, squad radios and other stuff like smokes, thermals and whatnot.
Thank you so much, Sarin. I “have” heard that jarheads are willing to go to war over the red crayon thing.
The rifles are about what I expected. I’m amazed by the number of frags a platoon carries. And 12 Carl Gustavs?? Holy shit! Those things are purely badass and they limit how many times a day you can fire one. I’m thinking the Marines are substituting the Gustavs for SAWs, a trade off I certainly wouldn’t complain about. Well, as part of the militia, I’ll take one of the DM rifles and pull some stints per day on the Gustavs.
Shooter
The “unorganized militia” would be idiotic to arm itself based on the Army or Marines current TO&E.
Instead, look at the winners of the recent wars, and the logistics, weapons, and tactics they used to win them…
I’m thinking more of 2A aspects Berg. By your logic, I need an AK and some RPG 32s and a technical. Then I could be the Taliban. You know, those camel fuckers that ran us off? Oh, and some IEDs and suicide vests.
Or I could be the Russian army, again, armed with AK’s and RPGs. With some drones, air support, Oreshniks and lots of AD and electronic warfare gizmos for assistance. And don’t forget the artillery. They are handily spanking Ukie and NATO ass and are winning. If you meant something else, please eludicate. Perhaps you are just being one of those burning rays Semper spoke of.
Shooter
A nice shopping list. But where to shop?
@Russell:
“You know, those camel fuckers that ran us off? Oh, and some IEDs and suicide vests.”
Exactly. They didn’t try to go toe-to-toe, and they won. If I’m going to fight in a fourth war, I’d REALLY like to win!
I’m right with you on that one Berg. A government has to win. An insurgent only has to not lose. And in the end, the insurgent wins.
You need some support from the populace. Not all of them, just a significant minority for support, safe houses, etc. Enough Whyttes are ticked off these days to provide that.
Shooter
AH! They have the Carl Gustavs now? Sweet!
Berg’s right. We’ve been coming in second place against people wearing sandals and carrying AKs with three magazines since back in my days. Shoot and scoot. No radio contact while on the op. NO CELL PHONES! That got a bunch of people on both sides killed in the Kraine. Carry light and move fast. And use cover both from boolits as well as from the eye in the sky.
Here;s my story. Oklahoma is a great totally red state, but we do have a Sprouts which is like walking into a California store. So of course I went in with my wife, no mask, and wow the looks!! Was there all of 2-3 minutes, when a pissy young lady comes wheeling up all indignant, and says I shit you not, ” Put down that basket and step away from the vegetables”. I laughed at her for a bit, and then walked out. Yeah fun.
Actually, it was only in the urban areas of CA where those faggy face diapers were being enforced by the insufferable Karens.
In the State of Jefferson north and the rural areas a few hours from the Pacific, very few people wore that stupid shit.
I had a Karenesque cunt (customer, not start) take me to task late one night during COVIDiocy while grocery shopping for not wearing a mask. First I told her to back the fuck off. Because she was well within the mandate 6 ft social distancing buffer zone.
Then I told her the only reason she was wearing a mask was because it was illegal to show your asshole in public (well, unless you’re faggots at a pride fest, anyway). She stormed off to get the manager, and I hit the checkout and was damn near out the door before any staff made it up there to hassle me, and by then it was too late.
After that I kept my facial hair at about a weeks growth long (not a full beard, just enough to look like a mean fucker who didn’t care) and wore a perpetual scowl in public. Nobody fucked with me again.
I “heard” that in ELP song.
Well done!
During the height of the panic, I made my own masks out of black mosquito netting. From a distance they looked perfect. They were a big hit in my circle of contacts and I gave away quite a few of them. They were useful to wear on planes. I got kicked out of a couple of stores by wide-eyed, Karen managers. I still refuse to shop at those stores even though they are all up in “let bygones be bygones” mode.
Yeah Matt. The stores that booted me out have never gotten a penny from me since and I tell other people that they are assholes.
The mosquito netting masks are hilarious. I used to occasionally wear a black bandanna so I looked like a train robber. Loved to wear it into the local bank.
Shooter
Why is a guy named Hung Cao the undersecretary of the Navy?
Berg, research Hung Cao, especially any videos of his speeches, you may be impressed.
Not our country anymore Berg…
BCE, if your intel is good, and it usually is, there appears to be a lot of housecleaning still to do in Mordor on the Potomac.
jonboy hairypalms looks like he never threw a punch in his life… probably never got his ass kicked either….. what a worthless shit
There are a lot of those out there these days.
Swirlies and wedgies and after school fights build character.
Either a sleeper or power hungry political animal/wannabe tyrant. Good riddance either way.
Isn’t “Hung Cao (pronounced ‘chow’)” the Chinese term for constipation?
Hegseth is doing a great job so far however, the ultimate goal should be to cut the 5 sided funhouse down to just one wedge. It’s nothing but a jobs program that produces circular projects. I did 2 tours there as a staff officer and it was hilarious fun every day of meetings about meetings, endless retirement lunches. very large minority women getting stuck in the stairwells and overstaffing by 100%. The stairwell thing: in the A-Ring there are stairs that are so narrow, a standard size human of today would have difficulty passing another person unless they turned a full 90 degrees. Seems some people can’t judge their diameter, so they attempt to use these stairs only to get wedged into it. Screams of “Hep me, Hep me, oh lordy hep me” as maintenance comes to take off the railings.
Staffing: Imagine a department that does task X. In reality it takes maybe 2 or 3 people but you have to have a GS-15 with 20 contractors, a handfull of E-6s and a few O-3s and O-4s that rotate out every year. This same office and construct is replicated across all services with the Army having numerous pieces just like this. It’s staggering to believe this but it’s absolutely true. From Thanksgiving to New Years, the palace is a ghost town proving that it’s all just a big waste.
Man, reading all this about platoons and Gustavs is making me realize I should probably stock up on more than just my trusty M16 and a bag of red crayons. Who knew the unorganized militia needed such a detailed shopping list? And Berglanders right, if were aiming to win like those folks over in… wherever they are, maybe we should look into some thermals and maybe ditch the Carl Gustav for a SAW while were at it. SemperFidos advice to shoot and scoot while avoiding radios and cell phones is just the ticket. And lets not forget the importance of not getting kicked out of stores for wearing a DIY mosquito net mask – Im definitely adding that to my survival gear. Because nothing says prepared like looking like you escaped a 19th-century bank heist.lucky wheel
Mr. Sido’s site is eating my posts. Maybe I used nigger too much? Nah. And I didn’t even mention the smelly fukn jooos.
Shooter
That Harrison character looks like he just spit out a grown man’s dick.