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Post by kungfuzu on Apr 23, 2020 15:26:23 GMT -8
I have already mentioned this asshole Marine Corps commander. He is still at it.
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Post by timothylane on Apr 23, 2020 15:38:38 GMT -8
The Obama Gang filled the top ranks of the military with leftists and fellow travelers. This sounds like one of the former.
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Post by artraveler on Apr 23, 2020 19:43:10 GMT -8
asshole Marine Corps commander I guess this idiot does not read demographics, about 70%of all Marines come from the South, perhaps a little fewer in the officers, but scratch an NCO and you find a Southerner. This kind of nonsense can seriously degrade the unit cohesion and fighting ability. My teenage grandson says, "that's just stupid". I could not express my feelings better. |
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Post by kungfuzu on Apr 23, 2020 19:47:04 GMT -8
I sometimes wonder if this is not the intention of such assholes. After all, social-justice-warrior types are willing to degrade just about everything for the sake of their cause. It is more important to have people with the right PC attitude, skin color and sexual orientation than effective fighters, don't ya know.
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Post by timothylane on Apr 23, 2020 20:02:15 GMT -8
The standard Confederate flag is actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia. There were other flags, including the official national flag. I wonder what would happen if someone showed one of those -- which I doubt many SJWs would recognize.
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Post by artraveler on Apr 23, 2020 22:09:32 GMT -8
The battle flag of the ANV is the most recognizable, however Both the Son's of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy recognize only the First national as the official flag. The ANV battle flag was never used in the trans-Mississippi theater. They're many variations of the first national and a few units that used a modified St. Andrews Cross as a background, but no unit used anything similar to the ANV flag. The ANV flag was solely an eastern theater flag.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 29, 2020 15:12:38 GMT -8
The Army has the highest number of 4-star generals since WWII. At the end of WWII, there were something like 15 million military personnel in uniform. Today that number is a bit more than 2 million active and reserve. Still believe there is no perpetual-war party? All these generals make very good money, have great retirement plans and go on to make even bigger money on corporate boards and such. Too many generals |
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Post by timothylane on Aug 29, 2020 17:33:48 GMT -8
Eisenhower became a five-star in late 1944, noting to Patton shortly afterward that every time he got a new star, the Germans attacked him (Patton replied that every time that happened, he had to bail him out). Bradley, commanding an army group of 3 active armies, had 4 stars until the war in Europe ended.
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Post by kungfuzu on Aug 29, 2020 21:23:56 GMT -8
This piece taught me something which I had never heard of. I well knew of The Battle of Long Island and Washington's retreat, but of the Marylanders, I had never heard. Great men when our land was great. They held firm |
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Post by timothylane on Aug 30, 2020 6:04:41 GMT -8
I recall that the Maryland Continentals generally had a good reputation in that war. Maryland troops fought on both sides in the War of the Rebellion as well.
I certainly didn't know about this specific incident. It's roughly comparable to the famous attack of the 1st Minnesota against Wilcox's brigade at Gettysburg, which had a similar goal and a similar result.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 10, 2020 10:38:07 GMT -8
Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps. May you have another 245 such returns.
Instead of the usual balloons, firecrackers and such, I though something like this was more appropriate.
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Post by artraveler on Nov 10, 2020 12:24:14 GMT -8
Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps My older brother, for reasons passing understanding, joined the Air Force and was a Saber driver in Korea. One of those jets could be him whooping in NK. |
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Post by artraveler on Jun 5, 2022 10:03:46 GMT -8
Confederate Memorial Day
4 June 2022
Today was the 149th Memorial Day at the Confederate Cemetery in Fayetteville. It was marked as an occasion with music of the South, including Dixie. An honor guard and 21-gun salute to honor the fallen. Most of the attendees were great grandchildren of soldiers who served with Confederate forces during the war.
We gathered to remember those men, mostly in unmarked graves, who fought and died at Wilson’s Creek, Elkhorn Tavern, Prairie Grove, and Fayetteville. Altogether there are some 700 graves in this hollowed ground.
In 1872, wives, sisters, and kin to these soldiers organized into the Southern Memorial Association, purchased property on Rock Street in Fayetteville and paid $1.00 to gather the bodies from the area and in 1873 dedicated the cometary to honor the men who gave their all. On that day 149 years ago the entire population of Washington County turned out for the dedication.
Yesterday was not as well attended, with about 150 people in attendance. However, the respect given the fallen was not lessened. As the winds of war surround us today, at home and overseas. We need remember the men and women of gave of them selves the most. They are Americans who died in war. Let them rest in peace that was elusive in their lives.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 23, 2022 15:40:11 GMT -8
Here's an interesting summation of World War One:
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Post by artraveler on Jul 23, 2022 20:27:28 GMT -8
An interesting and well done video if perhaps a little on the British viewpoint. As a summary of the major events it does the job.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 24, 2022 7:45:44 GMT -8
They were just throwing men into a meat grinder. It was insane. Think of some of the major battles in history, such as Agincourt or Hasting. At Agincourt it was maybe 12,000 French and 9,000 English. If there were 100% casualties, that is less than the men that could be lost to just one country in a single day in WWI.
Waterloo was roughly 68,000 Anglo-Allies, 50,000 Prussians, and 72,000 French. Those numbers get would get lost in the battle of Verdun or the Somme. That summary really brought home how many men were thrown into the meat grinder, and on a regular basis.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 27, 2022 14:02:56 GMT -8
This is an okay tour of the USS Constitution by some British enthusiast:
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jul 29, 2022 14:35:41 GMT -8
This guy has a fairly interesting channel on WWII. I've watched a couple of them now, including this one:
There are other presenters on this channel. This is the only guy that I like.
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