Interesting about GEN Margelov. In the USN the “natural leader” JOs usually get assigned to deck division, which is typically a punishment division for the enlisted men. The most intelligent JOs are billeted as communications officer or anti submarine officer. But the guys with obvious leadership potential go to Deck. Interestingly, they seem to love it, in no small part due to the perverse cachet in such a role.

Another Macquarie man! Outstanding.

There was a longitudinal study/ info graphic that illustrated how even amongst primitives all around the world, abridge are the least intelligent on the planet. I’ll see if I can dig it up.

I’ve never understood the Russia hate from Neocons. Have they not seen Russian girls? *whistles*

Much easier to emigrate to a weak Latin American nation like Venezuela and overthrow that government and start again. Hell the USA would probably help you out.

Not really. Most of the systems he worked on for NI are still on board submarines.

Right, like the fort hood shooter and the Boston bombers.

Jindal just dropped out.

Goddamn. Does anyone ever realize that the Navy was at Iwo Jima? And Okinawa? And a hell of a lot more sailors were killed than Marines? Reading these accounts makes you think the marines just dog paddled from island to island and that the IJN never existed.

You realize that those 6k in AFG (number was much higher a few years ago) get rotated out every 3-14 months for new people right? Basically everyone who was combat arms between 2003 and 2012 went.

You’re an idiot.

Pretty suprised Google didn’t put my main girl ADM Hopper down as the Navy rep. But we know about how they feel about women in tech…

This was my immediate thought as well.

Sometimes the megaphone really is just literally a megaphone.

“There is no cohesive maritime law of the sort you suggest between Greece and Turkey…”

According to who, you? They are both IMO and IAMSAR signatories and thus are bound in exactly the manner I previously described.

Why did you not know that? Why are you so ignorant about even the most basic tenets of the topic you pretend to be an expert on?

Why are you claiming anything when its clear you don’t know the first word of maritime law? What is your experience in this field? You read a “No Running” sign by a pool once?

You are entirely too ignorant, and too comfortable fabricating “facts” to support your twisted world view. Go back to your cave and stop inflicting your stupidity on others.

Not really. Have you ever heard the one about the Navy captain pointing to his cannon and saying “There is my authority!”? Same idea.

Plus if he is engaged in life saving, which is not a hard thing to spin, he can put them down on any beach he wants, legally.

You don’t seem very knowledgeable about maritime law.

From what I’ve seen in 5th fleet, the primary use of an EU vessel tends to be as a floating radio through which an actual naval force, usually in the form of a USN destroyer and VBSS team, can be summoned.

I feel like you haven’t heard of a lovely little organization called the NSA. An ant can’t fart under a rock without the NSA collecting it. Interpretating it is just an issue of manpower. I’m sure they could turn over the raw data to the interested European groups

Well said. As a USN sailor, I don’t remember signing on to defend every Panamanian rust bucket on the water. If you want to have 7th fleet looking out for you, you’ve got to be flying the stars and stripes, period. Or that’s how it should be, anyway

Nerf guns are amazing now. Belt fed, battery powered full autos are common.

A petroleum geologist no less! The horror!

The SABRE engine has a high tech readiness level and will reduce the cost of taking a payload to LEO by a factor of 20-100. So it is closer than you think.

And manned exploration was critical in the 1970s when robotics were garbage compared to today. No 1970s robot could have conducted a geological exploration of the moon as thoroughly as Harrison Schmidt did on apollo 17.

True. The astrodynamicist was the only real hack actor in the entire movie. And they pretended like the concept of a grav slingshot was just brain scramblingly revolutionary.

I did like the Navy pilot having to suit up to rescue the poor air force fellow though.

There was a pretty nauseating scene where the benevolent Chinese government (you know, those guys whose anti satellite missile test left millions of cubic kilometers of space littered with debris) bails out JPL.

You can even see that in our own military. In the Navy, Blacks and Filipinos have a lock on the supply department. Submariners are usually white guys from the east coast. Seals are from all over, but white guys from Dixie are overrepresented. TACAIR guys uniformly come from intact, Upper class professional families (almost 100% of the time). So those cultural differences inside of a single national force that are so prominent in medieval armies still persist today. Which I think is interesting.

So I would say heterogeneity of culture ultimately becomes a scale of observation issue. Nationally, the Navy is quite diverse. Internationally, it is more homogenous.

I was just thinking about the 1st Crusade. That might be an example of a small diverse group of fighters defeating a larger, more homogenous group but I’m not enough of a medievalist to say that with confidence.

The eastern front is a tough sell. Germans were outnumbered 6 to 1 from 1943 onward. USSR was receiving critical external support from the allies. Luftwaffe presence over Russia was severely curtailed to counter US UK bombing.

I’d say for those reasons, and the “International ” nature of both sides forces it is disqualified as an example given my stipulations.

Someone mentioned Hannibal at Canaae, I think that’s about as close as it can get.

So to make a diverse force as good as a homogenous one, you only need a commander as skilled as Hannibal. You know, probably the greatest tactical commander ever to shed blood on this planet. Should be plenty of those around, right? The gall of these diversity shills is appalling.

What the fuck does ethnic diversity have to do with military effectiveness? Is there a single case in history of a multi ethnic patchwork force defeating an equal sized force of homogeneous ethnicity? Even one case in 10,000 years of warfare?

Because I can think of plenty of counter examples. In sunnier times, the histories of these events were called “the classics” and it formed the cornerstone of a young man’s education. Good thing we got away from that, those classically educated guys were so incompetent.

Keeping assad in power would seem to be in our best interest. Naturally we are opposed to it.

I don’t think most readers here have a problem with a punitive campaign sans any occupation. If its just going to be a CVN airwing / SOCOM shooting gallery I think everyone is OK with that.

And they ditched ADM Hopper, the highest achiever and patriot of the group proposed because she’s white military officer.

I can’t wait for the soul on ice issue.

Why haven’t we been able to crash the black nationalism movement into the sexual assault witch hunt yet?

2 recommendations: Get in a war of words with certified non-genius Nick Maduro of Venezuela, asking him why everyone in central America would rather come to the USA than his much more conveniently located socialist “paradise”. Continue to antagonize him until he makes a major effort to take in the masses. This guy gave a chick a free apartment for throwing a mango at him. He’ll fall for it, or loose control of his own narrative. Either way, it will collapse that regime quicker, then they can go through a Colombia style correction to be productive US allies.

And then move all artillery, aerial gunnery and bombardment, and armor training areas to the border. Then you have the very real, visceral possibility of getting shredded by some fire exercise, and also if you do enter, the repercussions for trespassing on a military base are obviously much higher.

It’s strange. It seems they are always pushing to goad the whites into a race war. When you economically and socially disenfranchise huge swaths of European decent males, eventually very bad things happen. They are always painting their opposition as Nazis, while trying to force America into being a new Weimar Republic. You reap what you sow.

Would you say those migrations had a net positive effect on the Native American and Aboriginal populations?

You’re an idiot.

His policies were deplorable, but his intellect was subpar in relation to what standard, exactly? Do you mean subnormal? Below 100?

Trump is slaying it (unsuprisingly) with fraternity brothers in at least 2 huge state schools in the deep south that I know of. Say what you will about greeks, but they are important tastemakers, especially in Dixie.

I’ve noticed the same thing in French and Spanish. I don’t think it’s unique to Spanish, it’s just a greater focus on your speech when you don’t know the lingo. Although my GF complains that my feeble, infrequent Spanish attempts have a heavy Italian accent. I say that’s because I speak two languages: murican and foriegn.

Yeah. What the hell is going on with that? Not ‘Isabel’ (a beautiful Spanish name) or ‘Isabella’ a workable hybrid but a straight up f- you faux mestizo mismash. She sounds like a poorly drawn Sci-Fi character. All the money in my pocket says that’s not the first name on her birth certificate.

Dafuq is a physical therapy workout?

Also just because you did it with a SEAL doesn’t make it cool. Doing SEAL stuff, like swimming for miles in ice water and mass murdering Taliban goat rapists is cool, but just doing random stuff with SEALs requires a case by case evaluation.

With WTI under $50 for the foreseeable future I think the short window of prosperity for the Midwest has been slammed shut. At least the NYT will be happy.

As an OK resident, the native Americans here are invisible besides the casinos on the highway. Great example of why border control is important.

Those are minimum requirements. Typically the base standard for enlisted guys trying out is 20+ pullups, and 110+ pushups, with a sub 8 minute 1.5 mile run in battle rattle. Higher standards for officers.

753 SEAL officers is waaaaaaaay too high. There aren’t nearly that many. There are barely that many SEALS overall. Something is bogus with this study.

And BUD/S is a 6+ month test of your mental fortitude administered primarily through resistance to extreme cold and drills involving endurance comfort in rough water. I’m shocked, SHOCKED that blacks don’t find it an attractive option.

I guess I was too subtle. Or you’re reading what you want to into what I am saying.

The sexual marketplace has become a savage free fire zone. In order to secure a high quality life mate for marriage I had to resort to tactics that as a teenager I would have considered deplorable, and borderline despicable. You can use game with enough practice even if it is contrary to your personality. But you pay a price, you have to break yourself mentally to make the transition. It beats celibacy, being unmarried, and ending up a genetic dead end though. Still, I resent the person I had to become and the means I had to stoop to in order to survive on this battlefield.

The President and many members of Congress have committed crimes far in excess of this man whom they have traded for 5 alleged killers. How dare we demand justice for the citizen when the powerful escape just deserts? The presstitutes are sadly no more than tools of the warfare-welfare party and are playing their part. Let’s have the day in court but allow those of us to testify who believe that war crimes were committed by this president and the former, as well as many members of Congress. If guilty, let them hang.