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MC Times: Marine artillery barrage of Raqqa was so intense two howitzers burned out
Hell f-ing YEAH! The Marine Corps Times has the story and a hell of a motivating video to go with it.
“Every minute of every hour we were putting some kind of fire on ISIS in Raqqa, whether it was mortars, artillery, rockets, [High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems], Hellfires, armed drones, you name it,” Troxell told reporters on Monday. Troxell had visited Raqqa a couple weeks ago for a period of four hours.
When you find them, kill them. What a refreshing approach, to actually kill the hell out of these bastards. SECDEF Mattis and CJCS General Dunford sure as hell understand the nature of war. Something that pathetic political hack Missy Mullen could never dirty his nails to know. You do kill the enemy. By the bushel basket load. Keep your boot on his throat. Re-tubing guns because you fired enough cook them? Small price to pay.
URR here.
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World of Warships- Kitwar’s Hindy High Damage
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Ahh, Recruiters
I did have sympathy for those guys, at times. Especially during the dreaded FMAM. February, March, April, and May, when making mission was difficult at best. One SSgt I knew from RS Philly said that was benches and grates time, as in that is where you got your poolees, off park benches and steam grates. Judging by the recruits who showed up at the island from those months, I had to wonder sometimes if he wasn't serious.
Our gracious host was once in the body-snatcher bidness, albeit not for the World's Finest Fighting Force, but I am sure he still can appreciate.
URR here. Stole the pic from CT
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Air Force Colonel Finds Marine General In Contempt
Via the Military Times, something crazy going on down in Guantanamo Bay.
A Marine brigadier general in charge of war court defense teams faces 21 days of confinement after being found guilty of contempt of court by an Air Force colonel for refusing to testify about releasing three civilian attorneys from the defense team for the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing for a secret ethics conflict involving attorney-client privilege.
Brig. Gen. John Baker has refused to testify or return lawyers to the case, attempting to tell the judge, Col. Vance Spath, that the war court’s attempt to try alleged terrorists who are not U.S. citizens had no jurisdiction over him, originally reported by the Miami Herald.
Spath ruled that Baker’s decision to release the three civilian, Pentagon-paid attorneys from the case was “null and void” and ordered the three to testify before him either in person or video feed next week.
The USS Cole bombing in October 2000 resulted in 17 sailors being killed and 39 injured when a small, fiberglass boat piloted by two suicide bombers exploded near the hull of the ship as it was refueling at the Aden harbor in Yemen.
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Summary of the reports on the collisions of USS Fitzgerald and USS McCain
I'll have to dive into these later, but in brief, the Navy done screwed up badly.
USS+Fitzgerald+and+USS+John+S+McCain+Collision+Reports by Arthur Barie on Scribd
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And Again, Manhattan
The refrain is, tragically, a well-known one. Muslim allowed in to this country, never cares to assimilate, repays the kindness of his new country by indiscriminately killing and maiming in the name of Islam.
Eight dead, fifteen injured. "Allahu Akbar" being screamed as he murdered. Even as the activist courts invite more and more of the very ilk who perpetrated yet another horror.
"We find that the reasonable observer would likely conclude that EO-2's primary purpose is to exclude persons from the United States on the basis of their religious beliefs," Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote on behalf of the majority.
4th Circuit Court Chief Judge Roger Gregory doesn't seem to understand what a reasonable observer is. But maybe, if he had been riding his bike down the East Side bike path in Manhattan, and was now in an emergency room staring at a life forever shattered, or at the morgue, identifying the mangled remains of a loved one, he might gain some of that understanding. But then again, maybe not.
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We get it… you vape.
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World of Warships- LT Nelson’s Udaloi Rampage
I'm not much of a Destroyer skipper, so I always appreciate watching a well played high tier DD game. LT Nelson does not disappoint.
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HIMARS at Sea
ABOARD THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP USS ESSEX – The daytime launch of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System on Sunday might have seemed like another training mission if the Marines hadn’t fired it from an amphibious ship operating at sea.
A detachment of Marines with Camp Pendleton, Calif.-based 5th Battalion, 11th Marines, set up the vehicle-borne launch system on the flight deck of amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD-23). Programmed with information about the objective – suspected enemy air defenses – on a nearby island, the HIMARS launcher fired off a rocket at a target 70 kilometers away.
Target destroyed, officials said.
The missile strike, coming during the biannual amphibious task force exercise Dawn Blitz off southern California, marked a big first for the Navy and the Marine Corps.
“The ability to project power from and at sea is critical,” Lt. Col. Tom Savage, operations officer with 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade, told a small group of journalists at a briefing aboard USS Essex, the flagship for the exercise.
“It’s a significant capability.”I'm pretty sure from the first time a Marine artillery officer loaded a HIMARS on an amphibious warfare ship, they've been itching to do this. It's an obvious solution to some of the fire support issues the Marines face during an amphibious assault.
The article is getting a bit over its skis later on talking about shooting from to seaward later. The GMLRS currently has no capability to engage moving targets. Having said that, there are a couple of different efforts underway to change that. And every new arrow in the quiver helps.
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Agincourt
Little busy/under the weather, so here's a blast from the past.
The Battle of Agincourt and the AirLand Battle Doctrine.
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