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NY Dem: Segregating Asians should be "looked into"
We ain’t lettin’ them into OUR neighborhood!
This is NOT an April Fools” Day joke. Merely more of the racial double standard which is positively ingrained in the far-left. This wisdom from Crown Heights Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, a rather rabid anti-Semitic Democrat, who apparently has an issue with a minority other than the one she is a part of being in a public housing project:
A Brooklyn city councilwoman wants to know why “blocs” of Asians are living in two Fort Greene housing projects — and suggested it would be “beneficial” to assign housing by ethnic group.
“How is it that one specific ethnic group has had the opportunity to move into a development in large numbers?”
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever! By God, she DOES sound like a Democrat!
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Army announces big changes to the tattoo policy
Huntsville, Ala. — A newly revised tattoo policy that removes the limit on the number and size of soldiers’ tattoos is effective immediately, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said Wednesday.
The new revision to the appearance policy still prohibits soldiers from having tattoos on their necks, and the ban will remain on tattoos that are extremist, racist or sexist, Odierno said at the AUSA conference here.
via Army announces big changes to the tattoo policy.
Here’s hoping this isn’t the worst April Fool’s joke evah.
The old policy was a stupid self inflicted wound. I don’t like tattoos, and don’t intend to ever get one. But as long as they aren’t extremist or show when in dress uniform, they’re not a detriment to mission accomplishment.
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Army drones to deliver 3D printed pizzas to forward operating bases | Article | The United States Army
NATICK, Mass. (April 1, 2015) – Pizzas made to order on 3D printers soon could be delivered by drones to hungry Soldiers at outposts across the globe.
According to researchers at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, the pizzas would be produced on specially designed 3D printers and flown to outposts while still hot. Natick researchers called it “an unexpected breakthrough” beyond the recently announced development of a Meal, Ready-to-Eat, also known as MRE, pizza, which has a shelf life of three years.
“It’s great to be able to offer the warfighter a little slice of home with the MRE pizza,” said John Harlow, supervisory culinary transfer engineer at Natick, “but we never lost sight of our true goal — delivering piping hot, complete, custom pizzas to our men and women in the field. Who deserves them more?”
Recent, revolutionary strides in 3D printing made it all possible.
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F-35D+ to Feature Titanium Bathtub and GAU-8 Avenger | The Tactical Air Network
Responding to the complaints of thousands of Facebook users on various Save The Hog and Long Live the A-10 pages, engineers have redeveloped the F-35D+ to include a titanium bathtub around the cockpit, at the cost of the aircraft’s onboard electronic warfare suite, as well as some of its advanced intelligence/surveillance/tracking systems. “We’re not sure why titanium bathtubs are now a selling point on aircraft that fly CAS missions, especially since they all loiter between 10,000 to 15,000 feet, out of the range of anti-aircraft guns… but hell, if it’ll shut those keyboard generals up, we’ll do it. Anything to keep all of that spam off our Facebook page’s comment section.” said Frank Philips, a program engineer involved with the F-35D+
via F-35D+ to Feature Titanium Bathtub and GAU-8 Avenger | The Tactical Air Network.
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LOVE Day, 1 April 1945
Seventy years ago today was an Easter Sunday. On 1 April 1945, elements of the United States 10th Army, under General Simon B. Buckner, landed on the island of Okinawa. The landings were almost unopposed, but the 110,000 Japanese defenders soon resisted with the savagery and skill familiar to every US combat leader in the Pacific. Half a million US troops would come ashore in Operation ICEBERG, beginning 82 days of brutal, unrelenting combat for the island. When the battle was finished, General Buckner and one other US General were dead, along with nearly 100,000 of the island’s defenders, and 13,000 US soldiers, sailors, and Marines. (Near the end of the battle, US Marine MajGen Roy Geiger would temporarily command US 10th Army after the death of General Buckner, until Joe Stillwell’s arrival.)
The Japanese had fought furiously, employing in massive waves the kamikaze tactics against the invasion fleet that were first revealed off Leyte. Among the US killed were 4,900 sailors, as the US Navy lost 36 ships sunk and 368 damaged by the suicide onslaught. One in three Japanese civilians were killed or committed suicide in the fighting, nearly 150,000 in total. The battle, which ended with the island being declared secure on 22 June, was a terrifying harbinger of what the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands would be.
The “Saipan ratio” used to compute casualty estimates for the invasion of Japan, was proven a dramatic underestimation by US casualties on Okinawa, which were almost four times the earlier calculations. In addition, Allied intelligence of Japanese air strength on Formosa (within range to help defend Okinawa) had pegged the number of operational aircraft at under one hundred. There was, in fact, eight times that figure, as the US and British Naval forces would discover to their dismay. Okinawa (and Iwo Jima) weighed heavily in the decision to employ atomic weapons against Japan as an alternative to invasion. With what occupation forces found on the Home Islands, the men destined for the invasions Honshu and Kyushu likely breathed a great collective sigh of relief.
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Operation Decisive Storm
The Saudi Arabian led Sunni coalition conducting air strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen has a pretty interesting array of aircraft.
Tony Osborne at Aviation Week has the rundown.
Bahrain has deployed between eight and 12 of its F-16s, Qatar has sent 10 of its 12 Mirage 2000s. The United Arab Emirates has deployed 30 aircraft, while Morocco and Jordan have each deployed six F-16s. Jordan’s participation is particularly noteworthy given its heavy involvement in operations against the Islamic State insurgency in Iraq and Syria. Reports state that Kuwait has sent 15 F/A-18 Hornets.
Egypt’s aerial contribution is unclear but its neighbor Sudan is perhaps the most surprising of the participants bringing with them a trio of Sukhoi Su-24 Fencers.
And of course, there is video as well.
To say the RSAF is lavishly equipped would be almost an understatement. The Saudis were early adopters of the F-15 Eagle, and just about the first foreign air force to fly a Strike Eagle two seat fighter bomber variant. That, their still formidable Tornado IDS fleet, and their Eurofighter Typhoons are all top of the line aircraft. And of course, the Saudis are more than willing to pay for the gas to fly a lot.
The videos are also careful to show that the operation is composed of a coalition. You’ll also note that the second video, especially, is careful to show that, but also very careful to not show the faces of any of the men in it.
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CAIC WZ-10 in Pakistan
Recently China has provided the WZ-10 attack helicopter to Pakistan to help defend and police it’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA).bThe WZ-10 is replacing the AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter operated by the Pakistani Army. Replacement has given us a first time opportunity to see the WZ-10 up close (photos courtesy of the China Defense Blog):
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SuperHornet Low Level
It’s a couple years old and I know I’ve seen it before, I just can’t remember if I’ve posted it before. Eh. For what you guys are paying me… you expect new stuff every day?!
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60mm Mortar Live Fire
The M224 60mm mortar is the smallest crew served indirect fire weapon in the US arsenal. US Army light Infantry companies have a two mortar section, while each Marine Rifle company has a three mortar section.
When I was stationed in Hawaii, my company’s mortar section was critically short of people once and I was tapped to assist them for a few days during a field exercise. It was awful. That tube and the baseplate (and the associated equipment) is heavy!
Note that there are actually two baseplates. The mortar can be fired in a hand held, trigger fired mode with a small baseplate, and no bipod. The gunner aims by, essentially, Kentucky windage. The 60mm can also be fired from a more conventional baseplate and bipod configuration, in association with elevation and azimuth calculated by a fire direction center.
While a platoon patrol may often carry one mortar with them (usually without the big baseplate and bipod) in a defense, or in a deliberate attack, the full mount would be used, and normally both (or all three) tubes would fire on the same target, to achieve concentration of effects.
Also, this was almost certainly filmed at Twenty-Nine Palms, up the road a bit from me. Though legend has it, twenty-nine is something of a gross exaggeration of the number of palms around…
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Study: Commissary price hikes to offset funding cuts could backfire – Stripes
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Raising prices at commissaries to compensate for a possible decrease in taxpayer funding could backfire, causing customers to shop elsewhere, according to a new RAND report.
via Study: Commissary price hikes to offset funding cuts could backfire – Stripes.
Seriously? It took a taxpayer funded RAND report to explain Econ 101 to DoD?
Hello! ALDI will be delighted to step in an encourage US service families in Europe stretch their food dollars.
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