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Originally posted by PeteF:
Anyone else have a problem with announcing the location and date of Secwar and 800 flag officers to the public? OPSEC amyone?

We do this all the time. G8 and various summits, UN summits, etc. and we do it on purpose. One would be amazed at the amount of foreign nationals that are bagged quietly on the skits of these by bearded men in tech vans whose job is counter intelligence.

Not to mention, MCB Quantico is hardened and secure. And I guarantee that security was provided by CAG, Devgru, SAD, etc etc. and FBI HRT is down the road.

We do this all the time and it’s a non issue.

And The View is worried that Hegseth is fat-shaming the military.

FoxNews link

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"Why is he obsessed with fat?" co-host Joy Behar asked as co-host Sunny Hostin added, "And fitness.”

Um… because fitness is a critical component to survival, you nitwits? Geeze.

A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

You apparently watched a different video than I.

There's a long thread on X by Cynical Publius, a retired army colonel, responding to a ridiculous post by the appallingly obnoxious Bill Kristol. Comments are mostly by military veterans, and are overwhelmingly in favor of Hegseth's speech.

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by PeteF:
Anyone else have a problem with announcing the location and date of Secwar and 800 flag officers to the public? OPSEC amyone?

We do this all the time. G8 and various summits, UN summits, etc. and we do it on purpose. One would be amazed at the amount of foreign nationals that are bagged quietly on the skits of these by bearded men in tech vans whose job is counter intelligence.

Not to mention, MCB Quantico is hardened and secure. And I guarantee that security was provided by CAG, Devgru, SAD, etc etc. and FBI HRT is down the road.

We do this all the time and it’s a non issue.

We have all of our military command personnel in one known and advertised location? Can you name once when this has occurred previously? There is a big difference between a small group with a few hundred security and LEOs at their disposal. and 800 flag officers each coming in to a know location at a known time. Its not like the people that would go after them would use car bombs or anything like that.

No, there isn’t a difference. Securing and locking down battle space is no different based on event size. The principles remain the same.

You also notice that despite your hand wringing this came and went without issue? Almost as if the men and women tasked with their security were professionals?

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

You apparently watched a different video than I.

Oh, and that “schoolboy” did serve, too, in case someone needs to be reminded.

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

Please elaborate on what you found disagreeable and beneath you?

This meme type is never going to get old!

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

Just put the fries in the bag dude. Seriously, your situational awareness is -1000.

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

Please explain. Or are you just just trying to pick a fucking fight.

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

I don't know what your definition of "non-entity" is. Hell, it looks like it's way different than mine and a lot of others. But I wouldn't put Pete Hegseth in the "non-entity" or even close to the "moron" category.
Last time I looked, every Company, Battalion, Regimental, Division Headquarters has a few pictures on the wall. At least in the Marine Corps, and the few Naval Installations I've been to have them. I'm pretty sure the Army school I attended had them as well.
Alllll the way to the right, in that line of photos is this guy, he's commonly referred to as "The President", in those picture, it's probably "Commander-in-Chief", His name is Donald J. Trump.
Just to the left of his picture is the "Secretary of Defense", I hear there's some talk about naming that position "Secretary of War", but that decision is way the hell above my paygrade. If you look that guy's name is Pete Hegseth. I wouldn't classify that as a "non-entity".
I kind of doubt that the President of the United States is going to put a "moron", as you called him, in that position.
Then again, I've been wrong about some shit before.

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There won't be any doubt in what the mission is now. It will make clearing house much easier.

Wave goodbye to BhoosanO’s giant magical social experiment!
Replacing real honest to God warfighters with DEI (Didn’t Earn It) losers because they were female or non-white or both.
May the Krimson Kenyan fuck off now and forever more!

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

And who are you in comparison?

SecWar Hegseth has laid his hand face up for all to see.

What have you got?

The spirit of the Bayonet!!!

I just watched and listened to the Sec of War Pete Hegseth's speach to the Generals and Admirals of our armed forces about getting back to basics to the art of command, training and war. I came into the military at close to the end of the Vietnam war and learned quite promptly that we were in the business of killing, destroying people and other things to stop bad govts from doing bad things us, to it's people and the world. The U.S. military is not a place for social experimentation of a woke nature/DEI etc.... The military is for national protection against evil world entities bent on destroying our way of life. This brings me to what I was taught about the spirit of the bayonet and here is a little lesson from that::

Vv“The Spirit of the Bayonet”
Volume 8 | Spring 2018

by Bruce Richardson

I was 17 years old in the military and was asked
“What is the spirit of the bayonet?”
The correct answer was, “To kill, Sergeant.”
I had never knowingly hurt much less killed
Anyone in those 17 years.
The training was an intricate dance of death.
One soldier would come at the other
And the defender would execute the
“Vertical buttstroke series,”
A simple three step process:
One, block or parry the aggressors charge,
Two, quickly bring up the butt of your rifle
To smash him in the face, and
Three, bring down the bayonet into his chest.
“Pay attention, Gentlemen, this could save your life!
Or your buddy’s life…”
We practiced with pugil sticks
Each was about four feet long with big pads on each end.
The end of the training was a series of eliminations
One on one until one was “killed.”
Finally, only two guys were left in the pit.
One was a baseball player, an excellent athlete.
The other was smaller but already had some military training.
I thought the better athlete would win fairly easily.
I was wrong.
The smaller guy fought a defensive fight
Which frustrated the jock.
The little guy found an opening and got in a good lick.
This really pissed off the ball player,
He took his stick like a baseball bat and swung for the fences
But he missed.
The military man executed a perfect vertical buttstroke series
Put him on his back and “killed” him.
“Pay attention, Gentlemen, this could save your life.”
Watching and doing like a skilled professional soldier helped
Us become trained professional soldiers.
They taught us to kill,
The spirit of the bayonet.
But what if the sergeant was wrong?
What if the spirit of the bayonet is to protect and defend?
The country? The Constitution? My life or my buddy’s life?
What or who are we fighting for?
The first crack/thump of the first round fired at me
Told me the answer
We all must learn.

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

You apparently watched a different video than I.

Oh, and that “schoolboy” did serve, too, in case someone needs to be reminded.

The more I think about the “thousands of years” comment, the more I’m reminded of the couple hundred retired generals that wrote a letter against the President. The same ones that remained silent of the death of 13 marines and the fall of Afghanistan. The same ones that remained silent when Lloyd Austin disappeared for months. The same ones that remained silent as the military went woke and were even complicit in our military getting into this shape. The same ones that cheered Mark Milley. The same ones that forced out men and women because they refused to get a shot.

Sounds to me like their thousands of years doesn’t equal competency. They were trained by the complainers.

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Originally posted by cyberiad:
A schoolboy giving a stupid lecture to officers with collectively thousands of more years experience than he has. What a moron. This guy is a total non-entity.

What planet are you from? Good god dude. That was exactly what needs to be said and done.

Well guys, shut it down, it sounds like our formerly enlisted Secretary of War never made it to past Major!

nikki is a Rolling Stones reporter propogandist.

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