Apocalypse Update.

I don’t know, call me old fashioned, but I do think there are some details about your personal life that you would be wise not to share with strangers.

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World War Update.

Yeah those Navy jet jocks are a pretty cocky lot, eh?

Graphic: Navy admits to being involved in obscene skydrawings spotted in Okanogan Co.

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OKANOGAN COUNTY, Wash. – Officials with the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island said one of their aircraft was involved in the obscene skywritings spotted in Okanogan County.

Photos sent to KREM 2 by multiple sources show skydrawings of what some people are saying is male genitalia. Some sources have even tweeted pictures of what they saw.

A mother who lives in Okanogan who took pictures of the drawings reached out to KREM 2 to complain about the images, saying she was upset she might have to explain to her young children what the drawings were.

In a statement to KREM 2 News navy officials said, "The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holding the crew accountable."

KREM 2 spoke to the Federal Aviation Administration to get some information about who may have made the drawings. FAA officials said unless the act poses a safety risk, there is nothing they can do about it.

World War Update.

So The Army has changed its mind about recruiting the mentally ill? Sounds like someone at Human Resources Command was blessed by the 'good idea fairy’. Said fairy often inspires solutions that cause more problems than they solve. Even Maverick John McCain could see this would be a counterproductive solution to the Army’s projected recruiting short-fall. There is just no real solution to the U.S. Army’s perennial recruiting difficulties. The fact is that the kind of people the Army wants for recruits generally don’t want to join the Army and many of the people who do want to join the Army, the Army doesn’t want. That is unlikely to change baring any drastic changes to American society.

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World War Update.

“Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Isrаel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.”

-Judges 7:1-3 (NIV)

“The courage of the soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession, and he only wants an opportunity to execute what he is convinced he has been perfectly taught. A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to slaughter.”

– Flavius Vegetius Renatus, “De Re Militari” (On the Military), 378 A.D.

This is an interesting revelation. Being the jingoistic myrmidon that I am, people expect me to support a military draft. I do not. I believe it would be sheer folly to institute a draft in today’s society. As the cases of Bowe Bergdahl and 'Chelsea’ Manning demonstrate, the Army can barely handle the people that volunteered for service. How would it be able to handle thousands of recruits who absolutely did not want to be in the Army? As you may or may not have noticed in your personal life young people feel pretty free to talk back and make demands of their elders and superiors these days. Plus the ability of military leaders to punish and/or reward is a mere shadow of what it was during World War II. Such authority was greatly centralized and pushed farther up the chain of command in the post-war years.

During WWII a company commander (a captain) had the authority to confine someone to the guardhouse for five days just on his say so, or bust any enlisted personnel in his unit, including his first sergeant, down to buck private. That kind of power is largely invested only in flag officers (generals and admirals) today. So as emasculated and enervated as our military is now, the services would find it impossible to manage all the non-compliant special snow flakes they would get in any modern day draft. And of course any effort to impose necessary discipline would be subverted and undermined at every turn by the Left. My fellow old timers who support a return to the draft, must not remember just how unpopular it was prior to its termination in 1973. How much willful sabotage there was by disgruntled draftees back then. The combat record of all-volunteer units generally shows greater willingness to close with and destroy the enemy than conscript formations. Then we must take into consideration the fact that our country’s political leadership has demonstrated a conspicuous lack of a will to win any conflict. Under those circumstances then, a draft would just be disaster.

After 9-11 people expressed their surprise to me that there was no draft. I would ask them why would we need one? To beat the terrorists we wouldn’t need an 11 million man army like we had at the height of the Second World war, we could defeat the Islamist terrorists with the all-volunteer forces we had at our disposal on September 10th. What we needed was the political will to go after the terrorists where they lived and do what was necessary to destroy them and their will to fight. And there’s the rub.

On the other hand a great many Leftists I have spoken with over the years whole-heartedly support compulsory community service for young people, even though they are steadfastly opposed to any military draft. They do not see any contradiction in that position. Therefore for a military draft to work in 21st Century America, even under the circumstances of a dire national emergency, it would have to be the idea of Progressive Left / the Democrat Party. Then the Democrats would, without compunction, impose any and all laws and regulations they felt necessary to ensure general compliance with the draft. At the same time the Left’s willing accomplices in the news and entertainment media would ennoble and glamorize the call to military duty, as well as denounce and demonize all draft dodgers.

49% Favor Mandatory Military Service For US Youth

World War Update.

Is Europe finally going to take responsibility for it’s own defense? And to think that all it took was for God-Emperor Trump to call out the shirkers and dead beats in NATO.

EU Creates New Defense Pact To Reduce Dependence On US

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Authored by Andrei Akulov via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

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…Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go…I owe my soul to Mastercard, Visa, Discovery, American Express….

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