Theodore's World

How dare they use my nephew as a pawn! Unbelievable! They're just mad because cap and trade and the government run healthcare isn't going as planned. Yesterday, we got an email that those who are in favor of those were having a rally at the park, so we should be there by 1 to counter protest. But no one showed up. It was a red herring. They've taken to lying about their protests to make us not in favor look stupid. They will stop at nothing to get their agenda through and then blame the previous President for all the extra deaths that happened because they were forced to cut military spending because we wouldn't allow cap and trade and government run healthcare to pass.

My eldest is in the Army Reserve in Syracuse, NY and I am sure this isn't going over very well at all. My daughter-in-law gets upset at such things. Very upset.
At least we are clear on how the cinc feels about the members of the Armed Forces. Whether you are active, reserve or retired, we are definitely considered second class citizens by the current administration. It is beginning to take on that feeling from the late sixties and early seventies. Which is something I remember all too well. Particularly when his enablers, such as Hastings, Holder and company are in on it.

I disagree to this point. UNLEASH THE DOGS and we wouldn't need kevlar and body armor and souped up vehicles! Think of WW II and our Devil Dogs at Iwo Jima and soldiers at Normandy... Get the USAF back into LETHAL AIR POWER and search and destroy. End of discussion!
(Money Mouse and Dinero Duck were great Wild Thing!)TGISunday!!

That was my point yesterday, return to the rules of engagement of the Tarawa. The Marines killed, blew up and burnt everything that moved. Also bring back the M67A2 flame tank, it worked great on Okinawa and in Vietnam, Hue in 68 saw a lot of use. It would be great for rooting these jihadist bastards out of caves or sealing them in. The battle for Tarawa lasted 72 hours.

Body Armor has its place, I guess. After the first week in Santo Damingo, we were sitting 12 on 12 off on the Radio and on one of the off times were told to unload a Jeep trailer full of Body Armor, that was going to be sent back to the ships. The first one I grabbed was covered in blood, I looked at it, held it up not a hole in it. As far as I could tell the damn thing was useless. Those steel pots couldn't stop bullets either. Whether a Kevlar Helmet can I am not sure . I guess the vest does a good job but there is no protection for the legs or throat and face.

In Vietnam the body Armor was heavy and hot. Most everyone wore the vest but the bad part was it was so humid they were worn OPEN and not closed up.Then there was that 'bathing suit' you were suppose to wear over the groin. Those were thrown out as soon as they were issued. How'd they expect anyone to move.

All the troops I see TODAY wear the stuff so it must be doing a good job. So why is obama refusing to pay for something that will save AMERICAN LIVES. Because he's pissed away so much money on his democrat pork package, that isn't working and he has run out of money, so the Military is taking the hit for it.

All this moron knows how to do is spend money on junk to ensure his own re election. He is a despicable POS.

Millions of dollars for ACORN. Millions of dollars for other radical anti-American groups. But cut back on defense funds. Not surprising from the anti-American obama.

I wonder if the MSM will be all over obama as they were all over Bush when the uparmoring of vehicles was not going fast enough.

Ah, deploying to hostile fire zones with crappy equipment, inadequate parts and supplies and too many places to cover during the Clinton era... I'd missed it all SO much. Thank you, all you clods who voted Democrat out there!

Minorities :
We need to show more sympathy for these people.

* They travel miles in the heat.
* They risk their lives crossing a border.
* They don't get paid enough wages.
* They do jobs that others won't do or are afraid to do.
* They live in crowded conditions among a people who speak a different language.
* They rarely see their families, and they face adversity all day ~ every day.

I'm not talking about illegal Mexicans
~ I'm talking about our Troops!
Doesn't it seem strange that the majority of Democrats and some RINO Republicans are willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegals, but don't support our troops, and are even threatening to defund them?

I experienced the cutbacks in '76-'77 under Gelded Ford and Jinmmy Cartuh, my 20 tank company had all 20 tanks removed from inventory and shipped to Israel, when asked about Armor to train in we were told to check out jeeps from the transportation motor pool, as a prior service volunteer I had a choice, I left the service. That same unit has pulled two tours in the sandbox as a leg unit.
My own experiences in the big shitty were no armor on any of the vehicles, we sometimes had other unit gun trucks and our organizational 'gun' jeeps, we modified our own, but very rare escorts, often runs were made without external security, we had one 5 ton tractor with a Ma Deuce on a ring mount running into Pleiku. Scared shitless is an understatement, when you are ordered into the DMZ without an escort at night armed with a POS M16 and 180 rounds of ball ammo.
Like my brothers in the Marine Corps, we had the very best money can buy, Lyndon and Robert Strange really had our best interests at heart, they spared nothing on us.
With the exception of replacement vehicles and 3 each 2-1/2 ton vehicles , all 63 of the 5 tons were 1955-1958 post Korean War vehicles, parts were hard to obtain(impossible).
Personal armor were the flak vests that flies avoided landing on and that steel pot, sandbags on the floor and under the seats, even the doors were sand filled, every truck had a white Star bullseye painted on the cab door, with that flak vest firmly puckered beneath you.
Mark has described it well.
We all were raw from the effects of dirt, sweat, chemical agents, dysentery and a plethora of skin diseases, our groins were raw, cracked and bleeding, stripped, the skin looked like the ass of an elephant, most of us wore no undergarments as a result not even a blouse.
Water was always rationed, ours came from the local streams, siphoned into emptied fuel tankers, chlorine bleach was poured in to kill the bugs, often it looked like pale coffee, all the rainbow agents were in that stream runoff. It had a piquant flavor of JP4, buffalo shit and urine. What's that stuff on the paddy dikes? Night soil I think it was called.
If you were lucky you bathed in a stream somewhere, if not you stank just like that poor bastard next to you, sick call didn't exist, laundry was some Vietnamese woman pounding your clothes on rocks at the village stream, gladly paid for out of pocket. We didn't have a medic, Dr. Sgt. Mother in supply had the Attabrine, Aspirin and that Orange MFR - Chloroquine, he also had the bone saw, scalpels, sutures and morphine in that tent, I carried two syrettes of morphine my entire tour in the battle dressing pouch along with two syrettes of Atropine Sulfate, you worked around the clock until you dropped and were evacuated mostly from exhaustion or malaria. We took casualties too, none fatal. F'king "A" Darth!!!
For God's sake you duplicitous Democrat and RINO rat bastards don't subject these kids to that kind of bullshit.

Lynn, oh wow thanks for sharing about that.
I agree Lynn, they will do whatever it takes.

Glenn Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET, thank you
for sharing about your oldest. Please
thank him for serving our country.
I agree the left tries hard to make
those that served feel forgotten.They
don't want to be reminded why they are
living in the land of the free.
But there are millions of us that
get right in their face and we remind
them every chance we get. I love doing
that and then watch them squirm and
say...oh well yes I am for our troops.
I smile and say nope your not, just keep
kidding yourself. But they are protecting
your butt along with mine, thank goodness
it is not up to me who they protect. You
might not like it.

Darth, I would love that so much. Stupid
hateful Obama won't let them unleash the
dogs, but oh I wish so much he would.

Mark, thank you so much for sharing about
all of that and your experiences with it.

Your right, this is all about trying
desperately to get more money for his
pork.

Tom, now that is an idea, he should take
the money from his horrible ACORN. I know
he won't but sheesh better that then our
troops. grrrrr

Anonymous, I agree, thanks to all the creeps
that voted for this enemy of our troops.

Mark, OH WOW that is soooo good, thank you
so much.

Jack, I am so sorry, this is horrible and
this always comes from the left and how
they treat our troops. Jack thank you so
much for sharing your experiences about
this.
I cannot get my head around the fact
that any American would not want the
best of all things for our troops. They
are fighting the enemy of all of us.

This more then anything else has always
been my number one passion, to make
sure our troops and Vets know with all
they are how much we know of their
scarifices and how much they mean to us.

I HATE the left and Obama leads the way
in how they are so horrible to our troops,
back then and now.