Carlson Speaks post-Fox
The Saga of Seal Team 7 Alpha Platoon
I was asked to comment on the 2019 problems that SEAL Team 7 Alpha platoon had in Iraq. Here is an article that is referenced for your review. I left the community long before there was a SEAL Team 7. The operators at Team 7 were in diapers when I was last engaged. Given that, I’ll share what I know, separate and apart from Chief Eddie Gallagher and his story.
The referenced platoon opened a bar in Iraq and invited others over to party. It was reputed to be a good party bar and there were reports officers (CMOs) from the CIA (females) and others including nurses who joined in the debauch. By so doing, the Team 7 guys violated (flaunted) standing orders and told senior officers to “fuck off and die” when counseled to tone it down. They were sent home for violating OPSEC, there was the inevitable investigation. The newspapers grabbed it and it was then litigated in public.
Bullet Points:
** How lost do you have to be to blame white people from the 1800s for your lack of drive and determination toward success today? Reparations are a joke and a diversion from people’s sense of entitlement and laziness.
** From The Bee: ST. LOUIS, MO — Beer scientists at Budweiser headquarters are reportedly hard at work researching how many cans of Bud Light it would take for Dylan Mulvaney to pass as a woman.
According to sources, Mulvaney, who recently became a spokesman for the alcoholic beverage, was personally recruited by CEO Phillip Bud while he was inebriated — now human resources need to know how this could have happened.
At publishing time, scientists had determined it takes the equivalent of 37 Bud Lights to make Dylan Mulvaney passable as a woman, or just 3 Ballast Point Sculpins.
** The Norwegian Crusade was wild – not mild. In 1107 King of Norway Sigurd I sailed with 60 ships to Jerusalem. He became the first European king to visit the Holy Land. The journey lasted for four years and they raided along the way, plundered treasure, and went home with a splinter from the True Cross.
** A YouTube rant – denial will make you a victim.
** When Pedo Joe Biden says “no joke” or “true story”, that is a clear indication that he is lying.
** Naval Evolution – “Helicopter destroyer” JS Kaga with her new bow.
Identify the Aircraft
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a faked photo…but a real design.
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Identify the Tanks
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2
It’s a camouflaged AFV so it’s a difficult ID – but it’s in Ukraine 2023, if that helps.
From the Days of Fighting Sail
Founder or Flounder
The word founder is derived from the vulgar Latin fundus (bottom). A ship is said to founder when she takes on enough water to flood her hull and she sinks. To founder on land, or even in a figurative sense, is to fail completely.
But the word is frequently used interchangeably and incorrectly with the word flounder, which derives from a Dutch word meaning to struggle clumsily.
So be careful when you read old texts because you may find flounder instead of founder as in this case:
When the Titanic struck the ice and floundered and sank, the band played “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” —Bulletin of the National Federation of Remedial Loan Associations, 1918
Doesn’t sound particularly appropriate now. But sometimes founder just doesn’t fit because a ship can flounder like here:
The storm had broken, and the fragmentary clouds were flying like lightning over the sky, while the sea, as far as the eye could reach, was one vast expanse of heaving, tumbling mountains—their basis a bright pea-green, and their ridges white as snow. Over and around these our good ship floundered like a mere toy.—Naval Journal, 1848
Now you have to remember that these words were written a long time ago and people have not yet thought about whether they are using these two words incorrectly. So a ship can indeed falter, but this could be one of those cases where you would do well to just find another word. And you have to look at the context in which this was used and you will find out whether the good one is just floundering or really founder.
Aircraft
1- Ushakov LPL Flying Submarine
2- Northrup XP-79
Armor
1- T-34/85
2- M2 Bradley, not sure if its a A2
The AI must be sleeping.
Concur.
I didn’t know the name of the flying sub, just that it was a Russian flying sub fantasy.
-Kle.
The AI may be regenerating in his chamber.
Yes, and by way of additional commentary, the XP-79 was called “the flying chainsaw”.
Armor – #1 was. a Vietnamese T-34, knocked out by the Chinese when they invaded Vietnam.
Ramming speed.
Row harder, rel!
It is an M-2A2, you can tell by the line on the flank showing it has spaces for ERA blocks. Brings back memories of a war we never fought.
Yes, M-2A2
“The Norwegian Crusade was wild – not mild.”
Yeah, but they left Denmark alone because both despised the Swedes…according to MrsPaulM.
Pedo Joe lying- Add to the list when he says “Watch me”. (only a nudge or putz would say something so pedantic). But…is he really lying if directly reading from his cue cards? Yesterday’s The so-called “presser” – wearing the ‘aren’t I cool’ aviators (no) to cover his soulless eyes – says, “I’m supposed to call on ‘so and so’ next”. The ‘called on’ reporter-ette – sounding all “tough reporter” – asks him a question — the exact one he has on the (now shown) cue card Addled Joey proceeds to:
a) directly read the “answer” from the card, and,
b) never actually answered the question
Yet no one there notices and calls him out? Cowards.
Any male competing in female sports should be taken behind the woodshed and straightened out…respectfully…well…at first anyway…as it may take some time effecting an attitude change to “help” these cheats ‘straighten’ up. Righteous floggings work.
TC- Post-firing said “he had dinner with his wife for the first time in 7 years”. Retirement suits, especially when [supposedly] Fox will be paying out his contract. His vid short was spot on, as we have come to expect from him. Clearly he takes this episode in stride. Best way. Move on, then – if you care to – come back around from the flank, letting your enemy destroy themselves.
That woman’s sport mime? Looks a lot like how our world is these days…. sad but true.
Kaga. Just ’cause a countries’ laws prohibit carriers doesn’t mean there isn’t a workaround. Call it a destroyer and its all good. Maybe the increased size of the flight deck is to support F35 operations? Sure looks like she sits significantly lower in the water but that might just be the fuel/water she was carrying at the time of the photos.
Yes, she will carry F-35s now
The Japanese have been working on ‘work-arounds’ in order to prepare for the coming war with the ChiComs. And with Russia. Japan still wants all it’s islands back.
And the Kaga? She’s a sweet looking helicopter-destroyer, wink wink, nudge nudge…
I do believe they are re-designating them, as something…
Also, we call some of our CVs LHAs, even though they are bigger than Charles De Gaulle, so we can’t really throw stones.
-Kle.
And those LHAs have also been modified to support F-35s.
I don’t doubt that the Japanese have an extremely secret plan and ready-to-go plans for nuclear weapons, should they become a necessity. My only question is whether it would take months or only weeks to have the first one ready.
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Horses can founder, a sad occasion. I suppose they could flounder around in the mud if required.
There are other nautical terms that apply to horses and their tackle, or visa-versa.
I read somewhere that when the US Army sent out the request for a new pistol that resulted in the 1911 . One of the requirements was that the pistol would “founder a horse”
Horse cavalry was still a thing in those days, so that was a consideration.
One of the requirements for the .30-06 cartridge was the ability to kill a horse at 1,000 yards. And one of the requirements of the Springfield M1903 rechambered to the .30-06 was the ability to support the killing of said horses with said cartridge.
I didn’t know of the Viking Crusade! Thanks for that.
You can imagine those boys…
They did muchetter than King Richard’s Crusade. And they didn’t bankrupt the kingdom doing it.