THEM: Pete Hegseth isn't qualified to run the Pentagon.
THE PENTAGON: We just learned that there are not 900 U.S. troops in Syria–there's actually 2,000.pic.twitter.com/tZ57O4At7Q
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) December 20, 2024
Feminist Trudeau And His New Military
Our little girly boy solves the world’s problems with gender advisors. The Russkies will be shaking in their boots.
The Best We Can Do Is Tampons
National Post- Canadian special forces spy plane unit sees staff exodus
A lack of leadership and training opportunities sparked an exodus of most of the specialists needed to operate a new fleet of military surveillance aircraft, an internal Canadian Forces investigation found.
At Least The Men All Have Access To Tampons
This is one of the times I wish I could show you everything that’s behind the paywall.
Blacklock’s- Arctic Defence Small & Weak
Auditors counted 308 regular forces and 2,021 reservists in the region. A Joint Task Force North is staffed at 67 percent, “13 percent below the Canadian Armed Forces average,” said Operations.
Most Arctic airfields are incapable of handling large transport planes used by the Royal Canadian Air Force, said the report.
Cannon Fodder
While Battling Space Aliens And Capturing Godzilla
Read it and weep: Canada’s top sailor says he’s sure we could stop Russia or China from trespassing in Arctic
I, Napoleon
Find zerself a new army, Rainbow Emperor.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
“It didn’t used to be.”
Mark Steyn; The Best Blood, the Worst Wars
Imagine The Design Proposals
The Canadian government is building a "2SLGBTQI" National War Monument.
This is real.pic.twitter.com/3vRWL2CGG2
— Harrison Faulkner (@Harry__Faulkner) November 8, 2024
Lest We Forget
Bill Kaufmann, for the Calgary Herald;
It’s a generation of ex-warriors now in or approaching their 100th year and whose ranks have thinned to a very few. In one of the last opportunities to share their stories, two Alberta veterans, one who served as an infantryman, the other as a sailor, recall their sense of loss and the horrors of war.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
US Navy Oiler Runs Aground, Forcing Carrier Strike Group to Scramble for Fuel;
gCaptain has received multiple reports that the US Navy oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground yesterday and partially flooded off the coast of Oman, leaving the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group without its primary fuel source.
First reported on the gCaptain forum and by maritime historian Sal Mercogliano, a leaked video and photos show damage to the ship’s rudder post and water flooding into a mechanical space. US Navy vessels don’t typically transmit AIS signals, so we don’t know the exact location of the ship but a Navy source confirms she is anchored near Oman awaiting a full damage assessment.
Fortunately, no injuries or environmental damage have been reported for the ship. This is significant because the 33-year-old vessel is one of the single-hull versions of the Kaiser-class oilers.
BTW, John Konrad is a good X follow on all matters shipping.
Take That Putin
National Post- First submarine in new Canadian fleet won’t be operational until 2037, navy confirms
Even though Blair stated that information is now being gathered the project will take 13 years to actually deliver an operational submarine. Canada doesn’t expect to have initial operating capability for the first sub until 2037, according to the briefings. The Royal Canadian Navy does not have an idea at this time when the entire fleet will be available.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown — at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force — issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.” Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program.
The documents reflect the Biden-Harris Pentagon’s intense focus on implementing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the armed forces, even as the military continues to combat dwindling morale among its rank-and-file, recruiting and retention shortfalls and low pay.
Canadian Wonder Weapons
Wonder if they work?
Ottawa Citizen- What can Ukraine possibly do with 80-year-old Canadian pistols?
As Long As It Takes
CBC- Canada’s plan to donate refurbished armour to Ukraine is still spinning its wheels
A plan to rebuild and modernize two dozen decommissioned Canadian light armoured vehicles for donation to Ukraine is stuck in bureaucratic limbo more than nine months after the defence department handed the vehicles over to an Ontario company that specializes in restoration, CBC News has learned.
Fulfilling Our NATO Commitment
Sun- DND paid $32K for ‘intersectional feminist’ report on space exploration
The report, entitled Hidden Harms: Human (In)security in Outer Space, was produced by Project Ploughshares — a Canadian “peace research institute” associated with the Canadian Council of Churches.
The Libranos: The Party Of Comfy Contracts
With 68K active duty regulars that’s $570 a bag.
Despite the defence department spending more than $34.8 million on new sleeping bags, the Canadian Army asked late last year that hundreds of soldiers headed to a joint northern exercise in Alaska with the Americans be issued with old, 1960s-vintage bedrolls.
Troops who had used the recently issued General Purpose Sleeping Bag System (GPSBS) late last fall in a preparatory exercise found “several critical issues,” according to an internal briefing note obtained by CBC News.
More than 350 soldiers belonging to the 3rd battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) deployed to Ram Falls Provincial Park, west of Red Deer, Alta., in late November last year, where they spent several days training for northern operations.
Temperatures during the deployment ranged from – 5C during the day to – 20C at night.
Logistik Unicorp of Quebec got the contract.
Let’s Decolonize The Navy
National Security Journal- DEI Is Sinking the U.S. Navy
After persistent recruiting challenges since 2020, the Coast Guard—which is facing a 10% shortage in crews—last year took the remarkable step of sidelining 10 cutters and shuttering 29 boat stations. The Navy, meanwhile, missed its recruiting goals last year by 7,000 and has shrunk by 21,000 sailors since 2021. Then there’s the Army, which reduced its goals rather than acknowledge even larger recruitment gaps.
Take That Putin!
Spiked- Does the US need to ‘queer’ its nuclear arsenal?
According to Nair and her co-author, ‘diversity and inclusion’ are ‘especially important’ for nuclear policy. Apparently, ‘discrimination against queer people’ can ‘undermine nuclear security’ and increase the risk of nuclear war. They also lambast the nuclear-security community for being largely ‘cis-heteronormative’ – for those not up on the queer vocabulary, that means filled with straight men who identify with their birth sex.