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Your assignment for the day- Insty’s thoughts on an American coup.

It’s 26 pages long, but if you just skim the footnotes, it’s a quick read.

 

My editorial guidance for the co-authors here has always been the same- 1. No nudity; 2. Do not advocate for the armed overthrow of the US government.

Those rules apply to you to, gentle reader. But having said that, I would like to hear your thoughts on the possibility, and ways and means. And if not a coup by the military, is there another segment of the government that might be capable of such a thing?

How to catch a young man’s eye.

Ash Carter Unilaterally orders DoD to allow Transgender Troops

Via Military Times:

Any day now the Pentagon is expected to unveil new rules for transgender troops, ending the longstanding policy that deems them medically unfit for military service.

Many service members and advocates are eager to see the new policy's details and how the Defense Department plans to tackle an array of potentially thorny issues as it's rolled out across the force. Here are five key items to watch for:

Not mentioned- how any of this will in any way increase readiness or improve unit cohesion or performance.

The Ash Carter era of Defense has been one of profound social engineering with little thought to the actual impact on the capabilities of the armed services. Instead, it has mostly consisted of the worst sorts of virtue signaling to fringe constituencies of the Democratic party for political purposes.

Seriously, the DoD is spending scads of money to erase “man” from various job titles in the Navy and Marine Corps.

We’re eventually going to get into a fight with a near peer power, and get our asses kicked because we’re worried about diversity and inclusion, and they’re worried about how to kill us.

Of course Marines should be in uniform and armed.

Via the Marine Corps Times:

Spain-based Marines trying to respond to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, were delayed for three hours as U.S. government officials debated whether they should wear their uniforms and carry weapons, according to Tuesday's report from the House Benghazi Committee.

The platoon commander of a fleet anti-terrorism security team, which can be dispatched to embassies and consulates in times of crises, told the committee that his Marines changed into and out of their uniforms four times on the plane before taking off for Libya, the report states.

Here’s kind of a radical thought- Marines are lawful combatants of a uniformed service, and that there was a question at all whether they should be dispatched in uniform, and armed with their weapons is an indictment of the State Department’s fundamental inability to grasp reality.

By the way, Patrick Kennedy is one of those names that keeps cropping up in disasters.

Could the FAST team have reached Benghazi in time to influence the outcome of events there?  I don’t know. But how on earth was there any question about how they should be dressed and armed. They’re Marines, not Rent-A-Cops.

World of Warships- St. Louis Slugfest

My Old Division. Just sayin’

World of Warships- New Mexico Ranked Battle

Don’t try this at home, kids.

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Conversion Training

Back when the services had a sense of humor.

The Standing Army That Our Founding Fathers Warned Against

“Regulatory enforcement within administrative agencies now carries the might of military-style equipment and weapons,” Open the Books said. “For example, the Food and Drug Administration includes 183 armed ‘special agents,’ a 50 percent increase over the ten years from 1998-2008. At Health and Human Services (HHS), ‘Special Office of Inspector General Agents’ are now trained with sophisticated weaponry by the same contractors who train our military special forces troops.”

Open the Books found there are now over 200,000 non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, surpassing the 182,100 personnel who are actively serving in the U.S. Marines Corps.

(URR here.) From Free Beacon.  Next time some bleeding heart gun-grabber tells you how much he or she (he/she?) hates guns, remind them that they actually LOVE guns.  This Administration, and a Hillary Administration, would further weaponize government in both a legal and literal sense against its political opponents and the American People in general.   Is it any surprise that both Obama and Hillary wish desperately to remove the People's last redress against tyranny of government?

 

H/T  FranD