Posts Tagged ‘military’

You Want Join Army? You Pay Me, I Make Army For Yu

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A Chinese man was arrested for creating a fake U.S. Army unit and convincing immigrants that joining the squad was a path to citizenship, authorities said.

Yupeng Deng, 51, allegedly gave his recruits military uniforms, had them parade in a Los Angeles suburb and took them to the decommissioned USS Midway aircraft carrier, which is a museum in San Diego.

Deng charged more than 100 fellow Chinese nationals a fee of between $300 and $450 to join the fake Army unit, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office.

Okay, I spent a lot of years in the US Army and I look back on my experience in the Army mostly with a sense of fond nostalgia with a few instances displeasure, but there is no way in Hell I would have paid the Army to let me serve. I mean, if somebody came up to me and said that I would no longer be getting paid but instead would have to pay for the privilege of serving in the Army I would have told them to suck an egg (and by “egg” I mean “penis”). I mean, I understand that these Chinese guys that this other Chinese guy duped really wanted to become citizens, but PAY to serve in the Army? Really?You’ve gotta be friggin’ kidding me.

This is how that “recruiting” session would have gone with me:

Chinese guy: (in thickly accented English) You join Army. It good.

Me: Join the Army? Hell yeah, I would love that.

Chinese guy: Okay. You pay me now.

Me: You mean you pay me, right?

Chinese guy: No no no no. You pay me. Army is privilege.

Me: Wait, so you want me to sleep in housing deemed unfit for prison inmates, eat food that homeless people would refuse, get a haircut like a chemotherapy patient, and wear clothes that look like a monster from the movie “Tron” threw up, and you’re not only not going to pay me, but you want me to pay you?

Chinese guy: Yeah. It good. You pay.

Me: Suck it.

Chinese guy: Egg?

Me: Penis.

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And In Other Voting News…

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Yeah, I wonder who the target voter demographic is…

Over 35 counties in Illinois missed the deadline to mail military ballots to our soldiers defending America. But in Chicago, county election officials have taken special steps to ensure that no inmates at the Cook County Jail are unable to cast a ballot.

The Chicago Board of Elections hand delivers ballots to the jail. They don’t even wait for the inmates to apply – they bring the applications with the ballots! Over 2,600 inmates have cast ballots so far – strikingly similiar to the 2,600 soldiers who will likely not recieve a ballot for the Nov 2 election.

Disgraceful does not begin to describe the Illinois Election system.

I guess in Illinois you don’t get the freedom to vote if you’re out defending the rights of the incarcerated to vote. I think it would be pretty interesting to get a hold of the voter demographics in the prison system.

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Mr. President, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Friday, May 8th, 2009

One stroke of the pen can end this crap.

A new study, about to be published by a group of experts in military law, shows that President Obama does, in fact, have stroke-of-the-pen authority to suspend gay discharges. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” law requires the military to fire anyone found to be gay or lesbian. But there is nothing requiring the military to make such a finding. The president can simply order the military to stop investigating service members’ sexuality.

An executive order would not get rid of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, but would take the critical step of suspending its implementation, hence rendering it effectively dead. Once people see gays and lesbians serving openly, legally and without problems, it will be much easier to get rid of the law at a later time.

I spent a day with Dan Choi last month, and he is not someone we want to fire from the military. He loves the armed forces. He served bravely under tough combat conditions in Iraq. His Arabic is excellent, and he used his language skills to diffuse many tough situations and to save lives, both Iraqi and American. All of his unit mates know he is gay, and they have been very supportive of him. But he doesn’t want to live a lie.

I’m sure I’ll get some hate mail for this or even lose some readers… I don’t care. I’m standing with Uber-pig and Uncle Jimbo from Blackfive on this one… if they want to serve, let them serve. Bad behavior (like this) will be dealt with on a case by case via the UCMJ. But I doubt that will be commonplace. I once knew a guy who was an excellent linguist (and no, not all linguists are gay) but he was gay and when he came out of the closet he wanted to be honest so he told the command. He wanted to serve, he just didn’t want to be a liar. They railroaded him for two years, tried to make him out other gays, relegated him to driving a bus (a waste of his language skills), and then when he was two months out from an honorable discharge they tried to screw him over by giving him a gay-out discharge which would have stripped him of his benefits… after serving his four years the best he could. He wisely hired a lawyer who promised a PR nightmare and years of court battles for the Command and the army so they gave up. He was a lucky one.

This BS needs to stop. All it takes is stroke of the pen. Obama’s got that pen. Make it stop.

H/T to Blackfive and Hot Air

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All Victims Are Equal, Some Are More Equal Than Others

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Apparently if you get beat up, brutalized, or killed just because of who you are, you deserve special treatment… unless you’re in the military.

Victimization… according to Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz it only applies to the color of your skin, your religion, or your sexual preference.

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Reason number 3,098,809,487 to hate the media

Sunday, November 18th, 2007


A few days ago the fear mongers at the ASSociated Press decided that since things were going real well in Iraq, they needed a new angle on the war. Therefore, so-called “reporter” Lolita C. Baldur wrote a hysterical piece claiming that Army desertion rates are up 80 percent since 2003.

Couple of problems with this, however…

One is that the author of this piece (of CIR) is using the terms “AWOL” and “desertion” interchangeably, which is sure to skew the numbers.

According to this AP story, 9 in every 1,000 soldiers “went AWOL” in fiscal ending September 30, 2007. In the year ended September 30, 2006, nearly 7 per 1,000 were AWOL. The article uses the terms AWOL and desertion interchangeably even though they are not the same. A deserter is a member of the armed forces who remains absent from his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away permanently or goes away from his unit with the intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service. e.g. during times of war. Article 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

But it’s worse than that.

According to author Rod Powers, who spent 23 years in the Air Force, the years 2000, 2001, and 2002 (8.16, 9.5, 9.26) show higher rates of desertion than we have had during this horrible, unwinnable Iraq quagmire.


Powers states that in the fiscal year the Iraq war began (the invasion was March 2003) the desertion rate was 7.6 per 1,000, the same as 2006, a terrible year for the U.S. in Iraq. The AP article seems to be confused as to fiscal years. According to Powers, the desertion rate was quite low, 4.91, for fiscal year 2004 (from October 1, 2003 through September 30, 2004), not fiscal 2003 as stated in the AP article.

A rate of less that 5 per 1,000 eight months after the start of the Iraq War? This is a rate that was much lower than the rate prior to the begininng of the Iraq War.

It’s pathetic that the mainstream media, when lacking bad news to report, has to resort to fabrications and twisting of the truth. It’s nothing new for the mainstream media, but it never ceases to piss me off.

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It’s Tuesday… You Know The Drill

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Every Tuesday morning, titillation, scantily clad women, every Tuesday morning, titillation. I don’t know why I have to keep telling you guys.

Totally PG this time. Maybe even G. H/T to AR15.com

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To Show That I Am A Kind And Just Blog God…

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Cute militray chikas.

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American Military, just not that good…

Friday, July 6th, 2007

“When the decision was made to liberate Iraq, I was going on what my advisers were telling me and what everyone has said for nearly a century—that the U.S. military is the best in the world,” Bush said. “But if that were the case, and we did have the most powerful army, navy, marines, and air force on the globe, we would be winning, right?”

Relax people, it’s the Onion.

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Get deployed… get screwed

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

First we get called to serve our country. We drop our civilian jobs, our education, our lives, our friends and our families – all because we took an oath to protect and defend freedom, this nation, its Constitution and its people. We dodge IEDs and bullets. We bleed. We lose limbs. We die.

When we come back we have to pick up our lives, and sometimes we have to do it without our children, because there are ex spouses out there and there are abhorrent judges out there, who ignore every principle of decency, humanity and plain old right and wrong, and literally steal our children from us. We’re protected from losing our homes, our cars and our jobs, but somehow that protection doesn’t extend to our families.

Let me tell you something. I’d rather start from scratch, lose my house, my car and every stitch of clothing I own. I’d rather not have a big screen TV or a shitload of DVDs. I would give everything up for my kids. I’m sure every last one of those service members would too. And yet, they’re getting screwed by the system for living up to their obligation and serving their nation.

What kind of justice is that?

Her only misstep, it seems, was answering the call to serve her country.

Crouch and an unknown number of others among the 140,000-plus single parents in uniform fight a war on two fronts: For the nation they are sworn to defend, and for the children they are losing because of that duty.

A federal law called the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is meant to protect them by staying civil court actions and administrative proceedings during military activation. They can’t be evicted. Creditors can’t seize their property. Civilian health benefits, if suspended during deployment, must be reinstated.

And yet service members’ children can be — and are being — taken from them after they are deployed.

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We’re Sorry Mr. Ataturk, But You’ve Got Cancer

Sunday, April 29th, 2007


And that cancer is called Islamic Fundamentalism… and it’s spreading. It’s trying to roll back the calendars in Turkey to pre-Ataturk conditions where women were forced to wear hajibs and were denied suffrage. It’s trying to establish state supported madrasas in Turkey. It’s trying to whittle away support for the West and establish Sharia law in a country that has been enjoying progress and progressive thought for 87 years. And worst of all it is supported by pro-Islamist Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

But 700,000 Turks took to the streets on Sunday to let the government know (for the second time in a week) that they were not going to tolerate a Theocracy in Turkey. The military also sent a strong message that they were gravely concerned about the secular government in Turkey falling under undue influence from radical Islamic circles.

Expect disputes and general ugliness to come from all of this.

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Wiccan symbol OK for soldiers’ graves

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007


As a Pagan, I highly approve of this decision. There are a lot of us serving in the military, and we deserve to have our symbol on our headstones just like anyone else.

The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on government-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday.

A settlement between the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Wiccans adds the five-pointed star to the list of “emblems of belief” allowed on VA grave markers.

Eleven families nationwide are waiting for grave markers with the pentacle, said Selena Fox, a Wiccan high priestess with Circle Sanctuary in Barneveld, Wisconsin, a plaintiff in the lawsuit.

The settlement calls for the pentacle, whose five points represent earth, air, fire, water and spirit, to be placed on grave markers within 14 days for those who have pending requests with the VA.

I remember getting into a debate with some narrow-minded creep about this. He claimed he would be offended if the Pentagram was placed on a headstone next to his loved one’s grave, because it, according to him, is the symbol of Satan. Good lord! Wiccans don’t believe in Satan. We fight, bleed and die for this nation and the freedoms it represents. We love this nation. We sacrifice for it. These Soldiers deserve to have their faith represented on their final resting place as a sign of respect for the ultimate sacrifice.

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