Thursday, May 5, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
THE JOKES HAVE STARTED
A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR AND ORDERS A BIN LADEN . . .
Bartender asks, "what’s a Bin Laden?"
Man says, "2 shots with a splash of water."
- from Theo's worthy site Last of the Few
Q: How come they used Seal Team Six instead of Delta to conduct the OBL raid into Pakistan?
A: Simple. They wanted to make sure he wasn't captured alive.
(Credit for that one goes to Team STORMBRINGER charter member VA Shepherd)
Rumor is Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, and Bill Daley were the driving forces for the raid; Obama was against. Reports are that Obama "had to sleep on it" before making the call. Sleep on what???
The leak of above less than 72 hours after the raid was executed points to a high level of frustration within the Obama Administration and the National Intelligence community. Was Obama's hand in fact forced?
Obama is getting kudos for ordering a raid vs. a bombing that would have obliterated everything. The intel haul was the real coup; did this even occur to the community-organizer-in-chief beforehand???
Announcement of the raid was made in the middle of Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" show . . . a mere coincidence I'm sure . . . no way Obama would use this for political gain! The best thing a Tea Party Merry Prankster team could pull off right now would be to unveil a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner at Obama's (already scheduled) Ground Zero appearance . . .
. . . not that there's anything wrong with that . . .
The following observations from SKULLHEAD - ex-Delta operator and Knight Chevalier of Team STORMBRINGER Sanctum Sanctorium:
This was a great op for the group (JSOC) and looks like it went of with out a hitch. Yes Seal Team 6 got the poster picture for it, however I do know that the ODD ( Operational Detachment - D a.k.a. Delta Force ) was present and most likely it split the count, enough to put the group on solid ground and timing.
I told you he was in Pakistan and living high on the hog. We also knew they were helping him; that is how they are and will always be. We should have severed ties and destroyed their nuke program a long time ago. I also believe the op was already moving and the President was told to sit and wait because it was going to happen whether he liked or not; that big a HVT (High Value Target) was not getting away.
A classic tactic for tracking an urban target: put them on the run and wait for them to hole up, let them get confortable and study their habits, then you get to remove them from the earth at a time & place of your choosing. Same thing happened to Pablo (Escobar); smells of ODD all over this - we know the true story will come out when the current regime is no longer going to be embarrassed, plus we don't exist therefore we were not there just Seal Team 6 and the CIA.
Funny how things have to be laid out for people in the news and we all know they are full of sh*t as well as the current occupiers of the Whitehouse - how long do you think it will be before this guy blows the ODD apart and screws that up? Credit should be given to the boys on the ground - they did the job. I remember a couple of over the rail disposals they did for us way back when, they should advertise free funerals at sea for terrorists, we will even pick up - no reservations needed. You get a free bath so you're fresh as a daisy for the virgins.
They will come at us again . . .
SKULLHEAD SENDS
Bartender asks, "what’s a Bin Laden?"
Man says, "2 shots with a splash of water."
- from Theo's worthy site Last of the Few
Q: How come they used Seal Team Six instead of Delta to conduct the OBL raid into Pakistan?
A: Simple. They wanted to make sure he wasn't captured alive.
(Credit for that one goes to Team STORMBRINGER charter member VA Shepherd)
Rumor is Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, and Bill Daley were the driving forces for the raid; Obama was against. Reports are that Obama "had to sleep on it" before making the call. Sleep on what???
The leak of above less than 72 hours after the raid was executed points to a high level of frustration within the Obama Administration and the National Intelligence community. Was Obama's hand in fact forced?
Obama is getting kudos for ordering a raid vs. a bombing that would have obliterated everything. The intel haul was the real coup; did this even occur to the community-organizer-in-chief beforehand???
Announcement of the raid was made in the middle of Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" show . . . a mere coincidence I'm sure . . . no way Obama would use this for political gain! The best thing a Tea Party Merry Prankster team could pull off right now would be to unveil a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner at Obama's (already scheduled) Ground Zero appearance . . .
. . . not that there's anything wrong with that . . .
The following observations from SKULLHEAD - ex-Delta operator and Knight Chevalier of Team STORMBRINGER Sanctum Sanctorium:
This was a great op for the group (JSOC) and looks like it went of with out a hitch. Yes Seal Team 6 got the poster picture for it, however I do know that the ODD ( Operational Detachment - D a.k.a. Delta Force ) was present and most likely it split the count, enough to put the group on solid ground and timing.
I told you he was in Pakistan and living high on the hog. We also knew they were helping him; that is how they are and will always be. We should have severed ties and destroyed their nuke program a long time ago. I also believe the op was already moving and the President was told to sit and wait because it was going to happen whether he liked or not; that big a HVT (High Value Target) was not getting away.
A classic tactic for tracking an urban target: put them on the run and wait for them to hole up, let them get confortable and study their habits, then you get to remove them from the earth at a time & place of your choosing. Same thing happened to Pablo (Escobar); smells of ODD all over this - we know the true story will come out when the current regime is no longer going to be embarrassed, plus we don't exist therefore we were not there just Seal Team 6 and the CIA.
Funny how things have to be laid out for people in the news and we all know they are full of sh*t as well as the current occupiers of the Whitehouse - how long do you think it will be before this guy blows the ODD apart and screws that up? Credit should be given to the boys on the ground - they did the job. I remember a couple of over the rail disposals they did for us way back when, they should advertise free funerals at sea for terrorists, we will even pick up - no reservations needed. You get a free bath so you're fresh as a daisy for the virgins.
They will come at us again . . .
SKULLHEAD SENDS
STORMBRINGER
A-a-a-h-h-h-h-h-h the SEVENTIES . . .
. . . . . . . . . what little I can remember of them, that is . . .
Today's Bird HERE
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
THE BIN LADEN HIT
At this time hundreds of thousands of U.S. and allied military men and women are giving thanks they have lived to see this day. The death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of our courageous fighting men adds meaning to the sacrifice of so many on dusty, distant battlefields, at military outposts, depots and staging areas far from home, and on the home front of what has become a long, drawn out war.
In time we will learn the details of what was obviously a classic raid. At this time anything said or written claiming detailed knowledge of the operation that terminated the world's most wanted terrorist is pure conjecture. We don't even know for sure who pulled off this operation - SEAL Team Six got the credit, but as a part of JSOC - the shadowy Joint Special Operations Command - it is inconceivable they did it alone. The support apparatus for such a complex mission is huge; special operations aviation assets are not organic to SEAL units, for example. Doctrinally, the 75th Ranger Regiment would provide outer perimeter security; communications, tac-air support, reconnaissance and sniper overwatch could be provided by a host of JSOC assets.
To discuss the planning involved would fill a field manual; basically two types of planning occurred from the moment bin Laden's presence in the compound was suspected and confirmed, and warning orders issued to the assault force; deliberate and contingency. Deliberate planning is the long term, carefully detailed plan that we assume was carried out. Contingency planning is the stand-by plan in case conditions at the objective - in this case the Osama compound - suddenly altered; preparations for movement, or the arrival of significant enemy forces into the battlespace.
In creating a plan, the one-thirds/two-thirds rule is employed; one third of time and assets are dedicated to actual actions on the objective - two-thirds to planning, rehearsals, getting in and getting out - infil and exfil - the most difficult and resource-intensive aspect of any mission. Critical decision points include contingency plans for if helicopters go down; how many birds can be lost before the mission is no longer 'do-able'? The mission to rescue the American embassy personnel in the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979 was aborted at Desert One because mission abort criteria had been met. Point of No Return takes into consideration how far from the objective can a team still carry on their mission - on foot - if a bird goes down enroute?
Other significant considerations involve the presence of non-combatants on the objective, - or encountered enroute to the objective - and an altered Rules of Engagement regarding the High Value Target (HVT); i.e. Osama bin Laden. This was obviously a take-no-prisoners mission, but considerations would also have been made for any enemies who survived the initial assault.
The way the rules work is as long as you're assaulting across the objective - from the Line of Departure to the Limit of Advance - anyone and anything identified as an enemy combatant within the kill zone can be engaged - i.e. shot and killed. It's when you go back to with the prisoner search teams that individual shots to the head are frowned upon. If Osama had thrown up his hands in the right time, place and manner, it is possible that he might have been taken alive.
Possible, but not probable.
There's something very primitive about a raid. Speed, surprise, and violence of action epitomize a successful raid. The assault would have been heralded by a massive breaching charge. Tac air may have been used as a diversion; a two-hundred pound Mk 82 general purpose aviation bomb goes off on the far side of the compound "HOLY SHI'ITE MUSLIM, WHAT WAS THAT?" - and then WHAM! and the assaulters are suddenly pouring in through the front door, moving at a careful hurry to their points of domination and performing their priorities of work; secure the room, eliminate threats - two rounds center mass each, and one to the head - secure the living, search the dead.
"War is simple, direct and ruthless." - George S. Patton
Who can possibly know what was going through the mind of the man who pulled the trigger on bin Laden? Only that man will ever know exactly what he felt the moment he realized he had his muzzle on the world's most evil human alive. Osama took two rounds to the pumpkin, which tells us combat occured at pointblank range. One thing I guarantee our man was thinking on the way in was the only way out of that place was to fight his way through it. Then adrenalin kicked in and took care of everything else after that. His comrades, the same.
AFTERMATH
Now the endless analysis from the press corps; how we could've, should've, would've done this, that and the other thing. Right now it's my dime so I'll indulge a little here and tell you what we should've done that we didn't do:
We should've put Osama's body on display, just like we did with Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi - a.k.a. the Zarkman - dead leader of Al-Qaeda In Iraq, and with those two pieces of human scum Uday and Qusay Hussein. The war we are engaged in involves heavy symbolism, and significant value is gained by dehumanizing the enemy, cutting the enemy's leadership down to size. This is why we televised Saddam Hussein's medical exam, and released pictures of the Butcher of Baghdad in his underwear; this busts the legend down to size. The best thing we could have done for the Iraqi people's liberation was hand Saddam over - which we did - and the best thing after that is they released pictures of him swinging on a rope.
The next thing we need to do after showing the pictures is to follow up on the actionable intelligence gained in the raid, and start rolling up terrorist cells one by one. We need to stack up terrorist bodies like cordwood, and those who have the bad luck to get captured alive we need to salt away in Guantanamo for the rest of their miserable lives. The message needs to get out on the Arab Street: there ain't no death and glory in Jihad. Only death.
MESSAGE TO JIHADIS:
Your glorious leader is now fish food, at the bottom of the deep blue sea.
Your Allah may forgive Osama bin Laden; everybody knows it was United States Special Operations who arranged the meeting.
SEAN LINNANE SENDS
. . . and because this blog is for Crusaders and Infidels, today's Bird is HERE
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Monday, May 2, 2011
SCRATCH ONE TANGO
OSAMA BIN LADEN DIES OF NATURAL CAUSES FOLLOWING 5.56mm ROUNDS TO THE HEAD
Americans go hogwild in wanton celebration, while ivory towered academics, elitists and pseudo-intellectuals choke on their lattes.
That's right Intelligentsia - it's a real world out there, full of evil people who only want to do you harm, and Osama bin Laden was their poster child. Even your darling Community-Organizer-in-Chief with his weirdo Muslim name could not hold back the forces of freedom.
Details continue to emerge about the operation - a classic raid incorporating the principles of speed, shock, surprise and violence of action.
Bin Laden was shot in the head, officials said, after he and his bodyguards resisted the assault.
Three adult males were also killed in the raid, including one of bin Laden's sons, whom officials did not name (one of bin Laden's sons, Hamza, is a senior member of al-Qaida). A woman was killed when she was used as a shield by a male combatant, in keeping with cowardly terrorist modus operandii.
AN AMERICAN VICTORY IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
Witness the celebrations in city squares, ballparks across America; at Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the Whitehouse, and at Ground Zero:
This is what Americans want - following decades of death and destruction visited upon us by al Qaeda - the monster Osama bin Laden killed in direct, personal combat by American warriors.
Americans don't want NASA transformed into a 'Muslim Outreach Program' - EFF THAT - we want to be told that Osama was tracked to his lair by NASA space-based assets so we could "smoke him out of his hole" and ventilate his skull.
MESSAGE TO FREEDOM's ENEMIES:
We will get you.
You have attacked us where we were weakest, most vulnerable; 9/11, and before that the embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. Early frustrations in our operations against you in Tora Bora - some of the hardest terrain on Earth - gave way to the liberation the countries that harbored your evil forces. We have killed and captured the top terrorist leadership - those of you we captured alive sit rotting in Guantanamo - and now the charismatic spiritual leader of your sick, twisted ideology is dead and his body tossed over the side of an American aircraft carrier. Osama bin Laden is fish food at the bottom of the sea - YEAH ! ! !
You can run, but you can't hide. We will get you in the end - we always do, and we always will.
And with our allies - the great UK/AUS/CAN/NZ Commonwealth; NATO, and the rest of the Free World - we will continue track you down, find you, fight you and kill you; one by one for now until the end of time if need be until your Evil is expunged from the face of the Earth.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning . . ."
- Winston Churchill, after the first Allied victory against the Axis at El Alamein, 4 Nov 1942.
Today's Babe HERE
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
THE MILBLOGGIES
The winners of the 2011 Milbloggies were announced Friday, April 29 at the Sixth Annual Milblog Conference.
The Best U.S. Military Veteran Blog Award went to Neptunus Lex - a worthy blog from whom I learned this noteworthy item:
TRAP By lex, on April 29th, 2011
More info is leaking out about the Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel (TRAP) mission executed in Libya last month:
"As that back door opened, I see a group of young Marine recon units jump out, and that was probably the best feeling I’ve ever felt in my entire life," Major Harney said on a USAF prepared video.
Items like this, and this poignant reminder (linked, and below) illustrates the legitimate role of military bloggers - active duty, retired, wives, parents, foreign, combat correspondents, all of us out here in the military blogosphere - what they of the mainstream media dismissively refer to as pajamas media; too often it is we who are picking up the slack for them. Think about it: American and Allied service men and women are fighting and dying in three distinct campaigns of a multi-theater global war, and yet you wouldn't know it by reading the papers or watching TV. That's where the milblogs come in.
My Yellow Ribbon
Casualties List Update - Friday, April 29, 2011
Because today alone there are twelve new names added to the Casualties list, I ask everyone to peruse the list and keep their families and friends in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you.
Congratulations to the finalists and winners!
The winners:
Fan Favorite – Ben and Katie
Best U.S. Army Blog – Chief Wiggles
Best U.S. Military Spouse Blog – Ben and Katie
Best U.S. Military Parent Blog – My Yellow Ribbon
Best U.S. Military Supporter Blog – From Cow Pastures To Kosovo
Best U.S. Marine Corps Blog – One Marine’s View
Best U.S. Navy Blog – USNI Blog
Best U.S. Coast Guard Blog – Coast Guard Compass
Best U.S. Air Force Blog – I’m big in Japan
Best U.S. Military Veteran Blog – Neptunus Lex
Best U.S. Reporter Blog – The Unknown Soldiers
I am proud to congratulate all the winners, and if you direct your eyes to the ladder on the left you will see that the winner of the Best U.S. Military Veteran Blog Neptunus Lex is a charter member of Team STORMBRINGER.
- S.L.
The Best U.S. Military Veteran Blog Award went to Neptunus Lex - a worthy blog from whom I learned this noteworthy item:
TRAP By lex, on April 29th, 2011
More info is leaking out about the Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel (TRAP) mission executed in Libya last month:
"As that back door opened, I see a group of young Marine recon units jump out, and that was probably the best feeling I’ve ever felt in my entire life," Major Harney said on a USAF prepared video.
Items like this, and this poignant reminder (linked, and below) illustrates the legitimate role of military bloggers - active duty, retired, wives, parents, foreign, combat correspondents, all of us out here in the military blogosphere - what they of the mainstream media dismissively refer to as pajamas media; too often it is we who are picking up the slack for them. Think about it: American and Allied service men and women are fighting and dying in three distinct campaigns of a multi-theater global war, and yet you wouldn't know it by reading the papers or watching TV. That's where the milblogs come in.
My Yellow Ribbon
Casualties List Update - Friday, April 29, 2011
Because today alone there are twelve new names added to the Casualties list, I ask everyone to peruse the list and keep their families and friends in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you.
Congratulations to the finalists and winners!
The winners:
Fan Favorite – Ben and Katie
Best U.S. Army Blog – Chief Wiggles
Best U.S. Military Spouse Blog – Ben and Katie
Best U.S. Military Parent Blog – My Yellow Ribbon
Best U.S. Military Supporter Blog – From Cow Pastures To Kosovo
Best U.S. Marine Corps Blog – One Marine’s View
Best U.S. Navy Blog – USNI Blog
Best U.S. Coast Guard Blog – Coast Guard Compass
Best U.S. Air Force Blog – I’m big in Japan
Best U.S. Military Veteran Blog – Neptunus Lex
Best U.S. Reporter Blog – The Unknown Soldiers
I am proud to congratulate all the winners, and if you direct your eyes to the ladder on the left you will see that the winner of the Best U.S. Military Veteran Blog Neptunus Lex is a charter member of Team STORMBRINGER.
- S.L.
BALLS OF STEEL
Some good madness coming out of my native land:
Balls of Steel is a new show Down Under - more previews on this site - they're funny and worth a laugh. Check out "Bunny Boiler".
Today's Bird HERE.
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Neg's Seagulling - watch more funny videos
Balls of Steel is a new show Down Under - more previews on this site - they're funny and worth a laugh. Check out "Bunny Boiler".
Today's Bird HERE.
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