Comments on: The Blue Angels are about to be grounded

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:24:34 +0000

Saddam had golden toilets. The US politicians have even better.

By: Earl

Earl — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:23:49 +0000

Zabrina: Surely you jest!!

Alternatively, where have you been the last several decades?

Perks for our masters are the LAST thing that will be cut back, after all of the superfluous expenditures on defense, maintenance, etc. have been deleted.

It’s the way of the world in a banana republic, after all.

By: zabrina

zabrina — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:42:18 +0000

I hope they are also cutting back on military transport for Nancy Pelosi and her pals.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:31:03 +0000

One of the first things to be cut are fuel, maintenance parts, and payment to those at the bottom of the hierarchy. This directly impacts training, with a consequent increase in mistakes during combat, but on paper it looks good since the amount of training accidents decrease. They decrease because people aren’t doing anything in training. Everything looks combat capable on paper though. A paper tiger.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:28:01 +0000

When the Left said Bush was bringing a hollow military to the fresh blood of the battlefield, they didn’t mean they were going to fix or strengthen the military. They meant that they would destroy the military, and make you pay for the privilege, so long as it wasn’t done by a REpublican.

Everyone else that hopped on the Leftist bandwagon concerning propaganda truths about Iraq, were merely doing what they were influenced to do, in order to support the blood for oil campaign. It would have been much harder to demoralize the American people and make them go to malls to escape the horrors of war if people were told that the wars were empowering the US military and making American defenses better funded and oiled.

This is how propaganda and operations work together, hand in hand. One feeds into the other.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:59:46 +0000

I suspect that most of this is political posturing. My Army son talks about all these visible cutbacks taking place, but if you look at how much is actually at stake as a percent of the total budget, it really is kind of piddling and they should have no trouble adjusting.

By: Earl

Earl — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:27:15 +0000

“Given inevitable budget cuts, it’s reasonable to ground the Blues, which aren’t directly related to America’s defense.”

You hinted it, but I’m going to say it straight out — the Navy is doing this to punish American taxpayers. They aren’t going to cut the waste and fat that exists in EVERY bureaucracy…they’re going to cut something that taxpayers love.

Remember what happens when your city or county isn’t getting what they think they “need”….they cut the library, or parks, or police patrols, or they close a fire station.

This is extortion, pure and simple. Somehow, I thought the Navy would be above this, but I guess the politicization of their leadership has succeeded.