I know this is already in notes, but I want to say Happy Fucking Birthday Devil Dogs!!
Enjoyed my time with you Brothers
Semper Fi
Celer, Silens, Mortalis
Gilroy Liquor Store Owners Charged With Human Trafficking: DA
A Gilroy couple has been charged with human trafficking after forcing a man to work 15-hour shifts seven days a week for no pay at their liquor store and then locking him inside the store overnight, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said Monday.
The victim slept in a storage room and bathed in a mop bucket, authorities said.
Amarjit and Balwinder Mann, both 66, allegedly threatened the victim with deportation if he reported them to law enforcement. The Manns have been charged with felony human trafficking, witness intimidation and wage theft involving four victims, the DA's office said. They face prison time if convicted.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/gilroy-liquor-store-owners-charged-with-human-trafficking-da/2394641/
Navy announces freeze in diversity and inclusion training
The Department of the Navy is freezing diversity and inclusion training for sailors and Marines, a move that comes after an executive order was signed in September barring the armed services from conducting training suggesting the United States is “fundamentally racist.”
According to an ALNAV message released this month, the Department of the Navy will “suspend all civilian and military personnel training relating to diversity and inclusion.” In order for training for military personnel to restart, the Navy and Marine Corps must receive a stamp of approval from the assistant secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs after submitting proposals for training certification.
That will require the Navy and the Marine Corps to provide information including the course name, whether the course is mandatory or not, along with a course description, syllabus, and “agenda” and other pertinent information.
The change stems from an executive order which argued that diversity training asserting the U.S. is an “irredeemably racist and sexist” country undermines the armed forces.
“[The] Uniformed Services should not teach our heroic men and women in uniform the lie that the country for which they are willing to die is fundamentally racist,” President Donald Trump wrote in the Sept. 22 order. “Such teachings could directly threaten the cohesion and effectiveness of our Uniformed Services.”
https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-navy/2020/11/09/navy-announces-freeze-in-diversity-and-inclusion-training/
Taiwan Admits U.S. Troop Exercise for First Time in 40 Years Amid Growing China Threat
mbers of the United States Marines have officially begun a training operation in Taiwan to help boost its military's combat readiness, the island's navy confirmed Monday.
Amphibious training exercises led by a group of visiting Marine Raiders were described as "routine" by Taiwan's Naval Command. It marked the first public acknowledgement of American troops in Taiwan since Washington and Taipei ended formal diplomatic ties in 1979.
Soldiers belonging to the Taiwan Marine Corps will receive four weeks of training under the Raiders—a special operations force—learning amphibious assault operations and speedboat infiltration techniques, Taiwan's United Daily News reported.
The training sessions will take place at Tsoying base in Taiwan's southwestern port city of Kaohsiung, the paper said.
The Raiders are believed to have arrived in Taiwan as early as October 26, but observed two weeks of quarantine as part of the island's measures to contain COVID-19.
The U.S. Marines are the first allied troops to conduct joint military training with Taiwan since the coronavirus outbreak began eight months ago, the newspaper said.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-marines-covert-training-operation-taiwan-defense-troops-1546213
Russian "peacekeepers" go to Nagorno-Karabakh to bolster truce
MOSCOW (AP) — More than a dozen planes carrying Russian peacekeepers headed for Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday, hours after Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to halt fighting over the separatist region and amid signs this cease-fire would hold where others hadn't.
The truce came after significant advances by Azerbaijani forces that the Nagorno-Karabakh leader said made it impossible for their side to carry on — but angered many Armenians, who stormed government buildings overnight, demanding the Parliament invalidate the agreement. Dozens of protesters gathered again Tuesday morning in front of the parliament building in the Armenian capital of Yerevan.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for decades. The region lies within Azerbaijan but has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994. Heavy fighting erupted in late September — the biggest escalation of the conflict in a quarter-century — and has left hundreds, possibly thousands, dead.
Several cease-fires announced over the past six weeks crumbled almost immediately, but the current agreement appeared to be holding, with neither side reporting any more fighting since it came into force.
It came days after Azerbaijan pressed its offensive deeper into the region and took control of the city of Shushi, which is strategically positioned on heights overlooking the regional capital of Stepanakert.
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Russian-peacekeepers-go-to-Nagorno-Karabakh-to-15715074.php
The U.S. Navy’s New Frigates Could Be a Game Changer
The Constellation-class will bring the U.S. closer to a 355-ship Navy, without the "sticker shock" of other projects.
Here's What You Need to Remember: A potential hurdle to getting to a 355-ship Navy is a matter of dollars and cents. One of the goals of the Constellation-class project was to modify existing ship designs to meet U.S. Navy requirements. The service is currently suffering from so-called “sticker shock,” a reference to the astronomically-high sticker prices of previous Navy projects and in particular the Littoral Combat Ship program.
Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite has announced the name of the United States’ newest Guided Missile Frigates during a ceremony on the Constellation museum ship in Baltimore, Maryland.
Speaking about the origins of the name, Braithwaite explained its origins in the aftermath of the American Revolution. “George Washington personally selected the name Constellation. It refers to the constellation of stars that have adorned our flag, from the original circle of thirteen to the fifteen gracing the Star-Spangled Banner across the harbor above Fort McHenry, to the fifty that fly from the mast of every Navy ship today,” he explained.
The Constellation name is steeped with history. The first ship named Constellation was a thirty-eight-gun frigate that served after the Revolution and was decommissioned in 1853, whereas the second Constellation built after the first Constellation’s decommissioning was the Navy’s last wind-powered sailing warship. Most recently, a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier also named Constellation served in Vietnam, the first Gulf War and supported operations in Afghanistan and Iraq until it was decommissioned in 2003.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-navy%E2%80%99s-new-frigates-could-be-game-changer-172303
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