Whoa look what the Border Patrol Union - NBPC@BPUnion posted:
#BidenBorderCrisis
They be pissed off!
https://twitter.com/BPUnion/status/1525882682575667200?s=20&t=uMY9-msu9Pihp21MQ9OCeg
Military Throwing Cash at Recruiting Crisis as Troops Head for the Exits
Hints that the armed services might soon face a problem keeping their ranks full began quietly, with officials spending the last decade warning that a dwindling slice of the American public could serve.
Only about one-quarter of young Americans are even eligible for service these days, a shrinking pool limited by an increasing number of potential recruits who are overweight or are screened out due to minor criminal infractions, including the use of recreational drugs such as marijuana.
But what had been a slow-moving trend is reaching crisis levels, as a highly competitive job market converges with a mass of troops leaving as the coronavirus pandemic subsides, alarming military planners.
"Not two years into a pandemic, and we have warning lights flashing," Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, the Air Force Recruiting Service commander, wrote in a memo leaked in January about the headwinds his team faces.
For now, the services are leaning on record-level enlistment and retention bonuses meant to attract and keep America's military staffed and ready – bonuses that continue to climb.
In an interview with Military.com last month, Thomas didn't mince words. He knows he is competing against the private sector to hire people, from technology giants to regional gas stations.
"If you want to work at Buc-ee's along I-35 in Texas, you can do it for [a] $25-an-hour starting salary," Thomas said. "You can start at Target for $29 an hour with educational benefits. So you start looking at the competition: Starbucks, Google, Amazon. The battle for talent amidst this current labor shortage is intense."
Paired with those competitive offers for workers are a large number of service members retiring, some having delayed leaving the ranks during a pandemic that saw huge instability in the job market…..
"This is arguably the most challenging recruiting year since the inception of the all-volunteer force," Lt. Gen. David Ottignon, the Marine Corps officer in charge of manpower, told the Senate during a public hearing April 27.
All of the military's service branches are scrambling to find ways to compete for a younger generation of talent that has plenty of employment opportunities….
The Army, Air Force and Navy have all announced reenlistment bonuses for certain career fields and specialties, some of them in the six-figure range.
The Air Force is offering up to $100,000 reenlistment bonuses based on experience and career field. The Navy is also offering those incentives, with fields such as network cryptologists and nuclear technicians making anywhere from $90,000 to $100,000. The Army is offering a more modest cap of $81,000 to reenlist for some jobs…
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/05/13/bigger-bonuses-pentagons-top-weapon-combat-recruiting-crisis-troops-head-exits.html
CIA Medical Office Gets a Congressional Colonoscopy
The CIA’s medical office, knocked by agency veterans for lapses ranging from its treatment of war-related psychological traumas to the mysterious Havana Syndrome ailments, is about to get an up close and personal exam from a new oversight board mandated by Congress.
The Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022 contains a little-noticed provision setting professional standards and practices to be overseen by a new medical advisory board composed of 13 experts nominated by the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees and the director of National Intelligence, currently Avril Haines.
“Each member shall be a recognized expert in at least 1 medical field, as demonstrated by appropriate credentials,” the bill says. “Each member shall possess significant and diverse medical experience, including clinical experience.” And “each member shall be eligible to hold an appropriate security clearance.”
The deadline for board appointments was set as 45 days after the bill’s enactment, which would have been about Apr. 25. Citing the press of other more urgent business, committee sources could not immediately provide SpyTalk with the names of nominees, if any.
The appointment of an outside board to peer over the shoulders of a single CIA unit’s day-to-day operations is unprecedented, roughly equivalent to Congress’s creation of intelligence oversight committees in the mid-1970s following reports of CIA domestic spying, assassination plots, meddling in Chile’s elections and LSD drug testing on unwitting Americans.
A CIA spokesperson said the board would “provide guidance to the Director on best practices and offer recommendations on how our medical services can continue to improve and innovate as we provide care to our officers at headquarters and in the field.
“We appreciate working with Congress,” the statement continued, “to ensure we are able to take care of our workforce with highly trained medical, psychological, and health professionals who have access to the latest research and advancements.”
That would be good, according to critics of the agency’s Office of Medical Services, or OMS. Language in the bill written by congressional overseers implies that the credentials of CIA medical staffers dealing with Havana Syndrome were not up to snuff. And it spells out in extraordinary detail the clinical steps that agency medical personnel must perform when assessing complainants.
The advisory board will elect its own chair and meet every three months, according to the bill, signed by President Biden on March 10. It’s required to meet with the intelligence oversight committees twice a year. The bill does not stipulate whether any of those meetings will be public.
Former senior CIA operations officer Marc Polymeropoulos, an outspoken critic of the agency’s halting treatment of Havana Syndrome, of which he is just one of scores of victims, welcomed the creation of the board, however belated. The OMS is long overdue for a checkup, he said.
“There were some individual doctors who were very good, but the Office of Medical Services is utterly broken and has been forever,” he said via email. “Maybe they're different now, but the last time I came back from Afghanistan, a long time ago, in 2012, you would meet with a shrink for about 10 seconds. ‘How you doing?’ ‘Great.’ ‘Any nightmares?’ ‘Nope.’ ‘You drink a lot?’ ‘Nope.’ ‘It's all good.’ ‘Thanks.’ And then you walk out the door.”
Suicides among war veterans, including CIA paramilitary and counterterrorism officers, have soared to epidemic proportions.
“They might be doing things differently now,” he allowed.
Black Site Doctors
For years now, questions have also been raised about the role of the CIA medical officers in the agency’s black site torture sessions.
Former CIA case officer Glenn Carle, whose 2011 memoir, The Interrogator: An Education, denounced the agency’s torture practices, says he assumed the officers filling medically-related functions at an interrogation site were from the Office of Medical Services, but the CIA censors reviewing his manuscript were adamant he remove his reference to “a psychiatrist.”
"The Agency was very keen that I not say that a ‘psychiatrist’ was involved in any way in the interrogation program, because their presence would’ve violated the physicians' Hippocratic Oath, and thus, apparently, implicated OMS,” Carle told SpyTalk. “There’s nothing in my published book about the OMS. But in my draft I had written something like, 'the psychiatrist said…'
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/05/13/cia-medical-office-gets-congressional-colonoscopy.html
The Marine Corps' Intellectual Civil War
It is almost unheard of for retired Marine Corps general officers to criticize the policies of the sitting commandant, but three have recently done so. They joined Former Navy Secretary James Webb in criticizing Gen. David Berger's Force Design 2030 plan to revamp the Corps' warfighting strategy. Retired Gens. Charles Krulak (a former commandant himself), Jack Sheehan and Anthony Zinni penned an April 22 editorial in The Washington Post criticizing the new strategic vision. They appear to speak for a much larger group of retired general officers.
This is not a group of reactionary Colonel Blimps; they represent some of the most innovative minds that the Corps has produced in a half century.
Berger's vision, which he is actively pursuing, is to concentrate the Marine Corps' attention on China. He hopes to disrupt China's anti-navy, access denial strategy designed to foil U.S. power projection in that region. The concept calls for having Marine Corps units occupy islands in the South China Sea to counter China's attempt to dominate that body of water using long-range anti-ship and anti-air missiles.
The intent is to assist the Navy in disrupting the Chinese reconnaissance strike-complex that is designed to deny U.S. naval and Air Force access to the South China Sea. Once that is accomplished, U.S. and allied forces would be able to operate more freely. To buy a new range of capabilities, Berger is divesting the Marine Corps of many of its legacy combat systems. Most notably, he wants to mothball tanks. But also on the chopping block are helicopters and much of the Corps' tubed artillery, as well as some heavy engineering and logistics assets.
The four-star critics make some telling arguments against Berger's strategic direction. They point out that overspecialization against China degrades the Marine Corps' traditional mission as a force ready to rapidly deploy anywhere in the world, and that the discarded systems would be useful in surprise conflicts such as the one in Ukraine. They also point out that most of the new systems that Berger wants to buy already are prevalent in the Army, Navy and Air Force. They also observe that the new vision was not coordinated with the combatant commands, the Joint staff, or the nations laying claim to the target islands. There are also concerns regarding the feasibility of resupplying forces once engaged.
Focus on a specific potential enemy is not new to the Marine Corps. Marines developed their expertise in amphibious warfare in the years between the two world wars specifically to conduct operations in an expected conflict with Japan. Even then, there was internal debate over the wisdom of this approach.
At the time, the Marine Corps had been involved in small wars in the jungles of the Caribbean and Central America. The concept of being America's "force in readiness" was already deeply ingrained in the Corps. However, the difference between then and now is that the capabilities developed to conduct amphibious warfare were additive. The Corps divested itself of nothing to develop amphibious tractors, shore party organizations, and the use of carrier-based aviation as artillery early in landing operations before big guns could come ashore. Today, significant equipment has been retired without guarantees on investment.
Berger's defenders argue that the current Ukrainian conflict proves that tanks are obsolete. However, despite their success in tank killing, additional tanksm along with jet fighter-bombers, top the Ukrainian wish list for military aid as fighting ratchets up in the Eastern theater of that conflict.
Both the Trump and Biden administrations came to the realization that China has become a near-peer regional military threat, and the Marine Corps should be congratulated for giving serious thought to that fact. However, before further mothballing more hardware, the service should consider an approach that could realize the useful parts of Berger's vision while avoiding a nasty resource fight with the other services and maintaining the ability of the Marine Corps to fight in unexpected contingencies worldwide.
III Marine Amphibious Force on Okinawa is the organization tasked with carrying out Berger's strategy. An alternative would be to configure III MEF as a joint task force headquarters with augmentation from the other services to carry out early operations to disrupt China's anti-access strategy, with the Marine Corps' new littoral regiments as the nucleus for sub-joint task forces….
https://www.military.com/daily-news/opinions/2022/04/28/marine-corps-intellectual-civil-war.html
This is so insane!!! So many Democrats wanting to kill babies.
https://twitter.com/BobLancia/status/1525810032989900800?s=20&t=uMY9-msu9Pihp21MQ9OCeg
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1525541163020738563?s=20&t=ltQbHdGFLysD-gLY7PLuuA
Neil Oliver, W.H.O Assembles Pandemic Treaty to Control Global Human Parasites
May 14, 2022 | Sundance | 289
Comrade dissidents, in his weekly monologue Neil Oliver draws attention to the World Health Organization (WHO) effort to assemble the Global Pandemic Response Treaty, a collective pact with the industrious mission to control the threat of human parasites.
As Oliver notes, the objective of the W.H.O. mission is to coordinate a whole-of-planet approach, by giving instructions to all governmental signatories for how to best manage the problematic behavior of free-range citizens. People are the dangerous carbon they seek to mitigate. WATCH:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/14/neil-oliver-w-h-o-assembles-pandemic-treaty-to-control-global-human-parasites/
The Pentagon Testified Assessing Ukraine and No One Noticed
May 14, 2022 | Sundance | 288 Comments
As we contemplate the massive $40 billion transfer of U.S. taxpayer funds to Ukraine, a few things need to be emphasized.
First,congress has decided to pay the salaries, benefits and pensions of Ukraine political officials and citizens. As U.S. citizens try and figure out how to afford housing, gasoline, food and basic goods, congress has decided to subsidize another country. That’s the first point.
Second, as to the pragmatic question of “to what end?” There was a critical point made last week by Defense Intel Agency (DIA) Director Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, that not a single media outlet or politician discussed. During his briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Berrier was asked “can Ukraine win” the conflict against Russia?
Lt. General Berrier replied: “That is a difficult predication to make. I think where the assessment is at, is a prolonged stalemate should no factor change on either side. In other words, the Russians continue to do what they’re doing, and we continue to do what we are doing for the Ukranians.” WATCH
The Pentagon assessment is the best that can be achieved is a stalemate. Billions of billions of dollars being poured into Ukraine, and the most likely outcome is a stalemate. More people killed, an endless need for continued money to be poured into the ‘war’, and the best possible outcome is a stalemate.
So, riddle me this, why isn’t the U.S. policy position advocating for Zelenskyy and Putin to enter negotiations for a resolution?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
Republican Senate Leadership Travel to Kyiv, Ukraine to Inspect the Treasury
May 14, 2022 | Sundance | 354 Comments
Comrade taxpayers, as the glorious and esteemed senate move through the procedural hurdles to pass a massive $40 billion spending bill for the U.S. altruistic Ukraine money laundering operation, a fabulous diplomatic envoy consisting of Mitch McConnell, John Barrasso, John Cornyn and Susan Collins travel to Kyiv to meet the magnanimous defender of the international treasury and wealth transfer operation, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The magnificent republican leaders went to visit the nicest war zone their bipartisan efforts have created in the past four decades. As the angels of abundance parted the clouds, many congratulations were shared from the delegation toward their generous host and the expressions of appreciation and respect for the generosity were reciprocated. WATCH:
No U.S. border security, no gas money, no grocery money, no infant formula, no voting integrity…. Meh, no problem comrades. We’ve got Ukrainians to support. We are paying the pensions and benefits of Ukraine government officials and Ukraine citizens.
Keep in mind, the politicians are not tone deaf, out of touch or disconnected;they simply do not care. We The People are irrelevant to them.
We are in an abusive relationship with our own government.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/14/republican-senate-leadership-travel-to-kyiv-ukraine-to-inspect-the-treasury/#more-233055
https://youtu.be/6o3yiY1_LWE
Bidan Admin shipping 1,000s of pallets of baby formula to the southern border to give to illegal immigrants. Thats the cause of lack of baby formula. Border patrol agent leaked picture to a FL Congress woman.
Tucker Carlson Explains the Govt Created Subsidized Baby Formula Monopoly and Current Shortages
May 13, 2022 | Sundance | 313 Comments
Tucker Carlson did a pretty decent job tonight outlining the current issues with shortages of baby formula and why it is specifically galling for the Joe Biden administration to claim they don’t know anything about the problem they helped create. WATCH:
they will kill us one way or another
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/13/tucker-carlson-explains-the-govt-created-subsidized-baby-formula-monopoly-and-current-shortages/#more-233047